At 10/1/11 02:42 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: This is something that really bugs me. Like, when I read about a band that released only one album or two, and a lot of demos... now they are finaly known, after all the hard work to get a fanbase and reach people with your music... GETTING HEARD! You decide that you don't want to do this anymore... Well... that really bugs me...

Yeah. I was truly sad when I read the news so I've been jamming them all week.

At 10/1/11 03:13 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: I totally forgot to post the picture of the cover of Defiant Imagination

I dislike it when bands use random latin phrases as names.

Ohohoho Quo Vadis

Sum ambulo ad Graecia.

At 10/1/11 02:12 AM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 10/1/11 01:55 AM, batman64 wrote: Popping in to say hi and see what's new.

Been going back into my hold albums recently. I re-discovered a great band named Quo Vadis, the Quo Vadis from Quebec, not the one from Poland. You might enjoy this. They play a unique brand of progressive and technical melodic death metal, but not an Arch Enemy kind of melodeath. They are unique. I really don't know what album to suggest, they are all good and differents. My favorite when I was a teenager was Day Into Night, but I'm getting more and more into Defiant Imagination now. The last one has a sick cover, I'll post a picture at the end of my post.

I really freaking like them. Quality melo death. Actually, Defiant Imagination is my least favorite of their albums, I really like Day Into Night and Forever... better. Defiant Imaginiation is still great, I just don't find it to be of the same caliber of their other stuff.

My review for King Diamond's Abigail II: The Revenge is now up. I would really like some constructive criticism. I haven't written a review in a while due to being so busy with applying to colleges and shit. So I have a pretty big backlog of reviews I want to write. On my list to tackle next are:

The rest of the Manilla Road discography (I'm on Atlantis Rising)
God Dethroned's Under the Sign of the Iron Cross
Persuader's When Eden Burns
Tygers of Pan Tang's Spellbound
Quo Vadis's Forever...
Mortification's Scrolls of the Megilloth
Vader's The Beast
Forced Entry's As Above, So Below and Uncertain Future
and Final Fantasy VI's Soundtrack (video game music FTW!)

If anyone else has some recommendations of albums I should review, I'll check out if the album already has a review, and if not, I'll try to fit it into my list of reviews.

I have now returned. I know Bill was asking about me. I suppose I didn't mention everywhere that I was going away to Paris but thought bringing it up over in the LUL and on my latest news post (incidentally, latest Monday Metal Treasures post was for Týr) would have been enough.

Since my absence, the most that happened was the full song for Hammers of Misfortune's 17th Street being posted online as well as hearing the whole of Lou Reed and Metallica's The View. To me, it's comedy gold, especially "I AM THE TABLE!" line. Radikult is out, The View is in.

At 9/25/11 04:08 PM, Haggard wrote: On the other hand we have bands like Motörhead and Running Wild (both are great bands btw) that sound EXACTLY THE SAME on EVERY ALBUM and yet they are praised beyond any limits. For what? For recording the same fucking album year after year?

To be fair, Running Wild retired in 2009 and the last album was in 2005. :P Even they ran out of ideas in the end but not Lemmy. I even think some of the later albums show some difference to Motörhead's music.

At 9/27/11 05:06 PM, greensucksbluerules wrote: So Yahoo decided to make a worst heavy metal albums list today. Guess what they put at number 1?

Eh, I didn't find it to be a good list. Fear of the Dark may be cluttered with fillers but it still has some fantastic tracks. I was expecting to see Helloween's Chameleon on there, despite myself actually enjoying it. Hell, I gave it 80% on MA years back. Maybe some of us have a soft spot for the odd generally hated album.

At 9/28/11 06:36 PM, batman64 wrote: Heritage and The Hunter are in my top 3 releases this year..not sure yet who will round it off yet since we still have more releases coming.

I don't think Heritage is that high up for me. I'm still giving it several listens, though as I feel it'll be appreciated more as time goes by.

At 9/30/11 08:40 PM, AniMetal wrote: They're called Voyager and they troop out from Australia.

Actually, they have a new album coming out this month. One reviewer gave it high marks so I was curious about it. I may not be in the best mood to check out new stuff right now. After all, I only got back today but I will give these guys a shot. They may be just the power metal band I've been wanting to discover.

At 10/1/11 07:03 PM, Zodir wrote: The rest of the Manilla Road discography (I'm on Atlantis Rising)

Of course, I'm looking forward to the rest of this.

and Final Fantasy VI's Soundtrack (video game music FTW!)

HELL FUCKING YES!

If anyone else has some recommendations of albums I should review, I'll check out if the album already has a review, and if not, I'll try to fit it into my list of reviews.

Are you up for reviewing Opeth's latest album by any chance? I'm curious to hear your full thoughts on it.

Sure its grammatically correct?

At 10/1/11 03:46 PM, TheSporkLord wrote:

At 10/1/11 03:13 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: I totally forgot to post the picture of the cover of Defiant Imagination

I dislike it when bands use random latin phrases as names.

Why? Latin is a beautiful language, and I understand why someone would like to refer to this language or the culture associated to it.

