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'Mind Seduction' by Disharmonic Orchestra. This whole album has been pretty great, enjoyable old-school progressive death metal with a nice helping of avant-garde. It sounds to me like what Psychotic Waltz might have sounded like if Dan Swano was their frontman.

That's true, but I always got much more of a Miasmic Bileswamp vibe from their earlier material, especially with Defenestrator on lead vocals.

Are you referring to the Elantra Coupe, the Genesis, or the Tiburon?

Frito pie is great, you take that back.

Chthonic Helminths basically means Earth Worms.

Well, I'm from New Mexico so I am contractually obliged to defend Original Fritos - and yes, the chili cheese ones are great. The lightly salted reduced fat ones can go to hell.

Yes! The Secretary of Defense will be a kumquat, all helicopters will be painted magenta and carpentry will be punishable by life imprisonment with no possibility for parole!

An apocalyptic event would destroy man altogether. Forming a moon colony cannot be interpreted as an 'apocalyptic event' either' date=' and 'altering our behaviors' seems pretty cripplingly vague. You did not allow for a change in the behavior of man in your last statement: This is pretty clearly stating that a new species is necessary and suggests that humanity is inherently incapable of such adaptation. Therefore, according to this previous statement 'complacency' has nothing to do with the inferiority of man and initiative is futile. Furthermore: The underlined section suggests very strongly to me that you hold that man was an endeavor fraught with error at its inception. So too the role of evolution is brought to the fore' date=' that it may be 'granted the opportunity to get things right'. Again, this is a pretty damning indictment and, most importantly, again removes human agency from the equation. Your new statement does nothing to clarify your position. Indeed, it seems entirely unrelated to your previous misanthropic polemics.

Well...tornado since I'm living near the ocean now. I'd rather take Harmony, Hero-era Divinefire, Serenity, Pyramaze, Thy Majestie...hell, even Rhapsody's old stuff over most of the stuff being churned out by the melodeath mill these days. I still place Serenity on a par with Dark Tranquillity and Skyfire, so even the higher-quality stuff still loses in my book. Hydra or griffin?

This does not answer FA's criticism that evolution lacks agency, and makes the further claim that man can somehow materially transcend evolution. Let me compare this with your previous statement:

Except for me. A handful of favorite bands: Unexpect, Talanas, Age Of Silence, Serenity, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Division By Zero, Gorod, Aletheian, Mirrorthrone, Lascaille's Shroud, Persefone.

PROOOOOOOOG Hendrik Witbooi or Moshoeshoe?

'Groove' by Disharmonic Orchestra. Really? Spawn of Possession always sends me nodding off. Decrepit Birth works too.

When you lot decide to go the jazz/tech-death route and compose some really groovy stuff it's simply wonderful, but there is a lot of stuff here that sounds like completely bog-standard djent. I would suggest you take the jazzy route as it would quickly distinguish you from the legions of djent bands making the same blandly techy music interspersed with boring odd-tempo chugs. The latter half of Descent with the blooping keyboard and slow chords is nice, as was the first half of Decadence. Decay is also enjoyable, the bass' prominent role is good. I can tell that you all are quite capable of keeping things fresh and peppy, and then switching to effective atmosphere-building slow bits - and I would exhort you to capitalize on those talents.

Don't fall asleep now.

'The Silence I Observe' by Disharmonic Orchestra.

'Recommended Suicide' by Disharmonic Orchestra.

'Volume' by Wide Eyes. Bwuh, there's melodic potential here but often it really just sounds exactly like Periphery. Then again that is true of perhaps every 'djent' band in existence, perpetually answering that burning question: How Do YOU Chug? It's not uncommon for me to cry listening to that song.

Would you care to elaborate?