FatherAlabaster

Massemord - The Stoning Malignant Interesting... Still like the first Furia album better than any of the Massemord that I've heard, but this new one is cool. Iceni, I did check out the Benevolent song you posted - not my thing although it did come across as more genuine than the Outcast stuff. Thanks for the suggestion, at any rate!

It's cool mate' date=' my uni provides me with electronic copies of all textbooks and readings, I still have to pay for physical copies of my textbooks though (some copyright issue I don't understand) but then I just sell the books back.[/quote'] Ah, cool, so you read enlarged text on the computer? I figure that's how you do it with the forum... My wife's an optometrist so I talk to her about eyes all the time, I'm just naturally curious.

I doubt you've got as much reading to do for that class as I did for "Advanced Contract" now that was br00tal I barely kept on top of the reading for that subject.

I'm curious, do you do that with audio, or Braille, or can you still use normal textbooks? No offense meant.

Rating - my wife and I might be getting over our cold/flu Slating - now my poor kid is sick

Seen them loads of times and he's a cock, such a massive ego. Also agree with you about everything up to Floodland but that's easy as only Vision Thing came after it, didn't like that one. I've heard he has a new guy on guitars who plays it like a metal band, not heard anything myself yet though.

Have you heard The Merry Thoughts? Massive Sisters ripoff from Germany (I think) that actually did a good job with it. Can't recall the album title offhand. And do you listen to Deine Lakaien?

Slating - Sisters of Mercy, the Gothfathers, to play Sonisphere, a metal/rock show. Rating - Sisters of Mercy to play Sonishere so we don't get the miserable up his own arse twat Eldridge at Alt-fest.

As much as I love everything up through Floodland, I've never heard a good word about Andrew as a person, and I can't imagine them being any good live.

Trio Medieval - Missa Lumen De Lumine from the album Stella Maris - a medieval-style 20thC piece for three voices

Thanks for the welcome' date=' Black Harvest is sick!! Like the clean vocals and nasty riffs. You guys play in Brooklyn a lot?[/quote'] Thanks man! I appreciate it. Not playing live at the moment, it's actually a solo project right now. I hope to get a group together soon.

Waffles and eggs.

TV ON The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain

Hey man, welcome to the forum.

Re: Now...?

Holy crap is it brutal out there. I was barely walking five minutes before my face felt like it was being cracked and torn by this freezing wind. Saturday had nothing on this.

Bear ye with pride the mark ov the frostgöat.

I don't get the sense that BAN is their PR captain.

Hannibal Lecter Spock or Data?

And a cheeseburger. And some fries. Maybe even some pie

Hey shut up, you're just jealous because your people live on potatoes and gruel.

I haven't heard Outcast. I'll listen to them... but no matter how I love Meshuggah, I seem to hate every band I've heard that displays overt Meshuggah influence. Ok. Listening to Outcast - Abysmal. Some really good riffs, not a fan of the ultra-modern-heavy production. The vocals sound fake - it's like the guy has a bunch of different "voices" that he can "do" but hasn't got his own voice yet. Ergh, and the "remember that cool part from that one Meshuggah song" sections are NOT helping. Nope, this isn't for me. Is there something of theirs you'd recommend that's any different from this?

I'm listening to a relatively talented band that kind of screwed up the metal scene for the last two or three years with their relatively innovative take on melodeath which nonetheless brought on a lot of annoying crap: Periphery.

They're one of those bands that I respect, but just don't enjoy. I can't get behind the argument that it's worth criticizing a band for other bad bands that they've inspired, but it's hard to ignore how awful a lot of that "prog/djent" shit is. A good friend of mine is massively into Periphery, and I attended a show with him, and didn't see anything to get me going. I'm sure their young fans will excuse me if I refrain from shitting all over myself about how wonderful they are.

Eating: about to tuck into a beef and chicken shepherd's pie fresh out of the oven - sadly with hardly any carrots this time. Drinking: Brooklyn East India Pale Ale Listening: Type O Negative - World Coming Down Doing: convalescing Thinking: drafty apartment in a snowstorm with temps going down to single digits tonight, and our bed is right by the window. I found a snowdrift inside the front door this evening. This should be fun.

You know' date=' I was actually going to reference this but I thought you'd forgotten.[/quote'] Never! No matter how hard I try...

Edit: My bad I posted the same thing twice. I also wanted to say that I have an almost 9 year old guinea pig, I didn't even thi k they lived that long! Maybe the outback guniea pigs have a longer life span

No, they just taste better when they're younger.

Type O Negative - World Coming Down

This is my dog sleeping on a chair

So that's what a dingo looks like! I've always wondered.

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

well-done' date=' bog-standard, gothenburg melo-death.[/quote'] In other words, everything that's been wrong with metal for the past decade plus.

Never got into KMFDM. A lot of my friends seemed to love them. My favorite industrial album is probably Skinny Puppy's "Too Dark Park", followed closely by Ministry's "Land Of Rape And Honey", but I don't know that any of that would be to Iceni's taste. Die Form and Will had some cool tracks, as well, and for goth-industrial I've always enjoyed Deine Lakaien. To be honest, none of these guys are consistently good songwriters - it always seemed a plague of the industrial genre, that they'd concentrate on sounds, and never learn how to put a compelling song together, and the ones who did concentrate on songcraft often wound up leaching the interest out of their soundscapes and turning into shitty pop. Easy to draw parallels with metal in that regard.

Oh, I see, your grim demeanor cowed her into temporary docility. You did leave your skinning knife at home this time?