At 10/1/11 04:04 PM, Zodir wrote: I really freaking like them. Quality melo death. Actually, Defiant Imagination is my least favorite of their albums, I really like Day Into Night and Forever... better. Defiant Imaginiation is still great, I just don't find it to be of the same caliber of their other stuff.

Damn right it's a quality melo death band :) I'm happy to see that you like them :) My personnaly favorite is also Day Into Night, I just thought Defiant Imagination's cover was wicked ! I hope they could still release some good material, even with the drastic line-up change they went through. Here in Quebec, a lot of people said Quo Vadis was dead when Stephane Paré and Yanic Bercier both left the band.

Haven't been around for a while cause I've been busy moving into uni. I've met a guy from Cyprus on my course, he's into metal, he's seen Rotting Christ twice which is p cool.

At 10/1/11 07:14 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 10/1/11 07:03 PM, Zodir wrote: The rest of the Manilla Road discography (I'm on Atlantis Rising)

Of course, I'm looking forward to the rest of this.

I'm currently in a rut when it comes to writing Manilla Road reviews. I've listened to Atlantis Rising at least 6 times the past couple days, and I just can't seem to get anything written down.

and Final Fantasy VI's Soundtrack (video game music FTW!)

HELL FUCKING YES!

I'm glad you approve. Dancing Mad is one of the greatest compositions of all time. That is going to be a monster to review though.

If anyone else has some recommendations of albums I should review, I'll check out if the album already has a review, and if not, I'll try to fit it into my list of reviews.

Are you up for reviewing Opeth's latest album by any chance? I'm curious to hear your full thoughts on it.

Heritage already has like 8 reviews on the site I write for, so I probably won't write a full review for it. I might write a little blurb if the mood strikes me.

So I like Jazz now. Give me some Jazz-influenced Metal, bros.

At 10/2/11 10:47 AM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: So I like Jazz now. Give me some Jazz-influenced Metal, bros.

Yakuza and Sigh, both use saxophones in their songs.

At 10/2/11 10:47 AM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: So I like Jazz now. Give me some Jazz-influenced Metal, bros.

Cynic
Atheist
Exivious

So I decided to listen to this new Mastodon album you're all talking about. I've never really listened to Mastodon before, but this is some good shit. This is just the kind of metal I love, it's like.. I don't even know what to call it, it's just different.

At 10/2/11 12:16 PM, hitman1993 wrote: So I decided to listen to this new Mastodon album you're all talking about. I've never really listened to Mastodon before, but this is some good shit. This is just the kind of metal I love, it's like.. I don't even know what to call it, it's just different.

Listen to Crack The Skye, it's much better and more experimental.

At 10/2/11 12:16 PM, hitman1993 wrote: So I decided to listen to this new Mastodon album you're all talking about. I've never really listened to Mastodon before, but this is some good shit. This is just the kind of metal I love, it's like.. I don't even know what to call it, it's just different.

See I'm really confused now cause I'm like the biggest Mastodon fan and dont like this album.

At 10/2/11 11:48 AM, SomaGuye wrote: Cynic
Atheist
Exivious

I second all three of these bands, and would also like to add:
Aghora
Revocation
Panzerballettand
Counter-World Experience
Spastic Ink

At 10/2/11 06:47 PM, AniMetal wrote:

At 10/2/11 11:48 AM, SomaGuye wrote: Cynic
Atheist
Exivious

I second all three of these bands, and would also like to add:
Aghora
Revocation
Panzerballettand
Counter-World Experience
Spastic Ink

The three bands listed by SomaGuye are great, I also love Aghora and Spastic Ink. Very good recommandations, check them out :)

At 10/2/11 02:31 AM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 10/1/11 03:46 PM, TheSporkLord wrote:

At 10/1/11 03:13 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: I totally forgot to post the picture of the cover of Defiant Imagination

I dislike it when bands use random latin phrases as names.

Why? Latin is a beautiful language, and I understand why someone would like to refer to this language or the culture associated to it.

It's just a pet peeve of mine when people use random words or phrases from foreign languages. Like E pluribus Unum, oh lololol I know how to speak latin now. At least bother to learn the language instead of just putting random words of latin in with english. Like if I wanted to say " I am a god " I would say Sum Deus, not I am a deus. Nothing against the band, I've never even listened to them.

At 10/2/11 03:19 PM, batman64 wrote:

At 10/1/11 11:25 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: Sure its grammatically correct?

I am very glad you asked this question.
The answer is No, I am not sure due also to the fact I put the same lyrics through another online translator and came up with different lyrics. What I posted was just the very first result and translation.

Check this shit out and tell me you can't see the glaring problem with translators.

Urdu Cheddar A.k.a. Holy Cow, jihad over cheese.
scriptures.
demigods feasted cheddar.
cheddar.
cheddar.

:cheddar.

Yes, it looks and sounds funny at first but then it's like WTF? how did this happen.
Found a lot more things like this just using the same lyrics.

