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6 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:
Well the creatures of the night will surely appreciate this. I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time in about five years. I forgot how good this book was.
Read freely and of your own will... and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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9 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:
They're both red herrings, distractions intended to shift our focus from the true threat, all fear Skynet.
That, too, is a red herring. A small fish in the ocean, nothing next to .... fear the impending wrath of Cthulhu!
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16 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:
Yet the so-called smart technology surrounds us, Big Brother has eyes and ears on all people at all times, the media spin everything we watch and read so one may never tell who the "Good guys and bad guys"are. 'Tis complacency not any mind-bending substance which is the opiate of the masses.
This is all preparation, nothing more than a beta-test.
But speaking of which, alphas are slowly being replaced by betas. Spectrum deltas and epsilons are on the rise. Modification of food and people, drug dependency. The Orwellian move is too obvious. Insidious is Huxley's new world blueprint led by noble science and technocrats.
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On 3/7/2019 at 4:32 PM, RelentlessOblivion said:
See Vamps I'm not so sure about Huxley. We're far more likely to wind up in an Orwellian world (see 1984 for details). One thing we can all agree on though is that humanity has gotten things very wrong as of late.
1984 is the red herring whilst a depraved new world slips in silently. Beware the Fabian wolves in sheeps' clothing!
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On 3/7/2019 at 3:14 PM, Fjara said:
interesting^
The solitary bird of night
Through the thick shades now wings his flight,
And quits this time-shook tower;
Where shelter'd from the blaze of day,
In philosophic gloom he lay,
Beneath his ivy bower.
Elizabeth Carter
The Owls are always watching. They are much like the They. Without effort they rotate their head to see in all directions.
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2 hours ago, Requiem said:
This reminds me that @True Belief will be here in less than an hour and he still hasn't posted his list. tut tut.
Nice list with many of my favourites appearing. Here are my comments on selected entries that intrigue me:
Dimmu Borgir so high surprises a bit, although I had them in my Honourable Mentions section.
Akercocke so high interests me as well and I need to give them another listen. They never hooked me first time around when they were 'big'.
The Meads... is a huge surprise! I have the split they did with Mayhem and it's pretty good but very weird. Top 10 as well! I also have 'Exuming the Grave of Yeshua' and I think I played it twice and it's been on the shelf for the last fifteen years. I'll give it another spin.
Never heard of Darkness in Blood but they sound suitably vampiric.
Very surprised to see you rate 'Ravishing Grimness' as the best Darkthrone album! I'll have to give that another listen as well - I think it was around that album that I finally lost interest in the band, so I won't have heard it since 2000 probably! It's certainly not in my collection.
And Arcturus - great choice. I thought about including them in my Honourable Mentions but they just didn't have that added meaning for me that would have got them in there. Great band though.
Dimmu has always been top five metal band for me.
Akercocke is not for everyone. They can be odd, avant-garde, and absurd. Their albums are all very different so it may depend on which album you listen to.
Darkness of Blood is a one-album enigma. But if you like Dracula film scores, Castlevania, Cradle of Filth, and black metal, then this is as essential as blood itself.
The Meads of Asphodel are most bizarre and have always been among the top thanks mostly to the Red Gleaming Serpent demo. Excommunication is similarly excellent as is Damascus Steel, and Yeshua is also pretty good but I wouldn't start with that one.
Panzerfaust may actually be my favourite Darkthrone album. I just meant to imply that they are ravishing grimness incarnate.
Arcturus has really grown on me over the years. I can always appreciate those bands who are creative and unique.
11 minutes ago, True Belief said:
Joking right?
The only thing you’ve done better is stuff bodies in barrels of acid. I’ll give you that.Don't tempt him now, you may just end up being his next victim... or meal. One of the two.
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With some last minute letting of the veins.... This list is subject to change. Hack commentary included for reasons of amusement and abusement.
20. Carcass : The spirit of Carcass is found in Symphonies of Sickness and Necroticism. The other albums are good, but they are faceless cadavers next to these. These are words straight from the coroner's report.
19. Nile : Let the Eye of Horus guide you through ancient Egypt with unparalleled Ithyphallic Metal. In Their Darkened Shrines may be their pyramidal peak.
