So I have my first day as a radio show host tomorrow (1pm-2pm). Please tune in and stream online. There will be much in the way of metal, as well as other really cool stuff.
http://whcl.org/index_1.html
I was also wondering how many of you guys have done radio shows (college or otherwise).

What time zone are you in?

Silly me. United States Eastern.

I'll be in class, will it be recorded?

Iron Maiden live in Rio, they're currently playing The Prisoner, tune up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEEcvj6X ... inp-lt-rbr

There's a town off of I-95 in Maryland between DC and Baltimore called Scaggsville. It sounds like a badlands ghost town in Borderlands and/or a place where 96% of the population is passed out in gutters with heroin needles sticking out of their arms at any given time.

I did guest spots on my friends' radio show in college a bunch of times, usually for their comedy skits. My school had an AM radio transmitter with a range of don't light a cigarette while listening to this radio show because there's no smoking allowed within 20 feet of the building.

Man, one of my buddies fell off a balcony last night and fractured his sternum pretty bad.

Ugh, that must feel like hell.

Wow, that must be a really, really awful injury. Hopefully he'll recover quickly.

He'll be fine in the end and released from the hospital in a few days, but man he must be hurting right now.

A guy I know tripped while slightly intoxicated during a party at the university, and actually managed to fall sternum first into a steel stake that held a rope to keep a tent up. He fractured it almost completely in half. Painful as hell, I heard.

dystopia4: wh - .. how does that happen?
Napero: I can't even process how intense the feeling of good fortune/horrible fail would be. And how impossible it would be to breathe for months. It's exhausting just imagining it.



.. I'd never looked until now. There are hundreds of pages of locked threads. Whenever I'd see a thread get the diving weights padlocked on, I figured it must gradually drift down to become the top turd on a sprawling underwater mountain. But it had always been abstract. It was a little like being in a submersible trundling through the bowels of a lake-sized outhouse.

Tequila.

Legendary might be overmuch for Serenades, but your not understanding why people enjoy it might have something to do with a thing called taste. Have you heard of it? Yours seems kind of bad, by the way.

This gentleman right here gets it. The new Anathema sucks. Hard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIh8urwF8wY

About 30 seconds in.

I've never been able to not hear the opening lyrics as "Another day unfolds, and still... I eat shiiiiit". There's no way I'm the only one. It doesn't sound like he's even trying to say "exist".

LogiLink is related to Logitech, right? I'm thinking about getting a LogiLink USB hub because the USB hubs I had in a past were no-name ones and none of them ever worked, which annoyed the fuck out of me, so I'm thinking maybe a brand name product might perform better (read: at all). Has anyone used LogiLink or knows another reliable brand I could look into?

I have two no-name hubs and they both work fine. Maybe the problem is that your USB port doesn't have enough power to supply all the stuff you are connecting? In that case you need an additional power supply for the hub, no matter what brand. Look for hubs that come with a power adapter.

Had a chat with a fellow about becoming a pilot today. Definitely keen, just got to wait it out until April when I can apply.

Also wondering whether I should buy Behemoth tickets now, or just hope they have some left on the door...

One of my no-name hubs is actively powered/comes with a power adapter. But it's such cheap shit it was literally half falling apart when I got it.

As soon as I read that I thought of this

Private Gomer Pilot.

I did two shows in university on separate canvases. A lot of fun, especially teh one with teh shitty transmitter because we had a lot of freedom and could basically play whatever we wanted, and there weren't any ads. I did it for several years (although the show at the bigger campus only lasted about a year because of the shit timeslot; my friend and I basically had no choice but to back out), and it was a lot of fun; I'd gladly get into it again. Hope you enjoy yours. Sadly I doubt I'll be able to tune in much as I'm usually working at thea time.

The Silent Enigma sucks. It's like a bunch of people using the right ingredients for a meal while having no idea how to actually cook: the album has alright musicianship but in the end the songwriting on that album is absolutely mediocre.

Of the old Anathema stuff, the Pentecost III EP probably works best overall. Some really fantastic use of guitar feedback and eerie leads to build atmosphere there, and also one of their heaviest ever tunes in the form of "Memento Mori".

Serenades is a bit eccentric but in the end I have appreciation for it, faults and all. I enjoy the lyrics though White's vocals are very much an acquired taste, and the band sort of lumbers along awkwardly at times, but when they hit on something good it's generally very good.

the Silent Enigma I do not listen to much. I think the musicianship is terrific and the atmosphere is potent, but something's missing. I think the whole thing feels rushed, which was pretty much confirmed by the band not long after it was released. The lyrics were practically written on the mixing desk. And I'm sure some of the weirder songwriting decisions would have been questioned had they had more time to let the material simmer (to continue colin's cooking analogy)...

