Laughing Man

bought physical copies of City, the self-titled, Alien, and The New Black by Strapping Young Lad; V - Halmstad by Shining (the Swedish one), Ugly, Soul Searching Sun, and Broken Valley by Life of Agony; Evangelion by Behemoth; and physical copies of Ocean Machine: Biomech and Ki (signed by the man himself) by Devin Townsend

bought the Xiądz / Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel limited edition compilation CD by Behemoth, the 2017 reissue of Emperor / Wrath of the Tyrant by Emperor, and The Dreaming I by Akhlys

3/5 - this sounds like something they'd play in Kmart. catchy, though.

"O Father O Satan O Sun!" - Behemoth

ordered The Adversary by Ihsahn and In the Nightside Eclipse, Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, IX Equilibrium, and Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise all by Emperor

pre-ordered the 15th anniversary vinyl reissue of Alive or Just Breathing by Killswitch Engage

ordered Hamartia by Novembers Doom and Music from Twin Peaks by Angelo Badalamenti

bought Nothing but the Whole and Not for Music by Emptiness @Iaredios: of those two I'd go for Crack the Skye. Leviathan's their best album but you'd probably hate it lol

2/5 - dad, is that you?

"Behind the Curtain" - Emptiness

"Magic and Mayhem" - Amorphis

pre-ordered The Future Through Whose Eyes? by Sikth and bought Escape from Leviathan by Subliminal Fear, Wintersun by Wintersun, and Elegy and Silent Waters by Amorphis

bought The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Ulver

"Fractured Millennium" - Hypocrisy

he was nice to you. you were friends. I get that. but he wasn't nice to a lot of people. he was homophobic, transphobic, and self-righteous and he insulted and hurt a lot of people on the basis of that. he never apologized, never showed regret, and continued to do it until not long before his (rightful) banishment. his health issues are completely irrelevant; that sort of thing does not excuse you from hurting others. but it's obvious nothing will get through to you. it also strikes me as incredibly hypocritical that you talk about being bullied while defending a bully, and preach about understanding while disregarding what multiple people who have been systematically marginalized, dehumanized, and bullied their entire lives have to say about him. like you said, there's more than one side to every story, so why are you only focusing on your own?

nah, but we should absolutely reject toxic, hurtful people who continually antagonise others and display their prejudices publicly and never make any effort to change or make amends Yes, of course. However, one must know the difference between a disagreeing person, and a true raging madman. One may have differing views, but that doesn't mean that they in and of themselves are the epitome of all that is wrong. If one say is brought up in a spacific pethaps theological household, and is tought that spacific things are somehow wrong and are in and of themselves too stubborn to change that view and harass others over it, that is a problem. However, if someone grew up under such conditions and strives to not only be respectful to, and also strive to help those who they may have been tought are wrong, than that person must be recognized by their good, not by their upbringing, just as an example. In any case, I think we all know the saying; "Question Everything." And indeed one must. I agree, to an extent. it just happens that the specific person I had (and I feel you have as well) in mind represents the problematic former example, not the latter.

nah, but we should absolutely reject toxic, hurtful people who continually antagonise others and display their prejudices publicly and never make any effort to change or make amends

ordered the 2013 reissue of A Predator's Portrait by Soilwork and Swamplord/They Will Return, The Black Waltz, For the Revolution, 12 Gauge, and Seventh Swamphony all by Kalmah

pre-ordered The Optimist by Anathema

ordered the 2016 Record Store Day exclusive translucent red vinyl of Fiction - Expanded Edition by Dark Tranquillity

Design Your Universe and The Quantum Enigma by Epica

"Deformography" - Marilyn Manson

"Broken Glass" - The Gathering

ordered the John Wick: Chapter 2 original motion picture soundtrack by Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard, Chrysalis by Nostalghia, and pre-ordered A Place Where There's No Pain by Life of Agony