BSV is too busy listening to Pentacle to acknowledge your request. Try another time.
post by bloblovesmusic at Oct 15,2010 4:01pm
woah woah, organs? in metal!? Fuck yeah!
post by bloblovesmusic at Oct 15,2010 4:02pm
ok that sounded more ignorant than I meant it. I love organs in rock and metal, think there should be more. (not to be confused with keyboards and synths. plenty of that)
This thread is now about Zach Hamill's uncanny resemblance to Josh.
ha!
i also feel that Josh and Fenriz share a resemblance.
post by BSV at Oct 21,2010 12:25pm
oh fuck! what a gorgeous thread!
post by BobNOMAAMRooney nli at Oct 21,2010 4:36pm
If you trolled IRL with an in-store appearance as Zach Hamill it would be the finest moment in /r/ history.
post by BSV at Oct 23,2010 11:10pm
by satan, totally possessed by the "Ritual" cut off the full length.
also, Portrait just signed to Metal Blade. They also have a new singer, hope it works out. Philip was that special sort of deranged in a, "oh shit this guys fucking nuts", kinda way.
Zach hamill is the biggest first round bruins bust since evgeni Ryabchikov. I'd say Josh has a better chance of suiting up for the b's this year than his look alike.
those in the picture may be at optimal failure status but the cameraman has winning skillz.
post by ark at Dec 15,2010 3:27pm
ok, there is more prostrate evil prayer in this record than the entire catalog of black metal exports from norway to liberia. this band just gets it; i'm convinced Opus Eponymous has to be one of the best metal albums ever recorded.
Her pact with Satan
Her disposal of mankind
Her acts of cruelty and her lust for blood
Makes her one of us!
post by ark at Dec 15,2010 3:30pm
it's like "Ritual" makes me want to listen to MF's "Come To The Sabbath" which in turn makes me listen to "Ritual" and I CAN'T BREAK THE FUCKING CYCLE.
ok, there is more prostrate evil prayer in this record than the entire catalog of black metal exports from norway to liberia. this band just gets it; i'm convinced Opus Eponymous has to be one of the best metal albums ever recorded.
Her pact with Satan
Her disposal of mankind
Her acts of cruelty and her lust for blood
Makes her one of us!
its like they live inside king diamond's mind and steal his lyrics.
I think the satanic lyrics get a bit cheesy at times. I mean, it's pretty clear to me that at least half this album sounds like it could be about BEER and PUSSY.
I think the satanic lyrics get a bit cheesy at times. I mean, it's pretty clear to me that at least half this album sounds like it could be about BEER and PUSSY.
does not compute
pussy = satan
beer = pussy
therefore beer = satan
post by douchebag_patrol at Dec 21,2010 9:55pm edited Dec 21,2010 9:57pm
Some of you may have heard the big news today, but if you haven’t, I will tell you that today is easily the biggest day in the history of The Tyranny of Tradition blog. I have spent most of the last 24 hours dealing with calls from CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and even the 700 Club. In order to understand what is about to happen I need to give you some back-story. About 3 months ago, a good friend of mine told me that he remembered at an early Sarah Palin speech during the 2008 campaign she came out to speak to the opening riff from Godzilla by the Blue Oyster Cult. I assumed he was kidding, but he was pretty insistent about it so I decided to look it up. Sure enough, I found the footage along with an interview with her talking about music and she mentioned listening to the Blue Oyster Cult when she was in high school. Being a die-hard Blue Oyster Cult fan, this utterly blew my mind. I wanted to find out if she was still a fan so I emailed her people again and again but never got a response. I figured that she had just blown it off as a series of bizarre emails and forgot about the whole thing. Then, about a week ago…I got an email FROM HER. I was astonished. She wrote me this lengthy letter thanking me for writing to her telling me all about her love for the Blue Oyster Cult. This was too much for me. I nearly had a heart attack. I decided to push things a step further and sent her a request to write a short piece for my blog. I had been listening nonstop to a record by a band called Ghost. The album, “Opus Eponymous”, is absolutely fantastic. On a whim, I decided to ask her to listen to it and write a review. Again, I was certain that I would never in a million years get a reply, but as I opened my inbox this morning I found the following email…
Keith,
Thanks for offering me a chance to write a review for your blog. I have been quite busy recently but I took a few moments to put something together for you. Hope you like it.
Yours truly,
Sarah
A Review of Ghost “Opus Eponymous”
By Sarah Palin
Over the last few years, many of you have gotten to know me as Sarah the candidate, or Sarah the Governor, or Sarah the Mother, but I want to take this opportunity to show you another side of me. Today, I want to introduce you to Sarah the Metalhead. A lot of people think of me as some kind of stuffed shirt who doesn’t know how to rock out. Nothing could be further from the truth. Todd and I are both huge fans of heavy metal. On one of our first dates, Todd took me to the nicest restaurant in Wasilla, a wonderful little Mexican place called El Taco that is owned by our close family friend Jerry O’Malley. To impress me, he hired the mariachi band to play the Blue Oyster Cult song “Astronomy”. At that moment, I knew I was in love. Of all metal and hard rock bands, I have always had a special place in my heart for the Blue Oyster Cult. I love them so much that I even tried to get Bristol and Piper’s Jazzercise instructor to use “Burnin’ For You” as part of their warm-up activities. When we were working on Sarah Palin’s America for TLC, we tried to film a sequence where we shot a moose with a rocket launcher from a moving chopper. To get ready to use this fine piece of military machinery, I listened to the Blue Oyster Cult’s song “Vengeance: The Pact”. Unfortunately, I missed the moose and the segment had to be cut, but that song really got me ready to go.
