I'm probably going on hiatus again. I've got a lot of shit going on in my life right now, and frankly since i'm a pretty much a non-contributor anyway there's no point in my staying around this place. so whatever, see you all later. if you find me somewhere else on the internet, drop...

Ew. No. Never. what Beneath the Remains and Schizophrenia are literally top ten thrash metal albums at the least, and their first two releases were massively important towards the evolution of both black and death metal. Chaos A.D and Roots absolutely blow, but those early albums are borderline per...

In The Wake of Poseidon is solid, but definitely one of the weaker efforts of early KC. Here's a bunch of random shit i've been getting into: -Incantation's Onward to Golgotha: One of the greatest death metal albums ever. Crushing doom metal sections lead into whirling tremolo riffs and ...

I dunno if this is the actual thread to say that somebody came back but whatev. But hey, contrary to popular belief I didn't OD on drugs or something. I've just been having a lot of computer and personal problems lately (my old computer is just about dead - the motherboard is cooked)...

, and in their case, I think when they tried to get fancy they sounded worse. Do you mean their later melodeath era, like Heartwork by chance? While on the subject, i've actually never been much of a Carcass fan - sure, they're hugely influential upon tons of extreme metal bands (they b...

III and Physical Graffiti are probably my favourite Led Zeppelin albums. I actually find Presence to be a pretty underrated album at times; "Achilles' Last Stand", "Nobody's Fault But Mine", and "Tea For One" are really some of Led Zeppelin's absolute strong...

dudes i've been pimping finnish death metal for a LONG time now* Anyway, Cradle of Filth have never been good. Their first album has some decent moments but that's about it, and the rest of their discography has the odd cool part scattered throughout a load of poorly arranged shit. I never c...

Watched Messiah of Evil , a very unknown horror film from the 70's that I found out about since I visit a couple websites where people know about public domain stuff. This is... creepy as fuck. The story is actually a pretty interesting take on the zombie/vampire approach, and it drips with an a...

I have a basically similar opinion with Devin Townsend like I do with Mike Patton: They're good at what they do, I guess, but aside for that I just don't care. Strapping Young Lad leaves me totally listless and i've never listened to his solo career aside for Ziltoid The Omniscient . ...

The thing with Pink Floyd is that aside for Barret leaving and Gilmour joining up, the line up on the first album is basically the same. Yeah, Barret was important to the band's early direction (actually, I don't think his influence song-writing wise is ever really forgotten except from ...

The Wall is okay but for my money Animals is a far better record all around. The former suffers from quite a bit of filler in between the iconic songs (which really ARE amazing tunes, don't get me wrong here), to the point where I think it's dragged down a bit. It's a great albu...

Good post, and I almost entirely agree except that I love Opeth and I think Dance of December Souls is my least favorite Katatonia album. I think we discussed this before, but I just think Dance treads over too familiar territory, while their later stuff is more original. I mean, I can hear the inf...

Katatonia are one of the only metal bands who I think really pulls off the transistion into other genres without totally fucking it up. Dance of December Souls is one of my absolute favourite metal albums ever, and in my opinion is really the perfection of the melacholic death/doom metal style that ...

I concur with Xard. The Thrawn Trilogy is by far the best thing to ever emerge from the cesspit known as the Expanded Universe, mostly because that even though it throws in a number of twists... it still distinctly feels like Star Wars. Which I can't say for the POS New Jedi Order series.

Stuff I listened to/mini reviews(now with numerical scores! fucken A !): -Blut aus Nord's Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age : I've been pretty impressed with this band's early work recently. I'm actually not all that much of an atmospheric black metal listener, but th...

Tomb Raider III on the playstation.

God damn I forgot just how ball-crushingly long these levels are. If you can seriously do all of these from distant memory, I salute you.

^ I think he was being facetious there.

The vampire from the cover of Helstar's Nosferatu LP.

Some random stuff i've been listening to: -I've been taking it upon myself to look more into King Crimson's 70's works. (in between the classical stuff of course) In The Court of the Crimson King and Red are among my favourite albums of all time, but I haven't really look...

Punk is even more compartmentalized than Metal is, so getting your bearing on the genre can be... daunting at times. I'm more into the crusty and hardcore side of things, myself. Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing is an absolute classic of the genre, and the earlier Why? EP is ...