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  2. Posted

    Summer Slaughter Tour 2015 + The All Stars tour

     

    Normally they are both separate tours but they came together in my city to create one awesome metal lineup.

     

    Arch Enemy

    Born Of Osiris

    Veil of Maya

    After The Burial

    Cattle decapitation 

    Within The Ruins

    Upon A Burning Body

    Iwrestledabearonce

    The Acacia Strain

    Conquer Divide

     Plus a ton more.

     

    I actually only got to see 6 bands perform because they took up all the floors of the concert venue and multiple bands were playing different floors at different times. I will say the stand outs for me were Veil of Maya and Arch Enemy. I knew alissa could growl, but holy cow she sounds amazing live. And Jeff loomis and Michael amott were spot on perfect.

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  3. Posted

    Is this supposed to be DuelJewel, or is there actually another band in the world that chose to combine those two words for some odd reason?

     

    Ha you're right. Guess I just mixed up those combination of words.

     

     

    I was much more disappointed by "Pikapika Fantajin." For starters, 4 of its songs had already been released as singles. The rest were meh.

     

    This is why I only listen to 2 singles off of any upcoming album. 4 to 5 singles for an album is crazy. That's like 1/3 to 1/2 the album already. It's ridiculous. Talk about milking the cash cow.

     

    Also agree with deathopia about Dazzle Visons Final Attack. Up until then I really liked all of their albums. I read they were planning to breakup up way before and weren't even planning on releasing any more albums. I think they just might have not been into it so that album turned out really subpar. 

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    Don't know whats up with the dragon ball super stills. What do they not have the budget for it or something? Or could it be that the project was rushed, which I'm founding out is a common thing in japanese anime/film. Mostly film.

     

    So i recently discovered crunchyroll and totally went on some anime binges.

     

     

    Another  - This is probably one of the best japanese horror/mystery animes i have seen. I can't help but think it might have something to do because it was based on a well received Japanese novel.I don't even want to write a summary because I don't want to give anything away. In any case I love how addicting this thing is. It leaves you wanting more, wanting to find out what, why and who.

     

    Again, I don't know want to say much because I don't want to give away spoilers, but there's a couple of well executed twists. And although i wouldn't really call it a horror anime, it has a very spooky and drab atmosphere and lots and lots of death. The first one was extremely gruesome.  And for once, this a 12 episode anime that actually manages to end without feeling rushed or incomplete. Recommended.

     

    BTOOM - The plot for this had me intrigued. Basically your NEET type anime guy is sent to a island to play a popular online game for real in a deathmatch against others. There are some familiar concepts in this anime but I'm glad they made those concepts their own. You actually learn to care about the main characters and they have decent backstories. The animation and style is also very good. In a lot of ways this show reminded me of an anime version of battle royale, which isn't  a bad thing imo. My only two main gripes are its length, 12 episodes, and something in the actual anime that I can't really say because of spoilers, but I'll just say venom.

     

    Your Lie In April  - And this just became one of my favorite animes of all time. The simple synopsis; a tragic/drama story about a young piano prodigy who stops playing after the death of his mother.  Let me just say there are SO MUCH FEELS in this show. If you think that summary i gave was tragic wait till you actually watch the anime. This a real tear jerker, pulling on your heart strings kind of anime. You would have to be a robot for this show to not evoke emotion out of you. On personal level I found this show to deeply resonate with me, because i was/am going to something similar(but not as tragic) as some of the concepts in this anime and I am violinist/pianist too.

     

    The concepts of guilt, loss, love, depression and adolescence are explored and presented very well. The story is tragic but also has beautiful animation and music. Lots of classical pieces and musical duels. This is as much a drama piece as a musical one. If you're like everyone else, you'll probably be looking up classical music or wanting to go play violin or piano by the time the show ends. Highly recommended. Just be aware, the feels is strong in this one. Be prepared to hold back tears. 

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  5. Posted

    Recently Finished 

     

    Death Parade

     

    Gunslinger Stratos - Thought the plot was messy at the very beginning, but surprisingly they more or less made it work after a couple of revealing episodes. 

     

    The Devil Is A Part Timer - A teenage satan working at mcdonalds trying to make his rent because he’s stuck in the world of the living. This is probably one my most recent favorite comedic animes. I need a second season now. 

     

    Corpse Princess - Saw the trailer a longtime ago, picked up the dvd, it was pretty decent. Thought it was going down a predictable road towards the middle but glad that changed by the end. It was decent, even if the budget for the anime was obvious.

     

    Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? - One of my favorite anime series for the year. Despite the sucky 12 episode run. (De hell is up with all these 12 episode anime runs anyway? No I don’t want to go read the manga. Just finish the damn anime) Basically about adventurers going into a dungeon in order to level up their skills and earn money.

