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Metal / Re: Best of Underground Metal 1982-2002
« on: April 23, 2011, 04:07:25 PM »Also, how do you guys feel about Final Holocaust being at the top of the Death Metal List? The album's never click with me, personally, and it doesn't seem to get much discussion either. A prozakian idiosyncracy? Or do any of you actually consider it the greatest DM album ever?
Any BEST EVER talk is like theology - hairsplitting. The DLA list is a great start for someone discovering metal, particularly when the recommended material is listened to along with the website's articles and reviews.
It does not seem unreasonable that Final Holocaust is "#1". The riff structure and flow almost sounds like classical, but metal's barbaric aesthetic is present. The performance and production is austere compared to most DM, and this is probably what turns most people off. If you can get past that, a rewarding listen (for death metal, anyway).
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Chasm / Self-discipline in Modernity
« on: April 23, 2011, 03:39:14 PM »... which is why I suggest a heavy dose of discipline. If you can't figure out how to discipline yourself, join the military, there someone else will force discipline on you.
Has this been your own experience, joining the military or self-instating discipline? What have you done, and how would you gauge its effectiveness?
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Metal / Re: Hugo Wolf - Superior Lieder
« on: April 23, 2011, 03:17:32 PM »
It may be ill-advised to defend a dead account, but here goes:
Obviously, "uncharacteristically insightful" is a poor choice of words. Wolf paints a remarkably clear picture in a small space, something those composers mentioned did rarely, at least from what I've heard.
This is a broad question, but what "late Romantic" music would you recommend? Certainly those interested here are also acquainted with Bruckner's Symphonies, Wagner, and maybe Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht.
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Bruckner, Wagner, Smetana, Janáček, Schoenberg and co. were all lacking in the insight department, obviously.
Obviously, "uncharacteristically insightful" is a poor choice of words. Wolf paints a remarkably clear picture in a small space, something those composers mentioned did rarely, at least from what I've heard.
This is a broad question, but what "late Romantic" music would you recommend? Certainly those interested here are also acquainted with Bruckner's Symphonies, Wagner, and maybe Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht.
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Metal / Re: Organ music
« on: April 23, 2011, 02:54:41 PM »
This was recommended elsewhere some time ago, but for the Bach / organ neophyte, there is no better set of CDs to have: a classic interpretation of (near) Bach's Complete Organ Works... for $20.
Many who "listen to classical music" do not have the patience required for a lot of stuff before Bach (or even Beethoven, for that matter), but there are many fantastic recordings of early and middle Baroque on restored period organs. I find it particularly fascinating to hear the evolution of instrumental music up to the genesis of diatonic harmony. The most recommendable example of this "modal" Baroque keyboard music is Johann Jakob Froberger... though his music is known more for performances on harpsichord than organ.
Many who "listen to classical music" do not have the patience required for a lot of stuff before Bach (or even Beethoven, for that matter), but there are many fantastic recordings of early and middle Baroque on restored period organs. I find it particularly fascinating to hear the evolution of instrumental music up to the genesis of diatonic harmony. The most recommendable example of this "modal" Baroque keyboard music is Johann Jakob Froberger... though his music is known more for performances on harpsichord than organ.
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Metal / Re: Organ music
« on: April 17, 2011, 02:34:35 PM »
You're spot-on with your evaluation. The "more finite corridor emotions" remark is missing the fact that Bruckner was a composer of symphonies but firstly an organist, (after you realize this, his symphonies sound like little more than organ music transposed for orchestra), and that other romantic composers like Brahms held the organ in very high esteem. By my ear, the acoustic and dynamic restrictions of this keyboard instrument does little to adversely effect the content of either of those composers. If anything, it allowed them to work in more tried-and-true western forms, rather than accept or combat all of the theoretical garbage that surfaced in the 19th century after the symphony was revolutionized by Beethoven.
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Chasm / Re: Thinking about death.
« on: April 17, 2011, 02:02:24 PM »
To the OP: What is your vocation?
