Micromusic.net

It’s possibly the best thing ever. It’s a community where you don’t need to switch stupid pages or anything like that. It’s by nerds like us, for nerds like us. It’s made all with old systems, using their video-game sounds to make awesome fucking techno songs. Visit this site. It’s the best thing you’ll do. Seriously, you’ll think it’s lame, but oh my god, does it grow on you. You can listen to music, post on the forums, read people’s shout-outs, and discover new artists (albeit all in the Micromusic genre) all in the same place. Without loading a new page. It’s all integrated. And It’s fucking metal.

They also have a community builder which allows you to do the exact same thing with other ideas. I’m seriously considering buying it.

So, in short - Micromusic, Chiptunes, and anything that’s that far underground kicks ass.

Google ‘4×4′ by Ikuma. It’s one of my recent favorite songs. If you like it, please check out Nullsleep and Bit Shifter.

Yes, I sold out again and started upgrading my Firefox. I just got FoxyTunes, and that could be the best thing I’ve ever done. Ever.

Essentially, It shows what I’m listening to (while I’m scrobbling.) From there, I can click a button that takes me to the FoxyTunes site, where they have the lyrics to the song, Pictures, videos of it live (and if it has an official music video), I can listen to their channel on Pandora, and just generally it’s all good.

The most bad-ass thing about it though is the signature adding. At the bottom of this post, there’s a little section at the bottom where I used FoxyTunes to post what I was jiving to at the time of writing. It’s fucking cool.

You should really check it out, just because it’s so fucking awesome. You can download it (for Firefox) at FoxyTunes.com.

In slightly related news, (going on the music aspect of this post) I called into the NotPop podcast last week. I sounded retarded. But, y’know, hopefully they play it, although it’s littered with ‘Uh’ and ‘Um’. Whatever. It still kicks ass. That’s about all I wanted to say, because I’m listening to The Black Dahlia Murder.

Currently Listening: Nocturnal By The Black Dahlia Murder ‘Of Darkness Spawned’ - (3:22)

I am so fed up with these guys. They’re a heroin needle injecting themselves into the vein of the mainstream.I was looking up information on the world-famous Slipknot, the guys who are responsible for getting the emo kids all hyped up and making them think they’re ‘Metal-Heads.’

I simply typed “Slipknot Sucks” into my good buddy Google - And I got a ton of forum posts. Most of the OPs being retarded, spineless 12-year old trendwhores who have not been properly shown real music. One particular thread caught my eye. This person goes on a mindless tirade against Slipknot with no actual evidence as to why they suck so much dick. Granted, they suck the cock a lot, but this guy doesn’t give any solid reasons besides personal opinion. But I found his list of ‘Better’ bands to be quite intriguing. Here it is, unedited, in all of it’s anti-fanboy glory:

From http://lounge.moviecodec.com:
“there are so many better metal bands out than slipknot!slipknot is like the ps2 of the music world..OVERRATED!

mudvayne
clawfinger
korn
rammstein
drowning pool
metallica

are all way way better metal bands than slipknot”

Notice how everything he notes as ‘Better’ is a Nu-Metal band?
(With the exception of Rammstein, which is an Industrial metal band, but still maintain the same amount of mainstream popularity as other Nu-Metal groups)
But at the very end there… Oh! What’s this? One of the big 4 names in thrash metal is at the bottom of the fucking list? Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Seriously, you really have to think about Metallica. I really don’t like them. I like thrash metal. Testament. Sodom. Kreator. Shit, dude, what about Slayer? Anthrax? Megadeth?

Those bands are better than Metallica, simply because they didn’t sell out.

Anthrax: Slowest Album: Sound of White Noise, but that had a lot of really good songs - Thrash classic: Among the Living, and that had Indians, Efilnikufesin, and Caught in a Mosh. - Most recent: We’ve Come for you All, and that had songs like Nobody Knows Anything and What Doesn’t Die.

Then you get Megadeth. Slowest album was Risk - Only because somebody from Metallica (I can’t remember who right now - Was it Lars Ulrich?) told them to take a Risk (where the album name comes from) and do some slower songs. The album was a critical failure. Their thrash classic was Rust In Peace, and has some of the most memorable Megadeth songs of all time, like Hangar 18, Rust In Peace… Polaris, and Take No Prisoners.

Slayer: Their slowest album was South of Heaven. That thing still kicked small children in the face. Their thrash classic was Reign in Blood. Every single song on that fucker was audio rape. If you didn’t have Angel of Death or Postmortem (What this blog is named after!) playing all the time back then, you’re not a metalhead by most people’s standards.

Then you get Metallica. Their slowest album is probably Load or ReLoad, and they both are infected with mind-numbing lyrics as well as terrible song craftsmanship. Their thrash classic (And I’ll have to say, I like Metallica up to this point in their career) was Master of Puppets, though some may argue that any album from this period was a thrash classic. I guess that includes Kill ‘Em All and Ride The Lightning. Then their latest, at this time of writing (because I know they’re coming out with a new one in ‘08) is St. Anger. What the fuck? It has shitty mastering, a terribly flaky sounding snare drum, no guitar solos, a very nu-metal sound, Hetfield’s shitty sounding vocals, as well as just being an altogether terrible album.

At least with the other thrash giants, they’ve never gotten soft. Sure, they’ve had parts of trouble, some albums being mind-blowing and others being sub-par, but Metallica has taken sub-par to another level. Seriously, listen to Battery off of Master of Puppets. Then play the title track off of St. Anger. You’ll see what I mean.

