I have a kickass sister! I got birthday presents from her and her fiance today due to them going back to London later today and what they got me was Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient and Manilla Road's Open the Gates. I remember my sister asking me if there was any bands I was wanting to get into and Manilla Road was on top of my head. Supposedly, that was the only album she could find but hey, it's better than nothing. Along with the CDs, I got Blind Guardian's And Then There Was Silence T-Shirt and that's the one shirt design I really wanted from that band.

At 7/11/10 05:34 AM, PenisClown wrote:

ace. But no The Mirror or Lie, that is equally awesome. DT have a great song rotation cycle thang for live shows. When I saw Clutch I only got a 50 minute set, so it was full of new stuff, none of the old gems.

Last time I saw Clutch, they played the entirety of their self-titled and that was in January. Just move to the states you so can see them on their home turf.

At 7/11/10 05:34 AM, PenisClown wrote:

Pull Me Under, their greatest hit :D

Learning To Live would have been an awesome choice, also.

At 7/11/10 09:46 AM, Bahamut wrote: I have a kickass sister! Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient and Manilla Road's Open the Gates. I got Blind Guardian's And Then There Was Silence T-Shirt

Your sister, is very, very cool.

Wish mine was like that >:(

At 7/11/10 08:06 PM, ZpLiNtEh wrote: Your sister, is very, very cool.

She definitely is. She's just as much of a metal fan as I am. She's so awesome that she made a fun suggestion to play black metal music at my baby cousin's christening as well as giving him corpse paint.

Obviously they wouldn't do that. Ah well.

And yes, I've turned 20 now!

Now that I got that out of the way,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBd1uQV5f 2Q&feature =player_embeddedl

Smeagol1 is in chains until ragnarok.

Also how many of you listen to Mirrorthrone? If you don't, go listen to carriers of dust whilst masturbating furiously.

At 7/11/10 10:31 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: Also how many of you listen to Mirrorthrone? If you don't, go listen to carriers of dust whilst masturbating furiously.

I heard a song of theirs on Brutal Legend and it sounded pretty awesome, thanks for reminding me to listen to an album or two of them.

I had an idea to collaborate a song with people from the metal hell. If anyone might be interested in that I think it could be pretty interesting.

Well I play drums guitar and bass guitar.

At 7/11/10 10:31 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: Also how many of you listen to Mirrorthrone? If you don't, go listen to carriers of dust whilst masturbating furiously.

Oh god, I only bought Brutal Legend so I could hear their song.

More metal CDs: Bathory's Blood Fire Death and Twilight of the Gods! Those were two of the three Bathory albums I asked for my birthday. I think the other one is on its way but it's late.

At 7/12/10 06:38 AM, Oppugnant wrote:

At 7/11/10 10:31 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: Also how many of you listen to Mirrorthrone? If you don't, go listen to carriers of dust whilst masturbating furiously.

Oh god, I only bought Brutal Legend so I could hear their song.

Brutal Legend introduced me to Brocas Helm and I am so grateful for that!

CAN YOU HEAR THE BANSHEE SCREEEEEAM?!

At 7/11/10 05:37 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 7/11/10 05:34 AM, PenisClown wrote:

Pull Me Under, their greatest hit :D

Learning To Live would have been an awesome choice, also.

I think The Test That Stumped Them All would have been a better choice than Pull Me Under.
And as for In the Presence of Enemies, the reason it's "not as great as their other long songs" is because it's split into two sections. I've listened to them separately many many a time, then realized that they transition into each other perfectly. You have to listen to them back to back for the full effect.

At 7/12/10 07:35 AM, hypersomniax wrote: I think The Test That Stumped Them All would have been a better choice than Pull Me Under.

I'm speakless.

You have to listen to them back to back for the full effect.

That's irrelevant, its just not as good.

At 7/12/10 12:40 PM, Nev wrote: I'm speakless.

And stoopid.

At 7/12/10 01:00 PM, Nev wrote:

At 7/12/10 12:40 PM, Nev wrote: I'm speakless.

And stoopid.

Well I was going to make fun of you.

Happy birthday, Bahamut!

Ufomammut's new album, Eve is pretty good, though not as good as Snailking, Lucifer Songs, or Idolum.

And I've been grabbing a lot of metal albums. Recent acquisitions include...

Asteroid - Asteroid
Asteroid - II
Isis - Oceanic
Disincarnate - Dreams of the Carrion Kind
Edge of Sanity - Spectral Sorrows
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Primordial - the Gathering Wilderness

And I think I forgot something.

At 7/8/10 10:44 AM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: This is modern metal for me.

Yeah, I'll definitely take Vio-Lence over that.

At 7/11/10 10:31 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: Also how many of you listen to Mirrorthrone? If you don't, go listen to carriers of dust whilst masturbating furiously.

been into Mirrorthrone for a while. I lost my copy of of Wind and Weaping, though. I still have Carriers of Dust and Gangrene.

At 7/9/10 04:46 PM, hypersomniax wrote: I'm judging by the fact that they were not brought up when home-slice asked about prog bands that you guys do not consider Tool to be prog metal... Would I be correct in that assumption?

Yeah, they're prog rock.

At 7/10/10 06:26 PM, Nev wrote: Octavarium has Octavarium which is ace.

and Panic Attack, which is also extremely awesome.

