Having fun with Nergal off stage:
https://scontent.fewr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/48408358_1978857618850126_5488018629968527360_o.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-3.fna&oh=ae81a714aa3a3d1052585be5a07e99e9&oe=5C9F7DE7
My management team today received this email below from Ben Umanov and Matt Rosenberg @ Metal Sucks. •What we have here is a media outlet trying to create a controversial story in order to get clicks by whatever means they can. In this case they are trying to interpret comments, posts, photos and even t-shirts to paint me as something I’m not. For profit. They wanted me to give them a quote for their story to tell my side of things. But, I don’t feel compelled to help them with their news business. Instead, I will address the issues that they imply with my own statement in my own words direct to those who care to read it. •First I will say this - I am my own person and am against any form of racism, fascism, discrimination or hate. As many of you know, I say a lot of crazy stuff, but I am prejudice against no human-being. I’m a controversial character, I’ll admit it…it’s part of me and sometimes I like to stir things up on purpose. When will I learn? Likely never. But, the simple fact is, I am an open-minded, loving, loyal person. •Rob Darken - I took some photos recently backstage in Poland after a Behemoth show with Rob from Graveland, a buddy and fellow Pole. I have known Rob for many years since 1992 and we hang out sometimes in Wroclaw. He did some recordings on our first and second demo tapes. He also has a photo published in my book “Confessions Of A Heretic”. Rob and I share a love of black metal and its rich history. But aside from that, I don’t condone Rob’s personal ideals and agenda because I don’t know them. I can’t take responsibility for every person I take a photo with. •Bölzer - We’re friends and we’ve toured several times. I don’t have to say much more myself about Okoi and Bolzer other than what Okoi says himself - go to Bölzer’s page for more! •Eugenics – I have little knowledge and no interest in the subject. I made a comment about my countrymen not being suited to play football. It’s true, the post was removed, but I reposted moments later (still there) with an image more appropriate to the text as the previous was misconstrued. Story of my life!
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
seems legit, sorry 2 bother u Nergal
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
It's a very old discussion but I don't think Okoi is a racist. He got shit for a tattoo, his explanations showing massive naivety but not intolerance.
Honestly the pictures of him and his dad in his Facebook post on the subject were adorable and makes me think he dad was pretty cool (and definitely not white).
https://www.facebook.com/erosatarms/posts/it-is-disgusting-totally-infuriating-and-frankly-embarassing-the-lengths-some-pe/1637456716287584/
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 21 December 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
He did manage to be a total dick to the organisers of the small Swiss festival where I saw Bölzer play a couple years ago.
And yes that is a completely separate issue, I know.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 22 December 2018 00:10 (five years ago) link
I concur with the Bolzer issue. I know people who know people who know Okoi, and they vouch for him being not a racist, so I take them at their word. My own opinion is that Bolzer are edgelord bullshitters who don't take too well to being called out on such.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 22 December 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
I forgot about Striker, cuz I haven't managed to find a digital dl to buy yet. Road Warrior's grown on me too, in the heavy metal list:
05. Striker – Play To Win12. Road Warrior – Power
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 22 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
Ironflame - Tales Of Splendor And Sorrow: Second album from Brimstone Coven's Andrew D'Cagna. Some songs address Greco-Roman mythology, and closer "Our Great Defender" is an allegorical tribute to DIO!https://tribunalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tales-of-splendor-and-sorrow
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 23 December 2018 01:55 (five years ago) link
For those who are interested my top (mostly) albums of the year.http://www.invisibleoranges.com/brian-oneills-top-albums-of-2018
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
New Swallow the Sun EP, along with a video about the majesty of winter and shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6mgM7szaWY
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
Favorite movie over the holiday weekend: Heavy Trip, the epic tale of Finland’s greatest symphonic post apocalyptic reindeer-grinding-Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal band, Impaled Rektum. Bottoms up to Jynkky in Valhalla! Also watched completely bonkers horror flick Mandy, which uses King Crimson's "Starless and Bible Black" as the theme song. Nick Cage is at his most unhinged since Vampire’s Kiss (1988), complete with a chainsaw battle. Lots of creepy, psychedelic horror. I’m traumatized.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 27 December 2018 06:42 (five years ago) link
Pretty interesting story pertinent to our photojournalist friends:
How I Got Banned from Photographing the Band Arch Enemy
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 27 December 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
that is disgusting. Angela Gossow's page is getting lit up with people calling her on it, too.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
you expect more out of a popular band? *hollow laugh*
― imago, Thursday, 27 December 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
A lot of stuff I never heard of, and he also rattles off a long list of honorable mentions.
