Decided to...
....listen to all of Telepathic With The Deceased and have a nice sodie after a cuppa coffee and start this day off STRONG! Got my tobacco pipe going with D&R Vengeur tobacco, and just sort of having a music appreciation type of morning. A friend sent an old photo of me when I was 7 years old, wearing a black leather jacket, and some skull-type shirt and holding up an unknown cassette tape as he stood next to me holding up Motley Crue's Shout At The Devil and wearing a D.A.R.E. To Keep Kids Off Drugs shirt. It is a very 90's photo. Taken circa 1990. Little did I know of all the cool shit that was “underground” at that time because the Kerrang Magazine issue (from 92? 93?) that highlighted the Black Metal scene in Norway had not come out yet (obvs) and there was no Internet to speak of, so I didn't know of “Black Metal” and when it came to our musical tastes (me and my friend in the photo), we basically relied on the tapes his dad had, and the heaviest stuff (which we gravitated to) was Overkill, Motorhead, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden. No Venom or Old Funeral in that catalog, lol. In fact, I don't think I got into heavy(er) stuff until 1994 when I started with NIN and Marilyn Manson. My parents were completely mortified, but I didn't care at all. But Black Metal didn't come about (for me) until 2013 when a friend made a YouTube video called “Music Has Never Changed” – and in that video he said he listened to Black Metal (which I didn't know). So, I started Google-ing around and looking stuff up on Spotify and that is when I found Old Funeral “Our Condolences”, and Burzum “Fallen” soon after. It sort of grew (my tastes) from there. I listen to many genres, but metal will always be my favorite.