At 4/28/09 10:53 PM, GoryBlizzard wrote:

At 4/28/09 10:29 PM, TECh2o wrote: New album is news to me. I'm gong to check it out soon if I get the chance.

K then...I too just found out about it today. I haven't listened to them too much lately, save for Pandemonic Hyperblast. That's the one song of theirs that I can't get enough of sometimes.

Is it really necessary for them to be doing that? Why are they even following you in the first place? That can't be right. I mean sure they could track somebody they find suspicious, but yelling out their name on a megaphone? That just sounds obnoxious.

Apparently I'm hallucinating, but it all seems so real. I see these things. I hear them. The problem is, nobody else can.

They're accusing me for terrorism and all this shit that I have no recollection doing, such as planning out 9/11 and escaping from Guantanamo Bay via helicopter. I mean, I know it sounds so far-fetched, wrong, illogical and ridiculous when I type it out, but this is all precisely what I'm hearing and seeing. And I haven't been doing LSD recently, or at least, I don't think so. I can never be sure of anything anymore. I hope that my ability to type in a way that makes sense doesn't go away next. Now, the calls for arrest and death have subsided for the moment, but that doesn't make me any less fearful. I'm still crumbling right now.

Check yourself into an institution, dude. You need some serious fucking help if there ever was a case for someone needing help. And I don't mean that in a mean or insulting way, I mean it in as loving as a metalhead can be way. You're typing fine, but the FBI? I know it seems very real, but stop for a second and analyze your situation very clearly. You're crumbling very quickly, and you need to check into a mental hospital while you still have your own volition left. I've seen this happen to many tweekers that I knew, where they'd lose so much sleep their ability to process data goes down the fucking drain, and befor they know it they are so fucking nuts that their ability to tell left from right has completely fucking gone and they become rambling wackos. Don't let yourself get to that stage, and get the help you need and deserve.

At 4/28/09 06:43 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:

At 4/28/09 05:25 PM, smeagol1 wrote: Ya know it's funny I just shaved friday and I have to shave again. I hate the hassle of sideburns.

Shaving every four days is hardly an accomplishment.

I hate shaving, but my dad makes me shave >:( I grew my sideburns as a compromise between being cleanshaven and having a full beard. So far, everyone really digs my sideburns.

I have a goatee. The reason I keep it is because my hair color is dark brown, yet my beard is bright scottish/irish red.

But I got a poem for you guys:

What's the word?
Thunderbird
How's it sold
Good and cold
What's the price
Thirty twice
What's the jive
Bird's alive
As the bird soars higher
You sink lower
It tastes like fire
And your brain hits the blower
Drink, drink, drink
Drown your sorrow
Puke in the sink
You'll sure feel it tommorrow

That was a funny ass poem, Ponos. Maybe we should give you buds more often.

At 4/27/09 11:28 PM, ThePhantomLord wrote:

At 4/27/09 07:48 PM, ElGhoulio wrote: For those who don't know, in this incarnation of Angband, I'm the 6 string bassist, and it definitely functions more as a rhythm guitar than a bass, freeing the guitars to do one-note-at-a-time melodic lead-like lines.

Fuck yeah. I'm looking forward to hearing it, I'm your biggest fan :D

This time around, there are a few different things:

The drums are programmed, thus a lot more technical.

The bass is a fuckton heavier and plays a significant part in the music

The songs are slightly shorter and catchier

The vocals will be done by 2 people, one doing a nazgul screech and the other doing a bowels of hell growl

The riffs are a bit death metally at times

There will be mandolins, acoustic guitars, and ukuleles in the music

and

The keyboard will be restrained a bit more.

The tracklisting will be

Intro
The Unchaining
I Will Arise (song title may change)
Oggeledelse Og Undergang
Shining On (Outro)

At 4/28/09 01:33 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: On this topic of music theory, i have been playing guitar for around about 2 years now, and i have never been interested in learning how to read actual music, and never had the time to look into theory/learn how to read musical notes.

Anybody have any quick tips for something to look at/read whilst im not doing uni work?

Wikipedia. Music theory really isn't that hard. There are only 12 notes: A, Bb, B, C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, and Ab. And dinking around with Frooty Loops will teach you about rhythm.

Then again, I got classical piano training for 7 years.

At 4/28/09 12:25 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: I'm considering starting to play bass guitar.
any tips guys?

