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thebestcomicking · 5 years

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10 Metal Bands I Love

This is not a top 10 list, it's just a list of my personal favorite metal bands so they aren't really ranked in any order. I remember doin this a few years ago, and my standards in METAL have changed. Back then I thought Guns & Roses were a cool band only to realize they only mad ONE good album, or there are bands who does Thrash Metal better than Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, or Anthrax. Mind you I still like them, it's just that there are other Thrash bands that are better.

Bon Jovi

This is more personal, because this was the band that got me into Heavy Metal. Although I do have mixed opinions on there later half stuff, and became some what country, but it's there Hair Metal stuff that really gets me.

Iron Maiden

You can't have a list of favorite Metal Bands without Iron Maiden. While there recent efforts are... Terrible to be polite (there last best work was Brave New World) but I still listen to there stuff. From Paul Dianno era to Bruce Dickenson to Blaz... He works better outside of Iron Maiden. Book of Souls is a step in the right direction, but until then I'm bangin my heads with albums such as Killers, Powerslave, Fear Of The Dark, and especially Somewhere In Time.

Judas Priest

If I had to choose between Judas Priest or Iron Maiden, I choose Judas Priest. Why? Because they have the better discography in my opinion. Iron Maiden, like many bands, started off strong and slowly gets worst, Priest are one of the few bands that started off terrible, like Rocka-Rolla, and slowly gets better and better. Hell, Tim Ripper Owen's JUGULATOR, is an underrated album. Angel of Retrobution was ok, Nostradamus could've been a little better, but Redeemer Of Souls and FIREPOWER is a must have.

Yngwe Malmsteem

You do it the right way, the wrong way, or the Yngwe. Guitar Prodigy, and Major Ego, Extraordinaire. His discography from Marching Out to Relentless is a great listen. But Yngwe, STOP SINGING.

W.A.S.P.

One of the few Metal bands with a very consistent discography. Not quite Hair Metal, but not quite Heavy Metal, but also not quite Hard Rock.

"BUT DUUUUUUDE, Wasp is just a Hair Metal Band" says the one with piss poor taste in music. Blow a dick or grow one, and LISTEN to the albums The Headless Children, The Criminal Idol, Kill.Fuck.DIe., and so on and I guarantee you that WASP is more than Hair Metal.

GWAR or Green Jellö

It's a tie. Not necessarily the greatest bands, but they are the bands that told me that Metal can be funny. Green Jello curently has only three albums (not counting the EPs or that Triple Live Budokan) and they are all great parodies of other metal bands. GWAR's thrash metal discogrraphy is mixed, sometimes great like Violence Has Arrived, sometimes just dull like We Kill Everything, but I fricken LOVE GWAR.

Motörhead

There's not bad Motorhead album. There maybe some "meh" album like maybe March or Die, but there's no BAD Motorhead album.

"But all Motorhead Song sounds the same" says the hearing impaired. NO!! MOTORHEAD DOES NOT SOUND THE SAME!!! Five Finger Death Punch sounds the same. The only thing that sounds the same is Lemmy's voice, and that's not called "sounding the same". In fact it's called CONSISTENCY. Motorhead has done Speed Metal, Blues Metal, Prog Metal, Thrash Metal, Old School Rock N Roll, Punk, and went straight up Blues in the song Whorehouse Blues.

DIO

"IS THAT A JOJO..." NO. I'm talkin the source material of JoJo. RONNIE "METAL GOD" JAMES DIO. Another case of a man with no bad albums in his discography. There are a few albums that at first will make you say "meh", but I find myself still enjoy those albums after a few more listen in the car.

One of, if not THE, inventor of SPEED METAL with the RIPPIN song Fast As A Shark. One of the best German Metal Bands out there, bar none. While there 90's Thrash efforts aren't really that great, Eat the Heat was ok at best, and I'm A Rebel has a terrible, terrible, Disco track they have an AWESOME discography. There recent efforts are pretty kick ass too. Mark Tornillo is a great successor to Udo's vocals, and Guitarist Wolf Hoffman and his crew are keepin it strong.

