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Well, Shinya’s better than Tommy Portimo...that much anyone would know. IDK what is the best “Shinya song” but the drums on Un deux are pretty cool, yes. I’ll just state for the record that it is known that Shinya wrote the songs Yurameki, Raison Detre (w/Toshiya), Hotarubi, umbrella, Fukai, Namamekashiki Ansoku Tamerai ni Hohoemi and Cause of fickleness. There might be even more songs he’s written but it’s hard to find out cause DEG stopped giving individual song writing credits on VULGAR and any info on songwriting since then has come from band members themselves in interviews.

I don’t trust it, but I’d try it! Exactly what I was thinking. The tagline I got for this recipe was that it's a great boozy ice cream recipe. Could go down really well, or it could be just a horrible clash of taste and flavor. I intended on trying making it at midnight, but I guess it couldn't hurt to try a preliminary run of it right now though! I like the way you think! Right, it couldn’t hurt!!! Well, the verdict's in: IDK what I was expecting, but it just comes across as an adult/boozy version of an ice cream float. It's actually not bad, but I'm not sure what to think about it either. On the PM scale it's a safe 6/10. The cream ale of choice by itself was much better but I just feel like I'm drinking it in the wrong season...

I don’t trust it, but I’d try it! Exactly what I was thinking. The tagline I got for this recipe was that it's a great boozy ice cream recipe. Could go down really well, or it could be just a horrible clash of taste and flavor. I intended on trying making it at midnight, but I guess it couldn't hurt to try a preliminary run of it right now though!

A recipe for beer & ice cream. Specifically, pouring two scoops of salted caramel ice cream and topping it a pint of cream ale. IDK if this is gonna work as I've yet to try it, but it's a nice thing to consider for special occasions.

The biggest mistake Kaoru ever did to himself was cut his hair, dye it blonde for [mode of MACABRE] and then subsequently dye it silverish and finally brown. Now he looks like a younger, more trendier, more mobile doppelgänger of my dead grandpa. We will now call post-July 2017 Kaoru, Grandpa Kaoru.

I was gonna say...if the rocket explodes, I really hope it explodes in a spectacular spectacle. I hope it won't, but for some reason I find it fascinating to watch rocket explosions (the early days of NASA/space exploration in particular) especially if it happens in such dramatic fashion. Except for the Challenger disaster...that wasn't fun to watch. At least Elon Musk's got a pretty good attitude toward Space X failures...

1. Rush - A Farewell to Kings 2. Ramones - Rocket to Russia 3. Pink Floyd - Animals 4. Whitesnake - 1987 5. Love- Forever Changes (1967) 6. Steely Dan- Aja 7. Queen - News Of The World 8. The Beatles-Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 9. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour 10. The Doors - The Doors 11. REM - Dcoument 12. Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction 13. Wire - Pink Flag 14. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007)

This wasn’t that hard for me to get down. Years the albums were released are parenthesized. Isis (the band, not that other group ISIS) - Panopticon (2004) Isis (see above) - Oceanic (2002) Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (2001) Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance (2006) Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007) Dir En Grey - Uroboros (2008) Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005) Opeth - Damnation (2003) Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm (2004) Mastodon - Crack The Skye (2009) Push comes to shove, Panopticon, Uroboros, the Katatonia albums, Damnation, and Fear Of A Blank Planet would also be 6 of my 10 favorite albums ever.

Well, that didn’t last long...maybe more specifically, I’ll be in and out of TRF on an inconsistent basis.

Off indefinitely. I'll probably be back on at some point.

Working like any responsible adult.

If a MK night happens again before the end of 2017 (in what I'd imagine being a "year end" edition of favorite stuff from the year), you'll be guaranteed that this will part of my playlist contribution at some point. Push comes to shove, this is my pick for best metal song of the year and Mass VI being my pick for best metal album of 2017 (it was Full of Hell's Trumpeting Ecstasy for most of the year but is now #2) and maybe even the best post-metal album of the decade. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD7bxyzFbC4 I broke a near week hiatus just to say this. Could be a short term return...who knows.