Translators just aren't good with context. My latin teacher was telling us that if you tried to tranlsate " tear " ( as in you have a tear in your pants ) the word would come out as " lacrima "
( as in a tear or crying ) So you would end up talking about how your pants are crying.

Will be around and not around the next couple days or so, have a bunch more stuff I am working on as well. Also, I have a request for all of you and I mean all.
If anyone in here can read and/or speak another language can you please post which languages?
Working on a fun project and need foreign speakers.

Learning latin. Not fluent though.

At 10/2/11 07:17 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: The three bands listed by SomaGuye are great, I also love Aghora and Spastic Ink. Very good recommandations, check them out :)

Not a fan of Revocation, Panzerballett or Counter-World Experience?

Panzerballettand IS NOT a band, I don't know why I wrote that And there. haha

Actually I shouldn't say I'm not fluent. I can help write a totally br00tal song about farmers. Or how there are no women or girls in germany.

At 10/2/11 07:19 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: It's just a pet peeve of mine when people use random words or phrases from foreign languages. Like E pluribus Unum, oh lololol I know how to speak latin now. At least bother to learn the language instead of just putting random words of latin in with english. Like if I wanted to say " I am a god " I would say Sum Deus, not I am a deus. Nothing against the band, I've never even listened to them.

They don't have much latin in their lyrics in fact, it's just the band's name that is in latin. I know what you mean and I understand that it can easily be perceived as a cliché, especially for Metal bands. It doesn't bother me if the music itself isn't cheesy.

Will be around and not around the next couple days or so, have a bunch more stuff I am working on as well. Also, I have a request for all of you and I mean all.
If anyone in here can read and/or speak another language can you please post which languages?
Working on a fun project and need foreign speakers.

Learning latin. Not fluent though.

I'm going to answer your question here, Bill. I speak English and French. I'm way better in French, but I think the quality of my English is not so bad.

At 10/2/11 07:47 PM, AniMetal wrote: Not a fan of Revocation, Panzerballett or Counter-World Experience?

I don't know them in fact, I should have mentionned that in my post. If you think they are worth mentionning it might be a sign that I have to expand my musical library furthermore.

Dimmu Borgir - Dødsferd

At 10/2/11 08:06 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I don't know them in fact, I should have mentionned that in my post. If you think they are worth mentionning it might be a sign that I have to expand my musical library furthermore.

I know for a fact you would LOVE Revocation. They're also really getting popular now, which is good.

As for the other two, they're way more obscure, but still worth investigating and are pretty awesome none-the-less! :D

At 10/1/11 07:03 PM, Zodir wrote: If anyone else has some recommendations of albums I should review, I'll check out if the album already has a review, and if not, I'll try to fit it into my list of reviews.

Onward to Golgotha, Diabolical Conquest, Ashore the Celestial Burden, Seminal Vampires and Maggot Men, Irae Melanox, Todessehnsucht, Frost and Fire, Are You Excrements?, Ritual of Infinity, The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth), Les morts vont vite.

At 10/2/11 10:47 AM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: So I like Jazz now. Give me some Jazz-influenced Metal, bros.

Carbonized and Creepmime.

This week's feature is Angra!

At 10/2/11 09:31 AM, Zodir wrote:

At 10/1/11 07:14 PM, Bahamut wrote: Of course, I'm looking forward to the rest of this.

I'm currently in a rut when it comes to writing Manilla Road reviews. I've listened to Atlantis Rising at least 6 times the past couple days, and I just can't seem to get anything written down.

I know what you mean. I've had a few stops with my Monday Metal Treasures posts. Thankfully I've got all but four Manilla Road posts done so it's a matter of getting them done. I'm hoping I can get it all ready this week.

HELL FUCKING YES!

I'm glad you approve. Dancing Mad is one of the greatest compositions of all time. That is going to be a monster to review though.

I wonder how one can even review the whole soundtrack.

Listened to Mastodon's The Hunter from start to finish on acid last night, liked it a whole lot better. Vocals sounded really trippy and it seriously made more sense to me, which is weird because on acid usually nothing makes sense. But The Hunter does.

Has anyone heard of the band Fifty Foot Woman? They popped up in the suggestions on my Youtube and I gave this song a listen, and I'm really diggin' it.

Fifty Foot Woman - Sand Witch

Thanks Delirium, SomaGuye, AniMetal, and Dalnaki for the recommendations. Gonna start checking those out now.

Humanfly...Been absolutely addicted to these guys lately...They're playing a gig real close to me but it's 18+ only...

At 10/3/11 03:53 PM, batman64 wrote:
Dude, you're close to it...make a lil noise and go for it cause even the worst case scenario can end up pretty cool.
Talking from experience...what d'ya got to lose?
Nothing.

Well, the train ride would cost me a little bit of money, but other than that the ticket is only around £5. I might have a go when the time comes. Who knows, I might not even get ID'd.

Hey everybody! Time to enjoy my review of the album Agony by Fleshgod Apocalypse :)

Some of you guys might not like it though. Let's just say I'm not a fan of their latest work...

Bongripper - Hail