Black Sabbath

Lemme get this straight. Ozzy is not Sabbath. Dio is not Sabbath. Toni Iommi IS Sabbath. End of Argument.

Anyways, I don't recall them having a bad album either. Some Ozzy stuff are ok and others are beyond exceptional. Also the more I listen to Ozzy's stuff, it's more bluesy than straight up Heavy Metal. Probably because they started as Blues band. It's not until Dio replaced Ozzy, the band became a straight up Metal band. However no one talks about the underrated Tony Martin era stuff, and I HIGHLY recommend his stuff. There last album 13 was ok.

#heavy metal #favorite music #top 10 list

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peterquillactualsuggestions · 6 years

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Tagged by @leothelionsthings (Thank you!)

List 10 songs you’re obsessed with and tag 10 people.

(1. Walking On The Sun by Smash Mouth

2. Magic Touch by Aerosmith

3. Rocka Rolla by Judas Priest

4. Rock Out/Punch Somebody by Billy Squier

5. These Colours Don’t Run by Iron Maiden

6. Wrathchild by Iron Maiden

7. Don’t Be Fooled By The Name by Blue Swede

8. Beautiful World by Bon Jovi

9. Magic by Pilot

10. Footloose by Kenny Loggins

Tagging @peterquillsuggestion @star-lord-suggestions @steverogerssuggestion @kingtchallasuggestions @shurisuggestions @godofstoriessuggestion @thorodinsonsuggestion @gamorasuggestion @draxsuggestion @thanossuggestion and @thecrazyfanthing because we’re friends)

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guerrerodelamuerte · 4 years

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MI PRIMEROS DISCOS DE METAL

El primer disco que me introdujo al Metal fue un CD de grandes éxitos "Edward the Great" de Iron Maiden que salió en el 2002, Ya en el 2003 me topé con el "Dance of Death" pero no atrajo mi atención. Seguido de un tape, el Piece of Mind que me prestó un pata creo que en 2003.

A continuación seguirían estos discos:

Manowar - Hail to England (1984)

Manowar - Fighting the World (1987)

Manowar - The Triumph of Steel (1992)

No entendía del todo a Manowar hasta que más adelante escuché temas como Gloves of metal, Defender, The secret of steel, Battle Hymns que me volví un devoto a su arte.

Metallica - Kill 'em All (1983)

Metallica - Ride the Lightning (1984)

Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)

Metallica - And Justice for All (1987)

Judas Priest - Live in London (VIDEO, 2002)

Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism (VIDEO, 2000)

Destruction - Live Discharge: 20 years of destruction (VIDEO, 2004)

Marduk - Funeral Marches and Warsongs (VIDEO, 2004)

Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution (2005)

Behemoth - Live Eschaton: The Art of Rebelion (VIDEO, 2000)

Carcass - Heartwork (1993)

Slayer - Show No Mercy (1983)

Morbid angel - altars of madness (1989)

Carcass - Wake up and smell the... Carcass (VIDEO, 1996)

Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk (1998)

Sarcófago - INRI (1987)

Theatre of tragedy - Theatre of Tragedy (1996)

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (1980)

Iron Maiden - Killers (1981)

Haggard - and thou shalt trust... The Seer (1997)

Rotting Christ - A Dead Poem (1997)

Me resultó melódico y un poco raro. Viví engañado creyendo que eso era Rotting Christ hasta que años más tarde escuché el Thy Mighty Contract.

Voivod - Voivod (1984)

Slayer - Hell Awaits (1985)

Exodus/Slayer/Venom - Combat Tour Live: The Ultimate Revenge (Video, 1985)

Exodus - Bonded by Blood (1985)

Celtic Frost - Morbid tales/Emperor's Return (1985)

Al principio lo entendía o me parecía monótono, años más tarde abrí los ojos.

