[Hesher] Satan Wants You Dead

Adrenaline

HESHER
n.

1. See also Butt Rocker.

2. Any form of rock music and / or listener, sporting a mullet, eye makeup, hairspray, tight acid washed jeans and hi-top Reeboks.

Welcome to the Grand Battalion Nekrokreuz Sigma Save the Avanc Bakesale: Convocation at Tain Hollow (aka let's talk about cool music and satan and stuff). You may have entered a hesher, but you'll leave on a screaming motorcycle driven by wings of liquid fire. From hell.

Year's End 2009 Top Lists:

Autothrall's Top 20 Metal Albums of 2009
01. Oranssi Pazuzu (Finland) - Muukalainen Puhuu
02. Arckanum (Sweden) - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
03. Onirik (Portugal) - After Centuries of Silence
04. Nokturnal Mortum (Ukraine) - The Voice of Steel
05. Midnight Odyssey (Australia) - Firmament
06. Klabautamann (Germany) - Merkur
07. Nazxul (Australia) - Iconoclast
08. Sólstafir (Iceland) - Köld
09. De Magia Veterum (Netherlands) - Migda Bavel
10. Blut Aus Nord (France) - Memoria Vetusta II
11. Tribulation (Sweden) - The Horror
12. Hellveto (Poland) - Od południa na północ
13. Xasthur (USA) - All Reflections Drained
14. Peste Noire (France) - Ballade Cuntre lo Anemi Francor
15. Insomnium (Finland) - Across the Dark
16. Abigail (Japan) - Sweet Baby Metal Slut
17. CSSABA (Poland) - Toxic Cssaba
18. Lost Soul (Poland) - Immerse in Infinity
19. Kreator (Germany) - Hordes of Chaos
20.Katatonia (Sweden) - Night is the New Day
21-100: 2009 Extended Buyers' Guide (i.e., Autothrall's Top 100 Metal Albums of 2009, or to quote Paul Harvey, "The Rest of the Story")

Ranxxerox's Best of 2009
- Absu (US) - Absu
- Arckanum (SE) - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
- Blut aus Nord (FR) - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
- Khanate (US) - Clean Hands Go Foul
- Kylesa (US) - Static Tensions
- Ruins of Beverast (DE) - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
- Shrinebuilder (US) - Shrinebuilder
- Wolven Ancestry (CA) - Silence of the Boreal
- Xasthur (US) - All Reflections Drained

Frank Austin's Best of 2009
1) Immortal (Nor) - All Shall Fall
2) Propagandhi (Can) - Supporting Caste
3) Arckanum (Swe) - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
4) Anaal Nathrakh (UK) - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
5) Wardruna (Nor) - Gap Var Ginnunga
6) Kreator (Ger)- Hordes of Chaos
7) God Dethroned (Nld) - Passiondale
8) Fukpig (UK) - Spewings From A Selfish Nation
9) Horned Almighty (Ger) - Contaminating the Divine
10) Oranssi Pazuzu (Fin) - Muukalainen Puhuu

JD/Adrenaline's Top 20 Metal Albums of 2009
01 Insomnium - Across the Dark
02 Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
03 Blut Aus Nord - In Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
04 Vektor - Black Future
05 Andacht - Chapter I
06 Klabautamann - Merkur
07 Katatonia - Night is the New Day
08 Scythian - To Those Who Stand Against Us
09 Peste Noire - Ballad Cuntre lo Anemi Francor
10 Tombs - Winter Hours
11 Mastodon - Crack the Skye
12 Portal - Swarth
13 Wodensthrone - Loss
14 Midnight Odyssey - Firmament
15 Nazxul - Iconoclast
16 Devious - Vision
17 Denial - Catacombs of the Grotesque
18 Funebrarum - Sleep of Morbid Dreams
19 Ekron Cult- Queen of the Luxury
20 Abigail - Sweet Baby Metal Slut

