RelentlessOblivion

38 minutes ago, Sardonicist said:

I have hobbies, bible studies are one of them. 

That’s great at all, many of us here, have hobbies, but I think it’s important to ask yourself, whether this is the appropriate space to share your revelations, no pun intended, about Christianity or religion, more broadly.

That’s great and all, many of us here have hobbies, but I think it’s important to ask yourself whether this is the appropriate space to share your revelations, no pun intended, about Christianity or religion more broadly. For a point of reference, consider this: the sport of cricket is one of my hobbies, but I wouldn’t with absolutely no other context start going on an extended rant about how misleading players statistics can be, or how the rules of the game need to be changed to remedy some perceived floor within the sport. partly because I don’t care enough to make the argument, but mostly because I know literally no one else here would care.  

Drowning the Light - An Alignment of Dead Stars (2009)

I really should try and make more time to just sit down and read, well okay in my case, sit down and listen to an audiobook, but you get the idea. I was, for a time, reading through the song of ice and fire series by George R.R Martin, but with no sign of the pen ultimate book coming any time soon it seems increasingly likely that tail will never get finished and, as someone who really needs to know how things finish. Once I’m invested that’s not going to work for me. It’s the same reason I finished the Game of Thrones show even though blast three seasons were absolutely abysmal. 

The best answer is to seek help, unfortunately, venting to strangers on the Internet isn’t likely to help improve your mental health, but finding a good counsellor, one you can be open and honest with about how you feel, that can do a world of good. You’re 15, so presumably still in school, perhaps your school has a counsellor you could talk to as a first step?

Apple are, fortunately, or not, the only company who build accessibility beaches into their smart products. From a business perspective, it’s kind of smart, any blind or vision, impaired person who wants a smart phone has to buy the iPhone, same goes for the Apple Watch, the iPad Etc.

I’m far too lazy to actually multi quote folks, so I’ll just address the topics here:

1. Deicide have exactly 2 albums that are even worth bothering to check out, and it’s the first two., beyond that they are, at least in my opinion, the most boring, generic, and uninspired, death, metal band on the planet.

2. I dig Morbid Angel but they are the sort of band that either works for you, or don’t, there’s not really a middle ground.

3. I’d rank Inquisition as follows:

1. Nefarious

2.Majestic Throne

3. Magnificent Glorification

4. Bloodshed

5.Ominous Doctrines

6. Obscure Verses

7. Veneration

8. Black Mass

9. Infernal Regions

NP: Darkspace - Dark Space III (2007)

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

😲 Is the new one up on YouTube yet? 

I don’t know if it’s up on YouTube, but it’s up on my Spotify, as for my thoughts on the album, I like it better than Black Mass For a Mass Grave

Inquisition - Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence (2024)

Wolves of Perdition - Ultraviolence (2024) {Finland}
 

Solid enough black metal, i’ve heard worse.

Perishing - Lutum demo (2024) {Costa Rica}
The guitar tone here is crushing, Doom/Death that’s more Coffins then My Dying Bride.

Vual - To End All Life (2020)

Hatefilled blackened sludge, just what I need

Mourning Dawn - The Foam of Despair (2024)

Hmm I forgot about these guys after Les sacrifices. They’re still going, good for them, but this does nothing for me

14 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

From their Bandcamp page: "Dozethrone is a two-piece doom and sludge metal band from Singapore. Dozethrone performs riffs that are boring, monotonous and repetitive. No joke, Dozethrone really performs riffs that are boring, monotonous and repetitive." Don't think it really matters what sub-genre of doom they are if they're stipulating to the fact that they're boring, monotonous and repetitive. It's right in their band name, they will put your ass to sleep.

 

 

Doubling down on the black/thrash are we? We'll have you in corpsepaint before you know it.

Yeah, I saw that, I guess I was hoping they were being a little tongue in cheek about it, but after five minutes of the exact same riff the only thing they’ve got going for them Is that nice fuzzy guitar tone.

NP: Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory

i’m still on the fence about this one, what I will say is, I think it sounds better through headphones than it does through speakers, but I wish there was more substance here.

Dozethrone - Departure of Souls (2024) {Singapore}

They claim to be sludge, but to my ear it’s Stoner/Doom.

56 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

What's an eighth note?

 

And what have you got against 60's/70's blues boogie? What else would one have been listening to in the late 60's and early 70's? It was either that, or do-wop 50's rock & roll, or hippie flower power acid rock. Unless you were into jazz or classical or something really crazy like 60's pop or gospel music or C&W or something. 

 

I reckon there'll be plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead.

 

Cadaver Shrine - Benighted Desecration, Netherlands 2023

 

Is that even safe for human beings to be subjected to 105° conditions like that? How can you even breathe when it's that hot? Air-con must be working overtime. If the power goes out you're screwed mate. I'd make my way to the neatest A&E hospital and seek help. Maybe they could pack you in ice or something til the molten inferno subsides.

You never know they could’ve been listening to the blues, Howland, Wolf, and Muddy Waters had been putting out music for years by that point…

You never know they could’ve been listening to the blues, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters had been putting out music for years by that point…

Honestly, I’m surprised it’s taken until this late in the summer for Adelaide to get its first 40+ Celsius day, you get this to it When you’ve lived here all your life. But yes if the power goes out I’m right fucked 

Crowbar - Time Heals Nothing

it’s 41° here at the moment, 105, for those of you, who measure temperature the wrong way, perfect sludge weather

Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory (2024) {Australia}

its dissonant death/grind. I don’t know how I feel about this one, I’ll put it this way it’s not doing anything I don’t like, but the overall package isn’t something I’m sold on just yet.