     

    It’s funny because it reminds of me being in a fantasy RPG yet this anime isn’t about being stuck in a virtual reality game or something like that. And it pulls off a lot of things those other virtual game animes tried to do but better. It’s not without fault or cliches, but the good outweighs the bad. Plus there’s some bad ass battles in this.

     

     

    Watching 

     

    Plastic Memories - Only watched the 1st episode so cant say much about it yet. 

     

    Prison School - This is so hilarious. And those facial expressions  

     

    Ninja Slayer - Just randomly start watching this and I’m glad I did. It’s like a strange hybrid of an adultswim stoner show like Aqua Teen Hunger Force crossed over with traditional anime. Both in comedic taste and in the actual animation, 

     

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    , and even it’s short 13 minute per episode runtime. Plot is nothing special, but it picks up after a couple of episodes. It’s interesting to see Japanese audiences getting into western animation and comedy. Also love the series has featured everything from 80kidz to Boris in its ending credits. 

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  6. Posted

     

    Within iTunes, I'd LOVE to go back to the artist grid view from iTunes 10

     

    I second this. I miss having my playlist on the side as well without having to switch the My Music and Playlist tab. This is why I don't upgrade itunes anymore. I've thought about downgrading back, but too lazy for that. 

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  7. Posted

    I'm probably sure this has happened to everybody at some point. You were expecting a release you were looking forward to only to be disappointment by the material when it was actually released. Or a band catches your attention and you wait and wait and wait for that amazing release but they're never able to produce anything actually astounding or brilliant. I've had both of these happen to me. 

     

     

    For bands I feel that never were able to produce anything amazing but got/are stuck or went downhill;

     

    Jewelduel - They have good singles, but I feel they're always stuck in mediocrity with their albums. They don't stand out for me or push the envelope.

     

    Vamps - Again they put out good singles but their albums are filled with way too much filler. I was actually looking forward for their album after they released Ahead/Replay, but the album proved to be another letdown. : ( 

     

    Lycaon - Got into these guys because of their Red Rum mini. Great release.  I checked out their next release after release after release, year after year and was always disappointed. Everything else that followed was sub par. I eventually gave up on them and stopped following them.

     

    Deluhi - I was always hearing people talk/rave about this band. Still do. Never got the hype around them. They had amazing players but only ok songs with only a few songs I would actually call great. 

     

    Cyntia - Pretty cool all girl power metal band. Their debut was decent but they total went downhill on their 2nd album

     

    Scandal - Really dug their brand of rock-pop, but the same fate befall on them as above.

     

     

    As for albums

     

    That weird girgumesh 2 album phase were they did a complete 180 and tried to be j-pop Oricon chart hipsters.

     

    Kyary Pamyu - Pamyu Pamyu Revolution. Wasn't as catchy or cohesive of an album as her debut. Although I will say a lot of the songs on this album are 10x better live.  

     

    Perfume - Delta. Had some strong and ok songs but as whole was a weak album.  (defaq is up with nakata and his sophomoric releases?)

     

    Crossfaith - Apocalyze. The music on this was actual decent, although it could have been better. But what really let me down was the production on this album. So god aweful. Goes to show production can still fuck up albums, seen it happen to A list bands as well. 

     

     

    I'm drawing a blank now. Have been out of the Japanese music scene for a while so perhaps I don't have as many examples. 

     

    What are everyone else's musical disappointments/letdowns? Band wise or album wise?

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  8. Posted

    ^ Yeah that was a fun episode. I think my favorites from the 1st season are the ones with the cronenberg creatures and meseeks box. And the one with satan selling cursed items and rick using science to uncurse them lol. 

     

     

    I haven't really searched online but it wouldn't surprise me if the first 2 episodes were released/leaked ahead of the scheduled airdate. The 1st episode of the new episode was really good as expected. Schrodinger's cats everywhere.

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  9. Posted

    Like the title says, how does everyone go about it? Right now I have 4 hard drives. 2 internal and 2 external hooked up. I mainly keep what I listen to on the 2 internal drives i have and use the other 2 external as backups.

     

    As far as organizing goes, I keep all my music in 1 main folder with all the according albums following for each drive. I go artists/band name followed by the tittle of the album. I tried to include dates at one point in the folder name but it was too much work, made things messy and I realized I don't really care about date.  I have shortcuts on my desktop to access all those main music folders so I can store or bring up any album relatively quickly.  I recently also made a new folder where I keep all my lossy files.

     

    For actually listening to the hundreds of gigabytes worth of songs I have amassed over the years, I usually stick to itunes. Not my favorite platform and I haven't updated it because the newer versions tend to have lots of bugs. I think I used foo bar for awhile but i forget why i stopped using it. Now i mostly use winamp. It's a pain opening and closing itunes with the huge amount of songs i have, and it's a resource hog. That's why I stick to winamp. I do audio production and sometimes I just want to listen to something inbetween sessions and itunes just takes too long and takes up ram i need. 

