At 7/10/12 09:06 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/9/12 03:55 PM, Zodir wrote: Ok, not exactly metal related at all, but my review for the Final Fantasy VI OST is now up. As always, I appreciate constructive criticism or any suggestions. Thanks!

I'm amazed how one can review that soundtrack within that many paragraphs. If it were me, it would have went beyond ten paragraphs since I have far too much to say about FFVI.

Yeah, I had that trouble. If you looked at my first comment, it took months to write that, with constant changes and rewrites. I think I managed to get the core ideas through though. Favorite FF soundtrack and game.

At 7/10/12 09:06 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/9/12 10:28 PM, ElGhoulio wrote: Heard Manowar's new album, Lord of Steel. It blows, don't listen to it. This is coming from someone who loved the Thunder in the Sky EP and Gods of War. Such a shame.

Hell, even I liked the odd song from Warriors of the World and Gods of War but this abomination, no, can't think of anything good. Born in a Grave had potential but that fucking obnoxious bass really drowns everything.

Yeah, DeMaio let his ego go wild on this one. It reminds me of Unleash the Fury by Yngwie, in that it sounds like it was thrown together at the last minute.

At 7/10/12 09:13 AM, Viper50 wrote: hmm...okay. i can't wait to get my copy
well i think its pretty good
not as "heavy" as id like it to be but still not that bad

Hah, I can be too far ahead of myself. I thought I didn't even pre-order the album but I did so a month ago.

and well happy early birthday then dude :)

Many thanks for that. It's only tomorrow now. I should have this one the most laid back birthday yet.

At 7/10/12 09:18 AM, Zodir wrote: Yeah, I had that trouble. If you looked at my first comment, it took months to write that, with constant changes and rewrites. I think I managed to get the core ideas through though. Favorite FF soundtrack and game.

I noticed from the comments that you've yet to play FFIX. I highly recommend that game. It's in my top three for both game and soundtrack. I will agree with you that FFVI does stand out the most, though.

Say, don't we have a Final Fantasy Club? :P

At 7/10/12 12:17 PM, ElGhoulio wrote: Yeah, DeMaio let his ego go wild on this one. It reminds me of Unleash the Fury by Yngwie, in that it sounds like it was thrown together at the last minute.

I'll keep in mind that I have not listened to Unleash the Fury. I read your review for The Lord of Steel on MA. It's spot on even to the point of noting how the album is like Gods of War but without the epic songwriting and symphonic elements. Hell, the addition of orchestral elements would have actually helped out the album a bit. I could have had a stronger sense of enthusiasm with them but since we're without them, there are moments where the album feels very dry.

At 7/11/12 07:53 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/10/12 09:18 AM, Zodir wrote: Yeah, I had that trouble. If you looked at my first comment, it took months to write that, with constant changes and rewrites. I think I managed to get the core ideas through though. Favorite FF soundtrack and game.

I noticed from the comments that you've yet to play FFIX. I highly recommend that game. It's in my top three for both game and soundtrack. I will agree with you that FFVI does stand out the most, though.

Say, don't we have a Final Fantasy Club? :P

I will try to get on that. I've decided I want to play and beat I-X, since those are considered to be the best. I've only heard not so good things about later installments.

In more metal related things, what albums have you guys been digging that came out this year? For me, Sigh's In Somniphobia and Vintersorg's Orkan are my two favorites so far.

At 7/11/12 07:53 AM, Bahamut wrote: Hah, I can be too far ahead of myself. I thought I didn't even pre-order the album but I did so a month ago.

yeah i almost forgot i pre-ordered it myself...its a good thing i got a few emails from relapse telling me about the status of my order and stuff along with some other emails

Many thanks for that. It's only tomorrow now. I should have this one the most laid back birthday yet.

your welcome dude
hope you have a good day tomorrow

Wow. Anyone else hear about all this?