Venom - Welcome to Hell (1981)

Avulsed - Stabwound orgasm (1999)

Combat Tour 2 (Video, 1988)

Death - Scream Bloody Gore (1987)

Originators of the northern darkness: A tribute to Mayhem (2001)

The Sins of Thy Beloved - Perpetual Desolation Live (VIDEO, 2001)

My Dying Bride - For Darkest Eyes (VIDEO, 2002)

Tristitia - One with Darkness (1995)

Kreator - Coma of Souls (1990)

My Dying Bride - Trinity (Compilación,1995)

Katatonia - Dance of December Souls (1993)

Celestial Season - Forever Scarlet Passion (1993)

Napalm Death - Scum (1987)

Candlemass - Live Fryshuset 1990

Candlemass - Nightfall (1987)

My Dying Bride - As the Flower Withers (1992)

Evoken - Shades of Night Descending

Funeral - Tragedies (1996)

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny (1976)

Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla (1974)

Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness (1989)

Obituary - Tilburg, Holanda (Video, 17/10/90)

Suffocation - Efiggy of the Forgotten (1991)

Immolation - Dawn of Possession (1991)

Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis (1988)

Behemoth - From the pagan Vastlands (1994)

Burzum - Burzum/Aske (Compilación,1995)

Hay tanto que decir de estos discos que no sé por donde empezar.

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iqwrestler · 7 years

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nerdkisser

replied to your post:Rank Iron Maiden's albums

NOW DO PRIEST

You fucker! That is actually MUCH tougher

Screaming For Vengeance

Turbo

Defenders of the Faith

British Steel

Sad Wings Of Destiny

Painkiller

Point of Entry

Stained Class

Jugulator

Killing Machine

Ram It Down

Redeemer of Souls

Sin After Sin

Rocka Rolla

Angel of Retribution

Demolition

Nostradamus

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schoolofrockgr · 6 years

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Έρχονται και οι Judas Priest στο Rockwave | Κυκλοφόρησαν τα εισιτήρια

Kαι οι Judas Piest θα βρεθούν στην Αθήνα το ερχόμενο καλοκαίρι, και πιο συγκεκριμένα την Πέμπτη, 19 Ιουλίου. Γυρίστε τα ρολόγια σας από τώρα στην Πέμπτη 19 Ιουλίου 2018 και προετοιμαστείτε για ένα από τα καλύτερα shows που έχουν συμβεί ποτέ!

Judas Priest! Heavy Metal! Έννοιες ταυτόσημες για πάνω από 40 χρόνια στην πορεία του συγκροτήματος και του μουσικού ιδιώματος που μετρά εκατομμύρια σκληροπυρηνικούς fans στον πλανήτη!

Το 1969 κάπου στο Birmingham έμελλε να αλλάξει ο ρους της ιστορίας του heavy metal όταν οι Judas Priest σχηματίστηκαν. Κάποια χρόνια αργότερα μετά από αλλαγές στο Line –up και προεξάρχοντες τους Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, KK Downing & Ian Hill οι Priest μπαίνουν στη δισκογραφία κυκλοφορώντας τους πρώτους επίσημους δίσκους της μπάντας “Rocka Rolla” & “Sad Wings of Destiny” το 1974 και το 1976 αντίστοιχα. Ακολούθησαν τα “Sin after Sin”, “Stained Glass” και “Killing Machine” την ίδια δεκαετία μέχρι την heavy metal έκρηξη της δεκαετίας του 1980, όταν το συγκρότημα κυκλοφόρησε σειρά μνημειωδών αριστουργημάτων όπως τα Βritish Steele, Screaming for Vengeance & Defenders of the Faith, τη στιγμή που τα “Breaking the Law”, Living After Midnight”, “You’ve got another thing coming”, “The Sentinel” “Electric Eye” έγιναν ύμνοι στα χείλη όλων των metalheads.

