This is a really fun listen. Like unusually fun.The Pagan Manifesto is the best thing Elvenking have done since The Winter Wake. After releasing some shitty records the last album and this really put them on the right track to be fucking amazing again.
I know you guys are more into heavier stuff, but this album is more energetic than anything I've heard this year. Definitely a dark horse AOTY candidate for me.
eh.
OFFICIAL OPETH LEAK NIGGAZ
(sounds pretty cool and dark imo)
we walked to Alewife before Taake came on. i'm a casual fan of his, but everyone is saying that it was one of the best sets of the weekend now, so i'm bummed about missing it.Deschain, did you catch Taake? I think we tend to like slightly different kinds of metal (I thought The Ruins of Beverast were ok, Necros Cristos was my favorite on Friday), but I thought Taake was awesome, and it sort of seemed to me like the kind of thing that you might like. Sorry I didn't try to find you out there, I didn't see your post until Sunday, heh. I totally would have walked around in the crowd and tried to at least shake your hand or something.
Okay, besides Bongripper and Necros Cristos, I really enjoyed Machetazo, Unleashed, Dark Angel, Gorguts, and Candlemass. My Dying Bride was cool (I didn't think they were as good as all those other bands), but it was neat because I noticed I was standing next to the three guys from Machetazo during their set. From what I could tell, their guitarist /really/ liked My Dying Bride.
it just reminds me of so many actually metal bands that I liked/respect. It's definitely more than I expected from them and I'd say they did quite an amazing job. I can see influences from btbam, king crimson, korn etc. there's all little aspects from a ton of metal bands here and it's.. a melting pot of a lot of my favourite aspects of metal.
Riot Games/League of Legends is pulling a Dethklok. My reaction is... "This is alright, I guess."