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Southern Cassowary posted:time to talk about sigh and boris they're locks but also Loudness, United, X Japan, and probably Melt-Banana and Japanese D-Beat like G.I.S.M., Disclose, and Gauze
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symbolic posted:not only free entry but iirc a good number of cons offer comp'd room for it, and also some people are just really passionate about the subject they wanna talk about, and hell, i applaud em for it Derpycon, its a really modest con, but its only 10minutes away, and it makes good use of the hotel and conference rooms it has. I do miss the bigger ones like Otakon though. Used to go with the same group 3-4 years in a row over a decade ago.
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Oct 27, 2023 04:13
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symbolic posted:come to an east coast con and i'll attend. i'm tryin to cook up a panel idea myself, mayhaps japanese metal...? hmmmmm ill think about it when i have a job. band maid and flower travellin ftw btw
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melt banana also win i just dunno if id call them metal
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GateOfD posted:Derpycon, its a really modest con, but its only 10minutes away, and it makes good use of the hotel and conference rooms it has. ahhhhh kk, was curious cuz i almost went to J1-con next weekend but the friend i was gonna go with backed out so RIP Ohtori Akio posted:hmmmmm ill think about it when i have a job. band maid and flower travellin ftw btw 
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Southern Cassowary posted:i built my pc in a fractal torrent and it's too loving big, never again will i do a full tower That’s the problem with mine, but the case Arc got is a cut down, happy medium.
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Waffleman_ posted:I really need to find the time/money to get back down to either Ohayocon or Matsuricon again, even if just for one day i'd avoid Ohayocon for the time being because there's been some really messy drama in the past few weeks about a hostile takeover from the new chairman of the organization that runs it that laid off a ton of volunteer staff due to them trying to unionize. not sure about the full picture but that's what i've become aware of Ohtori Akio posted:melt banana also win i just dunno if id call them metal they really aren't but truth be told i don't know enough JP metal to justify an hour's panel about just it, so incorporating punk too seems logical
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Oct 27, 2023 04:19
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symbolic posted:they're locks but also Loudness, United, X Japan, and probably Melt-Banana and Japanese D-Beat like G.I.S.M., Disclose, and Gauze yeah i think covering the early scene, visual kei, and cooler genre specific stuff covers your bases. japanese power metal is world class also. everyone knows galneryus but there are a ton of sick bands like dragon guardian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6GtJ55VaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD31iicGvq4
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Southern Cassowary posted:yeah i think covering the early scene, visual kei, and cooler genre specific stuff covers your bases. power metal has always been hit-or-miss with me depending on how dorky it is but Japan can do no wrong, so, kirbysuperstar posted:Last time I went to a con was like.. man, 2008? Me and my then girlfriend got .hack facepaint done there, it was cool going to cons nowadays is fuckin whack because the typical perception of it being 20-40 y/o unwashed dudes is utterly false. there's so much diversity and it's fuckin rad
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imo the point of power metal is blistering sincerity. it fits the japanese music scene well i think
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Ohtori Akio posted:imo the point of power metal is blistering sincerity. it fits the japanese music scene well i think i guess that's true, i think i just lean toward the more traditional power metal from like Helloween and Running Wild rather than the keyboard and meedly-guitar stuff like Dragonforce and Gloryhammer
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symbolic posted:i guess that's true, i think i just lean toward the more traditional power metal from like Helloween and Running Wild rather than the keyboard and meedly-guitar stuff like Dragonforce and Gloryhammer (bravely) unleash the archers is win
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symbolic posted:going to cons nowadays is fuckin whack because the typical perception of it being 20-40 y/o unwashed dudes is utterly false. there's so much diversity and it's fuckin rad Yeah! I need to go to one again, just a shame my local buddy has two young daughters now that makes it hard to group up and do things
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symbolic posted:power metal has always been hit-or-miss with me depending on how dorky it is but Japan can do no wrong, so, not being able to understand the interstitial bits where someone talks about emerald sword fantasy adventures is a massive improvement to the genre
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Southern Cassowary posted:not being able to understand the interstitial bits where someone talks about emerald sword fantasy adventures is a massive improvement to the genre (sobbing) thats the best part...
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symbolic posted:ahhhhh kk, was curious cuz i almost went to J1-con next weekend but the friend i was gonna go with backed out so RIP Yea, I'm actually going there too. But it seems kind of meh. I went there many years ago, when it was there first year at Atlantic City, so it was really super casual, and it was just a bunch of vendors and a few video rooms. Felt like a waste. (But at least I could just go next door to gamble) Looks about the same, though they say they did step it up a bit. Look still looks like they just have 2 panel rooms, and one video room. But they do have some neat voice actors there. And they have the host from the old Nick Arcade gameshow from the 90s there as a guest. I have my rooms and food comp'ed so its just a hey, might as well go there, and also blow some money at the roulette tables. I do miss AnimeNext when it was there before covid, it was actually a decent sized convention, but they moved this year to Edison, and it was a disaster, it was like 1/5 the size.