Narian's Best Metal Albums of 2009
01. Fleshgod Apocolaypse (It) - Oracles [Debut of the Year]
T2. Mastodon (US) - Crack the Skye
T2. Behemoth (Po) - Evangelion
04. Vader (Po) - Necropolis
05. Ensiferum (Fi) - From Afar
06. Vektor (US) - Black Future
07. Azarath (Po) - Praise the Beast
08. Hypocrisy (Se) - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
09. Cannibal Corpse (US) - Evisceration Plague
10. Slayer (US) - World Painted Blood
11. Naxzul (Au) - Iconoclast
12. Immortal (No) - All Shall Fall
13. Lost Soul (Po) - Immerse in Infinity
14. Devious (Nld) - Vision
15. Suidakra (De) - Crógacht
16. Be'lakor (Au) - Stone's Reach
17. Tribulation (Se) - The Horror
18. Savage Circus (De) - Of Doom & Death
19. Mistaken Element (Fr) - Mind Over Matter
20. Cobalt (US) - Gin
21. Arckanum (Se) - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
22. Insomnium (Fi) - Across the Dark
23. Týr (Fa) - By the Light of the Northern Star
24. Voivod (US) - Infini
25. Oranssi Pazuzu (Fi) - Muukalainen Puhuu

Candlemass's Best of 2009
Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue with the Stars
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Klaubatamann - Merkur

S0up's Sexy Time Top 10: Keeping it unmetal since 2007
01. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
01. Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity
01. Devin Townsend - Addicted
04. Destroyer 666 - Defiance
05. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
06. Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
07. Devin Townsend - Ki
08. Vader - Necropolis
09. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
10. Slayer - World Painted Blood

META METAL 09 OH YEAH
1. Klabautamann - Merkur
2. Insomnium - Across the Dark
3. Peste Noir - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor
4. Midnight Odyssey - Firmament
5. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
6. De Magia Veterum - Migdal Bavel
7. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
8. Behemoth - Evangelion
9. Tribulation - The Horror
10. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
11. Xasthur - All Reflections Drained
12. Reverence - Inactive Theocracy
13. Vektor - Black Future
14. Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
15. Bergraven - Till Makabert Väsen
16. Immortal - All Shall Fall
17. Onirik - After Centuries of Silence
18. Sanctus Nex - Aurelia
19. Striborg - Perceiving the World With Hate
20. Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams

I N V I C T U S's Best of 2009
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Beherit - Engram
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
Maim - From the Womb to the Tomb
Ignivomous - Death Transmutation
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
Shrinebuilder - s/t
The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder

LoveIsUnity's Best of 2009
1) Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
2) Klabautamann - Merkur
3) Mastodon - Crack the Skye
4) Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
5) Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
6) Behemoth - Evangelion
7) Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
8) Isole - Silent Ruins
9) Rhino - Dead Throne Monarch
10) Celeste - Misanthrope(s)

Yakul's Best of 2009
1. Nokturnal Mortum: The Voice of Steel
2. Klabautamann: Merkur
3. Abigail: Sweet Baby Metal Slut
4. Grave Digger: Ballad of a Hangman
5. Oranssi Pazuzu: Muukalainen Puhuu
6. Kreator: Hordes of Chaos
7. Demonical: Hellsworn
8. Senmuth: Madinat Al-Mayyit
9. Onirik: After Centuries of Silence
10. Savage Circus: Of Doom and Death

Crazy Larry's Best of 2009
Vektor - Black Future
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
Vader - Necropolis
Behemoth - Evangelion
Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos
Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!
Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
Bulldozer - Unexpected Fate
Grave Digger - Ballads Of A Hangman
Lonewolf - The Dark Crusade
Cobalt - Gin
Paradox - Riot Squad
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Rebellion - Arise - From Ginnungagap To Ragnarok - History Of The Vikings Part III
Ensiferum - From Afar

brorstein's Best of 2009
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
Zu - Carboniferous
Klabautamann - Merkur
Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
Celeste - Misanthrope(s)
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Narrows - New Distances
Volcano Choir - Unmap
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
St. Vincent - Actor
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu

L|ama's Best of 2009
10) Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
9) Nazxul - Iconoclast
8) Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star
7) Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!!!
6) Tormented - Rotten Death
5) Rebellion - Arise - The History Of The Vikings Part III
4) Mistur - Attende
3) Drudkh - Microcosmos
2) Nokturnal Mortum - Голос Сталі
1) Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor

Futt Bucker's Best of 2009
1. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
2. Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor
3. Klabautamann - Merkur
4. Nokturnal Mortum - Голос Сталі
5. Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
6. Obliteration - Nekropsalms
7. Voivod - Infini
8. Marduk - Wormwood
9. Empty - The House Of Funerary Hymns
10. Vader - Necropolis

