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As far as I am concerned and if Evil Dead has taught me anything my "boom-stick," would be the best way to take out zombies. Or I would have an automatic machine gun with a lot of ammo, or a rifle that takes a 454 round, basically a rifle round that can take out an elephant. Other then that I would find just sitting from atop a building and shooting zombies would be fun.

Yes, once again Boris has many genres and for the most part Boris are excellent. Anyways the best Japanese Rock Band that I have found to exist is The Flower Travellin' Band which is a mix of King Crimson and Black Sabbath with over the top vocals. They are noted as the band who covered Black Sabbath first with their own version of Black Sabbath. An album to look for by them is Satori. If you like King Crimson or Black Sabbath check them out you will not be disappointed.

[QUOTE=Kam]You guys are all so ridiculous. It's music. How can it be given a 'bad name'? Wintersun is good. But they're not really that big of a deal. My guitar player, DJ, is 18 and can play that stuff. -Justin[/QUOTE]Ridiculous? I fail to see how, anything can give something a bad name if it has been done badly enough. Opinion or not, within in opinion there is fact and people miss that. Also what does it matter if someone can play the same music Wintersun creates? I think people tend to forget that music is not just about the way the song is played alone but the atmosphere that is created in the mean time. If these two factors can compliment each other then you have something amazing. Just being able to play the music does not mean that you will be able to give the same feelings as the original. I mean this for every band that plays music and covers songs obviously, especially for the professionals who play Classical music and try to emulate what Beethoven really wanted to hear, as an example artist.

[QUOTE=2006DigitalBoy][COLOR=DarkOrange]Oh, I'm sorry to have insulted you with my ignorant, Avenged Sevenfold-listening-to ness. Excuse me for intruding on your matal-ness [/sarcasm] Wait, are you trying to insult Dragonforce?![/COLOR][/QUOTE]Who said I was insulted... all I am saying is Dragonforce is one of those bands that give metal a bad name, particularly power metal. I never took offense to it, I was just warning you if you ever decided to post in a metal forum.

[quote name='2006DigitalBoy][COLOR=DarkOrange']Dang, those guys are like Dragonforce fast![/COLOR][/quote]Most Metal-Heads that remotely understand the metal genre would take that as an incredible insult. Anyways, Wintersun while great is not incredibly, incredibly amazing. Their debut album is excellent but some of the songs just get a little to long, if they were to do more songs like their first two songs on their debut album they would have it made.

[quote name='RiflesAtRecess][font=arial][size=1]Just so we're clear, because Jake isn't, Opeth are a brutal metal band with a lot of pretty singing. They're pretty popular, and they deserve all the attention. They're just [i]that good.[/i][/font'][/size][/quote]This is what we call Extreme Progressive Metal. As far as I am concerned though, this band is boring and their attention is unfounded, I would rather listen to Progressive Death Metal like Disillusion and the likes over Opeth. They barely meet any standards of musical genius as far as I am concerned. Even when I was younger and just getting into metal I never ever understood what was so amazing about Opeth and I had listened to every album by them.

I will have to bring the opposite side of the spectrum to this discussion. I only really enjoyed Borat a little bit. While I found the movie very amusing in many parts I never found it to be laugh out loud funny. I snickered at certain scenes and yet I was not incredibly captivated to watch the movie all the way through when I myself found the movie was really slowing down. I just have not been a big fan of Sacha Baron Cohen's work and it seems he likes to get his laughs through controversy rather then being just plain funny. The one part I enjoyed highly though was [spoiler]when he was speaking to the American audience at the rodeo saying things like ?I hope George Bush drinks the blood of every man, women and child in Iraq,? and still people were cheering.[/spoiler] Which no doubt is controversial, it is still funny.

Yes quite seriously he is talking about Norse Nazis. But I agree with DeadSeraphim about getting a blog and I have no problem with NSBM bands, as supporting them wont lead to anything anyways. Plus I download their music so I only support them in listening to their music I suppose, but I do not care for the lyrics. I mean Kroda is amazing as far as musical talent goes, so is Graveland and Burzum, their beliefs do not stop me from listening to the music they create. But you will find many, many bands like that Jake so do not be surprised.

