Comments on: Despicable heroes

By: Emily P

Emily P — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:49:16 +0000

I once saw Arch Enemy at a venue so small that my hair got tangled with Angela’s via headbanging.

Good post, fantastic adventure! I can only imaging how surreal it must have felt.

By: Conor

Conor — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:35:01 +0000

It’s becoming hard to find metal bands doing good things nowadays.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! I’m as curmudgeonly as the next guy when it comes to decent metal, but that is a wildly inappropriate statement to make.

It occurs to me that I haven’t blogged about metal in ages. I’ll prep a metal post sometime soon—mostly for your sake, but also for mine!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:20:10 +0000

Imagine my dismay, having worshiped Dream Theater’s “Scenes From a Memory” since it came out, to learn that Dream Theater and Linkin Park now write similar riffs.

The terrible thing is, I didn’t mind the new lineup (Angela’s a pretty good growler), but The Root just downtuned and muddied the guitars, and Angela had none of the inflection that Liva did.

It’s becoming hard to find metal bands doing good things nowadays.

By: Conor

Conor — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:15:09 +0000

Ha! No joke, his girlfriend told me while he was in the bathroom that she now writes some for the band. She said both lyrics and riffs. Very possibly that was all talk, while he wasn’t there—I certainly had to fight hard not to raise an eyebrow—but given the utter shamefulness of The Root, well, I almost believe her!

Also, just had a friend who’s mostly into hip-hop start trying out metal bands, and he listened to The Root and really liked it. It was an incredibly depressing experience for me. Like when your best friend’s younger sister finally turns 18, and then she falls in love with a meathead.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:06:15 +0000

Did you smack him for making “The Root of All Evil”? You know, the mockery of the wonderful album that was “Burning Bridges”? Christ that album makes me angry.

By: Conor

Conor — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:27:25 +0000

That is precisely the response I was looking for!

By: Imposcillator

Imposcillator — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:53:23 +0000

I hate you and love you. Simultaneously.

By: Conor

Conor — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:47:44 +0000

I drooled so hard he nearly slipped on it, which is close.

And for the record, I almost called this post “Leader Of The Rats,” which would have been much better suited to the subject, but simply a less fun title for a post.

It’s all about the zazz.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:21:53 +0000

Did you spit in his face?