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[Doom Metal]

What the hell. Here we go, once again:

I will now try doing a complete and current list of the bands I like. It may seem like a metal encyclopaedia, but believe me, for every band I like, there are 10 that I don't, so here we go:

Doom Metal
Candlemass, My Dying Bride, Orphaned Land, Trouble, Pic, Pentagram, Solitude Aeturnus, Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath, Paradise Lost (in Lost paradise), Anathema (first album), Veni Domine, Cathedral (Forest Of Equilibrium only), Esoteric, Godsend, Kyuss, Morgion, The Gathering(up to nightime birds).

Death Metal
Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Immolation, Incantation, Dying Fetus, Malevolent Creation, Asphyx, Grave, At The Gates, Dismember, Vomitory, Entombed(Left Hand Path only), Arch Enemy, Testament (in Demonic era), Demilich, Death, Demigod, Yattering, Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal, Cryptopsy, Morgoth, Theory In Practice, Cynic, Death, Atheist, Suffocation, Anacrusis, Tiamat, Opeth, Krisun, Origin.  

Black Metal
...In The Woods, Arcturus, Ulver.

Thrash Metal
Metallica, Anthrax, Valley's Eve, Corrosion Of Conformity (Animosty era), The Haunted, Sacred Reich, Destruction, Kreator, Whiplash, Exodus, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Tankard, Artillery, Testament, Megadeth, Slayer, Sepultura, Sodom, Dark Angel, Burn My Eyes era Machine Head, Grip Inc, Exodus, Floatsam and Jetsam.

Epic Metal
Manilla Road, Omen, Gargoyle, Candlemass (yes, again), first record Heir Apparent, Virgin Steele, maybe Blind Guardian too.

Heavy Metal
Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Blitzkrieg, Diamond Head, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Diamond Head, Angelwitch, Vardis, Fist.


Power Metal
Nevermore (Politics Of Ecstasy era), Helstar, Sanctuary, Helloween (up and including Keeper 2, especially Walls of Jericho and the Judas EP), Rage, Crimson Glory, Chroming Rose, Exxplorer (first record only), Mind Odyssey, Tokyo Blade, Jag Panzer, Gamma ray.

Progressive Metal
Fates Warning, Queensryche, Savatage, Psychotic Waltz, Watchtower, Pain Of Salvation, Shadow Gallery, Aghora, Maohni Moahna, Sieges Even, Dysrhythmia, Last Crack, latter day Heir Apparent, Maggelan, Spastic Ink, Vauxdvhil, Threshhold, Confessor, Lethal, Depressive Age, Quite Room, Mekong Delta, Jester's March, Believer, Abraxxas (I've only heard their e.p Shattered by a Terrible Prediction, but that very impressive prog-power), Cynic, Atheist, Coroner, Sadus, Seer's Tear (much like Psychotic Waltz), Crimson Glory, Spiral Architect (Fates Warning vocals meet Watchtower zanyness), Lord bane, Anacrusis, Black Jester, Cacophony(impress-your-friends-solos by Jeff Beck and Marty Friedman based on classical music), Conception, Thought Industry, Kalaban, Mordred, Savior Machine, Tiles, Varga, Damn The Machine.


Progressive Rock
Altura, Anekdoten, Asia, Bedful of Metaphysicians, Cairo, Can, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Caravan, Camel, Clockhammer, David Cross and assorted bands, Cynic, deathORGAN, Al Di Meola and assorted bands, Einstürzende Neubauten, Eloy, ELP, Enchant, Exodus (polish, not american thrash band), Experimental, Fates Warning Fish (first solo record only), Garden Wall, Gentle Giant, Gordian Knot, Allan Holdsworth, IQ, Ithaka, King Crimson - get everything, Kraftwerk, Leviathan (USA), Lucifer Was, Maggelan, Magma, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Marillion, Nektar, Mike Oldfield, Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, Psychotic Waltz, Quill, Rush, Shadow Gallery, Sieges Even, Soft Machine, St. Elmo's Fire, Supertramp, Tangerine Dream, Thinking Plague, Univers Zero, Van der Graaf Generator, Voivod, Watchtower, Yes, Frank Zappa.
Gothic, generally
Fields Of The Nephilim, Garden Of Delight, Cassandra's Complex, Sisters Of Mercy, Joy Division, Bauhaus.

Ambient, Minimal or otherwise
Eno, Rene Aubry, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Set Fire To Flames.

Punk, Hardcore, etc
Snot, Dead Kennedys, The Offspring,  Subhumans, Dirty Rotten Imbecilles, Grief, Eye Hate God, Iron Monkey, Converge, Discharge, Boy Hits Car, At The Drive-In, Raging Speedhorn, Crumbsuckers, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Killing Joke, Blind Idiot God, Britney Spears, Rage Against The Machine, Conflict, Crass, Pennywise.

Industrial
Swans, Throbbing Gristle, NON, God.  

Classical
Bach, Paganini, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Vivaldi.

Bastard Category
Carnival In Coal, Faith No More, Tori Amos, Apocalyptica, A Perfect Circle Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Tool, Neurosis, Atrox, Alice In Chains, Radiohead, Haggard.

