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I have no idea, do we use this as the generic manga thread as well? Or should that go into the comics thread? Anyway, I just finished reading Eyeshield 21, and was wondering if there's any other cool team sports manga I have missed in the past. Don't care if it's over-the-top or anything, anything in the vein of Eyeshield/Giant Killing/Inazuma Eleven would own bones.

Two hours in to Dirty Knobs' "Field Recordings From The Edge Of Hell", ,listening right besides SRN: holy fuck this is intense stuff. Like literally being in a cave full of alien ruins. The weight of the stone above you, the weirdness around you, some unidentifiable THING coming right behind you... It is as much an experience as it is a listen.

Truly a loss of epic proportions, the world has lost a prominent poet.

Also on stoner doom front, the new EP by Bongripper is a crusher much like their 2010 album.

My favorite episode of the season so far. Had a lot more laughable parts and jokes in it than previous ones, and the Psycho homage in the end just cinched it.

It's a sort of a magical boy-show I guess, with a pretty cliché "young protagonist gets teleported to fantasy land, is great savior". The world itself though is quite refreshing and their concept of warfare rocks my socks.

Just started watching Dog Days, though only the first episode so far. Not the most out-and-out innovative show there is but I love Ninja Warrior and their ilk so at least the premise amuses me. Should re-watch Azumanga sometime soon. Been far too long.

On a huge grind bender right now: after Noxa and Mümakil, now listening to Afgrund's "Vid Helvetets Grindar", which was one of the better releases of 2009. Gonna follow that up with more hits from recent years, namely Wormrot's "Dirge" and Parlamentarisk Sodomi's "De Anarkistiske An(n)aler"

Marduk's new EP, "Iron Dawn", leaked. And it fucking slays. Like an updated take on the take-no-prisoners style of "Panzer Division Marduk", with a more muddled and evil-sounding production. And Mortuus being awesome as hell, as he is wont to do. Highly recommended if aggressive black metal tickles your fancy at all. edit: SRN go eat a bowl of dick

it can connect Lady GaGa to Anal Cunt I am horrified

Gonna have to pass on the Amorphis question, but yeah "From Mars To Sirius" is a very good representation of Gojira. You should check out their latest effort "The Way Of All Flesh" as well, In festival-related news, Finland's biggest outdoor festival Tuska is featuring a shitload of excellent death metal this year, including Bloodbath, Nile, Cannibal Corpse and Obituary, as well as some small-name acts like Testament, Megadeth and Satyricon. Also featured: The Devin Townsend Project, and the world-first premier of Ziltoid the Omniscient, live. It is good to be Nordic

If you are a fan of doom, stoner or just chunky Sabbath-style groove and riffing, and have not yet listened to Black Pyramid, then you are a bad person. This is just monumentally haunting stuff, I can hardly praise it enough. Go listen to some right now, and get their debut full-length from last year too! http://www.myspace.com/blackpyramidkills

1. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (Rise Above, 2000) 3. Watain – Sworn Of The Dark (Season Of Mist, 2007) 8. Enslaved – Ruun (Tabu, 2006) 10. Emperor – Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise (Candlelight, 2001) 11. Immortal – Sons Of Northern Darkness (Nuclear Blast, 2002) 12. Iron Maiden – A Matter Of Life And Death (EMI, 2006) 13. Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer (Relapse, 2004) 14. Mastodon – Leviathan (Relapse, 2004) 15. Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro (Mordgrimm, 2001) 16. Gojira – From Mars To Sirius (Listenable, 2005) 17. Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree (Nuclear Blast, 2005) 18. Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse, 2001) 19. Primordial – To The Nameless Dead (Metal Blade, 2007) 20. Napalm Death – Enemy Of The Music Business (Dreamcatcher, 2000) 21. Isis – Oceanic (Ipecac, 2002) 34. Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless (Hydra Head, 2000) 39. Bloodbath – Resurrection Through Carnage (Century Media, 2002) 41. Nile – Black Seeds Of Vengeance (Relapse, 2000) 45. Cynic – Traced In Air (Season Of Mist, 2008) 46. Insect Warfare – World Extermination (625 Thrash, 2007) 47. Nasum – Helvete (Relapse, 2003) 48. Behemoth – Demigod (Regain, 2004) 53. Decapitated – Organic Hallucinosis (Earache, 2006) 58. Funeral Mist – Salvation (Norma Evangelium Diaboli, 2003) 75. Melechesh – Sphynx (Osmose, 2003) 76. Rotting Christ – Theogonia (Season Of Mist, 2007) 79. Torche – Meanderthal (Hydra Head, 2008) 81. Cathedral – The garden Of Unearthly Delights (Nuclear Blast, 2005) 82. Turisas – Battle Metal (Century Media, 2004) 89. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Frozen Corpses Stuffed With Dope (Relapse, 2002) 96. Boris – Pink (Caroline, 2005) Really only one or two choices there I would personally disagree with outright ("Monotheist" that high? Ephel Duath on the list at all?) but after that it's mostly about what I'd expect. Glad to see Terrorizer still lines up somewhat nicely to my musical tastes, some very positive surprises on the list there (Insect Warfare and Funeral Mist, mainly). Would have added more sludge/post-metal stuff like Cult Of Luna's "Eternal Kingdom" or Pelican's "Australasia".

