News Post

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/29/girl.in.box.ap/index.html

It is good that our Judicial system is doing good things like putting this man away. The jury literally took minutes to convict him of his crime due to him pleading guilty in the first place. He stated that internet pornography interested him into becoming a cannibal. I don't know why people have to always blame something else for their own doing. Although this crime was convicted all the way in 2006 the hearing was set to this past week. They found the girls body in april of 2006. Underwood is facing the death penalty for this heinous crime and he deserves it too.
-"I wanted to know what it tasted like, and just the thought of eating someone was appealing to me."- Kevin Underwood.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery\Tarkus\Trilogy\Pictures At An Exhibition (live)/Burn Down Rome-Faith In Liars, Faith In Thieves

If you've heard prog-rock and not heard ELP you are not a real fan. People think that rush and dream theatre are amazing...THEYRE HORRIBLE! ELP comes in with ballsy music for their time. They have amazing piano lines and extremely long songs. Karn Evil 9 clocks in at 29:38, and it is an epic song never losing your attention. I always thought they were a knockoff of band U.K. (terry bozio's pre-frank zappa band), but ELP has their own style. They share some similarities but after listening closely they both have a vast array of differences which makes both of them amazing. Defenitely reccomended if you're a fan of: Frank Zappa, U.K., Rush, Dream Theatre, Iron Maiden, The Who, etc.. Overall Rating: 9/10Another great ELP release. Very odd influence throughout the album, the 20 minute epic Tarkus to me is the best part of the album. Other songs drag jazz, blues, and ragtime influence which weren't as interesting. Nowhere near up to par as Brain Salad Surgery but a very good release. Overall Rating: 7.5/10This is their more mediocre release. Their 3rd studio release, 4th album altogether. They take more of a folk/country/hoedown related theme infusing southern rock, orchestral, prog, folk, and a small amount of egyptian themed prog tinged in once or twice. The best part of the album is the keyboards and vocals. Overall Rating: 7/10Album 3 of ELP, and their first live album. A great rendition of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition. A little odd hearing it so electronicized. This is defenitely the second best album to Brain Salad Surgery. The middle of the album has an intermission with a 4 minute long blues song that keeps the fans interested throughout the whole album and they also play a rock version of The Nutcracker as their closing song. Overall Rating: 8.5/10This is an odd band. They don't sound like metal, but they are. They're on the questionable end of the spectrum. With alot of space echo effects and sludge influences. The vocals are strong raspy and a bit higher than an average scream, like that of Dan Weyandt of Zao. This EP is a masterpiece, even though it only has 5 tracks. Each song is longer than 4:14 and are all epic songs with angry vocals. Overall Rating: 10/10

Lacerated and Carbonized-Chainsaw Deflesher

Another Brutal Death supremacy demo! With hard hitting brutal vocals about Splatter. Sounds like programmed drums but are still very perfected, and they were no mistakes on this. The guitars have simple, non complex riffs and the bass...i don't they even have one. This is a good example of partially computer based music, unlike that compugrind garbage. Overall Rating: 10/10

Barbarossa-Inferno Unleashed/The Catalan Garrote-Demo 2007/Symphony in Peril-The Whore's Trophy

I was searching through metal archives and found this band yesterday and downloaded this demo. this is the one of two demos they released between 1996 and 1997 (they are now split-up). This is a classic brutal death metal album, it is not like what brutal death metal is today, but it is brutal, gory, angry, hateful, and amazingly good. Warning: this demo is not for the fate of heart of kids under 15! haha. Overall Rating: 10/10 Another band i found through metal archives. after the many name changes, they settled with The Catalan Garrote. They released this demo, which is amazing. It is deathcore with heavy ghetto rap influence. In a breakdown they use the song "Pop, Lock, and Drop It". Their guitarist is in other rap groups like CandylandTanks and Peepeespaceadventure (sex/humor/murder themed rap). Their music is quality for a local new jersey band that is just slowly getting on the rise. I expect good things in this bands future. Overall Rating: 9.5/10

I grew up on hard rock/numetal and slowly got into metal. This is a crossover band that helped me out. They are metalcore with death/thrash undertones and are loud enough to be metal. Consisting of ex-members of Zao (another band i've loved for many years) also made me appreciate this band more. (since Zao isn't a christian band anymore, i have SIP instead) Symphony in Peril sadly broke up the week or two after i started listening to them. Out of their 2 releases, this was the more controversial, but better one. Overall Rating: 9.8/10

Do Now

When you heard we were starting Shakespeare, how did you react? Why?

