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Post by Conan on Jun 12, 2008 4:33:32 GMT -5
Tool - Lateralus
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HNT
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Post by HNT on Jun 27, 2008 16:15:25 GMT -5
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch. Absolutely splendid
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Post by The Walking Dude on Jul 12, 2008 20:55:21 GMT -5
Dance of Death - Iron Maiden these new era Maiden album just get better and better.
Nostradamus - Latest Judas Priest Album ahead of their oz tour in Sept.
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Post by GL on Aug 2, 2009 10:53:00 GMT -5
Since I put up my DVD pick-ups, here's everything I've gotten since I last posted here:
Christmas Pick-ups: Dragonforce-Ultra Beatdown Hammerfall-Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken Judas Priest-Nostradamus King Diamond-Gimme Your Soul...Please Slayer-Decades of Aggression Live Testament-The Formation of Damnation
Plus, iTunes redeems ($75 in total from birthday): Gamma Ray-Land of the Free Part 2 Helloween-Metal Jukebox Helloween-Gambling with the Devil Kamelot-Epica Machine Head-Hellalive Manowar-Warriors of the World Manowar-The Sons of Odin Manowar-King of Kings EP
Cannibal Corpse-Evisceration Plague B.G.T.-The Inner Death Fleshgod Apocalypse-Oracles Hermh-Cold Blood Messiah Resurrecturis-Nocturnal Resurrecturis-The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell Spell Caster-Verum Cephalectomy-Eclising the Dawn Cephalectomy-An Epitaph to Tranquility Grief of Emerald-Nightspawn Grief of Emerald-Malformed Seed Grief of Emerald-Christian Termination Dissektor-Supremacy EP Gaia Epicus-Victory Ice Age-The Complete Demo Anthology Leviathan-Far Beyond the Light Pica Fierce-Pica Fierce Urkraft-A Scornful Death Mass in Comatose-Sempiternal Nightmare Industry EP Vindex-Power Forge
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Post by The Walking Dude on Sept 16, 2009 4:34:49 GMT -5
Megadeth - Endgame.
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Post by HNT on Oct 11, 2009 17:46:07 GMT -5
as for Pantera, I'm really not sure why Douchebag Darrell decided to parade around with a silly Confederate Flag, but Phil Anselmo's politics were always far to the left of such sentiments. Kind of wierd if you ask me, particularly considering the lyrics preaching tolerance and racial unity on Vulgar Display of Power. Ah well, I guess that's what you get if ou look for serious poitical discourse from white trash metal bands, lol Hmmm, just came accross this old post and all I can say is ain't karma a bitch? I know I'll probably ruffle some feathers saying this, but I still don't miss or respect him
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Post by CT on Oct 11, 2009 17:48:37 GMT -5
LOL I forgot about him until just now.
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Post by GL on Oct 12, 2009 10:00:45 GMT -5
I've always thought Pantera was a piece of shit band even before he died. I never got what was so good about them, they sounded terrible and had very little talent anyway, and Phil was the single worst metal singer singing in any band ever in any genre, I thought good riddance when he died as they can now never reform and assault the masses with their crap work.
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Post by HNT on Oct 13, 2009 14:19:57 GMT -5
Wow, I really wasn't expecting to get much support for this sentiment around here. As for his talent as a guitarist, it is suspect at best. If he were in a punk or hardcore band it would be passable, but he claimed to be a metal guitarist. He did not have the chops. Not to mention, I think that we can pretty much singlehandedly blame Pantera for that whole numetal nightmare from earlier this decade.
The one thing I will disagree with you on, GL, is Anselmo's vocals. They are hardly great, and he was laughable when he attempted that Cowboys From Hell falsetto, but I would say that from Vulgar Display of Power onward he sounded suitably angry and aggro. Considering the processed and synthesized cookiemonster nonsense that passes for vocals in the extreme metal world, I will happily say that Anselmo is better than average for the genre.
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Post by GL on Oct 14, 2009 9:54:50 GMT -5
True, they were, if only for the fact that I consider that vocal styling so irritating and annoying that I can't listen to those bands who attempt at coping his style. They sound terrible, one for imitating such a piece of shit band to begin with, but also because that particular approach just gets on my nerves. The cookie-monster style growls and grunts are far more aggressive and angry than Phil attempted anyway, and most of them have range and can hit different styles quite perfectly (George Fischer comes to mind immediately in this regard) whereas everything from Phil sounded the same.
And to another point, the synthesized points you made for Extreme Metal apply more to Pantera than any other band. I can really only think of Arch Enemy's 'Doomsday Machine' album which had processed vocals, but from all the extra making-of footage and interviews I've read, none of the other groups attempt that feat. I may miss out on some, but I've usually found it's the instrumentation that gets processed, not the vocals. Most of them are completely natural-sounding in origin.
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Post by CT on Dec 1, 2009 19:32:10 GMT -5
Last CD I bought was Lil Wayne No Cielings.
And by bought, I meant downloaded legally for free. You see, he's such a great guy that for every studio album he releases and makes millions off of, he releases 3 top quality original freestyle albums for free download. Take that Metallica.
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Post by HNT on Dec 2, 2009 9:33:58 GMT -5
If he was a little less lame, that would be a great gesture.
As for me, I bought Yoko Ono's latest and it is terriffic. If you aren't a fan, this won't make you one, but those of us who grew up loviong Swans, Sonic Youth, and the like owe quite a bit to her
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Post by CT on Dec 2, 2009 12:55:59 GMT -5
Please elaborate on why he is lame.
And I thought we were above one word insults of other peoples musicial tastes? No?
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Post by HNT on Dec 2, 2009 16:47:59 GMT -5
Of course we are above insults of others musical tastes, and I apologize if you took offense. In terms of elaborating, I just find his style of rap to be completely dry and unchallenging. His rhymes are pedestrian (not even sure what it means that he "freestyles" as he doesn't ever do anything that lyrically ambitious or challenging anyway). I don't think that he talks about anything particularly interesting. HE is certainly not political or socially engaging in any way. Basically, he just does the standard discussion of making lots of money and doing various silly dances. Not a lot else going on there lyrically, and the beats are standard dancehall stuff. Nothing particularly adventurous in the way that old school PE, Tribe, or even more recent rappers like Mis Def or Talib Kweli are. The best rappers evoke mood and imagery through their beats (like PE's bomb squad making using air raid sirens and whatnot or Tribe or Mos Def relying heavily on jazz bass lines to evoke an earlier more refined era that stands in contrast to the lyrics. Lil Wayne's music does none of this. He is just completely vanilla in my opinion. YOu are entitled to yours and I don't have any desire to change it. I just think that one of the reasons he has to give some of that stuff away is because the stuff that he actually sells is right on the borderline of being too simple and unimaginative to ask anyone to pay money for it
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Post by Bone Daddy on Dec 3, 2009 16:23:26 GMT -5
Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 soundtrack.
Impressive mix of musical influences and its very theatrical in its presentation. I especially dig the Hendrix redo-cover of All Along The Watchtower.
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