18. Morbid Angel : Morbid Angel occupy a unique place in the metal pantheon for many reasons. The band’s alpha-eccentric personalities alone make for an interesting enigma. I’m not sure I could single out a favourite album if I tried to, but I enjoy both eras of the band. Not so much the ensuing Insanus, but only Trey and David are that morbid, too extreme for mere punnery to encapsulate.
17. Paradise Lost : Once lost was Paradise, but it hath since been regained. I have a difficult time picking a favourite here. Probably Gothic, but their debut haunts me equally.
16. Emperor : Thus Spake the mighty Emperor! Even though equilibrium was lost later on, their first two are black metal epics.
15. Mayhem : The precise definition of mayhem is this band. Even Oxford agrees. Undoubtedly De Mysteriis dom. Sathanas is the definition of black metal.
14. Arcturus : Avantguardians of the galaxy, astral travelers of the higher frequentseas. But only Garm is real.
13. Darkthrone : Forever hypnotic and trve. The quantity of quality albums is impressive, ravishing grimness unmatched by any other.
12. Moonspell : Full moon madness indeed. You only need to examine their catalogue to get a sense of this. But Wolfheart, Irreligious, Memorial, and Extinct eclipse the others.
11. Agalloch : Grey metal for a rainy day. Campfire companions. More than just a clay urn on the mantle, life itself.
10. Darkness of Blood : Blood libations, dramatic adrenochromatic hallucinations, psychopompic incantations. Symphonies of the night bled to aztec vampire rite.
9. The Meads of Asphodel : The ecstasy of suicide making love to open wounds! Unearth the Holy Grail that is Metatron and the Red Gleaming Serpent now.
8. Akercocke : Immaculate, pure, devout! Satanically suited for occult occasion. No Hammer Horror Satanism here. This is the real deal, done fashionably Faustian. Here The Devil rides out.
7. King Diamond : Only King’s ghostly falsettos can reach the paranormal plane of existence and capture such atmospheres of haunting horror. The band’s phantom run from Fatal Portrait to The Eye is legendary, much like the King himself.
6. Burzum : From black melancholic metal mastery to transcendental Casio meditations, Varg is a Norse God and Burzum is your journey to the stars.
5. Satyricon : Magically medieval are their early masterworks. Rebel Extravaganza and Volcano are worthy and underrated albums, but lackluster are their later works.
4. Dimmu Borgir : Sometimes a band’s most passionate followers are their very detractors. This is the band that The Church of Black Metal warned you about… yet secretly worship. Their run from For All Tid to Death Cult Armageddon is a peculiar one because the quality of output remained high despite the line-up changes and drastic evolution of sound. They’ve since stagnated, but that doesn’t tarnish their Luciferian legacy.
3. My Dying Bride : Whilst, stylistically, I prefer a Bride of death metal-infused doom and gloom as performed on the first two albums, I hardly notice on albums like The Angel and The Dark River or Like Gods of the Sun due to their excellence. The Dreadful Hours and Songs of Darkness are the best of the modern era.
2. Cradle of Filth : Superior lyrics, attention to aesthetics, and a healthy bloodline from the crypt of Countess Bathory tracing masterpiece after masterpiece. Another victim of the The Black Metal Vatican. Yet the Filth whispers my name…again and again.
1. Theatres des Vampires : Mater Mater Inferorum! Metallum Vampirorum! Til the last drop of blood!
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1 hour ago, Fjara said:
The owls are not what they seem.
Beware of the crOWLeyan OWLiens!
And don't tell Hillary I told you!
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58 minutes ago, Requiem said:
We're all going to have to take trains to the country to play sport? Damn....
Also, did you read the 'code' in a previous recent post I've made in this thread? It went unacknowledged and I thrive on validation.
Code missed. Validation invalidated.
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18 minutes ago, Requiem said:
Zing!
You also have to wear black at all times and constantly insist that Melbourne coffee is the best in the world. And don't get surprised by the change in weather. If you can do those things, you're in.
I've never tried Aussie coffee before but now I must.
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8 minutes ago, Requiem said:
No to all of these questions.
The last sounds similar to what Howard is basing his world on. The other thing that stands Howard out is his virtuosity with the English language, like Lovecraft. In order to be published in the 1930s, when there were fewer competing entertainment sources, you had to be top of your craft. Howard's words are a joy to read. An unmitigated joy.
They also pre-date political correctness, so women can be scantily clad and in need of protection and foreigners can be either good or evil. And Conan is the ultimate in heroic values. Look at Howard's verse here:
"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."