All. -I've got a vinyl collection of albums I feel pretty strong about w/vinyl or stuff I jumped across by chance at a record store and felt worth the risk to buy on the format, and I play vinyl on a consistent basis but only listen to the medium when I have enough free time to devote to using it. - Digital's great for when I'm commuting or when it's late hours and still awake cause I can't play vinyl due to no headphone pre-amp, etc. Usually if I have it on CD obviously on digital cause I burnt it onto iTunes. If a vinyl/cassette has a download code for a digital copy, that's another way of having it on digital. The rest of digital stuff I have are through Spotify or Bandcamp (which also has an option to buy CDs/LPs/CSs and other merch for most bands on the platform). - CDs are usually for whenever I don't feel too strongly about owning an album on vinyl, is the only available physical format available and/or it's logistically the most affordable physical medium to buy out of all the options. - Cassettes only come into play when it's the only physical format available and this only happens when it's underground music.

I guess BowlCity thought Mummt Dust was lyrically odd? I mean it’s not my favorite song off Meliora but even I never considered odd in any regard. Since BowlCity is new to Ghost, it goes without saying that’s the thing with them though. The lyrics are all tongue in cheek and shouldn’t be taken literally or to heart. Their image and stage show too. It’s all fun and entertainment, and while it took me two tries before they finally won me over, they’re quite a fun and kickass band if you get past that whole image/lyrics thing...

Funny enough, everything before In Absentia is godwork. I could never really appreciate anything In Absentia onwards. I mean, it's great stuff, but not even close to the mastery on The Sky Moves Sideways, Signify or On the Sunday of Life Since I got into “fringe genres” of music I’ve grown to dig pre-Stupid Dream era PT (Up The Downstair being my favorite of that phase of the band) but my favorite album is Fear Of A Blank Planet. There’s really not a single bad PT album (yeah that included On The Sunday Of Life). Personally, it’s just a matter of how strange (in my case it’s very strange) you can handle as far as how much you enjoy their first four PT albums...

Phase I and II samples a documentary LP by Capitol Records from 1966 called LSD narrated by the late Dick Clark (yes THAT Dick Clark) of all people. If you couldn't tell by his voice, it's Timothy Leary's voice heard in Phase II. This is the same source material used in "What You're Listening To" and "Not Beautiful Anymore" on Up The Downstair. Here's an extract from it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jYLdfmwTpA

I’ll just say for the record, power and thrash metal are probably the two subgenres of metal that I like least...

It’s moderately exciting for me cause sadly, the Caleb trilogy was one of my favorite things about the band...well...at least the first three in the chronology (The End Of This Chapter, Don’t Say A Word, and Caleb). But yeah, their set lists are pretty bland...the one time I saw them it was a bland set as well.

Had to go with bass. Partly for noble reasons cause I have a bass at home, but mostly due to the fact that I just love a great bass line that locks in w/the drums and especially bassists who think outside the box from just laying down the bottom end all the time and sometimes get creative w/the instrument i.e. through effects pedals or writing idiosyncratic lines/melodies. And on that note, drums would've been second for the same reasons 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 gave.

That's the only that that will make me go see Sonata ever again if they bring this to NYC.

The final version of the art got rid of that bit of controversy...additionally, I've seen this exact album art variant w/the word "Pornstar" at the bottom. Perhaps a rejected title for the release?

For the first time since I've begun making year end lists of the year's best music, there won't be a proper top ten AOTY list for me this time. Why? I certainly listened to enough albums in 2017 to make a top ten and while I certainly could have made it work, ultimately I just couldn't do it for reasons that TRF doesn't need to know about. I can tell you what my two favorite albums of this year were though. Incidentally, both release come from the same label, The Flenser. The first album is Below The House (Planning For Burial) and the second album is Madonnawhore (Toby Driver). The former being my AOTY and the latter being runner-up. I'll keep it short and straight to the point. For better or for worse, these two resonated with me the most on a all levels and we'll leave it at that. Here's a song from each if you want to sample either of the two. But other than those Like Mr. Not, I'll just share some songs (in this case ten additional songs) I really liked this year:

Well, you’ll just need to get the CD or vinyl then cause Elizabeth (and Secular Haze) is exclusive to the physical version. Well I always get a physical copy, I'm old school. :codger: I was planning on it also, but wish they’d release a BluRay along w/the audio...considering the show this live album came from was apparently filmed also. They even have an extremely condensed version of this on 8-track which...I’m not sure how many copies it’s limited to.