Recent content by skyrefuge

Well, yeah, read the first post in this thread, titled "Green Carnation performs entire 'Light of Day, Day of Darkness' @ DOTE [Day of the Equinox Festival in Toronto, in 2005]". But it's been a long time (and that might have been the last one?) I know they also did it at Wacken in 2002, and...

Oh, yeah, they'll almost certainly play "Don't Fear The Winter", but they've basically been playing that their entire careers, regardless of lineup, so it's not super-special. The cool thing is that in the current form, it sounds more authentic and less chunkily-modern than it did in the...

Any details you'd like to share? How did you find such a buyer? What are they paying? Anything above shipping costs? I'm moving soon, and given that I made the change-over from physical media and stopped adding to the collection over a decade ago, it seems rather pointless to bring them with. I...

'Perfect Man' is actually the one that I think would leave the biggest "impression", as it's almost half-punk (fast, really melodic, 3-minute songs with prominent bass). The other four albums from the Refuge era are more conventionally "metal". Anyway, Refuge seems to play the most songs from...

If only! This thread is so old, that the OP (Adrian Bromley) is literally dead. :( But now that we're here, let's revisit *my* hopeful/prophetic quote: So yeah, apparently Glenn passed over Green Carnation for PPVII, instead deciding to jam an "X" into those Roman numerals and waiting for...

Well yeah, I'm not saying it's a conscious decision ("oh, I guess I'm not supposed to like Wham!, I better change my mind"), it's a subconscious social influence that you aren't even aware of. Since it's unlikely that our lifelong tastes in music are determined entirely by our DNA, social...

I didn't finish the essays, so maybe he got into this, but I believe the social aspect of the Internet had almost as much to do with the end of "scarceness" as the technological aspects did. When it was just us and our limited circle of friends, entire swaths of music simply "sucked". One...

Blackguard's December 10 2014 Facebook post: ....Anyone familiar with the band over the last few years knows we kept a pretty hectic touring schedule for many years, unfortunately that took its toll on the band physically, mentally and financially. After completing the Finntroll/Metsatoll...

Ok, maybe I'm just hearing those albums wrong. I will just have to take comfort in the fact that I'm not alone; the band members hear them wrong too! But the last 5 years were very important and now that you can overlook them, what was the most enjoyable time? `Nighttime Birds` kinda was the...

I'm seriously thinking that you have 'Nighttime Birds' and 'How to Measure a Planet?' mixed up in your memory. That's the only way this could make sense. You really should go back and listen to 'Mandylion' and NB. They're basically the same album. Ok, NB has 'Shrink' and 'The May Song', a...

I don't think so, so it's funny that people have actually been discussing that as something that might happen. It would be interesting to see this actual email to understand what was meant by "offering downloads". The closest thing I can think of is metalhit.com. They've long been a digital...

Good post, I agree with most of it. Maybe you're right and the Taylor Swift pressure will be the thing that finally leads Spotify to close off the free tier in the US (which they closed off forever ago almost anywhere else). Presumably they just haven't had enough pressure until now to start...

Pre-Internet, the maximum per-album-sale revenue an artist could expect to receive was $1. Today, for a $10 album on Bandcamp, he can receive $8.50. An increase of 850%. Meanwhile industry revenue has dropped only 50% from its absolute peak (and more like 20% from its 40-year average). It seems...

Agreed, it's only a rip-off if the CD sucks! With industry revenue down from the peak, and with piracy probably having some role in that, *someone* must be making less money (btw how did that anomalous peak become the standard anyway?!) But a lot of those "someones" are surely truck-drivers...

Eh, I don't think it's that new of a thing. Fifteen years ago, during the Napster debates, how many times did we hear music fans complaining about being "forced to pay $17 for a CD with two good songs and a load of filler"? I dunno, maybe both? First, while industry revenue is down from its...