rikirachtman

[rikirachtman]

My favourite Metal Archives review quotes, part 2 of ?

"You’re not listening to Megadeth right if you don’t occasionally want to tell Dave to shut the fuck up" -Big_Robot_Monster on Megadeth's "Dystopia" 

 "Repulsion were really making their own path -- I mean Reign in Blood came out the same year and this sounds like two Reigns in Blood fistfighting each other" -GasGiant on Repulsion's "Horrified" "Want to get your ass kicked 25 years ago?" -Pyrus on Judas Priest's "Stained Class" (in 2003) "There is so much going on in each song that it's practically impossible to do anything else other than sit in your chair and experience multiple aural orgasms over and over" -tylr322 on Coroner's "R.I.P." 

"Ihsahn's vocals here mostly just feel like a beetle attempting to narrate an epic journey, except you can't trust what he has to say about it because he's a fucking beetle, what is he supposed to know?" -MutantClannfear on Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse"

"If you ignore the 3 way vocal gimp festival going on and just focus on the guitars, what you have are verse sections that literally sound like an extended fart sample" -hells_unicorn on Sepultura's "Roots"

"If the first lyric of an album is "Would you like some sweeties little girl?" you had sure as hell better follow that up with a fucking amazing experience that justifies that particular decision" -gasmask_colostomy on Ozzy Osbourne's "No More Tears"

"This is alien colonisation music" -Vortic on Demilich's "Nespithe"

“I'd need a team of excavators in order to find the bassist beneath the seven hundred billion solos being played" -PorcupineOfDoom on The Great Kat's "Worship Me Or Die!"

"The band is so intimidating that they could drop their instruments and pose like a tattoo laden Mr. Universe contest" -Blyrgan on Blasphemy's "Fallen Angel of Doom...." "like taking Black Sabbath and putting an elephant on top" -violentrestitution on Grief's "Dismal" 

"the only reason this song is 8 minutes long is because it is quite literally a four minute song repeated front to back twice" -BastardHead on Iron Maiden's "A Matter of Life and Death"   "Your grandma thinks all metal sounds like this" -Empyreal on Anaal Nathrakh's "In the Constellation of the Black Widow"

"the worst moment on this album is the unintentionally hilarious section in the overtly sexual ‘Sucking My Love’ in which Sean Harris, obviously mimicking Robert Plant’s mock orgasms in ‘Whole Lotta Love’, makes some orgasmic moans, but oddly enough he double tracks himself, giving the audio soundtrack to sodomy" -Acrobat on Diamond Head's "Lightning to the Nations"

"on Crazy Train, it sounds as if there's a roomful of lambs bleating out constantly" -Face_your_fear_79 on Ozzy Osbourne's "Blizzard of Oz" "descends into multi-tracked vocal chaos at the end. It sounds like dozens of Craig Pillard’s growling at each other across a vast chasm" -Lvondas on Incantation's "Onward to Golgotha"

"...But then I remembered that Lars is wrong about literally everything" -Tanuki on Metallica's "Hardwired...to Self-Destruct!"

#encyclopedia metallum #metal archives

[rikirachtman]

Thanks for all the great feedback, folks! I'm really happy with how the music has been received and I'm proud of how it turned out for the most part. Since YouTube compresses the hell out of audio, here's a bandcamp link to the full album in strictly audio format. Each track is available for download for free, although you CAN pay any amount if you want to (I fully don't expect that to happen lmao but THE OPTION IS THERE). Thanks again for listening if you have or plan on doing so!

