Dude, what’s up? Hope you guys are having a good day. Today I have a topic that I’m going to cover because I’m You’re going to hear me mention multiple times throughout this podcast, which you’ve already probably heard me say like oh yeah, I stopped listening to music in like 2000 or whatever. This podcast is going to be more in-depth about that story, so that way I can go into it here and people can just come back to this episode and listen to it if I refer to it. So I mentioned before I got in a car accident and I lost my sight at the age of 14, and so when I got in that car accident, I it was really crazy, and when I got in the car accident, there was at the hospital that in the town that I live in. I’m trying to figure out a way to say this like in a really short way, because I’m not really sure if anyone cares or not, but anyways, I guess, I guess I’m. I’m just gonna give all the context and everything, because why not?
So when I got my car accident, it was a very fatal accident. I mean, obviously I lost my sight, but I really should like, straight up, died, but what happened was the day I got my car accident it was on a Sunday and the hospital in my town is is fine If you’re, you know, giving birth to babies, or like maybe you break an arm, you know, twist a knee or something you know. Like it’s good for things like that, not for like a chaotic mess, like I was okay, but that day they were doing this thing that we call life flight, or they call Life Flight, where they have a helicopter that can take people or patients to the like in Worcester, massachusetts, because that was like the closest big hospital near us, right. So the day I get in my car accident, the hospital happens to be running a practice Life Flight like run thing. So while I’m getting in my car accident, they’re all preparing to do this like practice session thing. And so when I get brought into the hospital, all the doctors, or a lot of them, thought I was part of this act or whatever. But I was a real patient. And so there was like 18, some number like that nurses and doctors like already in the hospital, like so, like they were like already sort of there waiting, waiting to do something, like not that they’re you know, but anyway, so you know. So they patched me up and I I go to this UMass hospital and all this and on, you know, and so, long story short, I feel because of that I stayed alive and I literally just lost my. I only lost my sight, like I didn’t break any bones below my neck, I had all serious head trauma, like pretty crazy stuff, and so, anyways, so I get in.
So I get in this crazy car accident and I I went through a very long period, or felt like a long period, but I was very, I was very mad, very mad, very hateful, you know, especially both my parents dying and stuff like I. You know, that’s why I listen to all the death metal and stuff that I listened to, because it was so blasphemous and satanic, I was so pissed off at god, I was just like dude, so like. So, anyways, why I ended up stop listening to metal and everything is. I ended up. I won’t get into all this, but I basically ended up going to church. Okay, of course, that’s the punchline, right. I ended up going to church and I was pretty conflicted because music is pretty important to me and it always has been, and at that time, as a new, whatever Christian it wasn’t, it wasn’t because it was like the devil’s. It’s hard to explain, but, anyways, I literally just stopped listening to like any kind of music that wasn’t labeled Christian. I know this is totally serious, ridiculous, but I’ll probably actually have another podcast episode of my feelings of Christian music, because even when I call myself a Christian or whatever, and I listen to that music, it’s really fake. That’s all I’ll say, that’s all I’ll get into, but anyways, anyways, I digress. So I started going to church, and so that’s why I ended up, you know, stopped listening to metal and all that stuff, and you know it was like at least 20 years I didn’t listen to metal, but I I.
What brought me back to metal, though, is not because, uh, I’m no longer a christian, and that I mean that has nothing to do with it. Honestly, what happened was is I a friend of mine? Let me rewind just real quick. While I was a christian, I, for a little while, I played on like a they call it a praise and worship team, so I was in a band and we did the music like before the services and stuff, and I was actually, I actually led, you know, the praise and worship team and all that. Anyway, I’m just so I didn’t quit playing guitar totally, at least not right away. I did stop playing guitar for like 18 years though that’s, that’s another freaking podcast but so I stopped. I I played guitar, but then I stopped after a while and I didn’t listen to any other music that was that other than christian.
But then, like I don’t know, let’s say five years, like 2018 or so, so six years ago now, geez, so 2018 an old friend of mine was like hey, dude, you want to like get together and just kind of jam sometime? Because I had just bought a guitar or like recently had gotten a brand new guitar. And, um, I was like, actually, yeah, that’d be like I haven’t played in forever and but it would be fun. And he’s like, yeah, you know, let’s, let’s get together. And I was like, okay. So we ended up jamming and I was pulling out some old songs that I’d written like way back in the day and stuff, and we’re playing heavy metal. Mind you, I guess I should have prefaced it with that we’re playing heavy metal. And, uh, after that first practice, he was like, hey, do you want to be in the band? And I was like, what? Because it was his, basically his band. I was kind of jamming with. I was like, dude, seriously, you think I’m good enough to play? And they’re like, yeah, absolutely. So that got me back into playing, you know, music and guitar and everything, which was the one of the greatest things that ever happened to me.