Glorior Beli - Manifesting the Raging Beast (2007)

Ô Laudate Domines (2005)

Young and in the way - Ride Off and Die (2020)

Some Crusty BM here 

56 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I wasn't talking about your normal band kids or drama club geeks or honor students or whatever when I was talking about 'nerds.' Not being one of the 'cool kids' doesn't automatically make one a nerd. And in the 70's 'nerd culture' didn't really exist yet anyway. By 'nerds' I meant like the terminally uncool, the outcasts, the ones without a group of friends. Those kids got bullied horribly because they didn't have anyone to back them up, it was like the leopards separating the weak gazelles from the herd before they dragged one down by the throat. And Idk maybe it was a 'hyper macho culture' I grew up in, I won't necessarily disagree, but that was just my local Long Island NY public school system, so I guess I assumed it was basically something like that everywhere in the 70's more or less. I always thought it had more to do with it being the 70's and less to do with my location. And no I don't mean kids were literally living in fear for their lives, it wasn't that rough, but definitely living in fear of a good smack in the mouth. 

And also keep in mind that relatively small 4 or 5 year difference between us, the difference between my class of '79 and your class of '83 or '84 was huge in terms of music and pop culture and technology. Times were changing, you Gen-X'ers had a lot of stuff in the 80's that we didn't have yet. My little sister (in the drama club) was class of '82 and even then her HS experience seemed totally different to mine just three years later in the exact same school I had just graduated from. I often wish I had been born even 5 years later (10 would be better) I could have had Metallica and Slayer and a microwave and a VCR to play video porn in HS.

 

Step to Freedom S/T Russia, I think I play this one almost every day. Can't get enough of their rage driven stenchcore.

 

My favorite band, doesn't have a mediocre album. I used to have to stop myself from listening to them so much for fear I'd get sick of it. But fortunately that didn't happen.

Excellent band, and the new album is just a couple of days away if I’m not mistaken.

NP: Recrucify - Awakening of the Satan’s Kommand EP (2010) {Peru}

The rough production helps this tbh, and I find it amusing that I’ve trained my YouTube algorithm to start recommending obscure extreme metal releases. 

Rapture - Aeons of Devestation (2023) {Chile}

Damn Chile is pumping out a heap of Death Metal. This is clearly influenced by Morbid Angel, pretty cool stuff.

38 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Yeah I think to a large extent it's really a generation thing. When I was a kid in the 70's it was not at all socially acceptable within the kid social structure hierarchy to be a nerd like it is today. There was no such thing as 'unashamedly nerdy' in the 70's. If you absolutely insisted on being a nerd then you'd get picked on unmercifully and risk having your ass beat on a regular basis, and who would want that? Although 'nerd' did have a slightly different connotation back then as we didn't have video games yet or a lot of the pop culture stuff nerds are known for being into back then yet like D&D or Harry Potter or anime or anything like that. The first Star Wars film had just come out when I was in high school and it hadn't become associated solely with nerds yet, it was just another movie. So to some extent 'nerd' frequently just meant uncool or socially awkward.

But yeah the LotR and the Hobbit books existed already obviously, but I don't remember them being popular and well known yet with kids back then the way they are now. I used to like to read quite a bit back then as our entertainment options were quite limited compared to what we're used to today. There were no dvds or dvrs or 'on demand' we didn't even have vhs tapes yet. My family had one TV set with rabbit ears (no cable) and it was tuned into whatever dad wanted to watch, which was sports, sports and more sports. So I'd stay in my room a lot in the evenings and listen to my hard rock music or read. But I've never read fantasy or LotR or anything like that. Just doesn't interest me. I couldn't even make it through one LotR film without falling asleep 30 minutes in, tried 3 times and gave up, I've still never seen the rest of it, and I don't really care.

As a teen I'd read political spy novels, murder thrillers, true crime gangster books and western fiction. A little bit of sci-fi but only if it was reality based, futuristic shit set on earth that could possibly happen one day. Time travel was cool, as long as there were no made-up fantasy species like elves, orks hobbits or spaceships/aliens, nothing like that. All characters had to be humans living on earth, no exceptions. I really enjoyed post-apocalyptic fiction, (like The Postman for example) and there was a lot of that kind of stuff written back then when we thought the Russkies were getting ready to nuke us any day now. I still enjoy the genre, but I look for post-apocalyptic films now. Because I can't read books with this noisy unruly chaotic kid here in the house, I need absolute silence and the house all to myself to be able to read a novel. Otherwise I get distracted and end up reading the same paragraph over and over again then just put it down. The boy will be 18 in just 8 more years, maybe he'll move out one day and then I'll be able to read again. I do have a pile of books here I've collected here and there over the years that I'd really love to read, maybe one day I'll actually get to do that.

I was already getting bullied for the whole vision impaired thing, so being the nerdy metal head who liked the wrong sports team couldn’t really do any more damage to my high school social status. I guess for better or worse I’ve never really seen the point in hiding the person I am, probably could have spared myself a considerable amount of trauma if I had done but equally, I doubt I would have the same, don’t you tell me what I can’t do attitude if I had bow down to oubut equally, I doubt I would have the same, don’t you tell me what I can’t do attitude if I had bow down to out side pressure.

NP: Motörhead - Bomber

Evil Angel - Unholy Fight For Metal (2007)