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Hello there!

I stumbled upon this forum while scavenging the internet for decent music forums and now, as I may stick around for a while, it seems only logical that I properly introduce myself to you guys.

I'm Mr. Sir, but my friends usually call me 'dude'. I'm extremely fond of music, especially metal, and play toys through circuit bending, cello, flute, analog synthesizers and mandolin. Other hobbies of mine are chess and aikido.

I should also mention communicating with me might turn out to be quite difficult because English is only my fourth language. I'll do my best though :)

Aaaand that was my introduction. If you have any questions, ask away!

Welcome. I think you'll enjoy this forum. You sound like an eclectic dude, Mr. Sir. Your English could put some of my English monoglot friends to shame. What is your native language?

Did I run onto the set of Holes again? Where's Shia Labeouf?

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Originally Posted by Quality Cucumber (Post 1566578)

Welcome. I think you'll enjoy this forum. You sound like an eclectic dude, Mr. Sir. Your English could put some of my English monoglot friends to shame. What is your native language?

My mother tongue is Dutch.

Welcome, Mr. Sir. What are some of your favourite bands/artists?

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Originally Posted by Ki (Post 1566580)

Did I run onto the set of Holes again? Where's Shia Labeouf?

This isn't the Girl Scouts.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Sir (Post 1566584)

My mother tongue is Dutch.

That explains it.

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds (Post 1566590)

Welcome, Mr. Sir. What are some of your favourite bands/artists?

Thank you!

If I exclude all metal bands and classical composers, which I will since fatigue tends to drain the capability of excessive typing, this would be rough sketch of favorite bands/artists: Swans, Kraftwerk, White Suns, Pink Floyd, SQÜRL, Portishead, Sleep Party People, Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, The Jesus Lizard, Fleetwood Mac, Kashiwa Daisuke, DNA, Skinny Puppy, etc.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Sir (Post 1566659)

Nice on a good portion of that. If you don't want to go into all the metal you listen to, then what genres do you dig? Maybe the band highlights from each one?

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1566668)

Nice on a good portion of that. If you don't want to go into all the metal you listen to, then what genres do you dig? Maybe the band highlights from each one?

Here's a small list of a few metal bands I listen to: Death, old Bethlehem, Dissection, Dragged Into Sunlight, Ahab, Inquisition, Evoken, Gravecode Nebula, Cult of Luna, Anata, Repugnant, Brainoil, Entrails, Root, Thantifaxath, Antediluvian, Abyssal, Sigh, Head of the Demon, My Dying Bride, old Samael, Cloud Rat, Neurosis, Secret Cutter, Ringworm, Loss, Mitochondrion, Withered, Pig Destroyer, Coroner, Bädr Vogu, Averse Sefira, Demilich, Melechesh, Taake, Spektr, Enslaved, The Chasm, Diabolical Masquerade, old The Axis of Perdition, Morbid Angel, Occultist, Asphyx, Deströyer 666, Negative Plane, Demonical, old Burzum, Rotting Christ, Thergothon, Pestilence (DM), Howls of Ebb, Acid Bath, Lithotome, Necromantia, Flourishing, Gorement, Cultes des Ghoules, Unleashed, Stoic Dissension, old Obituary, etc.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Sir (Post 1569329)

Nice mix there, and I was just listening to Acid Bath not even five minutes ago. Kind of obsessed with When the Kite String Pops ATM. Also props on Ringworm. Been really getting into old school metalcore recently, and I've been playing them pretty heavily (also some Snapcase, Arkangel, Converge, Botch, Unbroken, and I'm finally getting into Integrity).

You should check out this thread. The guy who runs it is a genius.

http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-meta...-division.html

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1569331)

Certainly not a bad selection of bands either. I'm glad you finally got into Integrity. In my eyes they've created some of the best metalcore/hardcore/... from the 90's.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Sir (Post 1569338)

Certainly not a bad selection of bands either. I'm glad you finally got into Integrity. In my eyes they've created some of the best metalcore/hardcore/... from the 90's.