Grind
Vomitorial Corpulence, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Extreme Noise Terror, Napalm Death, Crephallic Carnage, 7 minutes of Nausea, Nasum, Discordance Axis, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Pig Destroyer.  

Noise
Merzbow, DeadGuy, Anal Cunt, Today Is The Day.
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Classical:
Rachmanninov, Mussorgsky, Bach, List, Chopin

[/b]Fusion, Jazz:[/b]

Al Di Meola, John Mclaughlin, Paco de lucia, Death and taxes, Victor Wooten


I'll just save this again for the next time a thread of this type resurfaces.

What, no GWAR? I like my share of metal, but to me, nothing tops GWAR.

No one even mentioned Led Zeppelin!!! nor Jimi Hendrix.... WTF!!

I really don't like Led Zeppelin because I consider Robert Plant to be an untalented, drunken harpy in disguise. It's difficult because I love Jimmy Page, but I shall never get over my intense dislike for that poofy haired idiot that sings for them.

he looks like whore

He dresses like Christina Aguliera. I was half expecting him to be in the Lady Marmelade video. Then again, I was expecting Bootsy Collins in the Lady Marmelade video too. That would've been a great music video.

Oranges -  I'm not a nerd!!1! I haven't even seen the newest Lord of the Rings movie!

Maestro Colossal - I usually hate rap, but how can you hate rap about Boba Fett by a nerdy cartoonist? And is 'SubZero by Praga Kahn' the SubZero song featured in Bob the Angry Flower? I've always wondered who that guy was. If it is, then I add that to my favorite music list as well.

My top three favorite bands of all time are Queen, The Aquabats and GWAR. Other bands I really like are Three Dog Night, Aerosmith, The Moody Blues, Stone Temple Pilots, Steve Miller Band, The Laziest Men on Mars, The B52s, Blondie, They Might Be Giants, Duran Duran, The Monkees and The Beatles. Singers I like are Billy Idol, Falco, Johnny Cash, MC Chris, Hikaru Utada, Shakira (shut the hell up) and Wierd Al.

I like most anything from the 80's (Which is one of the reasons GTA: Vice City is one of my favorite games ever) and early 90's rap about video games or cartoons (Ninja Rap!) and music from video games in general. I also like Captain Lou Albano, especially in his Super Mario Brothers Super Show days. And looking at my Winamp list, I have more clips from MST3K than I do anything else.

Okay, I'm finally going to make a topic here explaining the wierd ass game I'm making. Be wary, it's a lot of stuff.

The backstory of the game is this: The player character is Pancake, the name Finneas Jones (a character from my now dead novel) gave herself when she couldn't remember her real one due to raving lunacy. She based the name off of pancake makeup, because she has a crazy obsession with clowns. Because of her clownophilia, she's being kept in an insane asylum called the Crazee House, which is run by a serial killer old man named Hickory St.James.

These evil clowns (which I do realize are a tad cliched, but I promise not to use many evil space clown stereotypes) come to Earth from space and use a ray from their evil clown car to turn everyone and everything in the world nonsensical and insane. Unfortunately for the evil clowns, now that everything around them is insane, the people who are already insane can now function relatively normally.

The game starts in Pancake's room in the Crazee House. There will be several different 'worlds'  that will have no sensible transition between each, due to everything being all crazy, including locations and time. Each world will have one puzzle to finish to get to the next world. Also, I hope to have Pancake's outfit will change for each world, like Kyrandia 2.

I hope to plan out two endings for the game depending on how you have Pancake react to certain people, one ending good and the other not so much. And maybe if I'm feeling up to it, I'll do a Scooby Doo ending. I already have some of the puzzles outlined, I have a ton of production art of characters and backgrounds. I figure I'll get everything planned out and drawn up before I actually begin putting it together in AGS, since I have yet to learn enough of the programming. The intro and cutscenes will be done in Flash, and possibly the backgrounds as well (because every background I've done in Flash has turned out better than the ones I've done in PSP).

I think that's it. I hope that's it. I don't feel like typing anymore.  Because that's a lot of stuff, most of it probably useless to anyone but me. Yarrr.

Edit:
I have now decided that instead of the cliched evil clown I am going to use the cliched evil ninja. Also, the name has changed (because I did not like the original name which I have effectively edited out so no one knows my shame) to "Breakfast".

Progress is slow because I lost all of my previous work in a hard drive format, but never fear! I will never give up on my dear project.

In other pleasant news, OTG is doing me the nicest favor of making some backgrounds for me. So at least the backgrounds will look nice!

July 9th:
I have the front walking animation of Pancake done finally.

Normal:


I'll try to have the rest of the directions done soon enough. And I'll see if I can get a screencap up, too.

July 13th:
Fixed the walking animation. Having some trouble with the rooms, or I would have a screenshot or two finally. I'll try next update.

Duhn duhn duuuuhn!

http://us.share.geocities.com/tama_puma/mehalloweeny1.jpg

Guess which one I am! (Hint: I'm not the one hanging from strings.)
This was on Halloween, which explains why I'm wearing a powdered wig...Or does it?!