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RelentlessOblivion Grand Master

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Then why give your response if you have none
If your response to criticism is condemning the person making those comments I fear your time here will be shortlived. Perhaps a scathing critique of the clip you posted would be more to your liking. I'll be sure to do just that when I have nothing better to do with my time.
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Regarding the song - I neither loved nor hated it; it was competent, modern-sounding, middle-of-the-road death metal. I was glad it didn't stick with that "technical" sound all the way through, that sort of thing is pretty tired IMO. Some of the riffs were cool. Nothing about it really stood out, though, in general it was pretty "stock". I had to listen to it via the Bandcamp page, and I thought the cover art was well-done.

Then why give your response if you have none
f-p.gif His response was fairly polite and non-critical... certainly nothing to get hurt over. It's a discussion forum, you'll have to get used to people sharing their opinions. We're pretty much all friends here, and we do our best to keep it civil... most of the time... :D
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His response was fairly polite and non-critical... certainly nothing to get hurt over. It's a discussion forum' date=' you'll have to get used to people sharing their opinions. We're pretty much all friends here, and we do our best to keep it civil... most of the time... :D[/quote'] Try to consider this post and my own as a 'first warning' from the forum's equivalent of Statler and Waldorf. statler-and-waldorf.gif
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Then why give your response if you have none
The spazzy tech/deathcore blur at the start was really irksome, I'm just not into that kind of thing. However, I did give the song another chance (before I saw all of these posts), and it dis improve once that part subsided, but it still succumbed to many of the pitfalls of modern death metal. Those being too much emphasis on the hyperbole of "brutality" without enough substance or songwriting skill to back it up, way too sterile/dry sound and production, and a lack of anything that I could remember after the song had concluded, save for how irritating the first passage was. That's not to say that it was objectively bad, just not something I enjoyed. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Basically agreeing with Alabaster and BaN, there were a couple of parts where I thought, oh, this sounds alright, but most of it sounded pretty similar throughout and thus wasn't very interesting for me.

Then why give your response if you have none
Well that escalated quickly.
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Right? It's weird too' date=' because usually people in online forums have such developed social skills...[/quote'] It's kinda funny too, I didn't really mind the song at all - I even liked it in some parts but now I'm not going to buy it since it seems Troglodyte est un mode de vivant pour cet musicien.
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It's kinda funny too' date=' I didn't really mind the song at all - I even liked it in some parts but now I'm not going to buy it since it seems Troglodyte [i']est un mode de vivant pour cet musicien.
Well, they're from Minnesota and (s)he says she's from CA, so "musician" might be unwarranted... wouldn't take it out on an innocent mediocre sterile ten-years-too-late semi technical caveman-gore-themed death metal band without further confirmation. :D
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Since getting banned I have seen more mentions of Wout than when he was active.
Well, remember Wout was a particular dickhead to deathstorm, so I understand if the memory's still fresh in his mind.
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