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 | Atari yeah that's me lol so you still going with the new site layout? i'm counting up the votes soon
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| Atari i'm gonna bring up the image thingy to robert later today ;) you're not the only one who's mentioned it could obviously look better. as far as the facebook thing goes, the only way i can add you to the facebook group is to add you as a friend first lol so it's up to you. even calc is on there :P
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| Atari so if we had the old layout then that double image thing wouldn't be a problem : P
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| Atari it only does that on the featured images (the one's that are featured up top). I'm supposed to go throught the site layout votes today so we'll see which layout stays. there's probably a way to use 2 different images (one for the featured image and one that shows up when you click on it) but that would be evern more time consuming lol :P
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| Atari i posted my newest MAR review on sputnik but the link doesn't work. what's your secret? ;)
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 | thelastsignal Yeah, it is going to be hard for me to allocate time to both Sput and melting album reviews. I still lurk around Sputnik, but all of my reviewing will be dedicated to MAR.
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| Atari damn i guess lol. no way i'm going through 81 reviews on sputnik and editing them all. i guess the spacing isn't really something i ever paid that much attention to when reading a review as long as the spacing is consistent obviously
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| Atari funny question but do you use one space or two after a period in each sentence when you write? i've always used 2 cause i thought i learned it in school but apparently 1 is ideal lol
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| Atari yeah i saw your comment ;) definitely looks and sounds like my kind of thing so i'll definitely check it out. by the way are you interested in promos from the site for lesser known bands or just maybe looking for something different? you have the freedom to review what you want but we're trying to build relationships with some independent labels so promos are encouraged as well
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| Atari definitely the 59 sound. i also really like the horrible crowes - elsie as well. same vocalist but has a really classy feel for a punk band kind of like the computers. i checked one of the singles and i liked it but i'll listen to more later finishing up a review myself ;)
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| thelastsignal Dude, looks great. Very well done, tagged correctly, etc. I love your writing style, and it certainly is of the quality caliber I was expecting. Pretty much everything Atari said ;). It is sometimes easier to shoot me an email, so if you want, it's thelastsignal1988@yahoo.com. I don't check Sputnik as often as I used to.
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| Atari no problem, do you not have facebook at all or you just contemplating whether you want to use it with strangers lol ;P
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| Atari Looks great to me man. Very well written, you tagged it, etc. nice job ;) I threw it up top on the home page also. although we're still waiting for all the site layout votes so who knows if this layout will stay. by the way if you have facebook we encourage sharing you're reviews because it gets our site more exposure (not to mention you more exposure as well ;) but it's obviously still up to you.
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| Atari hey man we're casting a site vote. old layout or the new layout?
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| thelastsignal Yeah, you would click add media, and then it would take to a place where you would be able to upload an image from your computer. Don't worry, it'll take a bit of time to get used to, a lot different than Sputnik lol.
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| Atari i'll talk to the site owner about it later. i woke up to the new site design i have no idea how to even change it lol but even if i did gotta run it by him first ;) but we're always open to suggestions.
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| Atari yeah plus it's more convenient to find some of the posts/reviews without having to click all over the site ;)
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| Atari hey man how you like the new layout of the site?
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| thelastsignal Yeah, it's a bit different to get used to. If you ever have questions about anything, you can always shoutbox or email me.
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| Atari no problem man. your post looks spot on and you even tagged it ;)
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| Atari Sure thing! I'm sure you'll come across more questions. even i'm still learning lol so don't be shy i don't mind.
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| Atari ok lol send me a shout if you still need help
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| Atari s*** sorry you're the first user i've actually "invited" to the site i thought everything was already good to go. i'll get it fixed asap
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| Atari lol i don't even use the blog part at all (i'm going to eventually but haven't been). i'm pretty sure there's a dashboard on your blog AND the site so just make sure you're loggied into the site not the blog :P
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| Atari yeah that's your own personal blog lol. don't worry it took me time to figure out at first too. on the top right you should see your username ecnalzen. you click that to go to your blog but to post on the actual site click on the left tab where it says meltingalbumreviews : P
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| Atari i'll take another look. any chance you may have accidentally clicked save as draft instead of publish?
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| Atari hmmm i didn't think so. what was the article for?
