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Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds Iceni, I do think you might like the music here if you haven't heard this album, though the vocals are likely too monotonous for your taste. I don't like the guitar/drum sound that much, but there's some great melodic playing on here. If only this album had been mixed and mastered like Death's "The Sound Of Perseverance"...

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Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds Iceni, I do think you might like the music here if you haven't heard this album, though the vocals are likely too monotonous for your taste. I don't like the guitar/drum sound that much, but there's some great melodic playing on here.
Really? I guess I'll try it again but I just remember it being pretty soulless.
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Oh man... um... glad it's done' date=' and hey, at least now you really know what it looks like up there. :D[/quote'] Haha! Yeah. Everybody is supposed to do it after age 45 I think but this is my second, and last!, since I got very ill in the late 90's and they couldn't figure it out. Turned out I have a super rare illness that I've learned to manage but I ain't ever gonna' get another one of those. Phew!! I was never so happy to come home to my guitars since I almost lost a finger to a spider bite (pretty metal huh? )
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Haha! Yeah. Everybody is supposed to do it after age 45 I think but this is my second' date=' and last!, since I got very ill in the late 90's and they couldn't figure it out. Turned out I have a super rare illness that I've learned to manage but I ain't ever gonna' get another one of those. Phew!! I was never so happy to come home to my guitars since I almost lost a finger to a spider bite (pretty metal huh? )[/quote'] Whoa, that's terrible. Glad you kept the finger. I'd be devastated. I kept getting these weird bites when I lived in Raleigh as a teenager, I'd wake up dizzy and tired and find little divots of skin missing from my face. Yuck. As far as the colonoscopy, well, I guess I've got ten years to warm up to the idea...
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Really? I guess I'll try it again but I just remember it being pretty soulless.
It sounds a lot like stuff I hate, but the guitar work on that album in particular is really standing out to me right now. I like some of the same things about it that I like about the first Fallujah record. I thought you'd been getting more into the "Unique Leader sound"?
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Whoa' date=' that's terrible. Glad you kept the finger. I'd be devastated. I kept getting these weird bites when I lived in Raleigh as a teenager, I'd wake up dizzy and tired and find little divots of skin missing from my face. Yuck. As far as the colonoscopy, well, I guess I've got ten years to warm up to the idea...[/quote'] Let's put it this way: I was figuring out how to play slide guitar! Got decent at it too but the antibiotics they give you for spider bites is heinous. Really messes with your body.
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Witchery - Witchkrieg. Nice' date=' irrespective of being an all-star band, what results often with miserable shit.[/quote'] I can still listen to their recent stuff, with Witchkrieg being a slight step up from the last couple, but none of that even holds a candle to Restless and Dead, Dead, Hot, and Ready, or Witchburner. Those are the recordings that I keep coming back to, really great stuff.
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Gravecode Nebula - The Frozen Sun (Does Not Support Life) Hey BAN, have you got any idea whether it's possible to obtain physical merchandise from this band?
I know that initially they just did a digital release, but I know that they had plans for at least a vinyl physical release. I'm sure that I'll see LD or one of the other guys at King Diamond in 10 days, I'll see if I can find out more.
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I know that initially they just did a digital release' date=' but I know that they had plans for at least a vinyl physical release. I'm sure that I'll see LD or one of the other guys at King Diamond in 10 days, I'll see if I can find out more.[/quote'] Thanks! It would be nice to at least have one of these in my CD collection.
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MIDI get Enforsaken the forever endeavor. That's awsome melodeath
I've got hundreds of albums I still want to buy, The Forever Endeavor being one of them. There's a market with metal items in November however, so I'm saving up some money for then. I often have to pay outrageous amounts of money for shipping, so I like to grasp opportunities such as this one with both hands. Once it's over, I'll be considering which album I'll buy online next.
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I've got hundreds of albums I still want to buy' date=' The Forever Endeavor being one of them. There's a market with metal items in November however, so I'm saving up some money for then. I often have to pay outrageous amounts of money for shipping, so I like to grasp opportunities such as this one with both hands. Once it's over, I'll be considering which album I'll buy online next.[/quote'] I don't you blame you. Shipping can be outrageous
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