Recent content by Bubonic Chronic

Crucial for what? Was it "crucial" when the first tribes stretched a skin across a rotted-out log and struck it to call the resulting sound "tribal percussion?" Was it necessary to call the vocalizations of ancient monks "chant?" Call it a fucking Oldsmobile for all I care. I'll still be...

I like this: heavy shit mellow shit shit that will make your mother soil her trousers ..that's about all I can think of.

Dissection was so good it didn't matter what you called it. It's pure, testicle stomping, sulferic acid on your corneas metal. Just a bunch of guys with hair down to their asses bashing on drums and playing loud ass guitars. Can't go wrong with that format. :rock:

Amen, Plague Witch. My sentiments exactly. I went to see Gwar recently, and Cattle Decapitation opened up. They weren't bad, only I could immediately pin them as death/grind - and every song had the same kind of sound to it. Needless to say I was a little bored with them, though it was...

"Ska sucks, ska revival isn't cool you stupid fuck! And if you don't believe me you're a schmuck. The trend will die out with any lu-uh-uck-oh yeah!" - Propagandhi

I just don't like when some new band comes out with the preconcieved notion of "we're Emo-Black-Country!" it's silly! Just play and develop a style, then figure out where you fit later.

I think it's a good thing that goes too far sometimes. When a band comes out and they're like "we're industrial grind core!" I think "here's a bunch of guys with limited ideas of what they can achieve." Hypocrisy was never limited in what they could achieve.

You can tell by band's names, anyway. You know Anal Cunt is death, for instance. You don't call your band Anal Cunt and then play alternative!

How important do you think it is to clearly define genres such as "Hard Core" "Grind" or "Black Metal?" I think that while these can act as a general guide, bands like Hypocrisy don't exactly fit neatly into anything, so where does that then put them?

Testify! Ok, this is getting a little weird for a metal board. :eek:

There is just no comparison between MP3's and a professionally produced, mastered CD. Sure the MP3's sound pretty good, but you don't get the transitions between songs as they were intended, and the digital quality pales in comparison with CD. If I really like a band I always have to have a...

Even though it is some of the best beer ever: Manneke Pis - which literally means "mannikan piss" in Belgian. There's a legend there about a little boy who pissed out a fire in one of the cities there, so he is remembered as a national hero - and has a beer named for him. Great beer...

Shit ya!

First extreme metal purchase was either Morbid Angel's Domination or Obituary's The End Complete. If you can count Slayer as extreme metal, I picked up Reign in Blood about a decade ago - that pretty much popped my cherry for the real shit.

Listening-wise I'm still full-out metalhead, but as far as playing I really don't get too heavy anymore. I'm much more into John McLaughlin and shit like that when I play. I guess I'm glad I have the metal background and listening habits because when I jam on some jazz or funk I do it with...