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Re: Ban the user above you! Slightly banned for following a need-to-know policy with banning...and assuming no one needs. Why slightly? Because I can't afford to cheese off a prog fan.

Re: Rate the song above you! A pity they broke up... 8/10; that was cool, but I think the female vocals could have been better. Liked the male vocals though, very gothic. Well, I'm probably prejudiced since I'm learning guitar. But, since it had a sort of an electronic feel... AawFVtd4heo

Re: NINJA METAL Yeah, people seem very divided on that, they either love it or hate it...it was my favorite Symphony X album until Iconoclast came out. Definitely check that one out, it's in the vein of Paradise Lost with the same kind of lyrics and a slightly more progressive style, in the vein of the previous album. By the way, can anyone tell me what on earth the term 'bread' refers to in the metal world?

Re: any awesome metal band ???? Neurotech! I found out about this Slovenian group on this forum and they've got an excellent atmosphere; so far my favorite industrial metal band. Also, if you're into the NDH stuff like Rammstein, Megaherz and the like, listen to Eisbrecher. I think they are by far the best band in the NDH genre.

Re: Greetings From the Desert Land "Haha, sounds like you got the idea from Arjen A. Lucassen, eh? :P"-AkselJ (I got the quote code wrong so I'm doing it this way) Well, I never really got around to appreciating Ayreon even though everyone says they're great. However, if he can get away with making an awesome song like Master of Darkness with keyboard-guitar duels and have Dan Swano as Luke Skywalker (Dan Swano? Really? Last I heard he was death growling...ah well, maybe he can be an amateur Alvestam in his own right ), Damian Wilson as Yoda, Floor Jansen as Obi-Wan ( OK, weird ) and Russell Allen (w00t ) as Darth Vader, then I figure I might as well give Harry Potter a chance. After all, there are such a broad variety of themes you can address writing lyrics for that material. If you're interested I can post these lyrics in the lyrics thread. P.S. Is the song Sandrider about Dune? I've never read the books...but I always played the song during the Sarlacc Pit scene right at the beginning of Return of the Jedi coz the lyrics seemed appropriate.

Re: Shit Music Good grief, I finally looked up that video of him playing guitar... I've been learning guitar for a year, I have trouble playing chords quickly, but I've been doing a variety of melodic patterns. I would say I'm very much a novice because I can't really jam yet. But shosholoza, I could slay this nitwit! He wasn't playing chords, so I can't excuse his lack of speed, and he couldn't even play one of the three notes which comprised the...riff...solo...I don't know what the heck it was...cleanly. I've made up total improvisations that were more melodic and complex than that...not that it's hard. A sheer embarrassment to all of the black guys who can actually play guitar like Chuck Berry all the way to Tosin Abasi.

Re: What's really going on in the world ? Well at least the Euro's still strong at a value of $1.4 because that currency don't inflate all over the place and the EU retains its debt percentage requirements for membership. I might just axe Greece from the currency altogether and totally devalue all Greek Euros as a penalty until they shape up. That way you keep the Finns and the Germans happy with a strong currency without the responsibility of having to bail out the irresponsible members.

Re: Ban the user above you! Oh lovely. I get stuck having to run off my impertinent mouth to the first person who welcomed me onto this forum... BANNED because I need a live test subject for my prototype ban cannon...which I am developing with Stark Industries.

Re: powerviolence! Powerviolence is to death metal what Twitter is to email. I agree with AkselJ's assessment. Then again, he's a Dream Theater fan so he's clearly got hours to listen. Sadly, I also wasn't satisfied with my 45 seconds worth of listening. The drumming's fine, but the moniker of 'best band on earth' is ridiculously superlative for this music in my opinion. One would need to prove to me that about a minute's worth of this punkified aberration is better than 4 or 5 minutes of Decapitated, Psycroptic, The Faceless, Obscura or Gorod. If one has not heard Hidden Genocide by Gorod one can't can't confer that title on Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Brutal funk death metal. Because everything else is taken...and because it's funny and amazing at the same time.

