Metal Heads Assemble!!

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Forlorn Drifter wrote: Both of the men have interesting ideology though. I don't agree with them, but it is interesting. Varg is a supremacist, at least as far as I can tell, but he doesn't follow Christianity, which is odd. That's out of place with most supremacist fronts, including Stormfront, who is known for using so many Nordic symbols and such.

Breivik is interesting because he isn't a supremacist, but just extremely prejudiced against Islam and its followers. I also find it interesting he is, in his own words, "an extreme right Zionist". That is really interesting. Sounds like somebody who would be up for a modern day crusade...
Varg is a conservative pagan nationalist, he opposes multiculturalism, feminism, homosexuality, consumer culture, globalisation and liberalism. And he hates christianity for various reasons, but seems to think that jews are behind every problem in the world. He constantly calls Norway a soviet state and is clearly disgruntled by many of it's leftist economic policies and he hates both socialism and leftists, but he hates capitalism, globalization, consumerism and modern right wingers (neoconservatism) just as much, so he really doesn't fit any left or right wing stereotype/label when it comes to economics.

In US political termis, maybe you could call Varg a paleoconservative, where as Breivik would be a neoconservative. The modern day crusade thing is very accurate, as he's a member of Freemasons and some organization called Knights Templar (not sure if it's imaginary one or not :lol:) and he basically sees himself as a christian crusader.
He summarizes his goals, stating "I believe Europe should strive for: A cultural conservative approach where monoculturalism, moral, the nuclear family, a free market, support for Israel and our Christian cousins of the east, law and order and Christendom itself must be central aspects (unlike now)
So basically both are mentally unstable conservative nationalists, but where as Varg sees christianity and jews as the reason for modern "moral decadence and cultural decline", Breivik considers those two as the answer to those problems.
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Anyone here use Last.FM?

It's an online radio station that you can pick and choose what you want to play on it, yourself. There's also a recommendations station you can listen to, tailor-suited to your tastes, or you can mix your personal station with the recommedations station. Or if you're in the mood for a particular band's style, you can listen to their radio station which will also play other bands similar to that particular band.

Whenever I'm online I have a window open with it on. It's a great way to discover new bands. I've discovered a bunch of new bands through them.

Check it out. You've got nothing to lose, it's completely free.

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BoneSnapDeez wrote:
Forlorn Drifter wrote: Just a question for you guys- what percentage of your listening goes to metal?
At this point probably 80%.

The other 20% is hardcore punk, emo/screamo, crust, industrial, ambient, post-punk, neofolk, gothic rock, video game music, etc...

A decade ago the answer would have been swapped completely though, as only about 20% of the music I listened to was metal.
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also i'm glad i missed that silly conversation about metal bands. i do think it's funny when people try to pass off AC/DC and G'nR as "metal" but really it's all related in terms of presentation. so whatever.

here's a good power metal album that my friends put out a couple years ago:

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aaron wrote:
BoneSnapDeez wrote:
Forlorn Drifter wrote: Just a question for you guys- what percentage of your listening goes to metal?
At this point probably 80%.

The other 20% is hardcore punk, emo/screamo, crust, industrial, ambient, post-punk, neofolk, gothic rock, video game music, etc...

A decade ago the answer would have been swapped completely though, as only about 20% of the music I listened to was metal.
we would probably be best friends if we lived closer.
Haha yeah...

I was obsessed with Ebullition/Prank/Level Plane/No Idea/Profane Existence/Robotic Empire type hardcore in college. But to me hardcore punk is the ultimate "you had to have been there" type of genre - you have to experience it at a certain time and in a certain (youthful) mindset. I feel as if I've mostly "outgrown" it - can't find much new stuff that excites me - and as such I drifted back into metal, which seems more "timeless" to me.
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BoneSnapDeez wrote:I was obsessed with Ebullition/Prank/Level Plane/No Idea/Profane Existence/Robotic Empire type hardcore in college. But to me hardcore punk is the ultimate "you had to have been there" type of genre - you have to experience it at a certain time and in a certain (youthful) mindset. I feel as if I've mostly "outgrown" it - can't find much new stuff that excites me - and as such I drifted back into metal, which seems more "timeless" to me.
check this out, this record rekindled my faith in that type of hardcore:
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So Morbid Angel is touring and going to perform all of "Covenant."
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Despite how all around horrible their last album was, I've heard they're still pretty solid live.

Thinking about going to one of those Texas dates. The El Paso one is on my day off, but that's a 6 hour drive...
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I've never actually been to one of those performances, but I think that a band performing an entire album in order sounds like a shitty way to do a concert.
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GSZX1337 wrote:I've never actually been to one of those performances, but I think that a band performing an entire album in order sounds like a shitty way to do a concert.
Yeah I don't know about that, but hey if this guarantees they won't be playing anything off of that terrible last album they did, I'm okay with it.
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aaron wrote: check this out, this record rekindled my faith in that type of hardcore:
Not bad!

I barely scratched the surface of European screamo (or whatever ya wanna call it) back when I was in college. It's something I should really look into.
AppleQueso wrote:So Morbid Angel is touring and going to perform all of "Covenant."
That's interesting. So David Vincent is back in Morbid Angel, huh? I had no idea - haven't listened to that band in ages.

Covenant surely is one of their better albums. It's also one of the first Parental Advisory CDs I ever bought. Felt like a badass. :lol:

Oh - and they're gonna play that throwaway instrumental/ambient track live?
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BoneSnapDeez wrote: That's interesting. So David Vincent is back in Morbid Angel, huh? I had no idea - haven't listened to that band in ages.
Oh yes, did a new album even. Unfortunately the album is really, really, really bad. Like laugh out loud "what were they thinking?" terrible.



"LIVIN HARDCORE RADICAAAAAAAAL"

It sounds like they were trying to appeal to the Rob Zombie crowd or something, but they were kinda 7 years too late.
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