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I never know what to put as the subject of introduction threads.

Hello. I am Kyle or Sard (whichever is fine).

I love music, though that need not be stated given what this site is about. I am also really into philosophy and other intellectual things, art, etc.

I do write and play music. The styles I write/play are extreme metal, blues, jazz classical. The instruments upon which I am proficient are: guitar, bass, violin, viola, cello, concerto bass, harp, harmonica and various percussions (timpani, djembe, marching snare, melodic toms).

I think that's a good enough introduction, yeah?

Hi, welcome! I can also play piano and violin :)

Welcome to MB. Why don't you tell us a bit about your favourite artists?

I am quite dreadful on the piano. :P

Well, there is a broad array, so I think I will list them by genre...

Extreme metal:
Dissection
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Haggard
Anaal Nathrakh
Chthonic
Faülnis
Grabneblfürsten
Agrypnie

Blues:
Sonny Boy Williamson
Booker White
Edgar Winter
Robert Johnson

Folk:
Johnny Cash
Avett Brothers
Death in June
Current 93

Jazz:
Charlie Parker
Dizzie Gillespie
Tom Waits

Classical:
Mahler
Mendelssohn
Beethoven
Arvo Pärt
Schubert
Schumann (both Herr and Frau)
Stravinsky
George Crumb
Goreki
John Cage

There are tons of others, but I tried to keep it short and to show the full range of what I like.

Welcome, have you heard the new Agrypnie album Aetas Cineris (2013) yet?

That's okay. I've been playing piano since I was 4 years old and I learned violin when I was 9 or 10. I'm alright with guitar and I have a few guitars, but not so great at other instruments.

Yes, and it is quite fantastic in my opinion. The very first track being the best, though it is not quite as good as their previous album; then again, the previous album had „Morgen” and „Der tote Trakt”, both of which are my personal all time favourites.

I don't particularly care for the drawn out instrumental atmospheric bits on Aetas..., felt like it broke the pace in a bad way. They aren't bad by themselves, but I don't care for them in that context.

I haven't got anything against that style though (I mean I do like Long Distance Calling and I like how Faülnis did it on Gehirn zwischen Wahn und Sinn).

I didn't understand half of what you just said, you'll fit in fine around here.

Don't say that!

Every time somebody says I will fit in fine, less than a week passes before I am hated by everyone.

That happened on this site I was on for general intellectual discussion and I was inquiring as to the stereotype of "rednecks" and marijuana users loving Mountain Dew. Without incident, we determined a great theory about the rednecks then, when determining the origin for marijuana users, it broke out into an all-out ad hominem war between users and non-users.

It also happened on this site/forum I was on for philosophy where I showed the origin of the "tree in the forest does it make a sound" question (Berkeley) and then proved it did beyond any measure of doubt and it devolved into a war filled with blatantly obvious logical fallacies.

It also happened on this site I was on for young classical composers, only there I didn't do anything, they all just hated me because I wouldn't take their advice on my compositions. I compose in a neo-romanticism style and they refuse to accept anything that is not modern, serialistic and expressionless wankery like writing a bit of music based on the cotangent of -30°.