Gives me chills every time.
Sexism, xenophobia, anglo-privilege, toxic masculinity, and only two genders? Killing that many birds with one stone will have PETA outraged.
But I'm adding this to my list of books I need to look into.
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25 minutes ago, Requiem said:
Is any of this a good thing or a bad thing? Tell me Vampyrique, so that I may learn and understand. How do I make sense of the 21st century?
Sadly, the future we're entering won't include any molokos.
But Huxley now, he knew the plan. He created the blueprint and opened the doors of perception. It's a brave new world after all.
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21 minutes ago, Requiem said:
I haven't read it, but I'm glad he uses the K initial to distinguish himself from all the other Philip Dicks out there.
I'm now at the very end of my Robert E Howard (to distinguish between etc etc) 'Conan' books. I have the mandatory Centenary Collectors Edition that includes a map and every single Conan story written by Howard, including his final drafts and synopsis pieces that were later finished by L Sprague De Camp.
I maintain that Howard, a friend and contemporary of Lovecraft, and who was writing for the same market, wrote the greatest fantasy/adventure stories of all time barring a certain Oxford scholar about twenty years later.
By the way, the map in the book is ok, but the best map of the world of Conan is this one.:
I have this saved on my phone and I check it regularly during readings.
The idea is that this is Earth 10,000 years ago before a cataclysm took place, reshaping the landscape and sending everyone back to square one as a species. As you can see, many of the current countries and place names remain. For instance, the adventures that occur in Stygia are in Egypt, the River Styx is the River Nile etc. I'm telling you, this mythology is amazing and he wrote every word of it in his 20s as he committed suicide at the age of 30 immediately after his mother's death.
Do you know what the name Phil means? Look it up. No wonder he needed the K to break up the union of those two words, just in case.
That sounds/looks very cool, but I've never read any of those Conan stories.
Are you familiar with Graham Hancock's work, or John Anthony West, and friends? Interesting work about how we're (possibly) a species with amnesia. How pyramids and such are older than archeologists believe, and how cataclysms rocked the earth etc. Whether this is true or not, it's great fantasy for the mind.
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22 minutes ago, Requiem said:
Wouldn't they find lab grown meat anathema? Lab grown, farm grown, what's the difference except that one is a creepy enigma... I think vegans would spend an eternity looking for an alternative or four.
On my mind is that the family has gone down the beach house for the long weekend as the school for young vampires has a student free day tomorrow so the Mistress of the Dark has ghosted the baby blonde bloodsuckers away in the dead of night, leaving Castle Requiem empty but for one lonely lost forgotten spirit and the thunderous resonance of arcane and occult metal.
I'm sure social media trending will wash the masses anew. But the future looks dim, dystopian already. GMOs will be the only 'viable' food source. Just wait for the propaganda. And how about meat plants? Like plants that grow meat. They'll have those too, I'm sure of it. Just so people can feel good about eating fake food.
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10 minutes ago, Requiem said:
You, sir, are lacking a Top 20. Have at it. Same goes for you @True Belief, if that is your real name....
Almost done. Just need to rank them.
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22 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:
Whilst not exactly true I've ended my flirt with veganism. I brought the curse of Cthulhu upon myself, also Roast chicken is too delicious to miss out on. I am, however, dropping all processed foods (including bacon) and refined sugars (which since I don't put sugar in my coffee is easy enough). Also today fucking sucked so I plan to get well and truly plastered in hopes of erasing it from my memory.
Chicken is usually the kryptonite to vegan ethics. Sometimes bacon. I've seen it happen before many times, but it's understandable. It requires some serious mind-over-matter monk magic to deny taste and choose broccoli over bacon, or celery over chicken.
What are your thoughts on lab-grown meat? With heavy promotion, I can picture this being a hit with vegetarians/vegans in the future with regards to the sustainability and ethical concerns they have.
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31 minutes ago, True Belief said:
I’m working on mine too. Hanging out to read yours though Vampy, before Saturday so Req and I have something to digest over beers and metal
6 minutes ago, Requiem said:Acceptable.
We’re going to analyse Vampy’s list in great detail. That goes for all the other lists posted here too.
How romantic. I intend to submit my list before Saturn's day, 'tis written in blood. Will audio of said analysis be available?
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5 hours ago, Requiem said:
You can't just list Theatre des Vampires 15 times by the way.