But I, leading up to that, though, I was conflicted of, like man, I’m this like heavy metal guitarist. I have like heavy metal flowing through me kind of thing or whatever. Right, and I, and I wasn’t I wasn’t a Christian at this point, but it was kind of like a few years leading up to that, maybe we’re like Dave Mustaine announced he was a Christian but he’s still playing metal and I was like, hmm, and it really started getting me to think and I was just kind of like you know what that makes sense? Because, like, um, without getting too much into the bible, like again, I’m not preaching to you here or anything, I’m just kind of saying what the bible says. Because this, this was my thought process, because the bible talks about, like you know, god saving you, kind of like where you’re at right, so like here’s dave mustaine in this heavy metal band, blah, blah, blah, and so like god, you know, saved him, or whatever and like.
So here he is still playing heavy metal, and so that that’s where I started thinking like you know what, like if whatever is in you, if, like heavy metal music is in you and it comes out, that doesn’t make it like the devil’s music. I mean, really, I think I feel like, with how I feel about music, it comes down to kind of like the intent, like what’s the actual honest intent behind it, like, don’t get me wrong, there’s bands out there that’ll have satanic covers or satanic lyrics and stuff that still doesn’t even have actual intent. Because I feel like, now that I’m older, I feel like some, some you know, death metal bands or or whatever. It’s just imagery. You know what I’m saying. It’s just like a cool thing to do. It’s not like they’re actually in their backyards like sacrificing goats or whatever, and don’t get me wrong.
So some of the bands probably are, you know, I don’t know, but I’m just saying like, and so that that the Dave Mustaine thing really kind of started showing me like, and so that’s why I kind of got back in the middle, because I was like you know what? It’s not like this stigma behind it, and that’s my opinion. So I got back in the middle. So that’s why I missed all this metal. And now I’m kind of catching up. So that’s why I missed all this metal.
And now I’m kind of catching up and, uh, you know, I’ll probably you know I’m gonna tie this topic into it, because now that I’m getting back in the metal, one thing I’m noticing is I’m getting more into death metal, and it’s not because of the, the lyrics or the imagery, it’s just because the music is freaking brutal, like it is just brutal stuff, like the guitar riffs, the, uh, the drumming, you know all of that like I, I don’t, honestly, I don’t care about the, the, the lyrics, I can care less. I obviously don’t care about the covers, but, uh, singing, I can kind of take it or leave it a little bit like like I honestly kind of like not block it out, but I just, you know it’s not what I’m paying attention to. You know if that makes sense. But I’ll tell you what man, death metal music is freaking brutal, like I’m having a hard time kind of finding, you know, head, like I guess, like straight up metal bands, metal bands like it’s because, like it’s hard to have like sort of, I guess, straight up metal now in these days, because I feel like kids growing up that get to hear all types of music. It’s hard to have one type of genre’s kind of band. I feel like I don’t know I, but just it’s. I don’t.
I don’t see any new bands coming up that are like a you know Pantera or you know a new Metallica, a Megadeth and overkill. Well, I take that back. I mean there’s Havoc, I don’t know. You know they’ve been around for a little while. I mean what talks the Holocaust, but they’ve been around since 2000.
I mean, I want to know some thrash bands that are like some up-and-coming thrash bands, metal bands, but yeah, so I’ve been listening to a ton of death metal. I wouldn’t say black metal, but definitely like death metal, technical death metal, for sure, I love that shit. You know the slam, you know metal, the brutal death, brutal death metal, like all that. I’ve been listening to a little bit of death core, not sure how I feel about that. Yeah, some of it’s pretty good. So, but yeah, I’ve been getting more into death metal.
Now that I’m back into kind of like heavy metal, um, let’s see. Well, I would have to say one of my new favorite bands is Dying Fetus. Oh my god, they’re ridiculous. The guitar I can’t. I can’t believe they’re a three-piece band. They’re insane. But the guitarist that guy plays and sings. He’s incredible. John Gallagher hopefully I’ll have him on for an interview sometime, but yeah, so that’s my story of how I got out of metal. I became a Christian. I’m no longer one, and you know it’s an interesting story, I guess, or whatever, if you care.
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