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  1. This is why we need to invest in earthquake technology. I don't remember what it was called but some awesome dudes invented a device that's placed on major fault lines and it measures the amount of distance each plate moves. The distance is calculated into a formula and it'll give you a rough estimate of when the plates will give way and the areas that will be affected. Supposedly it predicated the Haiti earthquake.

    The tech still needs to be further developed since it can only predict the year the quake will happen and not the month or day. Plus it can only placed on major fault lines. There's also the fact that it needs to be developed so that it can be placed deep under the ocean where most fault lines lie.


  2. Well I was worried about the whole movie in general, but from the trailers it looks pretty decent. I'll still be watching both movies once their dubbed even if its does turn out to another horrible amine live action movie.

    *Cough* Dragon Ball*Cough*


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    The Smashing Pumpkins is an American band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan (vocals, guitar) and James Iha (guitar, backing vocals), the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin (drums, percussion), D'arcy Wretzky (bass guitar, backing vocals), Melissa Auf der Maur (bass guitar), and currently includes Jeff Schroeder (guitar), Mike Byrne (drums, backing vocals), and Nicole Fiorentino (bass guitar, backing vocals) amongst its membership.

    Less overtly sharing the punk rock roots of many of their alt-rock contemporaries, the Pumpkins have a diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound, containing elements of gothic rock, shoegazing, grunge, new wave, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, arena rock, and, in later recordings, electronica. Frontman Billy Corgan is the group's primary songwriter—his grand musical ambitions and cathartic lyrics have shaped the band's albums and songs, which have been described as "anguished, bruised reports from Billy Corgan's nightmare-land".

    With 18.75 million albums sold in the United States alone. The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s. However, internal fighting, drug use, and diminishing record sales led to a 2000 break-up.

    In 2006, Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin reconvened to record a new Smashing Pumpkins album, Zeitgeist. The band toured with a lineup of between five and nine musicians through much of 2007 and 2008. Chamberlin left the band in 2009 and was replaced by Mike Byrne. Corgan, Byrne, returning guitarist Jeff Schroeder, and newest addition Nicole Fiorentino are currently recording the 44-song Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, which has been released, one song at a time, since late 2009.

    The Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love

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    I love this band. Their still one of my favorite of all time, and Billy Corgan is one of my favorite songwriters. Plus I totally dig that their releasing their news songs online for free, though I'd wish they actually have a physically release and not have to wait for the complete 44 song boxset.


  4. This anime was ...AWESOME!!! I just finished watching it last week and I have to say its one of my favorite animes now. Though the ending was very cryptic.

    I've actually been looking into the manga now and found about the movie. I want to see it, but I'm I don't really have high hopes for it. I'm guessing its going to be as crappy as the deathnote live action movie. I think the only way Gantz might work as a movie was if it was in the hands of some skilled movie producers, screenwriters, and special effects company along with a bid budget. But I'm going to guess that wasn't the case..


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    Enslaved is a progressive viking black metal band formed in June 1991 in Sveio, Norway, and currently based out of Bergen, Norway

    Grutle Kjellson – vocals, bass

    Ivar Bjørnson – guitar

    Arve "Ice Dale" Isdal – guitar

    Cato Bekkevold – drums

    Herbrand Larsen – keyboards, vocals

    Though Enslaved began as a prototypical Norwegian black metal band, they always incorporated song structures unusual for the genre, with several of their early songs expanding past the ten-minute mark. The album Eld (1997) is often considered to be the beginning of the band's shift towards progressive metal. The band's shift toward progressive viking metal was rendered complete with Mardraum (2000), which contained several multi-part epics such as "Større enn tid - Tyngre enn natt" and "Entrance - Escape"; from that point onward, the band's influence from progressive rock became stronger on each successive record, with several tracks (most prominently, "As Fire Swept Clean the Earth" from Below the Lights) even using mellotron Mardraum, Monumension (2001), and Below the Lights (2003) can be regarded as having somewhat similar styles, although there is a clear progression of sound between the albums regardless; however, Isa (2004) and Ruun (2006) show a marked departure from previous sounds, most notably, with inclusion of sharp dynamic shifts. Axioma Ethica Odini(2010) was named album of the year by Best Heavy Metal CDs at About.com

    Although the band has used mainly English lyrics since Monumension, their albums before that were mostly recorded in Norwegian except on their first full-length album, where three songs had Icelandic lyrics, while the lyrics on Heimdallr was an Old Norse excerpt from Gylfaginning by Snorri Sturluson. Most of their lyrics relate to Norse mythology.