Mgcw's Best of 2009
1. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
2. Hellveto - Od Poludnia na polnoc
3. Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
4. Insomnium - Across the Dark
5. Lost Soul - Immerse in Infinity
6. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
7. Voivod - Infini
8. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
9. Portal - Swarth
10. Katatonia - Night is the New Day

Morg's Top 20 Albums of 2009 That He Listned To More than A Few Times Each and Still Found Amazing Extravaganze List
1a.) Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
1b.) Scythian - To Those Who Stand Against Us...
2.) Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
3.) Evile - Infected Nations
4.) Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
5.) Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
6.) Vektor - Black Future
7.) Behemoth - Evangelion
8.) Suffocation - Blood Oath
9.) Vader - Necropolis
10.) Pestilence - Resurection Macrabe
11.) Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
12.) Voivod - Inifini
13.) Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
14.) Portal - Swarth
15.) Claws - Absorbed in the Nethervoid
16.) Marduk - Wormwood
17.) Drudkh - Microcosmos
18.) Cobalt - Gin
19.) Havok - Burn
20.) Expulsion - Wasteworld

Noteworthy 2010 releases:

Abigor - Time Is The Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint
Abigor - Time Is The Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint (Jan 18)
Aborym - TBA (?)
Accept - TBA (?)
Aeon - TBA (?)
Agalloch - TBA (?)
Angra - TBA (?)
Anthrax - Worship Music (?)
Blind Guardian - TBA (Late Summer/Early Fall)
Borknagar - Universal (Feb 22)
Brain Drill – Monumental Failure (?)
Burzum - Belus (Mar 8)
Children of Bodom - TBA (?)
Dark Fortress - Ylem (Jan 22)
Dark Trainquility - We are the Void (Feb/Mar)
Darkane - TBA (?)
Darkthrone - TBA (?)
Decapitated - TBA (?)
Detente - Decline (?)
Dimmu Borgir - TBA (?)
Dornenreich – Flammentriebe (?)
Devin Townsend - Deconstruction (May)
Finntroll - Nifelvind (Feb 17)
Gamma Ray - To the Metal (Jan 29)
High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine (Feb/Mar)
Ihsahn - After (Jan 25)
Immolation - Majesty and Decay (Mar 9)
Iron Maiden - TBA (?)
Kalmah - TBA (?)
Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian (?)
Melechesh - TBA (?)
Motorhead - TBA (?)
Necrophagist - TBA (?)
Negură Bunget - Vîrstele pămîntului (Mar)
Rage - Strings to a Web (Feb 5)
Rhapsody of Fire - The Frozen Tears of Angels (Mar 5)
Rotting Christ - Aealo ( Feb 15)
Rush - TBA (?)
Saxon - TBA (?)
Septic Flesh - TBA (?)
Shining – Shining VII: Född Förlorare (Mar/Apr)
Sigh - Scenes from Hell (Jan 19)
Soilwork - TBA (?)
Spawn of Posession - TBA (?)
Testament - TBA (?)
The Sword - TBA (?)
The Vision Bleak - Set Sail to Mystery (Jan)
Tub Ring - TBA (?)
Vintersorg - TBA (Late 2010)

There is a rumor that Faith No More is gearing up for a new studio album, and we are all still holding our dicks in anticipation of new Summoning.

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Some basic guidelines for people just joining up with us:

• we know that dethklok are the brutalest
• we know that Dragonforce are the noodliest
• we know that Opeth is some craaaazy shit, dog
• we do, in fact, not look down upon Between the Buried and Me
• we do, in fact, look down harshly upon Killswitch Engage

Please keep in mind - kvlties just wanna have fun. If you can dig that, bring your black leather and come masturbate with us to the butteriest riffs this side of the gulf of Darien.

Let's not forget those that came before!
PA.fm 2007 review thread
Our first community review blog
July 06 to April 07
June to December 08
January 09 to May 09
May 09 to December 09

desc

I want Impetuous Ritual to come out now.

Tav

Protest The Hero tomorrow.

I really hope they don't play the entirety of Fortress like some people are suggesting. Kezia would be so much better live.

Morgenstern

Oh what the fuck

Edit: Alright, tried to lock the other one, but just asked for it to be deleted. Sweet deal.

desc

Keep both new threads going. HEAVY METAL IN (((STEREO))).

METAzraeL

We need a sweet new op for a sweet new thread.

autothrall

Yeah, I'd kick the Sirenia lyrics and 2008 lists.

