Hands-down, it's gotta be D-block transition metals for sure. All the best metal and metalloids are in D-block.

Thrashy stoner metal like High on Fire or sludgy stoner metal like Harvey Milk.

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:46 am I have what can loosely be described as a frenemy.

This is perfect. I would also describe metal as my frenemy.

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:46 am I have what can loosely be described as a frenemy. I like him, but whenever we get together we're like two screaming bottle rockets with the sticks broken off. Personally, I feel this is sexual tension, but whatever.

I seem to be frequently on the search for a new frenemy. Dunno I enjoy that kind of bickering. Is it sexual tension? Actually not impossible.

I like thrash with unaffected vocals, like early Sacred Reich. Slayer falls into that category for me, too, even though Araya lets out a falsetto yell from time to time.

tallchris wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:54 pm New thread idea:

More confusing: various sub-sub-genres of metal vs various sects of Christianity

FTW!!!!

GuyLaCroix wrote: Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:57 pm Meeting someone who found dungeon synth through videogame music and not Filosofem is wild. Seek these people out.

I wouldn't consider myself much of a gamer but I sure enjoyed the hell out of the theme to Splatterhouse when you beat it.

That Old Nick release, TNOTAATPBTQASFABOOTDOSSTTEVHS, makes me laugh in the best way. No shade. It sounds legitimately creepy, badass, and ridiculous all at the same time. And its impossibly long title reminds me of the eerie first story in the surreal stop-motion animated anthology The House.

kokorodoko wrote: Iseem to be frequently on the search for a new frenemy. Dunno I enjoy that kind of bickering. Is it sexual tension? Actually not impossible.

To me these types of relationships are nerve-wracking. Why continually hang out if there's always friction? Sparks, that's why. He once told me, unprovoked, about the vast amount of Internet porn he stole. Why? Now I'm curious. Would a straight guy tell a straight friend who is a woman about his porn habits? It's mean is what it is.

I once jumped out of his moving, albeit decelerating car rather than sock him in the jaw. It was an epic argument.

Speaking of epicness where is the power metal nomination? Keeper of the Seven Keys: Pt. II saved a bad acid trip. And who doesn't like Manowar, brother? I like any form of music that sounds like you are taking flight from atop a very high building. Maybe there should be a power gaze metal hybrid. Instrumental, though. I can't imagine screeching or growling over something as glorious-sounding as this

I wouldn't say any of them are inherently the best music, but thrash takes everything that makes metal metal to the nth degree of intensity, so it gets my vote as the essence of the genre.

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:56 amWould a straight guy tell a straight friend who is a woman about his porn habits?

If he had stolen vast amounts of it, he might wanna brag.

Also, stealing internet porn? wtf?

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:03 am

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:56 amWould a straight guy tell a straight friend who is a woman about his porn habits?

If he had stolen vast amounts of it, he might wanna brag.

Also, stealing internet porn? wtf?

But also I think the relevant question in your case is: What kind of porn was it?