puntiniCAZpuntini

Go tell that metal is dead to Meshuggah, Nile, Yob, Sunn O))), Sean Malone, and Jus Oborne.

In the last 7-8 years, what does Marilyn Manson have to do with it? First you say "the 90s" and then you say from '98 onwards, make up your mind, oh. Manson released decent albums in the mid-90s, and during that time there were plenty of more innovative names: Gordian Knot, Aghora, Cynic, Neurosis, Tool, Electric Wizard, Earth, Converge, Fear Factory, koRn, Dillinger Escape Plan, Morbid Angel, Meshuggah, Mayhem, etcetera etcetera etcetera. There are as many as you want. But the main point of the nonsense you spew is: Manson... Metal? Why don't you just retire?

I, Pineapple, Pistachio, and Peach. In a cone, please.

Yes, but you are still choosing a block; you love the second one, you like the first one. On one hand, you are taking a side anyway, and it's quite normal given the huge difference between Ummagumma and Animals.

Wow, how wicked you are: you hold so much wickedness, mate. You're just way too infernal, oh!

Well Enea, yours is an interesting question, but the comparison/metaphor with orange soda doesn’t hold up; I’d say we’re more along the lines of Kinder Chocolate. You see, Kinder Chocolate has always been the king. Many have tried to dethrone it, from Bueno to Happy Hippo, not to mention Snickers and Tronky. They brought out three types of Fiesta, of which only one has survived, yet it hasn’t dented Kinder Chocolate's reign. Mars has become lighter, Raider has become Twix... everyone has given it a shot, but Kinder Chocolate was still the king of its kind. Then one day, Kinder decided to change the kid on the package, tossing away the 60s shirt with the gay stripe and the ugly face for a more modern one with a t-shirt and a crew cut. The new followers of Kinder have discovered it in this new guise and have branded the previous one as old and outdated, but the fact remains that now Kinder is standardized and in direct competition with Happy Hippo Genesis and Fetta Al Crimson or Dire Twix Straits, because there are tons of melodic snacks... but for psychedelic Kinders, there was only him, the shirt and the ugly face with a gay hairstyle. So, even though I can understand that you prefer the shirt and crew cut, Enea, the fact remains that for you Kinder is one of the greatest but still “one of,” while for me it was THE one. In the end, Kinder lost many fans that considered it a god, but for every fan that saw it as a god, it gained three that considered it a monster. It might have become a monster, but it was no longer a god. Too bad for it; it should have stuck with Shirt, Ugly Face, and Gay Hairstyle. Forget about Fanta; I actually prefer L'Oransoda.

But you see, for us he’s finished precisely because you like him. That doesn’t mean you’re inferior or superior, just on a different side. For us, he’s done because he changed sides and proposed things we don’t like, just like I believe you’re not crazy about the 12-minute live noise version of A Saucerful of Secrets. Just as some prefer the later Flaming Lips, while I find them somewhat painful because they’re too melodic, and I like the '90s Sepultura because they’re so tribal, while the true metalhead thinks they suck simply because they’re too tribal, and so on and so forth. Sure, I could say instead of "finished" that he "has changed," but since when he was doing his extreme stuff he was THE KING, while when he started making melodic things he became "one of the best," "one of the greats," but still "one of" and no longer "THE," so you could say he’s finished; he ceded the scepter, he was no longer The King Of The Gong. But don’t be a softy, Enea; this will be the eighth review where we fans of Pink Floyd make the same argument, and you know it bothers us and you enjoy it: tell the truth. You rascal.

LUKIN THIS OF MOON NEEDS TO BE ENTERED IN THE FILE! //// Music box, what a pain in the ass, and it talks about music right? It's 80 posts where you cling to a miserable "idiot," what a drag.

Or have you used "however" the way you use "precisely," just to add some flavor? Come on, explain it to us: we’re interested in everyone’s point of view, we are an open site, like Moonchild's sister.

Well, Moon, the however is a must, because this is an album universally recognized as a colossal piece of crap, and our good Carillon wanted us to reevaluate it. He meant to say <<< yes, it's a piece of crap, it's not comparable to the innovation of Mario Mensola, but still, the album features some "gems" of pure rock blues like "Swlabr," "Tales of Brave Ulysses," and "Sunshine Of Your Love," always better than a kick in the ass, but long live Mario Mensola, one of the few innovators of 90s Metal >>>. Then again, even though I won’t bother writing much in a review of a best of Mensola, in the 90s, if there’s one genre that had 180,000 twists and changes, it's definitely metal: from extreme Death Metal to symphonic, from various contaminations called Post-Hardcore, to the revival of 70s Doom, to the explosion of progressive, through nu-metal, all the way to borderline bands like Tool and Neurosis. But clearly you were too busy listening to Mensola to notice, okay, we forgive you.