Liquid Ghost

Digging the new Dagon.

EDIT: Stumbled upon Odium, too. They're not too bad in that whole "Roadrunner-esque stuff I'd rather be listening to than actual Roadrunner stuff" sense. Clean vocals, growly bits, lots of double bass, melodic guitars, you know the formula. I'm still listening, though.

yakul

Well I suppose we should all get official 2009 lists together over the next two weeks and then update the OP.

Now the time of year where I struggle to remember everything I enjoyed

L|ama

Hmm I don't possess 10 albums that I would call the top from this year, being a broke and busy student sucks for music
Instead I will go with this:

01. Neire Peste
02. La Mesniee Mordrissoire
03. Ballade Cuntre Les Anemis de la France - De Francois Villon
04. Concerto Pour Cloportes
05. La France Bouge - par K.P.N. (Chant de l'Action Française)
06. A la Mortaille!
07. Vespre
08. Rance Black Metal de France
09. Requiem pour Nioka (à un Berger-Allemand)
10. Soleils Couchants - de Verlaine

Adrenaline

OP tweaked.

autothrall

Dreamerdown wrote:

in the face of a world of ADD mentality where spastic br00tech death metal core and derivative, sped-up power metal are the only things that can keep the attention of the youth majority.

I used to love it when I said things like that. Where has all my cruelty gone?

METAzraeL

autothrall wrote: »

Dreamerdown wrote:

in the face of a world of ADD mentality where spastic br00tech death metal core and derivative, sped-up power metal are the only things that can keep the attention of the youth majority.

I used to love it when I said things like that. Where has all my cruelty gone?

Nothing's all that trendy anymore except the nebulous concept of "METAL", so there's nothing to really focus on. I mean, when's the last time anyone said anything about Dragonforce? That train is gone, and stuff like metalcore and brutal death metal just doesn't really stand out.

Adrenaline

METAzraeL wrote: »

Nothing's all that trendy anymore except Dethklok, so there's nothing to really focus on.

Fixed!

METAzraeL

I was kinda including Dethklok in the nebulous "METAL" category

Also, I don't really know what the op picture is - is that a reference to Vader's "feed lions to the xians"?

Adrenaline

METAzraeL wrote: »

I was kinda including Dethklok in the nebulous "METAL" category

Also, I don't really know what the op picture is - is that a reference to Vader's "feed lions to the xians"?

Yeah, I just think there is no trendy category anymore, just Dethklok. People that jump on that bandwagon suddenly think they know something about metal from watching a cartoon show:

Guy in adult swim thread talking about Dethalbum II being too thrashy wrote:

It's a fine line, as all sub-sub genre's tend to be. I think the diffinitive Thrash Metal would be old Metallica whereas the difinitive Death Metal would be... I don't know... I guess Deathklock. Or Mastadon or some other rubbish.

It's obviously pretty hilarious.

Also, the painting in the OP is The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1883).

S0up

To soon for 2009 Top Ten? This wasn't a crazy Metal year for me, but there was some good shit out there this year.

autothrall

A lot of those releases in the OP drop down have been reviewed now, along with a gajillion others, but I suspect you'll just clip those when we give our year's end lists?

It may be a little too soon for me to do my list, there are still a few weeks left and I've got a few dozen in the queue to review, including at least 2-3 that are excellent.

METAzraeL

I'm morbidly intrigued to see what he's referring to as a "sub-sub genre", but...my braaaaaaaain

Blakout

Update: Klabautamann is really good. Hasn't hooked me quite like it has some of you yet, but it also hasn't really had time to sink in so who knows. I also haven't been in much of a black metal mood for most of the year, but that time is coming so I could definitely use some fresh frostbitten anti-christmas music.

I've set my hatred of the name aside to listen to the new Arckanum now. Good so far (only three tracks in) but I dunno if it'll make my year's-end list.

ughh I have so much catching up to do

METAzraeL

I feel like I would enjoy Arckanum a lot more if I knew what the lyrics meant.

yakul

Just flipped through some of the older threads... man what a time capsule. Back in the cold years of 2007 when we didn't have a blog with over 1000 reviews. (930 from this year alone)

METAzraeL

You have to wonder how many of those little reviews are hidden in the last.fm thread.