I will say what i said yesterday; "I'd rather get an STD than read another Shakespeare.". I'm extremely sick with the amount of Shakespeare we have read. I think he is so overrated. I feel like we could get a better feel by more obscure people or different writers than concentrating on a select few. (ex: Hemingway, Steinbeck, Sinclair, etc.) Instead of concentrating on main people such as Shakespeare and Poe. And if we do so we should concentrate on the lesser known writings, like Annabel Lee and Othello instead of The Tell Tale Heart and Romeo and Juliet.

Becoming the Archetype-The Physics of Fire/Born of Osiris-The New Reign

I got this bands first album a couple months after it came out and was amazed at the darkness in the music. I waited and pre-ordered the new album hoping for something good; and surprisingly this sophomore album topped the first. They became stronger, more speed involved. Their lyric theme throughout the album was fire, as in spiritual fire for God and the fire of satan. This is where Alex Kenis of Aletheian does good. He sucks in Aletheian because all he does is solo and make up dumb technical riffs. But in Becoming the Archetype he comes up with slightly technical progressive but predominantly death metal riffs. Track 8 "Endure", he has the most amazing tapping solo in existence. This is probably the best quality death metal album out there. Overall Rating: 10/10
This is the first full length from the band Born of Osiris' lifespan. Starting as DiminisheD (released a demo), then YourHeartEngraved (a couple demos, one being longer than this album), Rosecrance (4 demos and an EP) and then finally as Born of Osiris they released this. This is a work of art in the progressive death/metalcore genre. I'm upset that some of the songs were reissued old songs with the best parts taken out. There were no vocals, just screams. I was expecting some vocals, but it never happened. I hope on their next release that they'll spice it up and make it more eclectic instead of trying to be straight up death/metalcore. Overall Rating: 8.9/10

The Roman Holiday/Ministros Del Santuario/Arbiter of Conceit/AsHimAsHer/Fear Before the March of Flames/The Fire Restart/Darkness Before Dawn/Hallowed

The Apocalyptic Genocide of the Human Race: I found this band in the new band section of Metal Archives and it said deathcore so i gave it a try. And i was blown away at the amazingness. This is the best release of all time. I don't expect them to come out with a full length. This EP is actually Brutal Deathcore and is loaded with ballsy riffs and amazingness. The vocals are all gutteral with some screams (which i like). and the last track, after the song is done its just 2 1/2 minutes of shit, diarrhea, and constipation noises. Which is hilarious. I can't wait to get the real copy in my hands. Overall Rating: 9825609856230576230523560723462350723640234075/10
Antidiabolical: I'm good friends with the drummer of this band (he is also in encryptor, sorrowstorm, northern ash, and rehumanize, after the death of this band). He did a great job on this album. This is a compilation of their first album, demo songs, a live demo, and a bonus track from encryptor's new promo demo. This is the best christian brutal death album, given the fact there aren't many others. I like how they use the pentagram with the goat and have the red X through it. Track 7 skipped a little bit. My favorite song was track 2. Overall Rating: 9.9/10
Desecration of the Immaculate: This band has never had a real vocalist, they have had session vocalists from War Torn and Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus. The band in general though is very good quality brutal death metal. Recently they released two new songs and are planning a new full length. Overall Rating: 8/10
Retirement: This is a band i found while adding bands to metal archives. They are mediocre deathcore and just rereleased this demo under their new name The Ocean Has Eyes. Everything about this album screams mediocrity and theres not much more to say about it. Overall Rating: 4/10Probably one of my favorite bands along with saetia, agalloch, the roman holiday, and impending doom, and etc.. This is an EP (i'm hoping to order soon) of a bunch of unreleased material. Tracks 1-2 are live songs from their newest album. Track 3 was from the masters of horror compilation. Track 4 is a demo from their 2nd album. Track 5 is a demo of the first and last track of the new album. It's good they try to get all their songs out there, and the album artwork on this is awesome. I'm really looking forward to their new album being released hopefully this fall. Overall Rating: 8/10Spring 2006 demo: The Fire Restart were good while they lasted. I'm upset they broke up but i'm looking forward to their other band's materials. This is good screamo influenced christian underground post hardcore. Very strong screams and a beautiful singing voice, the unsung heroes of this genre. Like Flyleaf meets Paramore meets Flee the Scene but better. Overall Rating: 9/10Demo 2008: I found this band looking through christian bands in metal archives. The first song i listened to Material Existence was extremely talented. They fuse deathcore, blackened symphonic keyboards, and death/black vocals to make an amazing blackened deathcore outfit along the likes of Mortal Treason (but more core). This demo is of upcoming material to be released, and the stuff is mad good. Another release i'm looking forward to. Overall Rating: 9/10 Hallowed Butchery of the Son-Discography: Ryan Fairfield is a nice guy. This was his project as black-grind before he dropped "Of the Son" and became more experimental black/death. This cd is only about 18-20 minutes long. Each track is no longer than 1:55 and blasts its blasphemous beats within that amount of time. Alot of songs have really catchy lines, riffs, or beats that keep you into it for the minute its on. Extremely Blasphemous high quality black-grind. Overall Rating: 9/10

