Recent content by Heliologue

Tries to sound intelligent, but comes off as a dimwit. Way to add nothing to the conversation, genius.

You have to remember that SoT is the descendent of the Opeth Off-Topic, which was itself descended from the Opeth forum. Some of the people from SoT are the original Ultimate Metal denizens. Most of us cling to the good old days, though it seems like MetalMan is the one who always gets shit for...

If I could, I would quote the entirety of Eric Alterman's "The Book on Bush." Not only is it fairly invective, but well researched and documented as well. Needless to say, I can't do so, so just a few thoughts: 1. Bchornet, your little rant about Iraq-Al Qaeda connections is all well...

Mikael has a point, you know. If [membername] makes a thread saying that Mikael Akerfeldt [eats babies, has a fecal fetish, hates Jews, hates blacks, wears women's underwear], there are going to be throngs of new fans that will start asking "is it tru that mikeal weres athong??!" Not that I...

I wouldn't call it original at all. It's sounds mostly like every schlock metalcore/emo hybrid I've ever heard. A bit groovier, perhaps.

I enjoy MacLachlan in small doses. Her singles are certainly radio-friendly and somewhat touching, but perhaps a bit overused. And she's hot, in a classic sort of way.

Well, the alternative is burning a church or perhaps killing a homosexual.

True, their first album is rather start and stop. For a more refined sense of narrative structure, Still Life is a wonderful album.

The egalitarian approach to music is sweet, but ultimately misguided.

Naturally, I'm a flaming homosexual and I enjoy publicly spouting invective against myself. You, I'm sure, mean "fag" in the best possible way.

Quite coherent, yes. I understand where you're coming from, but I dislike the dichotomy of definition you propose. I would argue that common usage sits "progressive" as a stylistic term, both for progressive rock and other uses (hence, Opeth's commonly being labelled "progressive")...

Prozak smacks of conservatives lambasting Democrats for "feminizing" politics. What a whiny, ridiculous concept. That is, of course, what happens when one invests so blindly in his or her genre of choice.

No, typo. Thanks for correcting me. I disagree. If we look its original musical usage (progressive rock), it, while perhaps innovative initially, is hardly innovating anymore. The majority of modern progressive rocks consists of formulaic, but varied and complex, wankery; yet, it's still...

That's not progressive. Progressive, by definition, is moving forward and changing. Demilich, strange as their riffs and structure might be, sound precisely the same throughout their album.

Naturally. Making a genre "progressive" doesn't reconcile it with the (often intolerable) 200-proof "progressive" bands. I don't think you'd like them. Perhaps that's presumptuous of me, but I doubt they're your type. Will someone please tell me why Demilich is "progressive" because...