Ouch... Well, since she's alright... did she have collision coverage on the thing?

But IRL graphics suck...

Fresh right off the industrial laser scribing machines, Back to Oblivion officially drops today in Yourope and can be found in music stores in America tomorrow. So let's celebrate the return of this unsung Post-hardcore band with a review of their third album together and first full length release since 2005.


Full album on youtube

That's right, Finch is back and sounding better than ever for the second week of new music reviews. Not long after announcing their permanent regrouping and signing to Razor & Tie (the infamous Kidz Bop record label) the band went to the studio and gave us Two Guns to the Temple and earlier this month Anywhere but Here, leaving anyone who was a fan of the band before (which here means... just myself and Officer Nasty) eagerly awaiting the rest of the new album. I've got to say that I'm an definitely not disappointed. Brian's vocals are phenomenal, ranging from clean to stressed to perfectly harsh when the time is right and R2K's guitar leads are in all the right places. The drums are solid all around and really carry the grove of many tracks, though the bass lines that accompany it aren't anything spectacular. However, the tone of Dan's bass is nice and punchy, and with a good bit of mid-range playing to accent melodies, he definitely doesn't play a forgotten part on the album.

The album does a pretty good job of not blending together , and I'm not getting tired of it any time soon. Your typical heavy hitters like the title track, Play Dead, and Two Guns are spaced between more post-punk sounding tracks and one very spacey Picasso Trigger, which I'd call my favorite track from the album. A few of the lighter tracks nearly remind me of the Offspring, especially Us vs. Them and Tarot. Things then slow down quite a bit with Inferium, well, at least until the end, only to go out on the mellow note of New Wave, which puts off a really cool Alternative vibe with its shaky, delayed instrumental tones over a crisp acoustic rhythm. It's a real nice send-off.

Hopefully the album receives the commercial success it deserves and the label keeps Finch on for another. It'd be a shame for them to go on another extended hiatus after this impressive delivery, but with any luck I don't think we'll have to worry about that.

Feel free to tell me what you think of the band, and to recommend any upcoming or recent releases that you'd like to see featured. Thanks for reading, guys.
posting in news forum when?

Wait... isn't a synthetic fiber dependent on the ability to manufacture polymers with ridiculously concentrated sulfuric acid in a sterile lab environment that can't even be hand spun afterwords a little... ahead of our time here?


Balkan invasion an annexation: 10%
30,000 swordsmen - 45%

Fortifications of German border towns near Russia continues. Watch towers have been erected. Walls are now started around larger, populated areas.

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on September 29, 2014, 04:57:09 PM

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on September 29, 2014, 04:31:32 PM

I don't think he's actually perma'd here <.<

Are you allowed to look at the list?

Nope but slash gives me updates <.<

Speaking of which, Verby is perma'd for death threats towards slash. So GG verbatim, his ban was going to expire today or tomorrow as well IIRC.

I find that hard to believe...
I mean, I've got no reason to distrust Slash, but legit death threats is new for Verb.

I don't think he's actually perma'd here <.<

Are you allowed to look at the list?

Is he going on about his ban here or waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day when CL and Sage legitimately had an agenda to remove him from the Coup group?

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on September 29, 2014, 01:01:58 PM

Quote from: Lord Commissar on September 29, 2014, 12:52:06 PM

Quote from: Lady Noelle on September 29, 2014, 12:47:50 PM

Dark Souls looks kinda boring.

It is kind of boring. It's not even that difficult, it's just incredibly tedious.

Looks like a bunch of rolling around and then stabbing things when they're left open from a missed attack over and over again.

And?

That sounds almost as boring and tedious as Assassin's Creed combat.

Personal Attacks sounds quite wussy, we need an altogether new term to describe calling each other phaggots and cancerous blights upon the forum.

Suggestions?

Balderdashing?

Quote from: Lady Noelle on September 29, 2014, 12:47:50 PM

Dark Souls looks kinda boring.

It is kind of boring. It's not even that difficult, it's just incredibly tedious.

Looks like a bunch of rolling around and then stabbing things when they're left open from a missed attack over and over again.

Goddam hack and slash games keep thinking that they can add some leveling and gear stats and call themselves RPG's.

I also used to be

Now that's familiar to me.

*sigh*

I really didn't want to drop out again, but I'm going to have to :l
I'm in the middle of moving house so I just can't keep up with the game. Sorry guys, I cede all of my territory to Das and wish him to continue fighting the good fight <.<

Spoiler

[King Arthur was killed by an Archer whilst trying to find a clean drinking vessel.]

England will become a vassal state of the Reich, left to it's own devices but under our protection. If a new and rightful heir is found, the nation may become an independent once more. With this comes the dissolution of the Euroballing Union. Germany would like to know if America and Canada would welcome an Atlantic trade alliance.

30,000 swordsman - 10%

The forty inch longsword has been tested and approved for service. Plans to implement it as our main fighting blade are to be completed by page 55.

Didn't have time to lay down the toilet paper barrier?

My money is on the answer "This is Verbatim."

Verb can actually go a while before it's confirmable by sheer personality.
I say this because he did it in Coup with pleasant results until every one was informed.

He'd also have some kind of cool anagram as his name.