um... here's a question: why would you be watching television when you're driving?
on topic, though, I see no problem with the snuggie or t.v. hat, but only worn where nobody outside of your house can see it...
You haven't lived until you've watched tv on a 3" screen in fuzzy beautiful black and white and gray while going 80 mph down a country road.
I tried using a portable television set for a while but really, nothing beats my current set up. I have a white screen mounted on my car hood with a reel-to-reel projector sitting in my passenger seat so that I can take in the newest talkies while enjoying a luxurious sunday morning drive through the countryside. I highly recommend it to anyone who can afford such luxuries.
I haven't listened to the new Bullet Bullet For my Valentine cd yet, but I saw them perform up in Baltimore this past Sunday. I thought the new songs were pretty decent and pretty much in line with other material they've put out as far as quality goes. Still have some cool guitar playing, just less screaming this time around. Any band that has about a 50/50 mix of screaming vs clean vocal parts is bound to put out a cd where the balance shifts heavily into one of those directions at some point. It's possible that their next cd may have more screaming than another other cd they've put out.
Also, the vocalist messed up his vocal cords from improper screaming some time in between the release of The Poison and Scream Aim Fire. He had to have surgery because of the damage he did. As a result, his vocal style has had to shift a bit.
My taste in Industrial/Electronic music leans towards the more harsh aggrotech type stuff for the most part. I tend to listen to stuff like:
Hocico
Unter Null
Psyclon Nine
Dawn of Ashes
Die Sektor
Xentrifuge
Manufactura
Tactical Sekt
I like some of the less harsh stuff too like:
Stray (Erica Dunham of Unter Null's other project)
Assemblage 23
Edge of Dawn
I can take VNV Nation in small doses. I have a couple of their cds and they don't seem to have a solid "good the whole way through" cd. The chilled out ambient type stuff is their weak aspect (so many others do it so much better) but their more energetic stuff is pretty decent.
I think it would help if people would stop posting Deathcore, Tech Death Metal, Hardcore, Death Metal, and stuff that's not really all to Metalcore.
From what I've learn about Genres...Trivium, Protest the Hero, Between the Buried and Me, Bullet For My Valentine, and Fear Before.
Those bands are listed as Metalcore as a subgenre.
Anyways, no offense to anyone y'all listed a ton of great bands.
It's just when I see Converge, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Darkest Hour listed as Metalcore I raise a brow and say to myself "Really now?"
I guess some songs are considered a little bit Metalcore.
I just saw to much Deathcore and Post-Hardcore listed.
But yeah Liliana listen to what everyones' suggested they all have great taste.
Metalcore is a bridging of Hardcore and Metal.
There tends to be a bit of confusion with regards to Metalcore because it has had a few "waves". Modern Metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage and Unearth don't sound the same as mid-late 90's metalcore bands like Catharsis, Converge and Integrity due to the evolution of music. The metalcore scene grew out of the hardcore scene and there are a lot of bands that blur the lines between the two.
More technical or progressive "mathcore" (hate that term) bands like Dillinger Escape Plan or Between the Buried and Me are also Metalcore. They are Progressive Metal too. Sometimes bands fit into multiple genres (that's where you get "Progressive Death Metal", "Doom-Death Metal" and other such genres). Deathcore is metalcore with more of a straight up death metal influence. It isn't wrong to call a deathcore band a metalcore band at all, you are just being more precise when you use the term deathcore.
There is no requirement for vocal style in metalcore. Clean vocals are certainly not required in metalcore at all. Metalcore doesn't require "Screaming verses, clean vocal choruses". You can have grunts, screams, growls, or hardcore shouting style vocals in metalcore.
Darkest Hour isn't a strictly metalcore band, but they've had music in that vein (as well as Melodic Death Metal).
Black Dahlia Murder is pretty much a straight up Melodic Death Metal band that wear there love of At the Gates and similar bands on their sleeves proudly.
We Finnish, being melancholic bastards that we are, have a lot of depressing songs.
I remember reading in an interview with one of the guys from Sentenced a few years ago, he said was asked about why all their songs were so depressing and he responded with something to the effect of "In Finland there are only two things to do, drink or kill yourself".
