At 12/25/12 07:12 AM, jack-be-nimble-69 wrote: So what's been happening over the last 8 years and 2,200 pages?

Oh nothing much really. I became the undisputed ruler of the planet for awhile...was betrayed by my followers and was dethroned. Made into a peasant. Tried to get my throne back but was thwarted at every turn. Became a god among men when I defeated Hercules in an arm wrestling match then had my powers taken away by Zeus who was afraid I'd over throw him. And was brought into the future where people completely forgot about the hell on earth which was a result from my reign of terror over the world.
So yeah really nothing.

At 12/25/12 07:12 AM, jack-be-nimble-69 wrote: Evening ladies and gents. This is only my second post on the UG forums, my first being back in 2004, in this very thread, on page 184 I think

My tastes have changed slightly, but anyway...

So what's been happening over the last 8 years and 2,200 pages?

Greetings, friend. Welcome back!

At 12/25/12 07:41 AM, Bahamut wrote:

Plenty of stuff. As metal develops we tend to find more great material from one genre alone. What about you? It's been 7 years since your last visit so maybe your favourites have dramatically changed over the time.

Lately its been Testament, Pestilence, early Death, early Morbid angel, these ones are pretty influential for me in my death/thrash band. Also Lost Horizon, Dream Evil, Dream Theater's "Images and words" album only (don't care too much for the rest), Heathen, Circus Maximus, and some Symphony X have been awesome for the Power metal band I've been filling in for.

Anyone else in metal bands? Is there already a thread for this?

Nice work Viper, sounds like you've had a totally excellent adventure

So I bought myself a copy Murder The Mountains in picture disc form from Relapse and it skips on Malverde ,_,
I played through the first 4 tracks but had to stop because I got a call fro my sister and I dont trust her cats when I'm playing any of my vinyls because they have a habit of jumping on my record player.

I also finally have all 4 of The Sword's albums because I got Gods Of The Earth for Christmas :3
Along with a copy of Blues For The Red Sun

At 12/26/12 02:15 AM, jack-be-nimble-69 wrote: Anyone else in metal bands? Is there already a thread for this?

I was considering buying a drum kit and starting a one man Stoner or Doom Metal band ._.
But I might not....I mean I DO have like 2 or 3 albums worth or songs written and guitar stuff (albeit crappily) recorded for some of em. Along with two 2 hour long songs and a couple 20+ minute ones as well ._. but the insanely long ones where because I was REALLY fucking tired and didn't know when to stop playing.......
I kinda...space out while I'm playing and haven't slept for a day or two....

Nice work Viper, sounds like you've had a totally excellent adventure

It was a most excellent adventure ^U^

At 12/26/12 02:15 AM, jack-be-nimble-69 wrote: Lately its been Testament, Pestilence, early Death, early Morbid angel, these ones are pretty influential for me in my death/thrash band. Also Lost Horizon, Dream Evil, Dream Theater's "Images and words" album only (don't care too much for the rest), Heathen, Circus Maximus, and some Symphony X have been awesome for the Power metal band I've been filling in for.

I've meant to listen to Circus Maximus for ages. First time I heard about them was in something like 2005 or 2006. I was digging around to find some more projects involving Marty Friedman, and I somehow ended up looking these guys up.

It's funny you say Images and Words by Dream Theater is the only DT's album you listen to, because it's pretty much the case for me two. I do listen to the others every now and then, but this one is a masterpiece that just stands above all of their other stuff, IMO. Only 100% I gave to an album in a review so far.

Anyone else in metal bands? Is there already a thread for this?

We usually discuss our own metal projects in here two. Although we should make it more obvious to newcomers that this place is also made to discuss "playing metal". What do you guys think ?

So I was at walmart today and was flipping through a copy of Rolling Stone magazine because it was apparently the "50 Greatest Albums Of 2012" or something like that.

surprise surprise I didn't like roughly 95% of the albums listed

And they had a little catagory off to the side for Best Metal Albums and I was surprised to see Sorrow & Extinction by Pallbearer on there. Along with Hamonicraft by Torche and Yellow & Green by Baroness. Don't remember what the other two albums they listed were....

