Bushmeister

Opinion?

Also, I've been listening to a few new bands, what do you guys think of them?

Sigh - 7/10

If you haven't yet, then you owe it to yourself to get your hands on some Corporate Avenger. Their style fluctuates quite a bit in the span of their few albums, but "Freedom Is A State Of Mind" is as rap as it comes and also simply some of the angriest music I have ever heard.

I haven't, but neither did I vote for Cats so BLEH right at you (quick edit though, NES was my first console and a fixture of my childhood years from age 4 and up, just want to keep my "1337 g4m3rz"-rep up here )

I don't know if anyone else has this, but I have exactly one name I am honestly anxious to see on this list, and pondering on his placement is really getting me worked up.

Neil Gaiman. Fantasy, with a lot of humour.

Pirates is disgustingly addictive and I want CSAMH to know that it's his fault. ¬_¬

That's been a 9 to 5 fave since I was like 8!

A'ight, let's resurrect this bitch up in here.

Year 2007 in metal so far - what are your thoughts on it? I've personally scored some great releases this year, but absolutely the rockingest have been Korpiklaani's "Tervaskanto" for some pretty obvious reasons, and Kronos' "The Hellenic Terror". I was pretty big on Vital Remains' "Icons Of Evil" earlier this year, but Kronos came and completely stamped their balls out on the brutal death metal front. Haven't heard Nile's most recent effort yet, though, so there might be some contest after all.

Haven't had a chance to check that many black metal releases this year - closest has been Behemoth's "The Apostasy", which totally rocks balls, and Marduk's "Rom 5:12" which was a slight disappointment for me especially because the last album was pretty fucking great. Also speaking of disappointments, what the fuck happened to Leng Tch'e? Three brutal and innovative grind releases and then comes "Marasmus", which was just a pile of Belgian crap. Probably the biggest letdown in consistency any band has ever made.

Also, Immortal are going to release a new album next year. Hot diggity damn.

I think Starcraft is a highly overrated, and horribly balanced game, so I am satisfied with this turn of events. And in Soviet Russia, guns sling you!

There's one big reason for me, no Bioware games on PS3 in the near future. That for me counts far more than any other exclusive games on the market.

Also, Dead Rising. Damn I love that little thing to death.

Did Godspeed You! Black Emperor release anything last year?

I saw Immortal recently. Shit was tight, I tell you, and we got the whole slew of classic moments: Abbath breathing fire, Horgh going berserk on his drums, stopping "Tyrants" in mid-track to get people go fucking nuts. Also rather ironically, the sun started shining just as Immortal began playing, which prompted a hearty "Fuck the sun" from Abbath. Good times.

Though I would agree that the LotD zombies grew brains way too quickly, after 4 movies and 30+ years, shouldn't they evolve at least a little bit?

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Actually, they are not zombies. They are infected humans.

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Those should be [copout][/copout] tags.

"If they're not zombies, then I don't care" should be right up there in the Zombie Commandments along with "Zombies shouldn't run".

Wait, Ihsahn?

Holy fuck, I love you and your little gay list.

Errr, being slightly drunk, I'll spoiler this as well (though honestly, who the hell hasn't played through the original Half-Life?)

A direct-yet-not-so-direct descendant from punk, grindcore.

To clarify, it grew from such extreme punk acts as Discharge, and blossomed into the bands that are still revered in the genre such as Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Repulsion and Extreme Noise Terror. From the early years in the 80's, grind has grown to encompass such things as goregrind (grind with brutal death metal elements) and cybergrind (grind with industrial elements), but even with the addition of new subgenres the general direction of grind has remained very narrow and focused. It is much easier to branch out to death metal and/or metal in general than remain a grindcore band while still pushing the envelope of the genre, but I personally dig the defined boundaries that cage in one of the most extreme styles of music to be found on the planet today.

Thrash Metal

Hatesphere

Carnal Forge

Deathchain

National Napalm Syndicate

(I pretty much hate thrash metal, so this is the most you'll get out of me)

Speed Metal

Persuader

Rage

Progressive Metal

Isis

Pelican

Cult Of Luna

Russian Circles

Jesu

Sludge Metal

Acid Bath

Soilent Green

Mistress

The Melvins

Buzzov-En (also sometimes spelled as Buzzov-DOT-en)

Eyehategod

Death Metal

(I have no idea how heavy you want this, so here's some random suggestions)

Nile

Unleashed

Dismember

Vital Remains

Behemoth (only the two most recent albums, "Demigod" and "The Apostasy")

Deeds Of Flesh

Severe Torture

Hate Eternal

Meshuggah

Hacride

Wormed

Human Mincer

Lykathea Aflame

Skinless

Melodic Death Metal

Eucharist

Dimension Zero

Armageddon

Scar Symmetry

Dew Scented

You could try Pommiradio, the only Finnish metal Internet radio station. If you're not afraid of some drunken Nordic babble every now and then, they play a very wide variety of metal music throughougt the day. Go to www.taajuus.fi, it's the topmost station on the list.

Smokin' Aces

I went to the rental shop looking for a fun, non-pretentious movie and settled on Smokin' Aces. It was pretty much what I expected: guns, blood, Alicia Keys' boobies and a slew of psychopaths larger than what Thomas Harris could produce in a few decades. I personally am a sucker for these types of movies and series that feature a huge cast of off-the-wall comic stereotypes, and in that respect Smokin' Aces brought the goods (come on, you can't watch this movie and not love the Tremor brothers). The actors were anything from average to good-great (in Ray Liotta's case) and I was pretty surprised that despite the somewhat flat characters no-one slacked off on their performance. Some good visuals too, especially with the few brief torture scenes and seeing people get shot with vastly oversized weaponry. The ending wasn't up to snuff with the rest of the film, but I could forgive that.

Playing Defcon with mates is out of this world, one of the funniest multiplayer games I know. What you need for Defcon is some humour, a few good friends and a lot of twisted strategies to turn everyone else's territory into glowing, radioactive rubble inhabited by naught but cockroaches and Keith Richards.

Also, stokes, if you find Defcon a short game, maybe you should play it in Office mode. Hours of fun, guaranteed.

I'd kill for a show with Earth-Sunn O)))-Khanate headlining.

You're not alone, GoGo. I can see the point in someone being upset over Frogger being on the list (although crying for Albert Wesker, a character from perhaps the most haphazard game series ever, seems a bit redundant to me ), but I didn't nominate or vote for any such characters, so I don't care. And on the plus side, pretty much everyone who I voted for is either still coming or didn't even make the list at all, so I'm still riding the suspense train

Hit 62 recently and finally bought my epic mount. To celebrate the occassion, I re-specced my warlock from deep Demonolgy to Affliction/Demonology. It is excessively amusing to have three ogres beat on you and fail to do any real damage because you can drain/regen HP faster than they can take it away

Wait, wait, wait.

Piracy killed the music industry? What? Did I miss a memo here or something?