tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74561259779102834292024-02-18T20:37:50.021-08:00The Snarl:Metal//Movies//Art//People//Products//Places//Ideas//Fashion:Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-54949693507139382402013-12-16T09:30:00.000-08:002013-12-16T09:33:08.083-08:00Check out this weird shit I found.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hello friends. I have a pleasant surprise for you.<br /><br />I was in an abandoned school in the middle of nowhere.<br />I found a bunch of poster prints, on quality, undamaged cardstock.<br />The first bunch were smaller, measuring 9x14".<br />They depict kids making different expressions, or hand gestures, or postures.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Link:<br /><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://imgur.com/a/2kRNi#0">Portraits and Gestures</a></span><br /><br />Check them out!</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">They're for sale. $20 for the print, 25$ in a frame.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But it gets better, friends. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Beneath those smaller prints, were larger, stranger prints. Same card stock. This time, they're double-sided.<br />I will note which images go with which card. <br />They depict young children getting into all sorts of bizarre trouble.<br />Some tame, others less tame.<br />The scientific charts have information on the back, but nothing worth scanning.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Link:<br /><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://imgur.com/a/8KG0j">Illustrations and Geosciences</a></span><br /><br />Check these out as well!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They're for sale. $30 for the print, $40 in a frame.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">They look beautiful framed. They'd make great gifts.<br />If you're interested, or if you have any questions, send me a note: winslowdumaine at gmail.com<br /><br />One last thing, for all you photoshoppers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I took massive scans of all these images, each one saved to a 50mb .tif file.<br />If you would like to use them for your work, let me know.<br /><br />Thanks for looking. Happy hunting.<br /><br />Winslow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most of rock is a dull paste of
tough-guy posturing and swole; a rank abortion of date-rapist jocks and
sneering party-rats that, if anything, merely flirt with artistic validity.
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concerted efforts towards artistic and intellectual significance. Shining is
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With their third release, One One
One, Shining has redoubled their hold as the premier sound of weird hard-rock blackened
jazz-metal. It’s not a contested title, so being the best might not seem very
notable, but their skills make them a stand-out act in even general genres.
They were damn good before, but with One One One, they’re something incredible.
With this feverishly vitriolic and unabashedly violent record, they prove to
the uninitiated just how valuable experimentation (and
complexity-for-the-sake-of-complexity) can be for musical progression. It is
this freedom that lets them seamlessly mix hypersexual throbbing percussion
with prog-djent guitarwork, and then a saxophone, without sounding like a bunch
of jazzcore cunts. Their music has that awesome ability to sound wild and
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their sophomore release, Blackjazz,
had a handful of exceptional tracks and a couple forgettable ones, par for the
course with bands that are setting new trends. Where it was strong, it was
raucous and brilliant: seizing spasms of saxophone honks ejaculating while vile
lyrics steeped with complex numerical symbolism captured my imagination. It's
one thing to put together a good sound, but to have truly meaningful
expressions to back it up is another step entirely. Shining took this torch and
ran with it, and One One One is a masterpiece of contemporary angst. I can’t
wait to not be able to figure out what Jørgen is talking about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are clear similarities
between One One One and early Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, particularly
their respective releases of Antichrist Superstar and The Downward Spiral. The
vocal work is incredibly similar to a young Marilyn Manson, and the percussion
employed around the beginning of the album is reminiscent of Manson’s later
releases. It’s never similar enough to feel dishonest, but it’s most likely an
homage to a predecessor. That being said, the songs contained between the two seminal
records covered a great spectrum, from funeral dirge to achingly fast
meditations on self-destruction. It is true that One One One lacks this
breadth, but it doesn't come off as repetitive, but rather streamlined to an
annihilating edge. Drop the needle on this album anywhere you please, and
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shining has refined their work to a
finely tuned machine. They've earned their name, and they named their album
accordingly. It's not often that a record is as complete and as satisfying as
One One One and for that they should be commended. I can't recommend this album
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</span>Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-84371910513720646142012-10-24T12:43:00.000-07:002012-10-24T23:37:56.080-07:00My Music Recommendation Motherlode<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I get a lot of people asking me for this...so here it is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Do you <span style="font-size: small;">nutmeats </span>want some music recommendations?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Normally, I write big explanations for the things like this,
but I’m not going to waste your time. These are bands I like. This is good
music. Pre-approved by me. Here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Acid
Bath</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Sludge
metal with hints of doom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Acid
Bath is <span style="font-size: small;">a big name of</span> the sludge genre, and even if you’re not a big
listener, just about everyone I know has found something to enjoy in their
music. Its complex, beautifully composed and has a great deal of variety. It’s very much a time-capsule of early 90s
metal-infused grunge rock. They’re not particularly hard or heavy, so you don’t
have to be a big metal fan to get into them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: When The Kite String Pops</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: The
artwork of the aforementioned album is a painting from the serial killer John
Wayne Gacy, AKA Pogo the Clown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Agalloch</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive black metal with elements of doom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
a black metal band that can mix folk, classical and acoustic elements into
their magnum opus without sounding too much like they live in the woods, or
creating an overload of ultra-bombastic sensory overload. They’re not
wall-of-sound, but more melodious and sorrowful. It’s something you can listen
to on a long drive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Marrow of the Spirit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: They
were featured on NPR for this album. Pretty wild for a black metal band to get
that kind of attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Ageless
Oblivion</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive blackened death metal with bits of hardcore.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
the answer to so much progressive black/death metal being riddled with masturbatory
solos and high vocals. Just another death metal band for you to test against
your own standards, really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Temples of Transcendent Evolution</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Awful band
name scale: 6/10 awfuls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Ajattara</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive black metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They
took the fundamentals of black metal and modernized them, stepping far away
from the ‘lone wolf lost in the woods of ghosts and spirits and frost’ and gave
it a new tooth. They come out heavier and more vitriolic for their efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Murhat</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Aldebaran</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Funeral doom metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: No
reason in particular to be entirely honest. They’re so slow and low that
they’re almost difficult to describe as music, but more of a sound-scape of
weird ghost shit and distant growls. Which is cool too.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Buried Beneath Aeons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Alfred
Schnittke </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Classical</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Schnittke is one of the ‘extreme’ composers that I’ve fallen in love with. He’s
so wonderfully bizarre. His music is beautiful and terribly tormented,
disturbed and sonorous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Requiem & Conserto for Piano and Strings</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Allegaeon</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Not-shit Deathcore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: When all
you need is fast, angry music with driving drums and relentless cock-waving
riffage, written about nothing, you can rely on Allegaeon to slake your thirst.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Fragments of Form and Function</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Allfader</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Brutal
death metal with elements of technical</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
like if Amon Amarth were dipped in pure evil and sprinkled with devil-flakes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Black Blood Flux</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Name
meaninglessness: 100%</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>American Head Charge</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Alternative Metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: While
they only released a pair of albums before drugs split them up, AHC still has a
tremendous following. Their early works aren’t particularly interesting, just
hard-rock masturbating to metal porn. However, The Feeding is an exceptional
album and certainly worth a listen to anyone interested in some truly American
metal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Feeding</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: I’ve
seen them live, one of my first concerts. They contributed to an album of
Marilyn Manson covers.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Amon
Amarth</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Viking
Metal straight from Valhalla</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Because
they’re fucking Amon Amarth. They have mock Viking battles on stage. Every song
they write is about Vikings or Thor or fighting sea monsters or some shit. They
write about cracking open skulls and brains flying out. They’re Amon fucking
Amarth.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: With Oden On Our Side, Twilight of the Thunder God, Surtur Rising</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: They
use their guitars as cutting boards when they make dinner.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Anaal
Nathrakh</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Unbelievably extreme metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Anaal
Nathrakh is the end of metal. I’ll quote a review I wrote of ‘Passion’: “Anaal Nathrakh’s <i>‘Passion’ </i>sounds like the
final evolutionary step of heavy metal music. It combines unspeakably extreme,
wall-of-sound mixing, absurdly fast and intricate drums, searing riffs with the
most violent vocals imaginable. Frequently, the shrieking departs from the
standard death-metal howls and enters a dark new territory of disturbingly
convincing pained-yelps, and hoarse, tearful cries. AN has long been one of the
honored and reviled chaplains of extreme metal, and with this release, they have
offered up the audio equivalent to a mass-extinction event. It’s the noise of
pigs being slaughtered, the treads of tanks shredding through bones and flesh.
If music is ever going to be fully weaponized, these British bastards are at
the top of the list.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Hell is Empty and all the Devils are Here, In the Constellation of the
Black Widow, Passion, Vanitas</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: They
wrote a few tracks about the ‘Horus Heresy’ timeline in the sci-fi universe for
Warhammer 40,000. Their equipment doesn’t go up to 11, because they don’t have
a volume knob. That implies that they’d want something other than maximum
noise.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Anata</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Technical death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: If
nothing else, listen to these guys for their incredible skill with their
instruments. Other bands play catchier, simpler stuff, but Anata goes into the
most absurd depth with their technicality. They produce incredibly complex, and
masterfully executed, technical death metal out there today.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Conductor’s Departure</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
They’re Polish, and they’re one of the first death metal bands I ever really
got into.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Animals
as Leaders</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive Metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
progressive metal without vocals. I can’t stress enough how much of a blessing
it is to have an exceptionally talented prog band that isn’t stained with goofy
high pitched clean vocals. They’re geniuses behind instruments, they’re wildly
capable and I can’t begin to explain how they’re worth a listen to any heavy
music aficionado. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Animals as Leaders, Weightless</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: My
friends and I use them as a sort of detox band for people who generally listen
to shitty metal. Introduce them to AaL and gradually get them into real metal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Anomalous</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive technical death metal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Meshuggah
has influenced many a metal band, and some wear this badge more clearly than
others, and Anomalous is an unsurprisingly difficult-to-place band. While
they’re guitars scream of the strange, malformed riffs of Meshuggah, the rest
of their composure lends itself to a traditional tech. death metal outfit.
Whatever they are, they’re fun, and I recommend them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: OHMnivalent</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Anorexia Nervosa</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Symphonic black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I don’t
listen to Anorexia Nervosa because of how much I love their music, I listen to
them because of how hilariously over-the-top they are. They are, and I don’t
use this word often, truly priapistic. I mean, they’re always raring to go.
They’re ready to fucking slaughter the universe right now, and neither of us
are listening to them. They’re extreme, fast, and constantly backed up by an
orchestral soundtrack from hell. <span style="font-size: small;">B<span style="font-size: small;">ut for posterity<span style="font-size: small;">, no, I don't actually listen to them. This is not a serious entry.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Drudenhaus</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: They
have a song called ‘God Bless the Hustler’. They’re also French. Good for them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Anti</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Depressive black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Sometimes, when you’re especially aware that the universe is doomed to a slow,
agonizing heat death, you need to listen to some icy, mournful black metal to
cool your veins. Anti is it. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Insignificance of Life</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: <span style="font-size: xx-small;">auuuuuughhhhhhh</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Aphex
Twin</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Electronica (And virtually every subgenre that electronica contains)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Aphex
Twin is the Frank Zappa of electronic music. He’s released such a massive
amount of material that it’d be difficult to not find something that fits your
tastes. He’s released so much material, and seems to constantly be recording
new material. Because Aphex Twin, aka Richard D. James, is such a prolific
artist, and he so frequently works under one of dozens and dozens of
pseudonyms, his wikipedia page for his discography warns: this is the KNOWN
discography of Richard d. James. He’s a titan without peer. Put down the
dubstep. That can wait. Listen to Aphex Twin and honor your elders.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Drukqs, I Care Because You Do, Richard D. James Album, Selected Ambient
Works Vol. 2, Ventolin EP, 26 Mixes for Cash</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Seriously, 26 Mixes for Cash is a phenomenal album.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Architecture in Helsinki</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Flowery hippie cutesy rock.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Because
sometimes the world isn’t ending, shit isn’t going wrong, or maybe it is and
you just don’t care, <span style="font-size: small;">a</span>nd everything, maybe just for a moment, is alright. Time stands still,
and you enjoy the company of another human being.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Fingers Crossed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
They’re the happiest and yet most depressing band I can think of.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Arghoslent</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Blackened
death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
technically adept and they write really interesting music. They’re a lot of fun
if you like to know the lyrics to your death metal before you get into it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Hornets of the Pogrom</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Dog
and Broom!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Arkhum</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Pigsquealing death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Because
fuck it, why not. Honestly, they’re not doing anything particularly fascinating
or technically wonderful, but sometimes that’s what you need. A good hot
dicking straight from the devil.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Anno Universum</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEET</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Arsis</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Arsis is
a fabulous example of death metal being modernized without turning into some
death core shit. They use fantastic recording quality, differentiated guitars
and varied vocals to set themselves apart. I’ve listened to them for years, and
the thrill still hasn’t worn off. Just forget about their more recent material.