At 12/26/12 04:59 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I've meant to listen to Circus Maximus for ages. First time I heard about them was in something like 2005 or 2006. I was digging around to find some more projects involving Marty Friedman, and I somehow ended up looking these guys up.

Isolate (album) from Circus Maximus is pretty awesome, reminds me of Images and words haha, probably why I like it. Didn't they used to be a DT and Symphony X tribute band? You can definitely hear the influence. Everything is well balanced on Images, melodic as, and not too wanky, never get bored listening to it

At 12/26/12 11:24 AM, Viper50 wrote: I was considering buying a drum kit and starting a one man Stoner or Doom Metal band ._.

Mean! Sounds buzzy. I used to play in a doom band here in New Zealand called Burning Solitude, but only for 2 months. It was like mix of My Dying Bride, Candlemass, and Crowbar, melodic and sludgy as hell. They were the best songwriters ever, but it was way too slow, and 2 weeks after I left the rhythm guitarist slept with the then vocalists pregnant girlfriend, they've been on "hiatus" ever since

So as nof Christmas I have begun to build up my collection of albums
What I have so far:

Dethklok - Dethalbum III
The Sword - Apocryphon
Mastodon - The Hunter
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Divine Heresy - Bringer of Plagues
Xerath - II
System Of A Down - Toxicity
Testament - Dark Roots Of The Earth

A nice little collection I have made so far I must say

At 12/26/12 11:11 PM, jack-be-nimble-69 wrote:

At 12/26/12 11:24 AM, Viper50 wrote: I was considering buying a drum kit and starting a one man Stoner or Doom Metal band ._.

Mean! Sounds buzzy. I used to play in a doom band here in New Zealand called Burning Solitude, but only for 2 months. It was like mix of My Dying Bride, Candlemass, and Crowbar, melodic and sludgy as hell. They were the best songwriters ever, but it was way too slow, and 2 weeks after I left the rhythm guitarist slept with the then vocalists pregnant girlfriend, they've been on "hiatus" ever since

I can swear I've heard that name before somewhere.....dont know where though.
Great way to break up a band right there.....if I ever have a girlfriend in a band (or whose near the band at times) I need to make sure I make it clear that if theres another guy in the band and he tries anything with her he's getting his nuts cut off with a rusty pair of scissors in his sleep ._.

I dont know how to describe anything I've written....I know I wrote guitar for a song that sounds very Swordesque.
And a really long fuzzy Droney thing I recorded because I promised a friend of mine that I would record.

she really liked it. which surprised me ._.

Also I wanna get to the point in where I can drum well enough to do a cover of Hurricane by Kyuss :3 same with Dragonaut by Sleep ._. I mean my drumming was okay the last time I tried drumming. But I need to practice a lot. Or at least take lessons or something.

So my Christmas CDs built up quite well over the last two days. Here's what I (and my sister) got for Christmas:

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Camel - The Snow Goose
Death - Spiritual Healing
Demon - Night of the Demon
Destruction - Spiritual Genocide
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata (another highlight for 2012 for sure)
DoomSword - My Name Will Live On
Falconer - Northwind
Finsterforst - ...zum Tode hin
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

That will keep me occupied for a few good weeks and I'm already considering buying some albums from Amazon such as Mr. Bungle's self-titled.

Oh yeah, anyone who knows King's X quite well, let me know which albums are worth looking into first. Amazon have some of them for only a mere fiver so if they're the recommended ones, I ought to swipe them while I have the chance.

At 12/27/12 10:33 AM, Bahamut wrote: Oh yeah, anyone who knows King's X quite well, let me know which albums are worth looking into first. Amazon have some of them for only a mere fiver so if they're the recommended ones, I ought to swipe them while I have the chance.

I haven't listened to them in a really long time. I can't really remember where most of the songs I've heard were from. I haven't really heard a full album except possibly Ogre Tones. I'm pretty sure their three most popular and well liked albums are Out of the Silent Planet, Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, and Dogman. I remember liking Ogre Tones, or at least what I heard from it, if I didn't hear the whole thing. It's been a while.

