Don't get me wrong - I'm not trying to be a dick about it, just noticed where a lot of helping hands came from. Hell, half my own licks come straight from Steve Flynn and Bill Bruford, so I'm no trailblazing innovator myself. Influence comes from everywhere in subtle and apparent fashion. Even though I've already listened to Vikernes perform essentially the same track some years ago, that does not diminish what you've written here - merely suggests room for aggressive upward expansion.

You've definitely got some potential, but it's hard to tread fresh water in a stale genre. I listened to a couple other pieces I presume you penned on the same page, and you've got a good grasp of right and wrong in your songwriting.

Keep at it.

Chimay's products are absolutely unbelievable. Another personal favourite is anything out of the Flying Monkeys brewery, based out out of Barrie, Ontario Canada. Smashbomb Atomic IPA FTW.

I wouldn't put words in his mouth, were I you. Democracy's a terrible idea, maybe always, maybe not. I don't see where it applies benevolently to any task myself, even amongst a group of 165 IQers - they're still accepting the lowest common denominator as a go-ahead solution to a given problem set in front of them if they approach it democratically, which I doubt they would, since people that smart tend to look outside of their own ego at the larger picture which surrounds us all, something democracy has no traffic with. Democracy exalts the individual's immediate interests, as they agree with the interests of the Great Unwashed. No one can go forward in such a system. All are held back by the slowest moving member of the herd.

I guess, reading the above, that I agree with what you're telling Cargést he agrees with. So I'll shut up.

No one should be trying to do anything in order to lessen the impact of hipsters. This is the wrong perspective to take on the matter. We should be seeking to make great art, regardless of whether or not it utilizes the medium or technique of what's already passed us by. Forget reclamation and replacement. Seek the stars above in your aspirations, and leave the crowd to it's floundering and recombination.

As long as he didn't record on a fuckin' dieselharp, I'll be happy.

On to why I didn't like it:

1. It's sloppy. There are very obvious tempo glitches all over this album. When performing something with a fixed tempo but no fixed timekeeper, use a metronome.
2. See Morttis' Født til å Herske for comparative cheese.

I wanted to like this, but it just went nowhere. The songs told no story.

How long have you been playing? What else have you done? I am curious, and not for malicious reasons.

"Why? Because every productive person is support two dozen parasites who can work at restaurants or..."

Gee, thanks.