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Wednesday, 11 February 2009
X-Blades - All the Hacking You Can Stand
Topic: My Gaming
     I had pre-ordered X-Blades at the same time as the binkini zombie slayer game who's name I don't remember right off, while in a fit of hack-n-slash enthusism that probably would have best been waited out. :lol:  Now that it's here, and in my 360, I'm kinda sorry I did.  It's a compentent hack-n-slash action game to a degree, but not nearly as much fun as games like God Of War or Conan.  The box to box, or room to room, style isn't particularly fun, and hasn't been in a decade, and to call these rooms "levels" is absurd.  Stil, I've only just begun to play it, so I don't want to shit on it too soon.  Who knows, maybe the best is yet to come.  I'm not holding my breath on that, but you never know.  Oh, and the cut scenes will give you that warm, nostalgic feeling because it looks for all the world like it was ripped straight from the old FMV games from the early ninities. :lol:  Provided you enjoyed that kinda thing.  If not, it's fucking horrible. :lol:

Posted by the Captain at 12:40 PM CST
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Review : Evisceration - Hymn To The Monstrous
Topic: Quick Review

In 1994, Portugal's death metal/grindcore outfit, Evisceration, released Hymn To The Monstrous, their one and only full length album, and follow up to their 1993 demo, In The Flesh. I acquired this one from Nuclear War Now for $5.00, which is a heck of a deal for a CD that I enjoy a great deal. Truth is, I didn't know anything about this band when I ordered this CD, and it only made it onto my order as a last second substitution for a different CD that had ended up being out of stock. Lucky accident at best. Not to mention the a death metal mood had taken over my purchasing habits at just that time, so that really was kind of a perfect storm of conditions that lead to Hymn To The Monstrous ending up in my Denon.

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Posted by the Captain at 11:55 PM CST
Saturday, 17 January 2009
Review: Beyond The Ninth Wave - Volume I
Topic: Quick Review

Beyond The Ninth Wave is a Black Metal group from Canada Volume 1 is their 2005 full-length debut featuring forty odd minutes across seven songs, limited to 1,000 copies. Seven painful songs, I might add. I picked this CD up from The End Records a while back for $11.49. Really, this one ended up at my house for a couple of reasons: First, I?m a sucker for limited edition runs. Always have been. Even if I have reason to believe that the ?limited edition? status is more an inability to sell more albums even if they were available. Secondly, I have a really bad habit of trying new music, even if I really don?t have any reason to believe that it is going to be worthwhile. Again, probably a personal flaw of some kind.

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Posted by the Captain at 12:26 AM CST
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Garlikde'th - While God Sleeps Review
Topic: Quick Review

Formed in Mosj?en in 1988, Garlikde?th was a departure for what was going on in the rest of the Norwegian scene at the time. Steeped deeply in thrash, they had little in common with their black metal brethren that ran rampant elsewhere. Unfortunately, they only managed to produce two demos, First Demon (1990) and Load Error (1991), prior to their dissolution in 1992. While God Sleeps collects these two demos onto one album for ease of public consumption.

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Posted by the Captain at 11:24 PM CST
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
Review: Metallica - Death Magnetic
Topic: Quick Review

How long has it been since there was even a glimmer of hope to be had that the former masters of metal, one of the vaunted big four, would release not a great album, but even just a good album? How long has it been since metal fans of a certain age could relish the latest Metallica release? Almost twenty years? Yea, that's a long, long time for the once great metal outfit to languish in a purgatory of mediocrity and irrelevance. I would have never guessed I would be writing these words when I caught them as a young man on the Damaged Justice tour with Queensryche oh so many years ago, but as my teens passed me by, so did the quality output that we were used to getting from Metallica.

The sad truth is, my favorite Metallica albums were all put out before the nineties began, and I have little use for anything that came after the Black album. It pained me to see one of my favorite bands go from trailblazer to sheep following the herd, but it was something I dealt with long ago, and put aside. What else could I do? I found it pathetic to watch Metallica and its members flounder with ridiculous stances on issues that had made them initially, and even worse, releasing music that would have embarrassed a "me too" hard rock outfit. It seemed as if they would never get it together.

But I always hoped. To such end, it was with great interest that I followed the hype around St. Anger, and the rumors of a much awaited return to form, only for my hopes to be once again dashed upon the rocks of disappointment by what can only be seen as a bad, bad mistake. There was nothing about St. Anger that even hinted at the promised return to form, only a misguided attempt to gain some sort of relevance by gravy training on to what they thought would be popular. Once again, Metallica was very wrong.

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Updated: Tuesday, 30 December 2008 12:35 AM CST

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