Learn how to slap, fingerstyle, and pick; don't get good at one particular style at the expense of others. As well, make use of "grace" and "ghost" notes, and in a related note, do lots of hammer ons and pull offs. Even if they don't sound that great at first, it's a wonderful way to build up finger strength and technique. As well, do several styles of accompinament, such as doing arpeggios and I-IV-III or V-III-I progressions.

like techniques, easy songs to get started

Thrash is a good starter, like Sodom or early Slayer. As well, Iron Maiden is perfect, as Steve Harris writes some damn tasty but delightfully simple bass lines. Gorgoroth and Dissection work as well, or really, any band where the bass functions as a foil to the guitars instead of simply hiding behind them.

what are the good amps and bass?

As far as amps go, I use the same amp for my guitars as my bass, and that's a Crate 150W powerblock with a homemade 15" woofer/4" tweeter speaker. As far as basses go, if you want a 6 string, a Carvin is the way to go, or a Rogue if you don't have the $$ for a Carvin. If you want a 5 string, get an Ibanez with a bridge humbucker and you definitely can't go wrong there. If 4 strings are your thing, get a fender P/J bass (P/J referring to the pickup configuration; a P pickup is that split pickup you see on Fender P-basses, among other, whereas J pickups are bass single coil pickups) and you definitely will love playing it.

thanks boys.

No problem. I love spreading the joy known as music to as many people as possible.

Did some recording today, laid down some bass tracks and a couple keyboard tracks. Angband's demo is coming along quite nicely, and this time we programmed the drums instead of relying on either: a.) a flakey drummer or b.) my subpar drumming skills. The samples we used are real, though, and I like the sound of it. The bass sound is raw and raunchy yet heavy and clear, and this time around there is a definite death metal influence creeping in (though it's still black metal). For those who don't know, in this incarnation of Angband, I'm the 6 string bassist, and it definitely functions more as a rhythm guitar than a bass, freeing the guitars to do one-note-at-a-time melodic lead-like lines.

At 4/26/09 09:51 PM, EpicFail wrote:

At 4/26/09 09:07 PM, greensucksbluerules wrote:

I thought you hated Burzum.

I don't think anybody can hate Burzum.

I used to think that. I used to love everything Varg made, but nowadays his stuff just doesn't cut it anymore. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss was wonderful, but everything else except for a couple songs on Det Som Engang Var strikes me as supremely boring.

See, it's not the vocals I don't like, I think they're badass, it's the overuse of repetition. It's the same reason I hate almost everything Darkthrone has done and the same reason why I can't seem to stand Nargaroth anymore. People think black metal is an excuse to play the same riff for 3 or 4 minutes, but it's not. I just did the bass tracks on Angband's demo (it will be forthcoming once the guitarist gets out of rehab) and we change riffs every ten seconds or so. Structurally, it's more like power/speed or thrash metal, but riff-wise and stylistically it's pretty much black metal through and through. So it is possible to make good black metal without overdoing the repetition and having shit production. That's one of the worst misconceptions about black metal (that is, that it consists solely of repetition and lousy production) and it hurts black metal in every way possible. I follow the Mayhem/Dissection/Emperor model of black metal as blackened riffs over smooth and flowing yet ever changing drums.

At 4/26/09 04:49 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 4/26/09 04:28 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:

At 4/26/09 04:13 PM, EpicFail wrote: I realize that, but keep in mind this is METAL hell.

dude

do you have a sense of humor

NO!

Metal is fucking serious!

Nice use of sarcasm. One reason I like metal is because metalheads usually have a sense of humour, however sardonic it is. Usually they don't take life seriously at all, and it's reflected in the music. One thing that separates numetal from regular metal is that numetal takes itself way too seriously (lyrical fodder is usually "I'm gonna fuck you up, payback's a bitch, [insert excessive swearing here], you don't know what you're getting in to, you're a fucking pussy bitch, etc...) and tries to pass itself off as badass and intimidating. However, the stereotypical metalhead can't be intimidated, so that's how you can tell an outsider. Metalheads don't try to intimidate other metalheads, they try to share comraderie and brotherhood. Real metal lyrics are about brotherhood, love for fellow metalheads and hatred for non-metalheads, not generic falsified anger and restrained rage.

At 4/26/09 02:02 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:

At 4/26/09 01:55 PM, Idiosyncratic wrote: I hate people like you, but I don't hate you.

Same with Ghoul, see the difference?

i don't know what you're trying to say.

He's trying to say "I LOEV COCKS ROFL"

At 4/26/09 01:26 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:

At 4/26/09 10:26 AM, Idiosyncratic wrote: Yeah, no one cares buddy. I despise people who feel its necessary to flaunt that they're nonconformists and whatnot.

