Sticking coins up your ass isn't normal.

But on meth it is.

watch out guys! he's gonna read all of these posts talking shit about him! oh man, he'll be so mad, he'd probably throw some matches at us or something.

I'm gonna have a hard time ever taking him seriously.

Every time he posts, I'll just think "you told the internet that you were going to burn down your school and you got caught because of it."

so yeah, listening to pelican

really good shit. i know we talked about them like months ago, but seriously, this is really good. i always thought that post-metal was a sort of bullshit label (and it sort of is, regardless), but this seriously sounds exactly like what post-metal should sound like; post-rock but heavier.

At 11/21/09 01:15 PM, DeIirium wrote: Most of those bands are boring as hell..

i have no words

At 11/20/09 09:51 PM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: I quite like their name, considering all the political bashing sort of stuff Mustaine has going, Megadeth is a play on words, i.e 'Megadeath' - Military talk for over 1 million deaths.

I mostly just dislike the misspelling of "death." It makes Dave seem like he's trying to be edgy in the same way Korn and Staind are (i know he's not but it's just a mental association i have). and before i knew about "megadeath," it seems like just a silly name that someone could come up with at the age of like 11, and i'm sure that people who are unfamiliar with the term feel the same way.

i dunno, megadeth is still good though.

also, went to the library today. among some jazz cds, vonnegut books, memento, fight club, and there will be blood, i also got a pelican cd.

At 11/20/09 01:23 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Fearing pain is just natural. You, even if lot's of religious dudes won't admit it, are just like animals. You have this instinct that tells you to survive.

Well yeah, that's what I was getting at. Survival = not dying. Pain is a survival mechanism to protect you from dying.

And other than this, a good reason why you fear pain is because of your nerves. If I could in a very magical way, make you invincible, but that you could still feel pain, you wouldn't try jumping down a 4 story building, only cause you the pain would be horrible.

Yes, but that's irrelevant, because pain and death aren't mutually exclusive.

Let's imagine a world that would be exactly like ours, but in which you would know what happens after your death. Death, depending on what the afterlife would be, would become less frightening.
To make the explanation a little more simple, let's just say that...
Death is a concept that includes other concepts, one of them being "The Unknown". Death itself isn't that frightening without the concept of the unknown.

So em, I'm right, but you are still right two...

To make the explanation a little more simple, Death is a fucking sweet name for a metal band.

At 11/20/09 01:17 AM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 11/19/09 06:53 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:

That's just ridiculous. I also hate names that take some obscure term from Lord of the Rings or Norse religion or a pre-med textbook, because they, to me, scream "HEY WE ARE A BAND THAT IS TRYING TO HARD."

OPINIONS !!!

Hence why I said "they, to me."

What you just said is an huge insult to almost every fuckin Folk or folk-influenced band. You are not trying too hard just because you are interrested in Mythology or one of the best fantasy novel ever written.

I can think of tons of folk bands without a name from LotR or Norse mythology:

Ensiferum
Finntroll
Equilibrium
Agalloch
Borknagar
Dark Forest
Eluveitie
Equilibrium
The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Mael Mordha
Moonsorrow
Skyforger
Ulver
Vintersorg
Windir

also, note that i don't hate bands with these names, just the names themselves. the band may not actually be trying too hard, but when i see names like that i instantly think of the metal posers at my school going on the wikipedia for LotR and looking up stuff for their "band" name.

So em... sorry... huge rant on "why death is not the most frightening thing"

You know where the fear of the unknown comes from? The fear of death. Whether you realize it or not, you instinctively associate the unknown with death. Nearly every fear can be traced back to the fear of death in some way, except for learned social fears like public speaking, talking to the opposite sex, etc. Fear of the dark? Fearing the dark comes from fearing the unknown, which in turn makes you fear death. Fearing bodily harm? Pain is a way of telling your body that you are in danger and could possibly be about to die; therefore, fearing pain is fearing death. What's funny, though, is that a lot of people take this a step further and fear death not only because it's the end of their life, but also because they fear what comes after it.

At 11/19/09 11:10 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Tell me what you think faggot (notice the "o" in faggot, Ponos)

man, and i was so happy that you guys were having a normal, civilized discussion, too.

At 11/19/09 08:01 PM, AniMetal wrote:

At 11/19/09 06:53 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: If you want a shitty band name, kindly refer to Helloween.

Helloween is a great name(Bad logo though)

It perfectly fits what Helloween was on their first, and best ever album: Walls Of Jericho which was basically thrash metal with falsetto vocals and meaningful lyrics.

I'm not sure how "Helloween" fits in with meaningful lyrics.

I love Death's name. I hate names that go over-the-top, because then they're just ridiculous. Your mind will reject the fear of a "Cannibal Corpse." Oh, cool, a dead body that eats people. That's just ridiculous. I also hate names that take some obscure term from Lord of the Rings or Norse religion or a pre-med textbook, because they, to me, scream "HEY WE ARE A BAND THAT IS TRYING TO HARD."