At 7/11/12 03:21 PM, Zodir wrote: Wow. Anyone else hear about all this?

i heard about Geoff Tate was no longer in the band but i didn't hear about the rest of that

sorry for the double post but i just remembered this

that suing thing reminded me of what Josh Homme and Scott Reeder are doing with trying to sue the members of Kyuss Lives and all that stuff thats going down there

At 7/11/12 05:37 PM, Viper50 wrote:

At 7/11/12 03:21 PM, Zodir wrote: Wow. Anyone else hear about all this?

i heard about Geoff Tate was no longer in the band but i didn't hear about the rest of that

Reminds me of the shit Gaahl tried to pull with Gorgoroth

At 7/11/12 03:21 PM, Zodir wrote: Wow. Anyone else hear about all this?

Holy fucking shit. I'm not crazy enough to read over 50 paragraphs of that but dear god! Unfortunately, this drama will be Stratovarius in 2008 all over again but I'm hoping this will be a step in the right direction for Queensryche's music. I've at least caught the part where Geoff Tate attacked the whole band and yeah, this is definitely sounding like a repeat of Stratovarius in the last decade.

Randy Blythe - Frontman of Lamb Of God is being detained in Prague and facing a charge of manslaughter that is complete BULLSHIT.

At 7/11/12 03:21 PM, Zodir wrote: Wow. Anyone else hear about all this?

Well, I thought they sucked anyway. Does it really matter ?

I'm just dropping in quickly to tell you guys I've finaly checked out Hammers Of Misfortune. I know Bahamut likes them, so I thought I would tell you guys that I'm really enjoying their music so far :)

At 7/11/12 11:04 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 7/11/12 03:21 PM, Zodir wrote: Wow. Anyone else hear about all this?

Well, I thought they sucked anyway. Does it really matter ?

I liked Operation Mindcrime and everything before it. But yeah, their newer stuff blows so hard.

At 7/11/12 11:04 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 7/11/12 03:21 PM, Zodir wrote: Wow. Anyone else hear about all this?

Well, I thought they sucked anyway. Does it really matter ?

They do have some good albums but you should not look at anything beyond Empire and even that one is iffy for some. However, with Tate gone, maybe they can look back at the earlier albums and go more along the styles of them. Tate was the reason why they couldn't play most songs from their earlier stuff.

The article provides lots of lulz with Tate acting like a goddamn child towards the rest of the band.

I'm just dropping in quickly to tell you guys I've finaly checked out Hammers Of Misfortune. I know Bahamut likes them, so I thought I would tell you guys that I'm really enjoying their music so far :)

Excellent man! I ought to return the favour and really get into one band you've been praising here for many years.

You should know the one. ;)

At 7/12/12 12:15 AM, ElGhoulio wrote: I liked Operation Mindcrime and everything before it. But yeah, their newer stuff blows so hard.

Yeah well, I was refering to their latest releases. Sorry I didn't make that obvious.

At 7/12/12 08:06 AM, Bahamut wrote: The article provides lots of lulz with Tate acting like a goddamn child towards the rest of the band.

I don't know him, but what I've read just tends to push me toward thinking that he's a liar, a tyrannical douchebag and an Axel Rose.

Excellent man! I ought to return the favour and really get into one band you've been praising here for many years.

I've only listenned to the album The August Engine so far, and it's pretty amazing. Any recommandation for what album I should pick up next ?

You should know the one. ;)

I'm digging real deep in my head right now, but I can't remember which one that would be. I don't know which bands you know and which bands you don't. You do know Agalloch and Blotted Science, right ? :P

ISIS - Wills Dissolve

At 7/9/12 03:55 PM, Zodir wrote: Ok, not exactly metal related at all, but my review for the Final Fantasy VI OST is now up.

I have the piano album of that, which is great. I especially love the forest track. I also have the piano albums of 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10.

At 7/11/12 08:43 AM, Zodir wrote: I will try to get on that. I've decided I want to play and beat I-X, since those are considered to be the best.

I hate the ending for X. After I saw it on Youtube, I stopped playing the game. I still love the OST, which I have.

