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Bullet for My Valentine: Scream, Aim, Conquer

Ben Welch

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In the early 2000s, a few small ex-mining towns around the South Wales valleys became an unlikely...

Sleeps Society by While She Sleeps

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Some bands play it safe when it comes to taking their next steps. But then, While She Sleeps have...

Sonofdel (6238 KP) rated Wired Gaming Keyboard in Tech

Feb 23, 2020

Wired Gaming Keyboard

Computers & Accessories > Desktop Computers

8.5

(14 Ratings)

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Excellent materials, back lit keyboard for gaming in the dark, good price, easy to install (wired) (0 more)

Great Heavy Duty Gaming Keyboard

I recently had a gaming base unit and decided I needed a decent gaming keyboard to go with it. I bought this not knowing what to expect as I had never heard of the name. Its very impressive and with the back lit keys makes it ideal for gaming. Metal throughout means its a lot more durable than most plastic ones. A good range of keys and simple user interface, comfortable wrist support too. All in all very good value and excellent quality.

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Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemistry

Bjorn O. Roos, Roland Lindh, Per Ake Malmqvist and Valera Veryazov

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The first book to aid in the understanding of multiconfigurational quantum chemistry,...

Jimmy Hayward recommended Heavy Metal (1981) in Movies (curated)

Heavy Metal (1981)

1981 | Action, Animation, Sci-Fi

7.7

(10 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"Don’t shoot! I know this picture is corny and sexist but nobody loves the whole “She-warrior in an iron bikini riding a snow leopard over her smited bloody fallen foes” more than me. You need to understand what a true cheese dealer I am. Heavy Metal is nothing if not living, breathing boogie van art. And what’s wrong with that? John Candy as Den of Earth?! Oh Canada! It came out when I was very young and I watched it a million times. It made me look at animation a whole other way and it had Black Sabbath in it! Dio AND Black Sabbath! So Rad!"

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The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination

Dominic Sandbrook

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'Delightfully good ...an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ...full of love for...

Christine A. (965 KP) rated We Sold Our Souls in Books

Jan 31, 2019

Creepy novel

Horrorstör was my 4th favorite book I read in 2015. Considering only "Ready Player One", "13 Reasons Why", and "Autopsy Room Four", a little-known work by Stephen King were the only ones to beat it that is quite impressive.

I was so excited when I learned "We Sold Our Souls" by Grady Hendrix was being published. After reading it, I am just as excited to write how much I enjoyed it. First let me say, I am and always will be, a metalhead.

We Sold Our Souls involves a broken up metal band who did not end on the best of terms.As you can imagine, their reuniting is not everyone sitting around and singing Kumbaya. Hendrix through flashbacks shows how the band broke up and why they need to fight together. I would have loved to hear Dürt Würk play. Mentioned throughout the story are well known heavy metal bands that I have to turn up anytime I hear them. Each chapter's title is the name of a metal album.

The novel did not scary me but it was creepy and definitely worth reading. I will be keeping Grady Hendrix at the top of my "authors to read anything they publish" list.

Published on Philomathinphila.com, Smashbomb, Goodreads, Twitter, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble on 1/31/19.

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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Construct by Archivist in Music

Nov 26, 2019

Construct by Archivist

2017 | Experimental, Metal, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

8.0

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If you like short songs look elsewhere (0 more)

Post metal concept album sounds terrible but actually it's not

Ads you may have noticed despite being a Hip Hop artist and mainly listening to Hip Hop I do love all music, if it good, I'll bang it through my speakers. However I must admit, although i love hardcore, metal is not my favourite genre.

This was recommended to me and the description sounded horrific, it is a sci fi concept album mixing shoe gazer with blast beats and songs getting to the ten minute mark. Yeah, terrible right? Well actually its really damn good. Parts of the album remind me of Belligerent Declaration where dark atmospheric slow meandering showcase, builds up the atmosphere before going full sonic heavy on your ears without ever destroying the feeling its creates. Its rare to listen to a song clocking over 8 minutes and then rewind it to listen again but I did.

Now I need to get their new one and watch out for them live.