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Bands :: RE: New GIGAN song up!

Author: Ecrypt
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:01 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

fuckin sick dude!

Concerts :: RE: Boris/Wolves in the Throne Room/Torche

Author: Matt
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:59 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 15

anyone else coming
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General :: RE: New Morbid Angel...

Author: Ecrypt
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:46 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

The song I heard sounds pretty bad ass. like a mix of Domination and Formulas Fatal to the Flesh. However there's a part in the middle where Dave is doing his "god of emptiness" clean vocals, and I can't make it out but it sounds like he's moaning? wierd, but I can't wait to hear the album.

General :: RE: Hellboy II

Author: Ecrypt
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:43 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

I cannot wait for this movie! Its gonna donky punch you all with the Right Hand of DOOM! I really like the first one but the trailer for the sequel look even more over the top, just like the comic!

theRothstanator wrote:

It's the same director, anyway. I hear he only did Hellboy II so he could have funding for The Orphanage or something like that...

Guillermo del Toro is actually friends with Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, and is a huge comic fan. Look at his sketchbook for Pan's Labyrinth. Also, he was only the producer for The Orphanage.
And yeah the bad guy does look a hell of a lot like Nergal! It'd be cool if the soundtrack were metal.

General :: RE: Custom Neon

Author: necroodin
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:01 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 5

hell man, i dont care if its christian, buddhist or hindu, if it's a good book, it's a good book! I'll look around for it.

General :: RE: Custom Neon

Author: BlazeTSU
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:00 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 5

if you enjoyed THIS PRESENT DARKNESS you should really check out THE OATH and MONSTER. they are both pretty intense and less "christian". MONSTER is probably the least "christian" seeming book of all of his. i think its written great b/c it fully envolopes you into the scenes. you literally fall into the book.....at least i did.
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General :: RE: Mellotron Heart now available for all who bought Watershed

Author: DeathfareDevil
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:51 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 2

It's very cool, needless to say -- very quiet, "telephone" vocals, those weird departure sections sound even freakier. It's awesome all 'round.

And yes, "Would?" would be nice. I'm hoping that this Opendisc service offers it next, 'cause I don't know the first thing about soulseek or whatever.

WREKage :: RE: Can I submit a review to the WREK site?

Author: DeathfareDevil
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:23 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 5

Brian wrote:

Great review, I'll post it. What name would you like the review to be credited to (DeathfareDevil, your real name which I do not know, etc)?

But yeah if you want to write more reviews, feel free. You can email them to me at bpm at wrek dot org.

Did you get the Nachtmystium review? I e-mailed it, but 'm so medicated I probably sent it to the Pentagon or something. (If you've been busy with stuff that actually matters, I apologize for being persistent.)

I'll post it here too.

Quote:

Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.1
century Media, 2008

When a fan is told to expect the unexpected from a band whose past work sits in a genre obsessed with orthodoxy, he or she might be forgiven for succumbing to cynicism, even pessimism. Thus after Nachtmystium's hallucinatory, absorbing, and of course popular Instinct:Decay, when the rumors began that the next album would be ... a bit different, so too began the subterranean rumbling and grumbling. No one would fault a black metal band for experimenting; this is the twenty-first century and Transilvanian Hunger has been reheated (refrozen?) until it resembles nothing so much as a week-old microwaved burrito. But with Nachtmystium, who seemed just to be hitting their stride, news of a stylistic shift made many people, including this reviewer, nervous.

Upon the first few listens, I found Assassins to be a spotty affair. In fact my initial verdict was that four very good Nachtmystium songs had been forced into the midst of a swirling mess of paranoid prog-rock replication. Not only this, but the best song, the title track, seemed to have been ruined by an inexplicable additional two minutes of warbling, slobbering synth effects -- a misplaced coda that also managed to annihilate the album's momentum before even the third track. And at the CD's midpoint, a Pelican/Isis/pick your post-metal-band-oriented slow jam, while a nice concept, seemed once again to halt the forward motion, which had just struggled back to life after yet another synth instrumental located at track number four.

Then I realized I was going about this in exactly the wrong manner -- comparing Assassins to Instinct:Decay. Under those auspices, then yes, this new album is a disaster. Even judging this as a black metal album leads to uncertainty. For this is a modern METAL album, a diverse and inspired composition etched into the monolith of heavy, dark music. It speeds along in parts, plods predatorily in others, disintegrates then coagulates before your very eyes, over and over again, until at album's end you not only have no idea what just happened, but can't replay it fast enough.

It begins with a barely indirect quotation of Pink Floyd's "One of These Days", here transcribed into "One of These Nights", complete with a musical facsimile and a voice that growls, "One of these nights I'm going to fucking die." Interesting. Point taken. But not very promising, frankly. It is only with track number two, with its punkified chorus and absolutely mesmerizing first coda (not the synth crap), that Black Meddle begins roaring. (Incidentally, for those who found the final three minutes of last album's "A Seed for Suffering" as incendiary as did I, this particular departure will rekindle those flames -- though this time there's no soloing.) The production, deep and heavy and clear, turns the Nachtmystium sound into something newly defined and accessible, yet never makes repeated listens redundant. It's perfect, really, this presentation, and even though I'll never love Instinct:Decay any less, this new shape and format is very attractive.

For the remainder of the disc, things alternate rigidly between traditional black metal and, respectively, an atmospheric piano piece (surprisingly good and creepy, as these things go), the aforementioned metaldeadheaded jam, and, to close the album, a totally wacked out triptych entitled "Seasick," which sounds like early Genesis, King Crimson, and even more Floyd channeled through a bottle of Jack. It all works, somehow, even the saxophone that comes in during the middle section. And as a matter of fact, whatever drugs were used in the studio should've come with the CD. Also there are a few actual guitar solos, always nice to hear in metal these days.

As I said, this must be listened to as an album -- not a black metal album, not an Ajna Offensive album, and certainly not an album competing with the likes of Xasthur or Striborg. All of these other musical entities are good, having loads of value in the right places, but Assassins: Black Meddle Part One is ennervating, modern dark metal for a drowsing scene.

P.S.: I still think those two minutes of crap after the title track need to GO THE FUCK HOME.

General :: RE: New Morbid Angel...

Author: DeathfareDevil
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:18 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

Oh yeah, the letter "I".

So ... maybe ... Iranian Theocracy.

This joke got old before I even wrote it the first time. Apologies.

Concerts :: RE: Monarch/Bloody Panda East Coast tour!

Author: Metalfreak
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:00 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 7

slut rag wrote:

damn yankees...

...and europeans...

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