I'm at Starbuck's GETTIN' MUH WERK ONN, and some jive turkey motherfucker decided it'd be the perfect time to stream or download a thing, therefore making the connection crap for the rest of us. I had some work I needed to send to a client, 800 KILOS of a file, and it took about two minutes to attach.

I do agree with this, but I think this problem extends to all of their material (that I've heard). The Silent Enigma just manages to get by with the raw, crushing misery it evokes when it's at its best. By no means a perfect album though, there's also plenty of filler I don't care for.

Just generally a "hit or miss" band, good bits here and there but never consistently interesting.

Silent Enigma is by far my favourite release from Anathema. While I do agree that some songs are better than others ("A Dying Wish" and "Shroud of Frost" are just about perfect), I'd still easily give the album 90+. The atmosphere is amazing and as a whole the songwriting and guitarwork is strong. I do agree about Anathema being a hit or miss band. Most of their albums do have filler, and like I've said earlier, I don't like their later work at all.

Also, what's the consensus on the new Ruins of Beverast album? I mean it is Ruins of Beverast so of course it'll be good, but as a whole I think I'd put Unlock the Shrine and Foulest Semen above it. The atmosphere here is amazing, the guitar playing is strong, the drum tones are superb, but I feel like songwriting may be lacking a bit. I'd love for him to get as weird and nightmarish as Unlock the Shrine again, but I accept that this probably won't happen. But then again I've only listened to the album 2 or 3 times and my opinion is liable to change - it took at least 5 listens for Unlock the Shrine to really click with me, at first listen I was rather unimpressed actually.

That actually sounds exactly what I think of Meads of Aspohdel. When I checked them out I was like, 'oh cool, a black metal band with lots of different genre elements blended together well like sigh'. When sigh goes off and does something ridiculous like a reggae break or basically a blues song, it works because the sound is full and everyone in the band layers parts over each other with keen enough songwriting skills to make it feel like a natural transition.

With meads it's like your analogy but the band is making soup with a really boring base; tremendously tame black metal. The growls are apathetic, and the guitars kind of just drone around for the vaguely ethnic repetitive keyboard loops, both of these elements kind of just clash constantly. It's almost like low tier power metal with slightly exotic keyboards and sudden breaks of non-metal music. It's a fucking mess.

Which Meads have you listened to? That's definitely true of their first three albums, but they really got their shit together on The Murder of Jesus the Jew and Sonderkommando. Great riffing, skillful integration of the experimental bits...it's almost like a whole different band.

What's up with the rampant later Anathema hate? darkeningday is right in that their doom/death days are laughable. They're much, much better as a cleaner, more rock-ish band. Judgement is a masterpiece of feels.

I can see why people like Sigh, but The Meads of Asphodel's last two albums are much more serious in intent, epic in scope and better from a songwriting point of view than anything I've heard from Sigh - which is most of their discography bar one or two albums.



It's not perfect like Foulest Semen, and the first two albums are more interesting in how insanely creative and epic they are, but I really like Blood Vaults. It's got this really cool cyclical "ritual" feel. It's like an ancient occult rite put to music.

I've kind of got used to people hating different eras of their work, so I kinda try to stay away (though believe me it's hard as I admit to being a full-on fanboy of everything they've done and everything this band stands for). Although the thing that does manage to crack me up is when some people say they are "pop" these days or something along these lines (yes, some people do actually say that). Man, I can already imagine those 9-minute songs getting massive pop radio airplay.

You're missing the point by a margin, TheLiberation. Nobody cares to what degree Anathema's music is suited for radio play. If they're criticised of being pop, it's probably because they sound like Coldplay, and it's a valid criticism even if their artistic intentions are more honest than it may come across as.

I'm not saying this was said in this thread, just a random semi-quote I've actually heard which I think is quite related, not meant as a jab at anyone here. They might occasionally sound like Coldplay or U2 or whatever, but I don't see why that automatically counts as a bad thing, accessible rock can also be done really well. Songs like Dreaming Light or Untouchable Pt. 2 maybe are "poppy" to a certain extent, but if there's a world where music like this is the mainstream, I want a teleporter please.

We're talking about a band that stopped being relevant 15 years ago.

I'd like to borrow your relevance barometer, drone. I'd like to believe that a band that is able to sell out a venue in New York is still mildly relevant.

No, it just means that their music is popular. I'm sure a Black Sabbath gig in New York would sell out pretty quickly, but that's not to say that their new album's relevant in any way.

Tons of wuss rock bands sell tons of tickets to tons of wusses.

Sure, but this can't hardly be compared to Sabbath who sells tickets to dudes who only know their first two albums and don't know who's Dio. Most people who went to see Anathema know they're not playing anything from their early albums. If you don't like wuss rock, you're a puss rook.

I like the way you think.

Gardenian's Soulburner is a good ass record.