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: A Celebration of Guilt, United in Regret</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Listen to ‘Dust and Guilt’. I love that song.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Ascension</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Progressive black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: When
black metal meets progressive metal, the emotional, delicate sound-scape
elements of it are generally shed in favor for faster, more stage-ready songs.
Ascension mends this rift with their interpretation, and should be commended
for it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Consolamentum</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: The
artwork for Consolamentum is what made me really look twice when they described
themselves as black metal. No black and white photographs of long forgotten
trees with a moon and a wolf howling and a battle axe strapped to that
wolfs back because he’s actually a super
deep mystical warrior? Neat.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Aurora
Borealis</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive technical death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
a talented, well trained band who happened to put their entire discography up
for download on their website. I guess they felt that they’d just cut out the
middle man. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Timeline: The Beginning and End of Everything</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Baroness</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Hard
rock with metal elements</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Baroness
is one of the best modern hard rock bands playing today. They’re just a perfect
example of how broad the genre can be. They have intricate, well written and
fully imagined songs and they compose their records as entire pieces of
artwork, rather than just a handful of songs.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Blue Record</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Their
stage lights are generally in synch with songs, and which color album they were
on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Battle
Dagorath</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
Metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Battle
Dagorath is the embodiment of uncompromising, wall-of-sound black metal.
Simple, pure, and krieg as fuck.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Ancient Wraith</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Not
to be confused with the Italian hate group ‘Battle Dago’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> The
Beast of the Apocalypse</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
Metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Black
metal, downtuned and distorted beyond comprehension. It’s nothing spectacular,
but it’s stranger than what the kids are listening to these days, I’ll tell you
that much.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Henosis.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Henosis is an infection of the chicken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Becoming the Archetype</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive Deathcore, but not shit.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I found
these guys when I asked for a recommendations on djent-infused death metal that
didn’t have many clean vocals. This is what I got. Not bad.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Celestial Completion</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: How
do I know they’re deathcore before listening to the music? The band name is a
sentence fragment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b>
Beheading of a King</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Progressive deathcore, but again, not shit.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Practically identical to Becoming the Archetype, but grindier and more
technical. Polyrhythmic! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Quasar: Preserving Legacy</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Sentence fragment. Gah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Behemoth</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Blackened death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Behemoth
is far beyond the confines of metal. Musically, they’re incredibly talented,
hard and heavy in every imaginable way, but their true value lies in the fact
that the band is fronted by Nergal. A survivor of leukemia, an exhaustively
educated man, and a bit of a philanthropist to boot, Nergal is the perfect
embodiment of the archtypical frontman. He’s got charisma, brains, and an ego
larger than the known universe, but he’s got the talent to back it up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Evangelion</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Just
read the Wikipedia page about the band, they’re really something else.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Belphegor</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Blackened death metal from the very bottom of Hell’s most diabolical
orgy-crater.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Belphegor is sexmetal dunked in a vat of blackened death evil, shot full of
holes and then fucked in those holes by an army of cockdemons. Everything about
them, the violence, perversion, devil-worship, is cranked to the max. They’re
the band Christians are afraid of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Bondage Goat Zombie, Lucifer Incestus</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: THE GOATCHRIST.
Also, when they released their big box set, they included a limited edition
Belphegor hand grenade. Yes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Black
Breath</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Modernized blackened death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Kids
these days, they don’t have a clue what real black metal is about. So, no,
Black Breath isn’t kvlt or anything, but they are a fresh interpretation of the
fundamentals put forth in Norway, some thirty years ago.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Heavy Breathing</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
REJECT CHRIST! SPIT ON THE CROSSSSS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>BlackTusk</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Sludge
rock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
BlackTusk is a great example of genre-mixing, where elements from a dozen
different subgenres can mix together and produce something really valuable. The
vocalist is especially enjoyable. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Taste the Sin</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: The
artwork was composed by John Dyer Baizley, the frontman of Baroness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b>
Blockhead</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Triphop</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Blockhead is the go-to music if you need to study, or if you want to work
around the house. It’s just a hipper version of jazz, made modern and a little
funkier. A trip indeed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Uncle Tonys Coloring Book, Downtown Science</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Take
the Nyquil challenge while playing these guys and you’ll die!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Bloodbath</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Fuckin’ death metal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Bloodbath is a supergroup from Stockholm, formed with members from Kataonia and
the vocalist from Opeth. They’re the purest example of phenomenal modern death
metal I can give. If you don’t like Bloodbath, you just don’t like death metal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Fathomless Mastery, Nightmares Made Flesh, Unblessing the Purity</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: In
their lyrics, they removed all references to god and replaced them with ‘doG’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Blut Aus Nord </b></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Extreme progressive black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Extreme
metal, black metal, and progressive metal are all given to the occasional
wildly intelligent, densely mathematical, profoundly intricate band, and Blut
Aus Nord is one of them. They’re complex, tangential, and just a
head-scratching mastergroup.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: 777 - Sect(s)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Brain
Drill</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Technical brutal death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: When I
go to work in the morning, I like to listen to music that doesn’t waste time
with flowery intros and outros, or shamelessly masturbatory tremolos. I just
listen to things like Brain Drill and get ready to hammer the fetus of the work
day. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Apocalyptic Feasting</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: They
have a side project called Cerebral Bore hue hue hue hue hue hue</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Buckethead</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Virtuoso guitarist, employs elements from essentially all guitar styles from
thrash metal to classical acoustic, flamenco style. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Buckethead is like Aphex Twin of guitar, who if you recall, is like the Frank
Zappa of electronic music. Buckethead has an unimaginably massive amount of material.
I can listen to buckethead with my mom, my dad, my brother, my metal head
friends, and even girls who listen to John Mayer. He’s capable of virtually
every kind of music. He’s one of the best living musicians of this age. He’s
like none else. Keep an eye out for his side bands, like Praxis and especially
The Deli Creeps.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Acoustic Shards, Albino Slug, Bucketheadland Vol. 2, Colma, Crime Slunk
Scene, The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, Dawn of the Deli Creeps, Forensic Follies,
Kaleidoscalp, Pepper’s Ghost</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: I’ve
seen Buckethead four times. He’s easily 6’6”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Burzum</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
True black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I’ll
be the first to admit it: Part of the experience of listening to black metal is
the thought that the musicians are so depraved and bizarre, and yet they’re
capable of creating complex, original works. Burzum, the solo project from the
‘Black Metal Murderer’ Varg Vikernes, was kept alive even during his prison
sentence, where he could only record with a synth. Now that he’s free, he’s
recorded a handful of fresh records. They’re enjoyable, but you do have to
really want to listen to them. Keep in mind, I’m not giving him a pass on his
actions or on his primitive philosophies. I’m just saying I like the music.</span></div>
<h1>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Where to start: Dauði Baldrs, Filosofem, Belus, Fallen</span></span></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Varg looks homeless now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Cake</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Rock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Cake
is one of the most deliciously smooth rock bands out today. They’re perfectly
chilled. They’re the audio equivalent of a pair of sunglasses worn indoors.
They’re not weighed down with heavy ideas. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Comfort Eagle, Fashion Nugget</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Cavus</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: There’s
a reason that Cavus was picked up by big name black and death metal bands for their
most recent tours. They’re fast as fuck and they carry a big stick to beat the
shit out of your ears. Give them a listen.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to start:
Fester and Putrefy.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Google the band name in images. Ha.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Charon</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Blackened death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I don’t
know much about them, but they’ve really run with the whole distant, mystical,
creepy vibe that black metal used to espouse and really made it their own.
Blackened death metal, or really all death metal, has a tendency to sound like
a big, angry guy yelling at you about demons and fireballs and shit, so it’s
nice to hear a strange, distant growling evil instead.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Sulphur Seraph</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Clampdown</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
not a band I listen to often, or really one I like to claim I listen to.
They’re kind of heavy-handed and just a little too hardcore-y for my tastes in
some parts, but they’re tangential and progressive enough to really make them
worth a listen.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Clampdown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Terrible band
name score: 9/10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Climatic Terra</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive metal born from hard rock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Again,
no, these guys aren’t doing anything particularly interesting, but they’re enjoyable
for their complexity and, simply, for the fact that they’re bunch of angry
noise makers. It’s metal for fucks sake, not a dissertation. I don’t know if
they speak English as their mother tongue, but telling by their lyrics, it
could be their third or fourth language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Earth Pollution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bad skills of
in English: yes! Ten ups thumbs good plus!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Grindcore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I’m
recommending these guys because they do what grindcore is supposed to: be a
musical form of a hundred Gatling guns firing into a steel drum factory, while
thirty million lions are fired from cannons into a brick wall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Omega Drunk on the Blood of Alpha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Rearrange the letters in their album title and you get ‘Nonmoral bulkhead
poohed fagot’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Chloroform</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Triphop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Triphop
is only good for one thing: spacing out. Chloroform does this with great ease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to start:
Scrawl</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>the
Contortionist</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I can’t
put into words why these guys are good without sounding like I’m just feeding
you all the sentiments I shared about previous bands. They’re exceptional
examples of modern, progressive death metal with elements of metalcore, but
with less clean vocals. Mind you, I said less. I don’t know why it is that so
many Meshuggah influenced bands feel the need to include clean vocals. They
used clean vocals on one song, and that was ages ago. Why do they need to use
them now? I don’t know. Fuckin’ kids.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Exoplanet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Corpsessed</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal with elements of brutal and doom metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I guess
I just like death metal that revolves around ancient, evil rituals, demon
spirits and strange cult activities, and less about killing people with
hammers. Just my thing. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Dagger & The Chalice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band name
retarded level: 7/10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Corpus
Christii</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
Metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Fuck I
didn’t realize how many heavy, evil, fast, hate-filled bands I would have to
describe with unique descriptions. They’re what I just said. Just listen to
them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Luciferian Frequencies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Cosmic
Atrophy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: They
say they’re extreme metal, but they’re really just technical death metal with
elements of progressive</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Any band
with a song called ‘The Granfalloon’ is worth a shot in my book.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Codex Incubo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Craft</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
one of the best black metal outfits around today, and they’re driven on an
engine of pure hate. Just listen to ‘I Want to Commit Murder’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Void</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Cryptopsy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
grind metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
one of the most storied bands in the genre, and they’ve been through many
changes through their long history. Some of their records are instantly
forgettable, even reprehensible, but when they get it right, they get it
fucking perfect.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Cryptopsy, Once Was Not, None <span style="font-size: small;">So Vile</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Culted</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Doom
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
my go-to band for slow, churning doom metal. If you like funereal, Culted is
your group.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Beyond the Thunders of the Upper Deep</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Dan le
Sac vs. Scroobius Pip</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Hip
hop/ rap</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Dan le
Sac vs. Scroobius Pip isn’t the greatest rap group of all time, no, but they’re
fun as heck and they write intelligent, if occasionally atrociously
pretentious, music. Rap with upbeat messages without sounding like Will Smith?
Count me in.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Angles, The Logic of Chance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Be
sure to check out their videography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Dark
Fortress</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Another
band who mastered the mixture of black and death metal without forsaking their
roots. They’re adepts when it comes to the feverish pacing, wall-of-sound
mixing of the genre, and their use of a driving, throbbing baseline keeps me
awake.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Ylem</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
There’s like ten different bands that are named Dark (something sort of regal,
but not ‘throne’)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Darkthrone</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: True
black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Darkthrone is black metal. They’re one of the founding groups of the genre and
they can be credited with the creation of many of the tropes that are so
frequent to the style. They have a delicious mixture of punk rock, rock n roll,
and originality that makes them so instantly listenable.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Cult is Alive, Circle the Wagons, Transylvanian Hunger</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Das
Racist</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Rap</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Das
Racist is the most intelligent, hilarious, insightful, and downright enjoyable
rap groups of today.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Shut Up Dude, Relax</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Watch
me / walk me / the second hand couldn’t
even clock me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> De
Magia Veterum</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Extreme black metal </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: De Magia
Veterum is one of my favorite black metal acts out there today. It’s fronted by
the guy from Gnaw Their Tongues, and so naturally, it’s incredibly well layered
and absolutely incomprehensible. What I can tell you is simple: This band is
pure chaos. In C. S. Lewis’ ‘The Screwtape Letters’, a senior devil teaches a
junior devil how to tempt a Christian man to sin and vice. The ultimate goal,
for all of the devils was to reduce the laws of nature, the very order of the
universe to chaos, and to create such an catastrophic noise that the
cacophonies of nonsense finally drown out the constantly intoning voice of God.