Tav

Adrenaline wrote: »

Guy in adult swim thread talking about Dethalbum II being too thrashy wrote:

It's a fine line, as all sub-sub genre's tend to be. I think the diffinitive Thrash Metal would be old Metallica whereas the difinitive Death Metal would be... I don't know... I guess Deathklock. Or Mastadon or some other rubbish.

It's obviously pretty hilarious.

I like how a dude on the AS forums managed to misspell Dethklok. I mean, there's pretending to know about metal and then there's pretending to know about that damn cartoon.

Narian

METAzraeL wrote: »

I feel like I would enjoy Arckanum a lot more if I knew what the lyrics meant.

Wow I came to the exact same conclusion a few days ago.

autothrall

yakul wrote: »

Just flipped through some of the older threads... man what a time capsule. Back in the cold years of 2007 when we didn't have a blog with over 1000 reviews. (930 from this year alone)

Well, minus those lists I posted.

But I'm working on having a real # of 1000 for this year.

http://www.arckanum.se/lyrics-album2009.pdf

That's a link to the Arckanum lyrics, written out clearly at least. You'd need to translate them, but if lyrics being in English were a criteria for me I wouldn't be able to listen to or enjoy half the music I own.

Synopsis from his site:

Njørðr asked Þjazi, the wrathful rime-giant, on the behalf of all the gods for amends; peace between them. But Þjazi answered: ‘No amends – no peace!’ Next, darkness and mist hung over the horizon behind Þjazi and his brothers; and out of the darkness came the ferocious dog-headed giant-tribe of Beli, Þjazi’s allies. The gods now understood that war and darkness were upon them

Bolthorn

Okay, what sort of sound does that Þ character make exactly? I loaded up that album and was bugging the hell out of me.

Narian

The last time I wrote something I promised to give the next update around Easter. Well, Easter season is a little late this year, but better late than never is my favorite saying. Here is my long promised message.

To keep this one a short but essential one: we finally have started the production of Blind Guardian studio album number nine. Frederik is literally rushing through the songs already. Who knows, this time we may deliver the finished master prior to the ultimate deadline (set by an about-to-get-insane record company after thousands of broken promises to finally deliver the new record within the next days). Well Frederik isn't Marcus, who isn't André, who most certainly is not Hansi. So there still lies trouble (i.e. delays) ahead.

Back to Frederik, back to the production: We started sometime last week and Frederik accomplished drums for some seriously tricky tracks. If I am correct he has two more tracks to go and should be finished during the next days. Altogether there are 11 songs to work on. As mentioned last time, we do have a strong amount of heavy Guardian hymns, which come along with such a harsh intensity that I am sometimes surprised myself. There is a fine balance of extremely fast songs and ultimate epic stuff. "Wheel of Time" would be one example for the last mentioned. The song contains many surprises - I am deadly honest about that, so mark my words here. Lyrically I am of course tempted to deal with Robert Jordan's great "Wheel of Time" story, one of the best fantasy series ever. If you asked me with which song the number could be compared I most probably would say "The Script for my Requiem" or "And then there was Silence". This tune does really have the potential to mess with these two songs.

As you most probably figure I am really excited about the new stuff and I cannot await to hear the final result somewhere in April 2010, when we will have finished mixing. We are targeting a late summer, early fall release, which means you still have to wait a little bit. To make the long waiting more comfortable we are at least intending to constantly provide you with information about the album's progress and supply you with small samples of noise from time to time. Right at the moment we are working on an accurate set up to make that possible. Expect something before Christmas. As it looks now I will start first vocals next Monday. Therefore I need to do some more research for proper lyrics. G.R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Michael Moorcock and so on they all knew how to write a good story or two...

Hansi

Giddy as a school boy.

Crazy Larry

A Song Of Ice And Fire song by Blind Guardian? Fuck yes.

Fallout

So I had a friend with generally-respectable metal opinions tell me that Dethalbum II is super awesome. Finishing it up now, it doesn't live up to that description but it's also not the worst thing I've ever heard. There are some cool riffs, and Laser Cannon Deth Sentence is a respectable album title. I hate the mix though. It's like everything bows to the rhythm guitar.

Morgenstern wrote: »

Fallout wrote: »

Let's all start a tribal black metal band with jungle instruments and voodoo themes called Shrunken Head. Debut album Screaming Foreigner Stew.


...but seriously, "[Hesher] Angel Rectums Still Bleed" is the obvious choice for the next thread title.

I'm in.