[quote name='2006DigitalBoy][COLOR=DarkOrange']Returning to Agalloch, which CD do you guys reccomend the most?[/COLOR][/quote]The Mantle, no questions about it.

[QUOTE=2006DigitalBoy][COLOR=DarkOrange]I listened to Odal and now I think I'm gunna buy The Mantle next time I have money. Once again, they remind me of Isis with their heavy focus on music and repetition, with a mellow, yet heavy and epic feel. And now, listening to As Embers Dress The Sky, I see that they have some kick-*** riffs in there as well, and I like the singer voice. Once again I would compare it to Isis in the way that it is striking, but very buried by the music. I'd definitelly clarify this band as worth looking into not only for fans of epic, dark metal, but for fans of sound-filled beauties. Also, you guys should check out Isis. PS: XD they got the opera lady singing[/COLOR][/QUOTE]Way ahead of you been listening to Isis for a few years myself. Their newest releases is excellent as well, have you heard it?

Yes, this is completely agreeable. I love Agalloch, I have been listening to them for at least three or four years now and I absolutely love The Mantle. The Mantle has stayed on my top ten list as one of the best albums in music, let alone metal, for quite some time. Other then that I bought The Mantle while in London, England and I doubt I will ever regret it. All I need to say is if you are a lover of metal music or not, the albums this band creates are excellent so pick them up. Oh by the way Jake, what are your favorite songs of Pale Folklore, The Mantle, and Ashes Against the Grain? From Pale Folklore I really enjoyed the trilogy song She Painted Fire Across the Skyline. From The Mantle I enjoyed most In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion and ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth. From Ashes Against the Grain I enjoyed most the songs Fire Above, Ice Below and Limbs.

In my own personal opinion this CD is their wekeast effort, while not bad, I would rather listen to any CD before With Oden on our Sides. Especially, Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds and Once Sent from the Golden Hall. The CD is good, but the Gotheburg Death Metal styling is loosing its appeal.

[QUOTE=Boo][size=1]First of all: I have listened to this type of music. And I'm not judging the song, I'm judging the way it's mixed. Second: You brought up that the soft part is part of the genre, not me. Now you mention that the mixing is just bad because the band is just starting. Make up your mind.[/size][/QUOTE]It is part mixing is bad, but it is part genre style as well.

[QUOTE=Boo][size=1]Everyone uses their vocals as an instrument dammit, but he does it in a controlled way. He doesn't let the guitar overpower his voice. He sings in harmony with it. Let the instrument part rest, every good artist uses his or her voice as part of the song. But the vocals of this song are just mixed too soft to sound right. They don't sound like part of the song, but like a seperate element that's been stuffed somewhere deep within the song. If that's the point of this genre of music, the genre stinks. Singing in harmony with the music (as if you use your voice as an instrument) is not the same as just recording your vocals and make it so soft that it gets overpowered. Don't be so ignorant. *leaves the thread*[/size][/QUOTE]I am not being ignorant and you seem to be the one who is over reacting. You have not listened to this type of music, so how can you even judge what is good or bad? How can you judge something you do not know anything about? Beyond that I am not trying to insult you or anything, I mean of course Jake has a long ways to go with equalizing all parts of the music, but for a demo track, or even second track ever produced it is not half bad. There are much better examples of this out there, but of course these other bands having being doing it for a much longer time. No offence to you Jake, I know you understand what I am saying.

[QUOTE=Boo][size=1]The way the vocals are mixed in the song, they are just overpowered by every other instrument. They just fall away in the rest of the song. What made you think I meant 'too low'?[/size][/QUOTE]You literally said "too soft a vocal recording," and the definition that you just gave me now is exactly what I meant. They are supposed to fall away into the rest of the song, many metal bands do it and some do it amazing well especially Velvet Cacoon's Genevieve album. That is the purest definition of using your vocals as an instrument, and making it sound like an instrument. Of course David Gilmour uses his vocals as an instrument on Pink Floyd's track Wish You Were Here.