I heard that alternative rock was a code name for AIDS.

At 12/19/09 07:59 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:

From what I understand, it's some buzzword that radio stations and record labels came up with for punk-based bands that weren't playing in styles that were popular, so anything slightly different got lumped in there. Now it has no meaning because there's basically no definition; I've seen it describe pop-punk, experimental rock, "indie," grunge, and loads of other bands. I avoid the term altogether.

That's pretty much the exact definition. Except I've never seen it applied to grunge rock, which I also forgot to add to my boring list of stuff I like besides metal.

At 12/19/09 07:55 PM, Nev wrote:

At 12/19/09 07:54 PM, Zodir wrote: And it pisses me off every time. I just kept my silence til now.

You boring sod. We need to talk about shit to bond man, to bond!

I've been called an uncaring bastard a lot. People just don't tend to like me. Maybe it's my taste in extremely unpopular music, lol.

At 12/19/09 07:59 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: I avoid the term altogether.

What do you think about the term Alternative to describe stuff like The Cure, The Smiths, Imogen Heap, (newer) Radiohead.
Cause I always thought that was perhaps Alt Rock as I could see it used for bands like The Cure. But given most Alternative music is very electronic I'm always confused.
Personally I consider Alternative a genre similar to Avant-Garde perhaps. But Alt. Rock is just silly.

At 12/19/09 08:12 PM, Zodir wrote: I've been called an uncaring bastard a lot. People just don't tend to like me. Maybe it's my taste in extremely unpopular music, lol.

Cause we're going to judge your taste in music here :P.

At 12/19/09 08:12 PM, Zodir wrote: I've been called an uncaring bastard a lot. People just don't tend to like me. Maybe it's my taste in extremely unpopular music, lol.

I wish I was as hardcore as you

IN APPROXIMATELY 30 MINUTES FROM NOW A NEW EXODUS SONG, NEVER BEFORE SEEN, WILL BE UP HERE.

It'll only be up for an hour or so, so check it out while you can!

At 12/19/09 05:41 PM, ZpLiNtEh wrote: He must be joking

No, he was 100% serious.

I think I'll join you

:'(

At 12/19/09 05:50 PM, Nev wrote: Boo hoo, he's not close minded :(.

Well, I mean no problem with diversity.

Problem is that is a shit band. Hahaha

At 12/19/09 08:18 PM, DrMafesto wrote:

At 12/19/09 08:12 PM, Zodir wrote: I've been called an uncaring bastard a lot. People just don't tend to like me. Maybe it's my taste in extremely unpopular music, lol.

I wish I was as hardcore as you

You should, lol.

At 12/19/09 05:50 PM, Nev wrote: Boo hoo, he's not close minded :(.

Neither am I, far from it.

*may like The Used, 30 Seconds To Mars and Bring Me The Horizon*

DIFFERING OPINIONZ ARE COOL RIKE ME

At 12/19/09 08:17 PM, Nev wrote: What do you think about the term Alternative to describe stuff like The Cure, The Smiths, Imogen Heap, (newer) Radiohead.

Meh, like I said before, I just avoid saying alternative anything. I feel like there's always a better, more accurate term to describe a band's sound than "alternative."

New Exodus, song's called "Good Ridance"

This is the raw version.

At 12/19/09 06:16 PM, Zodir wrote:

At 12/19/09 05:55 PM, DrMafesto wrote:

At 12/19/09 05:24 PM, AniMetal wrote:

So?
Having diverse tastes is where it's at. Metal 100% of the time sucks, anyway.

BLASPHEMER!!!!!

Lets eat him!

At 12/19/09 07:38 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: i would kill myself if i could only listen to one genre of music

Same here. I listen to a different genre depending on what mood I'm in. Pretty much like this:

Bored - Melodic Death Metal
Angreh - Brutal Death Metal
Determined - Thrash Metal
Defeated - Black Metal

Anyway, did anybody hear Insomnium's new album? Personally I think it's meh, but only because they've done much better. Still, Insomnium = greatest melodic death metal band of all time.

At 12/19/09 09:37 PM, mothballs wrote:

At 12/19/09 07:38 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: i would kill myself if i could only listen to one genre of music

I listen to a different genre depending on what mood I'm in. Pretty much like this:
Bored - Melodic Death Metal
Angreh - Brutal Death Metal
Determined - Thrash Metal
Defeated - Black Metal

Cause this is so varied.