News Article 2/25

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/25/oscars.tv.ratings.ap/index.html

I think this is hilarious. That no one cares for the oscars. This year there were barely any actors i knew on the red carpet, with exception of a few (steve carrell, collin farrell, catherine zeta-jones, mike douglas, etc).  The whole deal about obsessing over actors and stuff escapes me though, what is the point to care about the new "Brangelina". Its a baby! Everyone has babies, thats life. I'm excited this may mean people will concentrate less on entertainment and actors and fashion designers and pop music and become themselves.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/25/pakistan.youtube/index.html

This also is hilarious. That pakistan was so offended by a couple of controversial videos poking fun at pakistan that they actually banned the website from pakistan. In the world, you got to understand how to take the heat from a joke and such, but pakistan is being asses and becoming ignorant and angry. If a war starts between pakistan and dutchyland i wouldn't be surprised. I'm just sick of so many wars recently though.

Pantera-Vulgar Display of Power/Saetia-A Retrospective/Morbid Sacrifice-Severed Death

Given the fact Pantera is one of the most popular metal bands extremely heightens my expectations for their albums when i listen to them. This is the only album worth listening to in my opinion. This is a hardhitting, brutal, angry, groovy, metal album. With popular tracks throughout the album (ex: Mouth for War, Respect, This Love, and many others). Anyone, who hears one of the songs on this album, probably has heard it before. The other albums by Pantera, to me, were to wimpy, pussy music. This album is just loud and ballsy enough for anyone. Even if you hate Pantera. The fact that everything Pantera has put out besides this doesn't effect the quality of the album. Overall Rating: 8/10
People are stupid. They do not know real screamo. People think screamo is: Underoath, Silverstein, and The Used (For Your Information people this is emocore).  People think that wussy garbage is like screamo, they're wrong! Screamo is practically dead with not many bands still alive playing it (Tunes for Bears to Dance to, You Be the Hawk, (members of saetia also later formed) Hot Cross, (early) As Cities Burn, and MeWithoutYou....to name a few). This is one of the earlier screamo bands from the mid-late 90's, which was closer to the end of the emotive and screamo era. This band is a stereotypical screamo band. Coming in with screams and harmonizing guitars. It evolved from a fusion of emotive (emo {not the emo most people know today}) and Hardcore. They have bashing anger in many songs which lead into light breakdowns, and extremely poetic lyrics. Only lasting 2 years and a couple months, this band put out some amazing material which was all released on a compilation, besides their last release "Eronel". This band is probably one of my favorites. I've known them for 3 years and have been accustomed to listening to this album alot. Overall Rating: 100/10
Very good christian death metal with alot of controversy tied to their band. The cover is of a church in the Czech Republic, which had some of Jesus' ashes spread on the land in the graveyard. So many people flocked to be buried their that they hired a a man to construct things (such as a chandelier) entirely out of bones, using every single bone on every sculpture he created. The other controversy is the title "Humping the Dead". The title even escapes me, i don't know what they were thinking, but the song was great anyway.  Definitely recommended to be bought by all christian metal-heads all over. Don't worry, they're even reissuing it soon with bonus tracks suspectedly. (I wish i waited so i could get the 2nd reissue instead of the first) Overall Rating: 10/10