I’ll still buy Metallica’s new album once it drops, because, being the idiot I am, I’m always expecting a ‘Return-To-Roots’ for bands I used to like. Don’t get me wrong, Metallica’s old stuff is awesome. It’s just I don’t think that anything they put out anymore is going to be very fast or aggressive. And unless they prove me wrong with this next album, Metallica still sucks.

I recently spent some ‘quality’ time with the new Thrice CD, entitled “The Alchemy Index: Vols. 1 & 2: Fire & Water.”

First off - What the hell kind of a name is that? Can’t you completely skip the Volume numbers and just go straight to the element names? I bought mine on iTunes - It’s just like some random hard-to-read leather cover instead of what I though woulda been cool - A black cover with a little symbol in the middle signifying what element it was - a red little flame for fire, a blue droplet for water, a green tree for earth, and a silver (it has to be a silver foil stamp, otherwise it’s not my idea) cloud for air. Fire would be brutal, aggressive rock - Water would be songs that are slow in some parts and heavy in some parts, because water flows and crashes - Earth would make use of odd instruments, i was thinking particularly Taiko drums and acoustic guitars to give it a particularly ‘earthy’ feel, as well as not being mixed so meticulously as the others - and Air would be very mellow, making extensive use of atmospheric effects, basically an instrumental acoustic album in the vein of drone metal.

Unfortunately, it’s just a Thrice CD. Yes, it’s interesting - but really, it’s nothing awesome like I planned.

My band’s gonna use my idea. And it’s gonna be better than this.

I was gonna do a song-by-song run through on the tracks, but I don’t have that kinda time.

Oh, and I changed the comment rules on here, so if you want to comment, you can now.

And this is really, really pointless. Computer programming class. Totally. Anyway, I’ll update with cooler stuff later.

I’m back home now, and I’m ready for talking. I am thoroughly sick of people who wear band merch ‘Just Cause They Like It.’ That’s stupid. Let me list these 3 idiots…

Situation 1: I’m walking down a path at lunch. I see this dude with some Iron Maiden Vans on, right? Right. Obviously, I think this guy, because he’s sporting their “merch” - used very loosely in that sense - is a listener, right? Yeah, no, he wasn’t. He was just some random idiot who liked the shoes.

Isn’t the unwritten rule of band merch that you actually have to listen to the band to wear it? Seriously, this guy was listening to rap and stuff. I’m not saying I don’t, but he hated rock, so I doubt he was into metal, let alone into Maiden. He said something along the lines of, “Yeah, go listen to your rock music, raaah raah!” It was at this point I wanted to slit his throat.

Situation 2: I’m in my math class. There’s a chick sporting some yellow and black slip-ons. Right? I look closer, and lo and behold, they’re Circle Jerks Vans. Now, at this point, I’m freaking out - A Chick who likes Circle Jerks, right? Nope. I confronted her about her footwear, and she bought them because she needed to match this particular day. It was then when I noticed her yellow hairclip, yellow sweatshirt, and yellow-rimmed sunglasses. Scene girls these days…

Situation 3: World History. There’s a chick that sits across from me. All the way across the room. She has an AC/DC tote bag. However, her dress is very reminiscent of… Oh, let’s say, Young Jeezy. I talk to her with the intent of bringing up her bag. I bring up music, and to my surprise, she just liked the bag.

And this is how mainstream the music that meant so much to us a few decades ago has become. Obviously, AC/DC is popular. Obviously, everyone has heard of them. But to have them so popular in today’s culture that someone who has no idea what they do is buying their merch purely because ‘they like the bag’ is a huge red flag to me. Especially the Circle Jerks - I don’t think their logo print on an extremely popular shoe brand, not to mention the most popular model, is very ‘Punk Rock.’ It’s probably just giving the scene kids a bad impression of what ‘Punk’ is. To them, and to most of my generation, ‘Punk’ is Good Charlotte, Converse, Ramones and Misfits patches - even when they don’t listen to the music. I like the Misfits - I think Danzig was a better singer than Graves. But I can almost guarantee you that if you ask anyone from my generation with a denim jacket with a Misfits patch the simple question, “Danzig or Graves?” The response you will get is “…What?” The same thing for people with a Ramones patch. If you ask them whether or not they liked ‘Mondo Bizarro,’ the reply will still be the same thing. The same mindless “…What?” that is the current brain capacity of almost all teenagers, it seems.

There is no ‘Being Punk’ anymore. You aren’t punk unless you were born in the 80’s. The kids who say they are - those guys are posers. Real punks weren’t ‘Punk’ just because it was popular, cool, or anything like that. They did it because they liked the music, they agreed with the message it preached, and shared ideals with most others in their group. Punk was a movement. It wasn’t a style. It wasn’t a trend. And it certainly wasn’t extremely mainstream.

These days, there isn’t any hope anymore. Punk’s been dead, and at this rate, will stay dead.

And, by the way - It died as soon as grunge hit the scene.

Well, People have been talking about these remixes of songs from Krankhaus. I’ve looked freaking everywhere for them, and guess what?

They’re available on the official website.

Boy, I’m mad. I’m mad at the level of stupidity I’ve attained.

Anyway, on their site, the link to the Pill Binge remix of Elixir is wrong, so just look around. It’s posted on the Krankhaus Livejournal, so… Look there.

This is my official new blog.

I decided quite sometime ago that I should spend much, much more time on NotPop.

What a better way than to host my blog here? I, for one, can’t think of anything better.

I can blog, listen to music, Josh and Florida’s conversations, post on the forums…

This… Is the high life.

~ToxicTH