Metal Reviews

well silly me.

1 Sieges Even 36
2 Hallucinogen 31
3 Cryonic Temple 28
4 Wuthering Heights 26
5 Mary Jane 24
6 Rage 20
7 Sabaton 15
8 Forseti 14
8 Altaria 14
10 Pyramaze 12
11 Wolf 11
12 Elvenking 10
12 Allen/Lande 10
12 Troka 10
12 65daysofstatic 10
16 Jeff Bjorck 9
16 Dolores Mae Blue 9
16 McKnekk 9
19 Shpongle 8
19 Dark Moor 8
21 Aes Dana 7

but its dead, so there isn't any point, really.

omg lvl 10 thread revive



edit: that's not right at all... here's a copy paste o.o
1 Aereogramme
2 Hammers of Misfortune
3 Converge
4 Zero Hour
5 Buried Inside
6 Muddy World
7 Neurosis
8 Crowpath
9 Old Man Gloom
10 Dream Theater

its in my sig. went a little Pig Destroyer crazy

Has anyone else felt that the existence and constant scrobbling of Last.fm has affected your playlist and listening habbits ?
I've had this thing for about a month now and during the first weeks I was turning scrobbling on & off all the time. Even using different players to avoid it. Or sometimes playing things on repeat just to get them scrobbled. I know this sounds very geeky and weird but that's exactly how I felt during my first last.fm weeks. I thought that the whole world would just come and check my playlist and judge me by what I listened to. So I was trying to "scrobble" my best impression for them. Nowadays I'm not so much aware of it anymore and I ignore it but still I can't really take it out of my mind.

hmmm, yeah I got that at one stage. But now I just listen to whatever I want. If people judge me by my music (for example being called a mallcore kiddy because I said I liked Chimaira) are idiots. I don't give them much of a thought.

I started saving tracks as mp3s after converting them to the format my "mp3 player" can handle so that my last.fm would be something other than me sampling and then never touching them again. It's still mainly that though =\

I somehow can understand what you mean. People tend to confuse their internet "existence" with their real life more and more. But even if the whole world checks your playlist, they don't judge you, they judge some anonymus behind a pseudonym. They know nothing about you. And you don't give a damn about an asshole who makes his judgement by your musical taste alone, do you? Just look at it the other way round. If you see a shitty playlist you just click it away and don't waste a second about the real person who has written it.
Your post highlights some of the motivation behind sites of this kind and its users. People say they want to share musical taste in order to find musical neighbours and to get recommendations. What some mean is that they want to show how knowledgeable and sophisticated their taste is.
In fact, you don't need personalized services to find new music. There are enough dynamic databases where you just type 3 bandnames and get a list of some 15 related. Then you tick which of those you like, don't like, or don't know, and end up with tons of recommendations plus links to samples, bandsites, shops, and stuff.

BTW, services of this kind make reviewing a rather pointless art, that is nowadays more about mannerisms of the writers than about the music.

1. Korn, 2. Burzum, 3. Hatebreed, ...

I don't like sites like that because they recommend bands that sound similar to the bands you type in... just because I like The Dillinger Escape Plan and Psyopus doesn't mean I'll like the 101 other bands that play the same style of technical metalcore (but do it much worse). I'll admit that I do read reviews more to hear what someone else thinks of an album than to discover new music.

I disagree if you use a dynamic database.
I typed your two in musicmap and got a.o. Meshugga, Gentle Giant, Cynic, and Magma (wow!). That is not exactly the same style of metalcore, I guess.

Magma eh? Do you like Koenjihyakkei? That's fucking great zeuhl as well!



Way too much exams to study this week.

1. Pig Destroyer 284
2. Fear Factory 112
3. Nasum 98
4. In Flames 93
5. Rotten Sound 82
6. Nile 58
7. Soilwork 56
8. Amon Amarth 52
9. At the Gates 43
10. Death 32


alot of music played last week
I'm really getting into grindcore now

i tried musicmap and couldn't get it to recommend me any bands I was interested in :\

I guess No Heroes had a part in that... evne though I put it on my mp3 player after I heard it once

I just added the LastFM-thingy to my signature, just checking if it works

Here's my weekly artists chart... not too much metal in it but that's ok

I'm loving Nile and Cathedral atm. and I dont care that Chimaira is in there, there s/t kicks ass IMHO.

Damn dude...that's a lot of Nile :O



not much this week... I was busy/worked a lot/my computer was totally fucked anytime I wasn't busy/working.