Wow...

[clappamungus]

OK, I stayed away from the band Dissection for so long, because they're always associated with that dreaded term "melodic" mixed in with "black" and "death" metal. I'm usually not a fan of black metal unless it's first wave or mixed with thrash or death metal (no, I never "got" Darkthrone, and continue to not do so), and I certainly can't stand

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[hibernaldream]

Dissection: YES. The Somberlain is incredible, though Storm of the Light's Bane is the preferred album for whatever reason. Stay away from Reinkaos, but the others are magnificent.

Emperor: NO. Anything by Ihsahn is brilliant, stfu. (That was as friendly as a stfu can be, by the way.)

In Flames: When I saw them live, they specifically avoided playing older stuff. So the "you like to suck" sounds about right.

[clappamungus]

To be honest, I've only listened to Anthems... and angL. The latter bored the utter crap out of me, and the former frustrated me because of the overuse of the fucking keyboards. And yeah, I know it's symphonic, but so's Nightwish, and I hate them too. :P

But yes. Next on the list is Storm.... I've listened to Somberlain about three times today - it's just magnificent. How come it's always the most talented artists who die early and in a somewhat strange manner???

[hibernaldream]

I know... Jon's death and Valfar's death both make me angry on a weekly basis.

[simonb3]

After listening to Reinkaos you don't exactly miss him. But The Somberlain is fucking awesome and Storm of the Light's Bane is even better.

[necrognosis]

Agreed on every fucking word! Except that I do "get" Darkthrone ;P

[carminalizarin]

You don't know me aside from perhaps seeing me comment periodically on Bjorn's journal (although that headbanging skeleton looks familiar so I might have known you from the old days of metal_community) but I just wanted to say that I am very, very, very happy for you for having heard Dissection for the first time. Nice tags, especially "the gods made heavy metal" and "anti-everything-other-people-like", hee hee. Now go out and get Storm of the Light's Bane / Where Dead Angels Lie and several more clean changes of pants.

[clappamungus]

Sorry I took a while to reply to this!

I don't think you could've seen me in metal_community, as I've never been a member there.

Anyway, you were right. I needed to burn underwear after listening to Storm... ;) Seriously, though, I think I prefer The Somberlain just slightly, although listening to something for the first time that I love generally tends to skew my opinion.

Glad you like my tags, too. I seem to be using the "anti-everything-other-people-like" one a lot these days!

Hope you don't mind if I friend you. Ill even do the colour thingy... ;)