and Nightbringer is a Black Metal band and play at Medium tempos. And maybe sound a little like Krallice. And it’s good, which i already know.

To quote Supertramp “…not much of a girlfriend, i never seem to get a lot.”

Maybe Benedictum.

If you like music with Sex, try R & B or Rap. It’s all about fucking.

Metal is for riding into battle in an M-1.
Or just forgetting about what you have to do to get laid.

i will say this-the review is a good piece of writing, and as much as i dislike when i have to wade through something verbose to tell me what an album sounds like, i wouldn’t have finished the review if the way you worded it wasn’t engaging. its probably an unfortunate thing that i along with many readers succumb to the perils of immediate gratification, something that has all but destroyed the music industry and probably deserves its own conversation entirely, but when you write a review, as fun as it can be to interject your persona into it, you have to take into account not only that there are countless types of readers, but that you have a job to do, and that for every record you have to write about, there is a band behind it constantly refreshing websites, hoping to just read a positive adjective or a high score or whatever.

But you see this in most metal boards–people just jumping other people, not aware that they’re all in this same, incredibly tiny boat.

I have time off from a feature article so I’ll chime in here because. mainly, I’m curious.

First, aside from a mensch who started to talk about the fascinating subject of reverb as an instrument, which *is* fascinating, and something I do know about, what with ten years pro studio experience as an engineer as my day job, everyone kind of freaked out about…well, onwards.

I wanted to talk about ideas that were, like, side effects of Nightbringer’s terrific CD.

1. I thought it amusing that a genre that thinks itself so edgy and such, is actually ‘traditional’ now. Which kind of blunts the idea of being ‘extreme’. A sense of humor is a good thing, but not here it seems.

2. I *loved* the bass on the CD. For some reason, nobody noticed that I loved many things about the CD that might assist in your purchase decisions.

3. This led to the idea of sexless metal–incredibly, *everyone* missed that I was empathizing with *us*, with our situation as metalheads.

That we’ve sort of painted ourselves into a corner where, for reasons I’m interested in exploring, where our music, unlike 80% or non-classical/experimental/noise music, is *intent* on not having an erotic component.

4. For some unfathomable reason, suggesting we get laid enraged people.

4. For the last seven paragraphs, the review is about nothing but the music. *Nobody* seems even slightly interested in what I said about the band/the CD here.
They’re off screaming that I’m a PC feminist-poser whatever.

5. Is it this? “You and your boy, or girl, or boy and boy”? Is it just typing “boy and boy” that did the trick?

Really, I’m reaching here, because what you have is a review that’s 70% music talk, 20% social observation, and a couple lame jokes.

PS: If you have a minute, please tell me what you think “feminism” is and why it enrages you so much. Really, it’s like people saying “that damned oxygen! I’ve had it with oxygen and those fucking oxygen dealers!” It’s just weird.

PPS: On record, The Devil’s Blood and Hammers of Misfortune are indeed like acid-tinged hard rock. But live, they’re so fucking intense, the guitar parts so insanely interweavingly complex and played, again, with such agression, that it *becomes* metal, IMO.

Way more than, say, Iron Maiden when they’re supposedly playing metal but to my ears are just playing baby boomer rock.

But you know what? I wouldn’t scream at you you that you’re a poseur douchebag elitist for feeling that way.

And now, after reading this “review”, I could tell that this guy was on a self-imposed high pedestal, doesn’t bother to research what he’s talking about, and is basically full of shit.

When I read a review, I want to know what an album/band sounds like, some points of interest, and if it’s any good or worth my hard-earned money. I don’t want to read someone dancing around the review just so he can beat off all over our faces, so to speak.

At least you didn’t bring in Mr. Penny Torture from Psycho as an example of great female vocalists, like you did at Metalsucks.net a few months back.

http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/03/17/women-are-better-metal-singers-than-men/#disqus_thread

What I find in all metal writing is that, no matter what you say that strays from a very thin
line, it ALWAYS turns into a pissing context between males (never female respondents. Never.)

I made many points about this band and this record and I made one point about metal in general. They all strayed from The Way One Does Things and the pissing began.

Really, joining the GOP would be a jump to the left.

I didn’t say The Devil’s Blood was the same as Watain of Agalloch or Jarboe or James Taylor. Seriously, chill on the asshole vibe, and I’ll do the same.

You project a lot. And honestly, you’re difficult to engage because you don’t make a hell of a lot of sense. Usually, when a person has to comment at length (and with such ADD-addled bursts of consecutive posting) about something they’ve written, it means that the initial piece didn’t sufficiently cover all of the bases. You tried to make an unfinished thought the crux of an album review, and now we’re talking about “Cockists” and Tiger Woods when most people just want to know a few things:

1) How does this album stack up to Death and the Black Work?
2) …or Apocalypse Sun?
3) …or American black metal in general?
4) …or the other black metal releases from 2011, regardless of geography or scene?
5) …or 2011’s slate of releases as a whole?

It’s okay to play with the review format and be creative, but, again, try to make it something that’s not only coherent, but something that your audience can actually relate to.

Listen to Subrosa. When you say THIS SUX!, There’s no cock! Well, you’ll have it half right.

As for Nightbringer–I said in the review what I have to say; why say it again?

It’s not my fault that the only acceptable mode of discourse for some of the respondents here is Intro-describe record–thumbs up/down–outro.

So far there hasn’t been a response that engages what I had to say about the record, which was plenty.

Basically, you even glancingly say anything that even sort of questions the holy primacy of the Cock and the boys go crazy.

The upside is that the Cockists comprise a tiny, tiny part of a metal world that, in baby steps, IS allowing the erotic, eros and feminine into the metal world, all of which creates a deeper, richer metal.

Nice meltdown, by the way. Any chance you could tell us about that new Nightbringer album yet?