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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.

What is Dog Days about? I think I glanced at a plot summary somewhere but I don't remember it at all.

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

I've been checking out some of the bands announced for Bloodstock so far and have really really been liking both Amorphis and Gojira. For the former, I've listened to the 'Silent Waters' album, the latter 'From Mars to Sirius'. Are these indicative are what I can expect them to play live?

Oh, and The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe kicks so much arse.

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

Can anyone rec me some 'epic' metal? Up until Amberian Dawn I was finding it hard to find a good mix of Power Metal without the cheese ¬_¬

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.

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You bumped a topic... FOUR years old... To make a retarded comment about a commercial...

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

Yeah, the author of the original Starship Troopers book, Robert A. Heinlein, was a raging militarist-fascist, and whereas Verhoeven clearly made the film a satire of a totalitarian militaristic society, Heinlein was totally serious in his original novel.

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.

So recently I got into Amon Amarth after hearing some good things. Saw "With Oden On Our Side" on sale and picked it up. Is the rest of the catalog any good, or is there stuff to avoid?

And also: looking for more metal recommendations. Examples of what I like include: above mentioned album, Burning Human, Swallow the Ocean, Vital Remains, Fear Factory (well - minus the annoying voice of the backup singer). 80s era Metallica and Slayer too, but that's probably most people who listen to metal.

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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And Lande or not, Masterplan has only ever made a single good album.

Torche's "Meanderthal", which after a couple of listens I am very well prepared to rank as the best album of 2008 that I never heard. Rolling, upbeat post-rock/metal with surprisingly indie-like vocals is very different from your average Hydra Head release, and just one more reason to cement them as my favorite record company right now.

Also, awesome cover art!

Marduk:

1. Panzer Division Marduk (1999)

2. Plague Angel (2004)

3. Opus Nocturne (1994)

4. Those Of The Unlight (1993)

5. Nightwing (1998)

6. Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered (1996)

6. World Funeral (2003)

7. Dark Endless (1992)

8. La Grande Danse Macabre (2001)

9. Rom 5:12 (2007)

Meshuggah:

1. Chaosphere (1998)

2. I (2004)

3. Catch ThirtyThree (2005)

4. Destroy Erase Improve (1995)

5. Nothing (2002)

6. ObZen (2008)

7. Contradictions Collapse (1991)

Napalm Death:

1. Scum (1987)

2. From Enslavement To Obliteration (1988)

3. The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code (2004)

4. Enemy Of The Music Business (2000)

5. Time Waits For No Slave (2009)

6. Smear Campaign (2006)

7. Harmony Corruption (1990)

8. Fear, Emptiness, Despair (1994)

9. Utopia Banished (1992)

10. Order Of The Leech (2002)

11. Words From The Exit Wound (1998)

12. Inside The Torn Apart (1997)

13. Diatribes (1996)

Summoning:

1. Nightshade Forests (1997 - eh fuck it, it's an EP but it's the best material Summoning has released so)

2. Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame (2001)

3. Dol Guldur (1996)

4. Oath Bound (2006)

5. Stronghold (1999)

6. Minas Morgul (1995)

7. Lugburz (1995)

ergh cannot type any more numbers argh