So a girl in my school whom i've been a acquaintance with all my life ran into me.

I was wearing a Candlemass shirt(This is another very interesting story, if anyone wants to know at the Symphony X show I went to last year tickets were 30 bucks and another guy basically my size only had 20 bucks and he was DYING to see Symphony X and he was wearing a Candlemass shirt, I told him i'd give him 15 bucks for the shirt and he agreed - So he saw SX shirtless)

She told me the shirt was awesome and that she was a huge fan of candlemass.

Turns out, that even though she looks and acts like a normal girl she is a huge fan of doom metal, drone metal, sludge metal and stoner metal.

I think i'm in love.

Still, Insomnium = greatest melodic death metal band of all time.

This.

At 12/19/09 11:47 PM, AniMetal wrote: Cause this is so varied.

Pretty sure he was joking :P

I just bought Wearing A Martyr's Crown by Nightrage. An album that is returning to the roots of Melodic Death Metal. This album includes some of the greatest death metal riffs I've ever heard. Still, they bring the little touch that makes them an interresting Melodic Death Metal band.

Honestly, since I've re-joinned the Metal Hell I have been a little more into straight down Death Metal and Tech Death. But also into Doom and Black a little more. But whatever. Recently I've listenned to a little more of my most ancient albums and all the stuff I used to listen to in High School. But I found out that I still like Melodeath. And this new album I just bought is fucking great and is bringing me back to what got me first into metal music.

I also found out watching Amon Amarth and Dark Tranquillity live performances on the internet and I have understood a few little things about what makes Melodeath so nice. Most important thing is that it makes great live music. Solos and catchy riffs makes it a music that will get people together. These parts in the songs are well-known by everyone in the audience and I've heard people singing the guitar riffs like when Dark Tranquillity plays The Treason Wall.
I think the fact that these parts are important (along with the chorus) will just make the show reach a higher level.

Also, great album cover :)

At 12/19/09 02:34 PM, Nev wrote:

At 12/19/09 01:02 PM, Bahamut wrote: And here I am with just regular earphones. I've never asked for more than that for earphones/headphones. How much am I missing out on?

A lot.
Comfort and vastly superior sound.

Wow. My only concern about these is how long they last. I go through so many earphones and have to get new ones so soon. Perhaps these headphones do last a very long time but I want to make sure on that. And of course, I won't wear them outside the house. I can just use my earphones which'll be spares whenever I get these awesome headphones.

At 12/19/09 07:38 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: i would kill myself if i could only listen to one genre of music

Definitely, that means no Nobuo Uematso, no Queen, no Rush and a lot of other non-metal stuff that I actually enjoy.

At 12/19/09 08:30 PM, AniMetal wrote: IN APPROXIMATELY 30 MINUTES FROM NOW A NEW EXODUS SONG, NEVER BEFORE SEEN, WILL BE UP HERE.

I listened to it but it's nothing for me to pick up their new album. After all, I didn't like Exhibit A when the full album was available for streaming. Good thing too as that saved me £10.

At 12/18/09 07:26 PM, mothballs wrote:

At 12/18/09 03:37 PM, AniMetal wrote: Wow, you're stupid.

It's OBVIOUSLY a joke.

Am I the only one that sees this?

Pretty much. You have cancer, lol

Guys, I think I'm in love :D :D :D

This girl, is pretty sweet too =)

At 12/20/09 09:35 AM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: This girl, is pretty sweet too =)

Metal chicks are hawt. :3

At 12/20/09 11:07 AM, Twone wrote: Metal chicks are hawt. :3

Hell yea :D

It would be ridiculously awesome to have a girlfriend who's into metal, I will cream my pants if I ever get to meet a hot metal girl.

At 12/20/09 08:43 AM, Bahamut wrote: I listened to it but it's nothing for me to pick up their new album. After all, I didn't like Exhibit A when the full album was available for streaming. Good thing too as that saved me £10.

It's really Impact Is Imminent-ish, so I liked it.

Atrocity Exhibition - Riot Act, Children Of A Worthless God and Funeral Hymn were all really good songs - but the rest of the album was a bore fest, I agree.

