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Bruce Boxliker posted:I can't find the Nightwish thread so I guess I'll post this here - I'm interviewing Tuomas Holopainen, the keyboard player and songwriter on Sunday. If you have anything you want to know, shout at me. Ask him what the gently caress he was thinking when he wrote "the scent of grandfatherly love."
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fozzie dunlop posted:Ask him what the gently caress he was thinking when he wrote "the scent of grandfatherly love." Ask him what the interior of his own rear end looks like. e: without using the word "child" or "poet"
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QPZIL posted:VHÖL lineup: I read about this a bit in an interview with Mike Scheidt a bit back and it got me really excited to hear he would be working with Aesop. The rest of the lineup does not fail to impress 
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Ask him why he's switched the focus away from interesting guitar work and onto the orchestra. Maybe yell at him that Oceanborn is their best work and it's time to drop the 500 layers of violins. Man now I miss the good old days. Once was a good album but it was the beginning of the end 
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Aug 29, 2012 03:19
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Sick can opener action.
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Aug 29, 2012 03:59
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Murder Construct has a new album and it rules well cya
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Olibu posted:I actually put that long-rear end interview on Horror Show on in the background while I was playing some games recently. I thought it was pretty telling when at this point in the band's career he felt like they should have been the biggest metal band. Horror Show was a pretty badass album, to be fair. It's just that everything after that has been horribly boring and generic. I guess you can only come up with so many gallop riffs.
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Weaponized Cum posted:Murder Construct has a new album and it rules well cya If it's 1/2 as good as the last Cattle Decapitation or Exhumed albums, I'm on it.
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Aug 29, 2012 14:55
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Why do I love this so much
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Aug 29, 2012 15:06
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New Jaldaboath song "Black Metal Beauty" may actually be a tiny bit funny. Still the same silly music, though.
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Drifter287 posted:Horror Show was a pretty badass album, to be fair. It's just that everything after that has been horribly boring and generic. I guess you can only come up with so many gallop riffs.
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Aug 29, 2012 15:17
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Is Ruination Revelation a band name yet? It probably should be.
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Misogynist posted:You know, I liked Horror Show -- a lot -- for a pretty long time. Then, one day, I had a ruination revelation on par with realizing Matt Bellamy from Muse gasps with hurricane force before every third word he sings. Every single song has the same crutch -- that part where all the instruments drop out and you're left with a single clean guitar and a groaning Matt Barlow for a solid 30 seconds -- before the verse riff kicks back in. I can't stand to listen to most of the album besides "Wolf" and "Dracula" anymore. I do think "The Phantom Opera Ghost" was the finest song on the album and Jon said during the interview that the song was actually unfinished and he wanted to add like six more minutes to it.
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Misogynist posted:You know, I liked Horror Show -- a lot -- for a pretty long time. Then, one day, I had a ruination revelation on par with realizing Matt Bellamy from Muse gasps with hurricane force before every third word he sings. Every single song has the same crutch -- that part where all the instruments drop out and you're left with a single clean guitar and a groaning Matt Barlow for a solid 30 seconds -- before the verse riff kicks back in. I can't stand to listen to most of the album besides "Wolf" and "Dracula" anymore. I had the same realization about Dark Saga. I think half the songs on that album go into the chorus with no vocals after the first verse. There are probably things like that on every Iced Earth album, aside from the absurd over-use of palm-muted triplets. Edit: Speaking of which, I laughed out loud the first time I heard the part in Phantom Opera Ghost where everything drops out save for Jon Schaffer on a lone acoustic guitar galloping like a motherfucker. Godspeed you ridiculous bastard.
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Drifter287 posted:I had the same realization about Dark Saga. I think half the songs on that album go into the chorus with no vocals after the first verse. There are probably things like that on every Iced Earth album, aside from the absurd over-use of palm-muted triplets. 
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Drifter287 posted:I had the same realization about Dark Saga. I think half the songs on that album go into the chorus with no vocals after the first verse. There are probably things like that on every Iced Earth album, aside from the absurd over-use of palm-muted triplets. On a similar note, Something Wicked This Way Comes always rubbed me the wrong way whenever I listened to it all the way through. Then I realized its tracklist consistently alternates between a thrash song followed by a ballad song. It is like Schaffer took two EPs and just mashed them together.
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Lord Purple posted:On a similar note, Something Wicked This Way Comes always rubbed me the wrong way whenever I listened to it all the way through. Then I realized its tracklist consistently alternates between a thrash song followed by a ballad song. It is like Schaffer took two EPs and just mashed them together. 
