Since my alma mater Harm.us (I remember writing for them in Year 11 of High School with a B average in English) is all but disintegrating from the inside out (it no longer works with the newer version of Firefox - in my view it's a write off.) I'll write my article on the watershed year for metal - 1994 - and how Kurt Cobain's legacy actually served to rejuvenate the metal scene despite the new wave of Alternative/grunge virtually decimating interest in the ailing genre just two years prior. I'll chronicle my progress right here at Crushtor.net in installments. I'll also be trying to contact the key players scene at the time as well as other journalists for their opinions, all the while shopping it around to various magazines to see if they'll hop on board my self-indulgent nostalgia trip and print out tickets for it (er...print it.)
The focus of the piece will center on six key albums that not only rode out to new frontiers but smashed old boundaries, breathing life into a moribund, directionless genre.
The names of the albums are:
Threshold - Psychedelicatessen
Cynic - Focus
Dream Theater - Awake
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Opeth - Orchid
As well as three albums on the cusp of this crucial period:
Paradise Lost - Icon (1993)
My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River (1995)
Anathema - Eternity (1996)
See if you can guess the common elements they share! (Hint: they all broke the unwritten oaths of flirting with the "enemies...")
By the way; does anyone have a video camera that I could borrow?
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i heard you had a grouse night, complete with halfarsed rickroll. kyle somehow left yr present behind, despite the fact that i placed it on his wallet, ready to walk out the door. doh! & all that shit. i have placed it in yr peep show dvds, which i will someday get back to you & shit.
I'll chronicle my progress right here at Crushtor.net in installments.
Please don't.
See if you can guess the common elements they share! (Hint: they all broke the unwritten oaths of flirting with the "enemies...")
Women?
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"
Read Watchmen at some stage. It's like an orgasm. But in your head. You know what I'm talking about ;)
What's better than the awesomest thing in the world?
Me.
By the way; does anyone have a video camera that I could borrow?
I do, actually!
It was pretty good. I mean, the rickroll was half-arsed, but I spose the other good elements sort of canceled it out. I will catch up with you guys soon though - hows about during the middle of the week (Wed/Thur) next week?
Stephen: I have experienced that orgasm. I called it the Manhattangasm. Best $30 I ever spent. :)
Oh good gracious me, I was joking. I don't need to know about your orgasms (headgasms or conventional). Manhattangasm? Is that like a prostitue or something?
I am now angry at you. Your birthday has reminded me of something. For shame, Crushtor!
(Seriously, though, give me your address and I'll send my video camera to your location)
Also last night I had a dream and in it was a rabbit with forks for eyes and it told me to click here, so I did.
It was surprisingly pretty funny.
middle of next week is sweet as for us, let us know for sure laterz & shit :)))))))))
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