What Are You Listening To?

[AlSymerz]

39 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Oh, mate, you've got everything so wrong. Yep, we derived rhyming slang from the Poms - you stole their language too so don't whine - but we evolved it. Rhyming slang was initially an argot used by the criminal class to keep the straight people out of the loop, but now it's just for fun.

And it's a 'rubbidy dub', not whatever you said, and it's always just the rubbidy. And goanna does rhyme with pianer! It does when we say it anyway. Pianoforte is the proper but rarely used name of the instrument commonly known as a piano.

And Enslaved, baby.

Honey crumpet rhymes with trumpet better than goanna rhymes with piano but that doesn't make it rhyming slang for a brass horn you blow into.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

29 minutes ago, markm said:

Yeah, it is hard keep a good crew going. We had our fun back at M-F and saw loads of people come and go. Who knows why, exactly? I was all over the boards at one time and then lost some enthusiasm....other interests...life. I think I thought the big releases were higher quality. There were developments I found exciting and then some of the sub genres played out for me and got stale. 

The desire to connect with random strangers who then become online friends and the unwavering focus you have...you're a unique personality suited for the long haul. I really come to get recos and keep my foot in the community but my extra curriculars take precedent. I don't have the relentless interest in the constant hunt for music. And I get weary of the daily banter that seems to fascinate some of you. The chit chat.  It reminds me of a quote from A Merchant of Venice...I had to look it up as I couldn't place it. I played a comic character named Gratiano in Merchant in a college Shakespeare troupe over 30 years ago Another character (Antonio I think) describes the character I played, Gratiano saying, Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

I used to spend a lot of time putting together my gear and that was an interest. M-F at the beginning was the right group of nerds who came together over sound and interest in heavy music. At one time, I had a group of guys with more cross over in taste that were fun to shoot the shit with. And, then some of the more eccentric jerk offs got irritating. 

 It's not easy finding like minded music fans you connect with that aren't dicks. I've had a good time here. The winter is a good time for me to hole up with new music and get through the dark months. I find myself this time of year with a stack of downloads and CDs and it's fun when I have more new music than I can realistically absorb while still listening to new stuff. I'm trying to listen to my new albums in my "listening room" in stereo something I don't do for long stretches of time. A lot of it sounds amazing.  I'll try to follow some new releases for a while and then get bored with the grind of new releases in the Spring and probably fade for a while. Or, who knows, maybe I'll keep more in '24.    

I'm a loner by nature Mark. Since I was a kid I've always been a loner who's by far happiest with just himself for company. I don't even need a dog. I do have some social needs because I am human after all, but they're easily satisfied with some very occasional and minimal human contact. I also have an insatiable need to hear new music, and I do really enjoy the interaction with fellow metalheads to talk music and whatever else with, as long as it's on my own terms. If I had to get up off my ass and go down to the pub or someplace out of my house to talk music with people in person every day then I wouldn't bother, I'd just listen alone and keep my thoughts to myself.

I've always really enjoyed the social aspects of forumming though, and building a little community of like minded metal buds. I've taken great pleasure in meeting quite a few of the dudes I've been forumming with in person over the years. MDF and other metal show meetups where we've managed to get 4 or 6 or 8 or more dudes from the forum all in one place at the same time for a weekend of metal and brotherly banter, chit chat and camaraderie have been some of the highlights of my life these last 13 years. But I wouldn't want to do that every weekend, or even monthly or anything, once or twice a year is enough.

That's why the forum format is perfect for me. I can interact with other people and talk music as much or a little as I like depending on my mood and what else is going on in my life at that moment. I can spend hours working on one of my longer more thoughtful posts or make one of my giant lists, and then get up and go do something else for the rest of the day if I want. I can even skip a day or two whenever I want. No long goodbyes, no social pleasantries or disingenuous excuses required, I can come in and out at will as many times as I like and participate as much or as little as I want round the clock 24 hours a day without ever owing anyone any plausible explanations about where I've been or what I've been up to. It's perfect for me.