De Magia Veterum, and Gnaw Their Tongues for that matter, are the greatest
contributors to this noise. This is the sound of the end of mankind.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to start:
The Divine Antithesis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Deathspell Omega</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Extreme progressive black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Deathspell Omega is one of the most mysterious, complex and downright bizarre
bands I’ve ever heard. Practically no one knows who they are, they don’t tour
or play any live shows, and they don’t have any presence online. All they are
is music, no acts, no bullshit. Detailed, engaging, heavy, and strange,
Deathspell Omega is what I’d like to see more black metal bands try to emulate.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Chaining the Katechon, FAS – Ite Maledicti in ignem Aeternum, Kenose,
Paracletus</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Decapitated</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Technical death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I’ve had
the pleasure to see these guys live, and their live show manages to contain
their frenzied pacing, viciously layered mixing and ferocious vocals to life
without muddying the technical marvel of their song writing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Carnival is Forever, Organic Hallusinosis</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Deftones</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Alternative metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Deftones
have a great knack with taking the slick, evil guitars of metal and making them
into pop-rock songs without compromising how diabolical they sound. They’re
replete with clean vocals, and lots of slower moments, so they’re nothing too
heavy, but if you’re into prog metal, you might enjoy their softer parts. In
the end, I’m not too sure how ‘metal’ they are, or if they’re just a harder
rock group with elements of metal. Who knows. Give them a listen.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Around the Fur, White Pony, Diamond Eyes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Dembiurg</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Brutal
death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
heavy, grueling, slow, and low. It’s what death metal should be; a bulldozer of
fuck coming to bury your family in annihilated dead body corpses.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Dembiurg</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Dephosphorus</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Grind
death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: If
anyone has a reason to be angry, it’s the Greeks. So here is a Grecian grind
band that writes songs about stars exploding.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Axiom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Desolate Shrine</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s
just a good band. I have nothing interesting to say about them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Tenebrous Towers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Destroying Divinity</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: See:
Desolate Shrine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Dark Future</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Desultory</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: See:
Desolate Shrine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Counting our Scars</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Dethklok</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: If you
don’t know who dethklok is, you’re a fool and a charlatan. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Dethalbum I, Dethalbum II, Dethalbum III</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Devin
Townsend (Including the Devin Townsend Project)</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Devin
Townsend is such an otherworldly talented musician; he’s practically a meme for
exceptionally gifted musicians. He personally mixes his music, and makes sure
that the heavier songs are as uncompromising as possible. He’s bi-polar and
schizophrenic. He has a shark puppet that he talks to on stage. He invented his
own hairstyle. He’s hilarious. Deconstruction is one of the best albums ever
recorded. I’m serious. Go listen to him now.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Physicist, Ziltoid the Omniscient,
Addicted, Deconstruction,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: He
has a song called ‘the Mighty Masturbator’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Dimmu
Borgir</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Symphonic black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Dimmu
Borgir is a big point of contention for black metal. Some people think they’re
total sell outs for embracing quality recording equipment and no longer writing
songs about ghosts in the woods and shit like that, while others just see them
as another step on the path of musical evolution. They’ve certainly changed a
lot since they began, and their sense of theatricality has grown exponentially.
What good is extreme music without a solid show to go with it?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Death Cult Armageddon, Abrahadabra, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia,
In Sorte Diabloli</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Dragged
into Sunlight</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Brutal
extreme death doom adjective metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
able to mix the grueling, churning, sickening pace of doom metal with the
heaviness of death metal. I love this group.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Hatred for Mankind.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Drewsif
Stalin’s Musical Endeavors</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Djent</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Drewsif
has all the shining loveliness of djent metal – and all the drawbacks. While
he’s really complicated and wild, he also feels the need to throw in some clean
vocals and a smattering of slow, soft, filler material for whatever reason. Fun
time though.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: An Insomniac’s Narrative</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Ed Gein</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Grindcore</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Any band
that has a song called ‘The Marlboro man is a faggot’ is a-ok in my book.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: It’s a Shame that a Family Can Be Torn Apart By Something As Simple As A
Pack of Wild Dogs.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Ed
Gein killed people!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>El Scar</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I
thought El Scar was a really excellent start of a really heavy, big fat thick
cock of a djenty prog metal band, but his more recent releases have been lots
of light, floaty stuff. That’s got its place, he’s still really good in my
book, but I wish he’d release more material like MAGI.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: MAGI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Emiliana Torrini</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Pop-rock, trip hop</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: She’s
got the most beautiful voice I’ve ever heard, her songs are wrenchingly potent
and unbelievably moving.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Love in the Time of Science</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Encircle</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive djent infused metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I love
instrumental bands, and a djent instrumental group? I’m having flashbacks to
Periphery’s fantastic first release already. Sign me up. Or sign you up, I’m
already signed up.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Watch the Sky Fall</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Enslaved</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’ve
blended the catchier elements of pop-rock with black metal and created
something actually worth listening to. So do this.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Axioma Ethica Odini</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Ewan
Dobson</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Contemporary folk</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I never
thought I’d be listing a folk guitarist as one of my favorite bands, but here I
am. This is how you know I am serious.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Ewan Dobson II</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Excavated</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Brutal
death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Fuck, I
don’t know. It’s brutal death metal. It’s like shoes, you need several pairs. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Ad Libitum</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>The
Faceless</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Technical brutal death metal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
remarkably intelligent, capable young gents with a chip on their shoulder when
it comes to scientific ignorance. Seen them live, too. Lots of fun. Autotheism,
their most recent release, has got to be one of the most creative tech. brutal
death metal albums I’ve heard in a long time. They’re certainly not afraid of
trying new things.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Akeldama, Planetary Duality, Autotheism</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Fetal
Decay</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
Metal with elements of technical</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Strong
fundamentals of brutality here. Just ignore the vocals.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: You Have No Choice</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band name on
the scale of how difficult they are to talk about in formal company: 8/10</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Fleshgod
Apocalypse</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Technical death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Again, I
don’t use this word a lot, but these guys are the definition of priapistic.
Every song is 110% twisting, screaming death metal with squealing orchestral
backing. Everything is so over the top, the top should be ashamed at being so
sub-par.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Oracles, Mafia, Agony</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b>
Fleshwrought</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Progressive death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: If you
just put the fact that the vocalist from Job for a Cowboy is in this group,
you’ll be able to appreciate how technically adept these guys are.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Dementia/Dyslexia</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Flourishing</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Depressive death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: One of
the best things about metal is how extreme it can be. Whatever emotion it is,
it’s all of that emotion to the Nth degree. Depressive death metal is fantastic
just for the fact that it’s just so fucking dreary. Take this funeral dirge and
dip it in the angry briar of death metal and you’ve got Flourishing. Quite an
act.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Sum of All Fossils</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Frank
Zappa (Including The Mothers of Invention, and all his side projects and other
bands)</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Alternative rock, virtuoso, humor rock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Frank
Zappa is the Frank Zappa of Frank Zappa. He’s the go-to guy for everything in
rock. He’s one of the founding fathers. He’s a mover and a shaker. I don’t know
how to explain exactly how significant he is without diving headlong into the
hyperbole. He’s released 78 albums. Just shut up and listen to him.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: 200 Motels, Apostrophe, Hot Rats, You are what You Is, You can’t do that
on stage any more (all of them)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Franz
Ferdinand</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Rock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Franz
Ferdinand makes me want to fuck. Everything. With my penis. All over and
forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Franz Ferdinand, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Why
does this music make me want to fuck. God damn it now I’m all stiff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Funeral
Mist</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
Metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’ve
got one of the best black metal vocalists I’ve ever heard. They’re evil as
fuck. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Maranatha </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: I’m
almost certain that the vocalist from Marduk is the vocalist here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> The
Gates of Slumber</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Heavy
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Just
listen to their song ‘’The Scovrge of Drvnkenness’ and you’ll see why these
guys are so much fun. I say pretty often how much I dislike clean vocals in
metal, but I think that can be misinterpreted as me only wanting screaming
deathgrunts. I just dislike really goofy, high-pitched and obnoxiously effete
vocals where something heavier would be more appropriate. The rock n roll style
of vocals used here are totally appropriate, and in the end, it completes the
sound very well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Wretch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Gaza</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal with elements of post-deathcore </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Gaza is
an exemplar of post deathcore. They keep the modern elements without keeping
the obnoxious, wait-for-the-breakdown samey-ness. Plus, they’re really
articulately anti-christian in the most hilarious way. Also, listen to
‘Slutmaker’. Fuck I love that song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: He Is Never Coming Back, I Don’t Care Where I Go When I Die, No
Absolutes in Human Suffering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Read
their lyrics. They’re so much fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ghost</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Heavy
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Ghost is
amazing, not just for how well they work clean-vocals and devil worship into a
really dance-able that makes me really, really want to fuck everything in my
room, but for the fact that they’ve stayed so true to the mysticism and
theatricality of their stage presence. They’re one of the most enjoyable heavy
metal bands I’ve can name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Opus Eponymous</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Luuuuuuuucifer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Glorior
Belli</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
just the side project of another band called Glorious Belly. Okay, that’s not
true, but they’re just another quality black metal band whose differentiations
aren’t too numerous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: O Laudate Dominvs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Gnaw
Their Tongues</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Extreme,
extreme, jesus fucking Christ this is extreme, I can’t even understand what I’m
listening to, what the fuck, extreme blackened death doom extreme metal, with
elements of extreme</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Because
that genre doesn’t come to half of how strange this band is. It’s just one
dude, which is enough to raise a few eyebrows, but once you put on the song
‘Broken Fingers Point Upwards in Vain’ and really give it a listen, you’ll be
blown the fuck away. Which brings me to another point: the song/album
titles employed by Gnaw Their Tongues are so perverse and bizarre, they really
make this band something I enjoy showing off to prudish WASP girls. Just pick
up the 2007 release ‘An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood’ and play ‘My Body is Not a
Vessel, Nor a Temple. It's a Repulsive Pile of Sickness’ or even the song
that’s bumpin’ in clubs across france, ‘And There Will Be More of Your Children
Dead Tomorrow’. Personally, my favorite
is ‘The Uncomfortable Silence Between Beatings’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity, For all slaves…a song of false
hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: ‘My
Body is not a Vessel or a Temple but a Repulsive Pile of Sickness’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Gojira</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Progressive
death metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Gojira is
one of the best progressive death metal bands out there today. They
consistently produce heavy, catchy, rhythmically-strong songs with intelligent
lyrics and fantastic vocals. I can’t praise them enough, really. Just listen to
‘The Way of All Flesh’, particularly every song on that fuckin’ record.
Seriously, it’s a masterpiece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: From Mars to Sirius, The Way of All Flesh, L’Enfant Sauvage </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Check
out the song Devin and Gojira teamed up with, ‘Of Blood and Salt’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Gorgoroth</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: True
Norwegian black metal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
one of the most iconic bands of black metal, and while they personally found
any of the fundamentals for the genre as a sound, they are responsible for much
of the wild stage presence now imitated by so many black metal bands across the
world. I mean, they’re not allowed in Poland ever again after their
blood-soaked performance, where dozens of sheep heads were impaled in spikes
around the stage. I mean what the fuck. Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Twilight of the Idols, Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Check
out their one and only music video for Carving a Giant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Graveyard</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Stoner
hard rock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Graveyard
took the fuckable sound of the White Stripes and added a little fang to it,
then pressured it to eat a handful of unlabeled prescription pills and go to an
orgy, and right when they were about to climax, Graveyard ate that sound and
then absorbed its power.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Hisingen Blues</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Hooded
Menace</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Stoner
doom metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: B-movie
horror stories turned into molasses-slow drone metal? Sure, why the fuck not.
Even their sweeps are in slow motion. I think they’re a bunch of sloths with
instruments.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Fulfill the Curse</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Impetuous
Ritual</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: This is
the side project of Portal, and their sound remains unchanged. I’ll explain
more when we get to Portal’s entry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Essence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Joyless</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Alternative
rock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Softer,
lighter, more emotional and more delicate than anything I regularly listen to,
but they’re still pretty jazzy. I don’t know much about them, but they use
harmonicas, so be aware. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Without Support</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Kerasphorus</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’ve
got a really good grinding, grueling sound to them that employs the best of
progressive and technical death metal without compromising their aggression
with over-thought intrumentals.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Cloven Hooves at the Holocaust Dawn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Krallice</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Progressive
black metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>It’s black metal without vocals, so it’s basically just tremolo picking and
wild masturbation, backed by an ocean of kick drums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Dimensional Bleedthrough</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Krupskaya</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Grindcore</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s a
metal album about the Chernobyl disaster. Enough said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Clouds over Pripyat</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Penderecki</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Classical</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: He’s the
guy who did the classical pieces behind ‘The Shining’, and he’s a part of my
search for extreme music in every genre. He’s created some of the strangest and
most abstract orchestral works I’ve ever heard. He’s some kind of disturbed
genius. Just listen to ‘Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima’ and you’ll see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Penderecki: Orchestral Works</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Lamb of
God</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Metal
you listen to but don’t tell your friends about</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Fuck it.