I recently picked up a copy of a CD by a band named Ghost called “Opus Eponymous” that reminded me a lot of what’s great about the Blue Oyster Cult. The album is filled with great solos, sweeping choruses and driving riffs. When I first heard the song, “Ritual” I knew I was going to enjoy their sound. There are definitely other influences on this album as well. I noticed a lot of moments that reminded me of some of the work done by the great King Diamond on the early records by Mercyful Fate, particularly the song “Elizabeth”.
At first, I really loved the album but then I found out some things about Ghost that troubled me greatly. First of all, they make reference to Satan on several occasions on this album. There are also a lot of violent lyrics. As you know, I am strongly against young people listening to violent music. This is not the sort of thing that impressionable children should be listening to. The thing that disturbed even more was the fact that Ghost is Swedish. They seemed to speak English very well so I, of course, assumed that they were American. It makes you think that a Swede could pretend to be an American an easily get away with it. A slick talking Swedish terrorist could easily get past one of those TSA government workers and bring weapons of mass destruction into our country. I don’t want to paint all Swedes with the same brush. There are probably some good Swedes out there, but it is a fact that the government of Sweden is socialist. Ghost may not be a socialist band. They may have fled Sweden to escape their brutal and oppressive government, but they have grown up living the socialist life and these things can change a person. They probably would come here expecting some sort of government hand out if they didn’t sell enough records. We have to at least consider the possibility that their music is meant as a Trojan horse to lead our young people to violence, Satanism and the belief that the government is going to solve all of their problems.
I would advise you to not buy this album in spite of the excellent quality of the music. There are plenty of good old fashion, red-blooded American metal bands that are struggling to sell records. Why give good hard earned, American money to a group of people who are just going to give it away to people who don’t share our values?
This was in my inbox about a half an hour ago. In case you missed how this whole thing started, here’s a link to the original article. I’m really not sure what to think about anything anymore. Things have gotten simply too weird.
Anyway, here’s Sarah…
Keith,
I want to clear up some misconceptions that came up in my review of Ghost’s “Opus Eponymous”. I have received a good amount of angry emails from people who felt that I made remarks that were demeaning towards Swedish people. I even received an angry message from the Swedish embassy. I want to go on the record as saying I have nothing but respect and admiration for the Swedish people. Some of the most significant Americans of the last 100 years have been Swedes. John W. Nordstrom, founder of the Nordstrom’s retail chain, was born in Sweden. Astronaut and American hero Buzz Aldrin is part Swedish. Even wonderful entertainers like Julia Roberts and Tippi Hedren claim Sweden part of their great ancestry.
Just so you know, I was one of the first shoppers at IKEA when it opened in Anchorage. They have all of those sturdy pieces of furniture with the silly names. I think we bought a Flarn for Piper’s room that day. Every Sunday, Todd and I drive an hour to treat the family to breakfast at the closest IHOP over in the town of Chuloonawick. Every week without fail I order the Swedish pancakes. Surprisingly enough, both my and Todd’s favorite candy are Swedish fish. I ask you, do I sound like someone who hates Swedish people?
The point I was trying to make was not that we should hate all Swedes or the country of Sweden. Sweden is clearly an up and coming country. They have their own embassy, which tells you a lot about them. IKEA has a business model all Americans can be proud of. Once they grow out of their socialist phase like Russia did, they could easily rejoin the great nations that have refuted socialism and embraced values we can all stand for. The point I was trying to make in the article really had nothing to do with Swedes. It was more the idea that we should naturally be aware that some foreigners are against what we stand for and are dangerous. Since we can never be quite sure which ones are the bad ones, we must naturally be aware of all of them and treat them with appropriate caution. There is nothing wrong with a little bit of vigilance when our safety and well-being is at stake. When we are dealing from refuges from a socialist country like Sweden we must be even more prepared for the threat of potential anti-Americanism or worse. Even a writer and poet as great as Shakespeare understood this. He put it brilliantly when he wrote those now famous words “something is rotten in the state of Sweden.” I am clearly not the only one with these sorts of concerns.
I was very upset by your comments last night on MSNBC. After reading your article about the Beatles, I was sure you were someone I had a good deal in common with. How wrong I was! The statement you made about “condoning my metalheadedness but not my blockheadedness” was simply unfair. First of all, metalheadedness is not a word. Secondly, it upset me to no end to hear you give ammunition to an arm of the liberal media empire like MSNBC. They are clearly out to destroy me. In a week where I’ve experienced such awful attacks and personal suffering I would think you could have been a bit nicer. I simply will not write anything else for your stupid little blog.
Sarah
post by aril at Jan 14,2011 1:37pm
so wait, did this all really happen or is it all one big joke?
I'm still not convinced. Either way, fuck sarah palin.
Of course, none of this is real; it was just a fun way for a blogger to write a review of an album he’s recently been digging. But he definitely had me going for a moment, to the point of performing extensive Internet searches for any other information or even other links to the blog post. Let’s all give a little affectionate e-butt-smack to Keith for a nice piece of writing while we rest assured that our Republican majority House of Representatives won’t be voting to bomb Sweden any time soon.
I can't stop listening to this... It was on almost non-stop in my car for 2-3 months over the winter, and it's been haunting my apartment the last few days now... Are the 7" versions the same as the album??
