Vampyrique

4 hours ago, Requiem said:

There's a plethora of publication puns if ever I paused to perceive some. 

Sometimes betrayal is more of a sadness than a point of angry ignition. You can beat me, you can break up with me, you can fire me from my job. But don't end my metal magazine subscription without a clear explanation and refund! It broke me. Deep inside. 

I know. Maybe we should have that conversation about pun control before someone gets hurt. But not you because you're already hurt. 

You said circa 2012, maybe they thought the world was going to end beginning with Australia.

1 hour ago, Requiem said:

Came out the same day as the jewel case lame version, I believe. Choose your listening partners well, I always say. The digipak is the best version by far. 

Still Playing: Type O Negative - 'Bloody Kisses' 

Digipak tracklist version exclusively.

I couldn't understand a word...

All this time I never knew.

But it's Roadrunner so why am I not surprised.

3 hours ago, Requiem said:

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). 

 

Oh, I didn't want to type 'O' and have it come out looking like a zero again. Plus, you're not exactly Tortuga so I just thought I'd make sure. She's the Madame Blavatsky of the metal forum, no doubt.

We are discussing cults. Stay focused.

1 hour ago, Requiem said:

Do either of us have time for unassuming music and artwork? 

Requiem listens to assuming music and views assuming artwork exclusively. 

No, not really.

I prefer pretension but only 9 times out of 10. That way when I unearth a forgotten gem I can pretend it's still fresh, unlike an overused cliche. Modest mid-era Darkthrone get can occasionally steal a spot on my iPod, but only at the expense of other Darkthrone albums.  

2 hours ago, Requiem said:

So a regular post from you then. 

I've always loved the Serbs and their romantic sensibility. Lots of good christian women there, I hear tell. 

I went looking for trouble - when I decided I was going to watch a Serbian film - and boy, I found her. Nothing Christian nor romantic about it.

No italics this time.

Unfortunately, Chuck Norris won via TKO. Last man standing.

On 7/3/2020 at 4:03 AM, MacabreEternal said:

Why's that?

On 7/11/2020 at 2:22 AM, Requiem said:

He's on an anti-tattoo crusade, one discussion board at a time. 

All marks of the beast, no doubt.

On 7/11/2020 at 4:04 AM, Requiem said:

King Diamond - 'Abigail' (still digesting this theatrical and flamboyant masterpiece, but I love it)

 

 

Beware of the slippery stairs, you could easily fall... and break your neck!!!

On 2/8/2019 at 5:07 PM, Requiem said:

The rot started a lot longer than a year ago. Here's my story: 

I started buying Terrorizer in 1997, and I still have at least two copies from that year. Coincidentally, I just sent @True Belief a picture of one of them a couple of days ago (the Mayhem cover). For a kid in Australia in the 90s, it was easily the best way to get news and information about quality metal bands, and the journalism was comparatively fantastic when compared with the competition. I still sometimes flick through these old editions for the historical value. 

I was a regular purchaser from newsagents for several years, even getting the newsagent to hold me a copy, until I finally took out a subscription in about 2001 I think. I was a subscriber from then through to about 2011 or 2012, I can't recall for certain, but I kept every copy and I have a garden shed full of literally hundreds of copies in cardboard boxes, smelling of lawn mower fuel now I've discovered. I once had a letter published in the letters section and my first album was reviewed when I was living in England. From memory they gave it 6/10. I had a track on one of their Fear Candy c.ds too later on. 

So anyway I was a huge supporter, until....

Back around 2012 or thereabouts - I really can't remember specifically- there were huge problems with distribution all of a sudden. Without notification the magazine stopped arriving in my mailbox and this happened to many other people as well. Month after month went by with nothing, despite having paid in full. Emails and facebook messages to the publisher went ignored, and it was quite a scandal at the time. 

I felt really let down. I had literally purchased every copy from about 1997 through to 2012 which amounted to a huge investment, and then I was literally ripped off. It wasn't just me though, it was obviously many, many people. After about six months my subscription elapsed and that was it - no renewal letter, no email. So I just let it go. All this time, however, they were updating the website and advertising on facebook, and issues were appearing in the newsagents. It was crazy. People were losing their shit over it and there was venom and vitriol on their social media platforms. 

I could be wrong about the 2012 date, but that seems to be when my collection ends so it seems about right. I had noticed that the standard of journalism had been slipping for a couple of years before that too. A quick comparison between the late 90s and early 2000s issues and the 2010s issues reveals much shorter album reviews and artist features in the later editions. As in 50% shorter. The articles about bands became more like blurbs than full stories and I never really understood why. I'm sort of amazed when I flick through the 2010-2012 issues even now at how everything became truncated and simplified.  I haven't read an issue since my subscription disappeared into the aether. 

So screw you Terrorizer. You owe me about 50 bucks for the remainder of my subscription many years ago! What bothered me much more than that, however, was the fact that you couldn't even be bothered to send me a quick note to explain what was going on. Just bizarre. And probably a "thanks" for about 15 years as a regular customer. I want it in writing and signed in blood. 

