Controversial opinions on metal

[MrTagoMago]

Yeah, i think Altars won "Best DM album of all time" in one of our threads from a little while ago.

Covenant was one of the first DM albums i purchased back in the day and def one of the most popular death metal albums from back then.

Yeah Altars tends to have more reviews and ratings on the sites I've visited. I just found it funny that Covenant was their most successful when I've never heard much mention of it.

While we're on the subject ID still probably go with Symphonies of Sickness as the best DM album not counting demos and comps.

 

[Phylactery]

Illud Divinum Insanus is obviously the next evolutionary step in death metal and clearly their most artistically realised piece. Who could forget such compositions as "Too Extreme!" and "Radikult"

 

[MrTagoMago]

Illud Divinum Insanus is obviously the next evolutionary step in death metal and clearly their most artistically realised piece. Who could forget such compositions as "Too Extreme!" and "Radikult"

It's the Lulu of Death metal.

 

[MrTagoMago]

I often wonder if these guys would have become legends in the death metal genre had they released an album back in 84 or 85.

 

[Internally Deformed]

Should I feel guilty that I kind of like this?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I often wonder if these guys would have become legends in the death metal genre had they released an album back in 84 or 85.

Well they probably would have, considering there were no death metal albums in 84 and that would have made them one of the pioneers of the genre.

 

[MrTagoMago]

Well they probably would have, considering there were no death metal albums in 84 and that would have made them one of the pioneers of the genre.

Well all those songs were originally recorded around 84 and 85. I figure if they released an album in 85 they mighve been bigger than Possessed.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

*Beavis*

How dare you misspell the name of the almighty Cornholio!

 

[ProphetofHatred]

The new Opeth track sounds like it was written by 13 year olds, boring as hell.

 

[MrTagoMago]

The new Opeth track sounds like it was written by 13 year olds, boring as hell.

Opeth has always been boring to me.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Explain to me how it can be legally required for an ISP to notify you that you're committing copyright infringement if you're downloading music or other copyrighted media and yet you can try to claim that it is not a form of copyright infringement. Please tell me how this is possible.

You lost the argument already. It's over.

Downloading music for personal use is not the only thing an ISP can notice. For example, seeding a torrent from which a thousand other people download.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Still Life fuckin' rules.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Is this you being autistically literal, or are you making the marginally less stupid observation that you're fine with your music collection the size it already is?

Either way, not everyone has two flat screen TV's, and not everyone is fine with listening to the same 10 or 12 trad metal bands over and over aud nauseum.

Being autistically literal is what she does.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Still Life is pretty nice. Has a few songs I really like. For some reason I prefer the more acoustic and dark proggy stuff on their metal albums, but when they do a full non-metal album it bores me.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

Downloading music for personal use is not the only thing an ISP can notice. For example, seeding a torrent from which a thousand other people download.

Yes, I know. When did I ever say that they wouldn't do it for more than just downloading music?

They will still send you a notice for downloading music as outlined in the law that I described and the article that I linked, because it is copyright infringement according to the law. You have yet to explain how this is wrong.

If you can't do so, I don't need to discuss it further because I've already demonstrated that it's a legal requirement and part of Canadian copyright laws. They used to be more lax than they are now.

 

[Internally Deformed]

The new Opeth track sounds like it was written by 13 year olds, boring as hell.

I have to admit that it didn't really grip me, but it took me a few listens for their last two albums to sink in too. They also tend to put their less interesting tracks forward for radio play/music videos (Porcelain Heart was probably the least inspired track on Watersed), so I'm still holding out hope. The guitar tone on the new song was a definite improvement, too.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I never said they wouldn't do it for more than just downloading music. I'm looking for evidence that simply downloading is sufficient to constitute meaningful infringement. Per the section of the law you cited...

No statutory damages

(3) The owner of the copyright in a work, a performer’s performance fixed in a sound recording or a sound recording in respect of which paragraph (1)(a) has been contravened may not elect under section 38.1 to recover statutory damages from an individual who contravened that paragraph only for his or her own private purposes.

Even if a downloader receives a notification that they are infringing upon copyright, and you haven't demonstrated that yet, it doesn't mean it constitutes theft. Simply burning multiple backup copies of a CD you own can potentially be copyright infringement, but if no one enforces that law it doesn't particularly mean anything.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

Canada law regarding copyright infringement for music recordings exempts personal copies made for your own personal use from a CD or other media that you own.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

I have to admit that it didn't really grip me, but it took me a few listens for their last two albums to sink in too. They also tend to put their less interesting tracks forward for radio play/music videos (Porcelain Heart was probably the least inspired track on Watersed), so I'm still holding out hope. The guitar tone on the new song was a definite improvement, too.

The guitars sound like shit honestly. Flubby and sloppy but I guess that's what they're going for.

 

[Internally Deformed]

The guitars sound like shit honestly. Flubby and sloppy but I guess that's what they're going for.

Are you one of those people who just hates everything Opeth has produced post-Ghost Reveries, or is it this track in particular you take issue with?