majestic Posted November 12, 2018 Posted November 12, 2018 (edited) Don't remember if I've posted this one before, but if I did, I have no shame. It's good enough to be posted thrice. Floor Jansen has won me over completely with this performance, better than both Tarja and Anette. Well... yeah. Here's the rub though, I thought Anette was terrible on Dark Passion Play but ended up really enjoying her performance on Imaginaerium. I've by far and large stopped listening to Nightwish. No real desire to get used to another vocalist only to have her fired shortly thereafter. Speaking of new things, new single from Within Temptation. Not sure if I like that more than the pop-gothic they've put out in the past few years, although I don't mind them being a bit heavier again (or actually heavy, for a change, it that makes sense). I just never expected... well... dunno, this sounds like Nine Inch Nails at times. edit: Speaking of NIN: Edited November 12, 2018 by majestic 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
bugarup Posted November 14, 2018 Posted November 14, 2018 You guys are entirely too cheerful for denizens of the forum the owner of which just got gobbled up by Evil Corp. Lets bring it down a little. 1
Malcador Posted November 14, 2018 Posted November 14, 2018 Not bad, was worried they'd be some modern metal band with the terrible vocals Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Katphood Posted November 14, 2018 Author Posted November 14, 2018 This brings back memories from 2005-2006 where I got to see these guys live twice. Good times! There used to be a signature here, a really cool one...and now it's gone.
Azdeus Posted November 14, 2018 Posted November 14, 2018 You guys are entirely too cheerful for denizens of the forum the owner of which just got gobbled up by Evil Corp. Lets bring it down a little. 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Malcador Posted November 14, 2018 Posted November 14, 2018 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Azdeus Posted November 21, 2018 Posted November 21, 2018 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
bugarup Posted November 21, 2018 Posted November 21, 2018 And the thread is yet again overrun by fantasy. Time to remedy that.
majestic Posted November 21, 2018 Posted November 21, 2018 Someone said fantasy? 2 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Azdeus Posted November 22, 2018 Posted November 22, 2018 You called? Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Malcador Posted November 22, 2018 Posted November 22, 2018 I still can't finish watching that video, just too...gahh. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Katphood Posted December 12, 2018 Author Posted December 12, 2018 There used to be a signature here, a really cool one...and now it's gone.
Agiel Posted December 12, 2018 Posted December 12, 2018 Learned recently that Erik Lindmark, frontman and until recently sole remaining founding member of legendary death metal outfit Deeds of Flesh and founder of Unique Leader Records has recently passed. Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Malcador Posted December 14, 2018 Posted December 14, 2018 Is an alloy, but close enough. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Azdeus Posted December 18, 2018 Posted December 18, 2018 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Katphood Posted December 23, 2018 Author Posted December 23, 2018 There used to be a signature here, a really cool one...and now it's gone.
Agiel Posted January 12, 2019 Posted January 12, 2019 2 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
kirottu Posted January 13, 2019 Posted January 13, 2019 I wonder if they change their outfits for the summer or are they true artists? After all nothing is more metal than heat stroke caused by black leather jacket. This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
Agiel Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 They do carry that look into their promotional material: Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Malcador Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Good to know the Nazgul had a side gig. 3 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
kirottu Posted January 22, 2019 Posted January 22, 2019 I do love that "twangy violin instrument" whatever it is. 1 This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
Azdeus Posted January 22, 2019 Posted January 22, 2019 The hurdy-gurdy? Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
kirottu Posted January 24, 2019 Posted January 24, 2019 What did you just call me? This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
Azdeus Posted January 24, 2019 Posted January 24, 2019 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
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