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Requiem

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  1. What's on my mind is how I hate it when people add the word "alone" to the end of a statement when it's not needed. For instance, such and such a band "sold 10 million albums worldwide and have sold 5 million albums in the United States alone". The "alone" part is just there to artificially augment the gravitas of the statement. It's absurd. You see this everywhere. People should just say, "...sold 5 million albums in the United States". Job done. We get it, that's how many albums were sold in the United States. Fuck alone out of here.
  2. Not much use for one these days. I'm more nosferatu than Rikki Rockett.
  3. Solid, if ultimately fairly unexciting, classic era MA. 6/10 How about some Love Metal? I hope Relentless gets this one...
  4. I lived by the hair dryer and I died by the hair dryer.
  5. Amorphis - 'Forging the Land of Thousand Lakes'
  6. I empathise completely and that's why I haven't deigned to create lists for the 80s. My 80s metal collection is patchy at best, and while I have (most of) the albums I really want from that era, I wouldn't feel confident writing a top ten that I'm enthusiastic about. Plus they'd be full of lame hair metal albums...
  7. Your reference to Fenriz's 'Best of Old School Black Metal' caused me to pull it off the shelves and read through the liner notes again to see what the great man says. Fenriz says things like: "One can analyse a piece of music and deduct that it is black metal, but black metal is a feeling. And that feeling cannot be analysed". on Merciful Fate: "The beauty of black metal in the eighties is that it wasn't one sound. At all.... I instantly felt what I later would come to understand was the black metal feeling". on Sodom: "(black metal) was often more about attitude than melody". These are all pretty nebulous observations that sort of suggest subjectivity rather than any definite sense of genre. He clearly acknowledges that their was no common sound. It was only later, once the second wave started, that people like Fenriz and Euronymous started retrospectively calling these bands "black metal" - it wasn't a unifying term or concept that the bands themselves employed. Euro and his mates looked around at the 80s metal scene and just picked bands who had an "aura" (that they were now consciously developing and refining - into a genre) and slapped them with the black metal tag. Of course, many of these bands have black metal elements to their sound, and they're undoubtedly the founding fathers. I take nothing away from these bands, as they're awesome, and I'm sure they even felt some camaraderie between themselves regarding their attitude. But to me they are the prototypical bands of something that would become much more defined and, ultimately, specific: the genre called 'black metal'. That's just my feeling anyway. If someone comes up to me and starts talking about Venom and Merciful Fate being black metal, I'll still have a beer with them.
  8. Last night we had fish n chips guv'nor. Blimey. Actually, that was the main course. For some reason, our entree was steamed pork buns - the Chinese ones. So good. What a world we live in.
  9. Obviously the thread starter is long gone, but this is a cool thread idea. Here are a couple of my favourite acoustic songs from metal bands: **unlabelled YouTube videos deleted** These songs are amazing. It's sort of inspired me to make an acoustic compilation that I can play during the loveless lonely nights.
  10. I think the members of In Flames would be the first to acknowledge that they consider their sound to have 'evolved'. Of course, like FatherAlabaster says, we're not talking evolution in the sense of Darwinian natural selection - unless of course you take into consideration the likelihood that they let non-commercial riffs drop off and die whilst songs that appeal to today's kids are allowed to flourish and reproduce, thus changing the shape of the beast. I'm no scientist, but not all evolution means something becoming more complex. A tale dropping off, or hair becoming shorter doesn't seem more complex, but they are obviously things that for some reason help that species to reproduce and survive. In the context of metal, the dropping of death metal elements in a band's sound to a simpler rock structure may ensure a wider audience and ultimately allow the band to extend its life and go to greater (commercial) heights. The traditionalists of this world would call that 'devolution' because it goes against their taste for authentic, complex, music. But really, it's just a change the band sees as useful to their purposes. Anyway, the thread was about how quickly bands changed their sound back in the 90s compared with today. What do you think Idromos247?
  11. I don't know where this 'hitman' characterisation for True Belief came from, but it's actually pretty apt haha.
  12. Last three regular spinners during my commute. To/Die/For - 'Epilogue from the Past' (best of). Luscious goth-pop from this band's heyday. Ex Deo - 'The Immortal Wars'. Ancient Roman anthems chronicling the events of Hannibal's attempted invasion of Rome, including bringing war elephants across the alps. A stunning moment in history immortalised in metal. Eluveitie - 'Helvetios'. Another example of an album that's too long and boring. 17 tracks that all largely sound the same. They should have taken the best four tracks and the intro and made a killer EP.
  13. Maybe compromise your 'only albums I own' rule? A good album's a good album, even if you don't own it. I think 1995 was one of my favourite years personally. That era of 1990-1996 is my golden age, with the world of music opening up before me like a glorious dawn of majesty and triumph.
