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Haven't blogged on TL in years, mostly due to getting bored with my stagnant progression in BW and SC2:LOTV being a second round of a fucking awful mess. If BW remaster turns out to be real I guess I'll start laddering at least casually again though. It's funny how much effort I've spent trying to reach GM in SC2, or 5k in dota, or B- in BW, since I've never really come close to "success" in those games. Closest I've come to "success" in SC2 was leading the USC CSL team to a couple of early playoff exits and ignominiously crashing out of the CSL UC Irvine LAN tourney by fucking up an ace match that I should've easily won. So much time and effort between 2010 and 2012 on SC2 and nothing to show for it. Also 3 years of playing dota with friends between 2012-2015, highest I ever even reached on ladder was 4250 by cheesing Terrorblade split push when he was stronk. I don't think I had the right mindset to git gud at dota or sc2 or bw because I just massed games without really analyzing why I lost or focusing on my fixing my weaknesses.
I've been playing guitar for about 11 years now; started in high school to impress my then girlfriend, then just fell in love with playing guitar. I formed an old school death metal band in Sep 2016, self-released a demo in Jan 2017, cassette release by a major underground death metal label March 2017 and had my band featured in a online column in Decibel magazine today. That's fuckin all death metal rules thanks guys
   
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If you didn't switch from Brood War to SC2, you probably would've got to B-. And you still can!
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i was really shit when i switched to sc2 in 2010, i didn't get good at rts without playing all that sc2, before sc2 i was D+ after sc2 i was C. and i don't really regret it cause i made friends and had a lot of good experiences from college sc2. i'm really too busy to tryhard to B- now, i have a 3 hour round trip work commute just got into shield battery last week but haven't had time to play yet. maybe when i find a job closer to home
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On March 18 2017 09:06 rauk wrote:That's fuckin all death metal rules thanks guys Led Zeppelin is the best band in the history of the rock and roll genre.
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On March 18 2017 10:54 rauk wrote:3 hour work commute
That's like living in Iowa but working in Indiana. What the heck. I hope this job pays 100 dollars an hour.
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er 3 hrs round trip, not one way lol. i moved home cause my mom was sick.
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Death metal kicks ass! Link to songs?
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https://disincarnation.bandcamp.com/releases
I just received our shipment of cassettes tapes from the label but since I've never sold anything physical on bandcamp before I need to go to the post office tomorrow and find out exactly how much it costs to ship em to continental US and Canada before I put them up for sale. Our label has tapes up on their bandcamp and on their website
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Hey I enjoyed the death metal, good stuff bud.
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Cassette tapes? That sounds so hipster dude.. No one has means of playing those anymore.... Sure they might, but not anywhere located where human beings enjoy listening to music, aka... School, Car, While Exercising, MAYBE at home but specifically one room more than likely, etc.
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Shrug it's underground death metal dude, tape trading culture is alive and well, and it's not like it's exclusively only on cassettes. Most people in the underground prefer to buy something physical to support the band and producing cassettes costs a fair bit less than CD and is about 5-6 times cheaper than vinyl.
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On March 20 2017 03:02 rauk wrote: Shrug it's underground death metal dude, tape trading culture is alive and well, and it's not like it's exclusively only on cassettes. Most people in the underground prefer to buy something physical to support the band and producing cassettes costs a fair bit less than CD and is about 5-6 times cheaper than vinyl.
Exactly this, I also buy cds, cassettes and vinyls (and shirts of the bands) of albums I love, especially from underground bands, buying their stuff is the easiest way to support them so they can continue making the music you love. It makes no sense to keep downloading their stuff.
I also go to a lot of shows (another way to support them...) when they come in or near where I live. That's one of the thing my wife loves about quebec, we have a lot of shows from underground bands and she obviously do not really have those things here in seoul except for genres she does not enjoy (she's a hardcore elitist metalhead haha). We would like to go to the maryland deathfest in the future too, do you also attend those kind of festivals/shows?