I like lamb of god. No, not their most recent stuff, that’s all shit. I like
their earlier stuff. Not their very beginning stuff. Just like, three albums.
They’re really great American death metal. They had great lyrics. No, they’re
not geniuses, no they’re not completely original, and no, they’re not
representing the genre well, but who gives a shit? Just listen to them and stop
talking to me.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: As the Palaces Burn, Ashes of the Wake, Sacrament</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Last
Days of Humanity</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: What
the fuck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Jesus
Christ. What the fuck. What the living fuck. Just listen to the song ‘Lacerated
Cunt Incisions’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Rest in Gore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: What
the fuck is this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Le
Baron Vampire</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Deathcore?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s
great if you’re into it. What more do you want from me? Fuck, I’ve written you
24 pages of recommendations. Is that enough for you? They’re a deathcore band,
but they’ve got lots of the lighter elements that normally make this genre a
minefield of terrible shit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Baruch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Leviathan</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Depressive
progressive black metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Okay,
here we go. The best album I’ve ever heard is ‘Massive Conspiracy Against All
Life’. Here’s an excerpt from a review I did: “Leviathan is an American black
metal project composed entirely of one Jef Whitehead, otherwise known as Wrest.
This 2008 masterpiece, Massive Conspiracy Against All Life is an apocalyptic
series of grave, ambient tracks detailing not just the end of life on earth,
but of the ultimate extinction of all matter in the universe. It begins with a
slow, meager growling intro, but quickly picks up pace and turns into a
maddening spiral into total oblivion. While it may seem simple, know that this
piece is not just about the simplistic Armageddon of flames and devils, but of
a microbial destruction, and of the creation of new life from the withered
corpse of our universal ovum. Note the microscopic nature of some of the lyrics
“Gone, as T-Lymphocytes” and “From a long, flagellated vessel”, and know that
the original title for ‘Vulgar Asceticism’ was ‘A Flagellum Raised to the Sky’,
a phrase which upends the sperm cell and points it at the ‘ova’ of the earth.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Seriously,
Leviathan is absolutely remarkable. Second to none. Perverted, strange,
depressive, bizarre, bleak: no one does it better than Leviathan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Massive Conspiracy Against All Life, Sacrifice Love at the Altar of War,
The Tenth Sublevel of Suicide, True Traitor True Whore,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Lustmord</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Dark
ambient</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Lustmord
created his own genre, and is therefore the master of its fundamentals. It’s
not music, per se, but slow, sound-scape ambiance. That’s ‘ahm-be-ance’. You’ll
listen for half an hour and very little will change. Odd noises spring out of
nothing, and seem to vanish just as easily. It’s the sound of the deep void,
where stars collapse without so much as a deathrattle. If you don’t want to
slog through a giant, slow song, just put on The Harrow from the record
Zoetrope. Listen to it and space the fuck out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Juggernaut, Heresy, Rising, [ O T H E R ], The Monstrous Soul, Zoetrope</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Mammoth
Grinder</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Mammoth
grinder is traditional death metal about shit going wrong. Big, loud, angry
noises about hell and society exploding into flaming dog shit. That’s all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Extinction of Humanity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Maranatha</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death metal with hints of deathcore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Sigh.
Fuck. So I guess I can’t run from the reality that this is a Christian metal
band. I didn’t see it coming at all. It just happened so fast. I mean, be
honest with me, you see a band with a big black upside down cross on the cover,
songs like ‘In Vain Do They Worship’ and the fact that they open a song with
‘THERE… IS… NO… GOD!’ and you think, oh, hey, it’s another evil death metal
band, righteous. But nope, I guess the dude behind Maranatha is a Christian, or
likes to say he is, or some shit. I don’t know how he thinks this makes sense.
I mean, he says that he’s a believer, but he’s against all the hate and shit,
but that doesn’t really excuse him from all the shit he does in his music. But whatever.
I just have to wash my hands really well when I’m done listening to him.
Fucking loyalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Incarnate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Marduk</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Marduk
is a really unique, well composed black metal band with a great deal of talent
and foresight. They’re just so good. Listen to ‘Chorus of Cracking Necks’. They
have real neck cracking in the song. It’s awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Wormwood, Serpent Sermon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Marilyn
Manson</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Hard
rock, industrial metal, glam rock, hard rock with metal influences, nu-metal,
blues rock, weird blues hard rock metal, jazz blues metal avocado metal rock
industrial rock nu-fag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Marilyn
Manson is the most intelligent, complex, brilliant, phenomenal, unique and
profound artist alive today. Tomorrows generations will wish they could’ve seen
him in concert the way todays generations wish they could’ve seen Jimi Hendrix
or David Bowie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, Holy Wood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Mayhem</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: True
Norwegian black metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Mayhem
is one of, or the founding band, of black metal. One of their members, Varg
Vikernes, killed the guitarist Øystein Aarseth. Per Ohlin was the vocalist
until he slashed his wrist and shot himself with a shotgun. They’re fucking
insane. Ordo ad Chao is the second best black metal record ever recorded. It’s
pure crawling diabolical evil. It’s remarkable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Chimera, Dawn of the Black Hearts, Ordo ad Chao, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Meshuggah</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Technical
progressive death metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Meshuggah
is one of the most influential bands in metal today. They’ve basically been
responsible for the resurgence of odd time signatures, blisteringly complex
drum work and focus on technicality in the most recent generation of death
metal bands. They’re probably the best death metal band out there today, and
certainly the most influential.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Chaosphere, Catch 33, Nothing, obZen, Koloss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Michael
Shea</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Progressive
death metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Would
you look at that, I just got done talking about how meshuggah influences so
many bands, and the very next band is heavily influenced by meshuggah. Wild. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Endeavors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Michael Shea used to make his money making butter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Ministry</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Rock,
industrial rock, industrial metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Ministry
is one of the oldest and most prolific bands of the genre. They’re just so
fucking good. God damn, they’re so good. Any day can be improved with some
Ministry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Filth Pig, Rio Grande Blood, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Mirrorthrone</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Orchestral
black metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: A one
man band that combines clean vocals and extremely long and dense materials and
doesn’t come out sounding really goofy. It’s really incredible black metal, one
of the bands that I point to when people want to see how complex and
fantastical metal can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Carriers of Dust, Gangrene</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Monumental
Torment</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Technical
brutal death metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Alright,
get this into your head, there isn’t much of a defined difference between
technical death metal bands. This band is really, really good. Their sound is
really good. I like them in my ears. I listen to them very frequently. More
frequently than really any other technical death metal band.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Element of Chaos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Moonreich</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I
honestly just like the idea of French black metal Nazis from the moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Loi Martiale</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Mouse
on the Keys</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Jazz
post-rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
light, fun, enjoyable and something you can drive around to. I like Mouse on
the Keys a lot. There.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: An Anxious Object</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Mitslav
Rostropovich</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Classical</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: He’s
simply a good composer with a great breadth to his compositions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Modest
Mussorgsky</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Russian
orchestral from the romantic period</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Modern
review of his work is rather unfavorable, but I tend to enjoy it. This is
probably because I don’t know shit about classical or orchestral music. He
composed Night on Bald Mountain, which is probably my favorite classical piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Pictures at an Exhibition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>N.K.
V.D.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Russian
black metal about the gulag and the Soviet Union. They’re one of the most evil
sounding bands I’ve ever heard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: The
NKVD was basically the Gestapo of the Soviet Union, and Alkhan-Kala was their
Auschwitz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Necrophagist</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Technical brutal death metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Probably
just their bass lines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Epitaph, Onset of Putrefaction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Nightbringer</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Nightbringer
is fun purely for how well written they are. They’re straight from hell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Apocalypse Sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Upturrrnninng the seeeveennthh challlicceeee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Nightmares
on Wax</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Trip
hop</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Every
song is loaded with enough THC to blaze a thousand asdronauts.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Carboot Soul</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Noctem</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Blackened
death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I just
found these guys today. Sound pretty good. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Oblivion</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Nursing
Home</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Electronic
hate rock?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They
have a song called ‘Muhammad was a Terrorist’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: God Bless America!!!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Good
luck finding these guys, I might be the only one left with a copy of God Bless
America!!! If you’re interested in it, let me know.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Obscura</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Progressive
death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: These
guys were top on the list of best progressive metal bands. I tried them out and
was impressed with their composure. Really excellent stuff.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Cosmogenesis</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Order
of Tepes</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal about dracula</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
like black metal-core, in the sense that they’re really easy to pick up, but
not in the sense that they’re just doing it ironically. Plus, Dracula.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Kazikli Voyvoda</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
WAAALLLACHHIIAAAA!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Origin</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Technical
death metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
uncompromisingly technically unbelievably phenomenally fast death metal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Antithesis, Entity</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
‘Wrath of Vishnu’ is one of the best TDM songs ever.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Periphery</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Progressive
metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Because
they released their first record as an instrumental, alongside the one with
vocals. And thank god, because their vocalist is utter gobshite. Just listen to
their instrumental record. It’s the only one worth your time.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Periphery</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Peste
Noire</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Avant-Garde
black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Black
metal with fuckable beats? Yes please. Just liten to ‘J’avais reve du Nord 1’.
Mmm devilpussy.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: L’Ordure A L’etat Pur</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pestifier</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Technical black metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s like
the music that demon maggots listen to while they plot your doom.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Age of Disgrace</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: This
is what Grandfather Nurgle listens to.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Philip
Glass Ensemble</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Classical</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Simply
soft, soothing piano.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Glassworks</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Pig
Destroyer</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Grindcore</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s
filthy, fast, evil, hate-filled music about rotted bodies and gross shit. Fuck
this is fun.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Phantom Limb, Explosions in Ward 6</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: He
saw his flesh burning. Nothing left but his eyeballs.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Portal</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal from the most confusing and terrifying part of hells antique mall</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Portal
is the perfect band for people into strange, evil, doomy, lovecraftian death
metal about the passage of time. The lead singer goes on stage with a cuckoo
clock where his head should be. They’ve got an incredible stage presence. Fuck,
portal is so good. Just go listen to ‘Larvae’. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Outre’, Swarth</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Auuuuuugghhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Primal
Scream</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Electro-rock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I like
these guys a lot, but I can’t listen to them very much because of how many
depressing memories I have associated with them, but they’re really fuckable.
Like, just put it on and you’re gonna start licking the walls.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: XTRMNTR</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Kill
all Hippies!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Professor
Elemental</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Chap
hop</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Steam
punk rap. That’s all I’m going to say. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Indifference Engine</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Watch
his videos.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Putaraeon</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal with tentacles</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: They’re
death metal about Lovecraft. How am I not supposed to like them?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Esoteric Order</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Pyrrhon</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Grindcore
weirdness</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Again,
grindcore lives and dies by their speed and relentlessness, and Pyrrhon has got
plenty of both. It’s just a wall of fuck and your ears just have to take it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: An Excellent Servant but a Terrible Master</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Radiohead</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Alternate
rock, post rock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: If you
need me to tell you why radiohead is worth listening to, you’re probably not
too familiar with popular music. Radiohead is a really invigorating injection
of weird into what has become a very redundant genre. Be sure to download/pick
up Me & This Army for a bunch of solid B-sides and rap remixes. Also, look
for Crunkhead, which is a great triphop re-visitation of radiohead.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Amnesiac, Me & This Army, Kid A</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Thom
Yorke’s eye is permanently fucked up because he tried to fuck an octopus. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Rage
Against the Machine</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Rock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Rage
Against the Macine is just great, politically charge fire-starting music that
makes me want to kill cops. They perfectly blended thirty years of rock, jazz,
grove and funk into a really sexy hard rock group.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Listen to them, but don’t tell Joe Swiercek.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Rammstein</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: German
sex rock/sex metal</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s
rammstein. You’ve heard rammstein. Just go listen to them. They released one of
the best albums ever: Reise, Reise (Journey, Journey). Every song on that
record is solid gold. And they’re other work, especially Mutter, is
extraordinary. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Mutter, Herzeleid, Reise Reise</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
They’re most recent special edition for their album came with a set of dildos,
each molded after the band members actual cocks.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Red
Fang</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Progressive
rock</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Red Fang
is beer, anxiety, angst and a lifetime of manual labor put into a music blender
and then spread over a wild brown bear. They’re just so good. Their music
videos are loads of fun too.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Murder the Mountains</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Watch
their videos. They’re better drunk, I understand.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Sabrewulf</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Doomcore?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I can’t
decide if I dislike or hate the vocals here, but I think everything else is
exemplary. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Prophecy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Seagulls
Insane and Swans Deceased Mining Out the Void</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Post
black metal with elements of extreme weird</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Honestly,
half the reason I downloaded these guys in the first place was for their band
name. The reason I didn’t delete them was for the fact that they’re
refreshingly strange, and not too far from a really great name in the genre. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Seagulls Insane and Swans Deceased Mining Out the Void</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Shining
(Norwegian)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Jazz
rock with elements of black metal and turn-of-the-century classical</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I can’t
begin to explain how strange these guys are. Just go listen to Fisheye. They’ve
got a sound like none other. It’s like some jazzed up version of Marilyn Manson
teamed up with… fuck I don’t know. A saxophonist. And…I don’t know, fuck, a
satan. A big satan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Black Jazz, In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Shining
(Swedish)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Depressive
black metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Lots of
bands claim to be depressive, suicidal metal groups, but the only band I truly
believe feels the full depth of manic, suicidal, self-loathing pain is Shining.
