bullshit stories they make up about Einstein.

To me, this underlines a fundamental flaw in a persons thinking. It seems to be a commonly reoccurring pattern - people draw conclusions from the emotional centers of their mind, then try to justify it with logic for the sake of validation.

Incoherence is the result.

World Without End has some solid songs, but like someone mentioned, its basicly drone with flashy transitions - good for the situations that warrant it.

Winterblut : Grund Gellenkunst has a couple of good ideas on it, but overall as an album, it falls short - nice use of the hi-hats and bass guitar without trying too hard to be jazz though.

Shame their follow up album sucked bad heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxFtL9vE6p0

In many respects we were the anti-hipster of today. We played Metal on generally crappy equipment, through well-used amps, and with little understanding of music on the whole. Today the Hipster plays his PRS custom guitar, through his Mesa rack-mounted amp with Bogner cabs, has every effect, tuner, and gadget on the market, etc.(all bought by Mom and Dad), has likely been been formally trained at some point, has mastered the internet tab format, etc., etc.
The whole appraoch was different - our bitterness, disillusionment and anger was valid, heartfelt and came from experience....Today's Metal-hipster is like unto the suburban white Hip-Hop wannabe, who fantasizes about life in the ghetto and fashions himslef after the latest MTV thuggery, yet has lived as pampered and sheltered a life as one could conjure. Perhaps one could argue that such a lifestyle might also produce disillusionment and rejection...but for very different reasons and in what seems to be a very affected manner.

Sounds like the typical whiny materialistic bitterness associated with mainstream "angry" music if you ask me. Its amazing how the lower economic classes love to lord it over everyone about how much more authentic they are for being poor - a blatant psychological defense mechanism if i ever saw one (1).

If you are going to reject society, do it based on ideological principles, not because your fragile ego cant stand having less toys than other people.  Otherwise you're like a fat goth chick with a chip on her shoulder - mad at the world for not being able to live up to superficial standards of beauty, adopting "anti-fashion" and masturbating over the new "unique" persona.

Ultimately, luxury is relative. No matter what, there will always be people better/worse off than you.

Consider also that most humans adapt to their environment within months. As a  consequence you are desensitized - making your house and diet largely irrelevant. As long as you're not living with cockroaches and malnutrition there really isn't any meaningful difference between being rich and poor, assuming you aren't a materialist.

Besides, if you eat lobster & butter every day you just end up getting a heart attack anyway heh.

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(1)  Of course, this isn't to say the rich don't spout the same type of bullshit from a different angle, but whatever.