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Ohtori Akio posted:(bravely) unleash the archers is win i can't disagree but this is where i plug Lost Horizon as the greatest power metal band of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYdbLfLnIHk kirbysuperstar posted:Yeah! I need to go to one again, just a shame my local buddy has two young daughters now that makes it hard to group up and do things going solo isn't terrible but i imagine there's like FB groups to connect and such
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ill click on these when im home. and for the record the best part of the metal movement as a whole is dramatic lyrics about doom, monsters, swords, mountains etc
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GateOfD posted:Yea, I'm actually going there too. But it seems kind of meh. yeah it looked small but i'm starved for cons after attending two in the past three or so months with my next not til spring likely. 'tis addiction, especially if you cosplay. no greater feeling than getting stopped for pics for it, on god
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symbolic posted:i guess that's true, i think i just lean toward the more traditional power metal from like Helloween and Running Wild rather than the keyboard and meedly-guitar stuff like Dragonforce and Gloryhammer the meedly poo poo has its place (like, dark moor did it better) but the band that perfected power metal, falconer, added in some viking/folk style and some pantera-esque groove and then got a guy with a theater background to sing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8OaRmEVRCc Ohtori Akio posted:(bravely) unleash the archers is win they're pretty cool. their cover of northwest passage is great (in addition to probably being the most canadian metal song of all time lol) Ohtori Akio posted:(sobbing) thats the best part... how much do you like christopher lee Southern Cassowary fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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Ohtori Akio posted:the chris lee album fails to be epic sadly yeah i remember it not being great lol
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Southern Cassowary posted:the meedly poo poo has its place (like, dark moor did it better) but the band that perfected it, falconer, added in some viking/folk style and some pantera-esque groove and then got a guy with a theater background to sing alright i gently caress with this hard. Falconer has always been one of my "on my radar" bands before but this solidified them. honestly getting Slough Feg vibes which is an extremely good sign
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symbolic posted:alright i gently caress with this hard. Falconer has always been one of my "on my radar" bands before but this solidified them. honestly getting Slough Feg vibes which is an extremely good sign the falconer s/t is an all-time classic and one of my few metal 10/10s and the rest of their stuff is mostly...fine, with northwind being the best of the lot. you can skip the two albums where mathias blad doesn't sing, they're bad.
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Southern Cassowary posted:the falconer s/t is an all-time classic and one of my few metal 10/10s and the rest of their stuff is mostly...fine, with northwind being the best of the lot. you can skip the two albums where mathias blad doesn't sing, they're bad. hmmm...my 10/10s are stuff like Rust in Peace, Tales from the Thousand Lakes, and Relationship of Command...this is a tall ask...
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symbolic posted:they're locks but also Loudness, United, X Japan, and probably Melt-Banana and Japanese D-Beat like G.I.S.M., Disclose, and Gauze finally, a panel dedicated to talking about the geneshaft ost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktd0aRafc80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAdInDIK8rA The Colonel fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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symbolic posted:hmmm...my 10/10s are stuff like Rust in Peace, Tales from the Thousand Lakes, and Relationship of Command...this is a tall ask... Rust is on there, as is RTL, Baroness - Blue Album, Cynic - Focus, Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked, Falconer - S/T, Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend, probably others but those came to mind immediately also you're like the second person who has good metal opinions i've heard put tales from the thousand lakes near the top of their all time list so i think i need to put more time into amorphis
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The Colonel posted:finally, a panel dedicated to talking about the geneshaft ost not my cup of tea but i can apprecaite it Southern Cassowary posted:Rust is on there, as is RTL, Baroness - Blue Album, Cynic - Focus, Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked, Falconer - S/T, Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend, probably others but those came to mind immediately never got into Baroness or Yob much but the others are win, other notable 10/10s of mine are like By Inheritance, Colors, Those Once Loyal, The Moon is a Dead World, and Leaving Your Body Map also yes Tales is an unprecedentedly good folk metal album, the folksy elements of 90s Bathory but with sickass Gothenberg melodeath backing them. none of their other albums have reached those heights imo
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Captain Invictus posted:Do you have a nightguard? You might be grinding your teeth in your sleep which can wear them down to the sensitive interiors and just generally cause stress to the teeth. turns out you were right please tell me I havent permanently ruined them, some of them loving hurt
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Without going into spoilers, a part of From the New World is really reminding me of Signalis. Shame on me for largely forgetting about this show.
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Ohtori Akio posted:ill click on these when im home. and for the record the best part of the metal movement as a whole is dramatic lyrics about doom, monsters, swords, mountains etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhTBYn1vJTA Meowywitch posted:turns out you were right
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TheSwizzler posted:Baki the Grappler Win
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