Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye

Firefox is totally brainless to set up. when you install it (looks very similar to straight IE) and use a new function, a popup comes up that will show you how to set it up. Easy as pie. I'll never go back.

Well I'm right here, but I'm neither of them. But I'll be your daddy for a day.

Meh, he'll get more bored doing something else one day and then the boredom of this board will actually bring him back.

A winner is....me

I pretty much hear them all at some point along the line, and that includes nightwish. No interest in them either, but thanks.

Yes you bastard, I'm currently listening to a supposed masterwork of Iced Earth. My free flowing thought as the album progresses: About 4 songs in right now and I must say. I knew what this was gonna be and it is what I thought it was gonna be. Soaring drum beats, supreme guitar ability filtered into the power metal realm of soaring heavy riffage tempered by progressive emotional balladry. Jon Schaeffer is an excellent guitarist, no doubt. I'm really digging a lot of the riffs and they seem to logically fit into their proper form. He's an insufferable anus, but he knows how to craft a song. Another thing I hate about this genre: chug chug chug riff mad opening gets us going hard -> nice heavy song keeps the momentum going without moshing your head in -> singitty songitty balladry that makes me stab a ball point into my ears because it comes off smelling of cheese and pretense -> riffy song to get us going again. Ok, who the fuck is singing this? This guy sounds like Zakk Wylde if Zakk was wearing a white shirt with a frilly front and curly hair. He's a fine singer but he's RUINING this album for me. It all seems so off tune with everything else and his highs he uses to emphasize a riff or transition are godawful and forced beyond his range. Do it if you can, if not....just don't. Ballad -> chugga chugga again. Schaeffer is really saving this for me. But then I never really doubted his guitar playing. The drummer is doing well to know when and where to throw kick mad speed metal into the mix which helps things along nicely. Song 7 and this really starting to get samey to me. No song, as a whole, has blown me away as of yet and since this is a foray into a somewhat new genre for me, that doesn't make me want to go and investigate more albums and bands. Reaping Stone is on now and it's striking me as a far more sinister Mr. Tinkertrain and I'm quite digging this so far. This singer is still pissing me off with his Zakk-ness but it works on this song since his voice is lower of the register and it fits the dark nature of the song well enough. Well, The Coming Curse goes on like a mofo like all good album enders do. So there you go FS, I gave your boys a chance, but I just can't get into it that much. Schaeffer is everything you'd want him to be in a bandleader/riffman but beyond that everything seems quite...pedestrian. But it's not complacent so I can't penalize them for being lazy musicians anyway. But by the same token, they love sticking to their style a little too much at times when variation would be welcome. Too much chug riffing that goes into power ballad that goes back into chugging. Now I have to listen to Brave New World in some kind of analytical way.

This isn't even a wrestling thing for me, dude took three shots in the neck and spine to save a rape victim. He should get the utmost respect. I'm sure the wrestling community will take care of him.

I was gonna give something to Agent to bribe him into a banning for UJM. Now I don't have to. And he got banned. The real winner of this thread is me.

vote Bush

Good thing I'm a communist

I really hope that there's some sort of bizarre CE in joke embedded in this thread somewhere that I just can't find.

It's gonna be tomorrow in about 21.5 hours at this rate unless Frigid takes it easy on the bugging.

No.

None of the shit that's in there that isn't wanted anywhere else isn't even wanted in there.

People with numbers in their name are assholes. The AIM chat is ------> thataway fuckers

Yes. Yes it is.

For black metal especially, the harsh (generally) high pitched scream is based on the death metal theory that the voice acts as another instrument in the band. The high picthed scream comes originally with the idea that it is the expression of the pain and despair and hatred etc of life in 'the mortal realm' which again goes to the Stimulation of Fantasy point. Some (mythology based for the most part) bands use it, for example, as a representation of the oskerei which is the mythological "Wild Ride" where the spirits of the dead in Germanic lore come to the mortal world at night and basically terrorize the living by raping and pillaging and burning. All the good stuff and I'm hoping I remember that properly. That's about my preferred interpretation of it anyway. As far as not understanding what the vocalists are saying, it get exponentially easier after listening to various bands over time. Unless they are doing something really off kilter with their voice, I can pick up the jist of what any of them are saying.

Any real hatred I show towards that brand of metal is simply well amplified black metal elitism. I just don't make a point to listen to the stuff since I have very little interest in the style. Manowar, Rhapsody, Hammerfall are three of the most uninteresting and cliched mounds of Heavy Metal mistake I've ever heard. Although a bit of extra credit to Rhapsody for their genius shred man Luca. Just so much interchangeability in a genre that desperately needs originality for it's acts to really stand out. And yes I know that there is a lot of the same thing in Black Metal, but they can get away with it far more than Power can. Black Metal, as an art, is more about the feeling and atmosphere and introspection. They happened to find a formula for that which works the best "to stimulate the fantasy of mortals" to quote Varg Vikernes. Power Metal is storytelling. And i don't like the hear the same glorious battle told by a dozen bands in (TO MY EARS) a far-too-similar-way-for-it's-own-good kind of way. I would never try to knock down the guitar of Jon Schaeffer any sooner than I would try to bring Bruce Dickenson or Hansi Kursch's vocals down etc. The long and short of it is that I don't generally enjoy the tools that Power Metal bands employ to get their message across. I hardly hate it or wish they would all disappear.

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We've discussed Putrid Pile before. As far as the experimentation with more cheddary realms of metal, it's only because FS won't leave me alone about it so I figured I'd better do something about it. I'm about to fully recover via Black No.1'ing myself with my Satyricon/Enslaved split grim as all get out cd.

Yeah I was all like whooshed, but then I reeled it all in and realized that I was doomed since you were still lurking after I posted that. However, I do think that we should implement that policy. If only to save the credibility of my post.

Insulting me gets you on Incandenza's reject list. Is that something you people are willing to fuck with?

No, I mean the whole bullshit surrounding the OMG WHOIZDATBIRDZFELLA and all the threads, posts, insults, winky winks, and everything else. It wasn't funny last year or the year before. It's not funny now. It won't be funny next year. Although bumping old threads is also quite the art of faggotry also.

This fad seriously needs to just fucking leave.