FatherAlabaster

That's ok, I'm prepared for the potato apocalypse. I have chef knives and peanut oil. If they don't submit, I'll threaten them with being put inside of a burrito.

I think the problem is that it's turned into one more marketing tool. I can remember when heavy music was going through a phase where genre barriers were falling, and everybody had this ideal of just mixing shit up and seeing what happened. It gave us rap rock, but it also gave us some genre-bending classics like Faith No More, and I hear the same impulse in some of my other favorites like Akercocke and older Meshuggah. Now it's almost expected that you'll "stake your claim" and stay in your comfort zone, and bands get shit for stepping out of it. It seems like the point now is to pigeonhole yourself. It's not cool to me. Tempting to see analogies in pop culture and politics. Steve: like everyone else says, fuck this guy, and also, just get over it. You're a musician and a music lover, there are so many things that are more important.

I wasn't aware that there were forty kinds of potatoes in the world, let alone Bolivia!

It's crazy amounts of fun.

Good move, don't quit! Good drummers are easier to find when you have a solid recording that shows what you're really all about.

Banned because none of the bass players in hell will follow you after the horrible things you've said... your enterprise is doomed without them.

I have no idea whether Ackercocke's third and fourth albums were negatively reviewed, but I really enjoy them: Choronzon and Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone. Akercocke fizzled out at the end, but those albums have some really great moments and a lot of solid tunes.

Banned for banning Steve after he had such a bad day. Have a heart.

Actually that doesn't sound so bad right now. Maybe I should watch it until my head explodes. It'll only take a few more times through.

I know I've mentioned my kid a few times... here's a typical situation for us!

I'm sorry, man, I really should have put a warning up with that song... I hope you'll be ok. I can take the video down, maybe that would be for the best.

Enough about good music, let's talk about complete shit again. Here's a video that should have never been shot, for a song that shouldn't have been written by a band that shouldn't exist: qLYoJgbybes

Gorguts - Colored Sands

Banned for achieving knighthood at the same time as I did.

Anathema - Pentecost III

Silencer - Death Pierce Me I liked Dictius Te Necare, but I really don't know about these vocals... eeek. No, I don't like 'em.

Khanate - No Joy

Antonin Dvorak - Stabat Mater (Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Harnoncourt cond.)

Banned until you take a cold shower or a nice walk around the block, to calm down a bit.

I disliked Life Is Killing Me when it first came out. It took me a few years to develop an appreciation for it. One day I guess it clicked. I "like" World Coming Down better but I probably listen to Life Is Killing Me more frequently.

You're In The Wrong Thread but it's better than anything LP has to offer...

"Bowels" came out 20 years ago... Then: nelulYzV3Qw And now: et8NE4klmts

I'm Amazed They Sell Records

Honestly I'm not huge on this new thing, it sounds like nothing out of the ordinary. But I'm happy for them that they can keep going after their vocalist's death, and "Bowels Of Repugnance" is an old-school death/goregrind classic.

Oxes - Kaz Hayashi