Jump to content

Requiem

Members
  • Posts

    4,241
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    99

Everything posted by Requiem

  1. Excellent advice, and I've taken it already. I read it really slowly and carefully a couple of years ago after ignoring it for so long, which is a real tragedy. Despite loving it, I wouldn't consider it an easy read - there are some extremely tangled sentences there. I think I recall one sentence having 17 different names in it. I was reading the Appendices as often as the main text in the end! But I got there eventually and it was joyous.
  2. Requiem

    Cults

    Thanks for putting the punchline in italics, as I never would have got it otherwise. ? It's not as if I'm psychic and could figure out what you meant. (nod nod, wink wink). At this point I now have no idea what we were actually discussing, so hopefully some forum samaritan comes by and picks up my bloodied avatar and takes it to an inn... and the innkeeper's daughter... (Bible reference to Good Samaritan story - except for the Innkeeper's Daughter. That's pure Requiem).
  3. Fantastic band, and that's their best album in my opinion. Such a great album. The booklet also contains some of the best 'band-in-forest' shots I've ever seen. Nice choice!
  4. Way to bump a 5 year old thread Vampers. I never go to the gym either. When you look as good as me the whole concept is redundant.
  5. Powerwolf - 'Best of the Blessed' Good times had by all.
  6. Requiem

    Cults

    Not after I stumbled upon her after a dozen pints of cheap lager at the local. hohoho. Let me tell you.
  7. I guess I need to give it a few more listens then. In all honesty, it's been ages since I've even heard it (as in 15 years ages), so maybe it's not as bad as I recall. After all, one vampire can't be wrong. I'll buy the cool re-release I think. The new album covers are better than all of the old ones from the mid era.
  8. Requiem

    Goth

    The 'not' being a reversal of TON is just too subtle for successful internet transmission, but the rest of your post: yes, I understood and enjoyed it enormously. You can rest easy knowing that your philological genius is appreciated worldwide. What the hell is this thread even about?
  9. Covid has put a slow-down on international album orders, and I currently have probably close to 8 or 10 CDs on their supposed way despite being ordered a couple of months ago. Tres frustrating, as they say in France. It's forced me to buy local though, which is good I guess. What has arrived recently is 'The Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy Soundtrack'. I saw it fairly cheap on ebay and as I'm deep into 'The Return of the King' (novel) and am currently in a Tolkien metal fervour (Summoning and the Northern Silence bands), I thought what the hell. It's a nice little package too, with the three originally released jewel case discs with original booklets, in a handsome box and 20 postcard style cards. The whole lot only cost about $20US, so I'm well pleased. The older I get, the more important Tolkien seems to me.
  10. Manowar - 'Kings or Metal' What an amazing and fun album. To think it came out in 1988 is really incredible. Highly enjoyable slab of epic metal hits exclusively.
  11. Requiem

    Goth

    I really had no idea what your "typo... negative, req" statement meant. I guess I just made a typing mistake somewhere. Why, is there some significance to the phrase? I'll try to steel my observation skills forthwith.
  12. Requiem

    Cults

    I've been drunk enough to hit that.
  13. Powerwolf - 'Best of the Blessed' One of the hugely successful melodic bands that I've a been a bit slow on the uptake with from on. Engaging melodic metal with gothic tones and anthemic choruses that appeals right into my wheelhouse and beyond like excellence exclusively.
  14. Thanks for linking that - I just saw Vampy's post and was dreading trying to find it. You're a legend.
  15. I'm not a fan of those albums, no. There are only so many Darkthrone 'heavy metal' cover band albums you can listen to before you shout, "Enough Gylve"! Besides, I already own the Celtic Frost albums that they've ripped off.
  16. Let's just say that I'm building the collection from 'Abigail' up...
  17. Requiem

    Books?

    You're a Gaelic football, you turnip. Anyway, back to books... I read em occasionally.
  18. Requiem

    Books?

    Australian football is more like Gaelic football, except infinitely more interesting. That you remain ignorant of the great sport is concerning yet not unexpected. I suggest immediate research. Reading about Gary Ablett senior and junior is mandatory. Think of the greatest ice hockey player ever (Gary senior), then he has a son (Gary junior), and he plays for the same ice hockey team and is the best player in the whole league and wins the mvp and the competition trophy twice. I only insist on this knowledge because the world needs to know. Watch this immediately and exclusively:
  19. Requiem

    Goth

    My wife must be a goth then... Aren't goth girls only goth girls because they can't get boyfriends from the football team and can't be bothered being feminist lesbians?
  20. Requiem

    Cults

    The daemons' names are too evil and esoteric to type on modern devices, and must only be spoken when the moon is full and cleansing rituals have been performed across the threshold and hearth. Never heard of Mrs Blavatsky, but she sounds hot.
  21. Great question. I think it's largely to do with the fact that Metallica became a household name and became the pin-up band of what selling out looks like. They went from thrash band to stadium band. Remember when 'Load' came out and they had all cut their hair, put on eyeliner, topical shirts and were smoking cigars? It was just ridiculous, and so far away from the long haired dorks who pumped out some early thrash classics. Megadeth never went in that visual direction. Megadeth, on the other hand, were a little different. 'Countdown to Extinction' and 'Youthanasia' were metal albums, and really good ones. They kept the ball rolling a little longer. While a lot of people do seem to enjoy 'Cryptic Writings' if they grit their teeth (like me), there is a heap of shit shovelled on 'Risk'. And they struggled to recover, as even now the albums are met with the same degree of hot/cold responses. So I think they both travelled a similar trajectory, although Megadeth's smaller fanbase seems to have come around to albums like 'Dystopia'. I haven't, and while I was a fan of both bands in the early 90s I now don't buy any of their albums. Megadeth's songwriting today, though, is so much better than Metallica's. It's strange that the apprentice has now become the master. Metallica suck so much these days. Damn, it's just incredible. No one can understand why a band who created 'Ride', 'Master', 'Justice', and 'Black' ended up doing what they're doing for the next 30 years. It's ridiculous. Thanks for ruining my weekend....
  22. Powerwolf - 'Best of the Blessed' Best of. Can't believe I never gave these guys more time. One of those bands who sound dodgy on first listen, but by the third playing you're naming your firstborn Powerboy. Yet another melodic and fun band. Metal really is changing around this old man's island of tradition!
  23. 'Esoteric Warfare' is easier to listen to due to its more standard riff structures (sort of), but the tracks are just so strange and weak. Teloch, the new guitarist/songwriter was all at sea. At least 'Ordo ad Chao' has that gay abandon that is Blasphemer's last musical tantrum before he left the band. It has a degree of artistic thrust that 'Esoteric' just lacks. But I don't enjoy listening to either album in I'm being honest and they don't get played at parties at Castle Requiem.
  24. You're continuing the tradition of the Florentine masters. Just amazing work.
  25. Mowed the lawns today. Listened to a little metal. Drank a little wine.
×
×
  • Create New...