To face the modern world without the pillars of traditional society is to be alone in the worst sense of the word. What you have shared, specifically in your second post, reminds me of my own recent experiences (re-)entering the more depraved parts of society. Real and regular interchange with some kind of community is ideal, but as you have probably discovered, this sort of thing is hard to find, without lowering one's standards in a way that often seems poorly compromising. Though not for everyone, nowadays, most recommendable here are religious communities with committed practitioners. A good resource would be a local Zen teacher / sitting group, fairly common in the West, though not all legitimate. PM me if you have questions about this.
So, other than finding a good community... - Engaging in activities which require a relaxed state of focus, like drawing, woodworking or playing music, is one of the healthiest things to do provided you have the right mindset about it. These all involve an externalization by channeling your powers into something objective beyond yourself - in plainer words, these activities help you “get out of your head.” Perhaps better still would be exercise and good nutrition. The more vigorous the exercise the better, but anything that gets you moving is beneficial. Nutrition is a long story and too often overlooked, but the best that you can do is to try to get an appropriate amount of Vitamin D through food and sunlight, and avoid processed grains and sugars. Book rec: Nourishing Traditions.
Facing the topic of death itself, the below quote by a user here is roughly in tune with my own beliefs, and is worth consideration.
user nous:
Unfortunately, the insights and experiences of everyone here will not resolve your struggle. That will and must come from patience and appropriate self-observation with regards to your own desires and motivations. This sort of understanding, as with anything, only comes with time.
To face the modern world without the pillars of traditional society is to be alone in the worst sense of the word. What you have shared, specifically in your second post, reminds me of my own recent experiences (re-)entering the more depraved parts of society. Real and regular interchange with some kind of community is ideal, but as you have probably discovered, this sort of thing is hard to find, without lowering one's standards in a way that often seems poorly compromising. Though not for everyone, nowadays, most recommendable here are religious communities with committed practitioners. A good resource would be a local Zen teacher / sitting group, fairly common in the West, though not all legitimate. PM me if you have questions about this.
So, other than finding a good community... - Engaging in activities which require a relaxed state of focus, like drawing, woodworking or playing music, is one of the healthiest things to do provided you have the right mindset about it. These all involve an externalization by channeling your powers into something objective beyond yourself - in plainer words, these activities help you “get out of your head.” Perhaps better still would be exercise and good nutrition. The more vigorous the exercise the better, but anything that gets you moving is beneficial. Nutrition is a long story and too often overlooked, but the best that you can do is to try to get an appropriate amount of Vitamin D through food and sunlight, and avoid processed grains and sugars. Book rec: Nourishing Traditions.
Facing the topic of death itself, the below quote by a user here is roughly in tune with my own beliefs, and is worth consideration.
user nous:
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Religion even tells us that this earthly life is not the true Life, and that therefore, if we want to earn the true Life, we must sacrifice this earthly life in case virtue demands it. By this, religion puts the worth of creatures in perspective: have creatures ever created life? No. Then by what right should they end it? By no right.
And why should one prolong this earthly, miserable life when the true, good, and blissful Life awaits? The answer is that only idiots and vicious creatures want to prolong the earthly life, because they know no better, and fear death or the hell that awaits them.
Unfortunately, the insights and experiences of everyone here will not resolve your struggle. That will and must come from patience and appropriate self-observation with regards to your own desires and motivations. This sort of understanding, as with anything, only comes with time.
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Chasm / Re: An amateur artist's question about art
« on: April 09, 2011, 12:38:41 PM »Quote
Being in love with a girl, knowing it's doomed, and yet knowing you want the experience of loss because only through that can you move on from love for love's sake, and on to knowing what you want to fit into the bigger picture. Abstraction rules art. You want to take something specific, put it half into context, show us every essence of the experience of it, and then put it fully into context and make that context relate to the specific attributes of the something specific.
http://www.anus.com/metal/hall/index.php/topic,4770.msg29165.html#msg29165
It makes more sense if you plug in the preceding two sentences:
You take love, put it half into context - love for love's sake, in essence - show us every essence of the experience of it - through the language of the abstraction inherent to your art medium - and then put it fully into context - the doom of love's loss, in essence - and make that context relate to the specific attributes of the something specific - how does love's duality, emergent from these contexts of rapture and loss, speak to the fullness and reality of love, and in turn, what does that say about the whole of existence?
