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My wife's nephew has picked a fight at all three of his aunties weddings. Ours was first, he was 16 and tried to pick a fight with me because I caught him trying to steal from the donation jar which was next to the bar raising money for the kids hospital. His old man tore strips off him so he figured he'd come and try the same on me. Then at both other aunties weddings he got into fights with his sister's boyfriends. The whole "you're not good enough I'm going to fucking kill you", type shit with lots of angry words but no substance. At the most recent wedding (2013) he chased the boyfriend outside then around the grounds of the yacht club for 20 mins screaming for the guy to stop so he could kill him. Cops dragged him away in the back of a divi van, it was the next day his parents found out he had 28 warrants out for his arrest and cops had been more than happy to escort him from the wedding.

And we are all indebted to them for it, bless their blackened little hearts🥰

Gee, thanks for that nightmare vision.
I agree, mumble rap is the dumbest fucking thing I've heard. I even have a hard time with Jay-Z because he doesn't. Fucking. Enunciate!
Anyways, it's clear that what's "modern" is very dependent on your age group. In some circles of Instagram vinyl community there's a huge nostalgia for what they refer to as the "MySpace bands", usually being mathcore/grind/deathcore bands I've never heard of but obviously were instrumental in shaping those guys lives. I'm guessing they're 10-15 years younger than me so that checks out. Same with all the djent and deathcore bands who have now kind of grown up and are seen the same way we regard Morbid Angel and Entombed, i.e. foundational classic bands. So Vildhjärta, Whitechapel and Fit for an autopsy are now "legacy bands" according to today's 25-30 year olds, and Lorna Shore is the saviors of metal. 🤷‍♂️

Arckanum - Kostogher, Sweden, 1997 masterpiece
 

I'm really glad to hear that you're drug free now NB. That shit is not to be underestimated. Glad you got your diagnosis in order too, I'm assuming going undiagnosed is another type of hell.
 
I always feel kind of melancholy about this awfully sappy powerballad by Timo Tolkki & Sharon den Adel. I used to listen to it on then train every time I went to visit my long distance girlfriend. Things ultimately went to hell in multiple waves but I can't help but feel a bit of nostalgia mixed with sadness when I hear it, especially the guitar solo. Also, I don't know if Sharon ever sounded as good as she does in this song.
Timo Tolkki & Sharon den Adel - Are you the one? (btw that has to be the most Christian album cover I've ever seen)
 

Why don't you give the white on black a go for awhile Doc and see how you like it? I find reading white text on the black backgrounds much easier on my eyes especially at night. 

Lol, I watched a pirated version that my roommate obtained somehow. Both movie theatres in my town are closed indefinitely (covid) and HBOMax isn't available in Canada, so I guess piracy or waiting until it hits streaming services were my only options.
Overall, I thought it was about as good of an adaptation as you can get. I'm a pretty big Dune nerd and I really enjoyed it. My only criticism, and it is a minor one, was that despite cutting the first book in half and being 2 1/2 hrs long, was that it still felt a little rushed somehow. 

Bride of Frankenstein is a great movie and fun to watch, but it's really campy with a lot of humor in it. It's done well, but I know that's not everyone's thing... just so you know.

Who thought that was a good idea? Was this ever even considered good animation?

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Maybe it depicts how Lars envisions everyone who downloaded their music for free off Napster to be buried.

It's an album cover illustration so not drawn to scale, but clearly the MoP cover is meant to represent a military graveyard with the overgrown grass representing the fact that nobody really gives a shit that these poor kids gave their lives for their country.

 

I've never considered the Master Of Puppets album to be a graveyard because of how close the crosses are and how long the grass around them was. I've always assumed it was more a memorial area, small crosses planted one behind the other to represent a total number rather than individual people. Given the lyrics of the song and that there is only two obvious military items in the image I've also assumed it's more about drug use, hence the hands pulling the strings from above controlling the user. But hey I've been wrong before I'm sure I'll be wrong again.

"John, we need to make an album cover where we look all gothic and imposing!"
"S'ok Dave, my Mum's got this old sideboard and chair we can use.  Will even use one of the old girl's candles too!"
"Ah, spot on John!"

Metallica is the best example of this. The first three Metallica albums were great for their time and I still listen to them on occasion but as soon as Cliff died they began to change their style until they cut their hair and you got Load & ReLoad and now I can't even stomach listening to them anymore because they're basically just a hard rock band with the word "Metal" in their name, so everyone thinks that they're still a metal band when they really haven't been one since ...And Justice for All (which being completely fair, was never my favorite album by them).

Slayer sort of changed their style too, but people liked them more for it. My favorite period of Slayer is like Show No Mercy through Hell Awaits because they were that early black metal thing that wasn't really well defined yet (Mercyful Fate often falls into this category and the kvlt kiddies get pissed about it when you say that Mercyful Fate was an early black metal band because they feel threatened by Mercyful Fate or something but let's be honest here: a lot of black metal bands cover Mercyful Fate so it's appropriate to put them in the "first wave of Black Metal" category in my mind).

Another band I can think of that changed their sound and turned a lot of people off was Bathory. They went from true first wave black metal to Viking/Pagan metal and the kvlt kiddies are willing to say "Bathory isn't black metal" when they know that they can get away with it.

Graveland is another one: They started off as black metal and did the same thing Bathory did and went viking/pagan on more recent albums. Only thing is Graveland fans can deal with it.

Ah, that's a bummer. Understood. Hope you dig it, anyway.