Death is death. There doesn't need to be anything more to their name, because death is the absolute end; nothing is more frightening than dying. All "spooky" names are just hinting at the concept of death, but Death is the one band who put it out there for all to see. I love how simple their name is. It seems uninspired because it's such a simple, everyday concept; sure, they could have just chosen it because death is scary and all that, but I think Schuldiner was too smart to have chosen "Death" based on that alone. I think he realized the beauty in its simplicity, and chose it for that reason.

TL:DR: a bunch of pseudo-psychological reasons for why Death is one of the best metal band names ever.

As for their logo, they ditched the blood and the cobwebs and all of that a few albums into their career. And regardless of their name or logo, they're still fucking awesome.

If you want a shitty band name, kindly refer to Megadeth or Helloween. Gote that I'm not bashing on either, but their names were shitty enough to keep me from checking them out when I should have (i also really dislike helloween's logo; seriously, fuck that pumpkin. it looks retarded.)

i have to go in a few, but i will say this: Death has such a badass logo, holy god. I got a shirt on saturday that's just their logo, all huge and in silver. I like their new logo a lot more (the one without all the little details like the cobwebs and blood drips and the grim reaper and such), but it's all cool.

I'll list my favorites when i return.

I've posted this before but seriously:

STONER FANS SERIOUSLY LISTEN TO THIS BAND OKAY

At 11/17/09 05:09 PM, AniMetal wrote: And no one said you couldn't talk about Machine Head, aren't they Bill's favorite band anyway?

That'd be Motorhead, an infinitely better/more metal band.

At 11/16/09 08:48 PM, PenisClown wrote: Swashbuckle are thrash metal? :O

Their name sounds much more piratey.

They are pirate-themed, but their music is straight-up thrash.

At 11/15/09 09:13 PM, PenisClown wrote: The whole metalcore genre is a big rip off of At the Gates.

Even their names are rip-offs of At the Gates (seriously, does anyone else think that At the Gates is a super core name?)

At 11/15/09 04:08 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: Fantastic or not, it must sucks when played live. Some music is good live and some other music is good on studio records.

I've talked to people who have said that Sunn O))) concerts are some of the greatest they've ever been to, citing how monolithic and powerful it sounds live, and how everyone in the crowd was basically put into the same trance by the music. I'm of the opinion that any music can be good live, and most music is better live.

At 11/14/09 01:24 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: Well it's not really "one track" then. It's a whole show. Maybe give us the longest title you have of a studio record track :)

I did. I have like five really long tracks that are all drum and bass shows, and then my longest actual song is Edition II, off of Coltrane's album "Ascension."

At 11/13/09 07:13 PM, Nev wrote: Isn't Foley's Room an album?

It is. What I have is him performing the album in it's entirety.

Also, isn't Absolutego by Boris? Or did Earth do a cover of it?

My longest song is a live version of Amon Tobin's "Foley Room," which is an hour and seventeen minutes. A lot of my longest tracks are Noisia doing radio things, so the longest conventional song is Edition II, from John Coltrane's Ascension, at 40 minutes and 25 seconds. Fitting that my longest track would be free jazz.

At 11/13/09 06:16 PM, Nev wrote: Running time is probably the best way of flaunting your musical e-penis.

27 days, 3 hours, 47 minutes, and 31 seconds.

I should spend a month listening to all my music.

49.57 gigs.

hehe

At 11/12/09 02:45 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: Being smarter than a dumbass is not hard. Simple observation: I never get in a fight if you don't insult me first. Proove me wrong :)

This entire sentence is essentially flame bait, rendering your point more or less invalid.

also, calling him a dumbass is an insult

Ireland also has Mael Mordha and I think Doomsword were from Ireland for a while, but relocated to Italy (it could be the other way around)

At 11/10/09 06:15 AM, Zune wrote: Get a real problem to whine about.

Practice what you preach: telling people on the internet that they're wrong isn't exactly the pinnacle of human achievement. I doubt

At 11/9/09 01:57 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: It's different anyway, and you still can't compare...

That's like saying you can't compare black metal and death metal because they're different. The whole point of comparing things is to either show how similar they are, or how different they are. If we couldn't compare things that are different, then there would be no point in doing any comparisons.

And for the record, deathcore and metalcore are pretty similar.

At 11/8/09 04:22 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 11/8/09 03:39 AM, AllMightyBruce wrote: You get used to it. it's like white noise.

Really?

Are you trying to be a know-it-all? Because that's totally what you're coming across as.

why is it that we have the same argument every week?

i can do what the fuck i want regarding my opinions.

At 11/6/09 04:24 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: I don't think so... Cradle of Filth is more mainstream than Marduk, and yes, I am calling Cradle of Filth black metal.

i meant "tr00" black metal, not hot topic-core black metal. mayhem, immortal, emperor, marduk, and a few other black metal bands, when compared to others, are relatively popular.