Protector-Echoes of the Past.../Phlebotomized-Immense, Intense, Suspense

I hate thrash metal, extremely. It is the most hated genre of music to me besides pop. This is the only thrash band i can actually stand. This is a controversial band from germany. They use a pentagram in their logo, but also use alot of crosses on their album covers. But whatever, their music is good, this is a compilation of a demo, full length, and EP. It's all good. Again i'm upset ANOTHER cd has scratches on it, but luckily it's just a cd-r. Overall Rating: 3/10
Another very contreversial band. Releasing a demo called "Devoted To God" and releasing many songs singing about christianity, but not actually christian. Very awkward situation, so i dont listen to the lyrics but the music all around. This is a beautiful Avant-Garde Death Metal album. Sadly you can only find it on popular sites like amazon.com for 100$. Sadly also AGAIN more scratched cd-r's. This is an album i really need to find in the underground to get. Overall Rating: 8.9/10

Encryptor-Cryptic Works 1999-2003/HORSE the Band-The Mechanical Hand/Embodyment-1993-1996/Bury Your Dead-Cover Your Tracks/Nights Like These-The Faith

I had heard of this band and thought they were a myth. Until one day i found releases and listened to them. This amazing one man band is fronted by my friend Filepe Diez of Panama. He plays amazingly, although it's just him. This is a compilation of his first two albums, the tracks are all out of order but the album altogether is ace. Overall Rating: 11/10
Back before they were scene i used to listen to this band. Self-dubbed "nintendocore" they strongly concentrate on keyboards and video game themed songs. (such as sonic and mario). The new album released after this was total garbage, but this was their last best release. The other releases before this are extremely rare so i haven't bothered. Overall Rating: 10/10
A mastery of death metal. Played at the best ability of any christian metalhead. Intertwined with math and brutal elements these 3 demos of this bands death metal days are purely amazing. These were released when they were death/mathcore right before they became christian alternative. The best of all their albums. Overall Rating: 12/10
Most amazing breakbeat hardcore band in existence. I hate alot of hardcore except for Bury Your Dead and Point of Recognition. Bury Your Dead's first album was shit but this album and the one released after this are angry, blood-curdling, murderous, makes you want to strangle someone, hateful brutal hardcore. Last track is just 1:13 of breakbeat drums and guitar and screaming "Bury Your Fu*$ing Dead" it's a classic album. Overall Rating 20/10
I went to FYE one day and never heard of this band. I liked the cover and i sampled a song in the store and fell in love immediately. My grandma and i rocked out to this album. This is a mix of Sludge, Brutal Metalcore, Grindcore, and tinges of Death and Math. I'm really upset that the last 3 tracks are broken but the album still is amazing. Their new album upsettingly is total garbage. Overall Rating: 9.8/10 (Full title is actually: The Faithless)

Embodyment-Embrace the Eternal/Fleshcrawl-Impurity/Embodyment-Hold Your Breath

This band formed under the name Supplication back when they were 14. The band started out with death metal for the first 3 demos. This was their first full-length on solid state records. It was pure deathcore. A great album nonetheless, featuring Bruce of Living Sacrifice. The songs are very repetitive but great no matter. This was their last metallic album before they turned to alternative christian rock. Track 10 (the outro) was mad scary and a great way to end the album. Overall Rating: 8.5/10 The best release by this band by far. Brutalized vocals with doomy extreme death metal drums and guitars. It took me 2 weeks to listen to this album (due to me listening to it very late at night) but probably a good reason, because i've gotten to know the album in detail, very well. Recently i've grown away from them and found the release quite boring though. Overall Rating: 5/10It was a real upset when i ordered this album and received it in the mail without the artwork and just the cd all scratched. I'm extremely angry with the man i ordered it from. It's a mediocre album. The best song is the only one that skips. The album has very calm same vocals throughout the whole album, nothing that jumps out at you and makes it any better. The drums and guitar were very math metal oriented. Again...this band was way before their time. They were what the gay "core" music scene is into now. The album would of gotten a better rating if it was of better quality (how it was sold to me). Overall Rating: 4/10

Fleshcrawl-Descend into the Absurd/Sigrblot-Blodsband (Blood Religion Manafest)

Fleshcrawl is an old school brutalized death metal band. Like Broken Hope, they are just barely between being called death metal and brutal death metal. But whatever it is, it's amazing. They have an amazing mix between heavy death and funeral doom. Very slow at points, and then sometimes a little fast. Very catchy and amazing quality for underground death metal. Overall Rating: 8/10
This is the pure reason why i despise most black metal. This band over and over plays pretty much the same exact song. The guitar is way to loud compared to the other instruments. The bass and vocals you can barely hear, and the guitar has a really shitty compressed but overdrive sound. It is horrible. The last song is a crappy RAC/Oi rock/black metal song, and extremely boring, and the end of it was funeral black metal. That was the best track but it didn't raise the album quality up anymore to me. Overall Rating: 0.1/10

Love of my Flesh, Living Death by Lorna Dee Cervantes

Once I wasn’t always so plain.