The thing about Gummo, is that it's both remarkably pretentious (like the absolute worst of Wes Anderson) and shocky at the same time. Generally because it was made by a pretentious hipster asshole who "ironically" likes black metal, and that type of person I have no patience for. It's not so much a proper movie as it is a series of vignettes about poor white people that are tied together by a very, very loose narrative that they are inhabitants of a town called Xenia, Ohio that was hit by an F5 tornado and "never was the same afterward". You get to see Chloe Sevigny's boobs, skinheads slap boxing in their kitchen, and a freaky looking kid eating spaghetti in a filthy bathtub... with a piece of bacon taped to the wall. It's a lot of stuff like that, where you can tell that the pretentious hipster asshole director was just doing stuff to "shock" or weird people out. There is a lot of black metal in the movie and it opens up with the song "Dragonaut" by Sleep, but it immediately gets bizarre and goes for the "tasteless" thing right away.

It was a big movie in my circle of friends when I was a lot younger, because we knew the type of people that the movie is portraying since we live in Southwest Florida. I sold the DVD years ago though, because it's one of those movies that you put on and drink beers or smoke pot while you're watching it and quote the dialogue as you watch it and say "Hey that reminds me of (name of someone you know)". It's definitely a weird movie, but I noticed in retrospect that it's more of a movie that hipsters like to tell one another that they've seen. It's not really a movie that anyone really likes, because there isn't much to like in it. Come to think of it, it reminds me a lot of like a CKY movie, just for pretentious hipsters who live in Brooklyn so they can feel better about not being poor white people who live in the South or Midwest. It sort of comes off like a documentary in parts, but everything in it was staged as far as I know save for the locations that they used to shoot it (the scene with all of the roaches in the house notably). It is supposed to be about Ohio but was filmed entirely in and around Nashville, TN and it shows... not saying anything bad about Tennessee though, because I personally like Tennessee and would move there if there was work that would pay me enough to be able to afford a decent place to live and not a shit shack.

Kona's beers are pretty good. I mean, they aren't really like craft beers or anything, they're just a brewery that's located on the Big Island of Hawaii and if I could still drink, they'd be the beers that I'd be drinking. Unfortunately with the psychiatric meds that I'm on, I can't drink at all anymore or they'll be counteracted and I'll just end up getting sick.

No Feyd-Rautha in this one. Rabban was good though, and the Baron was spot on. I'm looking forward to the second half and I hope they give it the epic treatment it deserves, there's a lot of potential there. Honestly they could have gone a bit more epic with this half, too. You should check it out, it's definitely worth seeing.
I dislike the David Lynch movie, I felt like it didn't do justice to the intricacy of the book. I remember liking the cast, but the plot was so butchered I couldn't bring myself to watch it again.
God Emperor is a great book but the pacing seems to throw people off. It's slow-moving, philosophical, and kind of weird. I don't know if Frank Herbert was thinking of the pace in artistic terms, echoing "Leto's Peace" - a period of enforced stagnation - but it works that way. The last two original novels are a treat though - great characters, great intrigue, and lots of action. I'm sorry to say I fucking despise the final ones that his son co-wrote. Maybe they followed the plot outline that Frank Herbert laid down, but I felt like they got everything else wrong. 

Just went out to see Dune last night. I'm a huge fan of the books and I wasn't disappointed - I liked it a lot - but I left hoping that they'll release a director's cut with a few more scenes. It's a two and a half hour movie, it only went through the first half of the story in the novel, and the narrative still felt compressed and almost rushed at times. I get the sense that they cut some character development to keep the plot moving; I think a little more character development would have helped the plot feel more emotionally coherent. I guess that's a testament to just how much is really going on in the book, and how much of it is difficult to film. Ultimately my feelings about all of it will be determined by how they finish it up in the next film.
But there's a lot they got right! The visuals and sound were beautiful, stunning, shocking at times. There were a couple curveballs in the casting but they all worked. Jason Momoa made a surprisingly great Duncan Idaho. I wonder if they'll make another 10-15 Dune movies starring him as they cover the rest of the series? I bet that green light is just around the corner...

I think that part one was better than the sequel, and it was pretty shocking how graphic this one got.  I am still not entirely convinced that the new It movies are better than the 90s tv version.

There is a new KPN album out, incidentally!

I see what you guys mean, there are so many important factors for me
All natural drum sounds
Written and performed by criminals
Lathe-cut lacquer
Fretless
Debut albums only
Songs about girls
Hurdy-gurdy interludes
Lisa Gerrard cameo
No frequencies below 300 Hz
 
Hard to narrow it down any further than that without losing something.

Accordion solos. That is all.

41. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
One has to wonder what proper metal compendium would lack this album and this band. Hailing from Denmark, this band's brand of heavy metal not only had an atmosphere rooted in the occult but had the musical substance to back it up. Whether it be the infectious rhythms from bassist Timi Hansen and drummer Kim Ruzz, the dramatically sinister melodies and epic solos conjured by guitarists Hank Shermann and Michael Denner or the monumentally spectral voice of King Diamond himself, this album has something that every fan of heavy metal will love. The superb composition and immersive atmosphere of Don't Break the Oath goes on to influence bands to this very day and makes it totally worthy of this list. 
 
 
 
 

Darkthrone- Kathaarian Life Code- you know you're getting into some basic BM right off the bat with the iconic cover. If you've never listened to this  album before you assume it's going to slap you in the face like deathcrush right off the bat. surprise! It actually takes the time to tickle you a little. a small amuse bouche before the main course of metal. Set the needle down, let that warm hiss fill the room, then have this humorously demonic, lozenge free intro take you into the cold, cold forest of black metal.