Baroness - Blue Record Pelican - What We All Come To Need Kylesa - Static Tensions This trio of excellent sludge/post-metal stuff solidified my belief in the fact that this style of music will break on through. Mammoth riffs, soulful vocals and excellent pacing were the order of the day. Marduk - Wormwood Immortal - All Shall Fall Two venerable black metal acts, two excellent records. Immortal came back with a huge album off of their hiatus, and took their epic, riff-heavy metal format even further. Meanwhile, Marduk shedded the excess thrash influences that plagued their last album and retained just enough to make "Wormwood" a fucking slaughterhouse. Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave Afgrund - Vid Helvetes Grindar Skitliv - Skandinavisk Misantropi Mumakil - Behold The Failure Graf Orlock - Destination Time Today It was brutal, it was abusive, it was short. It was the grind year 2009.a

For Epic with a capital E, Summoning is a pretty good choice. They're nowhere near power metal, but especially their later efforts like "Oath Bound" and "Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame" just pile on the epic keyboards and guitars like there was no end. Moonsorrow is pretty much the epic-est of epic pagan metal bands. The tracks are long, the riffs are fucking massive and the keyboards soar like eagles. The only thing with both Summoning and Moonsorrow is that the vocals are very screechy and black metal-oriented for the most part. There are clean vocal and choir parts intermixed throughout the albums, but the prevalent method of vocal delivery is the "file on a cable"-sort of deal.

Gustav Holst's The Planets Op. 32 was written in the early 20th century, premiered during the First World War, and is absolutely stunning.

Well fuck me, it came up on search. Like I'm going to take the time out of my day to inspect post dates.

Well, yes and no. Heinlein was a libertarian first and foremost, adhering to the overriding rule of individualism and individual independence first and foremost. His works run a whole gamut on the political scale, and I personally found the novel "Starship Troopers" as a far-flung shot at both facism and communism. I was exponentially enraged by the time I finished the novel, at which point I was ready to concede that Heinlein did a good job of vilifying facism in his work. The bugs, on the other hand, can be contended as having been a stab at communism, and more reasonably as a stab at communism being somehow viable to human beings, us being the selfish bastards we are. If you want something to enrage about, read "Farnham's Freehold" or "Sixth Column" which really do paint Heinlein as a sick racist fuck. I know I was astounded by the end of "Freehold" just how much he decided to put on print there.

WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE US ARMY INFOSPOTS AND NISSAN CAR COMMERCIALS DOING ON MY MYTHBUSTERS AIRTIME I mean FUCK

Static-X had "Otsego Electric", "Otsego Undead" and "Otsegolation" on subsequent albums, fuck me if I can remember the exact order though.

So I finally got this thing settled down, and might be prepared for some EWB games. I have it on good authority that I am a "bitch" on the ground, so take that for what you will My X-Box gamertag is Johan Gasmask, and I prefer playing as anything besides Middleweight because I am deathly afraid of losing to Chris Lieben.

Amon Amarth are pretty consistent throughout their discography, so it should be no problem to pick up either their newest one "Twilight Of The Thunder God" or the older releases. "The Crusher", "Versus The World" and "Fate Of Norns" are all done with somewhat similar production values as the two most recent ones, whereas their first two "Once Sent From The Golden Hall" and "The Avenger" are a bit more on the raw side in that regard. If Vital Remains caught your fancy, you should get a kick out of either Deicide's two latest albums "Till Death Do Us Part" and "The Stench Of Redemption" or Dismember's "The God That Never Was" and "Dismember". Both share the same level of accomplished guitar play, Dismember more than Deicide but it's all good.

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