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Maybe try out E Nomine, they're a bunch of German Catholics who listened to a bit of Rammstein.

I lament the intellectual deficiency of modern American conservatism but every now and then I get a reminder from across the pond that it could be worse.

Ayy, my granddad's side of the family originated around Norfolk before emigrating to South Africa.

Yeesh, that is depressing. Hits close to home for me, especially over this past year. No wonder FA thought I sounded like him at my most glum.

I probably interpreted these lyrics as being more avowedly anti-theist when last I read them years ago. I can appreciate them as being a little more nuanced now, so...making my way through the album. I do like this bass. I was listening to South African band Mezzanine Floor earlier and found them lacking, not really a surprise. Interesting idea though, something like a blend of Alchemist with Pantera. Vocals were pretty good, but the guitars and production needed work since the former sounded lazy and the latter was limp-wristed with the drums sounding particularly weak and softened. I don't know what it is about bands from poorer countries and their aversion to palm muting, but it really ruins a lot of the music for me.

"Universum" album by Nishaiar. Ethiopian atmospheric black metal. I think the guys could work on their riffs and make their production more consistent and come out well because otherwise they're decent. That being said, they certainly do not sound at all Ethiopian. Russian, maybe, but nothing particularly African in this sound. At the moment, kinda like a poor man's Aquilus.

My brother's trying to get me to play Fortnite since everyone and their dog seems to have hopped on PUBG at the moment.

Wow. Awesome...I absolutely love A Sense of Gravity. The market's lousy with progressive/death/prog-death bands in the mold of BTBAM lately, even some good ones (Last Scattering come to mind). In that field your band's tireless attention to detail and howling intensity absolutely blow the doors off all but the choicest of your competition. I'd easily rank ASOG with Native Construct. "Atrament" was magnificent and that album art is some of the best-looking I've ever seen. Your profile picture is lovely too. Welcome to the forum!

Welcome to the forum man.

I'll give it a shot. Don't remember liking Augury but I might have warmed up to them. Hell, I don't even hate Khanate any more, it's worth a try.

Welcome to the forum!

I mean I did that for tech-death. Butter said it could be originators or just the most influential.

Cool, I loved Blood Revolt. Welcome to the forum.

Welcome, what sorta new stuff are you into?

I listen to a lot of French metal, a little less so since I got off my brief black metal kick. But yeah, Gorod, Kronos, 6:33, Kalisia, DarkTribe, Fractal Universe, Carnival in Coal, Ogarya, Trepalium...il y a tellement de bon materiel!

I gotta get back to that one, I was enjoying what little I heard.

This post will have a lot of cursing and anger. Just remembering that a friend of mine liked this status and accompanying photo. This kind of idiocy is why I wanna do African Studies, so that I can help crush this vile festering tankie shit. Fuck dictators and fuck the dipshit Westerners who support them, be they cynical conniving neocons trying to maintain an American empire or racist partisan SJWs with no ambition beyond being contrarian attention-seekers. A few years ago, wouldn't this have been dismissed as the kind of fringe nonsense spouted by a paid regime shill lurking around YouTube? The fact that these abject partisan self-appointed iconoclasts actually command some amount of respect in any credible academic circle is just nauseating, and it's one of my main reasons for wanting to get into this field and join other Africanists (for there are a fair few) in comprehensively rejecting this arrant bullshit. Before I go nuts, let me specify that Gaddhafi did do a lot of good for Libya, particularly in ensuring parts of it became well-developed. His sheltering Chadian refugees is also to be commended. He also decided to reject his country's nuclear weapons program. For anyone who liked Gaddhafi, life was good - but then that's always the case in all but the most incompetent dictatorship. For those of you who are joining us, Gaddhafi also ran a one-party state and held power for 40 years, making him the longest-serving despot in Africa. The man severely restricted the press and ruthlessly suppressed all opposition to his rule, including during the Arab Spring where his troops gunned down protestors in droves. This is a pretty good article that shows the rebels did their fair share of lying but which also states there were human rights abuses by government forces (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/amnesty-questions-claim-that-gaddafi-ordered-rape-as-weapon-of-war-2302037.html) - and that's just in 2011 before he got pulled out of power. Other abuses that year can be seen here (https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2012/country-chapters/libya and here https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2012humanrightsreport/index.htm#wrapper and here http://www.refworld.org/docid/4fbe392b5.html) Most heinous of all, however, is that this guy sponsored terrorism in Europe. He funded the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/world/4-guilty-in-fatal-1986-berlin-disco-bombing-linked-to-libya.html) and more importantly gave weapons to the IRA (https://jamestown.org/program/libyan-state-sponsored-terrorism-an-historical-perspective/). Finally, lest anyone forget, he sponsored the Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people in an airplane over Scotland. This makes me particularly angry because the guy who liked it is one of the warmest, friendliest people I've ever met. He's a smart guy too - fellow Georgetown alumnus, landed himself a Fulbright to study religious conflict in Nigeria, and is currently studying for a Masters at a divinity school in Ireland. I wonder if he knows anyone with a family member who was killed by the IRA. He likes this page and has commented on other statuses here, so I know it wasn't an accident. I still don't hate the guy; he must know better. He doesn't seem to have said anything disgusting on his own over Facebook, yet - but I have lost an immense amount of respect for him. This whole thing really does encapsulate the heinous impact this election season had on everyone. A number of people who I'd consider largely morally upright individuals have gone so apeshit over trying to signal their uprightness and resist evil that they've become apologists for any kind of foul murderous scum as long as they're purporting to defend the common man. Well, folks, the tyrants, despots and butchers of the world are laughing their guts out at you. The kind of mirror sheen your spit polish puts on their iron fist vastly exceeds the capabilities of even their most talented governmental spin doctors. Come forward to the dais and claim your degree in useful idiocy - you graduated with fucking honors.

I remember liking that one... "Empire" by Serenity. Naw, looks like they're still critically mojo-deficient. This one is decent but man this production makes the album feel so weak. It lacks the lush symphonic backing I remember on "Fallen Sanctuary" and "New Horizons".

Schindler's List "He says he likes your 'magic picture', but he prefers the resolution of 35mm transparencies. He also says that your lenses are dirty, but he has the equipment to clean them for you."

Is Serenity finally back with Lionheart, after completely screwing up with the utterly forgettable Codex Atlantica? Boy howdy, I hope so... I'm concerned though. Sounds like they took influence from Kamelot, a band to whom they are definitely superior. It's not bad but these guys should be more or less the undisputed kings of symphonic power metal. Cmon, I remember "Tannenberg", it was only two albums ago and that song kicked massive amounts of ass! ...hell, why not go back to your roots from "Fallen Sanctuary"? The world needs more top-notch prog-power and that one was a gem.

Welcome to the forum, I'm always happy to see metal parents!

Are you one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rangel It's something of an unexpected move for you to come here after the House, but I don't blame you for wanting to get out of the Rotunda before anything really ridiculous happens. Well, anything more ridiculous than what's already happened, of course. In any case, welcome to the forum.

I know the feeling, my love of tech-death tends to come in strongly punctuated bursts where I just can't stuff my face with enough of it. The last couple years have been pretty conducive to this habit.

That's a pretty astute distinction, I think I'd agree.

Listening to Steorrah just now, not bad. Reminds me of Dark Suns.