Δίνοντας headline shows στα μεγαλύτερα φεστιβάλ του κόσμου οι Priest εξαργύρωσαν τη δημοτικότητα τους, αποκτώντας παράλληλα τη φήμη ενός από τα καλύτερα live groups στην υφήλιο. Στις αρχές του 1990 όταν η παγκόσμια μουσική σκηνή είχε στρέψει το βλέμμα της στο grunge, οι Judas Priest δώσανε το φιλί της ζωής στη φθίνουσα πορεία του heavy metal κυκλοφορώντας ένα από τα καλύτερα albums του ιδιώματος. Περί “Painkiller” ο λόγος, ενόσω η πολύπαθη θέση του drummer βρήκε στο πρόσωπο του Scott Travis ένα αναντικατάστατο μέλος.

Αδιαμφισβήτητοι ηγέτες του heavy metal οι Judas Priest δε σταμάτησαν στιγμή να εξαπολύουν εύφλεκτα κιθαριστικά solo μεταξύ σφύρας και άκμονος να διαλύουν drum-kits και να τεστάρουν τις αντοχές των φωνητικών χορδών μας με τον metal god Rob Halford πίσω από το μικρόφωνο. Η παρουσία και η επιρροή τους παραμένει υψηλή όπως αποδεικνύει το γεγονός πως το Nostradamus που κυκλοφόρησε το 2008, σκαρφάλωσε πιο ψηλά από κάθε άλλο δίσκο του συγκροτήματος στα charts. Το 2010 κέρδισ��ν το Grammy για την “Best Metal Performance”, την ώρα που εμφανίστηκαν μπροστά σε δεκάδες χιλιάδες κόσμου στην “Epitaph” περιοδεία τους ανάμεσα στο 2011 και το 2012, ενώ ο πιο πρόσφατος δίσκος τους “Redeemer of the Souls” βρέθηκε σε κάθε ενημερωμένη λίστα με τις καλύτερες κυκλοφορίες της χρονιάς που έφυγε, φτάνοντας στην 6η θέση του Billboard top 200 για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία των Judas Priest.

Εν αναμονή του νέου 18ου επίσημου δίσκου με τίτλο “Firepower” για το οποίο έχει οριστεί έτος κυκλοφορίας το 2018 θα στηθεί ένα heavy metal προσκύνημα με ενδιάμεσο σταθμό το Rockwave Festival την Πέμπτη 19 Ιουλίου στο TerraVibe Park!

Rockwave 2018 is calling Έρχεται διήμερος heavy metal σεισμός! Τρίζουν τα θεμέλια! Πέμπτη 19 Ιουλίου 2018: Judas Priest Παρασκευή 20 Ιουλίου: Iron Maiden More acts T.B.A! Τιμή εισιτηρίου: 49€ για τις πρώτες ημέρες Τιμή διημέρου: 88€ Τιμή διημέρου με camping: 88€ με ξεχωριστή πώληση

Έναρξη: Τρίτη 21 Νοεμβρίου για τα ημερήσια εισιτήρια Έναρξη: Παρασκευή 24 Νοεμβρίου για τα εισιτήρια διημέρου

Σημεία προπώλησης:

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#iron maiden #judas priest #live in athens #live in greece #rockwave #rockwave festival

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theart2rock · 7 years

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Starblind - Never Seen Again

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The Everlasting Dream Of Flight

The Shadow Out Of Time

Pride And Glory

Eternally Bound

Tears Of A Soldier

Never Seen Again

Avarice (The Fourth Circle)

Demon Rider

Insanity And Genius

The Last Stand

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Label: Pure Steel Records

Genre: Heavy Metal

Veröffentlichung: 24. November 2017

Band:

Gesang: Marcus Sannefjord Olkerud

Gitarre: Björn Rosenblad

Gitarre: Johan Jonasson

Bass: Daniel Tillberg

Schlagzeug: Zakarias Wikner

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Die musikalische Ausrichtung, nicht allzu fern auf den Spuren von IRON MAIDEN, hat sich seit ihrem letzten Meisterwerk ´Dying Son´ aus 2015 natürlich nicht verändert und wird jeden waschechten Metaller begeistern. Mit Marcus Sannefjord Olkerud (ex-Rocka Rollas) haben die Schweden obendrein einen fantastischen Sänger gefunden, der die brandneuen Kompositionen veredelt wie kaum ein anderer.