Holy dogs, these guys in too deep. No antidepressants will save them now. The
lead singer hands out razor blades at concerts. I mean, what the fuck. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: IV – The Eerie Cold, V - Halmstad</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Skinless</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Brutal
death metal about devil Nazis killing everything all the time forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Because
they released an album called ’Trample the Weak Hurdle the Dead’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
REEEEET</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Slayer</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s
slayer. If you don’t listen to slayer, you’re no friend of mine, young man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, Diabolus in Musica, God Hates Us All,
World Painted Blood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Slayer rating:
Slayer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Sleep
Terror</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Progressive metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: One of
the composers from Guitar Hero decided to make a band that plays nothing but
the most ridiculously difficult songs as fast as possible. Here you go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Probing Tranquility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Son of
Aurelius</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Brutal technical death metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Fuck, I
love death metal. It just don’t turn off. It’s on forever. It’s just
perma-kill. It’s a ten sided chainsaw that’s just rolling through time square
and fucking ruining everything it gets in contact with. God it’s soo much fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Furthest Reaches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Strapping Young Lad</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Extreme
power fuck metal death metal fuck yeah let’s do this man, c’mon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why:
Strapping Young Lad is where Devin Townsend made a name for himself. It’s
hilarious. It’s amazing. It’s the heaviest music you’ll ever laugh to. If
you’re not into strapping young lad, I’m not into you. </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">He has a song called ‘C:enter:###’.
Just say that out loud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Alien, City, The New Black</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: If
you’re reading this you’re not spending your time enjoying SYL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Sunn
O)))</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Drone doom metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Sunn
advises their listeners: MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS, and they play
like it. I’ve heard that their concerts are louder than two jet engines fucking
with a freight train watching and blaring its horn constantly. They’re also the
slowest metal you’ll ever hear. Enjoy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Monoliths & Dimensions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Oh,
cydonia…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Terra
Tenebrosa</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Post
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s
like listening to the future of metal through a weird ear-cone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Tunnels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> That 1
Guy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Where do
you classify a band of one guy who made his own instruments? What kind of music
is songs about mustaches and butts? What the fuck is even going on?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: The Moon is Disgusting, Songs in the Key of Beotch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: He’s
one of the most enjoyable stage performers ever. He’s such a chill guy! I took
pictures of him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:<b> Tom
Waits</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Jazz blues rock bizarre</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: If you
don’t like Tom Waits, you’re wrong. He’s one of Americas best artists. He’s a
wonderful man. What’s wrong with you? Go listen to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Alice, Bad as Me, Black Rider, Mule Variations, Real Gone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Tombs</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Post
death metal rock weirdness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s
like someone took a rock band, put them in the sewers and fed them nothing but
rats and crabjuice for two weeks and then brought them into the studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Trap
Them</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Hardcore? Core of something. Applecore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: For the
same reasons that all grindy core bands are good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Darker Handcraft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Triptykon</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Death
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: I’ve
never heard a band sound so angry as Triptykon. Just listen to ‘A Thousand
Lies’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Eparistera Daimones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
LIEEEESSSSSS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>True
Widow</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Really
sad post rock doom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: God this
is so depressing, they even have a tambourine and I’m still crying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: As High as the Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the
Earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: Still
crying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band:
<b>Turbonegro</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Rock!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s
Turbonegro!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Apocalypse Dudes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Turbonegro!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Vortice</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Djent
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: These
guys were at the forefront of taking Meshuggah’s influence and running with it.
They released a fairly solid album too, even if it was held back pretty
significantly by some questionable vocals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to start:
Human Engine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Watain</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Watain
is second only to leviathan for best black metal band today. They’re basically
the champions of the genre right now. Evil as fuck. Uncompromising. Pure
vicious annihilation. From hell.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Lawless Darkness, Sworn to the Dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: On
killing a goat on stage, the frontman was quoted as saying: ‘We don’t do it
every time, but if the show needs more magic than normal, the goat must die.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Yelle</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre:
Electropop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: It’s Yelle!
French Electropop! It’s like candy! Yes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Pop-Up</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>Yellow
Eyes</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: Black
metal with solid atmosphere. High in nitrogen. Big plus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Silence Threads the Evening’s Cloth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras:
Jaundice it is!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Band: <b>1349</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Genre: Black
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Why: 1349 is
a great black metal group. They hate everything, they serve the devil. Their
music reflects their life choices. Here. Listen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Where to
start: Hellfire, Liberation, Demonoir</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Extras: I was
scared, when I was flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There you go. That's all my music. I might do this for movies and TV shows too. Tell me what you think, comment or whatever. Thanks for reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">W.</span></div>
Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-29594713061948320622012-06-02T12:05:00.000-07:002012-06-02T12:05:25.611-07:00Holes at Gethsemane (My first album release!)Bandcamp: http://winslowdumaine.bandcamp.com/ <br />
Youtube Main track: <a href="http://youtu.be/R3IKSssFbms">youtu.be/R3IKSssFbms</a>
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Youtube Epilogue: <a href="http://youtu.be/NaSsDpc5VAs">youtu.be/NaSsDpc5VAs</a>
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My photography, drawings and writings: <a href="http://weeperblast.deviantart.com/">weeperblast.deviantart.com</a>
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My MetalBandNames twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/MetalNames">twitter.com#!/MetalNames</a>
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Holes at Gethsemane is a radio-comedy retelling of my two favorite
bible stories, inspired by Firesign Theatre’s flow-of-consciousness
style stoner-humor. It’s my first album release of any kind.
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‘Holes’ is a product of a many small changes in my attitude and
personality. Recently, I realized that too many of my beliefs relied on
the negative, in that they focused too much on striking down the beliefs
of others. I needed something more productive, but I still find the
crazy things other people believe to be enormously entertaining. I kept
this element, but I augmented it with creativity, in an effort to turn
my anger into a viable artistic endeavor.
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The bible, to me and many million others, is a tremendous omnibus of
legends and folklore. For its reputation as a great work of perfect
morals and ground-breaking ethical revelations, I find it to be nothing
more than a compilation of hilariously absurd, wildly nonsensical and
downright filthy stories. I feel that, while most of my countrymen are
familiar with the most major bible stories, some of the best and
strangest are overlooked. I want to poke holes in the logic of these
stories, and show my listeners how ludicrous the bible really is.
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The characters for this piece are fairly straight forward. The
relationship between God and Christ is based on the profane prepubescent
gamers on Xbox live, who are infamous for their utter lack of filter
and general misanthropic whining. I wanted God and Christ to be
roommates who, having lived with each other since the beginning of time,
have grown sick of each other and now just bicker bitterly.
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My version of Christ finds him as a world-weary asshole, who knows
exactly what he has to do in order to get back into heaven. That being
said, the reward of returning to heaven isn’t that such a lovely prize
when his kingdom is inhabited by sycophants and mewling onlookers, where
he lives as an eternal celebrity being mobbed by a sea of screaming
fans. He got a raw deal, and now he must live his life on a shithole
planet, inhabited by nothing but hostile, illiterate mongrels, get
betrayed by one of his best friends, be tortured for hours, die, go into
the depths of hell, and then return to live with his dad. You’d be
unhappy, too.
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I’d be interested in re-telling other bible stories, either from
different parts of the book, or to continue where this one left off.
I’ve got several other comedic works that would be fantastic as
radio-dramas.
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<b>Dead Animal Kingdom:</b> A socially conflicted group of scavengers are
trapped in a military controlled no-living-beings-allowed area, after
bizarre animal-human hybridization triggers a nuclear war.
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<b>The Purple Avenger:</b> A miserable pseudo-superhero hunts down the world’s
most ruthless capitalist after he learns of his plans to create a second
Texas, suspended above the Amazon jungle.
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<b>Devil:</b> Set in the 1950's, a group of young boys cite odd coincidences
and Christian symbolism in their plan to murder the fifteen year old
that moved into to their neighborhood.
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<b>The Red Sound: </b>A cataclysmic tremor and the brain-death of hundreds of
WWI soldiers finds a Philadelphia psychiatrist studying the
trans-dimensional visions had by a few of the survivors, only to find
that he has been marked for deletion by an otherworldly entity known as
'The Red God'.
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Let me know what you think about Holes and, if you’re interested, tell me what else you’d like to see from me!