At 7/11/12 03:21 PM, Zodir wrote: Wow. Anyone else hear about all this?

Eh, they stopped being relevant a long time ago. Operation Mindcrime and Empire were fantastic, though.

At 7/11/12 11:04 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I'm just dropping in quickly to tell you guys I've finaly checked out Hammers Of Misfortune. I know Bahamut likes them, so I thought I would tell you guys that I'm really enjoying their music so far :)

They're awesome.

Did anybody manage to get their hands on the album Feistadon ? It's a 7' Split of Feist and Mastodon covering each others tracks, and I'd really like to get a good quality mp3 of these tracks :)

Anyway, read this. This is an article on Black Metal and Islam. The name of the article in fact is When Black Metal's Anti-Religious Message Gets Turned on Islam. They talk about Janaza and anti-islamic black metal. Which is pretty interresting.

At 7/12/12 09:54 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:
Anyway, read this. This is an article on Black Metal and Islam. The name of the article in fact is When Black Metal's Anti-Religious Message Gets Turned on Islam. They talk about Janaza and anti-islamic black metal. Which is pretty interresting.

Fuck yes. I read that and it made me love black metal all that much moar.

At 7/12/12 06:47 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 7/12/12 08:06 AM, Bahamut wrote: The article provides lots of lulz with Tate acting like a goddamn child towards the rest of the band.

I don't know him, but what I've read just tends to push me toward thinking that he's a liar, a tyrannical douchebag and an Axel Rose.

Yep, that was an Axl Rose moment from him and man, if only Axl Rose could get thrown out of GnR for his douchebaggery but then again, doing that would mean no more of that band which I'm good with.

Excellent man! I ought to return the favour and really get into one band you've been praising here for many years.

I've only listenned to the album The August Engine so far, and it's pretty amazing. Any recommandation for what album I should pick up next ?

Go for The Locust Years next. Expect some changes to their sound here as it doesn't take the very heavy approach that The August Engine has. The Bastard has black metal elements and focuses on a concept album. Well, so does The August Engine but that one is more abstract and not as straight forward as The Bastard. Fields/Church of Broken Glass are quite possibly the weakest out of the five albums but are still worth hearing. There's just some merits that don't shine as well as the rest of their music but on the other hand, you have some damn good material such as Fields trilogy and Almost (Left Without You). When I think of it, it's only the last track or two on Fields that aren't so inspiring.

You should know the one. ;)

I'm digging real deep in my head right now, but I can't remember which one that would be. I don't know which bands you know and which bands you don't. You do know Agalloch and Blotted Science, right ? :P

Already got the Blotted Science album but I could do with the EP. Agalloch it is and my problem with their albums is the difficulty of getting some of them. If I saw a damn good deal, I would have swiped it by now so at this point I'll just have to accept the higher price of some of their albums.

So, trailer for the new Cryptopsy album.

At 7/13/12 10:40 AM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: So, trailer for the new Cryptopsy album.

Eh, I'm lukewarm on cryptopsy. I am glad Levasseur is back in the band, because Levasseur's riffs and technicality is what drew me to Cryptopsy in the first place (way better than that Alex Auburn douche), but I still can't deal with McGachy's vocals. STOP CUPPING THE MIC YOU DOUCHEBUCKET IT SOUNDS LIKE SHIT WHENEVER PEOPLE DO THAT LEARN PROPER VOCAL TECHNIQUE GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH.

a bit of an update on the whole Randy Blythe Manslaughter thing
http://wtvr.com/2012/07/12/lamb-of-god-singer-has-court-date -scheduled-next-week/

At 7/13/12 03:13 PM, RageOfOrder wrote:

At 7/13/12 03:08 PM, RageOfOrder wrote: I heard you guys like concert pics

Dan Briggs from Between the Buried and Me

Photo won't upload. I'm assuming it has to do with my proxy settings here. Commence finger pointing and laughter.