I'll go by the name "Doctor Living Bones".

That's awesome.

I'll be "Evil Spirit Binder".

Fallout

Bolthorn wrote: »

Okay, what sort of sound does that Þ character make exactly? I loaded up that album and was bugging the hell out of me.

"th"

Bolthorn

Fallout wrote: »

Bolthorn wrote: »

Okay, what sort of sound does that Þ character make exactly? I loaded up that album and was bugging the hell out of me.

"th"

Thanks.

LoveIsUnity

Blakout wrote: »

Update: Klabautamann is really good. Hasn't hooked me quite like it has some of you yet, but it also hasn't really had time to sink in so who knows. I also haven't been in much of a black metal mood for most of the year, but that time is coming so I could definitely use some fresh frostbitten anti-christmas music.

I've set my hatred of the name aside to listen to the new Arckanum now. Good so far (only three tracks in) but I dunno if it'll make my year's-end list.

ughh I have so much catching up to do

I didn't get hooked on Merkur until I'd heard the last half of the album. While I like the whole thing, I think the second half of the album completely nails the execution and makes me enjoy the whole thing even more on subsequent listens.

I'm going to import the record from Germany, but I'm trying to figure out whether it would be cheaper to have it shipped to a friend in Germany and have him ship it here or have it shipped from the label directly to the US.

METAzraeL

autothrall wrote: »

Synopsis from his site:

Njørðr asked Þjazi, the wrathful rime-giant, on the behalf of all the gods for amends; peace between them. But Þjazi answered: ‘No amends – no peace!’ Next, darkness and mist hung over the horizon behind Þjazi and his brothers; and out of the darkness came the ferocious dog-headed giant-tribe of Beli, Þjazi’s allies. The gods now understood that war and darkness were upon them

That's a large reason why I want to understand the lyrics. But, without any kind of lyrical involvement in the songs, the album just stays at the really solid level for me. As for translating, he writes in Old Swedish and has been using Old Icelandic to some extent - the only way I can get anything is if I put it under Icelandic, and then it mostly gets prepositions.

"Immolation aren't even good. There pretty much a ripoff of Deicide and Amon Amorth." Thank you, Last.fm.

GreasyKidsStuff

So I am going to see GWAR tonight and I am not familiar with them at all, other then the costumes and the stage show and one song. I am looking forward to it though. Should I be excited y/n?

Adrenaline

MH79 wrote: »

So I am going to see GWAR tonight and I am not familiar with them at all, other then the costumes and the stage show and one song. I am looking forward to it though. Should I be excited y/n?

Yes. Don't wear nice clothes.

Bolthorn

Adrenaline wrote: »

MH79 wrote: »

So I am going to see GWAR tonight and I am not familiar with them at all, other then the costumes and the stage show and one song. I am looking forward to it though. Should I be excited y/n?

Yes. Don't wear nice clothes.

In fact, find something you never expect to wear every again. If you have ever received clothes as a gift from a relative and they have languished in your closet for years, now is the time to wear them.

Morgenstern

MH79 wrote: »

So I am going to see GWAR tonight and I am not familiar with them at all, other then the costumes and the stage show and one song. I am looking forward to it though. Should I be excited y/n?

CALGARY SUCKS.

GreasyKidsStuff

Morgenstern wrote: »

MH79 wrote: »

So I am going to see GWAR tonight and I am not familiar with them at all, other then the costumes and the stage show and one song. I am looking forward to it though. Should I be excited y/n?

CALGARY SUCKS.

Um.... thank you? o_O

And I'll take the clothes advice, thank you to anyone who suggested that. Shitty sweater ahoy!

LoveIsUnity

MH79 wrote: »

Morgenstern wrote: »

MH79 wrote: »

So I am going to see GWAR tonight and I am not familiar with them at all, other then the costumes and the stage show and one song. I am looking forward to it though. Should I be excited y/n?

CALGARY SUCKS.

Um.... thank you? o_O

And I'll take the clothes advice, thank you to anyone who suggested that. Shitty sweater ahoy!

I don't know if they're still doing the same thing, but the only time I saw GWAR you could buy a shirt that would do awesome shit when it reacted with the blood and semen they spray in to the crowd.

Narian

METAzraeL wrote: »

"Immolation aren't even good. There pretty much a ripoff of Deicide and Amon Amorth." Thank you, Last.fm.

It's sad because someone actually believes this.