SurgicalBrute

Hey welcome! ...definitely recommend keeping track of the Upcoming Metal thread and the What are You Listening to Now thread as you'll see a lot of music popping up in each of those

Yeah...that writing style should work just fine

He's got good taste...he can stay

Mostly disagree about season 5. I felt like there was actually a lot of potential in following the sons of Ragnar...particularly because part of the legend of Ragnar was that a seer prophesied that his sons would be greater and even more famous than he was, which is what pushed him to do all the things he did. That being said, season 6 definitely fell on its face. In all honesty it was that goddamn Iceland storyline that bogged the last couple of seasons down. Floki was never that interesting on his own, and watching a bunch of stunt-cast randos we knew nothing about play Lord of the Flies with each other as they starved to death wasn't exactly pulse-pounding television. Thing was an absolute momentum killer. Ubba's discovering North America plot had the same issue.

I have not, but I'll track a copy down..thanks man!

For the most part, I couldn't care less about the English royals...and please for the love of God, Britain come retrieve Prince Back-up Plan and his annoying, attention seeking wife...but the Queen actually seemed like a legitimately cool lady.

In theory, Beowulf should totally rock...dragons, magic swords, arm ripping, and cannibalism...but goddamn if it isn't a total slog to read. Anyone know a good version that just translates the story into easier to read English, without butchering the story?

I like digital for convenience, but I prefer to own physical media for the releases I really place value on. I don't buy a lot of physical media anymore, so I try to make it count when I do

Honestly, it's surprisingly hard to find good Viking fiction...believe me I've tried. The Saxon Tales books I mentioned are enjoyable and another I've enjoyed is the Blood Eye series by Giles Kristian. For metal....I listed a whole bunch of them for you in this thread: https://www.metalforum.com/topic/24745-what-is-your-fav-pagan-metal-band/?tab=comments#comment-368055 My personal favorite is Manegarm...this album in particular Manegarm - Vargstenen Unfortunately, they haven't maintained the quality in their more recent albums, though they've bounced back a bit with the newest one they released this year. Some of the others I'd recommend are Primordial, Havukruunu, Saor, Thyfing, Kroda, Menhir, and Kampfar

Guys...I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the number of good bands that don't do any digital release is way more than you probably realize

Spectral Whisper - Witchcraft

Nice...I'm right there with you! Authors name is Bernard Cornwell...think the book series is called The Saxon Tales, but you can probably find it easily under The Last Kingdom series Have you checked out any of DMR publishing's books? If you like the old pulp sword and sorcery stories, these guys do some fun releases. They've even got a line of call Swords and Steel where the various books and stories are written by heavy metal band members https://dmrbooks.com/

I wasn't arguing otherwise by any means. Like I initially said, the PR fallout alone is enough to keep them from actually doing anything about it, but the original point was about whether it's actually illegal. It is as far as the RIAA is concerned, and enforcing it really comes down to whether it would be cost effective (both in the short and long term) to sue a few randos into oblivion to scare everyone else straight.

Agreed...I was a big fan of that show myself. Like you, I've always been a huge fan of Norse myths and stories. In fact, that was part of what got me into metal...I was (and still am to a slightly lesser extent) a really big viking/pagan/folk metal fan. Awesome...didn't realize this had even started, but I don't pay attention to TV like I used to, either. Honestly though, the original series started kind of slow as well. I don't think it really hit it's stride til about season 2 Good book series too, if you're a reader, though it gets a little "wash-rinse-repeat" in the later volumes. That reminds me though, I need to check in and see if there have been any new volumes. He wasn't even close to being done by the time I'd caught up with the most recent book.

I think the thing is, we keep saying it's unenforceable because logically we know they couldn't get even close to everyone who does it, but we also have to remember, based on how they went after pirating in the early days of the internet, that's not how they would go about it. If, for some gods-unforeseen reason, they decided they were really going to try and put the screws to people about it, they'd find some poor dumb schmuck and drop 10-tons of shit on his head in an effort to scare everyone else off of doing it. The whole thing is just a cost evaluation...would we lose more pursuing legal action than we would if we did nothing?

He's not wrong though...the RIAA successfully argued for the idea that when you buy a physical copy of something like a tape or a CD what you're buying is the physical media itself. The music that comes with it is only being leased. Same deal goes when you buy something from Bandcamp or iTunes...you're leasing the music. So any copies you make are technically illegal. Even the creation of personal fair-use back-ups aren't technically a right. As far as they're concerned there is no legal standing for people to make any copies...personal use or otherwise. They're just willing to allow it primarily because it would cause an absolute public relations disaster if they ever tried to enforce it

Okay, I recognize that author...that's the Percy Jackson guy. Have you ever looked into books like this before? Out of pure dumb luck, I found a book like this at the library when I was a kid...this was before Norse mythology and vikings were everywhere...so it was the first time I'd ever heard a bunch of these stories. If you ever get the chance to read a good one that translates the stories into an easier to read format than the poetic or prose edda (where we get most of the stories we know about Norse myths), I'd definitely recommend it.

Not that you shouldn't listen to as many styles as you can since you're new to things, but my recommendation, given your tastes...look into bands that uses the term "brutal death metal" and maybe even "slam metal" to describe their music. You should be able to find a lot more bands you like in that category

Ehhh...you know someone will post it up on Youtube eventually. I know people with quirkier taste in music than my own have been enjoying their releases, but they really lost me on that last one...too much droning nonsense. New one has at least on track that's almost 20 minutes, so I'd bet money they'll continue down that road

Mara - Loka Mær

Well, there's always cassette tape 😜 (I will never understand how this caught on again)

They killed the playing the entire DMDS album tour when they came through a couple years back Flagellant - Monuments

Like what?...I'm always up for some good myths and legends. I remember finding my dads old copy of greek myths that he'd had from some college course, and I read that thing until it fell apart. Even found a copy of it a bunch of years later at a used book store and bought it again.

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Let me just add real quick...If you're not familiar with Metalsucks, this is like a stopped clock being right twice a day situation. I wouldn't normally trust anyone there to operate a light switch, let alone recommend good music, but for once they did okay.