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Finally decided to sign up after a friend of mine (Ghouly) suggested I join. It's been a long time since I've been part of a good metal community. I'm into all metal genres, though trad and doom/sludge/stoner have been suiting my mood as of late. I still love DM and BM though I haven't found much in the past few years that's interested me (most modern tech death bores me and I find many of the bands to be kinda trite). I'm in Chicago, so if anyone wants to meet up for local shows, I'd be down! I'm really looking forward to getting to know this community!

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(most modern tech death bores me and I find many of the bands to be kinda trite).
That opinion wins you points on this forum. Welcome Phobes! I'm so so so so fucking happy you joined =D Phobo and I met on another metal forum ages ago, and we've met IRL too. ^___^ He's cool as shit, people.
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I'm with you on that. None So Vile is a fucking classic. My impression of Ulcerate, live, was that it was an ego trip for the drummer. The vocals especially struck me as an afterthought. I like the albums I've heard, Destroyers Of All in particular. I'd have a hard time calling them tech death, though, they're much more atmospheric. I'm more into the old-sounding stuff like Grave Miasma and Dead Congregation, and Abyssal's amazing riffs, than I am technical stuff, for the most part. I'm not a fan of traditional metal and I take my sludge and doom in small doses. My favorite doom is probably still Burning Witch, though I love My Dying Bride and Katatonia/October Tide for the melodic side of things. And any friend of Ghouly's will hopefully be a friend of mine. Welcome to the forum!

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:o you haven't heard Cryptopsy? Lord Worm's vocals are godly on None So Vile. Flo Mournier's drumming has brilliant phrasing--the drums are almost melodic onto themselves. Jon Levasseur is a great bassist; awesome slap bass in a brutal/tech death album. It's almost like the weakest part of the album are the guitars--but the riffs and solos rock my face off. And the album cover depicts the beheading of John the Baptist. How can you go wrong with that?
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:o you haven't heard Cryptopsy? Lord Worm's vocals are godly on None So Vile. Flo Mournier's drumming has brilliant phrasing--the drums are almost melodic onto themselves. Jon Levasseur is a great bassist; awesome slap bass in a brutal/tech death album. It's almost like the weakest part of the album are the guitars--but the riffs and solos rock my face off. And the album cover depicts the beheading of John the Baptist. How can you go wrong with that?
I would have to agree with the fact it's listenable.
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So thanks for the encouragement to go ahead and listen to some Cryptopsy. I've just started it up this minute. The phrasing sounds a lot like a fax machine. That my come off as a joke, but I bet you would agree with me and say that the fax machine sensibility is brilliant, and it may be, but I need way more negative space in music them I'm getting here. Not boring, but exhausting, well I don't know I might be enjoying it a little, but still... I don't feel the cover art is legit, but can't really defend that position without sounding stogy, by saying they should make their own cover art, or commission it, since I don't ever hold a classical group to that standard, but to me they just slapped an old painting on the album cover. Fuck, liked about 30 seconds of music around the 14 min mark, jumping up to your name sake cut just to say I did, OK I did. I like the name Cryptosy, but this is generally not what I'm up for. It is a feat of extreme music making that someone could make a whole album like this, I'd like to know if they employ notation to keep track of where they are headed, and to what degree it is impromptu, but that is purely academic on my part. Thanks again, and for the third time, welcome.

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