I didn't really care for their last album.

I dunno dude. Satanic Royalty is pretty bad ass. I'm going to be seeing them with Antisect in May.

It's good but it's not as good as their compilation material.

Yeah, pretty awesome band, saw them last year or so. I'd like to see them again, a Midnight/Speedwolf tour would be awesome.

I'm stoked that they're on the bill with Antisect's reunion. Not a better band could have been chosen. Praise Satan that it isn't Toxic Holosuck.

I'm basically with Nahsil in preferring the compilation stuff. Even then though, Midnight has never been a band that hugely impressed me. I still wouldn't mind seeing them live though, imagine it'd be fun.

Antisect can fuck off after all the bullshit that went on with Chaos in Tejas.

What happened? I never heard about any of that.

I really liked Midnight's last album as well.

Antisect and The Mob threatened to drop if Nyogthaeblisz wasn't kicked off because they weren't going to play with a "Nazi" band. Nyogthaeblisz may have some questionable song titles and affiliations, but the members are fucking Mexicans.

"New concert annouced!

Blackguard, Toxic Holocaust, Baroness, and Testament! Everyone else got tired of touring with these guys, so we don't have a headliner!"

Sigrblot is pretty good for racialist bigot music. Based on my recent tentative flirtations with these bands I've shunned earlier, it's only the NS stuff that actively sucks hairy balls. I suppose that many of these NS "musicians" create their talentless crap to function as a soapbox rather than merely creating music and choosing close-to-heard lyrical themes to go with it. Well, let's not generalise and say many, so as to not commit an inductive fallacy, but doubtless said phenomenon is more common among these people.

That and the fact that sucking up that ridiculous ideology generally requires some serious cognitive impairment which may reflect in the music's quality, and the similarly cretinous crowd readily listening to any shit with NS lyrics and not choosing their listening repertuaire based on bands' quality, thus setting the bar for minor commercial gains for NS musicians lower than for some ideologically sensible stuff.

My favourite is when a Sharp friend of mine claims he only likes Skrewdriver for the music and doesn't pay attention to the lyrics. Bands that use racism as a gimmick are laughable.

The thing is, Nyogthaeblisz don't use racism as a gimmick or whatever. At first glance, the closest thing that really hints at any Anti-Semitic beliefs is a track called "A Bewitched Outbreak of Chemical Pestilence Quells The Subhuman Race", which even that is a bit of a stretch. Now sure, if you look at label involvement and compilations they've contributed to, then yes, it is more believable, but it'd be quite easy for someone to listen to Nyogthaeblisz without ever finding out about any of that.

I don't really bother myself with whether some aspect of a band's image is a gimmich or anything. I just listen to shit I like. Like Grand Belial's Key, I can probably never understand why they're so damn angry at jews and stuff, but I can definitely connect with the music, whereas with crap like Skrewdriver, well, it's just crappy music with cretinous lyrics.

Haven't touched Guinness in a couple of years, but I do have an unopened one gallon bottle of Jameson on the window sill... But if I had to choose, I'd rather keep the cask strength Laphroiag on the other window sill.

I hate it when obscure bands only have their official sites hosted on Facebook or MySpace.

I understand your frustration, but most people can't build a website. It takes too long to learn HTML, no matter how difficult it actually is, and even if they did, the website would probably come out terribly due to lack of experience. Most people don't know about Weebly or the like, so there's no way for them to make their website easily.

Also, they have get a domain. Most people only know websites as "websites," so their like, "What the fuck is a domain?" And then you have to register it, and pay an annual fee to keep it up.

Facebook and Myspace involve no coding and almost always look nice. They are free and quite frankly better for finding new bands. If you have a good Facebook or Myspace page, you really don't need a website.

You WHAT?!?!?

1. It doesn't take too long to learn basic HTML; it's really not that much harder than using forums with BB codes, for instance.
2. There are plenty of "convenient" (and free) pagebuilders out there that require very little to no HTML programming experience. Sites like Tripod.com, Angelfire.com, Webs.com, etc. have had these for more than a decade.
3. Yeah, we're getting a lot of people on Facebook/YouTube who are computer illiterate.
4. You don't need to get a personalized domain; as long as you have a stable server, it works. Like I clarified in point #2, you can get a good free host (like x10hosting.com, which gives you plenty of hosting/bandwidth) you don't have to worry so much about getting a unique domain name.
5. Facebook pretty much just looks the same, and MySpace layouts were mostly terrible because they were way too flashy. On Facebook same damn thing (with lagging and freezing due to a bunch of massive crap left on pages and profile walls).
6. Getting your band hosted outside of Facebook/MySpace is good for those who no longer go on them or they have annoying school filters turned on.

Also, I'd like to add that an actual site (whether customized in HTML or PHP or any other programming language) will look much more impressive than a typical Facebook page. Also, it can be quite a clusterfuck having to set up a music player just to hear your crappy .mp3 rehearsals when you can just upload them on your own server and make a direct link. Just my thoughts on this.

1. Most people aren't open to learning HTML.
2. Most people cannot or do not use Google, therefore they won't find the webpage builders. That's why I mentioned Weebly, one of those pagebuilders, and one I have used personally.
3. Absolutely.
4. The word "domain" makes this whole idea sound complicated. People don't like complicated.
5. For Facebook, some people like sameness. Myspace just sucks; I guess you're right.
6. I didn't think about that. I suppose that is because I circumvent my school's block all the time.