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Cassettes are definitely still relevant in the metal scene. Especially among old school death metal and black metal bands. There are even some bands that go as far as to only release content via cassettes or vinyl. + Show Spoiler +
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On March 20 2017 15:40 Coagulation wrote:Cassettes are definitely still relevant in the metal scene. Especially among old school death metal and black metal bands. There are even some bands that go as far as to only release content via cassettes or vinyl. + Show Spoiler +
Raw quality is best quality \m/
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What kinda bands do you guys listen to? Feel like I almost never see any metal discussion on TL, think I visited the heavy metal thread once a long time ago but they weren't really into the sort of stuff I'm into. I've mostly been jerking off the new Tomb Mold full length. Ascended Dead and the new Lantern are pretty cool, the latter reminds me a lot of Execration's last album. Hopped on the Eternal Champion/Sumerlands/Demon Bitch bandwagon super late. Been listening to a lot of Obituary since I'm gonna see the Decibel tour next week, I'm super excited to see Horrendous play a long set this time and hoping we get some good cuts off of their first album. Also California Deathfest final lineup is so sickkkkkkk Demolition Hammer/Dead Congregation/Merciless/Massacre/Siege/Pissgrave/Mortem
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I listen to metal here. feel free to join. https://cytu.be/r/NUMU
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Bell Witch - Mayknow18:35 Machine Head - Halo09:05 Death - Lack of Comprehension (Remastered - HQ)03:45 Necrophagist - Only Ash Remains (HQ)04:13 Cormorant - Scavengers Feast06:50 Necrophagist - Fermented Offal Discharge HQ04:43 Overkill - Emerald (Audio 2017) | The Grinding Wheel03:53 Cormorant - The Emigrant's Wake09:59 Agalloch - A Desolation Song (The Mantle)05:09 Nocturnus - Standing In Blood04:20 Gorod - Disavow Your God05:05 Dismember - Casket Garden03:36 Agalloch - ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth07:15 Skinless - Deviation Will Not Be Tolerated05:28 Gorguts - Obscura04:04 Necrophagist: Culinary Hyperversity05:06 Agalloch - A Desolation Song05:09 The Faceless-Planitary Duality Part I & II W/ LYRICS07:02 Gorod-Gutting Job03:56 Entombed - Left Hand Path06:40 The Contortionist: The Source (Rediscovered)06:33 Dark Tranquillity The New Build04:07 Oak Pantheon - Aspen06:23 Dodecahedron - DODECAHEDRON - An ill-defined Air of Otherness (official premiere)07:22 Opeth - Reverie / Harlequin Forest (Audio)11:40 Oak Pantheon - A Gathering06:27 Agalloch - I Am The Wooden Doors (The Mantle)06:13 Evil Conscience - Mammoth Rivalry (Technical Death Metal) | Audio 201704:18 Diocletian - Doom Cult03:12 Mitochondrion - Parasignosis07:43 Opeth - Sorceress - 07 - The Seventh Sojourn05:30 Pallbearer - Devoid of Redemption09:10 Mastodon - Colony of Birchmen04:20 ANAAL NATHRAKH - FORGING TOWARDS THE SUNSET03:47 ULCERATE - Cold Becoming06:17 Arcturus - For To End Yet Again10:40 SCAR SYMMETRY - Morphogenesis (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)03:56 Inner Alchemy06:12 Oak Pantheon - Descend Into Winter06:19 Cynic - Carbon Based Anatomy15:24 Esoteric - Circle08:42 Skinless - The Optimist [High Quality]05:44 Slayer - Disciple03:42 Morbid Angel - God of Emptiness [Official Video]04:20 Obscura - Incarnated04:54 Gojira - Flying whales (lyric)07:46 Revenge- Silent Enemy04:31 Pallbearer - Foreigner12:22 Cattle Decapitation "Manufactured Extinct" (OFFICIAL)04:42 Mitochondrion - Plague Evockation (Pestilentiam Intus Vocamus, Voluntatem Absolvimus Part I)04:02 Lamb of God - 51204:49 Faceless Ones03:54 Pan-Thy-Monium- The Battle Of Geeheeb11:57 Oak Pantheon - Fear Me06:37 Hands of Thieves - Conduit of grief12:18 Blind Guardian - Nightfall05:35 Alestorm - Over the Seas03:59 PANDEMONIUM - Unholy Essence (Official Video)04:24 Alestorm - Hangover ( Lyrics )03:46 Cormorant - Sky Burial.wmv06:15 GOJIRA - L'Enfant Sauvage [OFFICIAL VIDEO]04:18 Gojira - Born in winter03:51 Gojira - Magma (Official Audio)06:43 Gojira - Satan is a lawyer04:24 Dark Tranquillity - Cathode Ray Sunshine04:15 Coal Chamber - Fiend [OFFICIAL VIDEO]03:18 Nyktalgia - Nyktalgia (HD)11:38 Starchild07:55 Soilwork - Follow The Hollow HQ HD04:03 Cormorant - Ronin03:21 Devin Townsend-The Greys04:16 Dismember - Override of the Overture05:17 Strapping Young Lad - Love? 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On March 21 2017 07:25 rauk wrote: What kinda bands do you guys listen to? Feel like I almost never see any metal discussion on TL, think I visited the heavy metal thread once a long time ago but they weren't really into the sort of stuff I'm into. I've mostly been jerking off the new Tomb Mold full length. Ascended Dead and the new Lantern are pretty cool, the latter reminds me a lot of Execration's last album. Hopped on the Eternal Champion/Sumerlands/Demon Bitch bandwagon super late. Been listening to a lot of Obituary since I'm gonna see the Decibel tour next week, I'm super excited to see Horrendous play a long set this time and hoping we get some good cuts off of their first album. Also California Deathfest final lineup is so sickkkkkkk Demolition Hammer/Dead Congregation/Merciless/Massacre/Siege/Pissgrave/Mortem
Most BM/DM/Thrash/Doom. Finnish old school death is definitely my favorite amongst death metal styles.
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You should check my friend's band Draghkar then, they're getting tapes of their demo from a euro label and Witchhammer Productions, that project is mostly influenced by Abhorrence/Cartilage/Funebre/Convulse.
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On March 21 2017 15:38 rauk wrote: You should check my friend's band Draghkar then, they're getting tapes of their demo from a euro label and Witchhammer Productions, that project is mostly influenced by Abhorrence/Cartilage/Funebre/Convulse.
Just listened to them, awesome sound!
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