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  1. It's been three years since that song was released. Get over it. OT: Contemporary classical music is some of the most interesting music ever created. Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVlKUOo7TlY
  2. He wrote some of his own songs and has been proven to be able to sing. He has SOME talent, even if you choose to ignore it because he's the fucking Biebs. Speaking of which, there are so many easier targets than Justin left in the music industry. Just ignore him; he's on the way out anyway. I say we start ragging mercilessly on David Guetta; he's the reason that every pop artist sounds the same lately. Just a few years ago, you could tell the difference between Maroon 5, Rihanna, Beyonce, or anyone else who got any airplay at that time. But today? Absolutely not. Electropop is the worst thing to ever happen to popular music, and we have David Guetta to thank for that.
  3. Thank you, thank you, THANK you, for bringing this up. I can't stand when people say drone is all the same or really boring or whatever. Drone is not to be listened to intently, but to be taken in as something entirely different from any other style of metal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvqpe8muxaU
  4. Sludge and crust punk find a very long-winded crossroads on "Rites of Separation," the newest from Agrimonia. Very melodic, but also very heavy.
  5. Props to the first Boris album I've listened to for being the first album to catch me genuinely off guard in a very long time. Drone, sludge, doom, stoner, et cetera, all in one.
  6. Slayer's my favorite of the big four, because they've stuck to their story for the past 30 years. Can't say it'll stay the same without Dave and Jeff in the band, though... Gotta love the classics.
  7. This album seems to be getting people into black metal. And rightfully so. It feels like My Bloody Valentine with more distortion and blast beats, as well as influences from post-rock that are incorporated nicely.
  8. I was never too big on this band, but this song I like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXcc765GYY They're like a more technical, less djenty version of Periphery, another band I never fell head over heels for. Oh, and Monuments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGV1GVPmTwo
  9. no http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll9rB0jUbFc 2004's "Madvillainy" by the eponymous Madvillain duo of Madlib on production and MF DOOM rapping is my favorite hip hop album of all time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAoPBY_D4E "good kid, m.A.A.d. city" is Kendrick Lamar's heartfelt testament to his hometown of Compton, and was released last year. There's plenty of reasons to keep coming back to hip hop once you realize there are more rappers today than your Lil Waynes and Tygas and MGKs. With that out of the way, two minor gripes that came to mind. Why do people call hip hop "rap?" "Rap" is a verb. "To rap." That would be like calling rock music "strum." And also, genres never die, despite the fact that they may not be prominent. There's still plenty of influence in today's music from disco and punk rock, two genres people love to say are dead. Just look at "Random Access Memories" and any hardcore band to ever exist. Harsh vocals can carry more emotion than clean vocals much of the time, which is why I come back to them so often. Also, when you know what's being said, you can find a lot of great lyrical bits and pieces from a lot of great songs, and even learn to decipher the vocals without reading the lyrics along with them. Here's a lyric video to demonstrate my point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5wt2OOLOCg The instrumentation can still be inaccessible, but at least you know some of what you're hearing.
  10. Blood Fire Death's a black metal album predominantly. Much different from Hammerheart, but they're still called viking metal. If they were viking metal, wouldn't you want them to sound similar?
  11. It's a folk metal album, plain and simple. Quorthon sings about vikings, but that doesn't make it viking metal. By that logic, you could call Atilla "party metal" oh wait people do that already god dammit.
  12. I'm not one for genre subdivision, but I don't think the "core" debate is where it gets craziest. To me, the most absurd genre name is "viking metal." It's a genre based on a lyrical theme rather than a musical one, which makes the entire "genre" fall flat.
  13. I think there are too many "core" "genres" that make them all look like shit, but they're not. Who the fuck cares what it's called anyway? It's all fucking music. At the end of the day, it should be the music that you look at, not what it's called.
  14. My feelings on AC/DC in one convenient image. While I'm here, I may as well say that Chuck Schuldiner gets too much praise. This ties back into the "worshiping the dead" thing I touched on a while ago, but people credit him with inventing death metal, which is insane; Possessed were around for a while before Death came into the picture, and Chuck credited Possessed with the creation of death metal. THEY EVEN GAVE IT THE NAME, FOR GOD'S SAKE:
  15. That's only my favorite album of all time. It speaks to me on such a deep level that I hadn't known about before I found Godspeed. Anyway, I'm jamming on my favorite album of 2012 now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xTEsKaqmz4 And keep in mind this is only disc one. The second disc is another 55 minutes. You can't tell me this track doesn't fuck your face off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDa7RwU0IFM
  16. Which is the best Civilization game?

  17. Don't hold a band like VoM up to the status of prog gods. You won't get what you're looking for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsBu-Ffjr9M These two early Baroness EPs are some of their best material. "First" and "Second" are a little more aggressive than their later output, and I like That. Two great sludge releases.
  18. My favorite deathcore band for a long time was The Red Chord, after hearing PsyOpus humorously cover a song of theirs in a hidden track on "Our Puzzling Encounters Considered." (this isn't the song they covered, because there's no HD uploads of it) Now I'd have to say it's Veil of Maya. They do the technical thing way better than WtR (who I forgot to mention in the list of good tech-deathcore bands a few posts ago: Yeah, add VoM to that too. "[id]" may be my favorite deathcore album.
  19. The latest jazz I was digging was "The Inflated Tear" by Roland Kirk. This guy could play multiple saxophones at the same time AND circular breathe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7rpJXAs1us
  20. Oh dear god yes. WtR is like Five Finger Death Punch if - instead of being overly tough and insanely American - they were neckbeards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqGnBP3W5B8
  21. You know deep down that the only good technical deathcore band is Within the Ruins. They fall victim to writing chugging breakdowns too, however, but at least it's 100% confirmed that they can actually play their music at full speed.
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  23. Just as I thought, this album is doing nothing for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzor-rGOkA Having already heard "Embryonic Anomaly," I had low expectations for "Dingir." And once again, they were met. Why is this band writing br00tal breakdowns into their songs when their leads are so fast? Also the drums are triggered to shit again (though they sound better (really, the whole album has a better production quality)) and the new vocalist sounds like a Mitch Lucker ripoff. 3-4/10 would not recommend
  24. Me and @@Twiliscael listened to Marillion's "Brave" album last night at the same time, and we were both thoroughly impressed with it. It's got the sound of classic rock radio but on steroids or acid or something. I'd say this is for fans of Rush, the Eagles, and Pink Floyd just before Roger Waters left the group ("The Wall," etc.).
  25. KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Screamo is a very misused term, and I can't stand it. Bands like I Hate Myself (who you just heard), Envy, Circle Takes the Square, and Orchid are all seminal acts in the genre, and a good way to familiarize one's self with the genre. Just remember, kids, if it has screaming in it, it's not always screamo.
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