How about Cradle of Filth 15 times?
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On 5/12/2017 at 1:41 PM, Tortuga said:
In this case, sensing/feeling is believing! I work with tarot and rune lore myself, but I know that you cannot make people believe in something that they have never sensed, seen, or felt...unless you threatened them with the fires of hell or they are complete air heads. As long as people do not bother me because I work with divination...then all is well!
O wise Tortuga, reveal unto me the cards of destiny...
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Here he paused, in a silence charged with unspoken meaning, like all great pauses. His reticence about the final truth guaranteed the truth of its premises. For those who really believed in a secret tradition, he calculated, nothing was louder than silence.
Coincidence? Oh those Craft(y) Fellow(s)... nuthin' but a G'thang.
And yet my lips are (hermetically) sealed...
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On 3/2/2019 at 9:19 AM, RelentlessOblivion said:
I think those first four albums, Annihilation in particular, represent Nile at the peak of their powers. They've sort of fallen into the trap a little bit and haven't moved their sound forwards. It's a shame how many good bands slow to a stand still after promising starts. Better to explode onto the scene with one or two phenomenal records then carry on re-hashing the same old ideas if you ask me.
I agree. I do like their later works, but they seem to have lost a bit of the magic in recent years. They tried something slightly different, production-wise at least, with At the Gates of Sethu, but I had mixed feelings on that album like many others did.
1 hour ago, Requiem said:Terrorizer magazine was obsessed with Nile when they first came out. I love the Egyptian themes and the musical interludes, and I like the death metal.
I remember they were always well received in the metal press until about the mid-00s when the backlash came. People acted as if Nile was just a gimmick band constantly shoved down the throats of reluctant metalheads everywhere; not that these metalheads would ever deign to read metal magazines lest their credibility take a hit. I remember people were even presenting Nile's lyrics to university professors just to see if Nile's grasp of ancient Egyptian was suspect.
2 hours ago, Requiem said:The criteria that contributes to my favourite list includes:
1. Overall musical enjoyment
2. Intensity of love for 'classic' albums by the band within a broader discography
3. Meaning added to my life that contributes quality of life over some years
So it's unlikely that I would list a band in my top 20 that has only one miracle album and a whole heap of mediocre, like say The Foreshadowing or Funeral. Having said that, not every album has to be a hit. They also need to have contributed enough to my lifestyle and enjoyment of life over a number of years to make the list. Other things might be less specific, like image and history, but these things are obviously vastly less important.
That is basically how I am approaching this. My list is at about 15 right now...
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4 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:
All of those health factors are important when considering a diet. I think the idea that veganism is somehow promoting the idea that animals are more important then our own health is wrong. Again this is something put forward by corporations who have a vested interest in ensuring people don't question whether it's right to eat animals. As I said above there's an incredible amount of research out there which shows just how unhealthy animal products are. Yes going vegan does require more planning of your meals to make sure you get all the essential vitamins and minerals needed to keep the body healthy. Yes it does necessitate a vitamin B12 supplement (one of three vitamins we miss out on by not consuming animal products). Did you know that a study was recently undertaken comparing a vegan diet and non-vegan diet across a sample size of 2000 people. It found that the average vegan is deficient in three vitamins though only vitamin B12 is of significant note. The average non-vegan however was found deficient in 9 vitamins. There are also numerous studies showing the links between animal products and heart disease. Like I said before I've done my own research. I'm not going to push my newfound views on anyone but if someone says something which simply isn't true I'm going to step in. It's not that animals are more important, simply that no animal should have to suffer and die when it isn't necessary. Is veganism perfect? No of course not, I can't know for sure that no animals were harmed for the food to reach my plate but if I eat animal products I know something has had to suffer and die just so I can get 15 minutes of pleasure.
With studies, it depends on what is truly being compared and meant by a vegan diet, or what is meant by an average person's diet (which I generally wouldn't say is healthy), or what is meant by a typical meat eater's diet.
For example, are you referring to a diet that includes meat in the form of grass-fed steaks, oysters, and beef liver, or a diet that includes Big Macs and hotdogs? Just like when a person says a vegan diet, I'm sure they don't mean potato chips, candy and Coca-Cola.
But I understand what you're saying. I'm not trying to convince you to eat animals products, only that I think you should just be cautious in the long-term. You can always try it and see how your body reacts, which I think is the best indicator of your own health.
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