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Metal / Bach's Cantatas
« on: April 06, 2011, 02:24:57 PM »Quote
Johann Sebastian Bach lost both of his parents when he was nine and watched ten of his children die young. He was, in other words, well acquainted with death, and may have been uncommonly sensitive to the emotional chaos that it engenders. The musicologist Gerd Rienäcker has written that Bach possessed a “consciousness of catastrophe”—a feeling for the suddenness and arbitrariness with which suffering descends on unsuspecting souls. The texts of Bach’s church cantatas—I recently finished listening to all two hundred of them, courtesy of John Eliot Gardiner’s recorded survey—indicate that the life of man is like a rising and vanishing mist; that we live with one foot in the grave; and that those who sit among us like gods will be forgotten. The world is said to be like a hospital in which countless people, even infants in cradles, lie down in sickness. The words “Kyrie eleison”—“Lord, have mercy”—have been set to music thousands of times, but in the first bars of the Mass in B Minor, Bach’s valediction, they become a peculiarly visceral cry, a collective plea for grace
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2011/04/11/110411crmu_music_ross#ixzz1IkjQAvQE
I usually despise the New Yorker's music articles, but this was fairly decent. JS's cantata cycle is daunting, and it doesn't help that there are 6 different recorded collections.
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Metal / Re: Favourite metal poetry
« on: April 04, 2011, 12:31:42 AM »
Like all metal lyrics, these suffer from poor English and poetic inconsistency. But, there are some really beautiful lines (waxing Vedic, in fact) taken in isolation, which mesh effectively in concept with Svensson's composition.
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At the Gates
All Life Ends
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At the Gates
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the fate of my immortal soul
through the gates the journey goes on and on...
all I crave is to sleep
I am all as as I am as you and me
I am everything and will forever be
a part of you throughout eternity
when you die you too will be
All Life Ends
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I remember an old man
gripping my wrist, he was dying
"imagine", he said
"looking into the eyes of a nova,
the bursting flames, the roar of it's energy
faintly echoing down the corridors of time,
whispering: all life ends
"death, he said "is like a bolt of lightning,
Light cast upon every secret,
just for a moment, till the last spark of life fades
and all is dark..."
then he breathed out his last breath into my ear
his gaze already way out among the stars...
among the ruins of the past
I am leaving now, my body stiff
just watching for a while
that rigid shell, so small and weak
a corpse on a broken cliff
the stars are calling me now
with distant, speechless voices
and caught by a wind I drift away
and nothing calls me to stay...
I am riding the wind that has no name,
the fire that burns without a flame
caught by the spell on which all depends,
all life ends
the answer is written in my bones
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Chasm / Re: Japan triple-catastrophe
« on: March 17, 2011, 12:56:55 PM »"Education for the masses" is a stupid idea. The masses don't need educating, they need work to do.
It is for this reason that the US and West would do well to emphasize an education that emphasizes a lifelong craft or trade (preferably inherited), rather than the current "do what you love" (opposed to a "love what you do") philosophy. Countries that are more known for this, like Japan, and to a lesser extent Germany, are known for their comparatively greater cultural integrity - a minor example being Japan's void of looting - and the high dedication to quality that can be found in the numerous examples of machine exports for which these countries are famous (virtually any type of electronic device, vehicle, or non-acoustic musical instrument).
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Chasm / Richard Proenneke (1916 - 2003): Alaskan hermit
« on: March 15, 2011, 03:18:40 PM »
http://www.nps.gov/lacl/historyculture/proennekes-cabin.htm
More Readings from One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke free pdf
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Richard Louis Proenneke (1916-2003), known as Dick, has become an icon of wilderness living in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. Born in Iowa, he worked as a farmhand and rancher before joining the Navy the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After receiving a medical discharge in 1945 (following a bout of rheumatic fever), he again took up ranching. In 1949, he made his first visit to Alaska at the invitation of a friend. He lived and worked in Alaska off and on for years, making his first visit to Twin Lakes in 1962. By 1967, he had begun work on a cabin there. It was completed in 1968.