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Re: Hello MetalForum Why keep a good thing to ourselves? Other people's opinions tend to influence the allocation of financial support in a capitalist economy. The more we try to make this genre popular the more likely it is that good bands will get record deals and maybe tour more often. In addition, if the zeitgeist becomes more sympathetic to metal music these artists might not feel the need to sell out in order to sell more. I realize that metal's not a genre to pander to anyone; it seems more about proclaiming one's own style or beliefs. These bands realize that they're not going to reach some audiences. Amon Amarth isn't going to sell to very many Christians. Fleshgod Apocalypse aren't going to attract Unitarians. Nonetheless, I am a convert to metal. I used to think heavy metal was corny and kitschy, but thanks to 94 rock's willingness to play Enter Sandman one evening, I found that metal wasn't that bad; as a matter of fact, it was what I'd been looking for. My point is that we may as well change the minds of a few while understanding that we're not going to persuade everyone.

Re: Hello MetalForum Or respected, for that matter. Most people can't even bring themselves to admit that metal musicians are talented. And yet...Justin Bieber. UURRRGGGGG!

Re: Which Rock Bands Do People Like? DISTURBED. Van Halen and Def Leppard aren't bad either.

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Re: Rate the song above you! That sounded kind of like a McSlayer with cheese and a side order of corn... Well, the guitars were fine and the drumming was as well. Typical power metal fare in the traditional speed vein. On the other hand, I hated the vocals and there seemed to be no powerful mood to the music whereas bands like Iron Savior play this kind of style with a much better mood and more proficiency. It's just not my style at all, so 5.5/10 because it doesn't totally suck. Anyhow, mfSSBecnTsU One of the best gothic metal songs I know...Mauser from Vader plays guitar for this band.

Re: Favourite Music Video? Because HammerFall was bored and because Hearts On Fire needed a different music video. 8sgjPVRXnVg And because DGM needs to make more songs like this! Bk08JwDpSH4

Re: What's really going on in the world ? Well, only Ron Paul seems to have a consistent logical position on anything. I don't like the idea of legal heroin or eliminating foreign aid since it would probably neutralize our ability to enforce human rights. But at least there's some justification for those ideas. I appreciate the fact that he's willing to say what he believes and doesn't really care what anyone else says...in other words, he's the political world's equivalent of the music world's metalhead. The hilarity of it all is that McCain's basic campaign position was that 'I'm not a commie like Obammie'. Now the Republicans can't even come up with someone to run against this man they so despise. And Michele Bachmann's not too great either: 'He was kind of mocking the Founding Fathers and I just thought, I just remember reading the book, putting it in my lap, looking out the window and thinking, 'You know what? I don't think I am a Democrat. I must be a Republican.' Far too many people in this country think that way. I'm conservative but I think both parties are equally bad. The Republicans are short-sighted, rude and nationalistic while the Democrats are arrogant, shallow and prone to making mountains out of molehills. Both have fetishes: the Republicans worship the Constitution and the Democrats consider any form of race inequality a cardinal sin which is naturally pinned on White Anglo-Saxon Protestant males like me.

Re: Metal Vs. . . . . . everything else Well, I think jazz and renaissance guitar has merit from a technical standpoint as does some classical. I like me some good Arabic groove music and more complicated and melodic techno (not that there's much of it). Then, of course, there is CELTIC FOLK!

Re: Modern melodeath I don't know, I think Ascension Chamber, A Parenthesis in Eternity, Frequencyshifter and Sculptor Void were great, Sculpture Void in particular because it seems to be talking about quantum potential and dark matter, and the areas of creation where God may reside. Yes I know Christian Alvestam is an atheist do not bother me with it but he sang for Miseration dangit and they're a band with theological themes in their lyrics. Unseen Empire's got some awesome material, but I will never forgive them for the concept: the world as we know it is actually ruled by super-intelligent lizards from another universe. WHAAAAAT? Anyhow, I like some older Scar Symmetry and just recently got Solution .45's material and I love it. So, melodeath bands I like are: Miseration (check out Thrones and Foul Invective for some really good rhythm work) Immortal Souls (Ice Upon the Night is good) Omnium Gatherum Neurotech Dark Tranquillity on Damage Done RoutaSielu isn't bad...Soturi's probably their best song. RAINTIME on Flies and Lies! I hate their other material, but this album was great.