    Ethica Odini

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    I don't listen to much Black metal but Axioma Ethica Odini was IMO best metal album of 2010. It was plain and simple - EPIC.


  6. The last exorcism - I thought this was going to be another one of those lame trite movies about exorcism or religion, but it wasn't. It was surprisingly good with some originality and fun scares.

    The social network - To be honest I wasn't interested in seeing this movie at all but I ended up watching it anyway. It's definitely a good movie. Jesse Eisenberg makes this movie. He's one of the good assets of the movie along with musical score(thank you trent reznor), and the way it was filmed. Some downsides of the movie are it 2 hour runtime, which may make the movie seem really long or perhaps like its dragging along. Another thing is if you don't know about facebook, myspace or other social networks you may not understand it or feel much impact. Also I feel this movie was WAY overrated and hyped. It's good movie, just not a masterpiece.


  7. ^ I actually disagree. But I have seen the same division with fans with other bands that started out being melodic death metal/death metal then slowly drop that element. Though they might not have the same intensity, I don't necessarily mind that or see it as a bad thing.

    Like with Soilwork's last album, I loved the technical guitar work/solos, and the majority of the songs melodic choruses. Plus Speed Strid clean vocals on epic sounding stuff like Let This River Flow,

    Epitome, The Akuma Afterglow, or even the ghostly bridge on Sweet demise. My other fav songs have to be Two Lives Worth of Reckoning, The Thrill, Deliverance Is Mine, King of the Threshold, and Enter Dog Of Pavlov.


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    School of Seven Bells (often just SVIIB) is a band formed by Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines, together with identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, formerly of On!Air!Library!. The band is named after the School of the Seven Bells, a mythical South American pickpocket training academy. On October 12, 2010, it was announced via their Facebook page that Claudia Deheza had left the band due to personal reasons.

    School of Seven Bells’ music is full of tensions—Curtis’ gentle guitars wrap around jagged beats; silky vocals hide behind grumpy, alien synthesizers—but the resulting songs are effortlessly cohesive, and insidiously catchy. Elements of dream-pop, Afrobeat, IDM, and 4AD’s gauzier moments provide a constantly shifting frame for the Dehezas’ lyrics, which they write as mysterious missives between the School’s imaginary seven members.

    School of Seven Bells - Windstorm

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    I saw these guys live a while ago and had a total head trip.


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    Björn "Speed" Strid – vocals

    Peter Wichers – guitar

    Ola Flink – bass

    Sven Karlsson – keyboards

    Dirk Verbeuren – drums

    Sylvain Coudret – guitar

    Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork (meaning "working from the ground up").

    Their sound is a fusion of the classic Gothenburg metal sound with power-groove riffs of late 1970s, early 1980s British, and European metal. However, in their most recent albums, Soilwork has also introduced elements from other genres such as blues rock and alternative metal, and adopted a more melodic sound. Their most recent work has more singing and lighter melodies than their earlier work, as well as a more polished production.

    Soilwork - Deliverance Is Mine

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    The Panic Broadcast was Amazing.


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    Björn "Speed" Strid – vocals

    Peter Wichers – guitar

    Ola Flink – bass

    Sven Karlsson – keyboards

    Dirk Verbeuren – drums

    Sylvain Coudret – guitar

    Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork (meaning "working from the ground up").

    Their sound is a fusion of the classic Gothenburg metal sound with power-groove riffs of late 1970s, early 1980s British, and European metal. However, in their most recent albums, Soilwork has also introduced elements from other genres such as blues rock and alternative metal, and adopted a more melodic sound. Their most recent work has more singing and lighter melodies than their earlier work, as well as a more polished production.

    Soilwork - Deliverance Is Mine

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    The Panic Broadcast was Amazing.

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