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Last Active 10-27-18 6:52 am
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| I'm Going To New Zealand!
I got into a study abroad program where you do geology for 6 straight
months (spring semester) in fucking Middle Earth. Holy shit, I'm excited
about this. January can't come soon enough. | | 1 |  | Process of Guilt
Faemin
Really solid post-metal with a touch of death/doom. The title track is fantastic. | | 2 |  | Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
I can't believe I hadn't heard this already. Casimir Pulaski Day is legitimately the
saddest song I have ever heard. | | 3 |  | Irreversible
Surface
Post-metal with a touch of stoner sludge. I wasn't a huge fan of their past efforts,
but they've stepped up the production and fixed a lot of the songwriting issues
present on Ashes. | | 4 |  | Septicflesh
Titan
I have no idea what all the whining is about. This album is just as solid as anything
else I've heard from these guys. The vocal performance here is his best yet by far. | | 5 |  | Manchester Orchestra
Hope
I actually liked Cope, but this is just as good, if not better. Some tracks, I think,
work better with the heavier style, but some absolutely soar with this more
stripped-down approach. | | 6 |  | Thou / The Body
Released from Love
Thou's style of sludge definitely takes precedence over The Body's here, which I'm
honestly okay with: while I love The Body, Thou are a lot more consistently
awesome. For those of y'all who don't know, they'll actually be releasing a second
collaborative effort later this year, titled 'You, Whom I Have Always Hated.' If
there's a title more fitting for a collaboration between these two bands, I can't
think of it. | | 7 |  | The Body
I Shall Die Here
This collaboration between The Body and dark ambient act The Haxan Cloak is,
imo, one of the most overlooked releases of the year. This is some straight fucked
up stuff. On a slightly related note, the 2011 collaboration between The Body and
Braveyoung (titled 'Nothing Passes') is an easy 4.5/5 and only has four fucking
votes. Get both. | | 8 |  | Hexis
Abalam
This, an unholy mix of black metal, sludge, and crust punk, is the single heaviest,
most evil thing to be released this year. Get on it. | | 9 |  | Saor
Aura
Black/folk metal. Just reminding y'all that this is still the best thing that's been
released so far this year. However, Jakob's new album drops in a month or so, so I
expect this to drop to second. | | 10 |  | Hans Zimmer
The Last Samurai
Nothing much to say here besides that this movie fucking rules, and the score is
even better. Red Warrior... Hnnnggggg. | |
Ignimbrite
09.29.14 | After their collabs with Thou, The Haxan Cloak, and Braveyoung, I'm thoroughly convinced that The Body are at their best when collaborating with other artists.
On another note, I might well get a volcanology- and/or igneous petrology-related thesis out of this New Zealand deal. Fuck yeah. Grad school and a life of looking at thin sections, here I come. | Friday13th
09.29.14 | watch out for nazgul | ZombicidalMan
09.29.14 | awesome man. I'm going on an archaeology field school this summer, which will thrust me into a life of looking at prehistoric human garbage
you should go hang out with some maori, they are intensely awesome | beefshoes
09.29.14 | Sweet man.
Geology majors/grads get to do the coolest stuff, I swear. | reportingbird
09.30.14 | say hi to deviant | Ignimbrite
09.30.14 | totally down to chill with some Maori | Winesburgohio
09.30.14 | fucking cool dude you're gonna love it, find some friends who are keen to road trip and hit up the South Island Queenstown/Arrowtown/Wanaka stretch i swear to god
are u in WGTN or AKL or other? | MonotoneMop
09.30.14 | Woah fuck man, I'm going a 6 month geology study abroad thing too, but I'm only going to Brighton. | wacknizzle
09.30.14 | That's awesome, hang out with Ulcerate | MuhNamesTyler
09.30.14 | Awesome man
Hope it's sweet | adace1
09.30.14 | Nice. It's a really beautiful country, hope to go there myself one day. | Deviant.
09.30.14 | Thanks for the headsup, I will inform customs to turn you away ;) Where are you studying? | pedro70512
09.30.14 | ULCERAAAAATE YEAH
have fun man. sounds awesome. | Ignimbrite
09.30.14 | "Thanks for the headsup, I will inform customs to turn you away ;) Where are you studying?"
Geology: specifically, the program offers a volcanology track that I'm doing. Seems like as good a place as any to study that kind of thing, and by "as good as any" what I really mean is "I can't imagine any places that are a lot better." | Ignimbrite
09.30.14 | "fucking cool dude you're gonna love it, find some friends who are keen to road trip and hit up the South Island Queenstown/Arrowtown/Wanaka stretch i swear to god
are u in WGTN or AKL or other?"
somewhere around Christchurch | Deviant.
10.01.14 | Surprised I didn't think of Christchurch as soon as you said Geology. Try and avoid earthquakes | osmark86
10.01.14 | coincidentally I have a friend who studies Geology and spent 6 months in NZ as well. seems like Middle Earth
attracts geologists ^^. | Phlegm
10.01.14 | kiwi meet up 4 burger fuel | Ignimbrite
10.01.14 | yeah man there's mad geological activity at Mt. Doom | Winesburgohio
10.01.14 | burger fuel is gud but have you had Wisconsin Phlegm shit is off the chain | beefshoes
10.01.14 | I have a geology exam on Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic processes tomorrow, and a lab practical on mineral and rock identification on Tuesday.
So much stuff to memorize. | Ignimbrite
10.02.14 | I actually get a weird, kinda perverse pleasure from memorizing mineral formulas and IDs and looking at thin
sections... Pretty sure I'm gonna end up doing something igpet-related, haha.
What class are you taking? | Deviant.
10.02.14 | "burger fuel is gud but have you had Wisconsin Phlegm shit is off the chain"
I got both literally 30 seconds from my door, and I gotta say fuel > Wisconsin | Winesburgohio
10.02.14 | holy shit do you live in Hataitai or some shit because that is the dream
fuel have better chips and burger fuel might slightly edge out on taste but Wisconsin are goddamn BURGERS, plus they do bacon beef mushroom and blue cheese which may smell like foot BUT THE TASTE DEVIANT | SIMBOLIC
10.02.14 | Well new Zealand is the " free-est country in the world" apparently. But yeah beautiful country almost as nice as aus | Deviant.
10.02.14 | "fuel have better chips and burger fuel might slightly edge out on taste but Wisconsin are goddamn BURGERS, plus they do bacon beef mushroom and blue cheese which may smell like foot BUT THE TASTE DEVIANT "
Eh, but BF has THOSE TENDERS. And yeah, I live in Hataitai. Seems kind of funny saying that on here haha | zakalwe
10.02.14 | Knock about for 6mnths looking at pebbles, talking to others about pebbles, shagging sheep as a result of nobody having the slightest interest in pebbles.
Enjoy.
| SIMBOLIC
10.02.14 | lel
but hey you can still see Hobitton |
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