viewerfromnihil
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I'm thinking that he (PP) is Indiana Jones and Krampus is the cute Asian sidekick. I haven't watched the movies, so I don't know the character name that she is.
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I'm thinking that he (PP) is Indiana Jones and Krampus is the cute Asian sidekick. I haven't watched the movies, so I don't know the character name that she is.
Master_Yoda77
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My retarded friends think that Amon Amarth is amazing and shit so they love it already. Nothing by Amon Amarth is amazing, but some tracks on "Twilight of the Thunder God" are fun to blast while drunk. They are just pop metal tbh.
viewerfromnihil
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Amon Amarth was one of the first metal bands I got into, so I'm a bit biased, but they have some awesome highlights from each album, like "Victorious March" or "Death in Fire."
edit: I'll concede that they're "pop metal," but what metal isn't pop music? Mind you, the rawest and truest to its form metal is very good, but I still consider it pop music.
edit: I'll concede that they're "pop metal," but what metal isn't pop music? Mind you, the rawest and truest to its form metal is very good, but I still consider it pop music.
His "Photos/Videos of Yourself at Concerts" thread pretty much settled that
Leave the guy alone already.
Onder
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I listened to one song and it was so predictable I turned it off after while. No surprises indeed.
Versus The World is a great album IMO.
For me the shittiest part of their new songs is the fucking choruses. There might not be any new interesting riffs either, but fuck, those "hit" choruses.
whiskey funeral
Mother North
Please. All I said is that he's a faggot. It's not like I'm chasing after the guy from thread to thread throwing insults.
Also, Amon Amarth has to be one of the most boring metal bands of all time.
Dak
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UltimateApathy
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And I am sure to be soooooo insulted by your brooooootal raging homophobia, right?
Try to use some originality next time you attempt to insult someone, if your feeble little mind can even manage to conjure up such a thing
UltimateApathy
Infinite Idiocy
Oh, and Limp Bizkit and Korn are are "pop metal", not this:
Anyone who says otherwise needs to go back to troll school...
Anyone who says otherwise needs to go back to troll school...
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Einherjar86
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I'm fucking loving this album. I get the comparisons to Summoning, but I actually hear more of the Draugnim/Imperium Dekadenz thing going on.
I couldn't finish the second book. It reads like a video game; not really my cup of tea.
The only decent fantasy author out there anymore, in my opinion, is R. Scott Bakker.
Dak
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Einherjar86
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I remember talking with you about him, but everything that I've read (a short story set in the Riftwar universe, and some of Magician) just strikes me as hackneyed and tired. It's all the same epic fantasy; imbued with a superficial violence and maturity that masks a juvenile core. I'm even starting to think this way about George R.R. Martin, and it's how I responded to the Malazan books as well.
Bakker is the only current fantasy author (whom I've read) that has continually convinced me that his texts, his philosophy, and his work in general, is intellectually mature and genuinely violent (i.e. its violence isn't there for effect, it's there because it communicates something about the ideas in the novels themselves). When I read Bakker, I'm overwhelmed by the profound feeling that my existence is fragile and that death not only hems in from all sides, but is actually a part of me. They're purposefully and authentically apocalyptic texts, and the pain in them is palpable, not merely theatrical.
Bakker is the only current fantasy author (whom I've read) that has continually convinced me that his texts, his philosophy, and his work in general, is intellectually mature and genuinely violent (i.e. its violence isn't there for effect, it's there because it communicates something about the ideas in the novels themselves). When I read Bakker, I'm overwhelmed by the profound feeling that my existence is fragile and that death not only hems in from all sides, but is actually a part of me. They're purposefully and authentically apocalyptic texts, and the pain in them is palpable, not merely theatrical.
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monoxide_child
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same here
uugghh
the first cop to see trayvon's corpse was actually responding to a 9-1-1 call that was actually made before the one single gunshot and Zimmerman made no attempt at all to resist arrest, and Zimmerman was covered in open cuts that were photographed at the scene before he got into the cop car
if they'd been the same race as each other, it would have been a totally open-and-shut self-defense thing with absolutely no media attention at all whatsoever
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am i the only one totally freaked out by the fact that Casey Anthony is pregnant again??
http://www.google.com/#output=searc...89,d.eWU&fp=8074dc2ac00ae81c&biw=1280&bih=827
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Their earlier stuff is a lot better. Still pretty catchy, but you can easily draw the line from stuff like Entombed and Dismember to albums like Once Sent or The Crusher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3U7d-D2n4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwUHlwE1L4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAp64nGjZK8
Around Versus The World there was a pretty distinct shift in their songwriting style, where the song structures became more formulaic and hook-oriented. Versus was still an excellent album, and I'm also quite fond of With Oden on Our Side (the drumming is phenomenal) but there's a pretty distinct gradual stripping out of the death metal elements of their sound. Their last three are the albums that really bug me...some pretty catchy songs, but it's all so trite and polished.
Blood Eagle was cool. That's about it. There were one or two others in the second half that I thought were pretty decent, but I honestly can't remember any of it.
Dak
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Fantasy itself is juvenile and somewhat hackneyed. Magic and dragons? Martin manages to try and keep it as real as possible without completely abandoning the magic and dragons, especially in abandoning typical fanatasy themes of stark black and white, Archetypal Good vs Archetypal Evil.
I appreciate an author's ability to world build (especially if it spans multiple generations), even if the events occur in a somewhat predictable and/or juvenile way. It's the reading/interest level of the majority of the potential audience.
Interesting.
Eligos
Problem Yet to be Solved
I know that metal is still novel to you and all, and that you find the upperground stuff fresh and exciting. That doesn't change the fact that most melodeath and symphonic black metal bands are pop metal. Opeth and Mastodon are pop metal as well. Meshuggah and any Djent band are also pop metal.
Any band that can fill an arena is popular.
Einherjar86
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I think it depends on how one contextualizes magic and dragons, and how they're manipulated representationally. Magic as a metaphor for technology, for example, deserves more merit.
Martin's bald relativism actually wears on my nerves. Sure, he subverts our expectations of good and evil, but it goes no further than that. Bakker, on the other hand, presents a series of very specific conceptual binaries and plays these against each other. He's been called a misogynist, but the accusation is misplaced; his texts are, without a doubt misogynistic, but most fantasy series (of the "high" or "epic" variety) are. Bakker openly admits the misogyny of his texts; in fact, he claims that his books present a world where women are actually, objectively, inferior to men. So now we have to question what exactly the role of fantasy is in this regard (beyond its use as a literary mode); Bakker's admission of textual misogyny means that it is presented as a fantasy, but he forces us to acknowledge it as a fantasy.
The "bad guys" in Bakker's novels are creatures that literally thrive on the torment of others. Their existence is rape and torture. So Bakker introduces an ethical dimension into his texts by exploring the issues of pleasure, pain, and how pain is translated as pleasure, and vice versa. His books are full of episodes that play out such dilemmas.
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