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    hanskeyhanskey Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    Kakodaimonos wrote:
    Thanks guys, I'll have to check those out. But I hate folk metal. So I'll probably pass on Vo Skorbyah

    And I have a good chunk of the Ant-Zen catalog, so the weirder noise stuff may be interesting. And it annoys the shit out of my neighbors when I crank up the Merzbow. So it's a win, win.

    No skin off my nose -> these Russians fucking rule!

    However, I would suggest you at least give this a quick try, you might be surprised or you might hate me for posting this.

    I'm not huge Folk Metalhead either, but then I really only hate the really putrid commercial drivel that masquerades as metal.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzU6Vj2UvHM

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    LoveIsUnityLoveIsUnity Registered User regular
    I started a discography review for the band that everyone loves (or loves to hate) over on the blog. Depending on how much I drink, I may publish the rest of the discography tonight. I got a job, so I finally feel like I can sit down at the computer and do something enjoyable rather than spend 10-12 hours a day looking for work.

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    hanskeyhanskey Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    LoveIsUnity wrote:
    I started a discography review for the band that everyone loves (or loves to hate) over on the blog. Depending on how much I drink, I may publish the rest of the discography tonight. I got a job, so I finally feel like I can sit down at the computer and do something enjoyable rather than spend 10-12 hours a day looking for work.

    Very cool! I just listened to them for the first time a few weeks ago when I got their album: The Absence Of Truth for like $6 used. I do enjoy them, not rabidly, just enjoyment.

    Congrats on another fucking good review!!

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    LoveIsUnityLoveIsUnity Registered User regular
    hanskey wrote:
    LoveIsUnity wrote:
    I started a discography review for the band that everyone loves (or loves to hate) over on the blog. Depending on how much I drink, I may publish the rest of the discography tonight. I got a job, so I finally feel like I can sit down at the computer and do something enjoyable rather than spend 10-12 hours a day looking for work.

    Very cool! I just listened to them for the first time a few weeks ago when I got their album: The Absence Of Truth for like $6 used. I do enjoy them, not rabidly, just enjoyment.

    Congrats on another fucking good review!!

    I love that album. Even though I think some of their other albums are better, that would be the one album I would take with me in some weird situation wherein someone has a gun to my head and is forcing me to choose Isis albums.

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    hanskeyhanskey Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    It was quite a surprise given all the mixed reviews of Isis in general.

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    LoveIsUnityLoveIsUnity Registered User regular
    I feel like anyone who doesn't like this song just straight up won't like Isis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEu-8hjxpog

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    hanskeyhanskey Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    Dammit!!

    I'm not emotionally ready for anything but rage right now, being away from my kids for the last week on work.

    ;-)

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    LoveIsUnityLoveIsUnity Registered User regular
    Alright, maybe you should check this out, which is from the record before the one you have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopiG1Qhlh8

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    Does anyone know if Vespre from Ballade is an original PN song or a rerecording of an older French song or something? It popped up on a webpage that I would never expect it to pop up on and im kinda confused.

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    hanskeyhanskey Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    LoveIsUnity wrote:
    Alright, maybe you should check this out, which is from the record before the one you have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopiG1Qhlh8

    Thanks, and I hope you know I was not being critical. I really like Garden Of Light, but it was invoking waaaay too much sadness for me at the moment. Heady shit man...

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    LoveIsUnityLoveIsUnity Registered User regular
    hanskey wrote:
    LoveIsUnity wrote:
    Alright, maybe you should check this out, which is from the record before the one you have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopiG1Qhlh8

    Thanks, and I hope you know I was not being critical. I really like Garden Of Light, but it was invoking waaaay too much sadness for me at the moment. Heady shit man...

    Oh, I know :) I am super drunk, so I'm probably not communicating very well.

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    hanskeyhanskey Registered User regular
    JEALOUS!! Me no drinky so far from home!!

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    Onslaught_FeiOnslaught_Fei Registered User regular
    Futt Bucker wrote:
    I was just wondering where all the good 2011 death metal was. I've had this 2006 classic in my car for the past few days and I found myself saying "Dang why isn't anything this good coming out?"

    I think the only death metal I've heard this year was Cannabis Corpse and Amon Amarth.

    Autopsy's Macabre Eternal hit my sweet spot.

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    CandlemassCandlemass Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    Any recommendations for somebody who really enjoys Virgin Black's 'Sombre Romantic?'

    Is this the place that I confess that I still listen to Iced Earth once in a while? Mmmmm nostalgia.

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    autothrallautothrall Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    You won't be turned off by the folk elements of Vo Skorbyah, they are quite minimal, it's mostly crushing death/doom, very powerful album.

    There's a new Craft album, finally.

    Also, the singer for the Swedish band Apati passed away a few weeks ago, so I'll be writing a review for Eufori this week in commemoration.

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    autothrallautothrall Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh8CfWEnSJ8

    Not sure if we've ever posted this one.

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    (En)chained to a shadow of the past, he walks the path of life, carrying that old story like a cross, on which he will, on which he may, nail another star.
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    MgcwMgcw Registered User regular
    Darkane is back with their original vocalist, hopefully they can release another killer.

    We decide who is worthy of our works.
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    MorgensternMorgenstern ICH BIN DER PESTVOGEL DU KAMPFAFFE!Registered User regular
    Amon Amarth tonight. Don't know what to expect.

