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22 Eargesplitten posted:Am I going to have to find the article where a classical voice coach wrote about how good Bruce Dickinson's voice was, or can we just agree that you don't appreciate voices with ridiculous range, and he doesn't actually sound like a cat being murdered? Here it is anyway because it's important reading.
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Sep 9, 2011 12:56
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Hammer Floyd posted:Listened to Amon Amarth today and it finally clicked. With Oden On Our Side and Versus the World are their best albums.
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:This is loving hilarious. Comedy album of the century. They just announced the iTunes sale of it on Facebook and the comments are loving hilarious. Absolutely no one likes it.
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Sep 27, 2011 03:53
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henpod posted:Let us not forget their rendition of Mr. Sandman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-LbNqzBFk0. You forgot the best.
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Oct 5, 2011 14:43
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brucio posted:I agree with everything else you said but.. wow, really? Never heard of him? I didn't know it was possible to be into current western music and not have a clue who Lou Reed is. I hadn't, though it feels that your surprise comes from assuming every person in the Western world lives in America as I am getting the view that he's a bit bigger there than anywhere else. I'd heard of the Velvet Underground only through exposure to one particular radio station here mentioning their name in passing, but I don't think I've ever heard of a song of theirs and certainly didn't know names of band members. Anyway, this album is loving terrible and it's hilarious watching the fan backlash.
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Oct 22, 2011 03:31
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Stoat posted:Who's read for some over the top theatrical bullshit?! I really enjoyed them right up to and including Reckoning Night. They were one of my favourite power metal bands. God it hurts to see how far they've fallen 
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Feb 21, 2012 07:15
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Vargatron posted:I really have a hard time believing that any power metal band takes themselves seriously. Speaking of, here's Arjen Anthony Lucassen's (of Ayreon fame) new album cover:  I'm sorry if that's too big but a shrunken image wouldn't do it justice at all.
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Feb 23, 2012 12:37
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Bagsack posted:The song "Eaten" has pretty much left me resigned to the fact that I'm going to have to eat my first born daughter. I've slowly come to terms with that. You know what it's about, right?
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Apr 15, 2012 04:34
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Bagsack posted:Is there anything more to it than the hilariously cheesey, but somehow fantastically appropriate lyrics? It's inspired by this guy's story, told from the 'victim's' point of view. So yeh, saying that about your daughter is kind of creepy.
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Apr 16, 2012 01:23
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I'm getting embarrassed to admit I even enjoyed their first 4 albums. Their last couple have been that terrible and this one is somehow even worse.
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Apr 23, 2012 09:41
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nomapple posted:I scoffed at the idea of Aussie Black Metal at first. I was proven horribly wrong. When you think about it, you just replace crippling cold with crippling heat, rolling snowy forests with rolling red desert and big deadly bears with small deadly insects. All the grimness is still there.
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May 10, 2012 13:30
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It's dumb, fun music to drive to. Get over it. Worse than the 'Metal sucks but Metalocalypse is ok I guess' thing is the metal elitism thing.
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May 13, 2012 06:24
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IRQ posted:Floor Jansen is actually pretty good and definitely could do their older stuff, if they pick her up. That doesn't fix the crappy songwriting of the last 2-3 albums though. Tell Toumas to shut up and mash his keyboard and let Floor/Marco write the music + vocals and we'll be golden. Also, this has me suddenly far more interested in seeing them come January when they visit here, just to see what it's like! e: That said, they probably won't alter the setlist which'll be depressing because it'll be full of lovely newer songs rather than them taking opportunity to do some of their better stuff. Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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Oct 2, 2012 09:39
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Non Serviam posted:Anette could perform some things, but a lot of the older material was simply above her voice range. The two records she made with the band were better for her live, since they were made for her. I know, I saw the DPP tour and I enjoyed DPP as an album, largely. I just think casting away the entire back-catalogue because you chose the wrong singer is highly foolish - they're effectively burning the legacy that made them famous. Choosing a new singer kind of by default should include them being able to perform your existing hits if you wish to survive as a band, otherwise you just alienate your existing fanbase to a large extent.
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Oct 2, 2012 15:14
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Holy poo poo they've actually made it all the way to Motley Crue style glam metal.
