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Funebrarum was fucking awesome. Great sound, great set. I dug one of the openers, too, a band called Scorched - similar dark, groovy OSDM. The other band was technically very good, and ticked all the right boxes, but wasn't convincing to me, and I don't know why. Ah well. Picked up "Beneath The Columns..." on CD, as well as a shirt. If that's the last show I get to see at St. Vitus for a while, at least I went out on a high note.

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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Funebrarum was fucking awesome. Great sound, great set. I dug one of the openers, too, a band called Scorched - similar dark, groovy OSDM. The other band was technically very good, and ticked all the right boxes, but wasn't convincing to me, and I don't know why. Ah well. Picked up "Beneath The Columns..." on CD, as well as a shirt. If that's the last show I get to see at St. Vitus for a while, at least I went out on a high note.

I wish they had played a longer set at MDF. They sounded good, but kind of got lost in the shuffle being the first band I saw that year.

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I wish they had played a longer set at MDF. They sounded good, but kind of got lost in the shuffle being the first band I saw that year.

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I was right up front. It was great, the sound was just washing over me. They've definitely got that filthy midrange guitar tone from the recordings, even with their lineup changes, and Daryl was a more charismatic frontman than I had expected.

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Oh joy of joys I'm finally finished cleaning. It only took nearly four hours to do all the dishes, clean all three bathrooms, sweep and mop the floors, clean the table and counter tops, do the vacuuming, Why did it take so long you might ask? Well I'm going to need therapy thanks to the downstairs bathroom (how IN THE HELL do you get shitty toilet paper stuck to the back of the toilet? Not even the worst of it tbh). Also there were a fuckload of dishes that needed to be done last night so the remnants of what they contained WOULDN'T stick to the bottom of the various pots and pans. Also it's a 2 storey house and stairs are horrible. Don't even get to relax now I have to cook dinner.

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Oh joy of joys I'm finally finished cleaning. It only took nearly four hours to do all the dishes, clean all three bathrooms, sweep and mop the floors, clean the table and counter tops, do the vacuuming, Why did it take so long you might ask? Well I'm going to need therapy thanks to the downstairs bathroom (how IN THE HELL do you get shitty toilet paper stuck to the back of the toilet? Not even the worst of it tbh). Also there were a fuckload of dishes that needed to be done last night so the remnants of what they contained WOULDN'T stick to the bottom of the various pots and pans. Also it's a 2 storey house and stairs are horrible. Don't even get to relax now I have to cook dinner.

Your life is really taking off eh...??

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Back from Edinburgh and am completely exhausted as we must have covered miles on foot.  So relaxed and chilled out right now after a fantastic week with the girlfriend and no work for another week yet also.  Loads of photos taken at the National Museum of Scotland that I will get around to uploading in the relevant thread as well as a few beers to add to that particular thread also.  Bought no music whilst I was away despite some decent record shops being discovered I just didn't want anything, in fact barring Opeth one night this week I haven't really listened to any metal all week.  Sure that will change now I am back at home!

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Sounds like you had a good time Macabre. I enjoyed my trip to the UK years back but do wish we'd seen more of Edinburgh itself.

Trem picking, sweep picking, once again great song choice by me. My guitar playing is really coming along nicely. It's a matter of working on my pick control now so these techniques are sure to help. Have to admit I've slacked off a little with my practicing lately (actually in a few areas of my life tbh) so I really need to knuckle down now.

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I've been working on 12 bar blues cord progressions in the five common keys with walking bass lines... It's not real thrilling stuff, but fuck, it's about time. Hope to move through that stuff pretty quick, so I'm practicing a lot this week.

 

I signed up to spin some albums from my little collection of doom metal at a local boutique record store. I've never done a thing like this before, and I've got some deplorable gaps in my little collection. I pick up stuff as I find it in stores, being the Luddite that you all know me to be I don't shop online, and so I simple don't own many of my favorite albums. I used to have a Candlemass album, but I don't see it anywhere, and I feel bad about a doom "show and tell" with no Candlemass, especially since it's one of the bands I listen to the most. Anyway I look forward to that.

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Well that does sound like fun Gorbo. I'd like to do something like that myself but as most of you know most of my collection is digital partly because I've yet to find any decent record stores and partly because when I shop online I seem to have the misfortune of getting my details stolen and apple (love or hate them) seem to have outstanding security on their devices.

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I've been working on 12 bar blues cord progressions in the five common keys with walking bass lines... It's not real thrilling stuff, but fuck, it's about time. Hope to move through that stuff pretty quick, so I'm practicing a lot this week.

 

I signed up to spin some albums from my little collection of doom metal at a local boutique record store. I've never done a thing like this before, and I've got some deplorable gaps in my little collection. I pick up stuff as I find it in stores, being the Luddite that you all know me to be I don't shop online, and so I simple don't own many of my favorite albums. I used to have a Candlemass album, but I don't see it anywhere, and I feel bad about a doom "show and tell" with no Candlemass, especially since it's one of the bands I listen to the most. Anyway I look forward to that.

It's all good dude, I've been at this for a while and am constantly finding gaps in my collection, especially when doing recommendations/"show and tell" with albums. It's when compiling lists and recommendations that my omissions become more obvious, and that's usually when I try to fill in what is obviously missing, whereas otherwise I just tend to shop based on availability. Sounds like a fun gig to be able to do it at a record store though, please report back with how it goes.

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I'm much the same as you guys with gaps in my collection. Growing up, I was lucky to have a couple of good record shops with metalhead employees, and I had a couple of older friends who turned me on to a lot of stuff, but there was also a ton that just wasn't available, or even mentioned. We were basically at the mercy of distributors. We'd get the highlights of Swedish DM, and the Florida and NY scenes were fairly well covered, but some other scenes were hardly represented, and for black metal it was almost entirely Norwegian 2nd wave bands. I didn't find many of my favorites until I got to college. Obviously the search continues - witness my current dig through the Finnish DM scene. I'm still finding stuff that I wish I'd heard years ago.

More than lack of availability, now, it's just my listening habits that keep me from a lot of music. I have periods where I'll go off looking for new things, but once I've found something I enjoy, I typically hammer on a handful of albums for a while, rather than getting acquainted with everything I probably should be. It's comparatively rare that I'll want to listen purely for research. 

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All you can do is try, maybe it isn't too late, maybe it is but that's irrelevant really.  The point is you're trying, you're being responsible pet owners and giving a vital part of your family a chance to carry on being part of your family.  Whatever happens you can hold your heads high and take solace from the fact that you did your best and did right by her.

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Sincerely hope she pulls through FA. Pets are more then just animals they are part of the family.

 

On my mind is the truly shithouse weather. Winds over 100km/h which is totally insane by the way paired with pouring rain and hail mean today is a bad time. Just thinking that I have to go out in that later ugh. Good time for 'In My Kingdom Cold' to start playing on the digital radio station I found...

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