The saddest song I know is "Disappoint" by Assemblage 23. The lyrics are about him dealing with his own father's suicide. Tryng to understand why his father did it, blaming himself for not preventing it, etc.,. The cd it is off of "Failure" is dedicated to the memory of his father. I love the song, but it's extremely sad.
"Disappoint" by Assemblage 23
Just one more time
For the sake of sanity
Tell me why
Explain the gravity
That drove you to this
That brought you to this place
That pushed you down
Into the soil's embrace
Give me the chance
I was denied
To sit and talk with you
For one last time
CHORUS
Did I disappoint you?
Did I let you down?
Did I stand on the shore
And watch you as you drowned?
Can you forgive me?
I never knew
The pain you carried
Deep inside of you.
I can't forget
Having to see
The words that knocked the wind
Right out of me
It's not enough
I've come undone
Trying to find sense
Where there is none
Just give me peace
You owe me that
To help ward off the fears
I must combat
(Chorus)
And so I ask
For one more chance
To understand
This senseless circumstance
Help me to see
This through your eyes
The reasons I've been trying
To surmise
Though you are gone
I am still your son
And while your pain is over
Mine has just begun
Is there no place for the Arts (music, theater, art, etc.,)? Things that foster creativity and development of the imagination?
I'm personally fond of a more "liberal arts" set up for education where the student gets exposed to a bunch of things. Everyone gets a general knowledge of most things. Electives allow one to specialize in their chosen interests.
We had this game in elementary school that we made up called "The Gauntlet".
In the back of the playground there were 4 sets of swings. Each set of swings had 4 swings. They were all lined up together, so essentially you had 16 swings in a row. We'd have kids sit on the swings, alternating the direction they were facing, and start swinging. Other kids would line up to be, "the runner", and they would start at one end and try to make it through the center of the line of swings all the way to the end without being kicked. Kids on the swings would frequently pull on one of their two chains so they'd swing erratically.
If you kicked a runner, he took your place on the swing and then you got in line with the rest of the people waiting to run through.
If you ran the whole way through without getting kicked by someone on a swing, you just ran back around the swing sets to the line of runners to try again.
It seems ridiculous now, but it was really fun then.
"HA! I got you! Now my reward is . . . I get to run and try not to get kicked too?"
I don't know if anything like this was done on other playgrounds, but it was a staple for my friends and I from around 3rd grade through 5th grade.
I've been hearing A LOT and i do mean A LOT of negative feedback about their most recent album "Daisy". People are *****ing and moaning that they changed their sound, that they're selling out, that they've lost touch with what music is, jesse needs to go solo because he's an egotistical douche blah blah blah blah.
I can understand the talking about them changing their sound.
However, selling out accusations don't make any sense. Their first two cds are the most "commercial" things they've released. The first two are filled with way more "pop" than the latest two. The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me has a lot of songs that aren't so radio friendly, the new one has even less.
They are obviously have some artistic integrity because of the type of stuff on their latest two cds (it's not all "to get a hit on the radio").
I really didn't know what to think of Daisy when it came out on my first listen. I instantly didn't like it as much as the previous cd. There were little parts intriguing me here and there though. It's definately a cd that grows on you with multiple listens. I still don't like it as much as The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me (their best cd in my opinon) but it's still a good cd overall. It has a number of good songs on it.
I can see why people who are more a fan of Deja Entendu and less a fan of The Devil and God would be less likely to like it of course.
I wasn't actually saying either one is better than the other.
It seemed to me that Backupzero's response to Azerbaijan's question basically missed the mark and wasn't all that clear. Lots of talk about how it'd be great to unite humanity but nothing to address the actual "theist vs. non-theist unification" question that was posed. I was just rephrasing the question essentially. My note on "Path 2" was probably not neccessary.
The reason I think it would be better to unite is because life is not something that is set in stone. People say life is unfair, but that is because life as a collective is making it unfair. If we did unite as a species, we could make it better for everyone. People might be afraid of losing power, or losing everything they have from doing this, but is the kind of world you want to live in where only some people have power, where only some people have what they want? Cause we actually do have the potential to come together and make things better for everyone.