And the best part is I can listen to whatever I want while everyone else is listening to whatever they want. No one else has to listen to my goat filth but me if they're not into it, and visa versa with me and stuff I don't care for such as prog or power or tech or whatever weird post-metal avant-garde shit Doc happens to be listening to that arvo. No wait, I take that back, the best part is I've met people who have a wealth of knowledge about various different kinds of music and I've gotten recos for so much incredibly awesome music that I know I never would have found on my own in a million years. And nothing beats the thrill of finding a killer new album that excites you. So until that thrill of finding new killer shit fades or is gone, I reckon I will keep on forumming. Once I've joined a forum and feel comfortable there, I'll just keep posting there forever or until they shut the place down, whichever comes first, that's been my M.O.

I understand that forum members will naturally come and go, that's the nature of the internet. Forums are not forever. I've been doing this for awhile, so I get it. Sure it sucks losing people that I've really enjoyed interacting with, but that's just from a purely selfish perspective. I know I won't have access to any of their recos anymore if they leave, and that will diminish my forum experience. If Marko for instance quit posting here I'd be crushed. I've gotten far more great music from him over the last 15 years than from any other single person or source. And I've met him in person and can attest that he's a cool dude. Wish we could have had more time to talk that evening. On the other hand I've found that there will almost always be another new guy coming along right around the corner whom I haven't even met yet, but whom I'm sure will very likely improve my forum experience. Like Le Cabbage for instance, great pickup for us last year. Or for me anyway. And 6'7" ThrashBiker, aka Bandit Billy, aka Scouser Sam, aka the Merseyside Marauder (if he ever starts posting again) I got a real kick out of that dude. So I always have that to look forward to as well, the upcoming dudes we haven't met yet. New additions definitely lessen the blow of losing touch with good people whom I felt I had good musical synergy with.

[Thatguy]

26 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

better than goanna rhymes with piano

Its pronouncer pianer.! Pianer! Only a poonce would say 'piano'.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Yep you’ve got Belong and short of it GG and who knows some of the old crew might drop around again, one day, hell, even I took a two year hiatus at one point.

 

MP : Anorexia Nervosa - Drudenhaus (2000)

Anorexia Nervosa - New Obscurantis Order (2001)

[GoatmasterGeneral]

1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

Oh, mate, you've got everything so wrong. Yep, we derived rhyming slang from the Poms - you stole their language too so don't whine - but we evolved it. Rhyming slang was initially an argot used by the criminal class to keep the straight people out of the loop, but now it's just for fun.

And it's a 'rubbidy dub', not whatever you said, and it's always just the rubbidy. And goanna does rhyme with pianer! It does when we say it anyway. Pianoforte is the proper but rarely used name of the instrument commonly known as a piano.

And Enslaved, baby.

Rubbidy dub/rubbery dub what's the diff? Still some stupid rhyming bullshit when you could just say the pub. And why go to the trouble of saying pianoforte when the entire western world calls it a piano? I thought Aussie/Kiwi slang was all about simplifying an consolidating and eliminating as many unnecessary syllables as you possibly can?  Why say "living room" when you can just call it a lounge? Why say afternoon when you can say arvo? Why say liquor store when you can just say bottle-O? So in that same spirit, why say pianoforte when you can just say pianna? Sometimes I really almost start to think you've lost the plot there Docaroo.

And I beg your pardon but I didn't steal anyone's language. I speak the language I heard spoken around me when I was growing up. You like to think your Ozzy mob has evolved it, but really your lot use all the Pommie expressions and all the Pommie spellings, you even steal their television programs. You Ozzies are actually nothing but a bunch of Anglophile copycats. We Yanks are the ones who've evolved it and transformed it and adapted it to suit our needs. American English and British English have a lot less in common these days than you Commonwealthers share with mother England. When are you Ozzies going to declare your independence, take the Union Jack off your flag, replace it with a koala and start flying solo?

[RelentlessOblivion]

though I’m sure he’s just trying to stay in touch with his convict roots.So you mean we use the correct spelling, just because you yanks get confused by the language doesn’t mean you get to freely butcher it… Never mind the Doc though I’m sure he’s just trying to stay in touch with his convict roots.

[Arioch]

Sangdragon - Requiem for Apocalypse (2015)

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

1 hour ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

So you mean we use the correct spelling, just because you yanks get confused by the language doesn’t mean you get to freely butcher it… Never mind the Doc though I’m sure he’s just trying to stay in touch with his convict roots.

