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Last night I made a sandwich with marinated seitan, peppers, onions and kale. I also need to go grocery shopping too so I think for lunch I will have a couple veggie dogs and a salad with whatever produce I have left.

4 hours ago, BlutAusNerd said:

It's harder to tackle when there isn't a baby to drive you with necessity. I fell asleep at the wheel a few months ago and wrecked my car after the girls and dogs kept me up a few nights in a row, so I'm not about to devalue sleep. It was just a lot easier when it was something I had to do versus being sleep deprived for no good reason.

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It's amazing how well the body can adapt to most things when there is a need.

20 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

Most of the formative doom/death bands had a fairly solid/even mixture of the two sounds early on, but almost all of them shed the death metal or doom metal sides of their sound after an album or two. I'm not sure why that it, but the combination of the two sounds creates some of my favorite music.

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They really do blend together nicely. The heaviness of doom accents the harshness of death perfectly.

11 hours ago, BlutAusNerd said:

Yes. Stop what you're doing and listen to Thy Mighty Contract. You can thank me later.

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2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

He's right.

Holy riffing Batman! 

2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Although I have only recently discovered 1349 I find "Hellfire" to be one of their weaker releases.  The mix is off so those blasting drums are far too high at times in the mix.  I am not sure what the intent was with the near punk vocal style either. 

I tend to like Black Metal with heavy punk influence. Very well may be because I considered myself a punk in high school and like Ban said nostalgia may be talking here.

On 11/26/2017 at 3:13 PM, Thrashman said:

This is pretty good.

 

I really really like this. Mostly because the death metal influence is very clear. I feel a lot of death doom bands get caught up in the doom aspect and lose some of the death in the sound. 

One of my all time favorite bands. Slowly We Rot is an absolute fucking masterpiece and by far my favorite Obituary album. I also loved cause of death.

Darkthrone- A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Gorgoroth- Pentagram

Burzum- Filosofem

1349- Hellfire

Krypt- Preludes to Death

I really enjoyed Rituals. Haven't delved into much else of their stuff yet. Any recommendations on where to start?

I'm not sure if I'm describing this correctly but I like punk-ish(or thrashy) sounding Black Metal. Definitely love first wave. As far as second wave I dig Krypt, Darkthrone, Carpathian Forest, Gorgoroth all of which to me sound punk and or thrash influenced. Definitely appreciate atmospheric sounds but I tend to reach for Funeral Doom when I'm feeling that vibe.

53 minutes ago, deathstorm said:

Lighting strikes is a good song 

Hell yeah.

1 minute ago, BlutAusNerd said:

I have two girls. The youngest turns two years old today, and the oldest will be four in a couple of weeks. They're beautiful, smart, they like metal, dogs, and every kind of food, and they're weird and morbid like their dad, so I'm obviously crazy about them.

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That's awesome dude. Tell the little one happy birthday for me.

9 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

You would be surprised at how well you can function on just a couple of hours per night when you need to. That part is an easier adjustment than you would think because of the necessity of it, but it does wear on you after a while.

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Yeah I can see necessity helping that out.  How many kids do you have?

I thought the album Houdini was really heavy. 

13 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

Up until recently, I was in a band called Nevertanezra. The founder of that band and I had an albums worth of material written for our second album, and he abruptly wanted to part ways to record music by himself for personal/medical reasons. He wanted to keep the name, and I wanted to keep and finish the songs, so it was a beneficial split for both of us. We're going to continue as a new band with a new name and finish and release those songs with some of the same people, but the music is different enough and moving in a weirder direction that the change in name and lineup makes it feel like a great fresh start. Hoping to have it done this year.

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Just let me know where I can purchase it and I will do so

Just now, BlutAusNerd said:

That changes things a great deal. Even living together before kids, I could check out a few movies that she wouldn't like every week. Kids are the best that life can provide TBH, but you do get a lot less time to yourself. They're worth the sacrifice, it's just and adjustment.

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Yeah I definitely look forward to it but I'm also nervous because I have a hard time functioning without sleep which is going to have to change obviously.

Firepower by Judas Priest will probably be my most looked forward to.

5 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

Jasmine is probably my favorite kind of rice. It doesn't seem like something that would make a difference, but it really does.

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Absolutely. Jasmine is the only rice I use. Except maybe if I'm making Greek food or something.

Just now, BlutAusNerd said:

I wake up a lot earlier than my wife for work, so I never stay up later than her. She doesn't like horror movies, and I don't need my kids to get more nightmares than they already have, so I don't really get the opportunity to indulge in them anymore. Sometimes if I have nothing to do on a Saturday or Sunday and the mrs. wants to take a nap at the same time as the kids, I can sneak one in, but that's about the only time.

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Luckily enough my fiancé is cool with them and we don't have any kids yet.

6 hours ago, True Belief said:

 

Another good one from Takashi Miike. Not for the squeamish.....

Indeed. Have you ever seen Three Extremes? It's one Chinese, one Korean and one Japanese short films. Takashi Miike did the Japanese film. The Chinese film called Dumplings is absolutely terrifying. They made a full length film off of it but I heard it was shit although I myself have not seen it. The Korean short is pretty good too. 

4 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

I remember it being in my Netflix queue when I still used their DVD service, so I must have liked the description. Thanks for the reminder, now I just have to find some time to watch a horror movie by myself...

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That's why I dig the headphone jack in the Xbox One controller (PS4 too), I can watch whatever I want without bothering my sleeping fiancé.

On 12/29/2017 at 9:11 AM, BlutAusNerd said:

Very much so. I'm always searching for more, especially in that magical time throughout the 90's when it seemed like bands playing the style could do no wrong. The US bands are almost criminally overlooked, so I've been doing my best to track down all of the US doom/death that I can find. Playing in a US doom/death band doesn't hurt that motivation either.

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What's the name of your band Ban? Forgive my ignorance still relatively new around here 

Today I had Korean Barbecue style tofu with Jasmine rice. Fucking delicious 

On 1/16/2018 at 3:30 PM, BlutAusNerd said:

I have no problem with gore, I just don't get into the torture porn visual gore masturbation type of stuff that has no storyline. In the same way that a surgery isn't creepy or macabre, just showing gore (even when it's well done) doesn't really create any kind of atmosphere. The same goes for mindless blast beats or shredding in music, it's great if it has a point, but it's boring when it's just done for show.

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In that case I recommend the audition. It's super weird. 

4 hours ago, Balor said:

Another good one that I saw was Sinister.

That was really good. 

Anyone familiar with Japanese horror? If not you may enjoy Takashi Miike as a director. His work is really weird and Ban you may not enjoy it based on your statement on gore films but I think it was really good.

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