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Moshing
KharBevNor:
I used to mosh quite a lot. Then the big metalcore craze down South bought in that wave of 'hardcore dancing', and it suddenly wasn't fun anymore. The fucking kids nowadays will karate kick you in the face and then not pick you up. I refuse to mosh at pretty much anywhere that admits under 18s, anywhere where more than five people are wearing a raggedy Palestinian keffiyeh as a bandana, or anywhere where the crowd basically does not seem to understand that a mosh pit is not actually a streetfight with sillier clothes.
Funniest mosh-related thing I ever saw, a pit was forming to a support band, and these two, call 'em 'hardcore' kids, started bouncing off each other, basically. Then they started slamming into folks on the edge of the pit. Dickish. I clearly saw what happened next: one of them shoved the other into the back of an ENORMOUS metalhead, spilling half his pint up his girlfriends back. The metalhead calmly wiped down her jacket, handed her his beer, then turned round and clotheslined both of them. Then the pit really took off.
Jimmy the Squid:
If I'm moshing (which is to say, rarely) I'm at the front, right up at the barrier, just having fun and destroying my brain with headbanging. If not I'm usually as close to the stage as I can get without actually being in the pit, soaking up the ambience and enjoying the show. I've only moshed at Sakkuth, Gospel of the Horns, Cryptopsy, Cog and a bunch of other metal bands I can't remember. There wouldn't be that many extra though.
supersheep:
we can dance if we want to
Edible:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 23 Nov 2007, 02:24 ---raggedy Palestinian keffiyeh as a bandana
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They make good scarves in winter I have to say.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 23 Nov 2007, 02:24 ---I used to mosh quite a lot. Then the big metalcore craze down South bought in that wave of 'hardcore dancing', and it suddenly wasn't fun anymore. The fucking kids nowadays will karate kick you in the face and then not pick you up.
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That's not hardcore dancing, or rather it's just one very particular type of hardcore dancing. Kickboxing (although I thought the term KDS, or karate dance style, was funnier myself) used to only be done at tough guy shows back in the day. Not a good thing even then, but if you were going to see a band like Knuckledust you really should know what to expect. But then people started doing it at more and more gigs, finally spreading out of the hardcore scene with all these myspace metal bands. I haven't seen it in ages though, I don't go to metal gigs much and nobody does it at proper hardcore or metal gigs round here.
--- Quote from: De_El ---Moshing is like dancing, only without form or style.
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That's what you think:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9fvu951up_0&feature=related
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