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Nov 11, 2012 17:40
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Olibu posted:It's a weaker album but the hyperbole isn't necessary. No, Caleb is the best of a very terrible album and literally the only song I'd not skip on that album. This is coming from someone who was a huge SA fan back when I was an embarrassing teenager. hemophilia posted:I'm pretty ashamed to admit this song is what made me discover Credence Clearwater Revival but there it is; metal with banjos. The end justifies the means, CCR is fantastic. edit: Seriouspost, there was a Super Mario Bros. cartoon years ago that I watched the gently caress out of a few episodes of as a kid because I had it on VHS. Anyway one episode involved them being on a paddle-steamer boat and they played Proud Mary during that scene. I loved the song and would annoy mum and dad by singing it in my retarded kid voice so they purchased me the CCR greatest hits double-cassette and that's how I got in to CCR so if you're embarrassed about finding out about them because of CoB, I've got you topped. edit: Holy poo poo this is it Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Nov 12, 2012 |
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Nov 12, 2012 10:39
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rivetz posted:So I'm working on a t-shirt design for Portland Metal Bowling League and have a decent start on a design, but I'm having some trouble figuring out where to put the text. Do PMBL over the top of the logo and then "Portland Metal Bowling League" to the left and right of it, 2 words each (which two on which side you can decide). Or swap that, 2 letters each left and right and the text above. Also, the entire concept of metal bowling and those designs are awesome.
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Nov 22, 2012 10:39
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henpod posted:Get these albums: Ignore this, get Addicted!, Epicloud, City, Alien, Ocean Machine and Synchestra which all own bones. (What I'm trying to say is you can barely go wrong.)
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Dec 12, 2012 13:23
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Oldstench posted:One of the lesser known drum-machine led porno-grind bands from a bedroom in IL, I assume? It'd have to be grind, since each performance lasts less than 2 minutes 
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Jan 1, 2013 05:38
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Clive Burr (the first drummer from Iron Maiden) passed away last night, which sucks He's had MS for a long time now so I'm not incredibly surprised, but it's still lovely news. I feel he contributed significantly to the core Maiden sound, particularly regarding the gallopping sound with the drums and bass playing rhythmically together. Sad day
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Mar 13, 2013 15:31
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Tollymain posted:Well, looks like Sonata Arctica peaked with The Days of Grays What. Sonata Arctica peaked far earlier than that, unless you're in some bizarro upside-down land where the deepest of troughs are peaks for you. sticklefifer posted:Not sure if people still consider Deftones metal, but Chino Moreno just posted that Chi Cheng passed away today. Sad, I had hoped he was going to recover after his accident. That sucks. I did enjoy the Deftones regardless of what genre you wanted to paint them. They made nice music and seemed like chill guys.
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Apr 14, 2013 06:26
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attackmole posted:And if he can shamble up on stage with Iommi and Butler and mumble out NIB I'll be there cause I'm a sucker. I'll let you know how that goes this Thursday. I'm there for Geezer and Iommi. Ozzy's not doubt going to kind of sour the whole thing for me but I owe it to myself to hear Geezer and Iommi rip out some riffs.
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attackmole posted:Both. I think you're right on. Ozzy's voice worked great with Sabbath's music but it never really stood on its own, and non-techinical singers tend to have their voices degrade a lot faster than people who know what they're doing. Trip report: NIB loving slayed. It was far better than I feared it could have turned out. Ozzy can still 'sing' as good as you could ever hope for given his age/drugs/crippled body. He was even jumping around a bit - more than I'd have expected given how frail he looks when walking/standing/existing usually. His voice was surprisingly clear and articulate on older songs - especially NIB - but new songs on that new album of theirs were a bit more shakey. Iommi and Geezer absolutely shreded it like they were in their 20s. Age has not touched them one bit. The drummer they have touring with them, Tommy Clufetos, does well to keep the songs galloping along and isn't weak in the band. I was retarded and thought the concert started 30 mins later than it did, so I missed the first 6 songs which I am lovely at myself for because that contained War Pigs and Snowblind. I'm told War Pigs was a bit shakey though because it was their first song. I got there in time for NIB so my night was still good. This is the set they're playing, if you are interested. What the concert did cement in my mind, though, was how much Ozzy is just some dude who wants nothing more than to just rock out and enjoy making/playing music and all of the drama around him is purely Sharon's doing because she's a loving harpy. He was obviously enjoying himself up on stage and fed off the audience and just wanted to be chill and have fun. In short, gently caress Sharon. I really think the 'drugged out Ozzy' that you see shambling around is not really him drugged up to the gills. If I had to guess, it looks more like he's acutally riddled with quite a bit of arthritis and as such has a hunch and struggles to move as freely as he used to. And holy poo poo, Geezer is a beast on that bass.
