Black Milk

Annihilation had the most memorable tracks, so I'd have to say that's my favorite but Catacombs was something outta this world when it came out and I think did a LOT for the scene that was desperately in need of some fresh air at the time. Black Seeds took that a step further, but with tracks like Cast Down the Heretic and especially the title track Annihilation is an easy pick for me

Me personally, I much prefer tuning down but I'm a bassist with a penchant for stoner doom so naturally I'm more into the ultra-heavy sound, usually sticking around in B, not to mention I like mudding up my tone pretty thick and nasty sounding. But as Progmountain said everything has its place. Hell, alot of black metal is in E standard and you can find some of the most sinister tones there, all depends on the person wielding the axe really.

I get alot of flak from my deathhead buddies for this, but I personally LOVE Deicide's Stench of Redemption, I think its just as good as Legion just stylistically different, which I think is what alienated previous fans. It was one of my favorite albums that year, easily, and imo the last quality work Glen benton put out.

Lost the farm yall....walking away with nothing but a light wallet and a semi-humiliating public debt to mindy, to which yall will bare witness like it or not sometime this week.

Today is pay-day bitches. Barring a terrible mistep on my part calling the final score of the superbowl I'm pretty much a lock to win 200 in my primary league, as well as having a significant number of spots in two square-pools, 300 each. If I get obscenely lucky this will be my fund for all the trips I plan to take in the next few months. WOO!!

Ive been playing for 8 years, though I just recently ended a drought period of about 2 where i barely played at all for a few reasons (moving around alot, gear shitting out, personal slumps of laziness and shitty priorities). It feels fantastic to get my passion for it back though, I dont think I'll ever slip into that funk again. Right now I'm currently using a beat up Peavey Milestone I've had since I started, I used a five string Peavey Millenium BXP for a few years but got tired of it after a while. I'm playing on an Ampeg 300-115 at the moment, usually switching between a Boss Heavy Metal pedal and a Marshall Governor depending on what sound setting I'm going for that particular day. The amps been through so much hell it doesnt put out the tones it used to but it gets me by until I can do a full upgrade on all my gear.

I saw Cave of Swimmers at destroyer fest a couple months back. I didn't really dig the music but their show was way entertaining. At one point they brought a guy in a horse mask out to play congas with the band for a song, pretty interesting sight

my city has more of a sludgey/stoner scene than anything as far as metal goes, not many great acts currently, though some. my favorite being Black Tusk of course. Baroness used to be great, as did Kylesa, but cant say I'm into much of their later stuff. There's a band called Pridemeat that Ive dug pretty hard the two times I've caught them though they usually play with a more core-ish crowd. I am however very plugged in with alot of the florida scene, mostly in tampa/st pete and miami, favorites being Shroud Eater, Holly Hunt and Orbweaver from Miami and Set & Setting, Cosm and Servants of the Mist from St. Pete. Hollow Leg from Jacksonville is great as well.

Ive still yet to get the chance to attend MDF, largely on account of it always happening in the midst of busy season for my work. Maybe next year when I'm living elsewhere and in a different industry. BUT, today has been a pretty good day. I officially got my ticket to see Electric Wizard in NYC in april, came home to see my special vinyl press of Bongripper's Satan Worshipping Doom had arrived, and then learned that one of my favorite bands Shroud Eater will be playing their first show of the year on my birthday in Ft Lauderdale, which is kind of a strange place to do so but fuck it, im goin! Quite stoked. Now to just buy my Behemoth ticket and my next three months will be booked up in the most metal way possible.

got a vinyl copy of Set & Setting's second album A Vivid Memory from their show here monday night. They're a post-metal band much sorta like Pelican with a more trippy edge whom create some of the most entrancing soundscapes I've heard from the genre, really good shit. Bongripper just repressed Satan Worshipping Doom vinyls last week, so I'm eyefucking the mail-lady every day now until its arrival.

Symbolic, Human, Spiritual Healing are my favorites respectively. The last few albums got a little proggy for me from what I remember

ohhh man oh man....this will take me a few days, but I'm gonna do it. will EP's count? edit: fuck. i need to learn to read the posts between the first and last. you have a lot of my favorites on your list. I noticed your Anata choice, I havent heard that album before but I dug the shit out of Conductor's Departure when it came out, is there a dramatic difference between the albums in your opinion?

I really enjoyed Manson's book. I ended up ordering Choosing Death and the one on black metal, I'm about three fourths through Choosing Death, really enjoying it

Lantlos is a band I've recently gotten into. Blasts aren't a real integral part of what they do but they are there Edit: so upon more perusing of the thread I've got the idea that depressive black metal is something a little different than just being...depressing. go figure. In which case I'd have to second Leviathan, tenth sub level of suicide is a disgusting portrait of a tortured soul.

