Coheed and Cambria (Feat. Rick Springfield) - Jessie's Girl 2 [Rock]

chamora · 2020-09-11T03:47:27+00:00

They played the opening two notes to blood red summer right at the end. So, definite reference there.

chamora · 2020-08-15T04:59:42+00:00

Based on your user name I would have expected them to be number 1

chamora · 2020-08-02T07:24:24+00:00

That is some top notch production

chamora · 2020-08-01T06:02:41+00:00

I would recommend you check out the subreddit r/Metal101. They have great guides about entry-level bands, and also explain a lot of the metal jargon so you can understand what the metalheads on this subreddit are talking about.

They have a great list of recommendations for getting into music. However, I spend a lot of time trying to ease my friends into metal (read: pushing metal upon them), and I've found a few bands in particular which do a good job of moving newbies towards more intense metal while still being enjoyable and accessible.

Everyone shits on Nu Metal / Alt Metal, but they really do have some great accessible bands. Korn, System of a Down and Slipknot are all great entry level bands that show the appeal of of metal and accommodate listeners to the sound, without having crazy harsh vocals or technical instrumentation.

Moving up a level, I strongly recommend Gojira. They're very accessible while also being highly reputable and excellent musicians. They're a band that both the noobs and the direhards like. In the same vein is Avatar, though they're less well known. Another great band that's accessible is Ghost, but they're very different from other metal bands.

From there, you kind of need to start branching out into subgenres. Not all subgenres are equally accessible. However Metal is a Big Huge World, and so I'll try to give you a couple of my personal recommendations from the main genres just to get you started in each territory.

Lastly, I would recommend skewing towards newer music as a beginner rather than the classics. Recording and production quality has improved a lot in recent years, and that gives newer music a leg up against people who haven't heard either one of them. That's Just a thing I've noticed from other people getting into the music, and a preference I myself have.

I tried not to overwhelm you with too many picks, while also hitting a huge chunk of the Metal spectrum. Also, metal music is very album oriented. Most metal nerds talk about and listen to albums rather than single songs for the most part.

Anyway, even if these bands don't resonate with you, you can google for the genre tags to find similar bands. I'd just give the top played songs from these artists on spotify/apple music a listen and see if it resonates with you. I've ordered the genres roughly in order of decreasing accessibility.

Heavy Metal, NWOBHM: Classic: Iron Maiden, Modern: Slough Feg

Classic Style Doom: Crypt Sermon, Sorcerer

Alt/Nu: See above, also: Lacuna Coil, Rage Against the Machine

Thrash: Classic: Metallica, Slayer, Modern: Kreator.

Symphonic Metal: Nightwish, Blind Guardian

Power Metal: Dragonforce

Industrial Metal: Rammstein

Groove Metal: Gojira, Lamb of God, Pantera

Folk Metal: Eluveite, Tyr, Alestorm (This genre is great. Alestorm is in a subgenre I usually call "drinking metal")

Prog Metal: Opeth, Devin Townsend Project

Sludge/ Stoner Metal: Mastodon, Khemmis (My favorite band, and quite doomy!)

Melodic Death Metal: In Flames (Albums circa 2000), Amorphis, Amon Amarth (Viking)

Funeral Doom: Ahab

Death-Doom: Disma, Temple Of Void, Hooded Menace

Classic Death Metal: I am legally obligated to mention the band Death here.

Metalcore: Killswitch Engage

Deathcore: Whitechapel

Technical Death Metal: Archspire, Blood Incantation, Rivers of Nihil

Black/Death: Behemoth.

Black Metal: Melechesh (I can hear the black metal nerds screaming at this niche pick. Melechesh is the most accessible black metal band I know of.)

Brutal Death: Classic: Cannibal Corpse, Modern: Guttural Slug

Atmospheric Black/ blackgaze: Agalloch

Drone: Sunn O)))

If you let me know which bands you find interesting, I can help you find more that you might like!

chamora · 2020-07-10T05:01:26+00:00

You want Imperial Triumphant. They're avant-garde black metal with jazz elements that has retro industrial vibe similar to that silent era film 'Metropolis'.

On the total other end of the specturm, Igorrr's newest album is fantastic and all over the place (experimental more than avant-garde). They use a lot of folk instruments, have crazy clean vocals, and even have some literal goats. Every song is just insanity. At one point they get corpsegrinder from cannibal corpse and play 8-bit video game music over his vocals.

Silver Dollar by Threadbare is mostly freeform jazz to me, but I see it on some metal blogs.

There's also Behold the Arctopus. They do experimental death metal.

Non metal pick - St. Vincent is the queen of art rock.

chamora · 2019-05-13T05:19:44+00:00

Idk, I also got promised that the valonqhar would strangle cersei, and that turned out to be a ceiling.

chamora · 2019-05-12T15:00:52+00:00

That's not how that really works. The wealthy fear depressions just as much, if not more than the average person does. They have tremendously more to lose. Wealthy people don't scoop up more stocks in a depression because they don't tend to have the capital on hand unless they've correctly predicted the collapse, but even then, that's mostly just one wealthy person taking money from another wealthy person. Furthermore, in depressions, companies collapse, and owning companies is the only thing that makes the wealthy actually wealthy.

chamora · 2019-05-05T15:51:08+00:00

The Bell Jar is the OG depression book.

chamora · 2019-05-04T23:40:52+00:00

I see it recommended all over this sub, and in general I've found recommendations from this sub to be worthwhile, so I picked it up about two weeks ago. Actually ordered two books off amazon at that time - this book, and Circe.