Ganz gleich, ob Stockholms Finest furios schnell oder episch angekratzt auftrumpfen – STARBLIND bewegen sich traumhaft in ihrem Metier und lassen die Melodien zielsicher aufsprießen.

Quelle: Pure Steel Records

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Starblind – Never Seen Again was originally published on The Art 2 Rock

#Iron Maiden #Never Seen Again #Pure Steel Records #Release #Starblind #Veröffentlichung #theart2rock

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freewheelshippin · 1 year

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him

#Kurosaki Ranmaru #uta no prince sama #iron maiden & rocka rolla art

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freewheelshippin · 2 years

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it’s all sunshowers with you

#iron maiden & rocka rolla #iron maiden & rocka rolla art #selfship #selfship art #yumejoshi

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freewheelshippin · 2 years

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happy year-iversary to my favorite pair of hot drinks 🍵☕ i found this cute little polaroid from the occasion, after ranmaru had had enough bubbly and impeccably good vibes to chill out and suggest we take this selfie all together <3

to a life full of happiness, @itoshikimaegirl , from two people who have gained immensely from it and (even if a certain big cat is loathe to admit it) are very invested in the continued health of it <3

#iron maiden & rocka rolla #iron maiden & rocka rolla art #matchamocha

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freewheelshippin · 2 years

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Happy birthday, Ranmaru!

This is the first year I’ve been able to celebrate your birthday -- I’ve been trying since 2018, but maybe it’s fitting that life just got in the way each time. We’ve had a ton of life get in the way, but that’s nothing a little persistence and elbow grease can’t solve, right?

I know you don’t like being fussed over, but it’s hard to resist making a big song and dance out of a day we can all agree on should be about how good it is you’re with us. Your sharp heart is so vibrant and full, despite everything you’ve been through, despite the grayness you’ve survived, that it bleeds over in light and love to the people around you in your own, wonderfully unique way. You can try and deny it all you like! But the truth is that the connection with music that fuels your passion so deeply is the stuff that keeps us alive as humans. The way you make and pursue your path, in rock, music, and with Quartet Night, is founded in love and compassion. A desire to communicate, and reach across the aisle to unite peoples’ souls without disregarding what makes them come to your music in the first place. My life is far healthier and richer for it. You rescued my art practice. You enable me to reach forward again, and again, and again, no matter what life throws at me, and I think that’s the most power anyone can offer anyone on this earth.

I hope you can understand that you are loved, and deeply so. And you will always belong on the stage, beside Quartet Night, and with me watching and cheering until my voice gives out. Whatever it takes, we’ll make sure that future is yours. I think the world needs your voice as long as you’ll sing. (After all, you’ve made a jaded girl who thought love like this wasn’t in the cards feel like a giddy teenager with your new single!)

We’ll get there, to that brighter future. With our shared dream, and our shared path. And in the meantime, I’m happy....for many reasons, of course, but a great many of which you enabled. Or are just you! As you are. Your wonderful, sharp-tongued, awkward self, overflowing with life and color.

I love you!

#iron maiden & rocka rolla #iron maiden & rocka rolla art

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freewheelshippin · 2 years

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to put it simply:

i have missed you

#iron maiden & rocka rolla #iron maiden & rocka rolla art #scribblings #imrr comics

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freewheelshippin · 2 years

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tasting

She didn't hesitate when he stopped walking to kiss her deeply. She just kissed back and leaned into him, only pulling out of it because she grinned too hard to keep her lips pressed into his, breaking into a laugh, into clumsily grabbing his face and pecking him on the lips over and over.

"I love you," she said, smiling at the ease it came off her lips. "I'm so lucky."

A fic I wrote some time ago and never posted. SFW (tho sex is mentioned), mentions of drinking/drunkenness, gratuitous yakitori snacking (which is to say food cw).