Let's assume that it's actually possible to unite all of humanity and have a utopia. That's what you are striving for after all.
You have two paths that reach this theoretical utopian earth.
Path 1:
All of humanity unites and achieves a worldwide utopia. This is done without any religious texts/deities/supernatural forces involved at all.
Path 2:
All of humanity unites and achieves a worldwide utopia. This is done with thoughts/motivations tied to particular deities/supernatural forces/religious doctrines.
Both paths lead to a utopia in which all of humanity worldwide is united.
Why is "Path 1" the better path since it leads to the same place that "Path 2" does?
Note that "Path 2", which requires that the method be tied to people uniting under a particular theistic banner, wouldn't actually require the religion to be "true". Everyone in the world could be united in a grand happy utopia where everything is good for everyone because they all believe in and follow religion X, and then upon death they find out that religion Y is the actual truth.
Recently been getting more into Screamo and I'd definately recommend:
Orchid
Saetia
Funeral Diner
Pageninetynine
Envy
United Nations
Circle Takes the Square
You haven't lived until you've watched tv on a 3" screen in
fuzzybeautiful black and white and gray while going 80 mph down a country road.I tried using a portable television set for a while but really, nothing beats my current set up. I have a white screen mounted on my car hood with a reel-to-reel projector sitting in my passenger seat so that I can take in the newest talkies while enjoying a luxurious sunday morning drive through the countryside. I highly recommend it to anyone who can afford such luxuries.
Just cut a slip completely up the center of the back of the robe. Then you have a true snuggie/robe combo.
Also, the vocalist messed up his vocal cords from improper screaming some time in between the release of The Poison and Scream Aim Fire. He had to have surgery because of the damage he did. As a result, his vocal style has had to shift a bit.
Tool is progressive rock/metal, not really industrial music. They may have some industrial influences here and there, but it's not industrial.
Hocico
Unter Null
Psyclon Nine
Dawn of Ashes
Die Sektor
Xentrifuge
Manufactura
Tactical Sekt
I like some of the less harsh stuff too like:
Stray (Erica Dunham of Unter Null's other project)
Assemblage 23
Edge of Dawn
I can take VNV Nation in small doses. I have a couple of their cds and they don't seem to have a solid "good the whole way through" cd. The chilled out ambient type stuff is their weak aspect (so many others do it so much better) but their more energetic stuff is pretty decent.
Metalcore is a bridging of Hardcore and Metal.
There tends to be a bit of confusion with regards to Metalcore because it has had a few "waves". Modern Metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage and Unearth don't sound the same as mid-late 90's metalcore bands like Catharsis, Converge and Integrity due to the evolution of music. The metalcore scene grew out of the hardcore scene and there are a lot of bands that blur the lines between the two.
More technical or progressive "mathcore" (hate that term) bands like Dillinger Escape Plan or Between the Buried and Me are also Metalcore. They are Progressive Metal too. Sometimes bands fit into multiple genres (that's where you get "Progressive Death Metal", "Doom-Death Metal" and other such genres). Deathcore is metalcore with more of a straight up death metal influence. It isn't wrong to call a deathcore band a metalcore band at all, you are just being more precise when you use the term deathcore.
There is no requirement for vocal style in metalcore. Clean vocals are certainly not required in metalcore at all. Metalcore doesn't require "Screaming verses, clean vocal choruses". You can have grunts, screams, growls, or hardcore shouting style vocals in metalcore.
Darkest Hour isn't a strictly metalcore band, but they've had music in that vein (as well as Melodic Death Metal).
Black Dahlia Murder is pretty much a straight up Melodic Death Metal band that wear there love of At the Gates and similar bands on their sleeves proudly.
I remember reading in an interview with one of the guys from Sentenced a few years ago, he said was asked about why all their songs were so depressing and he responded with something to the effect of "In Finland there are only two things to do, drink or kill yourself".
