FatherAlabaster

Which did you have first, the whiskey or the bruising?

JBaker has a massive man crush on Chino, and is on record as saying that Chino's voice "oozes sex". He was just being playfully sarcastic. But, I agree with your comment!

Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory And Injury I really, really like this. Industrial-tinged post-black metal.

Altar Of Plagues - White Tomb More post/atmospheric than Teethed Glory And Injury, but the atmospheres are generally compelling rather than boring and the BM sections are pretty energetic. Nice.

Deftones - Diamond Eyes

Cloudkicker - Beacons might actually get to see some of this live!

Why would you be embarrassed about that? They're a classic 2nd-wave BM band, one of my favorites - even if I don't care for their more recent releases.

@ btbam91, I listened to the songs you posted. I thought Becoming the Archetype had some good stuff going on in the first half of the track - I liked some of the melodies and textural variation. I even liked the high vocals! Unfortunately it was hidden amidst bog-standard melodeath, and the piano thing into the outro sounded like a wasted opportunity to me. The melody/chord progression through there didn't feel "elegiac"... it just sounded like the lullaby stuff my wife puts on to sooth my kid when it's bedtime. The outro was the same - not "triumphant" so much as trite and cheesy. It felt like shameless song-padding for extra length. BTBAM, I could appreciate from a technical standpoint, but I didn't find too many of the parts compelling. I didn't mind the frenetic arrangement, although I can see how people could call them "confused" - one might be missing the point looking for comprehensible emotional content in there. I could listen to it again and potentially get more out of it. At first blush, it didn't do a lot for me, and I didn't like any of the vocals. It would take a lot of work for me to get into them. Overall I like the structural ambition on display in both bands, even if the nuts and bolts didn't appeal to me.

But their well-documented health benefits should outweigh any trifling concerns about flavor or cost.

Great way to put it. I've had a similar experience... except that I can listen to them all the time. Escapism? It was their song structures that really opened my mind; anybody can yell like that over that guitar tone and write big, heavy riffs, but the way they put it all together is what really matters to me.

Re: What Are You Listening To? Fuck yeah, didn't know you were an Isis fan! Awesome.

Re: King Of The Hill Valkyries, New Yorkers, Elder Gods, and comic book fans unite and descend upon you, all exacting vengeance for your various transgressions: profaning sacred ground, killing the Turtles, destroying an awesome pizzeria, and chronically atrocious spelling errors. You never even see them coming; you're ripped limb from limb, shredded, and reduced to vapor within fractions of a second. A really big cairn is raised over the site of your tragic act of terrorism, and the collected host solemnly charges me with rebuilding, with carrying on, to restore hope to pizza eaters everywhere. In memoriam: Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Splinter, Casey, April, and assorted victims. Pizza lovers' memorial cairn/restaurant.

Re: Let's Help Each Other Discover NEW BANDS.

Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum

You always need a smiley face.

Mortal Decay - Forensic Never heard these guys before, there's some very cool guitar work here.

It does look beautiful. My favorite quote from the website: "Enjoy the gastronomic offer of our city".

Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life

Oh, well...

Nice, RO, you get the first post on page 666, at least in my browser.