I used to listen to a bit of the mainstream kind of metalcore years ago, but have avoided the genre ever since. I've been surprised at just how superior a genre it is under the surface. I'd say that by the late nineties it was probably tied with black metal as the most quality metal genre out there. Death metal was spent, thrash had been dead, doom was always too low key to really have a driving movement past a few isolated bands, I love power metal but as a genre it's always been as much about being stuck in the past as evolving into something new, and... yeah. Too bad about what happened to metalcore in the '00s though...

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1569343)

I've since long stopped pondering on which metal genre was most popular during which decade. It seems quite useless to me to do so as quality metal has been and will be made each year in a broad spectrum of genres. It's true that at the start of the new millenium metalcore set course to a rather...awful destination, but we shouldn't forget about the quality metalcore still being made today just because there's a 'lesser' version of it out there.

Welcome to MB :)

Hope you find a home here.

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Originally Posted by Black Francis (Post 1569375)

Welcome to MB :)

Hope you find a home here.

Thank you :)

Haha Mr. Sir, I like you attitude :D

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Originally Posted by TraxMusicBlog (Post 1570621)

Haha Mr. Sir, I like you attitude :D

Thank you. I think...

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Originally Posted by Mr. Sir (Post 1566659)

I like this person.

Oh yeah, I forgot your music taste ruled. Care to list some of your metal favs? And how the **** are you supposed to listen to DNA? I've listened to them a number of times over the last few years, and have slowly gone from hating them to tolerating/kind of liking them depending on my mood.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1579680)

It's all about the energy and Arto Lindsay's Derek Bailey-punk guitar work.

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If I exclude all metal bands and classical composers, which I will since fatigue tends to drain the capability of excessive typing, this would be rough sketch of favorite bands/artists: Swans, Kraftwerk, White Suns, Pink Floyd, SQÜRL, Portishead, Sleep Party People, Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, The Jesus Lizard, Fleetwood Mac, Kashiwa Daisuke, DNA, Skinny Puppy, etc.

Nice.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1579680)

Oh yeah, I forgot your music taste ruled. Care to list some of your metal favs?

You better ****ing love me for this, because I've been typing for over an hour...
I've still got plenty of recommendations left, but this should be enough for quite a while.

Spoiler for Death:

Spoiler for Black:

Spoiler for Doom:

Spoiler for Grindcore:

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Originally Posted by Mr. Sir (Post 1579974)

You better ****ing love me for this, because I've been typing for over an hour...
I've still got plenty of recommendations left, but this should be enough for quite a while.

Spoiler for Death:

Spoiler for Black:

Spoiler for Doom:

Spoiler for Grindcore:

God damn. A lot of that I haven't heard of, haven't listened to, or just am not all that familiar with, but the bolded I give you props on.

Glad I could help :)
I hope you find some stuff you like in there.

It's all about Tribulation

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle (Post 1580193)

It's all about Tribulation

I thoroughly enjoyed The Horror, but it certainly wouldn't be able to conquer a spot in my top death metal albums list. Again, great album nevertheless.

Yeah it's pretty much perfection, but Formulas of Death is a bajillion times awesomer, so that's saying something

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle (Post 1580196)

Yeah it's pretty much perfection, but Formulas of Death is a bajillion times awesomer, so that's saying something

I haven't heard that one and hadn't thought of it since it's been years ago I last heard Tribulation. I'll be sure to keep Formulas in mind when I plan on discovering some new death metal.

You should probably only listen to it if you like The Chasm

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle (Post 1580198)

You should probably only listen to it if you like The Chasm

Point taken; The brilliance of The Chasm's members probably launches themselves to (almost?) the very top of my favorite death metal bands. For thy recommendation, thou hast earned this gratitude of mine, kind sir.

Formulas of Death is some kind of death metal jam band playing in some canyon for an hour.

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle (Post 1580202)

Formulas of Death is some kind of death metal jam band playing in some canyon for an hour.

Just like that one band playing songs at that one venue?