Also, Doug Pinnick looks like a black Mudokon.

"hello" "hello" "follow me" "okay"

At 12/27/12 12:55 PM, Provoke wrote: Sleep - Dopesmoker

Reissue or the one from I wanna say 2003 with the dude on the 4 headed horse monster thingy?

King Crimson - ITCOTCK vinyl(!!!)

Original from 1969 or a repressing?
Cause mines an original from 69.

At 12/27/12 01:03 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Also, Doug Pinnick looks like a black Mudokon.
"hello" "hello" "follow me" "okay"

my sides

At 12/27/12 01:23 PM, Provoke wrote: 4 headed horse.

Ah. I only have the reissue ._.

Repressin, sadly.

Ah okay. Well I suppose it's better than not having a copy.

You guys are all making Christmas cd lists, but I didn't get any. I don't remember asking for any though :P And I didn't buy any for myself either. Bought and received some cool stuff though. Very nice Christmas with my family this year :)

At 12/27/12 08:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: So my Christmas CDs built up quite well over the last two days. Here's what I (and my sister) got for Christmas:

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

I'm so proud of you Bahamut :')

Death - Spiritual Healing
Finsterforst - ...zum Tode hin
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Testament - Dark Roots of Earth

Pretty cool stuff :) I only own one album by Death in physical copy. Should get more.

That will keep me occupied for a few good weeks and I'm already considering buying some albums from Amazon such as Mr. Bungle's self-titled.

Please don't !

At 12/27/12 05:16 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 12/27/12 08:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: That will keep me occupied for a few good weeks and I'm already considering buying some albums from Amazon such as Mr. Bungle's self-titled.

Please don't !

Why the hell not? It's a good album.

At 12/27/12 01:03 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: I'm pretty sure their three most popular and well liked albums are Out of the Silent Planet, Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, and Dogman.

Dogman is the one that's a fiver on Amazon. Hopefully the last one in stock can stay there for two more days as my friend said he has a CD for me for Christmas so I better make sure what I get from him before buying anything online.

At 12/27/12 05:16 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: You guys are all making Christmas cd lists, but I didn't get any. I don't remember asking for any though :P And I didn't buy any for myself either. Bought and received some cool stuff though. Very nice Christmas with my family this year :)

Fair enough, I didn't list any video games down for what I want for Christmas and therefore got no video games but that's fine since I still have shit to catch up on anyway.

At 12/27/12 08:56 AM, Bahamut wrote: So my Christmas CDs built up quite well over the last two days. Here's what I (and my sister) got for Christmas:

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

I'm so proud of you Bahamut :')

Be sure to thank my dad. He did go on an online shopping spree to get everything so he deserves credit.

Pretty cool stuff :) I only own one album by Death in physical copy. Should get more.

And yet I only need just one more Death album in physical copy which is Scream Bloody Gore. At this point I'll just wait for the eventual reissue.

That will keep me occupied for a few good weeks and I'm already considering buying some albums from Amazon such as Mr. Bungle's self-titled.

Please don't !

Why not?

At 12/27/12 06:48 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Why the hell not? It's a good album.

I hate it. One of the rare albums I really feel like deleting entirely from my music library. It's just... not funny. Humor cannot be forced like this. I feel everything on this album is shoved down the listener's throat. Nothing flows smoothly. And there isn't enough pasted the supposedly funny aspect of the music to make up for it.

At 12/27/12 06:51 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I hate it. One of the rare albums I really feel like deleting entirely from my music library. It's just... not funny.

You don't seem to have much taste for avant garde. Do you dislike Frank Zappa as well?

At 12/27/12 06:57 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: You don't seem to have much taste for avant garde. Do you dislike Frank Zappa as well?

How can you even say that...

I've only listened to a handful of songs by Mr. Bungle but from what I heard so far, I like the weirdness of their music. Carousel sounds like Madness got invited in the studio and had a fun party with the band. If I wanted to hear some music where nothing flows smoothly, I'll go with Carnival in Coal. Randomly entering death metal sequences with everything else from them just doesn't mix that well. Granted, I only listened to two of their songs but it didn't give me a good impression.

