The only recent AAA game that I think would make a good, smart action film is Deus Ex Human Revolution. It benefits from having a somewhat subtle plot and meaty ideas that I think audiences might find interesting. If done right, it could be a great action thriller, but that would mean a studio actually handing it off…

The inclusion of Entombed in this review is pretty odd to say the least.

It's a bit more than that. Major chords, conventionally melodic chord progressions and harmony, jauntier rhythms (a little more rock-n-roll groove and syncopation in parts). All very simple things, but given that US black metal has been dominated by the usual genre tropes of minor keys, "dissonant" chords, chainsaw…

This is so full of hyperbole and exaggeration you should probably win a medal or something.

It's a great album by a band that gets dismissed by a lot of metal fans, mostly because of how they dress and their marketing presence. I find this absurd, because really they're one of the few USBM bands that are actually doing something unique and new with black metal in an American context. Most of your USBM bands…

Your wish is my command.

He invented a few things. He invented the robot Guardo, the Dream Machine (the Joy Can), the reanimated corpse (Venturestein), the machines he used to clone the boys, the Walking Eye Robot, the Metasonic Locator, the mutant Spanish Fly stuff (kind of failure that one), and probably some others.

Like everyone else, I really enjoyed this episode. Easily one of the show's best season premiers. One thing I would like to add is that I was very impressed by how warm and humane a lot of it was—that really cold, misanthropic edge the show had, especially early on, seems to have been tempered somewhat. It ties in…

Yeah, the roller coaster is the Star Tours of mid-nineties visions of the virtual "cyber" future.

Never mind.

Bingo.

You're allowed to dislike someone's voice. It's called subjectivity.

I can name several metal bands that are smart, and in fact, probably a lot smarter than Isis, DEP and Neurosis—they're all kind of caught up in their own mystique. There's a whole world out there. Solefald, Enslaved, Ishahn, Fen, Angizia, Subrosa, A Forest of Stars, Fleurety, Red Harvest, Alcest, Solstafir, Gojira,…

Not to mention "Hot Shots Part Deux."

Hawkwind isn't a band, it's a cult. And one I'm proud to be a member of. I see a lot of posters not getting the Hawkwind hype, but I think that's because it doesn't seem to conform to their idea of psychedelic space rock. To clarify, Hawkwind isn't about how beautiful, mysterious and timeless the cosmos is; it's about…

Payne is many things, but a melodramatist isn't one of them. And he's far from mediocre. I think you may be confusing "hewing closer to reality" with a lack of skill here. People have described his films as condescending, but I think maybe they're just more real than people care to admit. We want to believe in this…

I hated groove metal when I was younger, but Wolverine Blues and Chaos AD are awesomely fun albums in retrospect. Pantera was and remains pretty bleh. I find their music to be one step removed from frat rock.

Kvelertak? I saw them in Seattle, and they were just what the doctor ordered. Cancer Bats were okay.

It could also be that this is a great movie that is almost universally adored by critics.

I dunno, I've met a lot of dumb black metal fans (a lot of pretentious black metal fans too actually), and I like the genre A LOT. I think the second wave was the most important thing to happen in rock music since punk, not to put punk on too much of a pedestal. But there are definitely a lot of stupid folks into it,…