Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-3547390-20171105174202

A bit, but nothing too severe at all. The spoilers were very minor, close to not being spoilers, and the carrots only started bothering me the last two days.

Thank you, I probably should be more vocal. I just feel it unreasonable to live in the bubble I live in.

I know how that can be indeed. You want to enjoy yourself, you want to be happy, and this little thing in the back of your mind stresses you out to the point it kills it entirely. It just eats away as you feel worse and worse about something you can entirely admit is foolish. Do I need to go in chronological order? Not really, I could stop at any time, yet doing such causes severe depression to the point it becomes impossible to handle. How it can be tolerated at all is beyond me, it is so finicky and foolish. But I am thankful you try for my behalf.

In other news, I have made it to Secret of the Runes (previous two albums mentioned above if you missed them). It is a classical story involving people with hairy feet and how reading runes can help you stop a gerbil from traveling the path of evil. I appreciated the sound, the near instrumental prologue got me excited, but the actual songs sorta simpered out to the point where I can only imagine these songs being appropriate when drinking a bunch of ale and attacking a town. Thematically, it is correct, and it has a good sound. Musically, it manages to usually bore me. A couple songs in and so far I have gone from being widely awake to feeling exhausted. Trying to examine the songs, I can't explain what is wrong, besides the fact that it feels a bit repetitive. Still, it had a good intro that stands out after the boring Deggial. Sadly it was just more of a sign of what could be than what is, which is slow and plodding viking metal with solos that pick it up and some operatic parts that are good. The songs might be a lot better if half of it didn't feel like filler. The heavier amount of tenor voices don't help, with tenor you walk a fine line between brooding and homosexual explorations by shoving a gerbil up your anus (I have been forever scarred from treating fantasy as not a gay porno, as that is what The Hobbit read like). It becomes hard to listen to the songs seriously when the latter image is presented. I like German used in music, so Schwarzalbenheim should be fine, but instead a lot of it just sounds repetitive and drawling. And slow, lumbering sounds usually end up just promoting images of a giant worm. One apparently lumbering to jam itself in some guy's anus. This is the image I got from Secret of the Runes and thus the secret hidden in thousands of years of ancient lore. The dwarves from The Hobbit bathing together with an old dude who has manipulated them to taking a giant worm up the anus.

Except Muspelheim. That song is awesome and totally turns the rest of the album on its head with its speed, aggression, and operatic nature. A shame it is such a short song, it really is the highlight here.