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I heard part of the single and enjoyed it. Pretty cool that a band could revitalize themselves after the death of their founding member and main songwriter, even though it seems like it shouldn't be possible. Voivod proved that it could be done, and I'm glad Riot are back at it too.

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It's a top 10 black metal album for me, probably my favorite of the first wave. Too fucking good.

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It's a top 10 black metal album for me, probably my favorite of the first wave. Too fucking good.

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I don't know about Satyricon, but it did remind me of 1349's transformation between Hellfire and Revelations of the Black Flame, going from a somewhat complex blasting wall of sound with frantic melodies to something really basic and stripped down.



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Playthroughs seem pointless to me. I don't want to hear someone try their hardest to play someone else's song by themselves, why would anyone care to see that? I get the point of lyric videos, but I prefer to just have the album art as the background and the lyrics in the notes.

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I like tofu, so even though I wouldn't order it without meat at a restaurant, that sounds really good. I just got back from trying out a sushi place that had some pretty tasty looking Thai dishes on their menu, and since I likely won't be returning for their sushi, I'll have to try one of those if I ever end up there again. It was kind of a surreal dining experience because the restaurant was next door to Burt's Tiki Lounge, a shitty venue where I played many times and saw a great many shows within its dank walls that stank of piss. They closed it down a few years ago, and when I walked by on the way in and saw that the outside had been cleaned up, but there was no sign outside, I wondered what it was. When I got inside, I saw that they had blown out the wall between the two places and turned the old Burt's into their bar/lounge area. We ended up seated there, and although the interior was entirely revamped, they kept the layout exactly the same. It was weird being there and having so many memories flood back while I was eating, even though you would never know it was the same place at first glance because of the dramatic makeover.

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Like I said above, they're burned discs from NTNR (you probably remember him as NeverMike from Metal Valhalla). He endeavors to collect every little thing from PL, and even though these aren't official releases, they're pretty well recorded bootlegs. I don't usually keep burned copies of CDs because I want to get the real thing eventually, but since these are already bootlegs, why bother?  
I forgot that this particular bootleg had a couple of weird covers at the end to round it out. Paradise Lost playing Venom's In the Name of Satan sounds as strange as it looks typing it out, but their cover of Atomic Rooster's Death Walks Behind You was actually pretty cool.
 
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To be honest, I'm not sure of its origin. I don't even have a real copy of it, mine is a burned disc that Mike (NTNR that used to frequent this place) made for me. He's a Paradise Lost nut, the kind that buys 3 copies of their albums to have all of the bonus tracks.

Anyway, it's one full live set from a gig (in Stockholm, maybe?) from their Draconian Times tour, and another partial set from the same tour. It's pretty cool for me because the full set showcases the songs with a seriously boosted guitar tone, and sounds way heavier than the album versions of the songs. The vocals are buried in the mix, and Nick doesn't sound great from what you can hear, but it's worth it for that crunch. It's like the difference between Priest's studio albums and Unleashed in the East. The rest of the band is on fire, playing most of Draconian Times with Pity the Sadness, True Belief, and As I Die. It's a pretty cool bootleg if you can find it.

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Grom is my favorite from them, I think it would be right up your alley. 
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We just finished recording a rough demo of our first doom/death song. I feel like the vocals and drums could have been better, but we'll see what it sounds like with some mixing and EQ.

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I got into it when I was working at a record store that specialized in power, gothic, progressive, and melodic/symphonic black and death metal. The kind of place that sells incense, dragon sculptures, and sex toys along with their metal is a strange place indeed, but I did get into a lot of metal that I wasn't exposed to prior to then. Blind Guardian was my way in because of the riffs. I wasn't looking for anything fun, but I loved how they mixed those killer melodies and vocals with awesome speed metal guitars.

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Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

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They'be got the whole package. Incredible intensity paired with memorable songwriting, sick vocals, ripping guitars, devastating drums, they're just on another level from most black/death bands.

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I didn't get that impression from The Inexorable, but I did from Exterminate. That might be the best black/death metal album of all time.

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That Alex Jones idiocy is just running rampant in general today. Based on how frightened and stupid many people seem to be, I shouldn't be surprised at his 3 million listener count, but it's still disturbing. That guy is cancer in human form.

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Paradise Lost - Icon

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That's just about as good as black metal gets IMO, very much a top 10 album for me personally. Nice to see the band getting more attention these days.

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You trying to get yourself banned?

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Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
@Requiem, have you ever heard this? Seems like it would be right up your alley. These guys are the Swedish melodic black metal elite, I think they're even better than Dissection et all.




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Paradise Lost - Shades of God

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It's a different style, but I would argue that Johan Lindstrand of The Crown/Crown of Thorns is every bit as intense.

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