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So yeah... I'm new! I'm 23 year old bass player and metal fan from Finland. I like to listen a great variety of music, but metall is still always closest to my heart. Recently I've been listening mostly Nicole, Gojira and Shining (swe). Great bands! You should check them out if you haven't already ;)

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Hey welcome, I don't really enjoy any of the bands you mention but I am aware of the great contribution Finland has made to the death metal scene. I had a great compilation at one time (may still have it somewhere) called Forgotten Finnish Death Cults. It had the likes of Demilich on it and Convulse (I think). Must try to find this tomorrow.

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Welcome. How's the weather in Finland? Here in New England it's about 90° and humid (in other words' date=' it sucks). Hope you're doing better. What are your favorite metal genres?[/quote'] Weather's fine. A bit over 20 Celcius and sun is shining. I don't really care about the genres as long as the music sounds good. Then again I there are few genres I mostly dislike. For example most of the metalcore scene (talking about bands like Attack attack and One morning left, etc.), post-HC and all the so called emo-bands.
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Hey welcome' date=' I don't really enjoy any of the bands you mention but I am aware of the great contribution Finland has made to the death metal scene. I had a great compilation at one time (may still have it somewhere) called Forgotten Finnish Death Cults. It had the likes of Demilich on it and Convulse (I think). Must try to find this tomorrow.[/quote'] Oh that's ok... I find it hard to imagine a metal fan who doesn't like Gojira, but who am I to say. So you're more of a death metal guy then? Could you recommend me some good bands? I lack a huge amount of knowledge about the whole death metal genre.
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Oh that's ok... I find it hard to imagine a metal fan who doesn't like Gojira' date=' but who am I to say. So you're more of a death metal guy then? Could you recommend me some good bands? I lack a huge amount of knowledge about the whole death metal genre.[/quote'] Sure thing: Incantation "Onward To Golgotha" Suffocation "Effigy Of The Forgotten" Death "Scream Bloody Gore" Master s/t Entombed "Left Hand Path" Dismember "Like An Everflowing Stream" Obituary "Slowly We Rot" or "Cause Of Death" Morbid Angel "Altars Of Madness" and "Blessed Are The Sick" Massacre "From Beyond" Possessed "Seven Churches" Cannibal Corpse "Tomb Of The Mutilated" Immolation "Dawn Of Possession" Pestilence "Consuming Impulse" Cancer "To The Gory End" Bolt Thrower "War Master" That should be a good start.
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Welcome. How's the weather in Finland? Here in New England it's about 90° and humid (in other words' date=' it sucks). Hope you're doing better. What are your favorite metal genres?[/quote'] Where were you with that temp, in the oven. Don't think we've had that sort of temp this year. lol
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Sure thing: Incantation "Onward To Golgotha" Suffocation "Effigy Of The Forgotten" Death "Scream Bloody Gore" Master s/t Entombed "Left Hand Path" Dismember "Like An Everflowing Stream" Obituary "Slowly We Rot" or "Cause Of Death" Morbid Angel "Altars Of Madness" and "Blessed Are The Sick" Massacre "From Beyond" Possessed "Seven Churches" Cannibal Corpse "Tomb Of The Mutilated" Immolation "Dawn Of Possession" Pestilence "Consuming Impulse" Cancer "To The Gory End" Bolt Thrower "War Master" That should be a good start.
Definitely covered a lot of bases there. You can also check out the "recommendations" thread in the death metal section of the forum, I've been posting videos of these albums and many more for some time. It helps cut the leg work out of tracking down songs on YouTube, and there are probably 50+ videos up by now. Also, if you want to be patriotic and check out some great death metal from your nation, try the following: Convulse - World Without God Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation Sentenced - North From Here Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus Demilich - Nespithe Xysma - Yeah Depravity - Silence of the Centuries Funebre - Children of the Scorn Etc... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I love the heat, thrive in it, down here we had a cold summer this year the average temperature from December to Febuary was only 32 degrees celsius (which is about 90 degrees fahrenheit) where normally it's 37 to 40 degrees celsius (about 99 to 104 degrees fahrenheit). two years back we had a two week patch where the coolest temperature in a fortnight was 48 degrees celsius (118 fahrenheit). Side note there should be one universal temperature measurement (celsius).

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I love the heat' date=' thrive in it, down here we had a cold summer this year the average temperature from December to Febuary was only 32 degrees celsius (which is about 90 degrees fahrenheit) where normally it's 37 to 40 degrees celsius (about 99 to 104 degrees fahrenheit). two years back we had a two week patch where the coolest temperature in a fortnight was 48 degrees celsius (118 fahrenheit). Side note there should be one universal temperature measurement (celsius).[/quote'] Believe I like the metric system a lot more to, it's more logical to use multiples of ten instead of twelve. I also like the heat growing up here made me enjoy the heat more than the cold I really cant stand the cold. When it gets to 80 I put on a light jacket. Back about 2 years ago we had a 2 week stretch where it was average of 117 and once picked at 129 was one of the best times I have, I just went a lake up here about 30 minutes away and swam all day.
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