Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-3547390-20171108061110

Who knows. You are right, it is perhaps just being friendly and I am living in paranoia. I guess I should be happy, people are less likely to kill someone if they know their name, so I am improving my odds by having everyone repeat it endlessly.

Oh, I have been having some depression today thinking about that. I tried working my way through Sepultura to see if I liked anything, only to bump into a song about Mortal Combat. I switched to Mudvayne, they made their album on 2001: A Space Odyssey. Then I have Lacuna Coil which I can't continue because they made a song for Vampire; The Masquerade. Megadeth did a song for Gears of War. Nine Inch Nails did the theme for Call of Duty. Within Temptation did Knights of the Temple, some obscure game in 2004, which prevents me from listening to Tarja which prevents me from listening to the rest of Nightwish which prevents from listening to Epica. Slipnot can't be listened to due to their EP being based off of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Marolyn Manson's first song comes from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Needless to say, it is like a minefield of soundtracks or influences out there. It is better to traverse than games, but it can be quite stressful to make some distance and run into one of these. So far, this is a list of bands I can't listen to after a certain point or at all.

Yep, that is pretty much me being obsessed with improving as much as I can. I strive to have optimal, so I am always trying to find some way to improve my situation. It sounds practical until I hit that point where I can't find anything, unless it also results in lengthy sessions where I do nothing but try to find the best result.

Sadly as stated, even the best stuff is more on par with Tarja (the appeal of them being new meant the first listen was pretty good, but they lack the lasting power to be really awesome and are more useful as filler between the really awesome songs) than After Forever. It would be nice to find better, I am determined to find something to compare with Digital Deceit. Against what I have heard, I disagree that it is with the Cranberries.

Sirius B pretty much is the sister album to Lemuria, so no surprise that it isn't that good either. I had an odd mixture of being bored half to death and at the same time thinking that this should be interesting me a lot more than it is. It sounds like Sirenia or late Tristania, something which has a compositional sound, yet totally feels barren at the same time. This might be useful as a sleeping aide, but not really as a listening experience, since you tend to tune them out and have to fight yourself to pay attention. Any optimism I had during the days of Vovin are gone, at this point I feel Therion just can't release anything that entirely draws me in, instead being limited to a few decent b-side tracks and a bunch of boring albums. I tried a couple times with Melek Taus, but I can't even hold my attention for that one, which might rank it as one of the most boring symphonic metal songs I have heard.

As for Gothic Kabbalah, I don't like classic rock. Van Halen bores me. It isn't a solution that can be fixed with rock opera, it is something that just sounds bad entirely. I hate any male vocals that sound like that. Gothic Kabbalah doesn't feel so much like symphonic metal as rock opera. In fact, it reminds me highly of Ayreon, who also had a giant eye on their first album and sounded like this. It doesn't help that the female singer here sounds like After Forever's Floor Janson, who also did some guest vocals on Ayreon. If you like rock opera, you might like this. For me, it was rough to sit through, and this is essentially the same deal. Unlike most, the cut between metal and rock is very important to me, unless of course it is neue deutshe harte. But usually I am not too big on any other rock, NIN has two songs I find decent in the same way I find Therion sometimes decent, but at the end of the day neither are what I would consider favorites or even worthy of normally mentioning as a band I liked. Because I don't feel I like the band, their best effort still lacks. Rock opera inspired by Ayreon was probably the worst route to go, the vocals kill it here like it did there. At the same time, it holds my attention more than the last album did (I swear this is also like After Forever's final album, which wasn't that good but definitely better than their worst). It just is a genre I can't stand and this failed to make an exception. At the same time, it captures some of the worst elements in symphonic metal and puts it under one roof.

The Miskolc Experience is pretty much exactly what bored me with Tarja, a bunch of classical music under the preface of metal that plods on for way too long. Except now it is Floor Jansen sounding, which means it sounds better than Tarja's classical albums that drove me crazy. Plus there is no Ave Maria to be seen, which is a plus in my book.

So I have continued on with Star Wars and completed Super Star Wars as I promoted last week. So with that I am officially in 1993 for Star Wars. In fact, I should mention that I am relatively close to X-Wing, which was released in February which means it will be tackled very shortly. In fact, I am already in February and just need to read Galaxy Guide 7, so assuming nothing abnormal happens I should be starting this weekend. So if you want to see me crash and burn a lot in one of your favorite flight sims, here is your opportunity :P