Stoopid people. They should just set age limits to purchase the ticks and let adults enjoy the music if they're so concerned about the 'lyrics'. Geez, aren't we Malaysians matured enough to understand what's right and wrong? Do we still need a big brother or babysitter to tell us that Black Metal is just music?

There's one quote from South Park that I think is appropriate for this:

"You just hate smoking, so use all your money and power to force others to think like you. That's called facism." - Kyle

I guess we can replace the word smoking with 'metal music'.



Yeah. I would love to see some power/epic metal bands like Blind Guardian or HammerFall coming to Malaysia IF our government to scare them off.

This post has been edited by Wolfgard: Dec 1 2005, 12:30 PM

In Flames used to be a good death metal band, till they started messing with nu metal. Yucks. Btw, Jesper used to be in HammerFall, hehe.

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Hail hail hail and KILL?

Greedy bastards. If you order from amazon, the most it'll cost is rm60-80 for metal albums.

Cool! In Flame's Take This Life video. Too bad the sound is so much like R2R. I want something similar to the old Jester Race album, or at least closer to Clayman.

http://www.ferretstyle.com/takethislife/video/

No money to order it from overseas. Just got myself Blind Guardian's Live album and Iced Earth's The Glorious Burden

Soo....anyone planning to get Come Clarity?

According to online reviews, CC sounds closer to Clayman than the previous two albums and a few tracks are Jester Race quality. Good news? Until someone gets the album, I'm keeping my hopes high for a good In Flames album.

There's a shop in Mines selling those too. I was like @$@$@#@$ when I saw them, hehe. $19.90 for HammerFall's Chapter V album when I paid $70 for the same album from Amazon :____:

Anyway, here are the albums available:
HammerFall - Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken (aweswome album. Get it for the final song with Kronos from Venom)
Nightwish - Once (Don't really like this album, but Dark Chest of Wonders is nifty. Sounds too much like Yanni with guitars though)
Stratovarious - Stratovarius (This is their latest album, not their first despite the title)
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil (A7X's latest album, very nu-metalish.)
ManOwaR - Louder Than Hell (GET THIS ONE! Hail the almighty ManOwaR! Hail hail hail and Kill!!!)
In Flames - The Jester Race and Clayman (need I say anything? Classics, get 'em if you don't have 'em)

There are a few more albums, but I can't remember their names. Anyway, are those albums originals? I'm quite skeptical coz...$19.90 is damn cheap imo. And noticed that most of the albums are Nuclear Blast albums? That pisses me off because no Blind Guardian albums were available!

I don't think there are any metal bands that play without at least using synths. Even Iron Maiden used synths since their Somewhere in Time album and continued with that trend. I'm more of a power metal fan here so I can't say for sure about the other subgenres in metal.

Anyway, I managed to get an mp3 copy of Come Clarity from a guildmate of mine (before you guys go ballistic, I will be ordering the disk so stop hounding me ). Overall verdict, very interesting music from In Flames. It's definately better than the R2R and STUE but I wouldn't say the style is back to the old IF's from the Whoracle/Colony era. It's more of a cross between Clayman with dibs on R2R and Jester Race. The guitar work ain't that complex (sounds like trash metal imo) but the melodic tunes of the older albums can be found in many tracks. I haven't listened it many times yet so I can't comment on individual tracks, but my favs are:

Take This Life
Reflect The Storm
Crawl Through Knives
Versus Terminus
Our Infinite Struggle
Your Bedtime Story is Scaring Everyone

For some odd reason, my BT speeds never go above 1kbps (probably some router settings) so I never bothered to use it. Getting the tracks one by one thru AIM was a hassle though

As for the 19.90 discs, I don't think they're originals. Look at Tower Records, they import non mainstream albums for 69.90 each. That's about the same price if you order from online stores. I don't see how a local distributer can get the albums so cheaply. Even peeps in the States buy Nuclear Blast albums for a higher price than those distributed locally.

Whoa! They have Blind Guardian and ManOwaR!!!

EDIT: Iced Earth too! I'm surprised no Pantera there tho. And a few NWOBHM bands are missing, notably Iron Maiden

This post has been edited by Wolfgard: Feb 14 2006, 02:04 AM

Easy. If you're new to Dark Tranq, start with Projector and Haven (they have the best songs imo). Then get The Gallery and the rest is up to you. If you like the three albums I mentioned, it's a safe bet you'll like the rest. Unlike In Flames, DT's style is consistant across all albums.

Some of the songs that I like from DT:
Auctioned
Freecard
Haven
...hell, I like too many of them. Just get the full albums!



Too many covers of Aces High imo. Get the original Iron Maiden one=) And isn't Silverwing a Bruce Dickinson song? I remember seeing it somewhere, could be wrong though.

Rosenrot's available in Midvalley Tower Records.

4 more days to ManOwaR's Sons of Odin single release. Wewt!

I don't think the author (or should I say authorities) knew what the kids were doing. For them, anything that involves a grouping of peeps is a cult.

O NOES...political rally...ZOMG...POLITICAL CULT. Call the police! CIA..KGB... Yarr.

People are just tards nowadays.

Anyway, anyone here has experience with www.demonzend.com? How long does it take for an order to arrive in Klang Valley? I'm thinking of getting a couple of albums from there. Too bad they don't have Blind Guardian's Fly single...sigh.

This post has been edited by Wolfgard: Mar 2 2006, 02:18 AM

Bulk buy? Woot. I'm interested in getting some albums. Who's leading the pack?

Hmm...no one's interested in bulk buying? Oh well..

Don't forget 10th Man Standing. After listening to that song, I was hooked on Nightwish (although they still sound like Yanni with guitars ). If you like bands like Nightwish, try Rhapsody or Lacuna Coil. Or even Virgin Steele and Blind Guardian (later stuff starting from Somewhere Far Beyond. Their earlier materials are trash).

EDIT: Err... I mean trash metal, hehe.

This post has been edited by Wolfgard: Mar 9 2006, 06:40 PM

You won't be able to find any good metal albums in local stores, other than a few like Iron Maiden, Uriah Heap, Queensryche...etc.

I suggest we should bulk buy from Demonzend.com=)

I got bored of it after over-listening to that album when it came out. Now I'm listening to Ensiferum's Iron album. Folk/Death metal...rawr.

The Dragonheads EP. They just released it recently. Darn nice but they have a new lead singer (growling vocals).