Parker

I love both GDOW and Rocky Horror, but they are so different I can't say which is better. I totally disagree with your assessment of Grand Declaration. I love that album the way it is originally, and from what I have heard of the remaster, they have taken out everything that makes it unique and provocative. I haven't heard this remix, and I am afraid to.

They never really hit me as silly until now. I really liked those vocals, and they are MUCH better than the boring delivery of those lines on the demos. I thought they gave those parts a really dramatic/theatrical feel. I'm afraid that feel is gone for ever for me now . . .

Hey, I know, I haven't been around in a while, but I had to tell you guys about this. The other day I was listening to A Grand Declaration of War by Mayhem when my wife said, "Is this The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack?" "What?" I said, confused. "That's Dr. Frankenfurter, isn't it?" she replied. And then it hit me: Maniac's "political rally voice" (for lack of a better descriptor) on that album DOES sound pretty much just like Tim Curry's character's voice in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Definitely not what Maniac intended, and this is seriously fucking with my ability to appreciate that awesome album without laughing my ass off.

I love Unchain the Wolves, and Phoenix Rising is really good too, I perceived a drop in quality after that.

Neurotically Excessive Carnal Knowledge SODA

Danzig - The Lost Tracks of Danzig MayheM - Chimera Hellbastard - Ripper Crust

Sorry if I or someone else mentioned this before, but I didn't want to go through twenty pages to find out. My controversial opinion is that metal, particularly extreme metal, sounds horrible live. Some of the top, extreme bands (say a band like Emperor, who were excellent when I saw them), can pull it off, but it seems you really need to know what you're doing and probably need the best equipment available to do it. Unfortunately, most extreme metal bands are an epic fail live. It seems like just a barrage of muddy, unintelligible noise, and I can't even make out what song they're playing even though I listened to their albums a million times. I think extreme metal bands should stick to the studio/home listening experience,

David Gilmour and The Orb - Metallic Spheres Samhain - Initium Bathory - Destroyer of Worlds Lord Foul - Killing Raping Burning

I'm not sure, on the one hand I want say some war metal album by Blasphemy, Revenge, etc, then on the other hand there's some seriously heavy funeral doom metal like Rigor Sardonicous. I'll have to ponder this.

Warzone Induced Perpetual Ecstacy NADS

Tortured Humans Ominously Ululate KNIT

First concert I ever went to was Faith No More, Metallica, and Guns 'n' Roses.

Foul Assed Reeking Tendencies GODS

Kreator

Forever Lurking Unknown Being DOWN

This is kind of ironic - Black Force Domain is the only album I have heard by Krisiun, but I fucking love it! Fucking fast, brutal, awesomeness!!! What is the best album you have heard from them? As far as Morbid Angel goes, I haven't heard the new album yet. What do you think of it?

Mortiiis - Crypt of the Wizard Morbid Angel - Juvenilia Krisiun - Black Force Domain Danzig - III How the Gods Kill

Welcome. I dig those genres as well. What are some of your favorite bands?

Amebix - No Sanctuary, The Spiderleg Recordings Anthrax - Sound of White Noise Thorns - Grymyrk Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture Judas Iscariot - Of Great Eternity Graveland - Memory and Destiny

I'll have to check that out.

Enemy at the Gate, Downfall and Inglorious Basterds are great, haven't seen the others you mentioned but would like too. Saving Private Ryan is really good, as well as the mini-series Band of Brothers. I really enjoyed The Fall of Berlin, a two part Soviet propaganda movie shot on captured German Agfa color film. "5 artillery and infantry divisions, 4 tank battalions, 193 planes, and 45 German trophy Panzers, as well as 1.5 million liters of fuel, were used in staging its panoramic battle scenes." As for other wars, Apocalypse Now is breathtaking, Alexander Nevsky, with its soundtrack by Prokofiev, is mesmerizing, and I probably love plenty of others I can't think of right now. Hopefully I will soon acquire Stukas (1941), and The Battle of Orel (Kursk) (Documentary) (1943) and will report back.

I recently acquired some interesting movies. "Kolberg" is a German movie released in 1945. Think about that, within a few months of totally losing the war, they were still making, distributing, and showing new movies in the handful of remaining theaters. Not only that, they diverted hundreds of troops to serve as extras in this movie, and used sh*t loads of real ammunition to bombard a replica of the town. All this when they knew they would loose the war. As for the film, most of it was rather bland. There was much dialog about never surrendering, and your material defeat is a symbolic, moral victory, or something like that, I guess. But, I must say, the end of the movie, when the town is bombarded, is a pretty good payoff, after the earlier dullness. All that aside, it's worth watching just because it's in Agfa Colour, an early German coloring process that produced vivid colors that make everything look like a fairy tale book. The other movie was "Stosstrupp 1917" a German movie released in 1934. It's B&W, but the copy I have has a very clean, clear picture. The film pretty much glorifies war (WWI), while simultaneously showing the horrors of war, if you can rap your head around that. It was fun to watch, a lot more interesting than "Kolberg," because it was fast paced and full of action. Again, real ammunition was used in the battles, and for most of the movie you can hear bombs falling and exploding, usually in the distance, but often enough close by. Of the two, I would recommend "Stosstrupp 1917," if weird old propaganda movies is your thing.

Random thought about the black album: the only songs I ever want to hear off that album are Of Wolf and Man, The God that Failed, and Don't Tread on Me. The other songs are either over played or forgettable to me.

The virus has not really had any impact on my lifestyle. The only real difference is wearing a mask and social danziging distancing when shopping. Other than that, it's the usual, we never went out much anyway. (We don't really like people.)