  14. Big week at work. Tonight is my eldest vampire's primary school trivia night/silent auction with a - wait for it - Christmas theme. In fact, because my wife of eternally wikkid nekro-retribution is a real busy-body when it comes to this sort of thing, our artificial Christmas tree is the tree of the evening. Baby Jesus would be proud. Also, interesting discussion about this place and its users. The positivity here is great and the antithesis of some other forums around these days. Also also, if anyone gets to meet True Belief in real life, do it. He's adorable.
  15. Satyricon - 'The Forest is My Throne' Satyricon - 'The Shadowthrone' Enslaved - 'Yggdrasill'
  16. Ok this place is getting creepy now. 6 hours with no post in the Now Playing thread? The most frequently used thread in the whole place? This is a bad sign. Anyway, I guess I'll just tell myself that I'm still listening to Manowar songs.
  17. lol Karl Sanders, Kyle Sanders, Colonel Sanders. We know who we're talking about, don't we Deathy. This is one fucked up choice. Ok, I'll go for being ignored, because if everyone saw me having sex I'd be ridiculed for my ineptness forever. Ignorance is bliss. Would you rather go to the opera or a jazz club?
  18. Nah. They've got a couple of ambient tracks if I remember correctly, but black metal is mostly krieg for Kanwulf and his cronies. Actually, they have plenty of mid-paced material. I haven't put them on in ages and is yet another band from the collection that needs a good airing. The 'Black Metal ist Krieg' album is great.
  19. I really don't know much about rum, although I'm interested in finding out more. I don't think I've ever had rum straight - it's always been mixed with ghastly cola. Definitely worth finding out more.
  20. Interesting. The only thing that took me a bit of time getting used to were Attila Csihar's vocals which I remember at the time being quite challenging, but of course now I'm entirely used to them (and have been for, you know, 20 years). For me, if anything there is that true 'x-factor' on 'De Mysteriis' that really elevates it. Hellhammer's drumming, those Euronymous/Snorre inspired riffs, the absolutely classic tracks and that deep, almost warm production. There's not a weak point on the whole album for me. I also really love 'Deathcrush', and even though I've had this for decades, the feeling continues to grow after initially seeing it as a bit of a curiosity. 'Live in Leipzig' is just amazing too on a number of levels. So for me there are three absolutely phenomenal releases straight off the bat. Then, I clicked immediately with Maniac back on vocals when they made 'Wolf's Lair Abyss' and then 'Grand Declaration of War'. I saw them live for the first time on the 'Grand Declaration' tour, and as a young man of 21 it really had an effect on me that bands these days just don't have. Now, as seen in the 'Post your collections' thread in the Photo section of the forum, before you know it I have a pretty decent Mayhem collection. I would say that Mayhem are in my top 3 favourite bands of all time and definitely the band that I've collected the most. People do occasionally point to events overshadowing their musical output, but I don't see it that way at all. Obviously the history of the band is fascinating, and I'm not going to pretend that it doesn't appeal to me on some exotic levels, but for me it's always been about the tunes. Sorry, I guess I'm off the topic now. The problem is, I'm such a fast typer I can smash out ideas almost as fast as I can think them. In summary, 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' is a really special album for me, and I can just keep consuming it like... like... Gerard Depardieu at an all you can eat cheese and wine tasting festival. Too much ain't enough.
  21. Cool! I've been watching it in the evenings but to be honest I'm more fixated on the landscapes than the actual race progress. I guess I'm going for Froome. I also really like Gabriel Gate's short culinary show at the start of each day's coverage on whatever region the race happens to be in. Fun fact: I used to live about three houses down from Gabriel Gate a few years ago. We were on "Hello" terms, but I'll stop short at claiming we were friends. Happy Birthday Deathy! Hope you have a great day.
  22. Basically, for some reason I thought I'd asked whether you would prefer France or Italy, so when you said France had better food (possibly) and weather (maybe) I just asked for clarification, based on a comparison to Italy. Then of course I realised I was asking about France v Russia, and yes, France does have both of those advantages over Russia, making my query redundant. When I looked at the question again I realised that no one would choose Russia anyway, unless they were on a huge ego trip - but you could also get that in France, so... Kyle isn't in the greatest of shape, but I'll still choose him because he's into Egypt as am I. Would you rather see a Manowar tribute band for $15 or the real Manowar for $100?
  23. Edit: I thought I said Italy for some reason rather than Russia, so not sure if you saw my mysterious post a second ago.... Carry on.
  24. Early 90s Immortal for sure. So much easier on every level. Find a forest/some mountains in winter and have the band stand out there in corpse paint, gurning. A few action shots, hopefully a witches hat, maybe a flaming torch, and you're good. Dealing with Joey DeMaio at a photo shoot where he wants the light to shine on his bicep 'just so', or he wants to see Ross the Boss in shorter wooly underpants, would be excruciating. Would you rather be an aristocrat in pre-Revolution France or Russia?
  25. I'd rather deal with a tornado I guess because it's smaller and maybe there's more chance to go around it? I don't know where you came up with this one, Deathy. Would you rather be personal assistant to Varg Vikernes or Dani Filth?
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