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Just remember' date=' for every blow, there is an equal and opposite suck. Sometimes this can create larger systems, like weather patterns, but sometimes it's confined to a very small area... like in the case of that band Orgy, who suck so hard that all they can do is blow themselves.[/quote'] I remember this phenomenon, where a band collapses under its own suckiness and eventually becomes suckiness itself, producing absolutely nothing and sucking so hard they actually draw down nearby bands. The specialists are calling it the 'Attila Effect'.
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Woohoo, awesome day was awesome!! :D First spend some hours in Tilburg and bought two, "rare to get in store cd's" (As the Stars by Woods of Desolation and Withering Illiusions and Desolation by Austere) and Transatlantic played an increddible show! Roine Stolt is truely an amazing guitar player (and the rest of the band isn't quite bad too :P ).

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I remember this phenomenon' date=' where a band collapses under its own suckiness and eventually becomes suckiness itself, producing absolutely nothing and sucking so hard they actually draw down nearby bands. The specialists are calling it the 'Attila Effect'.[/quote'] In the best case scenario, thankfully, this Attila Effect can produce a sonic "black hole" from which no music can escape. Sadly an "ex-Attack Attack" reaction sometimes jettisons band members outward into other equally shitty bands, who are somehow, inexplicably, still capable of producing music.
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In the best case scenario' date=' thankfully, this Attila Effect can produce a sonic "black hole" from which no music can escape. Sadly an "ex-Attack Attack" reaction sometimes jettisons band members outward into other equally shitty bands, who are somehow, inexplicably, still capable of producing music.[/quote'] Recall that even after passing through the event horizon the band members can escape because they lack substance. Even light is dual in nature, a wave and a particle. These band members, possessing no notable characteristics other than their inherent suckiness, are attracted to bodies with mass expressed as potential gravitational energy. They convert that potential energy into real energy via the aforementioned process of 'hyping sh!t up', which gives off the impression of a body with mass and therefore substance. Their intangibility allows them to escape the negative consequences of suckiness. Researchers are busy examining whether or not this is how the bands continue to have fans. Indeed, preliminary tests suggest that the enhanced pull of sucky bands is misconstrued as the idea that the band has a great deal of mass and therefore substance.
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Recall that even after passing through the event horizon the band members can escape because they lack substance. Even light is dual in nature, a wave and a particle. These band members, possessing no notable characteristics other than their inherent suckiness, are attracted to bodies with mass expressed as potential gravitational energy. They convert that potential energy into real energy via the aforementioned process of 'hyping sh!t up', which gives off the impression of a body with mass and therefore substance. Their intangibility allows them to escape the negative consequences of suckiness. Researchers are busy examining whether or not this is how the bands continue to have fans. Indeed, preliminary tests suggest that the enhanced pull of sucky bands is misconstrued as the idea that the band has a great deal of mass and therefore substance.
Of course, direct examination of these "sucky" bands, while difficult and tedious, is often revealing, as their lack of substance (mass) keeps any of their music from actually being "heavy". The odd attraction you mention has been dealt with by some theorists as a completely new phenomenon, which they've termed the "Really Weak Force", while others explain it in terms of existing principles, positing that the temporary attraction exerted by the "hyped shit", while emanating from a massless source, is sufficient to attract a cluster of mallgoing fans, who - while seeming empty - do have enough mass of their own to draw in others, through that process creating what's known as a "mall core".
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through that process creating what's known as a "mall core".
Of course, the aggregation of weak force does result in an oddly low-friction environment of bodies closely tied to one another. When such a core reaches a critical mass, the near-amorphous result, large yet difficult to classify owing to the fact that it isn't solid in any sense, is known as a 'slip knot'.
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Woohoo, awesome day was awesome!! :D First spend some hours in Tilburg and bought two, "rare to get in store cd's" (As the Stars by Woods of Desolation and Withering Illiusions and Desolation by Austere) and Transatlantic played an increddible show! Roine Stolt is truely an amazing guitar player (and the rest of the band isn't quite bad too :P ).
I liked songs from both bands that I have heard, but don't own any albums from them. Nice score. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I have no idea what genre I like because it seems like you guys just make shit up and give it a new name everyday.
I find new genres all the time, even if many are ones I don't like. Music is insanely broad and varied, tons of genres exist because there are tons of sounds. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I liked songs from both bands that I have heard, but don't own any albums from them. Nice score. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
I'm still searching for the second album by Austere (To Lay Like Old Ashes), but this is indeed a nice one too. And the new album by WoD is good too, but so far I liked Torn Beyond Reason a bit more.
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Going to try to make more of an effort to post here. Been really antisocial and grouchy lately because I've been burning my candle at both ends for weeks now. Waking up at 5' date=' 6AM and working straight through until 9 or 10 pm, it's grinding me into the pavement.[/quote'] Yech. I do hope your situation improves. Then I can give you more prog recommendations.
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