At 12/27/12 07:05 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 12/27/12 06:57 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: You don't seem to have much taste for avant garde. Do you dislike Frank Zappa as well?

How can you even say that...

I just see it as if Frank Zappa did metal.

At 12/27/12 07:06 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:

At 12/27/12 07:05 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 12/27/12 06:57 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: You don't seem to have much taste for avant garde. Do you dislike Frank Zappa as well?

How can you even say that...

I just see it as if Frank Zappa did metal.

I meant the part about "not having much taste for avant garde". Can't I dislike Mr. Bungle and still understand and appreciate avant garde metal ?

Otherwise I don't know Frank Zappa well enough to tell you. Recommand me something by him !

At 12/27/12 07:15 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I meant the part about "not having much taste for avant garde". Can't I dislike Mr. Bungle and still understand and appreciate avant garde metal ?

alright. I mean, sure you can. It just seemed you only really go for the more accessible side of avant garde is all. no offense.

Otherwise I don't know Frank Zappa well enough to tell you. Recommand me something by him !

Hot Rats and Apostrophe are classics. Weasels Ripped My Flesh is good, but less accessible and more of an acquired taste.

At 12/27/12 07:19 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:

At 12/27/12 07:15 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I meant the part about "not having much taste for avant garde". Can't I dislike Mr. Bungle and still understand and appreciate avant garde metal ?

alright. I mean, sure you can. It just seemed you only really go for the more accessible side of avant garde is all. no offense.

Would you consider these bands to be of the more accessible side of avant garde metal ?

Stolen Babies
Crotchduster
Subterranean Masquerade
Arcturus
Ihsahn
Sigh
Peccatum
maudlin of the Well

Hot Rats and Apostrophe are classics. Weasels Ripped My Flesh is good, but less accessible and more of an acquired taste.

Ok thanks. I'm surprised you think I have limited tastes in avant garde. Sure I don't know the genre as much as death or prog, but... damn...

At 12/27/12 07:23 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Would you consider these bands to be of the more accessible side of avant garde metal ?

Crotchduster
Subterranean Masquerade

haven't listened

Stolen Babies
Arcturus
Ihsahn
Sigh
Peccatum
maudlin of the Well

mostly yes, except for Peccatum (except for the Moribund People, which is pretty catchy and accessible, but also one of my favorites) and certain bits of Sigh, particularly parts of Imaginary Sonicscape.

I'm surprised you think I have limited tastes in avant garde.

sorry. Maybe you don't. It's just that the albums Mr Bungle and Disco Volante are both big and influential parts of the history of avant garde metal.

At 12/27/12 07:15 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Otherwise I don't know Frank Zappa well enough to tell you. Recommand me something by him !

Everything. But I personally like Hot Rats, Burnt Weenie Sandwich, and Zoot Allures the best.

While on the subject of Patton (sort of), does anybody like Naked City?

At 12/26/12 11:46 PM, twistex wrote: So as nof Christmas I have begun to build up my collection of albums
What I have so far:

Dethklok - Dethalbum III
The Sword - Apocryphon
Mastodon - The Hunter
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Divine Heresy - Bringer of Plagues
Xerath - II
System Of A Down - Toxicity
Testament - Dark Roots Of The Earth

A nice little collection I have made so far I must say

I've got a list of my own. I purchased these with my holiday money:

Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Carpticon - Master Mortality
Tsjuder - Desert Northern Hell
Urgehal - Ikonoklast

Still planning on getting some more. Not bad for someone with only $100 of holiday money eh?

At 12/27/12 07:40 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: sorry. Maybe you don't. It's just that the albums Mr Bungle and Disco Volante are both big and influential parts of the history of avant garde metal.

We can all agree that Sigh are good, yes? Then again, I don't think there's been a single member here that has expressed dislike towards them. Probably one of the more agreeable bands in the Metal Hell.

At 12/27/12 11:36 PM, mothballs wrote: Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness

Damn good call on all three!

Still planning on getting some more. Not bad for someone with only $100 of holiday money eh?

I'll soon spend a bit of money on more albums but I'll check on my friend first tomorrow.