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Thanks for listening,
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Winslow DumaineWinslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-78949983857527905602012-02-24T12:37:00.002-08:002012-02-24T12:37:57.725-08:00On HomophobiaHomophobia baffles me. I understand the cause behind racism and sexism, even ageism, as those tend to have measurable social connotations. While they're still destructive, dehumanizing and morally abhorrent, I understand where they come from. It makes sense that they exist.<br />
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But homophobia confounds me. I couldn't give any less of a shit about what my neighbors do in their bedroom. I can't be bothered to care. If somebody likes things in their ass, or prefers the company of girls over boys, or vice versa, it means absolutely nothing to me.<br />
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I think homophobia can be countered with a simple question. Now, whether or not the bigoted prick you're talking to actually thinks about the question or answers with a cogent reply is another story entirely. Simply ask them: Why do you give a shit? Why does it matter to you? <br />
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Why the fuck do you care? It's not your asshole that is being dilated. It's someone elses. It's not your vagina that's getting another vagina mushed against it, it's someone elses. <br />
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Gay people aren't trying to take away straight sex, or ban straight marriages. They just want to have gay sex, go on gay dates and get gay married. Once they can do that without being beaten to death by a Jesus-slave-turbotard, they can finally drop the 'gay' prefix and just call it sex, dating and marriage.<br />
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Mind your own fucking business.<br />
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W.Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-11307918239330745842011-12-01T14:47:00.000-08:002011-12-01T14:47:00.477-08:00Anaal Nathrakh - Passion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ssIm2Rt4eIpUj9P1cWqLWOSdjQTHvld5qYwsiB8xtVZVUGTgUSgwiwePxEQGWR6im7rMDEzY4254rvRkFnmMjLlYYyMzjhRb_OflEcyRGDsPYKlDE7C0Ti-b2yW5kH2mgc1Sshcd6bU/s1600/297790.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ssIm2Rt4eIpUj9P1cWqLWOSdjQTHvld5qYwsiB8xtVZVUGTgUSgwiwePxEQGWR6im7rMDEzY4254rvRkFnmMjLlYYyMzjhRb_OflEcyRGDsPYKlDE7C0Ti-b2yW5kH2mgc1Sshcd6bU/s320/297790.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Anaal Nathrakh’s <i>‘Passion’ </i>sounds like the final evolutionary step of heavy metal music. It combines unspeakably extreme, wall-of-sound mixing, absurdly fast and intricate drums, searing riffs with the most violent vocals imaginable. Frequently, the shrieking departs from the standard death-metal howls and enters a dark new territory of disturbingly convincing pained-yelps, and hoarse, tearful cries. AN has long been one of the honored and reviled chaplains of extreme metal, and with this release, they have offered up the audio equivalent to a mass-extinction event. It’s the noise of pigs being slaughtered, the treads of tanks shredding through bones and flesh. If music is ever going to be fully weaponized, these British bastards are at the top of the list.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Metal of course isn’t for everyone and extreme metal has an even smaller audience, and while AN is arguably the most extreme of them all, but they still have quite a large fan base. Maybe it’s the near-genius level of detail they infuse into every release or their uncompromising death-metal discipline, or maybe they’ve become a sort of freak-show where they push themselves to out-heavy their previous record with every successive release. Much like an eating contest, I’m not interested unless the contestants are consuming either horrifying quantities of food, or the food is itself horrifying. Nathrakh combines both worlds of the extreme-metal eating contest. They stand for the beauty that is black metal in that they record what they want to hear, not what they think will get more praise or reach a wider group. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Anaal Nathrakh doesn’t concern itself with pandering to those intolerant to their brutality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">‘Passion’ is one of those amorphous records where the song order doesn’t really matter, and you might not notice if you left it on shuffle and ended up listening to a few songs multiple times. When music gets this absurdly over-the-top, it is difficult to make each song sound like a singular, self-contained track, rather than another full-blast ultra-lethal noisecrime. That being said, there are some stand-out tracks like ‘Tod Heutet Uebel’ and ‘Who Thinks of The Executioner?’, but these aren’t notable for their powerful and unique structures or writing, but for the fact that they employ dramatically different vocal styles than previous songs. ‘Tod Heutet Uebel’ is performed in howling, weeping German and ‘…Executioner’ is characterized by off-mic hacking and choking sounds, which honestly add a new and terrifying layer to the already haunting sounds. Beyond that, though, most of the tracks tend to run together, the instruments don’t change much and neither does the tempo. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Additionally, it’s a very brief recording. Clocking out at just over 35 minutes, ‘Passion’ barely has enough time for the listener to begin to appreciate its raw power before it reaches its final, closing minutes. The candle that burns twice as bright, etc. It’s a noticeable fault in the record and it hurts the final product. If it had just a few more tracks, maybe a change of pace here and there, it would be a candidate for extreme album of the year, at least in my book. While it does boast some vehemently powerful tracks, some songs that you’ll want to hear over and over to appreciate their weighty candor; the record is crippled by a short play time and a lack of diversity. Because of this, I have to give it an <b style="color: red;">8.4/10.0. </b></span><br />
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</div>Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-41260951506714430162011-11-19T20:47:00.000-08:002011-11-19T20:47:50.116-08:00On OWS and the Notion of Change<div class="usertext-body"><div class="md">Reading more politics has done two things recently; deconverted me from being an Obama supporter and introduced me to a profound feeling that we are just moments away from a cataclysmic event regarding these protests. An event that would irrevocably elevate the protests from being a sisyphean struggle for representation to something just beneath a civil uprising. This would involve actual military police, instead of the regular militarized police that we have seen already. This would mean lethal force and dead protesters and further authorized savagery.<br />
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The few good cops have cried out for representation as they are grouped with the barbarians who routinely beat and kill innocent citizens, (I am referring to the blase reaction when drug raids result in dead children, pets, parents, homeowners, because the enforcement invaded the wrong home) but ignoring the evils of another as just as evil as comitting the act. The veil of silence and above-the-law thinking has turned our public servants into a singularly base and exceprionally depraved organism, heeding only the will of their prepurchased oligarchical chieftains.<br />
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Recently, officers forcibly open the mouths of protestors and pumped their lungs with pepper spray. Victims of this bizarre cruelty were seen vomiting blood for 45 minutes. Im on a tablet so i will revisit this post later with a link to the story if so desired.<br />
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Pepper spray when used for its intended purpose, can successfully dissipate angry mobs. Spraying it on peaceful protestors is not only illegal but immoral and unethical, but using a crowd dispersant to bring about such a gut wrenching pain is almost surreal.<br />
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But what will it actually take? How many more veterans will have their skulls cracked open, their guts ruptured, their lives endangered? How deeply do the commonfolk need to be fucked by big business before they realize that both republicans and democrats are almost universally bought and paid for by the highest paid one percent?<br />
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And will this ever happen? Will this protest fizzle and vanish like so many others? My inexperienced 20 year old mind wants to believe that my generation will witness the revolution, but i am sure countless others before me have had similar desires.<br />
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Will OWS bring about any actual change?<br />
</div></div>Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-74561434100971588152011-09-19T11:49:00.000-07:002011-09-19T11:49:45.671-07:00The Red SoundHello there.<br />
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First off, I haven't forgotten about this site. I'm still very interested in writing reviews, but my attention has been elsewhere recently. I'm working on a new story, and most of my focus has been on that. Additionally, I've been looking for a job, I got a job, and now I'm about to start said job, so things are all a little hectic.<br />
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I'll be back with new reviews soon, but for now, I'm going to write on the story.<br />
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Thanks for your attention!<br />
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WinslowWinslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-72698525670555111732011-07-30T12:01:00.000-07:002011-08-20T16:25:48.108-07:00Devin Townsend - Deconstruction<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ldyzW9dOL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ldyzW9dOL.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes I listen to a new release and feel like I could fit the entire album in a shot glass. Some bands like to think that they’ve got a unique sound, so they pigeonhole themselves with their style and refuse to change it, lest they be seen as betraying their image. Devin Townsend doesn’t do this. Devin Townsend is on a mission: he has to make everything he records huge—not state-fair-pumpkin huge, circus-freak huge. Landkreuzer P-1500 Monster huge. He mixes his music so that every instrument is playing at one hundred percent power nearly the entire time, while including moments of serenity and softness to tease the listener into turning up the volume, only to be blasted away by the unfathomably low, hydrogen-bomb power chords. This process produces a record that sounds like Devin bought a retired missile silo, filled it with VX gas, set an orchestra on fire and gave his band a Chinook of black tar heroin, and told them to not stop playing until everyone in the orchestra died. ‘<i>Deconstruction</i>’ isn’t just the best death metal album I’ve heard all year; it’s one of the best metal albums I’ve heard in my life.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s heavy. It’s really, really heavy. But heaviness alone does not a good album make. Pure death metal can get boring quickly, as the ears tend to get fatigued by constant wall-of-sound mixing. Townsend has the capability to create multi-layered soundscapes, delicate acoustic interludes and concoct tightly wound rock-opera tangents, while maintaining the devious, mathematical nature of extreme experimental death metal. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not only that, but it’s hilarious. <i>Deconstruction</i> is a very loosely connected concept album about a man who goes to Hell and meets the devil, who offers him the powers of the universe in the form of a cheeseburger. The man is forced to deny the devils offer because he is a ‘vegamatarian.’ And that’s it. Outside of the story, the album is peppered with Townsend’s usual bizarre and puerile humor, with tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation and lyrics that read like the bitter ranting of a slighted schizophrenic. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Beer!...Beer!...Beer!”</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The complexity of the lyrics is somewhat of a cornerstone for anything Devin Townsend touches, but the musical density, the pure instrumental profundity is what makes him a true marvel. Townsend is like Robert Oppenheimer or Albert Einstein, and <i>Deconstruction</i> is his atomic bomb. He’s called in the absolute best minds from across the field to contribute to this masterpiece. He took Mikael Åkerfeldt (<i>Opeth</i>, <i>Bloodbath</i>) to do vocals on the savage anthem ‘Stand’, Joe Duplantier (<i>Gojira</i>), Paul Masvical (<i>Cynic</i>, <i>Death</i>) to provide vocals on Sumeria. He even called in the legendary Fredrik Thordenal (<i>Meshuggah</i>) to lend a solo to the title track. It’s not up for debate. This is one of the strongest, most complex and absolutely extraordinary metal albums out there today. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hate to use such an overused word, but I feel that it applies here. It’s an epic.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That being said, if there was to be an album that would secure Devin’s name in the halls of greatness, this one isn’t it, simply because that album came years before when he released ‘Alien’. Everything since then has been successive victory laps, each release confounding and impressing critics, silencing competitors and blowing the minds of everyone in between. If you have ears and a love for heavy, uncompromising, extreme music, look no further. <i>Deconstruction</i> is worth every penny. <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">(10/10)</span></span></b></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks for reading! Tell me what you think!</span></div>Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-41498842838748512022011-06-23T10:34:00.000-07:002011-08-20T16:25:39.021-07:00Another Huge Announcement<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was a frantic Obama supporter from 2008-2010, and as his polls show; he hasn’t delivered as we hoped he would. I don’t think he’s evil, a Muslim, a terrorist, or a new Hitler, and I’m certainly not in with the crowd that believes he is a socialist, communist, Marxist, or what-have-you. That’s non-sense. He’s a democrat, through and through. That comes with all the strengths and faults that democrats have. They’re generally good thinkers, they put people before businesses and they care about human rights, the constitution and preservation of the environment. This ability to think before making obscene gestures or rash decisions comes at the risk of being a spineless, pacifistic weakling. Obama has been molded to fit the corporate willpower. When he ran, I felt that, concerning removing the corporate influence from Washington politics, ‘if he can’t do it, no one can.’ And now that he has proven that he can’t, I realize that I was right. No one can. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But that’s just the thing: No <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one </i>can. One man is easily shattered and turned into a hopeless promise-breaker, a dusty shell of his former, bright-eyed self. One man can be corrupted. It’s time that we put this formula to rest and try something radically different. We need to shake Washington down to its foundation, then dig up all the Indian bones beneath the foundation, grind them into a powder and smoke them for the resin.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A change we can scarcely comprehend. Before we know it, all will be different. We will behold a new utopia of prosperity and benevolence. One stipulation, however: This change has to be radical. It has to be completely unheard of. I believe that I hold the key to this change. Allow me to introduce myself: <b>My name is Winslow Dumaine, and I’m going to be running for President of the United States.</b> Not for any old, tired party, though. A new, re-energized one. The elephant and the donkey are history. I’m running with the Swarm of Rats.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You see, the swarm of rats represents a lot of things; community, integrity, and efficiency come immediately to mind. An elephant or donkey might stumble and trip over the snags and snares of this new, evolving political world, but the swarm of rats traverses these obstacles with a scurrying ease. I’m going to follow their path and evade the politics-as-usual, I’m going to overcome the deeply-rooted corporate influence and overwhelm Washington with a kind of frantic, squeaking territorialism that hasn’t been seen since eighteen-thirty-eight, when the Whitehouse was captured by ornery vagrants and other homeless folk. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Therein lies the second of a list of great changes I will bring about to Washington. I’m not just going to be your president, but I will be the chief analyst of the swarm as well. The rats will represent us, the people of this great nation. While I may disagree from time to time with the reaction of the swarm, I will not let my personal convictions keep this nation from progress. I am not running to be a king, but to be a president, a humble arbiter of the halls of power, whose ultimate purpose is in service to the people. In a sense, I don’t want you to simply elect me to lead you, but to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hire </i>me to lead you. Your friend in progress.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We cannot blindly fly into this new territory, though, and no one knows this more than me. I’ve spent years of my life watching the swarm, learning their ways and gaining their trust. It began with letting them pick the leftovers from my teeth, then lead to allowing them to congregate in my bodypockets for warmth during freezing October rainstorms. Who are the rats? What kind of politic can I expect from them? I’ve assembled a brief list of major issues and their accompanying answers. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The line between madness and genius is a thin one, and only a few artists can walk it without their work becoming too convoluted to enjoy. That being said, Reggie Watts doesn’t just walk this line, he waltzes it. In his hour long special ‘Why Shit So Crazy?’, Watts, without any explanation or introduction to his style of humor, dissects both modern comedy and music with an analytical scalpel. Watts examines the most tired pop music clichés and uses them as a kind of lyrical white-noise. We’ve heard these lines so many times that, while Watts is sometimes incomprehensible, the cliché phrases are always easily understood, as they are exactly what we expect to hear. He improvises with off-the-cuff, apropos-of-nothing storytelling, nonsensical songs and a kind of scat singing that is made up of disconnected fragments of jazz/soul/funk melodies, bizarre advice, and more random stories, all glued together with a spackle of rambling, meaningless noises. Listening to him sing over his live-recorded, looped beatboxing is akin to searching the airwaves for a clear radio signal, only to pass over multiple different stations and receive a garbled mix of static and snippets of programming. His comedy is almost subliminally entertaining; sometimes, you won’t even know why you’re laughing. Quite a few times, without ever telling a joke, Reggie Watts had me laughing hysterically.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-83983023660658877692011-05-17T19:23:00.001-07:002011-05-17T19:27:23.748-07:00My Big Announcement: Everyone Gets Free PrintsHey there.<br />