His was not the first cabin on Twin Lakes, nor was it the biggest. Proenneke's cabin, though, stands out for its remarkable craftsmanship, which reflects his unshakeable wilderness ethic. The cabin was built using only hand tools, many of which Proenneke himself had fashioned. Throughout the thirty years he lived at the cabin, Proenneke created homemade furniture and implements that reflect his woodworking genius.
Dick Proenneke had the foresight to film the construction of his cabin, intending to leave step-by-step instructions for creating a hand-built structure. He also kept detailed journals, recording everything from his daily activities to wildlife sightings and visits from friends and fans. His weather observations are one of the longest data sets available to park scientists.
More Readings from One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke free pdf
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Audiofile / Innumerable Forms / Mind Eraser
« on: March 11, 2011, 01:57:43 PM »
Innumerable Forms / Mind Eraser: Rapidshare, Blogspot, Megaupload
Innumerable Forms
Innumerable Forms - Dark Worship (2010, Mediafire)
Mind Eraser
Mind Eraser - The Prodigal Son Brings Death (2009, Mediafire)
Innumerable Forms
Innumerable Forms - Dark Worship (2010, Mediafire)
Mind Eraser
Mind Eraser - The Prodigal Son Brings Death (2009, Mediafire)
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Chasm / Re: is Corrupt.org a sham?
« on: February 24, 2011, 03:14:55 PM »The point of CORRUPT was to reach regular people who were not already pagans, heathens, occultists, nihilists, realists, idealists, etc. People like ourselves before we woke up. It succeeded, to a degree. It's hard to keep writers on topic and eventually, too much administrative burden fell on Alex Birch.
The already alienated community, while some may be functional, is MOSTLY dysfunctional, especially those in any way connected to racialism. They are at the very least hopeless of change and unwilling to stir themselves to do much about it. Their goal seems to be first to emote, and only distantly second to help fix any of their supposed sources of angst.
CORRUPT did a good job; AMERIKA does a better one at this point.
With regards to flaking out, mentioned earlier: my impression of ANUS//CORRUPT folk is that the yearly influx of regular contributors come to these sites looking for a sort of personal direction, later finding it in something apolitical, long-term, and independent of internet community and activism - Traditionalism, Philosophy, Art, Health/Athletics, or whatever. The rest seem to pop on the forums for the variety and depth of content that occasionally finds its way here. For sure, there seem to be "politicals" past their mid-20s that never encountered a crisis of purpose who enjoy petty things like argument and personal attacks as a way to kill time, but it's doubtful the "activism" of these individuals amounts to anything of substance.
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Chasm / Re: INTP, INTJ - Which is more Aspie?
« on: January 10, 2010, 04:04:18 AM »
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Aspies
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Asperger's has become a fad for those seeking to garner attention unto themselves. In the fine, hallowed tradition of disease whores everywhere, many of today's youth expertly design a disease which kills two birds with one stone by:
1. . Assuming others are born normal rather than work at it, giving the self-proclaimed Aspie an excuse not to make an effort to develop social skills, and
2. . Assuming they were born smart, rather than merely having had more exposure to books and computers because no one wanted to be around them.
Want to find out if you can justify your failed life with Aspergers? Take the test!
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Metal / Re: Why Hessians need identity as a culture
« on: October 18, 2009, 07:43:19 PM »
There needs to be some kind of distinct PRACTICE.
So far the DLA//ANUS has done nothing to encourage any kind of growth within the genre. It wastes its time preserving CDs 10 years out of print, but as of yet has not created any sustainable place for composers of metal music.
What the forums should do is wrangle up the composers in this thread, and have them get some of their music out into the open, away from their isolated rooms and perfectionist self-doubts. At least, it would be a good place to start.
So far the DLA//ANUS has done nothing to encourage any kind of growth within the genre. It wastes its time preserving CDs 10 years out of print, but as of yet has not created any sustainable place for composers of metal music.
What the forums should do is wrangle up the composers in this thread, and have them get some of their music out into the open, away from their isolated rooms and perfectionist self-doubts. At least, it would be a good place to start.