cry of the banshee wrote:
Goat wrote:
Marduk was a pagan god first and foremost though. But it doesn't ultimately matter! Who cares? King Diamond's name is much sillier, and you don't criticise him.
Because King Diamond doesn't suck, perhaps?
Naming your "evil' "Christraping" "fist fucking God's planet" fuck me Jesus "Black Metal" band after the Babylonian equivalent of the Christian god is fucking (unintentionally) hilarious. C'mon, it's fucking retarded.
With song titles like that, they gotta be, anyway.
Just reading through this, and I can't help but wonder ...
V, here is my question. Ever since you assumed 'cry of the banshee' moniker, which happened in Jan 2008, you are now up to 2394 messages. At the assumed rate of 1 min per message you have devoted almost 40 hrs to this forum in the last year and a half. Given that it probably takes 1/2 hr to an hour to write a solid review, don't you think your time would have been better spent doing that?
Just a reminder, when you quit, after just a few reviews, you cited the workload and family obligations. Maybe you have a constant access to the computer as a part of your job (which I don't), but guess what, workload and family obligations is something that many of us (including yours truly here) have tried to juggle to be able to post reviews. Perhaps my measly 422 forum messages since 2004 have something to do with it.
In no way I am in a position to tell you when and how much to post. But what I can't get over is the fact that you had the whole forum to yourself as a "black metal MR reviewing specialist" to get on it and blast Marduk to pieces. You felt like assigning it the Crap of the Century, you had it going for it. You felt like reviewing Burzum then, why didn't you? It was way after you left and upon some discussion b/t Misha, Mike and myself, Mike instituted this not-so-well-thought-through policy. I have said it before, and let me repeat it again. You had a chance to be the most renowned and celebrated MR reviewer, due to how this board shaped up, and you blew it.
Now, when others who put the time and dedication into it voice their opinion about Marduk, Burzum, etc. you lecture them wasting forum space using Wikipedia links? Who really cares how that band is called. I don't like Marduk either, of which I often made reference in my reviews, and they could be called "Alex the Metal God" or "Darkthrone" or "Gehenna", I still would not like them, yet to devote all this energy to hammer home (until Zad submits or what) the message that their name sucks???? Sorry, man. From the one who once told me it is our duty and obligation as metal reviewers that we have to "separate the wheat from the chafe", to enlighten those who know less what good music really is, you have been wasting your writing acumen in the wrong spot.
Now, I have devoted to this 10 min more than I really should have.