Insomniawesome:
I agree. There are many ways to be sinister and brutal, and if I thought we'd already discovered all the best ones, I would not even be reading this column, let alone listening so several new metal albums every day. Part of what makes black metal interesting to me is its looseness and flexibility. On…

Wonderful - thanks for the clarification. Hoping to catch their NYC show on the 17th.

the Lightning Swords
split with Valdur is badass. Here's to them finishing up their full-length and not gaying it out too much because fucking Metal Blade signed them.

You guys really put me in my place. So for all my misanthropy, I humbly apologize. Negativity is BAD. I really need to be more positive. Maybe if I listen to more Matt & Kim that would help me out.

Matt and Kim:

@IWVYIYGA: you are a hipster fuck, and though i really have no opinion on Mighty Boosh, the fact that you like it so much ensures i will never give it due credit. thanks, for being a pretentious piece of crap.

oh boy
Now that this has been posted on AV Club, I can bet enrollments for undergraduate Romanticism seminars will skyrocket next year. This is a good thing, though so many filthy hipsters in one classroom gets tiresome after a while.

agreed. fuck these people. anyone who identifies with such shit should be taken out back and disemboweled.

I was never so bored in my life as at a Dream Theater show my friend Devin dragged me to back in 2001. The only good part was when they played 'Master of Puppets' for their third encore.

you know, Mayhem with Attila really put on a freaking awesome show in LA, Marduk or not. i'm surprised your column did not mention Mayhem at all.