Kaspersky TDSSkiller usually gets rid of anything that Malwarebytes does not.
http://usa.kaspersky.com/downloads/tdsskiller

Wait a minute, haven't I banned you before?

No, but you got my review of Megadeth's Breadline through. Thanks.

Carcass kicked ass! Great performance. Hell was cool too, but Amon Amarth was pretty boring imo. Works better on CD.
I had a great time. Carcass alone was worth the ticket twice.

I only have vague memories of reading these, so I can't really comment on their quality. All I know is they're related somehow.

http://www.amazon.com/Hideous-Gnosis-Bl ... pd_sim_b_2

http://www.amazon.com/Glossator-Practic ... 1477667466

You can also go here -- http://glossator.org/volumes/ -- to read excerpts from the latter.

Low blow brick, low blow.

The new format for YouTube comments actually made YouTube arguments worse... or better if you enjoy reading YouTube comments for the same reason you enjoy going to the zoo.

Gosh, people are so stupid on the internet.

Try saying that three times fast.

And man, Amorphis' Far From the Sun would be so much cooler if it didn't have such a limp-dicked vocal performance. Kind of like Arcturus' Sideshow Symphonies in that way...

So I've got a job interview tomorrow for a position that would pay roughly 35% more than my last job, and I've gotta say I'm pretty nervous about it. All my previous jobs have been attained through pure nepotism (well, this one was, too, but to a less egregious degree) so I have zero real job interview experience.

The key is to stay up really late worrying the night before, then only get like 3 hours of sleep.

Well shit, then I'm definitely on the right track!

So an M16 and a Sniper rifle were stolen from an FBI agent's personal vehicle outside his house today in Andover, MA.

"According to the FBI, their policy allows active SWAT members to store firearms overnight in vehicles to facilitate readiness and operational needs."

Maybe FBI agents should sleep in their full gear along with the body armor to facilitate readiness as well. It takes longer to get dressed in full gear than to grab a rifle...
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/11/08/f ... -lawrence/

Thank god the kid was caught. I know in this fucked up country you can legally walk down the street with an AR-15 on your back in some states but I don't think you can here in Massachusetts. The last thing we need is more firearms like this in a criminal's possession. Remember the carnage, and panic the DC sniper caused with just a sniper rifle? And the only way he was caught was cause he bragged about it at a bar...

An M16 and an AR15 are not the same thing. AR15's are manufactured primarily for civilian uses, M16's pretty much exclusively for military purposes. There aren't any places in the U.S. where you can just go into a store and legally buy an M16 with a standard background check, there's a special license and a lot of states just outright ban them (or Title II weapons more generally). Put another way, you can get an AR15 model for a few hundred dollars, no special license (in most places) and generally legal in most places; an M16 will cost between $9,000 and $16,000, require a special license, and is outright banned in many places. In addition, you can't get an M16 if it was registered with the government after 1986.

I am actually kind of amazed a FBI agent would keep one in his car. There's virtually no situation where someone from the FBI operating within the U.S. would actually need an M16. I could see the need if it's an overseas assignment depending on where it is, but not here, unless it's a burst-fire variant. I think the last time a law enforcement shootout in the U.S. involved assailants armed with fully-automatic weapons was in 1996. Most gun crime is committed by people with lower incomes and it's really not worth it for someone making $20,000 a year or less to spend 75% of their entire year's salary on one gun that's too big to hide in a coat and prowl the drug corner with anyway.

That album is one of the reasons I never got into Amorphis. When Skyforger came out I heard Silver Bride and about jizzed my pants so I went out and got it only to be sorely disappointed by the rest of the album so I figured I would try a bit of their back catalog. I wound up with Far From the Sun and Eclipse and was severely underwhelmed so I just gave up on them.

In other music news I went back to the record store Thursday night and picked up those Taake, Borknagar, Arcturus, and Mithotyn CDs and damn do they kick ass . Speaking of Mithotyn why does nobody ever talk about how freaking awesome they are?

Only pre-1996 Amorphis is real.

While Tomi Joutsen is not the most technical or flawless singer, it's his genuine enthusiasm that does it for me. I find his vocal performance to be perfect for a melodic and mostly upbeat band like modern Amorphis. Plus his harsh vocals are amazing. Oh, and Smoking_Gnu, I challenge you to a match of fisty cuffs for insulting ICS Vortex.

Erosion Of Humanity, have you heard the early Amorphis albums? Especially Tales from the Thousand Lakes if you don't like the clean vocals.

The Karelian Isthmus and Tales From the Thousand Lakes are both total classics.

Everything else makes me want to shove a hypodermic needle up my ass and go to church dressed as a nun.

(that's not a good thing)

Oh, I thought it was a good thing.....

What is this? A Clockwork Orange?

