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Kris

[EphelDuath666]

just ordered

Red Harvest - There´s Beauty in the Purity of Sadness
Red Harvest - Apocalyptic Skull shirt
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

I hope the Red Harvest stuff will be available.

just ordered

Red Harvest - There´s Beauty in the Purity of Sadness
Red Harvest - Apocalyptic Skull shirt
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

I hope the Red Harvest stuff will be available.

That Dilinger album is awesome

just ordered

Red Harvest - There´s Beauty in the Purity of Sadness
Red Harvest - Apocalyptic Skull shirt
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

I hope the Red Harvest stuff will be available.

I had to order my 'There's Beauty...' from a specialist CD store...

"Apocalyptic skull" t-shirt is just the album artwork from what I remember.
I have the other one (the one with the Apocalyptic hazard sign)

[EphelDuath666]

yeah, the Apocalyptic Skull shirt has the Sick Transit.. cover on it but I love that. It´s simple but looks really cool. I might order the other one too if ordering the Skull shirt works. My merch dealer orders stuff from the US and that US dude also gets stuff from plastichead so I´m crossing my fingers that everything works but I´m confident.

MY DYING BRIDE - Turn Loose The Swans
MY DYING BRIDE - Like Gods Of The Sun
MY DYING BRIDE - 34.788%... Complete

Turn loose the swans makes me get this creepy glazed over look in my eyes and I get that invincible evil feeling.... dunno why, lol

Chuck Schuldiner - Zero Tolerance I & II

Got some new dvds:

Dr. Strangelove
Spider
One eyed jacks
Straw dogs
Mulholland dr. (Man, what an awesome movie..Blows me away every time)

Turn loose the swans makes me get this creepy glazed over look in my eyes and I get that invincible evil feeling.... dunno why, lol

I bought it and swapped it for something else less than 24 hours later. Each to their own.

newest addition to my collection:
Vader - Sothis (inc. neat Black Sabbath cover)

Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
Nightwish - Once
The Crown - Hell is Here
Zyklon - World ov Worms
Borknagar - Epic
Dissection - The Somberlain
Peccatum - Amor Fati
As I Lay Dying - Frail Worlds Collapse
Clutch - The Elephant Riders

in your opinion does Borknagar generally do things better than Lunaris or vice versa?

To be honest, I heard 'Empiricism' the other day and in comparison to 'Cyclic' - i know they came out at different times - but IMO 'Cyclic' manages the effect (whatever that might be) in a more... i can't think of the word but it's got more pinache for me than 'Empiricism'.
Plus Borknagar's relatively constant switching between black and clean vocals is slightly annoying, especially considering it tends to focus too much on the clean vocals for my liking.

Need I check out more Borknagar?

Plus Borknagar's relatively constant switching between black and clean vocals is slightly annoying, especially considering it tends to focus too much on the clean vocals for my liking.

The glass is half full, the glass is half empty.

Hey, I've come up with a great answer when some-one asks you about half empty/full glasses...

*clears throat*

"The transparent silica-based receptacle is at 50% capacity".







Then tell them to fuck off.

I picked up the new DEP the other day. Eh.

Also picked up The Forsaken - Traces of the Past. Fucking awesome album. If you like death metal, especially the fast, brutal and technical kind then you should check it out.

in your opinion does Borknagar generally do things better than Lunaris or vice versa?

To be honest, I heard 'Empiricism' the other day and in comparison to 'Cyclic' - i know they came out at different times - but IMO 'Cyclic' manages the effect (whatever that might be) in a more... i can't think of the word but it's got more pinache for me than 'Empiricism'.
Plus Borknagar's relatively constant switching between black and clean vocals is slightly annoying, especially considering it tends to focus too much on the clean vocals for my liking.

Need I check out more Borknagar?

I've never heard Lunaris, but here's my two cents on Borknagar....

They're currently on their third vocalist (Garm/Trickster G was on the first two albums, ICS Vortex on the next two, and Vintersorg on the most recent two), so if you don't like the vocals on Empiricism, check out any of the 4 albums prior to it. I'd recommend The Archaic Course, as it's my favorite, but since you say you're not a fan of the clean vocals, you may want to avoid it, as Vortex does more singing than anything. If you're looking for a rougher, "blacker" album, you'd do well to check out their self titled, I'm pretty sure it's all grim vocals, and in Norweigian, too. They changed a lot over the course of 6 albums, so ultimately, I'd recommend checking out their back catalogue.

I'd rank the albums as follows, from favorite to least favorite (with vocalist in parentheses):

Archaic Course (Vortex)
Empiricism (Vintersorg)
Self-Titled (Garm)
Epic (Vintersorg)/Olden Domain (Garm)
Quintessence (Vortex)

....but I understand that Epic is an album that grows on you, and I haven't given Olden Domain very many listens....