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KTG17 wrote: Recently discovered the metal band Ghost... and can't get their songs out of my head. Plan on seeing two of their shows in two nights when they come to my state in November.
Ghost are excellent. Their songs can be ridiculously catchy!
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The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
Yeah I have heard some of their songs over the years on the radio but had no idea who they were. Finally after hearing Rats one morning but having no idea who they were, I looked up the recently played list on the stations website... and they freaking didn't post it. Just happened to skip over it. So I had to try and remember what I could from the lyrics and finally found out who they were, and then realized I was already a fan. After spending time checking out their shows on youtube I was an massive fan over one weekend.
I have pretty diverse tastes in music, but I have been so sick of what I have been listening to over the years and these guys are like a breath of fresh air. Love the costumes and performances. So will see them this winter for sure.
Square Hammer might be the best metal song I have heard in the last... 10 years. And its about the Free Masons! Love it.
Automatically Appended Next Post: This performance won me over. Fast forward to the 1:50 mark. From when they opened for Iron Maiden.
Gojira are incredible. I saw them open for Metallica last summer and they ripped it up. Super tight live band.
KTG17 wrote:
Square Hammer might be the best metal song I have heard in the last... 10 years. And its about the Free Masons! Love it.
That was my introduction to this band. Blue Oyster Cult with a dash of Black Sabbath. Such an earworm
Sadly I missed out on seeing Papa Emeritus and will have to settle for Cardinal Copia...
Yeah I'm not really enjoying the new 'character' but we will see where it goes. The new album took a while to grow on me. It's no Meloria but it's still decent enough.
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
Yeah I'm not really enjoying the new 'character' but we will see where it goes. The new album took a while to grow on me. It's no Meloria but it's still decent enough.
I think it has to do something with the lawsuit. The Papa's trademarks are apparently owned by someone else who lent the idea to the band through one of the musicians that was fired. So there is a fear those previous Papas might be lost to Ghost forever in September. However, in Square Hammer, you see a red cardinal so it could have been something that was planned all along. I don't know. Since the court date is in Sept, and I see them in Nov, I am PRAYING that the gak gets sorted out in time for my show and I can see a new Papa in all his glory, cause Copia isn't really doing it for me.
Oh that's still ongoing? I thought "See the Light" off the new album was a dig at his former Ghouls.
I hate it when lawsuits make internal band gak public. Gogol Bordello went through that a while back and it soured me on the band a little.
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
I saw Ghost last year with Iron Maiden, I got cheap seat and a gakky venue but it was well worth it. Year Zero is what sold me, the local radio station played it for a christmas song and I was hooked.
The more and more I listen to Gojira I think its moving up into my top 5 bands.
https://youtu.be/0tgYr03o3dE This song gets me every time.
Last year i discovered funk for my self, i was allways a metal fan but gak this basslines so dam god, the lyrics straight forword, i just love it.
you have to try out tellephone bill by bootsy this god dam bass solo is more fething metal than metal.
Resetting my head space by listening to Ye Banished Privateers -
I need to reset my head space because the game I was planning to run at a camp out just completely changed because all the kids sending me e-mails 'Can we play pirates? Pirates? We'll bring our costumes! Pirates!'
We finished a pirate based Pathfinder game a few months ago - I am guessing that the kids really enjoyed playing pirates.... (I didn't mean to introduce them to LARPing - but after two birthday parties and a New Year's party they already have their costumes....)
I was planning to run a toned down version of The Blight... fortunately, I can save much of the scenario by having the kids pirates find the highly ornate coffin on a derelict ship, rather than washed in with the tide.
The Auld Grump - a strangely organized e-mail campaign... I have a suspicion that Sam - ten year old girl - was the ringleader....
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
There's a reason anyone who plays music for a living sings their praises.
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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