     

     

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  11. Posted

    This thread needs more love

     

    For  non japanese drummers

     

    Brann daillor - Mastodon

    Neil pert - Rush

    Mat halpern - Periphery

    Matt Gratska - Animals as Leaders

    Abe Cunningham - Deftones

    Mario Duplantier - Gojira

    Morten - Raunchy

    Mark Castillo - Emmure/ Between The Buried And Me

    Gene Hoglan - Testament/Fear Factory/Dethklok/Strapping Young Lad

    Simon Scott - Slowdive

    Sam Loeffir - Chevelle

    Anup Sastry - Intervals

    Brett Powel - The Human Abstract

    James Casell - Asking Alexandria

    Brandon Sailor - Atreyu (Sings and plays drums at the same time)

    Aaron Stechauner - Rings Of Saturn

    Chris Adler - Lamb Of God

    Lee stanton - Thy Art IS Murder

    Jay Wienberg - Slipknot 

    Shannon Lucas - The Black Dahlia Murder/All That Remains

    Tamara - Conquer Divide

    Jeff Williams -  RWBY Soundtracks 1 & 2

    Marco Minnemann - The Aristocrats

    John Freese - total drumwhore, guy is probably on at least 1 album you own

    Alex Rudinger - The Faceless/The HAARP MAchine

     

     

     

     

    Japanese

     

    Kiyoshi Ijichi - Asian kung fu generation (Band would not be the same without him) 

    Hiroshi "Bucchi" Sasabuchi - Plastic Tree/Tokyo Shoegazer

    Gami - Blood Stain Child

    Junichi Satoh - Galneryus

    Koji Hasegawa - Abingdon boys school

    yuyoyuppe - Don't know if he actually plays drums or programs them but his drum tone is sick

    Whoever does the drums for Babymetal

     

    Also Amano Tatsuya from Crossfaith

     

     

    Probably forgetting a lot more from both sides, but that's all I can think of for now. 

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    Rick and Morty is an American adult animated television series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Adult Swim. The series follows the misadventures of alcoholic scientist Rick and his easily influenced grandson Morty, who split their time between domestic family life and interdimensional travel. Roiland voices the series' titular characters, while the series also stars the voice talent of Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, and Sarah Chalke. The series has its origins in a crude animated short film created by Roiland for film festival Channel 101. Adult Swim approached Harmon for television show ideas, and he and Roiland developed the program based on the short's two characters.
     
    The series premiered December 2, 2013, to critical acclaim. In January 2014, the series was renewed for a second season that will begin on July 26, 2015.

     

     

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90wG8ObCBE0

     

    Anybody watch this? It's like a crazy back to the future with interdimensional space travel on crack. Was a huge fan of the first season and can't wait for the 2nd season. Love the crazy scifi antics, the strange creatures/aliens, the cleaver writing and the way this show pulls off crude jokes in a smart way.

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  13. Posted

    Probably the first band that exposed me to the post-punk scene was Interpol. Every album they put out is great and they're still one of my favorite bands, but their debut album, Turn On The Bright Lights, remains their masterpiece.

     

     

     

    And of course can't have a post-punk thread and not mention Joy division.

     

     

    Also good thread. I'm always in search of more bands of this style.

     
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  14. Posted

    Pair of awesome  tannoy monitors speakers

     

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    some mogami neutrick xlr balanced gold cables (expensive as fuck)

     

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    A pair of audio technia m50's headphones

     

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    Countryman 85 fet D.I box

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    Isolation pad for my monitors and some others cables.

     

    Am I a legit audiophile yet? 

     

  19. Posted

    Terra Formars - Going to fight giant mutant-beast humanoid roaches on mars to find a cure for a deadly virus on earth? Hell yes.

     

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    Parasyte The Maxim - Having an alien parasite trying to take over your brain but instead having it take over your hand and giving you a shape shifting intelligent talking parasite for a hand to fend off the other invading alien parasites. A 2nd hell yes.

     

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    And Psycho-Pass 2

     

    Gotta love the sci-fi anime.

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  21. Posted

    Japanese

     

    Babymetal - Babymetal

    Artema - Stargazer

    Blood Stain Child - Last Stardust

    Lillies and Remains - Lost

    Fact - Witness

    TK from Ling Tosite Sigure - Contrast

    NoGod - sounds

    Plastic Tree - Echo

    Lemons Chair - My Favorite Reverb

    Art-School - You

    Dazzle Vison - Final Attack

     

     

     

    Non Japanese

     

    Animals As leaders - Joy Of Motion

    Deftones - Smile

    Intervals - A Voice Within

    Chevelle - La Gargola

    The Kindred - Life In Lucidity

    Crosses - Crosses

    Within Temptation - Hydra

    Issues - Issues

    Emmure - Nemesis

    Periphery - Clear

    Skrillex - Recess

    Red Seas Fire - Confrontation

  22. Posted

     

    I’m not getting all the bashing this release is taking. I’ve never really been a fan of the band but I do like some of their albums. This being another one of them.

