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I'm with you on that one man...Holy Mountain are their big guns I feel like. I can handle Dopesmoker for the first 12 hours' date=' but it juuuuust keeeeeeeps gooooiiiiing. I guess that's the point, but I like the change-up style songwriting in Holy Mountain. Something that new song lacks. Maybe I'm just not cut out for doom in its entirety though. I can enjoy so much drone riffage, but I don't get off unless something breaks it apart and starts kickin'.[/quote'] You really shouldn't judge an entire genre based off of one band's style. Like you said, Holy Mountain is varied and you've acknowledged the lack of variety in Dopesmoker. And it's not like Sleep has the biggest discography out there, so there's not much to choose from. There are plenty of doom metal bands with more interesting and technical riffing and aren't so minimalist and droney (I find it hard to sit down and listen to a "proper" drone album; most of it just meanders). Give it some time, ask for some recommendations, and you may find plenty of doom metal bands you enjoy quite a lot.

I don't usually have a lot of tolerance for humor in metal (Type O Negative excepted) unless it's being deliberately campy. Otherwise it usually ruins the atmosphere for me. I don't mind it in other genres though for the most part. Wonder why?

There is actually a surprising turnout at MDF for females' date=' more so than any other metal event that I've been to. I'm sure that you could find someone to go with.[/quote'] Metal shows seem like terrible places to meet women metalheads. Though I've seen more now than like a few years ago, they're usually there with their metalhead significant others.

One of the best descriptions for Lost Horizon I've heard was "if Journey played metal".

Dour' date=' yet vibrant? [/quote'] Actually, yeah. lol I'm not a stick in the mud but I'm far from an asshole douchebag.

I actually enjoy a couple of their albums (Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil and Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood) as they make good background and driving music, though I think their shtick has worn thin with their two latest releases. And it seems like they're constantly on tour, passing through Chicago like twice a year. Fun music, considering they're just a simplistic mashup between Elvis/rockabilly and Metallica-inspired riffs.

Awww thanks but dating someone younger has not worked out very well for me as we covered that before. Maybe they just weren't young enough? lol

I see' date=' when you say an overlap in my aesthetic what do you mean?[/quote'] Your songwriting style to me sounds a like a lot of modern instrumental/prog/djent bands. A good amount of groove, melody, and -core influence. I can see some people into bands like Animals As Leaders get into your stuff.

Humor seemed to work for Weird Al Yankovic. And it's not like he's a terrible songwriter; even his original songs are decent.

Never. Metal could never be "background" music played in commercials or before the evening news.

If you mean something like this....then ok....

Just browsed your selection. Don't think I'm grim and kvlt enough for most those albums. :/

The label norsecore is a derogatory term referencing blast beat black metal that more closely resembles the banal sounds of most brutal death/grind than actual black metal. I could see Immortal's Battles In the North qualifying for the title' date=' but I usually here it used to refer to bands like Dark Funeral, Setherial, Enthroned, etc...[/quote'] Agreed. I've only seen it in a pejorative context.

Hopefully these guys are good live. Gonna catch them this Sunday with Manilla Road. \m/

Pig Destroyer thread? Pig Destroyer thread. Hayes is such a brilliant lyricist. His lyrics come off as surreal, postmodern murder ballads and can be wonderful poems on their own. "The tape across your mouth says more than your words ever could" has to be one of my favorite lines of his. And Dio, oh man his lyrics can either be profound or awesomely bad: "Sing me a song, you're a singer" off Heaven and Hell.

The response I'd expect from a proselytizer of blue cheese consumption! You claim to serve a higher moral purpose' date=' yet when all else fails, you tar your victims with a yellow brush - if one kind of shame won't serve, perhaps another will bring them into your reeking, slimy fold. You keep your rotten, mold-laced, infected modified bovine sweat gland product to yourself, and think about all the little calves whose mothers you've forced into servitude while you choke on it![/quote'] It's because putting ranch on buffalo wings instead of blue cheese is akin to putting ketchup on a hot dog.

I wonder why that happens with tea. What kind of tea/coffees do you like. French Roast is a big no for me. It tastes like burnt dirt (or what I imagine that tastes like)

This band's been one of my favorite discoveries this year. Definitely one of the best throwback/vintage bands that have come out during this whole movement.

I eat the shit out of blue cheese. And I'm supposedly allergic to penicillin. Wonder if I'm still allergic. I should really get a scratch test done one of these days. My mom's told me that I'm allergic to penicillin and sulfa (which is like 80% of all antibiotics) since I had a reaction to them when I was a baby. But I also had food allergies as a kid that I grew out of by the time I was 7-10 years old. Edit: http://blog.onespotallergy.com/2012/01/if-im-allergic-to-penicillin-can-i-eat-blue-cheese-made-with-penicillium-mold/ Yeah this seems like I should try ruling out antibiotic allergies.

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Just like with anything' date=' the more publicized bands tend to be the most accessible and least rewarding to listen to, so it's no wonder that many more well known bands don't do it for you. I love the shit out of thrash, but like you tend to bypass Big 4 listening in favor of albums that I simply just like better.[/quote'] It's funny because Megadeth - Rust in Peace is one of my favorite thrash albums. Took Mustaine 4 tries to get me to enjoy one of his albums in its entirety.

Went to Costco after work so I picked up a rotisserie chicken for $5 (that'll last me a good 4 days) and had a can of green beans on the side. I've been eating like shit and barely cooking (dining out has been breaking the bank) since my girlfriend and I broke up last winter. Can't be bothered to cook for just one person.

Has the term been used much in the past couple years? It seemed it hit full force in metal and hard rock journalism in the second half of the 2000s but I haven't seen it as ubiquitous as it was pre-2010 (probably because I don't read too many magazines and shit).

It was good, but I knew after that album that their sound would start to wear thin on me. I dunno if they fell into sophomore doldrums with Conference of the Birds, but I found it to be rather ho-hum. Have their subsequent releases been any better?

I enjoyed Vast Oceans Lachrymose for what it is--doomy power metal. It's very schmaltzy and a bit saccharine and the last two tracks completely disposable instruments. They also blew their load on the first track. It sounds like what power metal guys would put on in the background while they're "making love" but for some reason, I enjoy listening to this album on occasion, if only for the guitar tone and the melodramatic vocals.