Recent content by Øystein H-O

My latest purchases: Curved Air - Phantasmagoria Drowningman - How They Light Cigarettes Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool (live) Human Remains - Where Were You When (2CD) Obituary - Cause Of Death Roxy Music - Stranded Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food Van Der Graaf...

Well, a bunch of Neurosis-loving guys - including member(s?) from Coalesce, and a guy from Hydrahead records. Heavy as hell, as you probably know by now, and pretty much rooted in hardcore. Oh, and they're pretty damn nifty :P The only release of theirs I have is The MOsquito Control EP...

Well, I have two guitars, one electric and a nylon. Both are cheap, both are probably crappy, but I'm VERY happy with both of them. Doubt I'll be replacing any of 'em for a few years, hehe. Anyhoo, my electric is a Peavey Predator, which I bought used. I smack some 0.11 strings on it, and...

Let's see. I'll naturally skip all the local bands. I've not really been to any festivals, so there's won't be a 50-band list from a couple of years at Wacken or something ;) Anyhoo: Anekdoten Melt-Banana In Flames (sucked, might be one of the most boring concerts I've been to...

Getting Ulver's "Silence..." would be a bad idea :) I had it earlier, but ended up trading it away. If you want something similar in approach, try one of John Zorn's 80s "story"-pieces, like Spillane. Same sort of movielike approach, but done well! Ulver's just sounds like they were bored...

Some doom-metal albums I feel are essential: Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium (note that they abandoned doom later on for a more hardrock oriented approach) Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency Skepticism - Lead and Aether Winter - Into...

In case you didn't know, that stop the madness thing is of course a parody of those old anti-drugs ads. If you look at f.ex. all teh old Roadrunner albums you'll find that same thing, but with syringes etc instead of crosses etc. If we're gonna keep the same train of thought, we could...