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Aug 29, 2012 21:02
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Baron Von Ghoulosh posted:If it's 1/2 as good as the last Cattle Decapitation or Exhumed albums, I'm on it. I wrote a review of it a couple weeks ago, and it seriously loving rules so hard.
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Aug 29, 2012 22:59
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Misogynist posted:It doesn't help that Iced Earth writes really, really bad ballads. The Ghost Of Freedom is the stupidest thing.
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It's almost as if Iced Earth really isn't that good.
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Aug 30, 2012 04:09
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Jon Schaffer did a pretty good job of ripping off Steve Harris I guess
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Aug 30, 2012 05:39
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Seeing them live recently brought back memories of high school where I was talking them up as a cross between Iron Maiden and Metallica. Oh, Iced Earth. 
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Olibu posted:The Ghost Of Freedom is the stupidest thing. I disagree. The supidesT and campiest one is, without a doubt, "When the Eagle Cries"... particularly the horrendous video (featuring Jon wearing a turtleneck!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o6xrSyhVhc
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I think the first two Iced Earth albums are good.
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Stormrider is a great album and I still dig a few of their other records but yes, Jon Schaffer is a terrible, terrible songwriter.
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Anybody else going toSymphony X at Baltimore Soundstage?
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Anybody else going toSymphony X at Baltimore Soundstage? I got overruled and am going to the DC show instead. Baltimore is cool guys, really! e: and Kamelot that friday in whatever the hell Jaxx is called now. Anyone going to that? IRQ fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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Aug 30, 2012 15:42
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Machinae Supremacy's new album coming out in October. Totally loving stoked here. Every one of their studio albums has been better than the previous one, and A View From The End Of The World is already one of my favourite albums ever. Kinda hoping they won't continue the trend, because if they do my loving head is going to explode into rainbow-coloured circuit board fragments. Cover art looks great too, imo.
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I liked Machinae Supremacy a lot more after I realized that they don't take themselves seriously and half their songs are about video games.
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I like that fact that they have both serious and silly songs. Such as Indiscriminate Murder Is Counter-Productive and Remnant (March of the Undead IV), respectively. Also, goddamn the buildup at the end of Remnant never fails to give me the chills. It's loving gorgeous.
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This is my favorite Machinae Supremacy song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bX_DRC1O0A
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Slate Action posted:I liked Machinae Supremacy a lot more after I realized that they don't take themselves seriously and half their songs are about video games. Yeah, definitely this. I still find stuff like Action Girl kinda cringeworthy though. I don't know how they do it, but they just seem to write infectious melodies on every goddamn track and they're so memorable. I found myself humming the bridge/ending melody of A View From The End Of The World the other day and completely forgot where it came from. Their "serious" songs do have some pretty well-written lyrics too.
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nerve posted:This is my favorite Machinae Supremacy song Me too! Oh man I wish they'd re-do this on a studio album so much.
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nerve posted:This is my favorite Machinae Supremacy song I dont know this band and this song is ok, but jesus, look at this concert. People are LAN gaming? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQdTmw9cmg
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henpod posted:I dont know this band and this song is ok, but jesus, look at this concert. People are LAN gaming?
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Nordick posted:74 more minutes in about a month and a half, seeing how Time I already has a set release date and everything. As in, for real.
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Jari Mäenpää awakes in a start, his flaxen hair plastered to his neck by fever-sweat. It's still dark. He still hears it in his dreams every night, all 40 minutes of it. He's never heard it the way he hears it in his dreams. "Fifteen clarinets. Perkele, I only used fifteen clarinets. ONLY FIFTEEN GOD DAMNED-!" His words trail off as he grabs his mobile phone from the nightstand. A calloused bone of a finger mashes a name on the screen, as if to push it through the phone and make it appear in his bedroom - "Nuclear Blast." --- The next day, a senior executive sulks into a PR office. "Guys, I uh..." Two men with thick black-rimmed glasses spin around in their Herman Miller Aeron chairs. "It's Jari. He called last night. It's happened again, he..." The bespectacled men's faces drop almost synchronously. Through a lump in his throat, the executive forces out, "I need you to write a press release..."
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I forgot how awesome Karl Sanders is. This interview done at Bloodstock just showed how laid back he was and it makes me like him and Nile even more.
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Turk February posted:I forgot how awesome Karl Sanders is. This interview done at Bloodstock just showed how laid back he was and it makes me like him and Nile even more. Karl is super nice and offered to pay for my coffee after we chatted in the line at Gothenburg airport. My most feel-good metal moment!
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