Re: NINJA METAL Yeah, and Symphony X's Paradise Lost can be "ominous demonic English Bible-based Miltonic literature metal". Heaven help us if we get Shakespearean metal. The pretentiousness will be through the roof.

Re: whats the most wired or funny metal sub-genres you heard That said, I really do wish there were more Christian folk bands. I mean, there's Oskord and Holy Blood but not much beyond that. I understand that folk metal is usually by nature pagan, but there are still some cool groups that could use some representation. I think a Byzantine band might be cool. A Maltese group would be awesome as well, Malta was basically a Christian fortress which never got breached, so there are historical themes which would work. In addition, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for saying it's violence done in the name of Christianity. Granted, I might argue that the historical records were better over the Christian period, and Christendom also had a lot more time and reach on its hands, but it'd be a fallacy of ignorance to try to argue anything definite from that. Goodness knows I am sick and tired of all of the trash literature, shallow media, and AWFUL FRIGGIN MUSIC which is labeled Christian. The Inquisition was not Christian, the Crusades were not carried out in a Christian manner either (God will forgive you of your sins if you go kill Muslims? Rubbish. Nothing in the Bible supports that idea), and Terry Jones is a nitwit. Koran-burning day? HOW DUMB DO YOU HAVE TO BE, MAN? Did he not SEE what happened over the Danish cartoons? At any rate, it's pretty darn depressing and I'm not surprised that a lot of people don't like Christianity because many of its most well-known practitioners are morons. Anyway, back to the original topic. Whatever the heck Yattering's new album is, I think that's got to be the weirdest metal out there.

Re: whats the most wired or funny metal sub-genres you heard Good question: I'm glad you brought it up. The thing is, Slechtvalk's got more of a Crusader-style mentality. They're out for vengeance because they're portraying the medieval Christian attitude in the same manner that Amon Amarth are portraying the ancient Swedish attitude. I'm going to hazard a guess and say that I don't think you and your countrymen want to burn churches in Lindisfarne and enslave the English. Slechtvalk's perspective is historical rather than necessarily the appropriate Christian view. The reason I like them is because I'm sick and tired of Norse pagan spammers writing idiotic stuff about how Oden and Thor are stronger than Christ, and that anything Christian must by default be emasculated. Slechtvalk tries to harken back to the days when Christian knights reigned supreme. So no, Slechtvalk does not represent modern Christianity. It's intended to be a historical medieval venture, nothing more, attempting to disseminate the idea that Christian warriors can also be bad@$$.

Re: The best Power Metal bands Glad to see so many people are HammerFall fans. HammerFall got me into power metal, so if I've got a long list here it's their fault. And yes, Sabaton destroys. Swedish War Machine ...there are t-shirts with that on it, I so badly want to get one... But a lot of the really awesome ones don't get a whole lot of press. I think a lot of them live in the shadow of more famous but not necessarily better bands. At least Manticora gets attention. The Spanish band Darksun is overshadowed by WarCry for no good reason...Darksun is powerful and talented, whereas WarCry is cheesier than a bag of Cheetos in a fondue pot. Check out Darksun's video for 'Miedo', it's pretty cool. Galloglass, a German dragonslaying outfit, runs into the same problem. They're a darker band but Edguy keeps stealing the limelight. Hamburg metallers Iron Savior do science fiction power metal, and Piet Sielck is an awesome guitarist. He also does vocals for Savage Circus, if you wonder where Iron Savior's voice comes from. Thy Majestie is constantly eclipsed by Rhapsody of Fire even though Thy Majestie are more dignified and powerful. Of course, it doesn't help when all Italian clean vocalists sound exactly the same... Excalion, with their impassioned vocals and soaring melody, have to compete with the likes of Finnish countrymen Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica and Nightwish. Sometimes they just aren't well known. Serenity (of Austria), the Canadian band Borealis, and the Swedish groups Nocturnal Rites, Rising Faith, Dragonland and Morifade aren't too famous, but they're great nonetheless.

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