Rooftrampler92

If you're a fake, you missed the irony. Too easy a review. It's too easy to highlight the poor vocabulary and grammar, as well as the misinformation and lack of musical knowledge. It lacked that touch of irony, but an irony that conveyed innocence. As it is, it doesn't even make you laugh.

Never heard from you, but you write really well. I'm not in the mood for thrash, so I really don't feel like it, great review.

five all my life, for all the moments when "Kids of the Black Hole" lifted me up. A must for all hardcore fans.

"On Wikipedia (and not just there, prove it’s not a load of crap) I read: 'Brian later stated that the meeting with LaVey was not a very significant event in his life, and in fact, he was quite disappointed.' 'It's true, I wasn't aware of that. Well, now I'm the one looking uninformed (lol). Wikipedia is usually a reliable source, so unless it was made up, I assume it's true."

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Yes, yes, Gustavo, regarding black metal you expressed a subjective judgment on the Dimmu Borgir album, but objectively you can't say "those overrated nothingness of Mayhem," because if we look at their historical relevance, the conditions in which they recorded, the musical quality, and the influence they had on black and death metal in general, Mayhem is in the Olympus of metal, despite playing little devils up and down the mountains and churches of Norway. "The beasts of Satan, repressed people without a heart," I completely agree; that's an example of pure satanic fanaticism. However, regarding Manson, we still don't agree: "If anything, LaVey wanted to give him the title of Reverend. But he refused, later saying that that meeting didn’t really give him any satisfaction." I don't know where you heard that, because Manson is still an admirer of LaVey. "One who says 'I am not and will never be a worshipper of Satan, simply because the devil does not exist' cannot be a Satanist in my opinion." On the contrary, someone who says that is indeed a Satanist because LaVey's doctrine states that "the devil does not exist; it is merely the imaginary embodiment of evil, and Satanism is the search for one's identity through experiences in good and evil." Overall, it’s the same philosophy as Aleister Crowley (do what you feel like doing), or in a broader sense similar to that of Jim Morrison or Huxley (the doors of perception). It seems to me that the idea of reverend and that of LaVey converge quite similarly.

Good job, nice review. Honestly, I've never listened to Froese as a solo artist, but I didn't mind what he did with Tangerine Dream at all (I've listened to Zeit, Phaedra, and Rubycon).

Then "almost a tribute to Alice Cooper and the golden age T-Rex with a pinch of David Bowie."
Yeah, well, Manson was a fan of Cooper, but where do you hear T-Rex and Bowie? There's not the slightest trace of them.

In my opinion, the review is very imprecise. First of all, do you know what Satanism is in America? Do you know that Manson is a reverend of the Church of Satan established by La Vey? You can’t say he isn’t a Satanist because he definitely is in every sense, not to mention he’s also a priest. The concept of Satanism, so macabre, dark, gothic, liturgical, is a mix of media inventions and obsessive fanaticism found in some individuals (see the “bestie di Satana” in Italy). Now, I don’t want to say too much, but La Vey's Satanic religion, the one preached by Manson, is completely legal and practicable. Of course, we don’t share that ideology, but Manson doesn’t kill people (unlike the Nordic fanaticism of Mayhem, Inner Circle, etc.). I think Manson is musically terrible, and as a character too, but that has nothing to do with it. The review would be more than adequate if it weren’t for this huge inaccuracy. Let me ask you a question: what does Satan mean to you? And excuse me, but you really shouldn’t have discredited black metal so casually. If we want to be objective, we could say that Death, Euronymous, and Burzum were above this Warner choir boy, both in influence, ability, and generally musically. Let’s save certain things, and besides, it’s the Internet. Damn, let’s argue.

A good artist doesn't copy, he steals!