    “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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    RotamRotam Registered User regular
    Fucking hell, Death or Glory, that album is too damn catchy. Shouldn't have listened to it before going to bed.......

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    Liquid GhostLiquid Ghost DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES, TOO?! Registered User regular
    Morgenstern wrote:
    Amon Amarth tonight. Don't know what to expect.
    Beards. Lots of beards.

    behold the half-baked scribbling and scratching of a so-called "writer"
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    MorgensternMorgenstern ICH BIN DER PESTVOGEL DU KAMPFAFFE!Registered User regular
    That's a given.

    “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    AA usually have a good setlist and put on a good, tight show. I just wish they wouldn't of insisted on ending with Pursuit Of Vikings both times I saw them. They have better songs that they could have used, especially in an eight song set where every song counts and there's no room for filler.

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Bleh there was a fuck up with the Tombs show I was going to see. It ended up starting two hours late in a different venue. Ended up drinking with them and watching them in a tiny pub with only about 20 other people. They are pretty tight live and really cool dudes. Had to leave before The Secret came on cus I had to catch last bus.

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    Futt BuckerFutt Bucker CTRegistered User regular
    More MDF bands...

    ARTILLERY (Denmark)
    DØDHEIMSGARD (Norway)
    INTERMENT (Sweden)
    HELLBASTARD (UK)
    DESASTER (Germany)
    DEMONICAL (Sweden)

    My color is black to the blind
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    GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    I picked up Meshuggah's Chaosphere a few days ago. It is goooooooood. But I imagine any of you who own it already know that.

    edit: As well as Iron Maiden's Live After Death. Which is great. As usual.

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    autothrallautothrall Registered User regular
    Artillery, Desaster, DHG and Demonical all added? Sick.

    (En)chained to a shadow of the past, he walks the path of life, carrying that old story like a cross, on which he will, on which he may, nail another star.
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    GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    So in my travels through Youtube I stumbled across.... whatever the fuck this is

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDgbYF48UPw&ob=av2e

    I... why... whyyyyyyyyyyyyYYYYYYYY

    edit: Goddamnit they're Canadian

    Sorry rest of the world

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    KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    edited August 2011
    Hah.

    But everything from Rise Records is gonna suck hard.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSeiG6qMhaI

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    GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    Ugh.

    I'm working on the review for this right now. Should be up in a day or two.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAqZb52sgpU&ob=av2e

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    autothrallautothrall Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    Gah you guys are blinding me. That Abandon All Ships song is like the very worst possible approximation of rave music...only with a shit metalcore band who know 2 notes on the guitar thrown in...

    And how is it that the Of Mice and Men singer looks tougher doing his rock/emo vocals in the verse than when he goes metalcore?

    Cleansing myself with the new Vader.

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Dream Theater are going to have Trivium as their American tour support.

    Bwahahaha.

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    HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iHRAnIA2Yw

    I can't get enough of this. It's like what Cauldron wishes they could be.

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    LoveIsUnityLoveIsUnity Registered User regular
    Tav wrote:
    Dream Theater are going to have Trivium as their American tour support.

    Bwahahaha.

    At least this means neither of those bands are going to be playing at any of the shows I'm going to, heh.

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    autothrallautothrall Registered User regular
    New Morbus Chron album is pretty damn good, release isn't for a few weeks but I'll write it up at some point.

    Finally got a Wii for bday, w/Mario Kart, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Murasama and Okami so I'm figuring that out.

    (En)chained to a shadow of the past, he walks the path of life, carrying that old story like a cross, on which he will, on which he may, nail another star.
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    NargorothRiPNargorothRiP Registered User regular
    So i have been listening alot to Vektor Black Future any other suggestions to fit in this vein?

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    autothrallautothrall Registered User regular
    Well, you can go back in history to check the bands that Vektor were influenced by (Voivod, Coroner, Toxik, Heathen, Deathrow, Mekong Delta, etc).

    But there are not a lot of other, new bands out there with the same approach. Maybe Revocation? Vocals aren't as manic, but they do some semi-tech death & thrash. A local Massachusetts group. Their new album is out in a few weeks.

    (En)chained to a shadow of the past, he walks the path of life, carrying that old story like a cross, on which he will, on which he may, nail another star.
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    MorgensternMorgenstern ICH BIN DER PESTVOGEL DU KAMPFAFFE!Registered User regular
    I always thought Toxik was one of those thrash bands that it's cool to refence now, but even back then they weren't really that original or good.

    “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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    Futt BuckerFutt Bucker CTRegistered User regular
    Morgenstern wrote:
    I always thought Toxik was one of those thrash bands that it's cool to refence now, but even back then they weren't really that original or good.

    Have you ever listened to Think This? It's incredible.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYDyphZzVVQ

    My color is black to the blind
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    autothrallautothrall Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    Actually, many people enjoyed them as early as 1988, myself included. Quite a lot of people I know got into them and bought the tapes. They got some favorable reviews in the metal rags, and I think what drew people to them was the progressive/power element. A lot of people loved 'Ryche, Fates Warning, etc, and wanted more in that vein. I do think Think This is more original than World Circus, and filled that niche better. The problem is, like so many bands, they just fell apart after a few albums, right when they were getting interesting.

    I guess they're back now, but I haven't paid attention.

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    MorgensternMorgenstern ICH BIN DER PESTVOGEL DU KAMPFAFFE!Registered User regular
    See, I only ever came across World Circus which I didn't really like at all. Think This is something more up my alley.

    “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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