dear @the-rageaholic loved your video on one of my favorite bands: didn’t love your dismissal of viking metal (and yes, i wouldn’t mind hearing Iberian/Nahuatl-inspired folk metal: hell, we have Tengger Cavalry that’s basically Mongolian folk metal)
are you ready to swear right now before the devil?
How’s This For a Laugh
I actually heard a liberal try to argue that Sweden was not the rape capital of the world…on the sole pretext that it was “actually” the country with the “highest number of reported rapes”
“let go, stop holding on” “it’s time to let the past die” says man whose past involves mass murder multiple times, patricide, torture, mass planet destruction and has destroyed anything he could possibly hold on to yet is still holding on to being an evil dick
off-topic, but i feel it’s so glaringly obvious that I’m surprised nobody has ever brought this up.
these words are spoken by a character in a film of a franchise that was restarted and is currently banking off of living in the past. you doubt?
The Last Jedi is the third of (now) four Disney “Star Wars” movies that capitalize on nostalgia for the original trilogy
George Lucas is on record stating that he had a treatment for a sequel trilogy, which was intentionally thrown out by Disney in order to make a retro film (just my opinion, but I think the whole “inner-space” bs was invented by Disney for damage control: ie, ‘if you thought our movies are bad, just see what George Lucas had in mind! yuck yuck! #imhipbecauseihatetheprequeltrilogy’)
an almost exhaustive list of original trilogy nostalgia from three of the four Disney “Star Wars” movies includes: the entire plot of A New Hope poached for The Force Awakens, the visual design of the First Order, the Resistance, Jakku, and Crait being identical to the Empire, the Rebel Alliance, Tatooine, and Hoth, Rogue One, the Solo movie (i won’t go into detail about this one, since i haven’t seen it, but someone else who has seen it please elaborate), the trench run in The Last Jedi an almost shot-for-shot knock-off of the Second Death Star run from Return of the Jedi (ignoring of course the likelihood that Disney invalidated the Star Wars Expanded Universe solely for the sake of poaching ideas for their own movies)
and yet, despite all of this, the screen-writers, and Rian “subversion is kewl” Johnson still had the balls to say “let the past die, kill it if you have to”
So two years ago, I ironically covered a Bathory song about death called “The Wheel of Sun” at the time when I was closest to death as I’ve ever been. The reception for it was a tepid “meh” at best, and YouTube’s copyright police flagged the video: as I was trying to not get too many marks and have my channel taken down as a result, I deleted it.
But then today, I heard this cover of the same song that seriously made me consider uploading the song again.
I mean, seriously, wtf? I know pristine recording quality is as adverse to black metal as common sense is to liberals, but the guy who did the vocals sounds off-key and out of time periodically. The guitar sounds like it belongs in a doom metal band. The solo sounds only vaguely similar to the original, and the drums do nothing more than simply keep time. Lastly, speaking as someone who has spent more time analyzing the guitar work of Bathory’s last two albums more than any other fan likely has, the intro riff is, to my ears, wrong. Hell, my jam session got roasted for playing incorrect notes, and this is supposed to be professionally recorded?
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