I was strewn feathers on a cross

of dune, an expanse of ocean

at my feet, garlands of gulls.

   Sirens and gulls. They couldn’t tame you.

You know as well as they: to be

a dove is to bear the falcon

at your breast, your nights, your seas.

   My fear is simple, heart-faced

above a flare of etchings, a lineage

in letters, my sudden stare. It’s you.

   It’s you! sang the heart upon its mantel

pelvis. Blush of my breath, catch

of my see—beautiful bird—It’s you.

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This poem is so is so short but so deep in meaning. The beauty of the words of this womens past describe so much of what she was, and what she is not of now. "Sirens and Gulls. They Couldn't Tame You" is my favorite line. Meaning to me, warnings and other people, the law, etc could not control who you are. That you are your own person and if you feel like you need change, you do it. But then she twists her words around putting in a twist that that beautiful bird is actually the reader of the short poem. I love it.

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Broken Hope-Hobo Stew/Hallowed Butchery of the Son-Pure Scum/Hour of Penance-Demo 2007

This band has been always praised for their gore and sex obsession. But nonetheless and classic death metal band with great groove and rhythm that you can bang you head to. Although this is only a 4-track ep, its still of amazing standards. Overall Rating: 9/10
I found this band through my friend J.R. when he was looking for underground black metal bands. This guy has recently changed his name to Hallowed Butchery (dropped off "Of the Son") and changed his style of black grindcore to experimental black death metal. His material is very blasphemous and anarchist but of good quality. This is a full-length album and depressingly only 2 songs and comes out to only about 4 minutes of play time. Good nonetheless. Overall Rating: 7/10
The brutal death metal outfit from Italy is back with this amazing brutal 3 track demo. Hard hitting like an angry kick to the balls. Not as good as Pageantry for Martyrs due to the fact it's so short, but very superior recording. Overall Rating: 7/10

The Axis of Perdition-Deleted Scenes From the Transition Hospital\Physical Illucinations in the Sewer of Xuchibare/Death-Live in L.A. (Death and Raw)

I heard of this band through a friend. He told me they were black metal and I'm always iffy with that genre, picking out only the best. I took a listen to this band and was blown away. They scared me to the point of almost wetting myself. I was home alone listening to this and it freaked me out. The dark industrial ambience mixed with black metal and a hint of jazz. This band, drudkh, blut aus nord, and hate forest are all my favorite black metal bands. Overall Rating: 10/10
The EP which was released between their 2 full length albums limited to 666 copies on code 666 records. Not too into that deal, but the music is amazing. They took a lot of sound samples from the matrix and silent hill and deeply incorporated them into this EP. This made the sound of the album freaky and dark and extremely worth finding online to buy. Overall Rating: 11/10
I've got to admit that i love Death, but i hate live albums. I love the studio albums and then going to see them live, not hear them live wishing i was there to rock with them. This came out around the time of their last album to fund Evil Chucks cancer fund to try and cure him....sucks that he died. They played mainly newer songs from their last 2 albums and one from their first. It would of been a great show to see, but to hear on cd....no. Overall Rating: 5/10

Misery Signals-Mirrors/Disturbed-The Sickness

I found out about misery signals in late 2006 when i went to radio rebellion tour for Fear Before the March of Flames, Between the Buried and Me, and Norma Jean. They put on the most amazing performance and light show, i need to see them again. I bought this album and it was their best to date. Extremely melodic and progressive angry bashing hardcore. One of the only hardcore bands i really love. Overall Rating: 10/10

I hate shitty music....with a passion. I also hate kids that consider music like this heavy metal. This is a really good ballsy hard rock record and these little fags like to shit all over this album. This is their best album and all their new stuff is way too commercial. This is good angerful breakbeaty rock music and this album should have more recognition than this other bands total garbage. Overall Rating: 8/10

