metalmaniac777

Pretty self-explanatory. Bands whose names start with the letter "A." Which one's your fave? (As always, if I overlooked your personal pet favorite, feel free to verbally punish me like a rabid dominatrix and then write in your pick.)

My vote goes to Adriangale, but if Aces High's follow-up albums had been as good as their debut, I probably would have swung that way. But Adriangale, in addition to just being a kickin' melodic hard rock band, is more consistent, so they get my nod.

Frenetic cunnilingus

J Q

Monotheistic Aardvarks

I R

Apparently I liked that last one so much I posted it twice!

Titillating Fanaticism

H S

Titillating Fanaticism

H S

Equestrian Quakers

G T

Why am I the only one on the board... again?

Could it be because the presence of your pseudo-divinity causes us mere mortals to flee like cockroaches from the light?

Or, uh, could it be because your breath smells like a gorilla's diarrhetic asshole...??

(Dunno...want me to stop tossing out theories?)

Kutless: "Strong Tower"

"Play Your Guitar" ~ Nineteen88

Gotta back up the above comments. This is stellar stuff, one of the best Christian hard rock CDs of the year, quite possibly beaten only by Skillet: "Collide." Just take one listen to "Sugar" and tell me it's not a totally killer melodic hard rock tune. Here's the link to their PureVolume page where you can hear 4 tracks from the new CD:

Kids in the Way

Excellent stuff.

Good morning, Perspirating Polygamists.

Perhaps persnickety persons peer purposely at purple-prosed pollops.

Quack.

Seriously though I have fallen in love with the Brown Star and I don't think my wife will ever be the same again.

 

Nice one Pete Jr.

Cool, best compliment of my life.

Fuck me, I'm really craving a fucking pizza with extra cheese and pepperoni right now. No, no, it's not just a craving...it's a fucking obsession. Gotta fucking have some!

I learned that one hour with a screaming baby is 10 times longer than one hour without one.

Judicious Junipers

F U

HARD CANDY

One of the best thrillers I've ever seen, featuring a cat-and-mouse game between an innocent-looking-yet-not-quite-what-she-seems 14 year-old girl and the pedophile who wants her. Razor-sharp dialogue, some gallows-humor sarcastic one-liners, and a torture sequence that no man can watch without squirming.

Seriously though I have fallen in love with the Brown Star and I don't think my wife will ever be the same again.

Nineteen88: "The Great American Rock and Roll Spectacle"

"On the Run" ~ Push

Good morning, Otherwordly Opiates.

Outraged orcas orchestrate original organic origami.

Pods.

HALLOWEEN (Rob Zombie remake)

First off, let me say that I'm not a huge fan of the original, which is just too slow-paced and tame for my horror tastes, so I had no issue with Zombie attempting a remake/reimagining. I'm just not sure Rob did a great job. The movie feels split, with the first half delving--quite interestingly, I might add--into Michael Myers' childhood. And then, rather abruptly, we launch into rushed rehashing of the original "Halloween," with absolutely zero character development. Granted, we know who these characters are because we've all seen Carpenter's "Halloween" so many times, but that doesn't let Zombie off the hook. The characters in the second half of the film aren't even cardboard, they're tracing paper. They're there to be brutally slaughtered...

...and that's where this version shines. Zombie likes his horror hardcore & hard-hitting and his bulked-up version of Michael Myers doesn't f*ck around when it comes time to kill.

So it's a movie with a split personality, the first half not really grafting well with the second half, and "split" is also how I would describe my feelings for it. As a remake of "Halloween," it leaves a little something to be desired, but taken on its own terms as a standard-issue slasher film with a high body-count, grungy visuals, and brutal kills, it delivers, even though it still has some problems.

Stalking people seldom has it's rewards.

I know, and I really wish you would stop trying to peek in the bathroom window everytime I take a shower. Keep it up and I'm gonna sic my attack ferret on you. Bad enough you mailed me those full-frontal nude shots of yourself. My wife actually got the mail that day, opened the envelope, looked at the photos, and then handed them to me, saying, "Some eunuch mailed you pictures of himself."

The latest batch is done using the Austin Powers method of having pink drinks positioned just so in every photo, so as to obscure "that which shall not be named."

Geoff hasn't named his...wedding tackle, yet??

Actually, his wife named it for him: 4T, short for T.T.T.T. Geoff thought it was mega-cool until he found out it stood for Teenie Tiny Twat Teaser. After that, he decided to simply refer to it as "that which shall not be named."

Stalking people seldom has it's rewards.

I know, and I really wish you would stop trying to peek in the bathroom window everytime I take a shower. Keep it up and I'm gonna sic my attack ferret on you. Bad enough you mailed me those full-frontal nude shots of yourself. My wife actually got the mail that day, opened the envelope, looked at the photos, and then handed them to me, saying, "Some eunuch mailed you pictures of himself."

Metalium - MILLENNIUM METAL CHAPTER ONE (1999)

 

Metalium is a decent, although totally unoriginal, power metal band that has a great lead vocalist (Henning Basse) backed by such all stars as Chris Caffery (guitars) and Mike Terrana (drummer for Rage) and sounds like a mish mosh of the best stuff from Gamma Ray, Helloween, Primal Fear, Iron Savior, and virtually every other metal band that's come from Germany in the past 20 years. Not an essential purchase by any means...

I had this a few years back. Not bad, and I kept it around for a few months, but it got boring fairly quickly and I eventually dumped it. Honestly, can't say I've missed it one iota.