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. 

7 minutes ago, Iceni said:

Took the GRE and did OK, so I'm going out to eat with a couple friends this evening.

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

1 hour ago, FatherAlabaster said:

GODDAMN COMMERCIAL ENTRY-LEVEL HACKED-UP POORLY WRITTEN BADLY RESEARCHED IRRELEVANT BULLSHIT CLICKBAIT GARBAGE but hey, it's cool to see a couple of my favorite bands on the list EVEN THOUGH IT SUCKS AND THE FUCKING CENTURY ISN'T EVEN TWENTY PERCENT OVER YET but although I don't really like a lot of these bands, I can see why a few of them are on here, since they've definitely had an impact on the metal world even if THEY'RE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT A WORTHLESS LIST OF HAS-BEENS AND TRITE RADIO POP METAL LIKE CORN KERNELS IN A TURD FUCK HATE KILL STOMP SMASH 

SMASH

AAAARGH

uuhh

that's my subjective impression here.

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.

1 hour ago, deathstorm said:

Welcome back ghouly

Thanks!!!

21 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

It's kind of nuts, and lots of areas got hit much harder.

Also, HOLY SHIT EVERYONE IT'S A GHOULY SIGHTING!

Indeed, it is the time of year for ghoulish sightings

7 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Unexpected winds on Sunday night caused power outages that are still affecting around 20,000 homes in my area. We were relatively unscathed, but my son's school has been shut down for the past two days. We're home together, he's bouncing off the walls, and I can't get any work done... Yay.

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!

21 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Glad you enjoyed Sydney Ghouls. I haven't been there in years but remember it being pretty nice. Did you do any touristy stuff like climb the Harbour bridge? That's actually on my bucket list (well actually BASE jumping it is on my bucket list but you know...)

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!"

On 7/26/2014, 1:10:00, deathstorm said:

San Francisco whoukd be nice

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.

Went to a Ghost concert yesterday, holy fuck it was beyond awesome! And now im sad that i have nothing else to look forward to.

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!"

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