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FatherAlabaster

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  1. This was basically the goal of my post too But yeah, no, I doubt I'll be any more thrilled by your favorites than you would be by mine. I do listen to the stuff you put up sometimes and I'll probably like your blurbs even if the albums all sound like different shades of the same color of paint.
  2. Says the guy who hasn't posted doodley squat yet. "Credibility" my foot.
  3. They were phenomenal. The Conductor's Departure is the one I play the most. I guess the melodies drew me in. But as far as cool ideas per minute, Under A Stone really goes hard. And the mix is better too, less pushed mids, more natural sounding. I wonder just how great that supposedly finished but unreleased last album is. NP: Abigor - Opus IV I guess tonight's playlist has been brought to me by the letter "A".
  4. Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription
  5. He doesn't even need corpse paint, he was born for this.
  6. Why does it matter? Wouldn't it be cool if a friendship opened you up to something you wouldn't have considered otherwise?
  7. Well said, both from you and @MacabreEternal. I want to clear a point up with you though. The issue wasn't that I or the other mods were personally offended by your post, or Dead's posts or whoever. We let a lot of "objectionable" stuff stay up as long as it's part of a reasonable discussion people are having in good faith. Most everybody here has never and will never get a PM or a warning from us. But sometimes we have to use our judgement about it, and there's some stuff we just can't have on the forum. It's not about our personal feelings; we also have to think about everyone who comes through, even if they're just a lurker looking for a song they used to like or someone dipping their toes into a metal community for the first time, and we've got to do that considering the overall goals the owner has for the place. I don't expect all of you to have those considerations in mind every time you post, but it's part of the job for us. Kicking out a longstanding member of your Metal-Fi group was not something we decided lightly or quickly. Macabre and Relentless have already said their piece about it and I agree with both of them, but here's mine. Dead would still be here if he could have left the violent rhetoric and bigoted comments out of his posts. He posted a bunch of other annoying crap and had a bunch of doubtless fun and fulfilling arguments on the back of it, and nobody handed him infractions over it. If he cared enough about talking with you guys, he could have swallowed a small amount of his pride, left the anti-Asian/anti-Aboriginal comments and "we need a society where everyone who doesn't follow my rules gets executed" bullshit at the door, and he'd still be here telling us all about how metal has lost its teeth and needs gatekeepers while posting Lamb Of God albums. All I asked him to do was edit himself. He was more interested in pushing to see how much he could get away with. He's not the first person to do this here and he doubtless won't be the last. I'm sorry for you guys that feel like you lost a friend but he wore out his welcome fair and square.
  8. Considering how many months this year I spent out of the loop and how few albums I've heard, a list of the ones that I happened to like enough to get sucked into and play all the time for a while would be utterly meaningless, so here it is. Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2/The Kinetic Infinite Enslaved - Heimdal Afterbirth - In But Not Of Fen - Monuments To Absence _____ Some albums I liked enough to save or buy that I want to spend more time with: Anachronism - Meanders Sól Án Varma - s/t Slidhr - White Hart! культура курения - Полночь в Новосибирске Acausal Intrusion - Panpsychism Baring Teeth - The Path Narrows Jute Gyte - Unus Mundus Patet Furia - Huta Luna Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations EP _____ In another year filled with the usual soul-sucking try-hard genre retreads getting pumped up by clickbait websites staffed by rootless hacks who think a few years of experience with their own personal touchstones gives them special insight into some objective truth about the quality of new releases, the above albums, along with some others I'm doubtless forgetting, gave me a modicum of hope. Most of this is white on white, and I thought the forum wasn't loading it, but once I highlighted it to read, cool beans.
  9. Furia - Nocel ...for some reason, listening to "Huta Luna" brought home how good this album is. Took me a while to come around to it when it came out, and I never really loved it, but now I'm hooked.
  10. Furia - Martwa Polska Jesien Furia - Nocel
  11. Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis
  12. Well, I'll put it this way, I certainly can't think of any other reason to go to a Bruce Dickinson show.
  13. The only thing more exciting than that getup is the prospect of wearing it to a Bruce Dickinson show. So thrilling.
  14. Christ. The lot of you are banned for all this talk about lizards. Hammer is out. Weirdos. NP: Ivar Bjørnson and Einar Selvik - Hugsjá Wardruna - Kvitravn
  15. Yeah, Cody has mentioned a bit of this to me. It sucks a lot. It's definitely not like that for me, my wife is pretty cool with me playing music and theoretically going to shows. There's just no time or money for me to go the distance I'd have to go right now. The best shows up this way actually come through Montreal. The bassist I've been playing with up here just went to Messe des Morts recently. European bands that don't come to the states because it's such a hassle will still go through there. One day in a kinder future after we get our shit together.
  16. Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum Demos
  17. Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current Cryfemal - Apoteosis Oculta Cruciamentum - Convocation Of Crawling Chaos
  18. A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
  19. It's the Jackson superstrat he used to have before he went back in time and messed things up so the guitar's mom and dad never got together. In another couple of days it will have completely faded from the internet.
  20. Sick new ab workout routine for 2024, it's called "relentless coughing". If I can keep it up for a few more weeks I should be fit as a fiddle. New year new me.
  21. Blut Aus Nord - 777: Cosmosophy
  22. I concur. I was lucky to get an early listen this summer and I think it's the best thing they've done. NP: Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab Krallice - The Kinetic Infinite
  23. Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current Forhist - s/t Furia - Grudzien Za Grudniem
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