We didn't butcher it, we evolved it, made it our own and made it better. Just like we evolved their whiskey and made that better. I actually find the English language endlessly fascinating, especially how the various different regional dialects and local patois developed among the different pockets of settlers from different parts of Europe. I've read some explanations of how the early American settlers helped to evolve our language. We had a lot of English and Irish and Scot settlers on the eastern seaboard and in the Appalachian mountains where the American English language took on a life of its own based on all these different influences, as well as the French and Germans who were in the mix as well, and of course the native Indians. Whereas you lot never told the British to get stuffed, so you just kept their language essentially the same as it was when you got it, y'all just added the silly nasally accent for some strange reason.

 

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Morning Ari! Whataya got on tap for today, some thrash perhaps? I always know when I see Ari's first couple of posts that it's probably time to go to bed. When I see Jon's first post I know I've stayed up a bit too late.

[MacabreEternal]

10 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

He was rage quitting anyway. Unfortunate situation all the way around when a daily posting forum regular incurs the wrath of the ban hammer. I've had dozens of battles with Deadly-do-Right over the last 8 years, some of the shit he says and positions he takes can frustrate me to no end. And yet on some level I like the dude, consider him a friend. Wish I had his email or phone number to keep in touch. Too late to get it now I guess. But realistically I probably wouldn't have bothered keeping in touch with him anyway.

Seems we've lost Serpico and his daily bad album covers now too, which is a real shame. And my boy Zach hasn't posted here since last February. Definitely should have gotten his details when I had the chance. Hungarino's been pretty scarce of late. Navy steps away from the forum for months at a time. It's not easy keeping a forum together. TB Suzuki enthusiast joined up and was posting hot and heavy for a week or two, then he went quiet. My Finnish Cum Blaster scrobbling buddy from last summer must've been less than enthused over the board's overall lame taste in music (except for my filthy kvlt aesthetic of course) and he lost interest and wandered away. And whatever happened to Sweets? He just vanished into thin air one day last year too. And then of course there's the Orca. Just our luck, him we can't get rid of, eh Doc?

 

I'll come clean.  We are all banned in this section of the forum.  Whenever someone new joins up they are put in the auto-banned section until their taste in music is thoroughly vetted.  There is a whole thriving "real" MF community none of us get to see.  Us moderators on this side are "lifers" with a taste in music so terrible we know best who to keep here.  All of us have at least once posted that we were listening to a Wintersun album.

Dead has been banned from the banned section.  He's been double-banned.  Ironically, he is virtually dead.

[Arioch]

17 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Morning Ari! Whataya got on tap for today, some thrash perhaps? I always know when I see Ari's first couple of posts that it's probably time to go to bed. When I see Jon's first post I know I've stayed up a bit too late.

Hello GoatmasterGeneral! Today, probably Thrash, yes, but not for the time being. I'm listening to a French symphonic Black/Death album (Sangdragon) and just after that I'll be listening to the Divine Symphonies album by Akhenaton, the band before Sangdragon (there was also Daemonium at the very beginning).

At the time of writing, it's 9.43am in France. I'm in the middle of work, but with music.

Akhenaton - Divine Symphonies (1995)

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Well it's almost 4am here in NY time, alarm will be going off at 7 so I should probably grab a few hours, my electrician is coming today. But I'm in the middle of this wonderful concert by Misþyrming, and I can't just turn it off, I'm enjoying it too much. And I left my phone which is also my alarm downstairs in the kitchen on the charger when I was making dinner 8 hours ago, so I should probably go down and grab it otherwise I won't get up at 7 and the kid will miss the bus.

Misþyrming - Með hamri í lifandi formi

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

25 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

We didn't butcher it, we evolved it, made it our own and made it better. Just like we evolved their whiskey and made that better. I actually find the English language endlessly fascinating, especially how the various different regional dialects and local patois developed among the different pockets of settlers from different parts of Europe. I've read some explanations of how the early American settlers helped to evolve our language. We had a lot of English and Irish and Scot settlers on the eastern seaboard and in the Appalachian mountains where the American English language took on a life of its own based on all these different influences, as well as the French and Germans who were in the mix as well, and of course the native Indians. Whereas you lot never told the British to get stuffed, so you just kept their language essentially the same as it was when you got it, y'all just added the silly nasally accent for some strange reason.

