Recent content by WhamBamSam

This is by far the strangest thing I have ever heard. I like it pretty well, but as is the case with a lot of his work, I feel like its a little over my head and I'm appreciating the music more than I'm enjoying it a lot of the time. Also, I think the bodily noises in the title track are made...

I'm just going to stick with the things that will probably be out within the year. Listing all the things that will, or might potentially be out by 2012 would take too long. Symphony X - Iconoclast (June 21st) Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (September 12th) Opeth - Heritage...

I have a lizard that I named Secret Agent due to being around 7 at the time. I lived on Buckingham Rd. That gives me Secret Agent Buckingham... I guess I would do James Bond porn parodies, which presumably would be scenes cut straight from James Bond scripts, but where you see the naughty bits.

I see where you're coming from here. I didn't really like Chuck's voice when I first heard it either, but his vocals grew on me, and now I consider The Sound of Perseverance to be one of the prize pieces in my music collection. You might prefer their second to last album Symbolic on which the...

Sadly I can't quite get into either band myself, but if you're a fan of Cynic you'll probably enjoy Athiest. Based on some of the other prog/extreme metal stuff that I recognize from that list you might like latter-day Death, Augury, and Necrophagist. If you're more into the Prog side...

I think a lot of the time Slipknot are just thrown out in that fashion as a means of trolling, simply because of the widespread hatred among metalheads. By way of example, I was on youtube listening to a Necrophagist song a few days ago, and made the mistake of reading the comments. There were...

Eh? I was under the impression that the vast majority of the hatred for Slipknot, Disturbed, and the like came from within the metal community. Death Metal fans especially seem to despise Slipknot. OT: Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold. I do think that they're somewhat overrated, and owe a...

Anyhow, I think that there probably is some validity - how much I leave to other, more interested parties to determine - to arguments that statistics showing pay differences between men and women are exaggerated due to certain factors not being taken into account, and that rapes are probably...

I generally stick to metal, though I do listen to some stuff that's more in hard rock territory, and will occasionally go back and listen to some older pop-rockier stuff like the Beach Boys and The Beatles. I wouldn't say I'm overly narrow in my approach to music though. Metal is a pretty...

Whatever my opinion might be of the music in question, I always do enjoy reading your reviews. In this case I get the added bonus of the music being pretty damn cool. Yay. I do enjoy the more progressive side of extreme metal. These guys remind me of Opeth a bit more than of Death - I'm more...

It's actually nice to see this sort of thing, seeing as the other music reviewers around here (myself included) won't touch pop music. On the other hand the way you're talking in the video is just kind of annoying and the pictures weren't really adding anything to the experience. Honestly...

Judging by the fact that the WBCs open letter to Anon - which was in my recently closed tabs from the thread about it last night - won't load, it would appear that DDoS attacks have shut down the WBC site. It's a good start, but I'm still waiting for Anon to get a hold of some WBC passwords and...

My guess is that Anon will cover the site with gay porn. The WBC are too stupid and self-involved to mock, and anything too tongue in cheek will be hard to recognize as vandalism because of Poe's Law, so the only viable option to attack them is good old shock and awe.

Well, I grew up a MSU fan, but came to U of M for their math program and just sort of got into all of that after coming here. Anyway, the hardcore fan/elitist douche thing is fun, that's why we do it. Sports are more interesting if you can manufacture some emotional investment in their outcome...

I'd have expected Ohio State to be the safety school. As you've probably guessed from that statement, I'm a student at the University of Michigan. Most people from my high school go to Michigan State, so those of us at U of M like to needle them about itWe really are a bunch of elitist...