#kleidion #metal #bandcamp #metal music

[rikirachtman]

Hey folks, sorry I haven’t posted in such a long time! I’ve been working on this. Since June I've been slowly piecing these songs together and I'm really happy to finally be putting them out there. A couple of quick (or not-so-quick honestly because I talk too much) notes about these recordings:

This is four brand new songs and four reworkings of previously recorded material; the fifth and final song from my original demo, The Reaper's Penance, will definitely be re-recorded and improved eventually, but I felt it was too different from the rest of these songs in style and tone to fit in with them (being more of a bittersweet ballad and not as inherently dark as the other songs; Ice Queen is also softer, but I feel like it's "menacing" enough to fit here)

Unfortunately, having only just begun to learn how to play drums before I began recording, I didn't have nearly the time needed to improve enough as a drummer to play the parts I wanted in these songs. Thus, the use of programmed drums returns; having said that, I think the "drums" I'm using now have a lot more life and feel to them than the robotic samples I was working with previously, so I don't mind them nearly as much this time around

I'm not really sure whether to call this a demo tape or a full-length album. On the one hand I hesitate to call anything official until I'm using actual drums and everything is 100% organic, but on the other I'm satisfied enough with the sound and the songs that I could almost call this a proper release. I'm still releasing it for free online mind you lmao, but having my stuff out there for people to hear is more important to me than making any money from it (as nice as that would be either way)

I made a name change after a good bit of feedback saying that Shadow Mountain wasn't necessarily a BAD name, but fairly generic. The name will likely pop up again on a different album or song, but for now the song itself has been changed to "Krakatoa" (I thought it matched some of the imagery I saw when listening to the song) and the band/project name has been changed to Kleidion, as I felt it had a good ring to it and the story was way too grim to pass up (allegedly, during a conflict known as the battle of Kleidion, captured Bulgarian soldiers were divided into groups of a hundred, where ninety-nine were blinded, leaving one man in each group with one eye to lead the rest home to their country; the Bulgarian Tsar was alleged to have died from a heart attack shortly after being faced with the sight of his blinded soldiers). The album title "Forsaken Minds" might be bordering on generic-osity again, but since the majority of these tracks deal with isolation, mental instability, all-consuming negative emotions, and other similar topics, the name felt fitting and snappy

I tried to make the mix as dynamic as possible for different volumes, sound systems, and equalization levels, but it's probably better to listen with headphones as certain bass fills and such are a bit drowned out otherwise. On the other hand, the bass can also sound overpowering depending on your settings and which part of the song it is, so idk WHAT'S going on other than me having poor mixing skills but THERE'S A WARNING

The lyrics didn't fit within YouTube's description character limit, so those have unfortunately had to be included as separate image files. Amateurish and confusing, I know, but ayyy it works

Thanks for listening/reading, let me know what you think!

#kleidion #metal music

[rikirachtman]

explain, Cronos

#judas priest #venom

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R.I.P. Aretha Franklin March 25 1942 - August 16 2018

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semaj

#metallica #kirk also wasn't even given a nametag #or he lost it #probable given his history with losing personal items

[rikirachtman]

as someone who is a fan of classical, noise, and glam, who vehemently hates grunge, i agree wholeheartedly

MORE PROOF FOR MY HYPOTHESIS

I started on the grungier side but have learned to enjoy hair metal, but even as someone who now likes both from time to time, I think everybody at least STARTS OFF picking a side right away

#Anonymous

[rikirachtman]

To this day I haven't met a single person interested in music who doesn't take a vehement, definitive side in the debate of "hair metal vs. grunge" I legitimately think the Venn diagram intersection on like, classical fans vs. harsh noise fans would probably be bigger than the one for these two

[rikirachtman]

MTV please don’t

#anthrax #charlie benante #scott ian #frank bello

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same

#megadeth

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from this page

#rob halford #judas priest

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Vampyr (1932)

[rikirachtman]

Elderly lady: "Young man, could you be a dear and help me across the street?" I oblige. I walk her halfway across the street before becoming entranced by an oncoming car's headlights and freezing in my tracks. The old lady and I both get hit and go flying. I was a deer

[rikirachtman]

>”low-rider bell-bottoms and heavy metal T-shirts” >”not believable once you cast cool guys”

oh yeah the pseudo-mullet/crop-top combo and and Ramones mushroomcut were just so much cooler than bells and metal shirts

#bill & ted's excellent adventure #disclaimer: i also love the ramones mushroomcut but yeah

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Brothers.

#):

[rikirachtman]

Vinnie & Dime-1996

Rest In Peace