Non-gay bro thread a.k.a. Random offtopic stuff.

[DE4life]

I didn't realise Fellowship had released a new single.



You can tell from the first 27 seconds that they're going in a bit of a different direction with this one. I was instantly hooked, but it appeals to my tastes of power metal with a sugar overload. They seem to have scaled back from the epic, traditional PM of the first album and gone in a slightly more pop-metal direction. The classic Fellowship elements from the first album are still there, but it's definitely different. Still maintaining that upbeat, high energy vibe that I always appreciate though. Matt Corry is also an absolutely incredible singer and his voice is just awesome. The chorus is a huge earworm, feels like they've been studying some Beast in Black. Sick guitar work at the 3/4 point as well, as you'd expect from Fellowship.

Anyway, yeah, I love it. My personal hype level for their new album pretty much shot through the roof after hearing this. Fortunately November 22nd isn't too far away. I rarely get excited for new releases from bands whose album(s) I've loved previously, as I'm been disappointed too often in the past, but I don't think these lads are going to let me down.

 

[DE4life]

I had also forgotten that Dragony's new album had come out on October 11th. Just gave it a listen through and it's certainly a departure from
Viribus Unitis, which I was pretty enamored with when I first heard it in 2021. Hic Svnt Dracones is much more in the traditional Power Metal vein. It actually reminds me quite a lot of Freedom Call, which isn't a bad thing. At first I wasn't sure about the album, but after getting to the end I actually really like it.

Funnily enough, my favourite song is probably the bonus track:



Albion Online is some kind of online MMORPG, which I know nothing about, but I love this track regardless.

Dragon of the Sea is also one I'm enjoying a lot. Really cool guitarwork on this one.

 

[Xpyro125]

I was going to ask if anyone here ever listened to Sacrilege or not, but I found that Krofius of all people is the one who uploaded their ‘96 demo. Nice. In any case, you guys should check them out, I’ve loved Feed the Cold for a long time, it really made me wish we could’ve gotten some of Svensson’s vocals on Colony (Or better yet, Clayman).

 

[ThePhobiac]

Sacrilege is incomparable. The Fifth Season is my favorite melodic death metal album of all time.

 

[DE4life]

Yeah the general consensus on here when Sacrilege have been discussed previously is that they were great, it's just a shame they only released two albums. From memory Daniel did talk about releasing more Sacrilege stuff in the mid-2000s, but sadly it never happened.

 

[DE4life]

Crazy to see the US decisively voting against democracy. Becoming a fascist pro-Russian state ruled by a dictator. A dark timeline.

Wonder how Schaffer is feeling now.

 

[Xpyro125]

Crazy to see the US decisively voting against democracy. Becoming a fascist pro-Russian state ruled by a dictator. A dark timeline.

Wonder how Schaffer is feeling now.

We’re genuinely getting the worst case scenario right now— It’s not even just about to be a Trump victory, the Senate is majority red, the governors are majority red, the House is looking like it’s going to end up being majority red, all while the Supreme Court is majority red. Republicans are likely to have total power. I won’t lie, I’m terrified for these next four years. I’ve always believed that one party shouldn’t have total power, but especially the Republicans in this day and age after restricting and striking down rights, especially after Trump advocated to use military force on ‘the enemy from within’, referring to radical left American citizens? We’re in for a rough road ahead, and that is the understatement of a lifetime. Not to mention, abortion rights and recreational marijuana both failed to pass in my state. I don’t necessarily agree with abortion from a moral standpoint, but I also know that it doesn’t matter what I believe— No American should go without the right to choose, especially if it’s parents-to-be who know they just aren’t suitable to be parents. Logistically speaking, any sort of abortion ban or restriction is fucking ridiculous. We’re supposed to be the land of freedom, and just being completely honest, that is not looking like it’s in the cards whatsoever.

I should also state that I don’t like Harris nor the Democrats either, but Trump is a whole different level of deranged and unhinged, and he should not be our president. I’m desperately hoping that at the very least, Democrats win the House simply so that one party does not have unmitigated power.

 

[The Grayfox]

The House isn't looking good either. It's fucked. It's quite literally worst case scenario. It's embarrassing, quite frankly. Harris' problem was that she ran on the abortion issue and that was it. Not enough people care. I care. I have daughters. I believe it should be a woman's right to choose. Now it feels like none of us are going to have the right to choose... well, anything. Dark days, my friends. American citizens better hope Trump was full of shit, because if he wasn't, we're in serious trouble come next year. Think about the things he's promising to do for a minute. Just sit and actually think. And then think that he'll have the Senate and the House behind him, leaving him essentially unchecked. If people thought his first term was bad, it will prove to be NOTHING compared to how this is going to go. He is unhinged, mentally unwell and a complete clusterfuck of a human being. And what do you do with people like that? Why, you put him in charge of a superpower, of course. Un-fucking-believable.

 

[eochaid]

Crazy to see the US decisively voting against democracy. Becoming a fascist pro-Russian state ruled by a dictator. A dark timeline.

Wonder how Schaffer is feeling now.

It's the same direction that we, Europeans, are taking.

 

[DE4life]

It's the same direction that we, Europeans, are taking.

Technically the UK actually voted in a (slightly) more progressive government, although that was really only because the Tories massively imploded and basically became literally too incompetent to function. If they had remained remotely viable I have no doubt they would have stayed in power pretty much forever. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if they are back in power by the next election.

