a couple of bears high-fiving

Edit: reference to Fallout New Vegas, but I guess the respone makes me a bit of an ass lmao.

Fantastic, my friend! Can always count on you to bring forth new faves of mine from Germany! 🍻

Fantastic - love stories like this lmao. I have a similar one, but with Finnish melodic death metal band Kalmah, I had to make a music video in power point and I chose the song “Principle Hero.” It didn’t really make an impression and my teacher was just like “…Okay.” afterwards xD.

Man I know it, it’s more than just surface level stuff cuz it takes a few listens then it grabs you and you’re a fan for life. The sum is definitely greater than any individual parts, whether it’s from this band or Power Trip or Fugitive, etc.

I got a whole slew of uploads I’ve been meaning to post, thought maybe I could do a big day with a few at once >:D

Yea the tough-guy attitude he gives off is a little weak imo lol.

Wouldn’t’ve uploaded any of it in the first place if it didn’t! 🤣

Don’t forget Behemoth! Another set of decent death metal bands from Poland would be Decapitated, and Dies Irae, though it looks like the latter split up.

Ahh fml, it’s not on Tidal. But everything else after this one is!

The dude on the cover if we never take him seriously:

Yea the near-noodling they do could have gone in any direction xD

This is the worst timeline… 😭

Yea man the vokills totally match everything going on here xD

Thats how we roll!

Man, thanks for this reply! Totally felt something was off to with all the “American bullshit” he put into Glorious Burden.

And while I’m only a power metal fan with certain tracks or bands, at the end of the day it’s still metal and I love it just the same. I do still gotta try more BG tho!

Was watching a playthrough recently of Brutal Legend from a Youtube channel I support and fucking When the Night Falls came on and immediately brought me out of my enjoyment, used to love that song too, for fuck’s sake lol. Now it’s a thorny complicated mess for me. I can’t seem to separate art and artist here like I could with H.P. Lovecraft or say… Doctor Seuss stuff lol.

Also wasn’t aware Matt Barlow was trouble either, I actually really liked his voice. Ashes of Ares, his band after IE, isn’t really doing anything for me though so, oh well.

It’s just such a complete shame.

Edit: just noticed your profile has a mashup of the “take my money!” Futurama meme and fucking G Gundam of all things and i love it.

I suck at making memes so I’d only be reposting shit. If other ppl make em, bring em on!

I’m not too far away to recognize that your reply is very wise. It’s still a little rage-inducing for me lol. The betrayal I feel won’t go away unless I shift my point of view but I suppose I’m not quite ready for that just yet.

Hell yea, solidarity. We can only try to build a better future for ourselves and each other!

I get being one person and being alone with such swirling negativity. And it’s definitely a personal problem for me cuz I loved this music at a very young point in my life. I’m just so fucking disappointed with his conclusions.

I’ll probably never forgive but I mean at what point do I reconcile this within myself? I definitely had to make this post as it’s been building since then.

At least there’s a wealth of other great artists out there that havent fucked up so royally. At least for me.