Hungarino

The Christmas parties would be 2 legit 2 quit

Thanatos - Emerging from the Netherworlds

Yikes. Fair enough. I figured thats what it would be.

Why would they do such a thing?

I have definitely noted that mostly when I see that Finnish tag on my BC recommendations it is either not a new release, or not black metal. I am sure there are some buried in my wish list and ones I have certainly missed but its not been like some previous years. Maybe they are all taking a year off. It is crazy to think how such a small country can produce such amounts of a niche genre. Statistically speaking it must be that 1 of every three Finns is in a cvlt black metal band!

Yeah, I remember now I actually have them here with me but finally had to admit they are shit. I remember being excited from 'discovering' IEMs and that was the first pair I ordered. Anything I previously had connected to an mp3 player (or walkman, going way back) did not sound as good as those yinyoo coffee bean IEMs, at first. Maybe it was the novelty to me of having the iem design or a new way to listen compared to hps. But I have high hopes for these T3s. I am purely going by hyped up reviews at this point.

Haha sorry man I don't remember, but probably safe to say I make a poor audiophile.

Have a pair of Tinhifi T3 plus iems coming tomorrow. Reviews and hype have been over the top for a budget set of iems, so I talked myself down from OH10s which are 3 times the price. I am more interested in iems at the moment than hps. I will look forward to comparing some of my gear when I get a chance.

And just hearing this for the first time Holy shit its a banger. Definitely the right amount of 'raw' actually i think the sound is darn near perfect for how I like trve black metal.

Some of the best bestial war metal I have heard in some time!

Towering - Obscuring Manifestation

Unlike all blackened goat beastial war metal, all dissonant metal sounds the same.

Ov Shadows - I Djävulens Avbild

Concilivm - A Monument in Darkness. Maybe the best dM of the year for me. Chile. Conquest Icon - Empire of the Worm. Insanely good and brutal riff fest. I love this style of Polish DM. Impalement - The Impalement. Amazing black death from a solo Swiss metal-maven. Inferno - Omniabsence Filled by His Greatness. Gnostic nightcap.

Ugh. There are so many things to be thankful for when living in a civilized (albeit very flawed) country. Most of the time we try to do the right thing, or at least not the most awful things.

Haahaa true. No I am too old to be running around like that these days. And I am not worried about myself or most of us who can generally keep it together. But as soon as some of those constraints are removed, I do not trust our species to self-regulate, generally speaking. You see this in war zones, without exception. When there is no accountability it turns into a rape-fest.

I feel the need to point out my previous cucumber avatar reference was made because of the phallic implications of a cucumber. You know its a good joke when you have to go back and explain it

Violent art, sure. I can't say I'm not a fan (of some). But sexually violent is its own thing. Anyway, agree to disagree on the degree to which sexually violent imagery may influence any given individual's behavior. Back on topic: Diabolic Oath - Aischrolatreia. Black/Death, USA. Remember when just being into Satan was all the controversy we could handle? The good old days

If there's one thing I love its genres. The more the better haha. I don't know why I just think its fun. The sillier the better. Fucking pirate metal? Comeon that's hilarious.

On the whole any population can only control or constrain violent impulses to a certain degree, over a certain time period. How its expressed may also vary - (war, political strife). In the end its like trying to grip one of those squishy stress relief balls - you squeeze one side but it will inevitably come out between your fingers somewhere. We are definitely better at controlling it now than at previous times in history, but its still there, right under the surface. The minute controls begin to fail we are back to being savages. I never said that, and not many people would say its solely ever the cause. And with violent content there doesn't seem to be any correlation at all between consumption and action. BUT and this is my point here, its about the combination of sex and violence where things turn ugly. That's why they don't market sexually violent video games. Rape is hardly ever actually depicted in shows and movies (compared to violence which is ubiquitous). Its because it elicits a different response in the viewer than violence alone. It makes sense too. Violence itself is only an behavioral means to an end, take what you want, defend yourself, establish dominance, etc. Sex and reproduction is that end, the fundamental necessity to reproduce that is driven by 3 billion years of evolution. Ok, back to work. Sorry for hijacking the thread guys. Good discussions never bother me.

Says the cucumber avatar 😄 I mean, not for every individual, but overall it is definitely a constant feature of the human animal. One could make the argument that the human male sex drive is the most destructive force in the living world, if you equate our ongoing conquest of the planet as an expression of sexual aggression and competition. Sorry, I lied one more note on the art: Notice that the female subjects in these pictures are usually rendered with more realism and detail, while the perpetrators are either cartoonish, masked, or crudely drawn. They are also not usually alone. This is not by accident. The female is meant to be the focal point, the object (hence the term of objectification), while the male(s) are anonymous or generalized. This allows individual men to detach themselves from the act, depersonalize themselves from their urges, and shield any feelings guilt or remorse behind anonymity. This kind of shit really is insidious. Ok, sorry, I am done now. Before Dead wakes up and this really spirals out of control

This is a great show. Except the kids went days without food or water, apparently. My only real knock on the show. I love Korean horror. If you want to be deeply disturbed watch 'The Wailing'. Its about the devil \M/ I don't disagree and not saying we should ban it, maybe call it out for what it is. Ultimately people are conditioned to understand human behavior in terms of ideas and socialization and morality and personal choice and simply disregard that probably 99% of our impulses are dictated by 3 billion years of evolution and natural selection. I am mostly of the opinion the stings of society that control our behavior are pretty tenuous. Not so sure about free-will even in light of this. I hold humans' ability to collectively manage ourselves in very low esteem. At the same time I do appreciate art and free expression and all that. But some of this is dangerous. I am guilty of mixed metaphors here - maybe seeing an image doesn't 'flip the switch' all at once, but continuously consuming and normalizing these ideas and images, for some who are predisposed to act out, can and does serve as an aggravating factor on the path to really bad behavior. You see this, I believe, in child-porn leading to abuse (ugh..really didn't want to go there either). Maybe we should call it a wrap. I don't think you or Surge are way off base or anything. Hopefully you see a little where I am coming from.

My argument is not only "this bothers me on a personal level" it is more "this bothers me on a personal level because I understand that its not merely a matter of personal feelings, but a matter of brain chemistry and a proven link between sex/murder imagery that, yes, does make it different." Don't blame me I didn't wire the human brain this way. The male brain combined with sex drive is basically a ticking time bomb of violence. It inevitably will go off and mostly in some random and unpredictable situations, but we certainly shouldn't try to set more trip-wires.

That is a valid question, but I would say pathological psychology and brain chemistry points to the combination of sex with the murder that elicits a different and more powerful reaction in men, and that's what makes it problematic. And no, obviously not everyone who sees that imagery goes and rapes and murders, duh. But there is a continuum of stimulus and response, and even minor examples should be acknowledged, and in my opinion discouraged. Just because you can try to awaken the reptilian brain response doesn't mean you should, and it certainly doesn't make you an' artist' for doing so.