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So here is my big announcement: Everyone gets one free 8”x10” print of any photograph of mine, dated and signed. All my photography is open game; anything you see on my website is up for grabs. However, this offer comes with one stipulation: The print must be visibly displayed in your house. You don’t have to frame it; it doesn’t have to be anywhere in particular, just as long as it isn’t hidden away behind a bookshelf<span class="text_exposed_show"> or under your fridge. <br />
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If you want more than one print, that’s perfectly fine, but after the first free piece, all the prints are $5.00. Shipping is free. I’m open to negotiate prices for larger orders, just let me know. And please, if you’re feeling generous, buy a few shots. I’m a poor college student. You know how it is. Thank you.<br />
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Winslow Dumaine</span>Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-77511926706679964072011-05-15T14:50:00.000-07:002011-05-15T14:50:27.844-07:00Big News on the Horizon + a Facebook Fanpage!Hey there.<br />
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First off, I've got some big news coming soon. If you're interested in my photography, you should be excited.<br />
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Secondly, I made a facebook page for my photography and other art! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lock-The-Doors-Photography-by-Winslow-Dumaine/222476914445522<br />
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WinslowWinslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-85250232090373438812011-05-02T19:57:00.000-07:002011-05-02T19:57:05.301-07:00Psychological Horror/Thriller(Not Goreporn) +Sci-Fi-Thriller Films!<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey there. A while back, I found a somethingawful.com thread with a load of great psychological horror films, and I rediscovered my love of weird movies. The thread is closed now, so I figured I would give back a bit, by posting summaries and reviews of some of my favorite movies.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The emphasis of this post is on mind-bending psychological horror/thriller, with a particular point to avoid senseless gore and torture that is all too common in horror movies. A post for films that use slow, creeping tension to produce spine-tingling discomfort and horror. Also, Psychological Sci Fi is welcome as well.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Please open up this thread, take a look at some movies and tell me what you think!</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nothing is more touching than the romance of two children too young to understand what romance is. Oscar and Eli make an adorable, awkward pair in this surprisingly dark and touching film about abuse, compassion and sacrifice. Make sure you watch “Let the Right One In” and not “Let Me In”, the bastardized American version.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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“A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the only movie that truly scared me since I was a young onion. Despite its poor(ish) rating of 5.8 on IMDB, I found it to be far more profound and disturbing than many of the classic horror films like Rosemary’s Baby or Silence of the Lambs. There is something wildly perverse in the depiction of James’ delusions and derangement that makes me feel ill and uncomfortable. I don’t want to turn this into some kind of blathering about my own issues, but I think my fear of becoming retarded or brain injuries is what makes this movie so particularly intense. It’s a must see.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is nothing wilder, more primal than watching a man’s fears destroy everything he holds dear. The Conversation is a thriller about a man who slowly comes to realize he has no one left to trust. It’s a spectacle to behold.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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“A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With a tagline like ‘Infinite Space, Infinite Terror’ I don’t blame you for clenching your buttocks in fear of another campy sci-fi slasher with an alien made of super sculpy. However, Event Horizon actually ended up being a very successful thriller-horror film set aboard a spaceship with a gravitational drive designed for faster than light travel. The depictions of horror and sadomasochistic death are, surprisingly, nuanced and very effective at creating an atmosphere of hopelessness.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I watched this movie with my friend, and we both agreed that the first half was Dead Space: The Movie.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>SUNSHINE</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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“A team of astronauts are sent to re-ignite the dying sun 50 years into the future.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let your scientific mind go for a second before you sit down to enjoy this one, but be ready for weird. It’s hard for a movie to really have a twist that surprises me, but this one has multiple. You really get a sense of the claustrophobia and intense dread the crew of the Icarus II. The visual effects are expertly executed and the way that the horror is never fully revealed on the screen. There is something very otherworldly (no pun intended) about this movie. I highly recommend it.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I watched this with the same friend, and we both agreed that the first half of this film is Dead Space 2: The Movie.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This isn’t really a horror film at all, but it certainly fits into the place of psychological film. The violence is brief, but intense. If you are looking for a 300 style movie, but with Christian missionaries in the place of Persians, look elsewhere. The movie is long, slow and kind of dragged out, but it’s so beautifully shot that you can easily lose yourself in the scenery.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>THE MIST</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole-up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The movie is weirder than the summary lets on. Just like Psycho and Sunshine, the true identity of the monster isn’t shown at all, or it’s held until the very end. I’m not going to say something tacky about the real monster being fundamentalist Christians, but most of the tension and anguish is fueled by man’s panicking, hateful nature. This film has one of the most intense and brutal endings of any film I’ve ever seen. Watch it.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>SHUTTER ISLAND<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is what mysteries are all about. Shutter Island is a perfect film for portraying reality through the eyes of multiple people. The feeling of doom and suspicion is rich, and DiCaprio was a fantastic choice for the role of Teddy Daniels. Just like The Conversation, there is a real thrill in watching a man at his wit’s end.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>MOON</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‘Moon’ is another space film that succeeds at creating tension between man and his environment. Sam Bell is alone on a spacecraft, and he’s been waiting to go home for what seems like ages. His loneliness is only compounded when his only companion is a semi-sentient computer named GERTY. In his searching across the surface of the moon, he makes a profound and bizarre discovery and witnesses the heartless nature of his mission.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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MONKEY SHINES</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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“A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Monkey Shines isn’t a brilliant, horrifying or psychologically breathtaking piece of artwork. It’s just a weird, weird movie. That being said, it’s very good at what it does. Find a man who has invested a great deal of his time and passion into his body, a true athlete. Take away everything that he worked for and give him a helper monkey. A psychic one. Go watch it.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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“A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’m not going to spoon feed you this one. If you haven’t seen the shining, you need to do this. Go watch it. Now. It’s a goddamned classic. Stanley Kubrick directed it. Jack Nicholson is in it. Go watch it.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>SESSION 9<br />
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“Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is an excellent movie in all regards. Sure, there is a bit of overacting, but the pacing and the incredibly potent feeling of dread and pain is enough to power through any FUCK YOU’s that might throw you off. Also, it lent one of the most incredible interesting visuals to Silent Hill 3:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is just something about the excitement of urban exploration and the thrill of being essentially alone in such a strange place that creates a great sense of fear and the itching, jerking feeling of oh-fuck-did-that-thing-just-move-I-gotta-<i>IGOTTAGETHEFUCKOUTTAHERE.</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>THE MACHINIST</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Profoundly dark and beautifully shot, The Machinist displays an incredible propensity to generate a sickening sense of discomfort. Maybe it’s the fact that Christian Bale went from the hulking mass of manflesh to a featherweight machine-shop worker just for this film that makes watching it seem so much more surreal.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a sexually repressed young beauty goes insane with surreal fantasies of seduction and rape.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Artfully shot and deeply perverse, Repulsion is the first of Polanski’s loosely tied trilogy of the horrors of city/apartment living. Being shot entirely in black and white, the lack of color lets the viewer experience the more nuanced signs of fear, loathing and wild, sexual delusions. The pain of beauty is the nemesis in this classic film. I highly recommend it.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“A traumatized Vietnam War veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's stalked by horned, tentacled creatures, men in suits and an apparition of his dead son.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is easily one of my favorite films ever. It was the first film to ever use the ‘body horror’ technique of blurred, shaking heads. As noted on IMDB: ‘All SFX were filmed live, with no post-production. For example, to achieve the famous 'shaking head' effect, director Adrian Lyne simply filmed the actor waving his head around (and keeping his shoulders and the rest of his body completely still) at 4fps, resulting in an incredibly fast and deeply disturbing motion when played back at the normal frame-rate of 24fps.’</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can see this in Marilyn Manson’s music videos for Tourniquet and The Beautiful People and the rapid head-shaking is used throughout the Silent Hill series, particularly after the 3rd installment. I can’t quite pin down what it is about this imagery, but it is certainly more frightening than any other type of effect I’ve seen.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jacob’s Ladder truly changed the way I view horror films, and relit my love of the genre. I honestly can’t recommend it highly enough.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eraserhead is, without a doubt, the most bizarre film I’ve ever seen, followed closely by BEGOTTEN. It’s incredibly difficult to accurately describe what makes this film so stark and depraved, so all I can say is that you need to watch this movie with an open mind. No, you won’t finish this movie and feel good. You’ll feel like your brain just ate something rotten. You’ll be confused and disturbed. The symbolism isn’t clear; the metaphors aren’t spelled out for you. This movie is on the verge of being complete chaos for the sake of being complete chaos. It’s a classic unlike any other. It must be seen to be believed.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The beautiful, fragile Rosemary, pregnant and glowing, is trapped in an incredibly bleak, spiraling abyss. Her husband might have impregnated her with less than loving intentions, her doctors are frauds and there is the persistence of the deathly mysteries of her apartment. Something is amiss, and it’s not until the birth of the child that she discovers how deep the rabbit hole goes.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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“God disembowels himself with a straight razor. The spirit-like Mother Earth emerges, venturing into a bleak, barren landscape. Twitching and cowering, the Son Of Earth is set upon by faceless cannibals.”</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Okay, I’ll admit it. I used to be a huge Marilyn Manson fan. I still think he’s a genius and a talented artist, but after he shut down the fansite that I logged 7k+ posts on, I’ve held him in contempt. While he may be a flagrant asshole, he’s shown me some really incredible movies. BEGOTTEN is one of them. The film is shot in black and white, but not like any The Wizard of Oz black and white. According to IMDB, ‘Approximately eight to ten hours of optical work - re-photographing, visual treatments, and filtering - was required to produce one minute of film. The total postproduction period for the 78-minute movie was eight months.’</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The opening scene of God’s death is so drawn out, so astonishing and so wicked; it might turn off most viewers. If you can press on through some of the darkest and most densely symbolic images of the death of God, you’ll be rewarded with one of the strangest movies ever made. Go watch it.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Winslow</div>Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7456125977910283429.post-77477047882037498992011-04-30T18:36:00.000-07:002011-05-01T11:05:08.070-07:00Game Review: Minecraft<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Minecraft</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Minecraft </i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">is a massively open single and multi-player sandbox game where the characters are placed on terra incognito and left to fend for themselves. The entire world is created of meter-by-meter sized cubes. There are a multitude of different types of blocks to find as well as truly infinite possibilities for each particular adventure. The entirety of the earth is moldable; the players can dig enormous trenches or build gargantuan castles that span across hundreds of kilometers of space. Trees can be felled for wood, sand can be melted down to make glass, and immense cave structures can be discovered where players can spelunk at their leisure. The emphasis of the game is to explore and build your home from the materials you find. The map is essentially infinite (Yes, it does come to an end, but in order to reach the edge of playable space, the player must deliberately search for it) and each one is randomized. There are biomes of different climates and each has differing deposits of materials. There are free roaming NPCs in the forms of cows, sheep, pigs, chickens and most recently, tameable wolves. At night, however, the NPCs are joined by legions of the undead, gigantic spiders and skeletal archers. Most horribly, bizarre, gangrenous creepers prey upon the player, lest they have built a shelter for themselves. As well as having a large online community, Minecraft also has tremendous single player value. The replay value is bolstered significantly by the humongous and growing mod scene. New items, cities, maps, beautiful and silly textures, skin packs, and complete overhauls ensure that the game never gets stale. It recently sold its two-millionth copy.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> The game is being made by Mojang, a Swedish independent developer founded by Markus Persson, otherwise known as ‘Notch’. Mojang began with Notch as the only employee; the development team has since grown to eight employees.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> It’s difficult to place a final review or score on MMOs, or any game that is so open and free of any kind of rigid objectives. Each player has an individual experience, and the quality of the play relies on the quality of the community with whom the player shares an online game. Nevertheless, I still hope to provide a review that focuses on the main features that draw people to sandbox games and/or MMOs. All of these parameters will be derived from my own experiences and speculations as to the desires of the whole of the community. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> The first positive quality for games of this genre is to provide freedom for the player to do as they wish. This does not mean that games with NPCs that control certain rules and laws (see <i>Grand Theft Auto, Saint’s Row</i>) within the game can be considered ‘lacking freedom’ since sometimes the greatest freedom offered within games is the ability to circumvent and subvert the rules put in place by the NPCs. Games like Hitman offer the player a degree of freedom when they put the player in the map, provide him with a target to quietly kill, and leave the player to their own devices. There is a variety of methods the player can use to discreetly kill their target which make the player feel intelligent and offers a better sense of immersion.