Europe as a whole, yes, massive swing towards right wing fascism. A huge, glowing neon sign of desperation and societal collapse, unfortunately. Finland voted in a right wing government and people there now seem to be surprised this government is targeting the poor whilst giving to the rich. It's like, what did you think a right wing government was going to do?

 

[eochaid]

Take a look at Spain. They say that we're under a communist government while it's just moderate right. In the meantime, most of the regions and cities are ruled by the right with the alt-right. And it's funny to even write that because the alt-right is just a fork of the right and the right are the heirs of the previous fascist dictator. So there's no real difference between the both of them.

Now, the self called leftists, our moderate right government, will do nothing for four years and, when the time comes to vote again, they will ask for our votes with the threat of the fascists arriving to power. But, who's going to listen to them when everything that they do is right wing politics and empty speeches?

The people is tired of the pretended left doing nothing. And so, I blame them for everything that is going to happen or that is happening right now.

 

[drawntoblack]

I really wish we kept politics out of this forum.

 

[eochaid]

And, let me be honest, with the prices for basic needs, housing included, constantly increasing, to a point where living is becoming a struggle, no one is going to care about the rights for immigrants and minorities. I care but reality is stubborn and people just want to have a ceiling above their heads and food on their tables. And this is becoming more and more difficult due to the inefficacy of our governments. And we leftists have more criticism with our representatives and are less willing to forgive them is they betray us, as they are doing.

 

[DE4life]

I really wish we kept politics out of this forum.

I mean, generally we do? I don't think a handful of posts based on one of the most historic election results in recent history is especially egregious.

 

[DE4life]

The House isn't looking good either. It's fucked. It's quite literally worst case scenario. It's embarrassing, quite frankly. Harris' problem was that she ran on the abortion issue and that was it. Not enough people care. I care. I have daughters. I believe it should be a woman's right to choose. Now it feels like none of us are going to have the right to choose... well, anything. Dark days, my friends. American citizens better hope Trump was full of shit, because if he wasn't, we're in serious trouble come next year. Think about the things he's promising to do for a minute. Just sit and actually think. And then think that he'll have the Senate and the House behind him, leaving him essentially unchecked. If people thought his first term was bad, it will prove to be NOTHING compared to how this is going to go. He is unhinged, mentally unwell and a complete clusterfuck of a human being. And what do you do with people like that? Why, you put him in charge of a superpower, of course. Un-fucking-believable.

I think the other problem Harris had (if we assume her being a black woman was not a problem for US voters) was that she was too closely tied to the current Democrat administration, which has been polling with record low approval ratings. Probably the Dems needed someone quite detached from the current administration, rather than the Vice President. I like Kamala but I don't think she had the latitude to really establish who she is and why things would be different under her.

What the polls show is that ultimately many Dem voters from 2020 simply did not vote this time. There wasn't some huge switch to Trump - he's actually going to score less overall votes than in the last election - it's simply that prior Democrat voters did not turn out for Harris. I can only take this as those voters being disenchanted with the current administration and feeling Harris is too close to that administration to vote for her - but also not being comfortable voting for Trump.

Overall voter turnaround in the 2020 election (according to wiki) was 155, 507, 476. With a handful of results left to come in, this year (according to the BBC) it's 137, 128, 248. That'll go up a little more but the drop is still noticeable, and the missing voters are largely on the Democrat side.

 

[eochaid]

Having in mind that the democrats have proven to be a slightly less negative version of Trump, there's no wonder that absolutely not one sane person has bought the take that Harris is a dangerous socialist. And people are tired of being lied to. Well, republicans aren't. I meant reasonable intelligent people.

 

[drawntoblack]

I mean, generally we do? I don't think a handful of posts based on one of the most historic election results in recent history is especially egregious.

This is probably one of the few places where you can discuss In Flames and melodic death metal in ridiculously nerdy detail. On the other hand the politics talk is literally everywhere, every subreddit, every news site, every other forum you can think of.

There's only 10 people here in total, it would be pretty dumb to get in arguments over Trump, and rest assured that's exactly what's going to happen.

 

[eochaid]

I'm mainly in three places right now. Here. A discord server where talk about politics is banned and twitter, Now, unless there's a rule that bans the talks about politics here, everyone should be allowed to talk about any matter that they want. There's been some religious talk here and no one complained about it. There's been a lot of unnecessary fights and insults over IF here and no one complained about that. Not reading political comments is also an option.

 

[DE4life]

This is probably one of the few places where you can discuss In Flames and melodic death metal in ridiculously nerdy detail. On the other hand the politics talk is literally everywhere, every subreddit, every news site, every other forum you can think of.

There's only 10 people here in total, it would be pretty dumb to get in arguments over Trump, and rest assured that's exactly what's going to happen.

I don't imagine the politics talk is going to spread to the mostly dormant IF thread. It's pretty much confined to this off topic thread, where it should be. Could open a politics thread, but it gets talked about so infrequently on here that I don't really think it's necessary. It's not like this forum is a hive of activity to begin with, as it's mainly just me, Grayfox, Eochaid and Xpyro posting with any regularity.

Last time Trump won in 2016 we talked about it and there were no arguments, mainly because I don't think there are any MAGA supporters on here. Slave and Krofius mainly liked Trump just to be edgelords, not because they actually thought he was in any way a worthwhile leader or human being. To my knowledge there are no Trump supporters here so I think the prospect of there being any arguments between all 4 or 5 of us that regularly post are pretty miniscule, honestly.

 

[eochaid]

After all the arguments that we have had regarding IF, or related to IF, any strong argument regarding politics would be like a tea party.