Prometheus was ambitious as hell and could arguably be edited into a really good movie. As it stands, it tried to do too many things too fast, albeit prettily. What I want to see Scott get back to is the pacing of the original. The only one that came close to that was, dare I say it, Alien 3.

Entertaining, amusing, but certainly not unable to be unheard. This guy's got outsized faith in the glockenspiel.

I never saw Diabolus as Slayer attempting to reach a nu metal fan base. It's an ugly, heavy-as-fuck album. Slayer, in other words. The only thing that remotely tied it to nu metal was downtuning to C#, but you know who else did that? Black fucking Sabbath in 1972. Do some research.

The production and drum sounds on the album were an artistic choice. They wanted it to sound that way. I understand if you don't enjoy it, but that was part of what they were trying to reinvent. I really like it myself, the raw ugliness of it, but to each their own. My main point is that they went for something pretty…

Sub in St. Anger for Lulu, and I've been making the same argument for 15 years. St. Anger was the album where they broke real new ground, something that was neither 80s thrash nor 90s…whatever they were in the 90s. And they got castigated for it. I love St. Anger. I don't much like Lulu, but do absolutely respect it…

This isn't half as disappointing as the At The Mountains Of Madness demise.

Light In The Attic is one of those labels where if they re-release it, I'm at least going to listen, if not like. They dig deep into the forgotten weird.

If I'm going spendy, it's Booker's. The stuff is jet fuel by proof (usually 125-132), but still manages to taste phenomenal. Spicy but rounded. If I'm going cheap, Old Heaven Hill is great. Easily the equal of Jim Beam, but usually $7 less. Unfortunately the stopped distributing it in MN, so I've switched to Evan…

This article nails it. I watched the pilot, was blown away, then watched the first two regular episodes and never watched it again. It went from brilliantly re-imagining the zombie thing to embodying all its worst cliches instantly. They should have had Darabont do the first 1/2 dozen episodes or so, to establish the…

The thing to do would be to get present day (far, far away) Lando into the new trilogy. Not sure why he's just…not there. Seems he'd be next in line to inherit the Falcon at the very least.

I feel these comments are short on folks yelling about a white guy playing a black guy the way they do when it's the other way around. Double standard, or have they all been momentarily pacified by the election?

You and most people. I used to be in that camp, but my favorite part of Sabbath has always been Iommi's riffs, and they didn't let up in the 80s, despite being slathered in the production values of the era. And Tony Martin was a great singer, sort of a Dio-meets-Coverdale kind of voice. Course you won't dig it if…

Yep.

I only count official studio albums myself; Eternal Idol is a Martin album as far as I'm concerned. I get that there's plenty of evidence of the other singers' involvement, but if you don't make it on the shelves, you were for the most part a non-entity, historically speaking. That's my opinion anyway.

Actually, Born Again was originally not going to be a Sabbath album; neither Iommi nor Gillan wanted it to be, especially once Ward flew the coop again. The label insisted though. Iommi talks about it in his autobiography.

People go on and on about Sabbath's myriad vocalists, but as far as ones who made it onto official albums, and excepting the two records that were supposed to be released as Tony Iommi solo albums prior to the label insisting they be called Sabbath, Ozzy, Dio, and Tony Martin have been it. And Martin sang on more…

And here I thought this terrible, terrible song had already wasted enough of my time.

Guillermo Del Toro walks away from more things than he finishes. This might be good, it might not, but it won't be remotely the same in tone. Unless he's bailing to do At The Mountains Of Madness, I'm kinda ready to proclaim him an overrated primadonna.

I seem to remember you guys calling this a year or so ago…

Looks like a king has returned.