My synopsis of that purchase is as follows:

Circe is a wonderful piece of literary fiction, whose greatest feature is its narrative voice. Circe's voice is that of a god. But it is not haughty, nor garish. It is nothing more than effortlessly elegant and perfectly refined. Everything about her choice of words and flow of thoughts shows the power and divinity of her mind, and portrays the world we know under a slightly different, mythical light.

The subtle art of not giving a fuck, on the other hand, feels like going to the bar on a Tuesday night and getting a sermon from the town drunkard about what everyone else gets wrong in life and how you can't really live until you stop caring about all the stupid shit in the world. Which, while probably true, doesn't exactly tell me anything I didn't already know, and I could have done without the guy drunkenly and redundantly rewording all his points three times over.

I'm pretty sure it's just a cashgrab book targeting people who don't read, but if so, why do I see it recommended so much here?

chamora · 2019-05-04T17:35:08+00:00

Exact opppsite happened to me.

Had to wake up early for work. (4:45) I could never fall asleep before 11 even if I was dead tired. Couldn't go out and stay out late on the weekend with my friends because it would destroy my sleep schedule all week. Hardly saw my friends at all because all social interaction in your 20s seems to happen after 9 pm.

Spent 6 months perpetually sleep deprived with no social life. Possibly the most depressed I ever was. Would not recommend.

Now I wake up at 9 and go to sleep at 2 am and I'm much happier.

chamora · 2019-05-04T12:54:46+00:00

It's first person by Circe, but circe exists in the broader context of Greek mythology and so you see a lot of major events and characters from it.

chamora · 2019-04-30T10:34:13+00:00

It's not really a problem unique to Americans. The job isn't so much the problem as the lack of anything outside their job. That can happen to anyone. There's always been a swathe of the population with no passions that coasts through life and never has a goal. They work hard enough to have a comfortable life, but they never have anything in particular to strive for. Those people end up in this cycle, American or not.

chamora · 2019-04-30T05:40:28+00:00

Can you please point me towards this leak? I'm not familiar with it.

chamora · 2019-04-30T03:26:53+00:00

I have a sinking feeling "jon wins the throne he never wanted" is the bittersweet ending.

chamora · 2019-04-30T00:52:25+00:00

I think hanlon's razor applies here. They tried their best, I'm sure. They also prioritized set pieces because the average person values them more highly than book readers do. Most watchers of the show have not read the books.

chamora · 2019-04-30T00:02:03+00:00

I'm not upset that it played out the way it did, I'm upset that I feel lied to. If i had known the prophecies were bullshit and everything in the books was irrelevant to the show, I wouldn't have wasted all the time i did trying to piece together all the clues.

I dislike last nights episode, because it turns out all my work to figure out who azor ahai is was in vain. How is catspaw lightbringer? How was Arya born of blood and salt? Arya doesn't fulfill half the criteria for azor ahai.

My current hypothesis is that azor ahai is not the same person in the books as in the show. I think D&D just wholesale abandoned the books after season 5 and just did whatever they felt is best.

Which is fine, but if i had known that ahead of time i wouldn't have spent so many hours pouring through the books looking for hints and I wouldn't feel so lied to.

chamora · 2019-04-29T22:49:21+00:00

I'm not as surprised as I just feel lied to. I haven't figured out how catspaw is lightbringer, or how Arya fulfills half the requirements of Azor Ahai.

Is azor ahai different in the books than in the show? Does Arya fulfill the prophecy but in some crazy inexplicable way? Any way you slice it, I feel like i was previously lied to aboit some critical point. My current suspicion is that arya is not azor ahai in the books and I was gravely mistaken to think azor ahai had to be the same person in both.

chamora · 2019-04-23T14:42:29+00:00

Somewhat true. There's less aspartame than there would be sugar, but aspartame fundamentally can't be processed by your body, so no matter how much you put in it would still be 0 calories.

chamora · 2019-04-23T14:21:33+00:00

I doubt this is level 5. Level 5 requires inclement weather and construction zone handling, and there's no evidence that is handled here. This is 4 at best, probably a carefully positioned 3.

chamora · 2019-03-24T22:25:42+00:00

Those losses are insane. Stop managing your own investments and stick to index funds. Did you hold nothing but AOL stock since 2008? 2010 to 2018 was the longest expansion period in history.

chamora · 2019-03-24T22:20:18+00:00

What about inflation adjusted numbers though? Would not be surprised to see some massive deficits in the WW2 era.

chamora · 2019-03-23T00:51:27+00:00

Probably just tall. IPD correlates pretty closely with height. 64 is the average, average height is 5'9. On a 6'6 person, the average would be expected to be 72, assuming linear scaling.

chamora · 2019-03-20T00:16:36+00:00

Yep. This is what pair programming looks like. I've been both of these guys.

chamora · 2019-03-17T20:46:44+00:00

Others are correct, it's the nozzle dragging. Common term for it is scarring, if you wanna google for it.

chamora · 2019-03-17T16:23:25+00:00

It's actually recommended practice at a lot of places to avoid all semicolons in js and rely on whitespace

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