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Soulseek's search options are very limited, but its great for discovering new music. Just find a user with some good stuff and get them to recommend stuff or just download all their files! It's got a good community kinda thing going. Also, Ive found it pretty easy to find whole albums or fairly...

Ok, this topic should be let go, but im bored and just re-read the post saying they probably got popular because "their soft acustic appeals to everyone". I kinda doubt that. I'd say that Opeth have got popular simply because the mainstream metal media (mags like Kerrang, Metal Hammer etc)...

Ive seen them 3 times since BWP came out and they've played The Drapery Falls and Demon Of The Fall every single time plus Advent once or maybe twice. Personally, Id rather they played something else instead of Demon Of The Fall (which they've ended the set with every time) because its such a...

Im pretty sure you're right that those are anti-christian. I always assumed it was about how Christianity beacame like an ensalving empire rather than a religion. "Helvetia gloria still smile behind the shade of shame" would suggest how behind the shame institutionalised Christianity has made...

I think Opeth are great., and agree with the Blackwater Park fans. Although that album maybe doesnt have any tracks as "big" and powerful as some of the older albums (Im thinking especially of Still Life), overall I think it makes the best cohesive album and dont find a second of it boring or...

I'm not the biggest fan, but the charts here in the UK are generally so crap nowdays (and I actually like a lot of pop) that I'd much rather the darkness got some attention than most of the other crap out there. I've heard the album a lot (burnt it off a friend) and its pretty good, with a few...

Surely, the lack of women into metal is more to do with the general perception of metal, how it's covered in the press (mainstream & scene), the lyrics and the fact that a lot of metal bands consist of guys singing about topics that relate to guys. This doesnt mean women cant "handle" technical...

Luca Turilli - Prophet Of The Last Eclipse. Very very cheesy but fantastic, in his own words "inspired by the film Event Horizon"!

Just saw Soilwork last night which was great fun if very cheesy (and I'd forgotten just how small the London Underworld is!) Next gig I have a ticket for is the Scissor Sisters.... (!) but on a somewhat more metal note, I just spotted this on InFlames.com: "April 24 - 2004 London, (UK) -...

At first I was really dissapointed with this. I loved Black Light District but this lacked the imediateness or epicness of that and at first it all seemed a bit washy and too distant from their old stuff for me to get into. Then, after on and off listening for a few months I put it on one day...

I find that a few tracks are a bit repetitive and weaker than the rest of the album and the closing chorus of Black Session is rather cheesy compaired to the bands often awesome lyrics. However, the burning depressive atmosphere of the album is amazing. I actually find Last Fair Deal quite...

I'd say that Colony would be the best overall introduction to In Flames, and the version I got has the awesome Golliaths Desarm Their Davids as a bonus. Songs to download should include: Embody The Invisible, Golliaths..., Jotun, Swim, Trigger (album not crappy single mix). Personally I love...

Despite getting most of their albums since, Blackwater Park (my 1st Opeth purchase) is still my favourite. Bleak is possibly my favourite track by the band with an absolutely awesome main riff, ending and one of the best fake endings ever in the middle. Maybe there's nothing that quite matches...

Katatonia - depending on song, either gives a reflective feeling of sadness or unexplainable uplifting feeling. Some Moonspell tracks have a particular ambiance that cunjors up spine tingling feelings. Especially Angelizer and the Daemonarch track Corpus Hermeticum probably due to the fact that...

Just to add my 2 very unqualified cents... I would consider myself as very very liberal and not a racist but obviously race plays a big part in how we are as individuals as Demiurge has been saying. Maybe you could argue that race and peoples cultural inheritance leads to some sort of...