     

    It’s a good enjoyable listen if your into alternative metal or a Japanese metalcore derivative. This album does have a major metalcore inspired influence. The drumming, guitars and gang yells all pretty much are giving huge nods to the genre. That being said, the band still does manages to compromise with their new found influence and their signature sound, so the songs do sound and have that lynch vibe.

     

    There are a lot of songs I enjoy and moments within those songs that stand out to me. The signature lynch time delayed guitar lines, the drumming, or some of the melodies and choruses.

     

     The biggest problem with this release is undoubtedly its length. Making an album of long duration takes skill and careful execution otherwise you risk dragging out the album, boring the listener and recycling material. The aforementioned problems are all present in Gallows. It’s not even that the album is too long, it’s that there's not enough variation. There’s too much repetition and as a result too much stagnation. The band could have created a much better release by streamlining, get rid of the weak tracks, keep the great ones and work on improving the tracks that are just good.

     

    I would have taken a consistent and powerful 30 - 35 minute album over a 43 minute album of varying high and low points. Or if the band was deadset on making a 43 minute long album, at least put in more experimental or creative songs to avoid dragging out the album and boring the listener. I’ll take quality over quantity any day. 

     

    To touch upon the production issue raised by others, I feel it’s been exaggerated. The way the production has been criticized is akin to hinting the album was recorded in someone’s basement and recorded with a potato. This might be the actual case with some indie brootalz vk band somewhere, but the production on this album is good and passable. Separation of frequencies is there and the instruments all have their place and are listenable. The production is not the greatest ever or without flaws but it’s listenable and doesn’t distract too much from the actual music.

     

     I will say the weakest point of the production are the vocals. Between the growls and cleans, there’s not much mids and I’m not particularly fond of how they sit in the actual mix at times. This occurs more in the heavier songs.  The instruments do seem scooped, it’s actually common in this type of genre, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did go overboard and considering how the cleans vocals are more trebly, they probably could have gotten away with leaving more mids on the guitars or the vocals. Someone did mess up on the EQ.

     

    It’s not a great album or a bad album, but a fairly decent one with good and meh songs. You can listen to it in it’s entirety, or just hack it down it and get rid of the all of the weaker songs and enjoy what’s left. 

     

    6.5/10 in it’s entirety

     

    7/10 hacked down to only the best songs.
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  23. Posted

    I love this show. It's one of my favorite TV series right now. I loved the 1st season and was glad it came back for a 2nd season and didn't get cancelled. I have never read the Hannibal novels so I can't compare the quality or continuity of the Tv series to the books, but as a stand alone show I  love it.

     

    Love the acting by the 3 lead males, the script, character development, symbolism, dialogue and the gory yet creative crime scenes.

     

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    The cinematography is definitely one of the best things about the series and the avante gardesque musical score is also pretty sweet. It's not a perfect show, and does have it's flaws, but I feel they're minor and it would be nitpicking to pass of the series as bad because of those flaws and not give credit to all the excellent material the show does have and executes so well.

     

    I have seen silence of the lambs and I must I agree I prefer Mads over Hopkins as Hannibal. They're portrayals are both good, but I prefer Mads as his character has had so much more time to develop and for the viewer to get to know him. Mads has had 13+ hours over hopkins 2 1/2 hours to showcase the depth, evolution and character of Hannibal. It's one of the advantages a TV series has over movies. There so much more that can be done with a character over period of time than a 2 hour film can. 

     

    I haven't missed an episode of this show and I don't plan to. It's consistently great and leaves the viewer wanting more. Good to see there are others who enjoy this show. There aren't many people I know who are into the show. 

     
    This series also has an epic opening scene for it's 1st episode of its 2nd season. A fight to the death between Mads and Laurence fishburne's character. I can't wait to see how the events unravel to lead up to this and to get to see the conclusion to the fight.
     
     
    Hannibal vs Morpheus

  25. Posted

    Saw Kyary Pamyu Pamyu last night. It was a blast. Show sold out. It was good to see people of all ages waiting in line.The mix for her live songs were spot on and her songs from her second album, which I thought mostly weren't good as her first, are about 10x better live. Only disappointment was the merch table. One hoodie and t-shirts that weren't male friendly at all. A meh poster, $10 sticker set, a towel and a cheap looking inflatable pink bunny. Don't know why they didn't have any of her albums available for purchase. I think I'll just purchase my Kyary merch online.

     

    Other than that it was super fun.

     

     

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