Try this instead: http://i.imgur.com/MHL0b.jpg

Great picture, shitty band.

*prepares for being hit in the head with shovel*

At 7/13/12 04:47 PM, ElGhoulio wrote:

Great picture, shitty band.

*prepares for being hit in the head with shovel*

aw come on man what have you got against between

At 7/13/12 08:22 PM, JaY11 wrote:

At 7/13/12 04:47 PM, ElGhoulio wrote:

Great picture, shitty band.

*prepares for being hit in the head with shovel*

aw come on man what have you got against between

generic shitty metalcore.

At 7/13/12 08:24 PM, ElGhoulio wrote:

generic shitty metalcore.

never have btbam come across to me as generic, have you ever heard anything off of the album Colors?

At 7/13/12 08:24 PM, ElGhoulio wrote: generic shitty metalcore.

I can understand not liking them (I'm not the hugest fan), but generic? Among the popular metalcore bands (and a lot of metalcore in general), they are very unique.

Anyone here heard of the sludge band Mare? They're pretty big in the underground metal scene, they released one fantastic EP and then disappeared. Anyway I just found out that they have seemingly randomly reformed and are touring through the UK. If you live in the UK they do not miss the chance to see this band live, unfortunately hardly any info has been revealed about the tour so keep an eye out if you're interested.

At 7/13/12 09:18 AM, Bahamut wrote: Go for The Locust Years next. Expect some changes to their sound here as it doesn't take the very heavy approach that The August Engine has. The Bastard has black metal elements and focuses on a concept album. Well, so does The August Engine but that one is more abstract and not as straight forward as The Bastard. Fields/Church of Broken Glass are quite possibly the weakest out of the five albums but are still worth hearing. There's just some merits that don't shine as well as the rest of their music but on the other hand, you have some damn good material such as Fields trilogy and Almost (Left Without You). When I think of it, it's only the last track or two on Fields that aren't so inspiring.

I'm taking good note of this. I really liked the heavyness and great progressive aspects of The August Empire. I really hope to find those elements in their other releases.

Already got the Blotted Science album but I could do with the EP. Agalloch it is and my problem with their albums is the difficulty of getting some of them. If I saw a damn good deal, I would have swiped it by now so at this point I'll just have to accept the higher price of some of their albums.

I knew you really liked buying albums, but don't you ever download ? Or else, I could still send you their cds through e-mail... They really are worth buying though. I own three of their albums, and I can't wait to hear their new material, Faustian Echoes :)

Anyway. If you are interrested in Agalloch, you should definitely start with Pale Folklore or Ashes Against The Grain. Well, any of their albums are fantastic, really. I just listed my favorites. But The Mantle is a masterpiece and Marrow Of The Spirit is just as unique and memorable as the others. If you want in depth descriptions of the albums, just ask :)

At 7/13/12 10:40 AM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: So, trailer for the new Cryptopsy album.

I don't know if that's really my cup of tea, but it's definitely better than their most recent release. At least they have dropped the fucking lousy deathcore elements and have brought back some Death in their Metal.

At 7/13/12 08:24 PM, ElGhoulio wrote: generic shitty metalcore.

Do I smell dogmatic metalheadness ? I think so :P

If the band Between The Buried And Me can be defined by a word it's anything but generic. The album Colors is one of my all time favorite Prog albums. It's a beatiful blend of Progressive Metal, Prog Rock, Prog Metalcore and more. They have various recognizable influences such as Queen, King Crimson, Soundgarden, Pink Floyd, Faith No More and countless others. Even with those influences, they still manage to have their unique sound.

Like them or not, they aren't generic by any means.

At 7/14/12 02:59 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: stuff

I need to just put a disclaimer on it: WARNING: YOU WILL NOT LIKE THIS OPINION. Besides, is the nu-metal/metalcore crew still alive? It might've died, I was offline for 3 years so that's a distinct possibility, so I'm open to that being the case. My anger is a sort of "POST THAT STUFF THERE, NOT HERE" kind of deal.