Or Vader:

Also, Ghost.

Goddamn, that Vader cover sucks. After the awesome 'Reborn in the Flames' it always comes out and I'm running for the stop button. Stupid fucking bonus track!

I've got this queued up.

Video-bootleg of a Jex Thoth show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4__G5D7jQ

Thanks shouvince, Jex Thoth fits my mood (melancholic) and the weather outside (wet and gloomy) quite perfectly.

This just in: Brief summary of what the NSA scandal's implications are for cryptography and internet security.

NO WAY. That cover is bloody awesome. If I ever do a party or something I'm gonna play that at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7C6LRL6qX0

Sounds fine to me.

A huge death metal fan especially of the dark, sinister variant. Also into a fair bit of black metal, as well as Primordial.

Interesting info on why NSA spies on Brazil http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/n ... razil.html
Turns out it has little to do with the country itself.

Food is for weaklings and fatsos, I get my nutrients from riffs and distortion

They're a great band. So much better than Ghost, In Flames, etc. I only have Violator but it's really cool, I dig the serene tranciness and sophistication of it. Been a few months since I heard it.

The best Depeche Mode material starts with Some Great Reward and ends with Songs of Faith and Devotion. From those, Black Celebration is probably the best, with Music for the Masses and Violator. BC has a quite dark atmosphere and is probably the darkest album from them. MftM has an excellent piano work, while feels less heavy in the synth deparment but it still has a lot of layers going on. A bit of that returned in Violator, where some songs have a Kraftwerk influence that I totally dig. SoFaD is strange; it feels a bit forced but it also has some great tracks. IMO, Alan Wilder was the key ingredient to make DM outstanding.

DM live sounds excellent too.

No love for Playing the Angel here? That one is sexy as hell.

It feels a bit empty to me. It's not 'bad' but below DM standards of old. The Pain that I'm used to and John the Revelator are great songs tho. The former could have been a great inclusion in Ultra and the latter (with proper production) would have been a nice Black Celebration bonus track.

I've got a Playing the Angel poster on my wall right next to me, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite DM album.

Not I favourite of mine either, but it's pretty up there if you ask me. A Pain that I'm Used To and John the Revelator are certainly its main highlights, but stuff like The Sinner in Me and Precious certainly tickles my fancy.

On the subject of DM, has anyone in here listened to Delta Machine?

This is appears to be the most damaging thing the NSA did, as they ultimately made the lives of identity thieves and credit card thieves easier, as well as authoritarian governments trying to suppress their own people. That being said, this should only be half-shocking. Early on in the Obama administration, the White House publicly stated they wanted tech companies to insert "back doors" into their software that would enable the intelligence community to access their information networks whenever they wanted (er, whenever they had a warrant ), and they tried to get Congress to pass a law authorizing this. I don't remember if they passed the law, but it doesn't look like it matters anyway because they were already committed to manipulating all internet security in the entire world with or without Congress.

Fascinating. It's like Operation Ivy Bells on steroids. And global, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

This thread has really disturbed me.

OK, so I was reading a different thread, and I saw Earthcubed's signature containing iamnotbatman's comment about cousin love. This motivated me to use the search function to locate the discussion being referred to, and I really cannot even begin to properly describe how disturbing it was for me to read the countless comments which flowed forth to indicate that there exists here a shockingly profound level of ignorance pertaining to the basic facts of the matter. There exists not even the slightest shred of doubt in my mind that it is my moral duty to rectify the extraordinary ignorance which I was extremely upset to have unfortunately encountered in this thread.



That is quite frankly one of the most factually incorrect things I have ever read in my life. That would be like me saying that the difference between homosexuality and cousin love is that homosexuals deliberately infect themselves with STDs for fetish reasons and spread AIDS around before dying of it, while cousin lovers are people like Albert Einstein and his wife (in fact, Einstein's wife was his first cousin maternally and his second cousin paternally, which also means that Einstein himself was a product of inbreeding). My previous sentence will surely offend the sensibilities of many here, even though the bug chaser community is indeed a very real part of the gay subculture (many gay bug chasers even go so far as to refer to AIDS as "the gift"), but rest assured I am merely pointing out the offensive and ignorant nature of Napero's post above. I only made my comparison in order to illustrate how deeply those qualities are embodied by Napero's post

Also, the real difference between cousin love and homosexuality is that literally everyone alive today directly owes his or her existence to reproduction between first cousins and second cousins, whereas the same cannot be even remotely said at all about the fruits of homosexuality (pun unintended, but a good one nonetheless). It is estimated that 80% of all marriages historically have been between first cousins and second cousins. Arguably no human on this planet would even be alive today were it not for the constant sexual reproduction between first cousins and second cousins which has served to sustain the existence of humanity for countless millennia and the majority of humanity's entire presence on this planet. Next time anyone of you here feels grateful for being alive, know that you owe your entire existence to the fact that the vast majority of your ancestors mated with their first cousins and second cousins.

Once more: know that it is only because of "cousin fuckers" that you are alive today and feeling any sort of happiness or pleasure at all in your life. Now say, "Thank you, cousin fuckers".

Napoleon?

wat

Yeah it's him. I'm fairly sure that's actually Mornelithe Falconsbane anyway, just couldn't prove it. Makes no difference, he's equally trollish/retarded.

Surfer Stud? Jesus.

Wow, haven't seen that guy around here for a while. You really think? I didn't feel this was his style at all.

The new Root review (for Hell Symphony) manages to give the record a perfect score and yet really annoy me at the same time. Weird.

I didn't know every homosexual chases bugs just to get AIDS intentionally. Also, I wasn't aware that inbreeding is actually good for the health of people. If Einstein did it, it must be better than Vitamin C AND cannabis combined. I'm going to trade my wife for a cousin as soon as one is available. I want to be like Einstein. And damn those homosexuals and their wish to get AIDS! I've been supportive of their cause for a long while, but had I known this, I would have done as Napoleon did, and joined NAMBLA. I hope they all get AIDS and die!

...no... ...wait a minute...

"North American Man/Boy Love Association"

Is this for real?

.......

Where did he ever say that all homosexuals or even most homosexuals chase bugs? Also, accusing someone of being a member of NAMBLA is a pretty serious accusation. Do you have any evidence to back that up? Or is that just a random piece of defamation which you came up with completely out of the blue?

Wut.

Silly trolls...

No, I am not him. I just don't think it's proper to attack someone who can't even stand up for himself because he's been banned.

You just registered. To defend "him".

I totally believe that's a completely different guy. Not suspicious at all if you ask me.

inhumanist, the only thing that proves is that I find the conversation to be interesting. What Empyreal said is definitely the most reasonable perspective on the matter. I thank him for his good faith and his intuitive grasp of the fact that I am a completely different person than that surferstud90210 guy.

I hardly know anything about mating between cousins, but surferstud90210's post sparked an interest in it for me. I was looking at the Wikipedia article for it, and I read this very insightful paragraph about it:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage#Genetics

Looks like the genetic risks aren't that high.

I just huffed a kilo of jenkem, feels good man.

Using a proxy IP, no less.

Not that fucking hard to figure out.

That only means that I care about my privacy. There's no real evidence to support the claim that I am that surferstud90210 guy.

We are quite clearly separate people in every respect possible.

Riiiiiiiight.