 

 

It sounds like you could have paid a visit to Terrorizer headquarters and unloaded a few magazines of your own, terrorizing the lot of them. Payback in full metal jacket.

Hi. 

Yes, we have maps in the western world.

Bulgaria seems a fine country. Amor e Morte was a great band from there. Zaratustra, Dark Inversion, and Korozy were not too bad either. 

Always judge an album by its cover. Each one a fatal portrait.

A bad album cover usually means a lack of dedication to the arte magicale; a philistinic display of "aint it just about the riffs, bro?" attitude.

There are albums I like with mediocre cover art, and I'd probably value them even more if the cover was better. The 2000s witnessed a never-ending procession of digital recrement; a painful taint-by-numbers found-everywhere-affair.

On 7/16/2020 at 3:38 AM, Requiem said:

Type O Negative - 'Bloody Kisses' digipak non-joke version. Masterpiece. 

It sounds like this is the bloody kiss I've been waiting for - without feeling violated by the tongue in cheek that I didn't ask for.

Top 5 Lately:

London After Midnight - seductive Psycho Magnet; a dark wave of dancefloor-deathrock-gone-glam. 

Genitorturers - better than a morbid angel. Flesh is the Law and Mistress Gen must be obeyed!

Cadaveria - still under her spell...

Opera IX - she's dark Italianate, a hex times two upon you.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - I am the melting man before her. 

6 hours ago, Requiem said:

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. 

I haven't even listened to it in years either. I just know I enjoyed it. I don't mind the old album covers from that era; they're suitably unassuming just like the music.

6 hours ago, Requiem said:

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. 

I figured I'd find out if anyone had been to the gym in five years or if they had all just permanently resigned themselves to the couch. Of course, the only thing resembling sit-ups in this thread being the movement from off the couch thence over to the fridge. 

That's true, didn't you star in Interview With the Vampire? Or was that me? Maybe both of us were in there. 

6 hours ago, Requiem said:

Not after I stumbled upon her after a dozen pints of cheap lager at the local. hohoho. Let me tell you. 

So it really was love at first sight then. For her, of course, it was love at second sight.

6 hours ago, Requiem said:

What the hell is this thread even about? 

A lonely Serb looking for trouble, singing black black black black no. 1.

I'm not even really joking.

6 hours ago, Requiem said:

Let's just say that I'm building the collection from 'Abigail' up...

Sounds like a conspiracy. Keep an eye out for them then. 

5 hours ago, Requiem said:

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.

In reference to making said Cinnamon Girl (it's an alright song of theirs) happy, I wrote about you writing how you could instead of how I thought you couldn't or could not (the 'not' being the bands initials reversed) make her happy. Meh, well past October-rusty, my efforts were dead again, it seems.

5 hours ago, Requiem said:

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. 

Even Plaguewielder? I think that one is unfairly maligned relative to the other mid-era albums.

5 hours ago, Requiem said:

I've been drunk enough to hit that. 

She could probably use a bit of your lovecraft. H.P. Blavatsky may have been a celibate woman.

On 3/6/2020 at 3:20 AM, Requiem said:

Updated Darkthrone collection. 

I've been going through a bit of a Darkthrone resurgence lately and finally picked up all the releases I felt I was missing. Most interesting is the 'Black Death and Beyond' release, with its huge book that includes a biography, rare photos and everything you could imagine about the band, as well as three disks that chronicle their three stages: Black (excellent), Death (good) and Beyond (dodgy). 

I also have a flag, a couple of versions of 'Transilvanian Hunger' including the notorious Norsk Arisk deleted version and some clothes that I wear to church. 

Edit: Just realised I've effectively double-posted, considering the very last post was also my Darkthrone collection. I'll change it up next time with a different collection! 

 

All the albums you felt you were missing? You've probably discussed them somewhere else, but are you not a fan of the great Plaguewielder? Or albums like FOAD, Dark Thrones and Black Flags, Circle the Wagons?

On 7/7/2020 at 1:16 AM, Requiem said:

Finally got my hands on: 

King Diamond - 'Abigail' (2020 Metal Hammer re-release)

Just a lazy 33 years after initial release. Better late than never. 

Something must have been rotten in the state of Castle Requiem for this to have even occurred.

Thankfully you've already got the rest of King Diamond's catalogue to make up for this horrid blunder, right? 

On 7/5/2020 at 2:42 AM, Requiem said:

And their panzerawful treatment of their customers probably didn't help. Don't get me started...

Please get started. I'd like to know what happened. How was Count Requiem treated?

On 7/4/2020 at 2:53 AM, the_thrashing said:

I hated Metal hammer, I remember seeing their issues full of emo and pop punk to the point it made me want to puke. Maybe you get Iron Maiden for a few pages then crap. Couldn't even use it for toilet paper with the slick paper they used.

They should've renamed it Emo Dousche there was nothing metal about it.

 

I checked them out one time. It was all hyperbolic praise of emo and metalcore with the occasional nod to nu metal, or maybe a throwback to a big name 80s band like Metallica but praising their 90s albums.

The Trve Black Barney!