I'M A VEGETARIAN PACIFIST SXE ANARCHIIIIIIIST

I'm not a non-conformist prick, I'm just odd because, well, I'm odd. I'm more likely to show up at a Chuck Norris fan convention wearing a "Satanists for Gingrich" T-shirt, carrying a Noam Chomsky book, and blasting black metal out of my phone, than to show up at a hardcore punk show or a PETA rally. I will say this: I do enjoy getting a rise out of people.

If it's music to blowing shit up that you want, I would look no further than Belphegor -- Pestapokalypse VI, or In Battle -- Welcome to the Battlefield. There's one song off of WttB called Madness that sounds like, well, madness. Pure death metal madness. And there's Scorched Earth, which has a part where the guitars and drums are going ADJSKALSHDJKLHSAJKELRHWIURHEWM< NMZDX<>NJUPIXCZHBFJEKLSIORPUHDSKJALASHRB DJLKSA:CJUNKC that gets the head banging and neck snapping every time I listen to it. Then of course there's the venerable "classic" Panzer Division Marduk.

At 4/25/09 04:14 PM, batman64 wrote:

At 4/25/09 03:56 PM, ElGhoulio wrote:

At 4/25/09 01:44 PM, greensucksbluerules wrote:

For the longest time I thought your name was Greensucksblueballs. I dunno why.

I nominate this as quote of the day.

When the Ghoul has had a bit to drink he's fukken comedy gold.

At 4/25/09 01:44 PM, greensucksbluerules wrote:

For the longest time I thought your name was Greensucksblueballs. I dunno why.

At 4/25/09 12:41 PM, AniMetal wrote:
Anyway if they did play metal at a school dance what do you guys think they would play?

Prisoner of Your Love
Heaven Tonight
I'll Die Without You
Hold On To Love
Forever One
The Message
Immortal Plains
Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Yes, technically that's glam, not metal, but anybody who's not a metalhead thinks it's metal)
She's Only 17
Anywhere
Farewell
Pray
Forevermore
Starlight

Etc...

At 4/24/09 11:42 PM, burnoutfool wrote: I just picked up Skullage, the new Black Label Society release (its a compilation album, with a bonus DVD), and I gotta say that its pretty fucking badass. It has all their music videos on it plus some of their live performances. I'd say that if you like BLS, you should pick up a copy of Skullage.

For some reason I can't stand Zakk Wylde as a guitarist. I used to like early 90's/late 80's Ozzy, but for some reason I just grew apart from him.

It could be that half his songs have riffs like 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0 repeat.

At 4/24/09 07:01 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: Do you guys ever listen to a CD for the first time in months and think to yourself, "holy shit, why don't I listen to this all the time?"

I'm playing some Divine Wings of Tragedy and I'm experiencing that very feeling.

Of Sins and Shadows - Symphony X

I jizz over that CD regularly. Of Sins and Shadows, Out of the Ashes, The Accolade, well, hell, the whole fukken CD is perfection laid to plastic.

At 4/24/09 05:24 PM, batman64 wrote:

At 4/24/09 05:22 PM, Nev wrote: I don't get peoples problems with talent. Its fucking stupid. 'Oh, look how good they are. How shit is that!?'

You don't get that in the Classical world, people don't look at virtuosos of the piano or violin and think they're shit.

It's called jealousy bro.

Pretty much. Using your talent =/= showing off. Now, showing off is what Yngwie Malmsteen does, where he plays a million notes per second with no regard to whether the song merits it or not. Now, to be clear, I do like his work, it's just that some of it comes off as rather trite because it's just him showing the world how fast he can play without any regard to melody. Sometimes it works, like when he did the Trilogy Suite, and sometimes it doesn't, like the entire Unleash the Fury album.

That being said, while Symphony X, Dark Moor, or Heavenly might be overly technical, it's usually with clear regard to melody and taste, and the technicality goes to further the music instead of ruining the music.

At 4/24/09 01:02 PM, TakeNoPrisoners wrote:
On a related note I don't what's happened with me but that kind of stuff used to be fine to me. I used to roll my eyes at people saying that that kind of melodeath is too radio friendly, as if that was reason enough alone to hate it, but I'm starting to see where they're coming from... fuck. This is probably the first slip into madness. Before too long I'll be posting on anus.com.

Listen to Arsis, that'll cure your madness. I used to hate melodeath with a passion of a thousand suns but now I don't mind it as much since Arsis kicks so much ass. I'd recommend their debut, A Celebration of Guilt, it's perfect for blasting on your stereo as you're doing 90 on the freeway.

