All lies. John_Sunlight couldn't loom over a field mouse.

Dude it totally makes me want to kill people and beat up children when I think of how Big Government is conspiring against Small Distros but it's a fact of life that we, as peeps, are just too powerless to do anything about.

At least the next time you bump into a random Congolese refugee you can look forward to the fact that once you both start bitching about your respective governments you'll share a common bond that will most likely last a lifetime. A friend made is a friend kept after all.

Ouch, sick burn <3

Talking about revolting against the government? That is so 1776.

@Veracs - you may have had 2 good dealings with Throne_of_Ahaz as a SELLER, but try dealing with him as a BUYER! He scammed me! I aswered you here because Metantoine locked the topic from further discussion.

Remember you can send a private message for stuff like this, if you want.

Yeah, Yeah, I'm a meanie. I locked the thread because you made physical threats to a person over $200. Send Veracs a PM if you care, don't spread this subject everywhere.

Brilliant reply! Man, that damn near made my day.

Late to the subject of gigs, but I'll be seeing Marduk/Portal/Ignivomous/Order of Orias on Friday. That's pretty much the only gig locked in for me so far, though; I went to a hell of a lot last year, and am thinking of cutting back. I got into the habit of seeing bands that I don't actually really like (or about which I feel indifferent, at any rate) purely because they're immensely respected within their sub-genre or haven't toured here before... it just detracts from gigs that I do actually attend because I love the band playing.

Scorntyrant will be happy, he likes Warhammer too, it's a good conversation starter I just got a die hard LP of the latest Ignivomous album with an awesome backpatch for my 2nd vest.

Sorry for the many comments, I'm procrastinating hard!

Haha, as am I, actually.

'Contragenesis' is just awesome. I'm really glad they're playing this gig - they were kinda a surprise addition; I'm hoping to finally get a shirt. And see Portal - should be an interesting experience.

That's why I said that, after all, I made this board game thread

This post is full of so much fucking win, and I never describe things as such. Shame on you all for not praising it!

Damnit, I've had this rash on my face for the last three days that simply doesn't want to go and I look like motherfucking Freddy Krueger right now. I don't even want to leave the house due to how bloody bad it looks. Fuck.

BastardHead, it was so fucking sweet. It was like suddenly forgetting the past 17 years or so of my life and being ship backed to my childhood. I had to do a double-take, but I used to live off of a steady diet of MK, MK:A, and Beverly Hills Ninja, so I was pretty sure it was him. I got home and did some e-sleuthing based on the city I was in; either it was him, or someone else with the exact same age, name, and physical appearance is in the same area.

I didn't want to go up and bug him because I don't know how he'd feel about it, but now I wish I had.

Well, my friend's little three year-old nephew likes Decapitated. I pulled out my phone and played the beginning of "The Fury" for him and he started beating on a plastic box. I asked him if he liked the music and he just grinned and shook his head "yes". Cute.

Is it just on one side of your face? I guess it could be the laundry detergent you washed your pillow case with.

Awwww, shucks. Say hello after we play - a bunch of from Ignivomous and OOA are or were big 40k fans as well haha.

Haha, thanks; will do.


Dude, just go to a doctor; it's not worth dragging it out.

Abyssal has pretty much rendered Portal obsolete in my eyes. I wonder if Portal will be able to regain at least some ground with their new one.

I'm listening to Abyssal based on your post and I'm not impressed so far. Decent, sure, but not nearly weird enough to compete with Portal.

Different strokes for ...

They're two different entities I'd say. But yeah, IMO Portal are slightly weirder, if that's what you want to call it.

Granted, I don't think they replace Portal - they differ too much for that - but... Man, Abyssal just blow me away every single time I listen to them. I think I know what to expect, but the music gets better every damn time. Honestly, I enjoy them more than Portal - the latter's dissonant weirdness is more of an intellectual pleasure for me, whereas Abyssal work on every level: there's sophisticated, dark strangeness, but it comes in such a dynamic, visceral, immediate form.

Each to their own, of course. For me, Abyssal hit the spot - they satisfy something Portal never quite could, but that's just me.

Fuck Portal, hail Prajna!

Hey, have you guys heard of this new band called Compressorhead? They really embody industrial metal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBSkq-_St8

I posted that few pages ago >_> But yes, prepare for...Skynet soon.

Someone should write original songs for them and let them tour. Or write a program that generates original songs. Shouldn't be too hard to make algorithms that are better than 85% of metal songwriters nowadays. And for a vocalist they'll just let Cleverbot chat with itself into a text to speech program and distort that.

Someone I know just called Children of Bodom a tech-death band... I think I'm off to have a quick laughy-cry.

That's not too far-fetched, considering that they're a death metal band and they're known for technical guitar solos, I can see an inexperienced person making that mistake. Ten years ago it wasn't uncommon to hear them called a black metal band because of the high-pitched vocals (I was also a teenager than, so I wasn't surrounded by metal veterans either). Someone's just putting together some basic cues for genres together wrong, you could always contrast the rhythm section of CoB with Martyr or Confessor.

I dunno - I just found it jarringly odd because he's very much in the genuine tech-death demographic. I guess everyone sees such things and has a fairly violent moment of "What??" before reasoning it through.

What did he look like? Was he still rocking those long, flowing eighties-style locks of his?

"tech death demographic" loves guitar wankery and cares about little that isn't wankery. There's plenty of wanking in Children of Bodom's music.

^ Surely you're trolling. Are you?

Is calling CoB a tech death band really an insult to either CoB or tech death? Not like either one is the picture of artistic integrity...

Isn't Origin technical death metal?

I think so - It's not really my genre to be honest, I'm still at the stage where it all sounds like notes falling down a spiral staircase.

Now THAT is band I can't stand. I even have a hard time understanding where all of the praise comes from.

Not everybody can have a good taste in metal, so tell me what that's like?

I used to be pretty "meh" about Origin. Then I saw them live.

Just been confirmed. They're playing the Cathouse in March!