20 NWOTHM Albums of 2018
#20: Sign of the Jackal - Breaking the Spell#19: Wytch Hazel - II: Sojourn#18: Eliminator - Last Horizon#17.1: Shadowkiller - Guardians of the Temple#17.2: Ancient Empire - Eternal Soldier#16: Evil-Lÿn - Disciple of Steel#15: Lucifer's Hammer - Time Is Death#14: Steelballs - Thunder Strikes Again#13: Seven Sisters - The Cauldron and the Cross#12: Espionage - Digital Dystopia#11: Gatekeeper - East of Sun#10. Manacle - No Fear to Persevere#9. Lizzies - On Thin Ice#8. Blackslash - Lightning Strikes Again#7. Toledo Steel - No Quarter#6. Striker - Play to Win#5. Snakebite - Rise of the Snake#4. Silver Talon - Becoming A Demon#3. Haunt - Burst Into Flame#2. Hitten - Twist of Fate#1. Visigoth - Conqueror’s Oath
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 27 December 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Friday's Viking's Choice podcast was pretty good:https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/12/28/674533914/vikings-choice-the-year-in-the-loud-and-the-weird
Chapel of Disease, ... And As We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced The EyeFour words: Death-metal Dire Straits. No, wait, come back! Metal has long reckoned with its rock and roll roots, from Entombed's Wolverine Blues to Tribulation's flamboyantly gothic King Diamond worship. Germany's Chapel of Disease may have started as a Morbid Angel homage, but on its third album it embraces '70s hard-rock swagger, proggy sorcery and, most surprisingly, the fluid melodicism of Mark Knopfler's guitar work, all atop death-metal growls and chugged riffs. There's no reason why this should work, and it's a testament to Chapel of Disease's heavily worn record collection, as the group now raises fists and beer to the storm.https://chapelofdisease.bandcamp.com/album/and-as-we-have-seen-the-storm-we-have-embraced-the-eye
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 30 December 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
There's a lot of Tribulation in the first track on that album (the only one I've listened to so far). Might be worth giving them $7.
Broooootal slamz of the day: Habitual Depravity's Realms of Abysmal Servitude:
https://realityfaderecords.bandcamp.com/album/realms-of-abysmal-servitude
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 30 December 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
some nice discoveries from the AMG lists that have yet to be mentioned in this thread: lovingly gloomy doom-black hybrid Eneferens (The Bleakness of Our Constant); Woods of Ypres-influenced bleak alt-metal from Altars of Grief (Iris)l; very melodic, very extended (like, 6 songs in 70 minutes) doom, somewhat akin to what I recall of early Opeth, from the appropriately named The Eternal (Waiting for the Endless Dawn).
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link
Where do you see those? They are not on this list: https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2018/favorite-metal
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 31 December 2018 11:19 (five years ago) link
AMG = Angry Metal Guy, I think?https://www.angrymetalguy.com/
― Dinsdale, Monday, 31 December 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link
Ah I see
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 31 December 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
If there's no metal poll this year, do we all post our top 10/25/50 lists here?
― Siegbran, Monday, 31 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
I guess so. That would really suck, though.
― pomenitul, Monday, 31 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
been started!
― imago, Monday, 31 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
We are doing metal poll this year!
ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2018: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Jan. 19th, 2019!
Go ahead and nominate your favorite albums and talk about them at great lengths, if you so choise
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Haha xp
Apparently nominations should be bolded. My mistake; I'm the new guy!
Yob - Our Raw HeartSleep - The SciencesGhost - PrequelleThy Catafalque - GeometriaMournful Congregation - The Incubus of KarmaPillorian - Obsidian ArcKhorada - SaltEvoken - Hypnagogia
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
Aw fuck
Four words: Death-metal Dire Straits. No, wait, come back!
― Fastnbulbous
why did i listen to this
in other news from now on whenever i see the acronym "amg" i will substitute in "angry metal guy" in my brain
― errang (rushomancy), Monday, 31 December 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
Yay for the metal poll! I was getting worried.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
Pretty interesting story pertinent to our photojournalist friends:How I Got Banned from Photographing the Band Arch Enemy
this story - or, more specifically, the online reaction to it - is kinda crazy to me. is this photographer a particularly well-connected or widely read guy? i realize he has his own niche site and re-ran the story on a photography site, but i guess i'm surprised he has rallied this band's fans against it - quite vocally, it seems - over his own copyright claim ... which i would think is something very few people actually care about, especially enough to turn against a band they love!
what am i missing here?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 09:33 (five years ago) link
i guess what i'm saying is, yes, he is right, and he did a good job of detailing his side of the story, and still i am amazed that the Arch Enemy FB is full of comments like "how dare you re-post an artist's work without credit, you are scum and i'm done supporting this band!" and not "whatevs, it's just a pic on the internet, the photog should be happy for the exposure, Arch Enemy rules"
― alpine static, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
Because of the missing counter narrative from the band?
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 09:44 (five years ago) link
Ah I see Angela Gossow did respond - in the dumbest way possible, in a whiny dramatic tone accusing the photographer’s factual statements as ‘highly emotionalizing’ the issue.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 10:34 (five years ago) link
Rolling Metal 2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 4 January 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link