Agalloch-Pale Folklore/Crimson Thorn-Purification/Discern-Revive and Rebuke

Agalloch has always been one of the best bands. This to me is their most unpopular of the albums but one of the better ones. This album has strong black and folk metal influence and is very dark, but uplifting. The album starts out slow and catches speed but then is able to slow down and close the album very well. Although I'm not too much of a black metal fan, i love how Agalloch can fuse in the perfect amount of death, doom, ambience, and folk all together. Although I like their other 2 albums more, i can extremely respect the works of this masterpiece. Overall Rating: 7.5/10

Crimson Thorn was literally the first death metal band i ever really got into and became a fan of. Although this album is extremely amazing, it doesn't really have the best songs in existence (like Asphyxiated from their album Dissection). This album does have some amazing songs though. Like Lacking Compassion and Sarcastic Deviation. People state they are Death Metal/Grindcore, but they defenitely are not. They are death metal with jazz and groove elements poked in here and there. This album i got in the mail today with a slip cover and bonus tracks (which i wasn't expecting) But this album is sheer christian masterpiece. Overall Rating: 9.99999/10

I found out about Billy Fraser a couple of months ago. I sent out money to buy his second album and loved it, so him and i scoured the earth to find a copy of his first (because he didn't have any copies). I got it in the mail today and was amazed at how good it was. It was death metal with random spouts of jazz and death breakdowns. Defenitely the best album i've bought to this date. Overall Rating: 20/10

Bacchanalia by Matthew Arnold

I

The evening comes, the fields are still.

The tinkle of the thirsty rill,

Unheard all day, ascends again;

Deserted is the half-mown plain,

Silent the swaths! the ringing wain,

The mower's cry, the dog's alarms,

All housed within the sleeping farms!

The business of the day is done,

The last-left haymaker is gone.

And from the thyme upon the height,

And from the elder-blossom white

And pale dog-roses in the hedge,

And from the mint-plant in the sedge,

In puffs of balm the night-air blows

The perfume which the day forgoes.

And on the pure horizon far,

See, pulsing with the first-born star,

The liquid sky above the hill!

The evening comes, the fields are still.

       Loitering and leaping,

       With saunter, with bounds—

       Flickering and circling

       In files and in rounds—

       Gaily their pine-staff green

       Tossing in air,

       Loose o'er their shoulders white

       Showering their hair—

       See! the wild Maenads

       Break from the wood,

       Youth and Iacchus

       Maddening their blood.

       See! through the quiet land

       Rioting they pass—

       Fling the fresh heaps about,

       Trample the grass.

       Tear from the rifled hedge

       Garlands, their prize;

       Fill with their sports the field,

       Fill with their cries.

       Shepherd, what ails thee, then?

       Shepherd, why mute?

       Forth with thy joyous song!

       Forth with thy flute!

       Tempts not the revel blithe?

       Lure not their cries?

       Glow not their shoulders smooth?

       Melt not their eyes?

       Is not, on cheeks like those,

       Lovely the flush?

       —Ah, so the quiet was!

       So was the hush!

II

The epoch ends, the world is still.

The age has talk'd and work'd its fill—

The famous orators have shone,

The famous poets sung and gone,

The famous men of war have fought,

The famous speculators thought,

The famous players, sculptors, wrought,

The famous painters fill'd their wall,

The famous critics judged it all.

The combatants are parted now—

Uphung the spear, unbent the bow,

The puissant crown'd, the weak laid low.

And in the after-silence sweet,

Now strifes are hush'd, our ears doth meet,

Ascending pure, the bell-like fame

Of this or that down-trodden name,

Delicate spirits, push'd away

In the hot press of the noon-day.

And o'er the plain, where the dead age

Did its now silent warfare wage—

O'er that wide plain, now wrapt in gloom,

Where many a splendour finds its tomb,

Many spent fames and fallen mights—

The one or two immortal lights

Rise slowly up into the sky

To shine there everlastingly,

Like stars over the bounding hill.

The epoch ends, the world is still.

       Thundering and bursting

       In torrents, in waves—

       Carolling and shouting

       Over tombs, amid graves—

       See! on the cumber'd plain

       Clearing a stage,

       Scattering the past about,

       Comes the new age.

       Bards make new poems,

       Thinkers new schools,

       Statesmen new systems,

       Critics new rules.

       All things begin again;

       Life is their prize;

       Earth with their deeds they fill,

       Fill with their cries.