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Apr 25, 2013 14:42
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Kill 'Em All came out exactly 30 years ago today. I feel old. That Seattle '89 concert off Binge & Purge is all the proof you need to show that no matter how much people view Metallica as old grandpas now, they had it back in the day. That set has so much energy. The guitars without the downtuning sound like pissed off hornets. It's just so good. Also, Jason's hair is the Skrillex undercut.
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Jul 26, 2013 12:17
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Motherfucking gently caress why did I skip soundwave That really sucks, Gwar are awesome and we're far worse off for not having them around.
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autistic cum slut posted:I heard it has a pretty bitter metallic aftertaste  Bravo, sir. edit: ...and quoting a poster called 'autistic cum slut' makes me grateful I never had to explain SA to my family
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Mar 28, 2014 11:12
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Yeh I am really impressed, it sounds really focused and removes all of the rambling lack of direction that Heritage had.
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Aug 30, 2014 04:20
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Kumbamontu posted:Pretend it's a different band. If you liked Colony, you will probably like Clayman, but it's going to be very hit-or-miss (mostly miss) for everything afterwards. This. Listen to Clayman, enjoy Clayman. You could maybe even tolerate one or two songs off Soundtrack, maybe. But don't try. The oldest song they seem to be playing is off Clayman and that's one of the songs that sounds more like the new stuff than the rest. So you'll probably get really angry at them. Just refuse to look at the stage and you won't know better because they don't even sound the same vocally. If you don't see the logo you'll never know.
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Dec 10, 2014 15:40
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Kumbamontu posted:I actually personally love Soundtrack but I know I'm definitely in a minority. F(r)iend is one of my favorite tracks of theirs. There's a few tolerable tracks on RtR too but not enough to listen to the whole thing. I do too, I will listen to most of the songs off it, though ironically not Friend. It's one of those guilty pleasures when I'm not wanting something that I need to pay more attention to. Dark Tranquillity sort of did a simliar thing in getting a shorter, more radio-friendly sound but I think they much more gracefully retained the aspects of what made them good and continued to blend in their historical sound too. I far prefer them these days as a result.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I still listen to their blue album every once in a while because I like it and why the hell are you paying attention to metal lyrics unless it's this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zk4as9kzA I'm really glad I picked both band and song before even clicking on that link.
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E: holy poo poo double posting like it's last decade
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Jan 5, 2015 09:19
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I can't do it, I can't listen to the new Maiden album. It's ruined within the first 60 seconds of the album. This is all I can hear. I am so sorry to any Aussie out there
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A human heart posted:Some sad news, Martin Kearns from Bolt Thrower has passed away: https://www.facebook.com/BlackConju...on_history=null I was supposed to see them in literally 7 days, after waiting decades. Holy gently caress I'm devastated but that's nothing compared to his family and friends right now. I hope I ge the option to donate my ticket cost to Martin's family. My own partner just passed away 1.5 weeks ago so the whole thing is still very raw for me and although 38 is older than 26, the sudden unexpected death loving sucks no matter what. His family will need all the support they can get, so if my $60 can shout some of the funeral costs or even just a beer, I'd be happy for that.
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Vulture Culture posted:This is not related to anything whatsoever but Black Sabbath's '74 Cal Jam show was basically the best live performance by any metal band My personal favourite is still Metallica's '89 Seattle performance included on the Binge & Purge DVD. They're still all playing with the tightness and energy they used to have (also James is still running on multiple bottles of whisky per night) and it makes for an amazing show. Also watching it, no wonder Jason's neck became permanently hosed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F156LyxoLUU
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WoodrowSkillson posted:the halo effect is exactly what i expected and im happy lol I'm so goddamn happy with this. Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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