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That was kind of my transition out of and very much a collector's mentality. I had a buddy who was a tape trader and we had all the bootlegs, all the demos, B-sides and imports from all over the world. I got into like the kind of first era of anime - Akira, Macross, Robotech, Space Battleship Yamato. stuff like that.
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I saw the movie a gajillion times, I had the laser disc that had "Han Solo shot first." I was crazy about it.Īs I got older, I got into anime. I had the Death Star, I had the Millennium Falcon. Like, I started out as a super Star Wars nerd, collecting all the action figures. ROBB: No, I was a total anime nerd when I was a teenager.
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JULIE: And was this the first anime that you watched? JULIE: I'm fascinated by you saying your sons got you into Attack on Titan? Is that right? This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. This episode, they spoke to Machine Head’s Robb Flynn about ' Attack on Titan.' Subscribe to the podcast here. Each week, the pair tackles a show or film and discusses from a mostly blind perspective. ' Why Do People Like Anime' is a podcast hosted by John Hill and Julie Hill about anime from the perspective of two novices who didn’t know much about it at the start. Read a snippet of the interview below or listen to the entire conversation. So, we spoke to Flynn about how he got into Attack on Titan, how being heavy into anime transitioned him into getting into metal, explaining concept records to friends and more. Filled with gigantic creatures, Game of Thrones-like politicking and betrayal, plus more stabbings and decapitations than brutal death metal albums, it makes total sense as an inspiration point for a metal record. Maybe the most surprising thing about it, though, is that the album inspired by anime, namely the ultra-violent Attack on Titan. It’s heavy as all hell, opening with an insanely intricate 10 minute barn-burner “Slaughter the Martyr,” and it connects the band’s history with what’s happening currently in heavy music.