I get off in 24 minutes and holy suffering balls I need a big greasy feed.

Well let me clarify one thing - I think Vortex is absolutely amazing on all his other work, especially Borknagar's Quintessence and his solo album. He just doesn't bring any of that power and majestic, soaring cleans to Sideshow Symphonies (he sounds annoyingly nasally on that album), which disappointed me as a big fan of both him and Arcturus.

That said, I'm a huge Amorphis fanboy for all their other works, pre and post-Joutsen. Skyforger is one of my favorite albums of all time. I think the problem with Pasi is that his cleans aren't strong enough to carry an entire song on their own; they worked on Elegy because they provided a nice point-counterpoint to the growls (plus they were mixed to give them a little more kick, it seems.)

Melissa has NOTHING on Don't Break the Oath, people. NATHANNGG

Ok I'm done for now.

....

....still, though... ...nothing.


And now for something completely different (SPOILER: CONFUSING RUSSIAN PEOPLE THAT WILL HORRIFY YOU)

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2013/11/ru ... ul5TcsI.01

If I wanted to start a (hopefully) serious thread about Slipknot, what sub-forum should I choose? My choices are:

a) Metal discussion: Since I expect I serious debate, this one appears as the more logical option.

b) The Tavern: Slipknot isn't considered metal by many people (including me) so there would be no reason to start it in the metal discussion sub-forum. Also, we would save ourselves some fruitless discussion about the metalness of the band.

c) Do not start a Slipknot thread at all.


Your input will be appreciated.

I actually 100% agree with you on that. Maybe the only time it's happened.

To the guy above, if you're going to ask about if Slipknot is metal, don't bother.

If you really want to start a thread about them, I'd say do it in the Tavern just because it'll get either moved or closed if you start it in Metal Discussion.

Well, you said serious debate. And we get plenty of people who try to worm that sort of question in somehow.

@Deathfaredevil: awwww yeah exactly what I was looking for. Thanks muchly!

Nah I just gave up on the band. Three strikes and they were out, I actually like the guy from Sky Forger better than his predecessor but like I said Sky Forger just felt very underwhelming to me. I would be willing to check out early Amorphis but it's nowhere near the top of my priority list. Also I have no problems with the fact that there is clean vocals just the fact that the singer is incompetent (in regards to Eclipse and Far From the Sun).

NEW IA ALBUM NOW AVAILABLE

Woohoo! My newest collaborative effort, entitled Labyrinth, was just recently published on Still*Sleep of Russia. Check out a preview + artwork here:

http://ss.semperflorens.net/index.php/cdr-series.html

A wonderful offering for all lovers of dreamy, immersive instrumental ambient!

These 45 seconds have convinced me that Emmure is totally metal enough for the archives. LOOK AT HOW TECHNICAL AND INTRICATE THEIR MUSIC IS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEE2YEQeyX0

I think these might change your mind (as if I haven't bugged you enough about this the last times we hung out )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg-vcRqppgg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsPelGuH0yU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD1a4uh8ygs

Good songs, but this is the real deal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y0iSnuiI_w

^ It'll work with the youtube tags if you change the https:// to http:// and otherwise leave the URL unchanged.

The interview went pretty well, I think! It was with the COO and CEO of the company and they basically told me I was way overqualified and should be a perfect fit. Now I've just gotta do a secondary interview at the job site (a satellite office) with some HR people and hopefully I'll get it! It was also sort of sad that they almost laughed at my old salary and assured me I would be paid much, much more than that. Mo' money!

Tried these:


These are ok but not really my deal, I liked the middle one best

Skimmed This:

This was better but still just kinda meh for me. I'll try listening to it again later and see what happens.

Right now though I just found out Aurora Borealis has all their material available for free download save for the upcoming album and since I've been wanting to check them out for some time I've got like six albums to listen to now. Also the info was about the new album plus the fucking wicked cover art was just dropped in their thread by Ron from the band, so he can be added to the list now too.

Edit: damn batman first a promotion now a new job. You're just movin on up to the east side aren't you.

The Tavern.

If the OP is reasonably well thought out/written and provides fertile ground for debate, then there is nothing speaking against opening a thread for serious discussion about a band. No matter which band.

Any other Illinois folks going to Gwar in Joliet tonight? I'm seriously up to fourteen goddamn friends of mine who are going, which is just an unbelievably high number for me since it's usually just me and one other guy at every show. Might as well add some internet folks to that number.

So, a furry thread.

I must thank Zod for killing that one. Still have nightmares from the time I looked up what "furry" means.

"Furry" is street slang for "merkin".

I didn't know body farms actually existed...

You just know a bunch of today's furries got their start crushing on Cheetara from Thundercats as kids. Rankin/Bass productions have a lot to answer for.