Symphony X - KING OF TERRORS - Mothballs if you liked that other Symphony X song you'll like this one to.

At 12/19/09 08:18 PM, DrMafesto wrote:

At 12/19/09 08:12 PM, Zodir wrote: I've been called an uncaring bastard a lot. People just don't tend to like me. Maybe it's my taste in extremely unpopular music, lol.

I wish I was as hardcore as you

You shouldn't. Believe me, I'd know.

On the subject of metal chicks: Someone here once said (I think it was Sam, actually) "All the hot ones are taken, and all the single ones are ugly, fat, or lesbians."

I dunno if I'd want to date a metal chick; I like indie girls more :3

At 12/19/09 08:39 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: Meh, like I said before, I just avoid saying alternative anything. I feel like there's always a better, more accurate term to describe a band's sound than "alternative."

Perhaps, but I don't think genres need much logic behind their names. What the hell does Death Metal mean? Or Sludge? They just are what they are.

At 12/20/09 08:43 AM, Bahamut wrote: Wow. My only concern about these is how long they last. I go through so many earphones and have to get new ones so soon. Perhaps these headphones do last a very long time but I want to make sure on that. And of course, I won't wear them outside the house. I can just use my earphones which'll be spares whenever I get these awesome headphones.

Earphones have pansy little wires that break easily, and are generally wrapped around something (an iPod for example). That causes them to break sooner. Headphones have thicker wires and are a lot more durable as long as you look after them.
So I assure you they will last as long as you don't spill drinks and jump on them :P.

At 12/20/09 01:45 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: I dunno if I'd want to date a metal chick; I like indie girls more :3

I agree.
I don't even like Metal much nowadays anyway. And I'd rather have someone who was artistic and pretencious than someone who wears massive goth boots and listens to shit Metal (which lets face it, most people do).

I just like bland girls, and the Metal image has its foundations as the antithesis of bland.

At 12/20/09 02:29 PM, Nev wrote: Earphones have pansy little wires that break easily, and are generally wrapped around something (an iPod for example). That causes them to break sooner. Headphones have thicker wires and are a lot more durable as long as you look after them.

It depends how to wrap it up. If you wrap it really tight at the beginning, so that the wire bends where it was inserted, that will cause them to break/lose quality of sound. If you let it hang loose at the beginning and then tightly, you should be fine.

Also, I need some more brutal death metal to listen to. All I'm listening to now is Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Nile, Cannibal Corpse and Bloodbath. Gimmeh some more.

At 12/20/09 03:07 PM, mothballs wrote: Also, I need some more brutal death metal to listen to

Actually, forget that. Thrash metal instead. I only listen to 3 thrash metal bands: Dew-Scented, Slayer, and Blood Tsunami. Pretty sad, right?

Sorry for the double post, but I have cancer

At 12/20/09 03:16 PM, mothballs wrote:

At 12/20/09 03:07 PM, mothballs wrote: Also, I need some more brutal death metal to listen to

Actually, forget that. Thrash metal instead. I only listen to 3 thrash metal bands: Dew-Scented, Slayer, and Blood Tsunami. Pretty sad, right?

Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust, Sodom.

At 12/20/09 01:45 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: On the subject of metal chicks: Someone here once said (I think it was Sam, actually) "All the hot ones are taken, and all the single ones are ugly, fat, or lesbians."

I dunno if I'd want to date a metal chick; I like indie girls more :3

Almost my opinion. They are all either taken, emotionally unstable, or sluts.

At 12/20/09 11:59 AM, ZpLiNtEh wrote:

At 12/20/09 11:07 AM, Twone wrote: Metal chicks are hawt. :3

Hell yea :D

It would be ridiculously awesome to have a girlfriend who's into metal, I will cream my pants if I ever get to meet a hot metal girl.

:3 I beat you to it.

Smeagol, just because she's in corpse paint doesn't mean she's hot. As far as I can tell, it's King Diamond with tits.

At 12/20/09 04:30 PM, Idiosyncratic wrote: Smeagol, just because she's in corpse paint doesn't mean she's hot. As far as I can tell, it's King Diamond with tits.

In other words, we won't more revealing photographs.
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