I'd recommend you check out the following bands if you aren't familiar with them:
Cold
Staind
Glassjaw
All of those bands are/have been fairly popular so it won't be hard to find their material.
"Disappoint" by Assemblage 23
Just one more time
For the sake of sanity
Tell me why
Explain the gravity
That drove you to this
That brought you to this place
That pushed you down
Into the soil's embrace
Give me the chance
I was denied
To sit and talk with you
For one last time
CHORUS
Did I disappoint you?
Did I let you down?
Did I stand on the shore
And watch you as you drowned?
Can you forgive me?
I never knew
The pain you carried
Deep inside of you.
I can't forget
Having to see
The words that knocked the wind
Right out of me
It's not enough
I've come undone
Trying to find sense
Where there is none
Just give me peace
You owe me that
To help ward off the fears
I must combat
(Chorus)
And so I ask
For one more chance
To understand
This senseless circumstance
Help me to see
This through your eyes
The reasons I've been trying
To surmise
Though you are gone
I am still your son
And while your pain is over
Mine has just begun
(Chorus)
Is there no place for the Arts (music, theater, art, etc.,)? Things that foster creativity and development of the imagination?
I'm personally fond of a more "liberal arts" set up for education where the student gets exposed to a bunch of things. Everyone gets a general knowledge of most things. Electives allow one to specialize in their chosen interests.
In the back of the playground there were 4 sets of swings. Each set of swings had 4 swings. They were all lined up together, so essentially you had 16 swings in a row. We'd have kids sit on the swings, alternating the direction they were facing, and start swinging. Other kids would line up to be, "the runner", and they would start at one end and try to make it through the center of the line of swings all the way to the end without being kicked. Kids on the swings would frequently pull on one of their two chains so they'd swing erratically.
If you kicked a runner, he took your place on the swing and then you got in line with the rest of the people waiting to run through.
If you ran the whole way through without getting kicked by someone on a swing, you just ran back around the swing sets to the line of runners to try again.
It seems ridiculous now, but it was really fun then.
"HA! I got you! Now my reward is . . . I get to run and try not to get kicked too?"
I don't know if anything like this was done on other playgrounds, but it was a staple for my friends and I from around 3rd grade through 5th grade.
I can understand the talking about them changing their sound.
However, selling out accusations don't make any sense. Their first two cds are the most "commercial" things they've released. The first two are filled with way more "pop" than the latest two. The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me has a lot of songs that aren't so radio friendly, the new one has even less.
They are obviously have some artistic integrity because of the type of stuff on their latest two cds (it's not all "to get a hit on the radio").
I really didn't know what to think of Daisy when it came out on my first listen. I instantly didn't like it as much as the previous cd. There were little parts intriguing me here and there though. It's definately a cd that grows on you with multiple listens. I still don't like it as much as The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me (their best cd in my opinon) but it's still a good cd overall. It has a number of good songs on it.
I can see why people who are more a fan of Deja Entendu and less a fan of The Devil and God would be less likely to like it of course.
It seemed to me that Backupzero's response to Azerbaijan's question basically missed the mark and wasn't all that clear. Lots of talk about how it'd be great to unite humanity but nothing to address the actual "theist vs. non-theist unification" question that was posed. I was just rephrasing the question essentially. My note on "Path 2" was probably not neccessary.
Let's assume that it's actually possible to unite all of humanity and have a utopia. That's what you are striving for after all.
You have two paths that reach this theoretical utopian earth.
Path 1:
All of humanity unites and achieves a worldwide utopia. This is done without any religious texts/deities/supernatural forces involved at all.
Path 2:
All of humanity unites and achieves a worldwide utopia. This is done with thoughts/motivations tied to particular deities/supernatural forces/religious doctrines.
Both paths lead to a utopia in which all of humanity worldwide is united.
Why is "Path 1" the better path since it leads to the same place that "Path 2" does?
Note that "Path 2", which requires that the method be tied to people uniting under a particular theistic banner, wouldn't actually require the religion to be "true". Everyone in the world could be united in a grand happy utopia where everything is good for everyone because they all believe in and follow religion X, and then upon death they find out that religion Y is the actual truth.