At 7/12/10 05:26 AM, PenisClown wrote: Well I play drums guitar and bass guitar.

that would probably be perfect since im mostly a vocalist (gutteral growls). I write riffs but nothing real technical. If you are interested, IM me and we can bounce ideas off each other, or email me. tom5coat@hotmail.com

If anyone else wants to help out that would be great. Im thinking we can get as many people in on it as possible and we can throw ideas around for riffs, drum ideas, and lyrics, then get who ever is talented at each instrument to record it if they can.

At 7/11/10 08:25 PM, Bahamut wrote:

She definitely is. She's just as much of a metal fan as I am. She's so awesome that she made a fun suggestion to play black metal music at my baby cousin's christening as well as giving him corpse paint.

That's so fucking cool, I am doing that with my kid (if I ever have one) :D

My sister's preggers and apparently whenever I'm playing guitar around her the baby kicks like mad, I am so getting that kid into metal ;D

At 7/12/10 04:55 PM, tom5coat wrote: If anyone else wants to help out that would be great. Im thinking we can get as many people in on it as possible and we can throw ideas around for riffs, drum ideas, and lyrics, then get who ever is talented at each instrument to record it if they can.

Too many cooks yadda yadda yadda.

At 7/12/10 12:40 PM, Nev wrote:

At 7/12/10 07:35 AM, hypersomniax wrote: I think The Test That Stumped Them All would have been a better choice than Pull Me Under.

I'm speakless.

As good as The Test That Stumped Them All is (one of the best parts in 6DOIT), I too thought that was a strange statement to make. Pull Me Under is Dream Theater's most well known song while only the hardcore Dream Theater fans will know about The Test That Stumped Them All.

At 7/12/10 02:52 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Happy birthday, Bahamut!

Thanks Sense!

At 7/10/10 06:26 PM, Nev wrote: Octavarium has Octavarium which is ace.

and Panic Attack, which is also extremely awesome.

Hell yeah!

At 7/12/10 07:20 PM, ZpLiNtEh wrote: My sister's preggers and apparently whenever I'm playing guitar around her the baby kicks like mad, I am so getting that kid into metal ;D

You are going to be one hell of an uncle!

At 7/13/10 05:37 AM, Bahamut wrote: You are going to be one hell of an uncle!

What, nothing wrong with whacking on some Nile instead of the kids lullaby music surely ? :P

At 7/13/10 05:37 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/12/10 12:40 PM, Nev wrote:

At 7/12/10 07:35 AM, hypersomniax wrote: I think The Test That Stumped Them All would have been a better choice than Pull Me Under.

I'm speakless.

As good as The Test That Stumped Them All is (one of the best parts in 6DOIT), I too thought that was a strange statement to make. Pull Me Under is Dream Theater's most well known song while only the hardcore Dream Theater fans will know about The Test That Stumped Them All.

Yeah well... I guess in terms of well-knownness (which I suppose counts more than awesomeness for a "greatest hit") Pull Me Under trumps TTTSTA... At least The Test made it onto the first "Greatest Hit" CD.

Am I the only person that hates the second CD of the "Greatest Hit" duo?

At 7/13/10 07:05 AM, hypersomniax wrote:

Am I the only person that hates the second CD of the "Greatest Hit" duo?

I hate the entire thing.
And Happy Birthday Bahamut.
And my children are going to listen to nothing but Rockabye Baby stuff.

So I got a $15 iTunes card. Problem is I already downloaded almost all the music I could possibly want.

What I need is an album I will not be disappointed with in the least bit.

Oh yeah, I had also gotten Mammatus - Mammatus and Thorns - Thorns.

So, how many CDs/LPs and stuff do you guys own?

For me (at last count)

94 (including CD's within box-sets/digipacks [more than 2 CD's in one package])
71 (box-sets/digipacks counted as 1 CD)
14 DVD's
3 Vinyl records

At 7/13/10 09:35 PM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: So, how many CDs/LPs and stuff do you guys own?

For me (at last count)

94 (including CD's within box-sets/digipacks [more than 2 CD's in one package])
71 (box-sets/digipacks counted as 1 CD)
14 DVD's
3 Vinyl records

I own

150 (Something like 3 EP's and Demos, 2 Live Albums, 145 Full Lenght Albums but I didn't count the digipacks and box-sets)
1 DVD

Did you count the CD's that come with a DVD in your DVD's? Cause I only count my GiganTour DVD in the DVD's, while I have Bonus CD's with some videos and stuff.

I have a whole shelf filled with metal cds but I just download shit nowadays, much more satisfying to pay nothing.

But I'd estimate there's about 50 CDs sitting over there. There's a few hundred vinyls in the room next to me, my dad would buy them cheap. I have all three Metallica albums on vinyl, the first three Anthrax albums, a whole lot of Motorhead vinyls, Faith No More's 'Epic' and a fair bit of hardcore punk stuff. Not to mention a whole lot of Jimi Hendrix and other blues players like Bo Diddly, Chuck Berry, stuff like that.

I'd estimate about 200 vinyls.

But my Frank Zappa collection (A whopping 10 albums) is completely downloaded. Just like every stoner, doom, or sludge album. All my Electric Wizard, my Bongzilla, Weedeater, all downloaded. That's just how I do it now.

I don't think that your father's vinyls and albums would count Ponos. Otherwise, I would have to add all my parents albums and vinyls two... and that's another 200 or 300 :P