Been off work today due to the weather, which is awesome but I'm technically on call until five so I've been in that irritating limbo where I cant commit to anything, mostly because when I get started on something I hate taking breaks before its done. Aside from a quick gym visit I've mostly been sitting in my room staring at my dog whilst contemplating ways to build a new rack for my records since my bookshelf is officially out of room.

I've been digging the shit out of the Eric Andre show on adult swim. Just ridiculous, tactless freak-out humor, which is usually not my thing but this show just gets me. The first episode I saw ended with his musical guests being Exhumed, but accompanied by the classic r&b trio the Supremes performing side by side in a fashion that made no logical sense whilst one of Exhumed's crew is projectile vomiting on the stage. I found it beautiful.

one serious question. If you don't believe in dinosaurs, then just how do you explain THIS!? http://youtu.be/pMnEbfzllso

Soooo, anyone have any new years resolutions? I think mine will be to once and for all get a handle on myself (drinking/eating habits, frivolous spending, cutting out toxic associates, being an idiot in general) and also to simply put my all into a music project in memory of my friend whom passed a couple months ago, he would always fuck with me about how little I played so I wanna make him proud. Now I just gotta get my damn amp back...

Bleh, the first Transformers was quite fun to me but the other three were nothing special. My best friend is a huge transformers guy, I mean multiple transformers tattoos and a quite grand collection of rare collectors stuff, so I've sat down and watched them all and listened to him nerd out on the consistencies and inconsistencies of each one. The action is what sells em, I mean who can disagree with the awesomeness of any of the battles between the bots themselves I really want to see the latest Xmen, heard nothing but good. I LOVED First Class, it was actually the first Xmen movie I sat down and seriously watched, and if Days of Future Past is in the same vain then I'm sure its a good watch. I thought the recent Wolverine movie was good but I don't really have the background with the comics to seriously critique it I feel, although I marked the fuck out when he busted out the boneclaws

damn. we're still arguing about dinosaurs in 2015.. that's cool man, I was a big snake and other reptile enthusiast growing up, tried my hand at breeding even (under the direction of my father since I was in my early teens) but I love the subject, I've always been fascinated by snakes and have a deep love for them. Did you ever own or breed any reps?

I actually watched the Interview tonight my friend had a quality version of it, I thought it was entertaining in a passive way but still wasn't impressed, I feel like those guys hit their stride a few years back and have almost become white noise at this point. I loved 21 Jump street, didn't see the sequel. The scene when Depp and other guy shows up is great

There's a fest happening in February in Tampa that seems to be shaping up as an all-grind affair. All Pigs Must Die is the headliner, whom I'm not too familiar with but the mighty Maruta is supporting along with Ad Nauseam, a few other bands are on the bill as of now but the entire list hasn't yet been announced. I'm not really familiar with any bands listed aside from Maruta, whom I really dig, so Im not sure I'll make it down unless they throw some more heavy hitters on the bill but the guys who are putting it together pulled off an absolutely fantastic fest in august featuring all sorts of sludge, stoner, post, doom, grind and all in between acts so I'm hoping they do well for this one

^^ classic choices, I'm a big fan of Kanye's production, not of him personally and even lyrically for the most part but his production is undeniably brilliant. Do you delve into much current new wave rap, slightly under mainstream? Flatbush Zombies and the Underachievers are some really quality acts right now, as well as Run the Jewels which is a project between Killer Mike and El-P. Also if you are more into the west coast sound you should check out 100S, he's nothing great lyrically but he channels Pimp C so well but keeps a really legitimate classic west coast sound to his stuff

Ive been so underwhelmed with new movies lately. The past three movies I've seen in theaters (Sin City 2, Horrible Bosses 2, and the Gambler) have all been nowhere near the time and money I spent seeing them. Sin City was alright, some cool parts but as a whole not like the first. Horrible Bosses was awful and unnecessary, totally invalidated the original. And the Gambler was just a dreadful depiction of a miserable fuck that I feel was thought up in twenty minutes and produced on a whim only extracting confidence from a cast that I don't think really gave a shit. I really think the last impressive movie that was at least new when I saw it was the Raid 2, an Indonesian action film with some of the most realistic and well-choreographed fight scenes I've EVER seen, along with a great mob-land setting that reminds you almost of the Asian Godfather. Anyone into martial arts films or even just plain action should definitely check the two films out, though they differ from each other a bit