 

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Morning Ari! Whataya got on tap for today, some thrash perhaps? I always know when I see Ari's first couple of posts that it's probably time to go to bed. When I see Jon's first post I know I've stayed up a bit too late.

 

Bourbon is fine at all, my brother was even kind enough to gift me a bottle of wild turkey rare breed for Christmas, but I don’t know that I could say you a lot improved whiskey, then again, perfection is impossible to improve…

 

NP: Antaeus - Cut Your Flesh and Worship Satan (2000)

Anteus - Blood Libels (2006)

[GoatmasterGeneral]

25 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Bourbon is fine and all, my brother was even kind enough to gift me a bottle of Wild Turkey rare breed for Christmas, but I don’t know that I could say your lot improved whiskey, then again, perfection is impossible to improve…

NP: Antaeus - Cut Your Flesh and Worship Satan (2000)

Anteus - Blood Libels (2006)

I was talking about rye whiskey actually, which was very popular over here in the 19th century, and is now enjoying a resurgence in popularity. But bourbon can be good too, just a tad sweet and you'll more often find it's been mass produced and minimally aged. Wild Turkey is swill, virtually undrinkable, only good for mixing. At least the regular WT, haven't tried their "rare breed" version. Craftsmen make rye, and I enjoy the spicy bite. I suppose one's attitude toward whiskey really depends on whether you like single malts or not, and I don't. I know aged Scotch whisky is generally considered the best whisky you can get, but I'll take a nice bottle of rye over any Scotch or single malt I've ever tried any day of the week. Personal preference, we all like what we like. It's like arguing black metal vs death metal, we all have our own opinions and preferences. There's no right or wrong preference.

Dig that Blood Libels album though Blivvington. \ m /

[Arioch]

Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1997)

 

[Arioch]

Bathory - Blood on Ice (1996)

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I was talking about rye whiskey actually, which was very popular over here in the 19th century, and is now enjoying a resurgence in popularity. But bourbon can be good too, just a tad sweet and you'll more often find it's been mass produced and minimally aged. Wild Turkey is swill, virtually undrinkable, only good for mixing. At least the regular WT, haven't tried their "rare breed" version. Craftsmen make rye, and I enjoy the spicy bite. I suppose one's attitude toward whiskey really depends on whether you like single malts or not, and I don't. I know aged Scotch whisky is generally considered the best whisky you can get, but I'll take a nice bottle of rye over any Scotch or single malt I've ever tried any day of the week. Personal preference, we all like what we like. It's like arguing black metal vs death metal, we all have our own opinions and preferences. There's no right or wrong preference.

Dig that Blood Libels album though Blivvington. \ m /

I agree on the bog standard, wild turkey, the 101 proof isn’t bad, but not something I’d go out of my way to try, rare breed is supposed to be a real step up for them, but having never tasted it before the jury is still out on that for me. Even as a fan of Scotch, I will admit, most of the really well known distilleries are nothing special . Re Blood Libels it’s good stuff for sure.

 

Lost two albums for the night:

Last two albums for the night:

Averse Sefira - Battle’s Clarion (2001)

Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax (2008)

[markm]

Crymych/Endless Fucking Winter (23)-This one is growing on me. It's so unusual, I had to listen to it a couple of times. Essentially, it's weird, ambient low-fi ish synthy drones with haunting black metal vocals buried in the background. It's a little like the ambient pieces of Paysage d'Hiver's Im Wald without the scathing black metal parts. There's something alluring about it though. 

[Arioch]

Venom - At War with Satan (1984)

 

[Arioch]

Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan (1981)

 

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

GNASHING TEETH - Antinfero

.....it's okay....thought I'd like it more.....still not bad for $10....

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

LIKHO - To The Sources Red River

 

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

RASPBERRY BULBS - The World Is Empty, The Heart Is Full

 

[AlSymerz]

12 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

I'll come clean.  We are all banned in this section of the forum.  Whenever someone new joins up they are put in the auto-banned section until their taste in music is thoroughly vetted.

 

Ha ha! I slipped though undetected!

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Myeddraal - Blood on the Mountain (2001)

[Thatguy]

DEARTH - To Crown All Befoulment. No pianer at all.