At 4/24/09 08:15 AM, Idiosyncratic wrote:

I'll try, but I need to find a drum tab maker thing first. They wouldn't be too complicated or anything though. Just some slow simple beats with a few fills which eventually builds up to blast beats and maybe some d-beats here and there.

Notepad works, you don't need a "tab maker thing", just notepad.

At 4/23/09 09:44 PM, Idiosyncratic wrote: Update:

All right, on the whole death/thrash band, yeah well it's not happening. My guitarist and drummer are now in tight situations and can't afford to do anything right now, so it's a one man show for now. Because, however, I don't have any method of recording all the parts yet, the project is on standstill, but I began writing riffs, bass lines, lyrics, and drum patterns recently. It's coming together slowly but surely.

Also, it's not really death/thrash anymore as it is sludge/death, or Eyehategod with less noise and no vocals.

I can programme you some drums if you can tab them out for me, I just finished building a virtual 8 piece drum kit and it sounds similar to the one you guys heard on my Moonlight Sonata cover.

At 4/23/09 05:28 PM, burnoutfool wrote: Viima - Korpiklaani...one of my favorite drinking songs next to Beer, Beer, and Wooden PintsMetsämies

What about Onkel Tom Angelripper? If I'm not mistaken, every song he writes is about beer in some fashion or another.

Or Tankard, which is beer thrash metal.

At 4/23/09 05:02 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: Anybody want to recommend me any Tech Death?

It's a genre I have long neglected. However, by my recent discovery of Cryptopsy, (despite approximately only one third of the band's discography being decent or above) the genre has gained my interest.

I know Necrophagist (and like them), but that's pretty much it.

Arsis, Iniquity, Death, Athiest, and

DEMILICH DEMILICH DEMILICH DEMILICH DEMILICH DEMILICH. Fucking putrid, filthy, disgusting, strange, and "wrong" sounding death metal.

At 4/23/09 03:15 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: and let's not forget Balrog, cause it's obvious that I totally am a fan of these guys.

Balrog are fucking excellent, Nazgul Warlord and Destroyer (The Broken Alliance) are fucking diabolical slabs of hateful, war-torn black metal. I love how the drums always seem to resemble artillery/machine gun/AK-47 fire.

Moonlight Sonata
The Deadness
Dust Bowl Jam
Dissociation
Lyckantropen cover

For Brucie and Ponos.

At 4/22/09 10:19 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:

At 4/22/09 10:10 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Explain me how you feel that this is a positive description.

It's repetitive in a droney sort of way, like it relaxes you and calms you down. I don't mean minimalistic like "boring," just simple. The album would be awful if it had tons of instruments playing different melodies and such, it would be too cluttered. The strength of the album is it's simplicity.

Funny, because the strength of Blood Inside was its claustrophobic, cluttered, feel. It's amazing how Ulver go from one extreme to the next, going from straight folk music to balls out black metal to industrial metal to trip hop to symphonic electronic to avante garde rock to minimalist music like Shadows of the Sun. What an amazing journey.

And to Animetal: 2007 does not consist a long-timer. And you're digging yourself a nice hole there. Rule of holes: if you're in one, quit digging. I'm not trying to single you out, either; people seem to think the metal hell is the place to have flame wars. That's what General, or god forbid, /b/ is for. This is for discussion, not retarded page-filling multiple-quoted flames. It lowers the collective IQ of the bunch and kills my buzz worse than a DUI.

At 4/22/09 10:10 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 4/22/09 09:56 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:

It's very minimalistic

Explain me how you feel that this is a positive description.

Well, when you listen to Shadows of the Sun the lights in your room dim and the dopamine/seratonin in your brain plummet.

At 4/22/09 09:50 PM, ElGhoulio wrote: Orgasmic

Thats what I thought at first... but as I listenned to it a couple more times... I juste felt that it really was not bringing anything new to the original version and that there was no emotion in their interpretation. I thought it was kind of empty...

Maybe I should check it out again... see what you think is so awesome about this track.

I just love the high energy of it. Plus, I love the original so much that any metal version of it automatically wins. Also, this wins as well. If you couldn't tell, I'm a Beethoven fan. I love Romantic classical music.

Orgasmic

At 4/22/09 08:58 PM, Nev wrote:

At 4/22/09 08:51 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: because I know we have huge fans of them in the Hell.

Apparently its Downtempo Electronic music.
I've only hard Shadows of the Sun and I suppose it applies. But I don't think of it like that. I think of it just as ambient.

Perdition City sounds nothing like Shadows of the Sun. Both are good, but I think Heavenduff is referring to Perdition City.

I just refer to Ulver as "awesome music".