       Poet, what ails thee, then?

       Say, why so mute?

       Forth with thy praising voice!

       Forth with thy flute!

       Loiterer! why sittest thou

       Sunk in thy dream?

       Tempts not the bright new age?

       Shines not its stream?

       Look, ah, what genius,

       Art, science, wit!

       Soldiers like Caesar,

       Statesmen like Pitt!

       Sculptors like Phidias,

       Raphaels in shoals,

       Poets like Shakespeare—

       Beautiful souls!

       See, on their glowing cheeks

       Heavenly the flush!

       —Ah, so the silence was!

       So was the hush!

The world but feels the present's spell,

The poet feels the past as well;

Whatever men have done, might do,

Whatever thought, might think it too.

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Classic poetry that i also heard through a band, this time my guitarists brother in laws band Fear Before the March of Flames. They wrote a song call Bacchanalia, which made me research to find this poem. Bacchanalia were the festivals of the god Bacchus. They were originally held in secret for only women to attend. Pretty much like a lesbian orgy in a way. The flow and rhythm of Matthew Arnold has an aesthetic beauty, and uses only the best language for the writing. (such as epoch and torrents). Many people never know the meanings of these words and this man can resurface some beautiful language if only people were to read his poetry.

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Abhoth-The Tide/Bleeding Corpse-Promo 2006/Tomorrow Is Not a Promise-Grimface demo/Waking the Cadaver-s/t demo

Abhoth is notorious for their short demos. This is their single with their songs "The Tide" and "Configuration". This band is so underrated, they are really talented and really good, they just have really shitty sounding recordings. This was probably one of the only singles i would go out and waste my time buying. Overall Rating 6/10
Bleeding Corpse is a Brutal Death-Grind band from Badung Indonesia. They sound to me more-so like Brutal Death Metal but others say otherwise. This 3 track demo is some of their finest demo material from 2006. I don't even know how i originally got my hands on it, but i liked it. Overall Rating 7/10
Tomorrow is Not a Promise is an extreme underground Brutal Death-core band that i found last year. Very good production for such an underground band. In track 2 they took an excerpt from the ending of Saw II. Constant breakdowns in different forms, all throughout all 3 songs. Probably one of the best underground bands in america. Overall Rating 8/10

This is the saddest example of music to come out of new jersey. This demo is amazing because its only two songs. Once they got signed EVERYTHING went downhill. Every single solitary song is about kidnapping, raping, and dismembering a girl and putting her in a bag, or pot. It was only good for 2 tracks, for a full length hell no. New Jersey is the only band with "slamming gore groove" which is actually Brutal Death-core. Overall Rating 9/10, Full length would be 0/0.

Crutch-...Hope Prevails/Sectioned-Elme Promo

Crutch is the early incarnation of what is now Aletheian. I got a copied version of the album sometime much later due to the company i used being extremely slow in downloads. The whole album is slow and a bit less technical than the Aletheian material but still i find there needs to be something, but i don' know what it is. Track 9 "Proverbs" is obviously the best song on the album and blasts in with a mad crazy guitar lick with a person speaking in the background. This song raises up the whole album, but then there always has to be something to ruin that. Track 3 "A Cold Dark Whisper" ruins number 9's good doings. The song is poorly put together with a really crappy guitar overdrive and crappy sounding drums that sound like trash cans. The vocals and bass are off and doing their totally own thing. This drops my overall expectancy for what good can come out of this band. Overall Rating 6.3/10I went to see Obituary this past november with my pal and we saw this one amazing band called Dimentianon. Although the guitarist has pentagrams and inverted cross tattoos, he's still a really chill guy. (He's actually the chapter leader of NYDM {New York Death Metal} and LIDM {Long Island Death Metal}). We met the singer M. and bought their album off of him and he gave us this demo of his band with the drummer and guitarist of Dimentianon and other members. I brought it home and didn't listen to it in depth the first time i heard it. Zoltan (guitar for Dimentianon) formed the band in England, only to relocate in the Netherlands; so half the members are there and half the members are in Commack, New York. The 2nd time i listened to the demo was to add them to metal archives. The demo starts out with and intro that has keyboard interludes and sound samples from the movie Silent Hill. It freaks you out when you first hear it. The rest of the demo is basic straight up death metal with blackened vocals, very quality though. Overall Rating: 6.7/10