Ghouly

I remember if you wanted a t-shirt, a flag, a band patch, any kind of decent merch, you had to get one of those crappy little black and white paper catalogs and order via mail and hope your shit arrived within 2 months.

Welcome!! The people around here are all pretty cool.

Glad to hear this whole college thing is going well, man

Tell us how you really feel.

36, but staying out of the sun means I aged well. \m/

http://loudwire.com/important-metal-bands-21st-century/ What do you guys think of their list? There's some bands here that I really don't think qualify for a top 50... Perhaps I underestimate their importance and contributions. Agalloch, White Chapel, Baby Metal... I don't know guys. They're influential sure, but MOST important of the last 17 years?? I have my doubts. There's also a number of bands that I could easily argue were the most important of the 20th century, not the 21st, Slayer, Maiden, etc.

Thanks!!!

Indeed, it is the time of year for ghoulish sightings

Yeah so I heard about this through Nate. His college shut down yesterday due to all the downed lines and power outages. Crazy! This Chinese Hoax is getting out of hand, man.

Hi Tom, welcome! I find that the people around here are great for recommendations. I went to Bloodstock a few times, and loved it in spite of all the mud. Hope you enjoy it here.

Happy Holidays everyone, and Happy Festivus (for the rest of us). May you all survive your families! ~<3 Ghouls

Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos Going back to digging through my old collection. This album fucking slays so much!

Just got back from a nice vacation in Sweden. I really miss it so much, and my heart is aching to be back there. The cold kicked my fuckin' ass though. I celebrated Lucia with an amazing family that welcomed me as one of their own and even performed a Luciatåg in costume, and sang for me to give me a taste of the culture and they made a Julbord for me (christmas table feast) and we all decorated the tree together. It was magical and wonderful and waugh! I miss it / them so much. They went all out to give me a really traditional Swedish Lucia and I'm feeling so special and loved. I also got to enjoy an epic viking feast at Aifur in Stockholm which was just... fucking amazing. Everyone is seated on longhall tables and benches covered in plush reindeer furs. Viking weaponry and art all over the walls, a longship suspended from the ceiling, everything lit by candles and lanterns, food eaten with simple iron smithed utensils and served on slabs of wood, live entertainers on drums, hurdy gurdy, etc. The mead flowed, the fucking food... holy shit it was phenomenal... the mead was great too. God damnit you guys. Other highlights of the trip was partying at these three Icelandic brothers' house, ton of people there, all cool as fuck and Swedes know how to party (once they're drinking and there are no more awkward silences that Swedes are so well known for). Also had an epic tabletop gaming night with like 8 of my friends and of course the usual walking / exploring / sightseeing / shopping / dining. And fika. So, so, so, so much fika. BLECH. I don't know how they can eat cake every day, it's just too much. But I definitely appreciated the coffee and I was polite enough to taste the various cakes, one of which is this magical fucking unicorn of a cake called Budapeststubbe and I had two bites and pretty much died. That fucking good. I left my heart back in frost-covered, sparkly, icy Sweden. I miss it so much already.

I sadly didn't get a chance to climb the coathanger though it was on my list of things I wanted to do. I am definitely returning though, so I can always give it another go.

*reading the news about the latest shooting in california* What goes through my mind? "Please not a Muslim. Please don't be Muslim!"

Especially because I'm here! Hey-o! As some of you know I got back from Australia which turned out to be nothing as I expected it, and a tremendous pleasure. It was gorgeous. I LOVED it. It didn't start out as a dream vacation but it quickly became one. Tomorrow I am headed off to Stockholm on a wintery dream vacation. So much to look forward too. Sverige-hooo!

Relentless, that sounds amazing! Tonight for dinner I made buttermilk mashed potatoes (for the hubs), and I seared some tenderloin filets of beef in the cast iron skillet along with some bell pepper, onion and zucchini. Made a sauce out of the beef jus, some red wine, balsamic, tomato paste and butter. Came out absolutely divine and medium rare perfection. Cast iron skillets impart so much good flavor. MMF.

As a logo and branding designer myself, I have to say that the initial proposal doesn't do it for me. The thumb on the \m/ reads as a "J" when it's small, looks like Juletal Forum. I am much more in liking of Father's logo as metal, but scrap the diamond plate texture - it's too much. White on black is good, if you wanted to do a fancy texture for the forums I'd stick to brushed metal or rusted metal, something less... diamond platey. Excellent work FA.

Feeling Thankful. Thankful to be alive. Thankful to be loved. Thankful for my family. Thankful to live such a good life. Thankful for all the traveling I got to do this year. (Australia was amazing! And I'm off to Sweden in a week!)

I'm currently cooking up dishes to bring to my family's thanksgiving dinner. My contribution is a Sourdough - Currant - Chestnut - Walnut stuffing seasoned with herbs, chicken stock and butter. Really tasty. Also bringing green bean casserole, and a vegetable platter, and an antipasto platter. I would have preferred not to bring appetizers, because I think on thanksgiving, appetizers are overkill, but the fam insisted so I went for some light fare.

Disembowelment - The Tree of Life and Death. Great music to make Thanksgiving to.

Right?! I saw Ghost a few weeks ago and found them to be fantastic.

My dad's ashes (very funeral doom, I know) and a dead preserved bat (long story). I also have a 5.5 foot long python pet. That's sorta metal, right?

probably going to catch a lot of shit for this but, whatevs. My rant is people who are shouting "homeless vets before refugees!". I've gotta say, people who devalue refugee lives just sicken me. They're people too, real actual humans suffering in ways unimaginable, and the people who are shitting on them are fat, lazy, entitled oo-rah shitheads who don't have a clue how EASY they've got it in suburban 'Muricah. These people are paranoid about poor, brown skinned muslims invading their country and making them uncomfortable, and their "vets before refugees" chant just highlights what closet bigots and xenophobes they are. I'd be refreshing to see one of them actually cop to it and admit they're racist, myopic, self-centered shits who are terrified brown skinned people and think all muslims are terrorists. Second, Vets are not angels. they didn't 'save our life' or 'give us freedom'. My grandfather is a marine and my father was in the Navy, I'm no stranger to the nobility of the role but I'm no stranger to the fact that many of them are average people following orders, not saints. They deserve adequate care and benefits too, ALONG SIDE of refugees, the poor, the mentally ill, the disabled, etc. Compassion shouldn't be doled out in a f*cking priority. Every human life is deserving of it, in equal measure. What's more, the US can actually afford to care for vets, take in tens of thousands of refugees, and so much more -- but the shitheads in government will see to it that our tax dollars are squandered endlessly for military efforts we never should have started. And I get where these people are coming from. "lets take care of our problems at home before we worry about those brown muslims on the other side of the planet, we've got enough problems of our own". These people don't realize how culpable the US is for the instability in the middle east, and the rise of ISIS was due to our own miscalculated efforts in Iraq, and the refugees who have nowhere to go ARE OUR PROBLEM. Go on, shoot me now. -__-

Horns up for the username. Reminds me of a saying "It's not rape if there's a confetti canon, it's surprise sex!" ... Welcome to the forum!