The Strategos

Re: Disturbed Well, there we go BlutAusNerd, its nice just to agree to disagree !

Re: Disturbed Aaaaaaaah, good point Iceni, Thing is, in this country, I don't know about yours, we get constantly bombarded with the latest rubbish government adivce and "guidelines", so its a bit of a national running joke. However, since it BlutAusNerd I would have to say Australian !

Re: Leaves' Eyes Hi Iceni, Gulp! BTW, you know a girl who looks like Liv Kristine! Wow, lucky you! As to Atrocity, I can't honestly say I have the foggiest idea about them before LE !

Re: Leaves' Eyes Of course, I forgot about them. But before you make such merciless mockery of them, good sir, prithee consider whether anyone else in the Nine Realms of the universe has done anything quite like they have. Now stick that up your Ragnarok!

Re: Disturbed

Re: Disturbed Ooh, BlutAusNerd, there will be consequences !!!

Re: Leaves' Eyes Hi Iceni, Lovelly to know that you like them too ! And yes, it was Theatre of Tragedy.

Re: Leaves' Eyes BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Blisteringly Brutal And Masterfully Melodic!

Stirring, Sweeping Songs Of Sagas!

Re: Martial Arts

Re: Martial Arts murph1990! What a nice little collection, that's impressive!!! But Iceni, please, for the love of God, whatever you do in a confrontation DON'T JUMP KICK!!! Please, this is what I study, realistic martial arts (its not in the art so much as how you do it ), and the one thing I absolutely know is try not to kick above the waist and certainly don't jump. If you do that then your balance is reduced, or in the case of jumping obliterated, and you can so easily end up on the floor. From there, if your enemy is still standing, its virtually all over and you will be beaten up. Of course, if you land your kick it can be devastating, but the risk is so high!!! I don't want to be a little annoying twit but I am genuinely worried about you . Please, all kicks at least with one leg on the ground. Anyway, thanks both of you two for responding !

Re: Best Iron Maiden Album Well, NTNR, its nice to be able to surprise people!!!

Re: Cars Hey Hey, CARRRRRRSSSSSS!!! I love looking at hot supercars and my all-time favourite is the Pagani Zonda!!! My real driving experience is less glamorous - a mini, a Ford focus, a Peugeot 206 and a Mazda 6, though I do think that the Mazda is pretty swish. Satan 59, I agree that the Lotus Elise is droolingly gorgeous though I can't imagine driving the thing - it looks so crampt ! Also, Iceni, since you like RX-7 what do you think to the RX-8? I love it, especially the cool way the doors open.

I was just wondering if anybody out there does any martial arts? I do Shotokan Karate but I have to teach myself (which sucks) as there isn't a school nearby which teaches me in the way I feel that I need to learn it to defend myself . Anyway, if there is anybody out there, I would love to know - maybe we could chat about it !!!

Re: Best Iron Maiden Album Sorry NTNR, I could not disgree with you more. I think that Brave New World is a wonderful album,full of beautiful solos and rousing choruses which go on forever and I also like Dance of Death, especially Paschendale, which, IMHO, is Maiden's second best song (I like Mother Russia in No Prayer for the Dying best ). I also think that A Matter of Life and Death is probably their weakest album, alot of it is really rather dreary, not serious, not thoughtful, just dreary. Anyway, thanks for voting!

Re: classical? Has anyone tried Stravisky's Rite of Spring? That's pretty awesome, raw, tribal, angry and totally, totally different !

Re: Bullet For My Valentine O.K. Iceni, what you say is very fair. I guess something just hit a raw nerve . I can understand absolutely how everybody could sick to the back teeth of teeny whining (I guess this is bands like evanessence, right?), especially since the lyricised hissy fits from what I have heard can be just be so childish and Twilighty. P.S. I'm also glad to hear that you like Disturbed !

Re: Greetings from Ireland! Hey there Censura!!! Nice to meet you, I joined only yesterday so I'm new too. I love The Voice, its terrific, the blindingly crunchy guitars with those screaches and topped of by that synthy bleepy riff is just mindblowing. Hope to see more of you soon! The Strategos.

Re: Bullet For My Valentine BFMV and Trivium not metal? What! Oooh, I know that I'm going to be in trouble for this, I really am, but I really hate it when people get like this about bands. I mean, O.K. Avenged Sevenfold are a bit soft (I seem to have all their albums but somehow I never listen to them) and aren't metal but BFMV are heavy and as for Trivium not being metal - well, I mean come on, if they are not metal then I just wonder what is? Trivium, grunt and growl, Trivium go really chaotic on the heavy chords with masses of distortion, Trivium sing about death and violence and not relationships, Trivium have terrific solos, perrrlease! It just really creams my corn when people have to get all uppety about what is and is not metal, can't we just all get along without banging on about pop wetties blah blah? I mean really, in what way is a band like Disturbed more of a deviance from mainstream metal than any folk/symponic band? I can't help but think that some people just don't like when a band sells more than three albums. BFMV and Trivium rock and are metal, or at the very least Trivium is - even the picky Encyclopedia Metallum allows Trivium!!! And before anybody annoyed by my post tries to call me a pop wetty with pathetically commercial tastes, I would just like to say that I hate almost all pop, I think that current chart music is the (bar hip-hop) the worst form of music ever, ever, invented and that I love the virtually unheard album Darker Later (Humanfly) and my favourite band is the fairly obscure Leaves' Eyes, the German/Norwegian Symphonic/Folk Metal band! O.K. rant over. Peace.

Re: The Strategos Thanks Murph1990!!!

Re: Your Lyrics Wow Iceni, those Harry Potter lyrics really get to the crux of the issue in so few words - terrific!

Re: Symphonic Metal Thread Hi Iceni and feel free to pick my bones , Re. Folk instruments. Fair point, regular use should be Folk Metal. Re. Female voices. When I say high, I don't necessarily mean Operatic, and more mean that as a woman's voice singing even normally is quite high (unless she decides to death grunt, admittedly), the interplay is automatically accomplished as long as the chord progressions are quite low. Thanks for clarifying where I should yap about Epica, because of all bands I had no clue about that one!

Re: The Strategos Hi Iceni and thanks for the greating! I haven't heard any grind, but if its worse than grunge then I am so sorry for your poor EARS!!!

Anybody else like soundtracks? I think that the soundtracks to 300 and X-Men: First Class are simply sensational - does anyone else have any favourites?