"Ahhh," Ranmaru growled, his volume untempered and pried open with more drinks than he planned. "I want meat. Let's find a stall or izakaya or somethin'..."

She laughed, in that drunkenly over-amused sort of way, swinging their twined hands with an indulgent, carefree recklessness. "I could tell the whole time that was all you were thinking. Thanks for indulging me."

"'S not like it was bad." This was teetering on the "I can't feel my face" sort of drunkenness for both of them. Ranmaru almost didn't care about the hangover he was going to be staring down later, and she was skipping on too many clouds to fall in line with usual habits of restraint, of never quite letting go, despite all appearances.

She hummed and grinned so widely and dopily Ranmaru matched it on instinct. "You fit right in there. Isn't it so cool, that you're this deep into the idol industry, and you still fit right in at a dingy hole-in-the-wall metal bar?"

"You think it's cool," he replied, fondness wrapping his words as he let go of her hand to tug her body close, hand wrapped on the side of her waist. She finally didn't feel the need to hesitate or think and leaned into him, a head on his shoulder, a squeeze over his own waist, and her free hand laid over his, not a care in the world for how awkward it looked.

"Hell yeah I think it's cool, you big asshole," she declared in English, like it needed to be in her native tongue to get the rude emphasis it needed. She looked up at him with adoration that made Ranmaru burn from the inside. "You're so cool. It's amazing how cool you are. Can you let me treat you to whatever meat we find? No, you know what, this isn't a question, I'm spoiling you as much as I want. Like I love seeing you get to eat without a care in the world, so think of it like me being selfish if you're thinking about arguing-- what? What?!"

He wondered if there were tears in his eyes from laughing this deeply, but it just came as she kept going further and further with her affectionate babbling. The threat of shutterbugs, of old family ties, of the cruel randomness of things felt so far off, like his heart were in a warm bath melting away his soreness, and he felt with confidence she was in a similar way. They'd spent many evenings curling into one another's sleep, and he still thought he'd never seen her so relaxed. So clueless and carefree.

"I love you," she said, smiling at the ease it came off her lips. "I'm so lucky."

"Took the words right outta my mouth with all your kissin'," he rumbled. His stomach did, too, as if on cue.

"I," she declared, squashing his cheeks between two hands. "Am treating you. Let's go find you your only acceptable drinking snack."

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Normally she fretted and worried about being the brash, loud American asking for too much, of being the overexcited dog making a mess and causing trouble, but what did she care, in this moment? There was a yakitori cart that looked close to packing up, and she asked if she could scoop up all the remaining stock at a little discount, since she had someone to treat. And he didn't think, not even dimly, about the ways that could be troublesome. This was just his girlfriend -- he was starting to get used to that, his girlfriend -- making sure food didn't go to waste and getting her money's worth. She laughed so much with the stallkeeper. Normally she didn't like sharing even a shred of personal information with someone like that, but Ranmaru could hear over his burning ears how she bragged about her boyfriend who worked so hard that he needed all the fuel he could to keep up with his hungry spirit, and she laughed when the stallkeeper teased her that she could keep a man like that collared with cooking.

"I promise I will!"

Embarrassing. But in a cute way, in a way that felt fun and new and exciting. Ranmaru wished he thought to take a picture of her running back, skewers of meat fanning out from between her fingers, that drunken grin firmly planted on her face, even as she locked eyes with him as she took a chomp out of as many skewers her mouth could fit around. She looked so dumb, chewing through so much food at once and deliberately hamming up what an affair it was, and he was very glad for it.

"There," she said, pointing to an empty playground. "We gotta sit."

The swings were too troublesome, but Ranmaru just laughed it off. She suggested the seesaw before admitting it was too ridiculous, so they nestled onto a jungle gym as their breath and the hot steam from the chicken floated into the clear, crisp winter air.

People are the best seasoning, that was how she liked to eat and cook, and she took her time once she'd swallowed the initial joke of a bite. It was more delicious to watch him eat, looking focused and satisfied and full, and she found herself wrapping herself around his arm, head laid on shoulder. He grunted in a chicken-strangled chuckle, and they settled into comfortable quiet as they polished off the yakitori, the latest feast in a sumptuous night full of them.