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Freedom is a fickle thing, though. Minecraft offers the player unparalleled freedom to explore and find new and interesting ways to experience the game. This freedom, however, comes at a price. I’m sure you’ve been flummoxed at a drug store before, trying to find a very basic item only to be assaulted by a wall of variety of what you thought was the simplest product. Minecraft players can suffer the same fate if they begin a map without knowing what their goal is. If they start in a vast wilderness without some kind of direction, they can get bored very quickly. It’s hard to get that drive from players without telling them what to do with quests or specific storylines, but Minecraft players can get around this by toying with the new blocks they get with updates, and taking part in the community and their different projects. In Minecraft, most of the fun is what you make for yourself, but that really isn’t a bad thing. It means that the players have fundamentally unlimited freedom over their environment, and freedom is what makes Minecraft such a successful sandbox game.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> The second and most elusive quality of a great MMO is immersion. Immersion is the feeling of total ease the player feels when they are at home in the game environment. Complex actions, such as the construction of a house from blocks or the feather-footed dance of sword-fighting, become second nature when immersion is at its greatest. Bugs, poorly-thought out game mechanics and unfair game environments break immersion and annoy players.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> It can be a real challenge to create an immersive environment, and it’s nearly impossible (for me) to feel at home in a game that uses 8-bit style graphics. Games like <i>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. </i>(particularly the third installment, <i>Call of Pripiat</i>) and <i>Metro 2033</i> offer unprecedented immersion to the player through minimalistic on-screen display, visceral combat, brilliant AI, complex environments with multiple routes to accomplish goals, a well-executed storyline and lastly, unforgiving difficulty. I died playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. hundreds of times; I replayed the same gunfights dozens of times to perfect my approach and refine my strategy. For any other game, this would be tedious work, but for a game with such excellent immersive qualities, it was an absolute pleasure. Minecraft struggles with this, but it doesn’t fail completely. It’s a task to really feel at home in primeval forests or frozen wastelands, but if the player puts in enough time in the creation of their home, the game begins to feel well traveled and less daunting. The immersion is there, but, just like the joy of total freedom, the player must work for it before it is experienced fully.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Lastly, fresh content is the meat of the MMO: the supply of things to do, places to explore and obstacles to overcome. While freedom and immersion are critical to making an enjoyable game, fresh and unique content is what keeps the players coming back for more. This is what turns casual experimenters into paying customers. MMOs like <i>World of Warcraft</i> and <i>Rift </i>are being consistently updated with patches, bug-fixes and, of course, new regions and content. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">World of Warcraft’s initial design provided both factions with one hundred unique quests, plus an extra hundred that both factions could take part in. As of the latest release, there are nearly ten thousand different quests in the game. Fresh content is what makes World of Warcraft the supreme leader in MMOs now and into the foreseeable future.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> This is one category in which <i>Minecraft </i>is absolutely outstanding in its field. Other MMOs generally offer fresh content in the form of new character powers, abilities, and items, or new quests, but all the updates to the actual in-game content can only come from the one official source. With Minecraft, the players themselves have the power to create fresh content in the shape of mods, textures, maps, and builds, all customized to the particular player and their differing proclivities. This is further enhanced by the consistent updates from Mojang, making the game not so much the product of a single developer, but an evolving community project of freedom and entertainment. Notch and his fellow developers are also very close to their fanbase; they post on message boards and forums, and listen to the desires of the community at large. If a mod becomes popular enough, Mojang will consider it for inclusion in the next official update. Nothing says ‘fan interaction’ like the developers liking your idea so much that they immortalize it in an official release!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> The quality of the community is, of course, very important, but because that is not controlled by Mojang, the faults and shortcomings of the community can’t really be held against them. That being said, Minecraft has a fantastic community. The game has been modified, reskinned, and overhauled with thousands of unique and free downloads that are, for the most part, being aggressively updated and enhanced with every passing day. However, Minecraft has its share of entitled upstarts and home-burning griefers, but with each server being controlled by a specific administrator, bans and damage reversals come quickly to anyone who seeks to break the immersion. The community is truly what makes Minecraft a stellar, vibrant, and infinitely playable game. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> All told, Minecraft is a marvel; amazingly versatile, fully customizable, and fresh in every sense of the word. There is really no other successful, mainstream game like it, and it is growing every day. If you can get past the intentionally super-low end graphics and survive a night or two, the bounty for your patience will be fantastic. Barring <i>Garry’s Mod</i>, no other game on the market offers the player so much freedom and replay value. If you’re into sandbox games, open-ended game worlds, or just flash games in general, you need to try Minecraft. It’s beyond anything else you’ve tried to date, and for that, I give it a <span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;">9.6/10</span></b>.<b> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I got suckered into seeing this movie recently and lost what could have been two very productive hours of my life. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Even if the time wasn’t used productively, I’d rather have stayed in the parking lot making a tiny beige Stonehenge out of discarded cigarette butts. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Arthur is a remake of the 1981 film, this time starring Russell Brand as the lead unlikable oaf. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Honestly, this film could’ve bit the bullet of self-parody and ran under the name of ‘<i>Two Hours (That You Will Never Get Back) of Adventures by Several Wholly Uninteresting, Unlikable People’</i>, and it might have less staggeringly awful. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> I’m not going to write this review with a really nasty, hateful outlook because it’s fun to be mean. I’m going to write an honest, open review. This movie was terrible.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The film attempts to convey the lesson of ‘love and happiness mean more than material wealth, but thanks to the shoe-horned ending where the guy gets the girl as well as the fabulous, care-free wealthy lifestyle, the lesson concludes with ‘but you should just be rich anyway’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brand may be hilarious in his stand up—or not; I haven’t seen any of his material. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Whether or not he is some kind of comic genius off camera lends him no credit when with his perma-drunk yelping voice, he is regurgitating lines that the cleverest guy in the script-factory thought up. Every line was delivered with the precision of a boozy sledge hammer, bashing another lame alcohol/sex joke against the tired corpse of a well-beaten horse. Cut and paste the drunk-in-a-sterile-business-environment bit ad nauseam. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> If Brand is even a bit like his character in this movie, it’s absolutely incredible that he hasn’t been captured by bandits, hollowed out and vulcanized over a pit of flames with his leather-handbag-textured skin turned into a canoe of sorts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every single character in this movie is completely unlikable: his absent mother, his burnt-out nanny,and </span><span style="font-size: small;"> his fiancée.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Even the love of his life is another personality-free, interchangeable female, but this time with a dollop of the indie-film ingredients of spunky, cute, and spontaneous. I guess that is the way movies like to show that a young female character is likable: Make them spontaneous and a bit air-headed. I can picture a awful script factory environment where several grown men are sitting in black pleather chairs discussing how to make a character likable and spontaneous. Ideas are passed around like a peace pipe packed with asbestos and beard trimmings, each one horrible in its own right, but capable of making the next idea somehow infinitely worse. What makes this so awful is the fact that this is the character the movie needs to make into an engaging human being. The good interchangeable female needs to be shown to be a full human being, with complex emotions and an intact personality. Having failed at that, they’ve made the movie into a long series of loosely connected vignettes about a man trying and failing to live like a commoner until he has a panic attack and somehow wins the girl in the end. And the money.( I still don’t get that part.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I exited the theatre two hours closer to death and with nothing to show for it. Each character in this movie could have been acted by anyone of the same gender and age group. What Russell Brand is for 2011, Adam Sandler was in the 1990’s. Each person was completely devoid of substance or any kind of interesting personality. The script was boring and any chance to have even a semi-interesting romp by a childish billionare was quickly flushed down the toilet when the writers decided that he would just spend his money on women and cars. This movie offers nothing interesting, nothing worthwhile. It succeeded at providing me a chance to sit in a comfortable chair and stare unblinking at a colored rectangle-shaped screen, and for that, I have to give it a 2.0/10. Avoid it at all costs. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Type: LP</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in;">Producer: <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Moribund Cult</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Release: March 24th, 2008</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Leviathan is an American black metal project composed entirely of one Jef Whitehead, otherwise known as Wrest. This 2008 masterpiece, Massive Conspiracy Against All Life is an apocalyptic series of grave, ambient tracks detailing not just the end of life on earth, but of the ultimate extinction of all matter in the universe. It begins with a slow, meager growling intro, but quickly picks up pace and turns into a maddening spiral into total oblivion. While it may seem simple, know that this piece is not just about the simplistic Armageddon of flames and devils, but of a microbial destruction, and of the creation of new life from the withered corpse of our universal ovum. Note the microscopic nature of some of the lyrics “Gone, as T-Lymphocytes” and “From a long, flagellated vessel”, and know that the original title for ‘Vulgar Asceticism’ was ‘A Flagellum Raised to the Sky’, a phrase which upends the sperm cell and points it at the ova of the earth.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> While this album technically belongs to the subgenre of Depressive Black Metal, due to its slower pace and extraordinarily bleak outlook, don’t be too quick to corner it with other depressive acts like Anti or Katatonia, as the spectrum of this music ranges wildly from the creeping self-destructive dirge to the painful, feverish conniptions of thrash or blackened death metal. That being said, the diversity in the songs combined with the expert mixing of the record, this album can be played as one entire piece rather than a series of songs. In listening to the record in its whole form, Wrest reveals his incredible ability for creating soundscapes of mass graves, universal funeral rites and even takes the listener to visit Christ in bondage on Golgotha. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I know that Wrest has said in interviews that he is ‘not a poet by any means’, the lyrical content of this record have been incredibly inspiring to me and my art since I first picked up the record. He has an almost Lovecraftian ability to create contradicting images of winged, tentacled creatures of bizarre worlds and offer incredibly, powerfully disturbing views into the death of the Son of Man. Even if you’re not too keen on black metal, take some time to read through the lyrics, and if you can find the record in the shops, look at the artwork, as it illustrates many of the foul images his words detail. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> If the sound is too repellant to you, just try to listen to the closing track ‘Noisome Ash Crown’. Naturally, this thirteen minute long epic fleshes out the finest and most depraved points of the end of all life. If you listen closely, you may even hear the sound of the snuffing-out of the final living breath, as the terminal soul enters His Unhallowed Grace.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> For this record’s uncanny ability to be listened to as a whole, for the capacity to truly transport the listener into the depths of madness from which it came, I hold this record in incredibly high regard. Now this does not mean that this album is the standard to which all other black metal or even depressive black metal albums should be compared, because the beauty of black metal is in the way it spans so many other genres and encapsulates the best of them all. What this record does, it does exceedingly well, and other black metal artists should take note of it. All this being said, I give it a 9.4/10. If you’re into black metal or any kind of slower, stranger, more horrifying metal, you need to hear this album.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mayhem is the one of the first black metal bands, and through several murders, suicides and a list of other culturally-significant acts, only one member of the original group remains present in the group. Because of this tulmultous upbringing, the band has been able to release a distinctly different sound with each recording. While they have kept similar riffs for each record, their vocal styling, lyrical content and especially the organization of the drums have been changed dramatically for each release. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> There are several theories as to the symbolism behind the lyrical content of the most major albums by the group, and one of the most interesting of them claims that each album revolves around a major stage in the life of Adolf Hitler, from his service in the Great War to his plans for world domination. This album, however, seems to step away from this lyrical practice and into a sort of solipsistic deathtrance. It follows no figures, and is not told through the perspective of any one human, or any one particular living creature, but through the perspective of a passive force that watches without judgment, without memory, without care of the doom it is witnessing. As humans are so fearful of death, we repudiate its arrival more so than that of any other event of their lives; they are so hypocritical when they carelessly erase trillions of innocent creatures from being with a flip of a switch, or the squeeze of a trigger. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The two main complaints I have heard about this album is that it is too accessible to mainstream audiences, that it lacks the truer, darker and more ‘necro’ sound that was prevalent through their previous records, and finally, that the vocalist, Attila Csihar, sounded very out of place. I’ll address each of these points individually.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> First off, I don’t find accessibility to be too much of a problem for this record. Some bands, like Dimmu Borgir or Satyricon, could be said to be too accessible, but that becomes more of a problem when they are seen as ‘sellouts’. Let’s be honest though, Dimmu Borgir and Satyricon can’t really be held anywhere near to the same regard as Mayhem. This record is more accessible because it doesn’t include wall-of-sound guitar riffs backed by incomprehensible drums. It’s more accessible because the listener can understand some of the lyrics. I don’t really see these as faults, and from a listening perspective, I see them as major pluses for the record. Sure, it may not give the listener the spine-tingling sensation that earlier Darkthrone or Burzum records might have given, but this is by no means a mainstream record.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> One of the first and most striking features of this record is the vocals. Attila Csihar certainly has the stage presence that this band demands, and his creativity is matched with his talents. He’s really one of my favorite metal vocalists, and if his work on Sunn O)))’s latest release, Monoliths and Dimensions, doesn’t impress you, nothing will. Considering his ability to produce such bizarre and otherworldly noises with his throat, Attila’s vocal range can’t really be measured by normal metrics. The track ‘Illuminate Eliminate’ is a showcase of his squealing, droning, growling and rasping talents. I stand behind the decision to include him in the band, and I hope they continue with him for further recordings.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> While his vocals are very strong, and the drums can really help power through this albums duller parts, there are still a few points that are a bit dull. Perhaps the repetition was placed in this record to create a sense of tension, just as the Csihar’s quiet growling or the expertly organized drums can. This record is very, very powerful, but it is not perfect. It could use another song set to the disorganized arrhythmia of ‘Wall of Water’ to keep the listeners attention tied down to the end. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> There isn’t a song I’d skip on this record, but there are some parts I could do without. Altogether, it’s an incredibly powerful album, a must-have for any black metal fan, and an excellent entry album for skeptics of the genre. I give it 9.0/ 10.0. Buy it, listen to it, love it. If not to support the artist, buy it for it fantastic album artwork. Each page gets darker and more depraved and confused until the final pages is nothing but black, red and white paint and scratches. Truly Order becoming Chaos.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks for your time. Keep checking back for more updates. Tell your friends about me.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">W.</div>Winslowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08109264192529396652noreply@blogger.com0