Metal Reviews

Azrael · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:11 am Post subject:

awesome weekend. 6 friends from Toulouse came to town to visit. showed them my awesome city, had Santini ice cream and pastéis de nata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastel_de_nata), got wasted, partied in Bairro Alto and saw Sintra and shit. it's been a while since i last had such a fun/busy weekend.

DevotedWalnut · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:38 pm Post subject:

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bloodpet64 · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:55 pm Post subject:

Adveser · Einherjar Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 2384

I feel grumpy today, but am making progress. Once it's all said and done there's going to be an awful lot of options, like a 10-string guitar with about 60 frets. You know, with the differences based on the thickness and tension of the strings. As you can imagine, this is slightly more difficult than playing a six string.

The Rush remasters were slightly louder and that automatically makes them superior because of the greater detail the waveforms represent. The EQ was so close that there isn't anything to discuess there, the instruments were slightly cleaner this time around, but everything sounds the same. I didn't hesitate to delete the old versions. If I had to venture a guess, the digitization process was almost certainly handled better because these all seem to be devoid of weird tricks that were used to make digital less "harsh" sounding. I think the old ones were dithered under past assumptions that basically made for a worse sound.

Rush fans are generally crazy. I have found scant evidence of ANY of their albums have remarkable different sound quality or tone other than other people's insistance on various pressings having this or that. They are all very close, even the audiophile stuff is basically the same. So all in all, ]superficially the same, technically better.

The one thing that is different is there are additional keyboards in Hold Your Fire that are VERY understated but clearly audible that improve those songs by quite a bit. All those flourishes Power Windows were famous for. I don't even wanna hear the old stuff. It sound bare bones. After one listen of the new "Mission" the old one sounded like horseshit and I missed the extra parts. Somebody grew some balls and decided to make a real classic even better.

Define Infinity · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:49 am Post subject:

The house has been really stressful in the past few months but it has peaked in the past few days. It's great timing because my finals are coming up so the more stress the better!! Fucking hell. What would I give for a day of peace for a day!

bloodpet64 · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:08 pm Post subject:

got my first tattoo today

AlexandeR · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:30 pm Post subject:

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Define Infinity · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:08 am Post subject:

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Zadok · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:04 am Post subject:

I've drunk too much diet coke and am now awake at 3am. Wish I wasn't sober, or quietly obsessed with Soulfly at the moment.
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SolarSoul25 · Metal Lord Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 614

Just got back from a a visit with my family and I have a splitting headache. Anyone ever flown with sinus congestion and gotten a terribly painful headache during the decent from landing? God it was awful, like someone pushing needles behind my eyes....

But it was a great visit, Aaron did awesome with his first flight (3 comments of "wow, didn't even know there was a baby on board" which is the highest complement a child can receive while flying). Good to be home!

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Azrael · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:59 pm Post subject:

starting a really shitty job tomorrow.

it's a 6 month thing, a really mechanical task that really doesn't make use of the fact that i have an awesome internship and master's degree, and it pays shit, but it's an unbelievably tough job market right now.

i've had tons of interviews with big name companies and all that, but i've bungled them all. i think my biggest problem is how i come across as very awkward on initial encounters, before becoming really at ease... i'm joining a fairly large company so i hope to use this as sort of very long interview so they can see the best of me, and get a proper full-time contract or at the very least a recommendation i can use in the future.

my family was a bit pissed that this is all i could get, but i told them that between doing this (getting paid and getting a good name on my CV) and doing nothing for a few more months, the choice was easy. time to toughen up and get my hands dirty.