"...we have to get home at some point," she murmured. "But I don't want tonight to end. But your place is so far away...and I don't want to deal with going back to the Shining dorms and getting caught…ooh!" Her voice perked without her body rousing from its comfortable place piled on him. "What if…a capsule hotel…I've never done one...finally have the occasion to be a real worker in Japan, drinking too much to make it home..."

Ranmaru shifted from underneath her, in such a way she could tell he wanted her up. His gaze was intense in a way that made something flare in her gut, and for the first time tonight, she froze as he leaned into her, his fingers holding her still by her jaw.

The kiss was deep, hungrily deep, intoxicatingly deep -- not like times before him where she'd wonder the point of such a performance, when it'd be over, if things like this were supposed to be this unpleasant. The timing felt long and short at once, he knew exactly what he was doing when he pulled away with a small, sucking tug at her bottom lip.

"Or a private place I know…" he said, low, but tentative.

The careening momentum of everything made it feel like her very soul lurched out of her body as the bewildering prospect was laid out in front of her. A few moments where her physical self felt far away, out of reach, but then his warm hands clasped hers, and things came back into some focus. "Only if you want to."

She knew he look he was making, even though her eyes fell to their hands and stayed there as the blur of senses sharpened.

"What do I want?" she blurted out, only realizing she was speaking halfway through the words coming out. "...Ranmaru, what do I want?"

There was a pause, where his breath caught in some sort of way. His hands slid off of hers, then her chin was being tilted up, and she had to meet his eyes in the dim light. His makeup was smudged and patchy, but the face, the patience, the serious and gentle expression underneath it, it made the same flash run through her that made her make every crazy decision she had with him. Not running away when he was a nightmare client, of reaching for him increasingly more, of the move, of taking the job, of thinking to name this as love reciprocated when he bared his own heart.

He started to say something, but he'd already said enough, and she sandwiched his cheeks and kissed him with an urgent, almost frantic awestruck feeling spreading though her. He looked absolutely bewildered as she pulled away, almost scowling, and things became clearer and clearer. She pulled his face close again, pecking him on the lips over and over.

"I do want you," she stated, realizing it herself. "I mean, I do want to fuck you."

"What're you puttin' it like that for!" It started as a harsh whisper, but his expression lightened. She could feel him twisting back a smile.

"I just...not...now, though," she continued. "Not when we're drunk, and not when we're still working out where the hell we're even gonna be sleeping," she murmured. "Oh, god, and we both have work tomorrow, and don't you have a really intense variety show filming?! You already suck so bad at not getting hangovers, why are you thinking about sex when both you and I know we're already setting ourselves up for tomorrow being a struggle--"

He shut her up with a kiss, and now he kept grinning against her too much to keep it up. "I love you. Don't ever leave my side."

".........cheesy!" she exclaimed. "So cheesy!"

He was struck silent for a moment. "O-oi…"

"You're so serious and cheesy! What am I supposed to do against something like that! You know, I never knew I had a type until you were it-- augh, what am I doing, not jumping your bones right this instant?" She put fingers to her temples. "I promise, it'll be--"

"Stop talkin'," he mumured into her, and kissed her again, but focused, deep, belying every bit of hunger in him. He slipped his tongue through, briefly, and she didn't even murmur in surprise. Her hands grasped for his, white knuckling without realizing, and he held back -- maybe not as tightly, but just as surely.

Just as her grip relaxed some, he pulled away, meeting her eyes with as close to a mischievous glint as he got. "Umeena, omae." He let himself lick his lips, just for effect, before he hopped off the jungle gym and offered her a hand down.

She looked down at him. She hoped he didn't catch that a little tear sprang to her eyes before she swallowed it with ease, and just hoped the feeling swelling through her chest would communicate as she leapt into his arms and tackled him to the ground.

#iron maiden & rocka rolla #scribblings #no beta we die like men #selfship fic

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