Yeah most people these days are too lazy/dumb to use technology to their advantages. Especially with our fantastic iPod generation (.mp3 is often considered a separate audio format -- like CD or vinyl -- when really there are various other computer file formats that sound much better) less people still know how to operate an actual home stereo. They'll pay $10 or more for a 10-track .mp3 download and I'll find the same album on a used physical format that will cost me next to nothing (and can be backed up to higher quality audio file formats than .mp3).

Makes me glad I started using the Internet long before this whole "social networking" fad came to be. Now it's all about flashy pictures with piss content.

And if their Facebook band pages get wiped out it's their problem -- if my sites got hacked I can just reupload the whole thing via FTP with a few mouse clicks.

Mexicans are sexy people, what's the matter?

lol Nazi Mexicans.

Blind Illusion = awesome.

Protected Illusion, too.

What's really sad is that I used to know a mexican kid with a swastika tattoo. He was a weird one.

Facebook and/or Last.fm profile = zero effort for more traffic than your stand-alone website would ever get.

So starts another night of twelves, little more prepared this time. Brought the complete Mighty Boosch series so that should keep me occupied for the most part.

On a unrelated note, my teeth hurt in the back of my mouth. I think my wisdom teeth are finally cutting, you would think they would`ve noticed that three weeks ago while I was at the dentist and they took X-rays. Thanks Air Force dentist guy, you`re the best!

Only because those sites are currently "in." Before Facebook got incredibly mainstream it was all about MySpace; now that place is just a cemetery (kind of like those old GeoShitties sites, only with millions more of crappy abuse of HTML -- a real indicator that people have gotten dumber and dumber the further technology continues to improve itself). It's just the natural way the cyber world works, and I can understand it (from a business point of view, especially). Soon either Google+ or MyLife (or both) will overtake Facebook, and Facebook will be left biting the dust much in the way it has made MySpace since a few years ago.

All I'm saying is at least put out various "official" pages of your band on different servers, so that people who (like me) don't use Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Last.fm/etc. don't have to go on those sites just to hear the music or watch clips. Non-social networking Web sites have always existed, and continue to do so, and we all have at least one or more e-mail account per person (for registering accounts on other sites). Making your band's information as widely accessible as possible can only be a good thing.

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Aww someone got their feelings hurt ;____;

Nah Zelkiiro is right x 10. A band using the internet as tool to connect with fans and listeners will use the best tools available ie Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Last.fm/etc. To say that those things are just 'in' is ridiculous- stuff like that accounts for most internet traffic. Internet users (aside from total neophytes or electronic luddites like yourself) don't just type bandname.com and hope for the best. Yes bands should have an official domain registered, but it is a small portion of their online presence.

ps- You won't use youtube? You are doing very badly at the internet.

Not since Google fucked it up by forcing the crappy new "layout" on every channel. I'll admit YouTube is more useful than the others for the sake of downloading rare videos and all. I just refuse to be a part of their community in terms of commenting on many profiles/videos/etc.

That's not really a reason to stop using a website, at least not unless it get extremely difficult (a.k.a. you now have to code each of your Youtube videos manually, Facebook becomes literally an image hosting site for faces only, The character limit for Twitter is now 6)

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Brawl/3540334057

So apparently Disturbed is now on MA, more-or-less.

According to the description, they were Groove metal, and that is different from their current nu-metal sound. I have not listened to anything by Brawl yet, because I don't want to wake anyone up, but judging from I have seen on the article, it looks like there was a dramatic enough change in style for their earlier band to be accepted.

Only two members of Brawl are in Disturbed. This combined with the aforementioned style change leads me to conclude that Disturbed is not on MA, more or less, because they changed out of our definitions of metal and formed a new band.

Yeah, yeah, I get why Disturbed in their present incarnation are not present in the database, and I get that groove metal is a valid metal subgenre. I just think it's odd that Disturbed's debut album lineup, sans their vocalist, is present in MA... probably the closest that the members' current band will get to an entry, anyways.

Fuck the Army, and fuck North Queensland.

Want pics? A gallon bottle of Jameson I got from my in-laws as a birthday present sits three feet to my left on the window sill. Say, how about if the next MA mod to use the services of Nappy's Bed and Breakfast gets to drink it?

The previous one gallon bottle of whiskey I had was a graduation present from a group of friends, Famous Grouse. It took two years to drink through it, largely as Irish coffee. There was a bit of the juice sitting on the bottom of the bottle one day, and the wife told me to drink it off during the weekend, because it "no longer looked good" on the shelf. There was about 1.2 liters left, so I had to ask for a bit of an extension at that point.

Well just finished pulling off an air inlet heater on the leading edge of the rudder. Took a nice 3 and a half hours since I had to get a giant stand just to get to it. If you take a look at this picture, the little tube thing in the front of the tail, above the picture of the parachuting tiger is what I removed. I subsequently broke the shroud/cover part but it`s not a big issue.

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Now eating a brownie and watching first Star Trek movie.

Not enjoying it up there, mate?