Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye

It's not from drugs, it's from either a dirty needle or dirty site of application.

No, but I'm turning pretty much all of these great suggestions into the basis for songs on my next grim core band's next project. That'll learn you all a big lesson.

Shadow's Fall - The War Within 1. The Light That Blinds 2. Enlightened By The Cold 3. Act Of Contrition 4. What Drives The Weak 5. Stillness 6. Inspiration On Demand 7. The Power Of I And I 8. Ghost Of Past Failure 9. Eternity Is Within 10. Those Who Cannot Speak And I don't actually have a serious hate on for this release like I thought I might. The opening acoustic piece sets up the first song just fine, and the first song is total riff madness. Only problem is that the whole things starts off sounding like a Nevermore song if it was played by an energetic Joe Stump. It's just mad up and down strumming speed that disguises the fairly untechnical nature of the scaling. This is very much the nature of many of the other songs on this record aswell. It's fun to listen to but you're kidding yourself if you think it's innovative playing. Performances are competent, if not unpredictable in almost every way that their genre demands. Drums are double kicked appropriately for a stomp appeal, guitars are shreddy when needed, moshy when needed. You know the drill for NuMetal. I'm sure that this stuff comes off really well in a live setting if you're just looking for something to jump to. Vocals follow the same rules basically as there is plenty of Hard Core shouting mixed with suprisingly (for a big budget band anyway, why the producer would allow that is beyond me) unconfident sounding clean singing. They even manage to sneak some death metal gruff growling in there, but it's really for show since it doesn't go anywhere with the music, neither leading nor accentuating. Shadow's Fall are masters of their world and this record will undoubtedly get a ton of praise from more mainstream rock press. And really, they deserve the good press they'll get, if only because they are about the best ambassadors to ..."Real"... Heavy Metal coming out of the current crop of big budget touring bands today. When I heard some of their previous output, I believed that they were being primed to be the second coming of Metallica. Now that Nevermore has seemingly dropped off the radar, I get the feeling that they are being inserted into their spot to continue their work of progressive without pretense metal that appeals to the masses. Only this band wears dreadlocks and baggier pants. They just aren't quite there yet. A release that should not offend tr00 'bangers (but will anyway), and one that should be heard just to see the face of the top general of the enemy that is mainstream or Nu Metal. The Swiss: 1. The guitar work isn't innovative or mind blowing, but when the chording starts to take over, the band shows hard chops and what sound like some pretty off kilter chords patterns to keep things momentarily interesting 2. The band members have at least and very good understanding of their instruments and how to use them. This greatly helps the quality of the material, particularly when they get into the more generic areas of mosh stomp chug chug 3. The band is one musical revelation away from becoming the numer one "Straight Metal" band on the planet. The Cheese: 1. The flip side to number 2 above. The biggest problem with that technical ability is that they generally don't use it properly. Particularly in the lead guitar shreds. They are played fast...and not much else. Nothing terribly interesting happens. 2. further to number 3 above, this band would probably get Slayer level cred if they stopped listening to their producer/label so much and just slammed it. Too much production hurts, but it still retains that intentional dirtyness that occurs when you're trying to force feeling into your sound. 3. Too much simplification on the parts that are obviously designed safely for singals play on radio 4. Corey will surely fap over this record, that bastard. 6.5/10 I wouldn't buy it, but I'm not terribly offended while listening. Guess that's why I downloaded it. Wasted Opportunities is pretty much the theme of my thinking about this one.

Just because it's not a secret, doesn't mean that everyone knows them. But now you've blown it, I'm quoting that post so we know who to blame next time some pbp comes back and wrecks havoc while our w*st c**st m*d is not on.

No matter what happens to the technology, I will always keep your posts saved. In my heart.

But what if you freak out and get banned here? You'd have a way to get back on and I just can't be the cause of pbp's being allowed back on.

That wasn't what subliminal animal originally posted.

No, you aren't. But If I tell you how to fix it, then I have to tell everybody and that's just a lot of work you know.

I'm glad I have faith that a lot of you posters in this thread were just fucking around. If I didn't, I'd probably not be very pleased right now.

I suppose then that is would be better to push through instead of just leaving without telling anyone, like I did. Although looking at a payback system could be an option if you are really hard up. You'd be losing money from working, but you'd still be pulling some dollars in. And nope, it'll just be you and your self satisfaction. Pretty cool, no?

All I meant there (other than that physical things are pretty low on the totem pole anyway) is that, although difficult, you've got better things to worry about that you should try to focus on above losing those items. I'm sure you know all this already but knowing it and doing it are two different animals for sure. As far as the school thing goes...I hate doing this really, but if you have an idea that things will be shitty for a while yet, see if they can freeze your credits where they are or something and take six months in order to work. That really sucks though because going 'back' to school is damned harder than going to school. One thing I'm idealistic about is karma, and if you stay the course and live your life to the best in any situation, you'll end up falling into the odd barrel of shit. But you'll come out smelling rosy.

Flik, seems to me that you're just putting too much value into physical manifestations of something that will likely be with you forever (memories). It's nice to have these things but they are only things and when you are struggling to survive, that point becomes pretty clear. If you don't mind asking, what is it exactly that's going on that is causing you to do all this?

Nevermortal probably wins.

Well the site's pluralized name makes sense now. They really are on the right track.

I should not have clicked it to see what was going on there. I ain't feeling particularly confident at the moment. I can't photoshop a penis like I see on some of those kinda pictures.

I like the pun on the new one.

I am never ever going to try to fuck with this guy. Damn.

No, I'm just going with the flow that I'm getting from the thread. Honest question. The worst is when you click a link that is named for something unrelated and than bam! ...Goatse'd

So how did you react, Incandenza?

So, Incandenza, what was your first "goatse" experience?

http://punkasspunk.com/rons_first_goatse.jpg Apparently this is what happened the first time Ron Jeremy got Goatse'd

I'm glad Banky asked that question before I had a chance to.

^ that one's already been done

redbaron51 is disqualified from this thread forever.

Lucky for us.