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Done. Mind if I ask what your dissertation is for?

Figured I'd do this thingy again, but thought that it should probably be it's own thread rather than me clogging up "What's on your mind?" with a bunch of long posts (although it is technically on my mind (if I follow that though pretty much everything belongs in "What's on your mind?" (and then what you have is a group chat, not a forum))). Yet again, the venue was the Barwon Club, a lot of the stuff I go to is there as it's the closest thing that I have to a local metal venue. Attendance seemed (weirdly, given the comparative popularities of the bands) to be in higher magnitude than that of the Hadal Maw gig, with enough people showing up to warrant the opening of the bar, but still likely being under 150 people at the apex of the night. These numbers being bolstered a couple of hours in by a tonne of people arriving after Geelong having won down the road, around ten of which came into the band area. Below are a few thoughts on each band's performance, presented according to the order in which they performed. Nemesium: Exactly as solid a performance as last time, no need to repeat myself. Sadly for them it seems that these were playing too early to a dead crowd, few having had their first beer at this time in the night. A criticism that I do have, however is that their setlist contained almost entirely unreleased material (a new album, coming soon) with "Annihilation Prophecy" being the sole song that they played off their EP. I cant help but think that I'd have enjoyed it more if I was more acquainted with the songs that they were playing. A weird bonus was that as I was purchasing one of their shirts, the guy I was buying the from (I believe their vocalist) gave me one of their EP CDs for free (again). As I explained that I already had it (not wanting him to waste it on me), he simply restated that it was a free bonus and gave it to me anyway. Direblaze: A good performance overall, this band is retro death/thrash done right, playing was tight yet aggressive with the attitude of the vocals being clearly evident. Strong Slayer influences were clearly viable as they offered the audience a choice of 3 Slayer songs (The Antichrist, Raining Blood and (I think) Metal Storm/Face the Slayer) as a cover, with The Antichrist being chosen. The solos were a little hard to hear for me possibly as the main lead guitarist was also a rhythm guitarist making mixing difficult (one of the few advantages of long pedal chains/splitters or modeling amps) or possibly due to where I was standing. These guys are well suited to their opening for Kreator and Vader early next month. Blackhelm: If I had to recommend one of these bands, it would probably be these guys. The atmosphere of their blackened riffing was perfect coupled with the slow, melodic solos clearly cutting through mix was an awesome experience. It's possible that I'm biased though as I was in the front row at the centre for their performance and likely was at the perfect angle for everything. King: These guys were generally good in terms of playing, tone and mix (although, I think vocals were a tad quiet at some points), but I have a couple of minor things that annoyed me somewhat. First off, I think they overused backing tracks, in addition to some atmospheric sounds, a couple of acoustic interludes were played by backing tracks which seemed kinda lame to me. Surely, between them they have a friend or something that can play those bits on a clean, reverbed electric guitar if setting up an acoustic is too great a pain in the arse. Also, this may be a thing that only I find weird but when they first stated the show,they had their back to the audience and turned around as the song started (which I thought "sure, cool") but as the song finished, they proceeded to turn around and re-reveal for the next song (repeating this for pretty much every song). I guess both of these things have to do with taste and aesthetics, but I thought they were worth mentioning.

Flesh Is Heir - The Amenta

That makes sense. As you're just a sock account for True Belief, a physical confrontation would be somewhat awkward.

Hang on, from "After the fight we're going to duke it out in the parking lot to see who's the toughest" I thought you were fighting each other. Did that seem too difficult and you set your sights on cracking the skulls on some random parking lot people instead?

How'd the parking lot fight go?

Most times I've came up with something good, short, spellable and pronounceable, I've looked it up and it already existed. The main way I can come up with something original is typically through misspelling or use of foreign or made up words (which is bad for spreading yourself). I've came up with a couple of original names (such as Lysosome), but I think they may suck.

All of the good band names were taken.

I also can't think that his angelic voice would've been the same had he never touched Jack Daniel's or cigarettes.

Deadpool typically seems cheerier, even if it is a side effect of insanity so I'll choose him. Guess I'll keep the comics ball rolling. Judge Dredd or Captain America?

I'll second that. Out of Batman and Spiderman, my favourite of the two is certainly clean-living Lemmy.

I guess it doesn't take much metal to scare me. An Iron Maiden poster would render me catatonic. I only go on this sight in an attempt to flood myself and cure this maddening phobia. I'm going back to the Barwon Club tomorrow night. Going to see King (blackened melodeath), Nemesium (death), Blackhelm (black/thrash), and Direblaze (death/thrash). I hope I'm okay.

No "W". I feel discriminated against.

Yeah, if you can afford it.

Practice What You Preach - Testament

Cool. Lyrics from your Five Finger Death Punch CD?

I saw 8:00 to 11:59 here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/napalm-death-brujeria-lockup-melbourne-tickets-35534033250 It probably means they don't start until 11:00. An actual schedule would be good, but I couldn't seem to find one. I've never got this. It seems most of these things don't start early enough, I get going till 2:00am if you have 8 hours of stuff to get through, but choosing to end after midnight while starting after 8:00 seems dumb.

Are you guys talking about the tour with Brujeria, Lockup and Black Rheno? I'll hopefully see that when it gets to Melbourne (timetable willing). According to the website, the Melbourne show only goes to 12:00. Also, anyone going to see Kreator/Vader?

I also like to listen to music while doing chores, traveling, etc. I get this. I find that if I try to listen to music while studying or doing an assignment I get way too distracted. Weirdly enough though, I find that listening to something like a podcast or talk radio does not have the same effect.

Nemesium - Sentient Cognizance

Olm - Hadal Maw

Arise - Sepultura

Tibi et Igni - Vader

I think they have some cool moments, but they're not a band I foam at the mouth over. I possibly might buy the new album if I saw it cheap, but it's not something I would throw $30 at.

I'm 19, so I'll be 38 in just under 19 years.