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| Atari also, if something goes wrong you can edit the article as many times as you'd like ;)
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| Atari it auto tags the links so it's as simple as copy and paste ;) i just posted a new article if you want to get an idea of the outline but i'm sure you'll do great
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| Atari ....continued, but i'll be here if that doesn't make sense or you have more questions.
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| Atari you mean there's a link to the lyric video AND the band camp page? or it's the same link? Just go under your dashboard, add post, and under categories click streams, news. then you make a title for your article such as BLANK stream new lyric video. You can write whatever you want in the article itself as long as it has enough information to at least interest the reader. don't have to say much though. and if there are 2 links you can past them both in that's fine just label what each link is for
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| Atari one more thing: If you'd prefer your real name used under the staff page along with your username let me know. for now I just put you down under staff as ecnalzen. ;)
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| Atari nope you're good to go! if you ever have questions you can contact me or the lastsignal here if you'd like. It's up to you if you want to eventually use facebook to connect with the staff..it's definitely more convenient, but we want to respect everyboyd's privacy so it's up to you.
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 | linguist2011 Hey man, just heard tou made staff to MAR-Welcome:)
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| thelastsignal No problem, man. You're a great writer, so the staff benefits when we get people like you. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions about it.
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| thelastsignal Hey Ec, saw that you were contemplating writing for the site; I was the one that suggested you to Atari. Glad to see you on board; it's been pretty fun thus far.
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| Atari No problem man! Robert and I have been pretty ambitious about making sure the site takes off so it's been pretty exciting so far : ) also doesn't have any of the drama that is constantly plaguing this site lol have a good night
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| Atari also do you prefer we contact you through facebook? (it makes it easier to contact all the staff) but other users like yoyomancuso don't have facebook so it's up to you. we can still send promos to your email ;)
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| Atari actually i just sent an invite to be an author for the site to your email. let me know if you don't receive it or if you have any questions.
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| Atari no problem at all. so sounds like you're in? ;) i'll send you an email no later than tonight and get the process going. thanks for your interest man.
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| Atari It doesn't have to be. I came up with the idea to have "retro reviews" under the genre section for album's over 10 years. The last album I reviewed was from 1977. So I'm short, u can review whatever u want but new releases are encouraged as well ;)
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| Atari as a staff member the requirement is 1 review a week or just a total of 3 posts a month. But it doesn't even have to be just reviews you could do like 1 review and 2 news posts in a month and you'd be set as long as you make 3 posts a month. If you're interested i'll need at least your email address to send you an invite to the site. we use facebook to contact staff too but if you'd rather remain anonymous that's fine too. i know toxin doesn't use his real name so that would be up to you. ;)
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| Atari hey man, not sure if you're interested but i would love to have you on at staff at meltingalbumreviews.wordpress.com no pressure, just thought i'd throw he offer out there and i can answer any questions you have. there are some great writers there including toxin, ipodmastery, the lastsignal but we are still trying to grow.
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 | CaptainDooRight yea man i heard the same too i whish i could read an article on the proper technique but ive been doing death style vocals for like ten years now so i think im doing it right i never feel strained and it seems to be getting stronger, but yea that's great advice, some people naturally have that clean vocal skill and lol im def not one of them although i love singing ill be humble and say there's many other people that can do it way better than me haha
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| CaptainDooRight cool bro thanks for your advice bro, yea i have no formal training and i should make the time to practice, i think it would really help, in the meantime ill be focusing on dm style vox since im better at that, can't wait to share bro
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| CaptainDooRight cool man thanks for the feedback :] yea I prolly won't be doing anymore cleans in the future. All the new stuff I'm writing will only have death style vocals as te music will only be dm. Also, there's this guy at my work who's a really good singer ad producer said he would do a collab with me and I wanna do death style riffs with his cleans which is seldom done so that'll be fun.
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| thelastsignal Yeah lol, I'm big on road tripping. I haven't had a chance to do it recently; it would be a perfect excuse for one. I just don't have too many friends that are into Gifts From Enola though lol.
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| thelastsignal :( that really sucks, Ec. I can't believe that. On a side note, they wrote that statement very intelligently and it makes me appreciate them as a creative force even more. I really want to see their last show, since I have put off seeing them for many years. Ohio is not that far from VA, I suppose...
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| CaptainDooRight Cool bro thanks for the kind words, to clarify I think you were referring to the closing track. It's the only instrumental on the album. I think you might dig Red Sky in the Morning as well. I hope you dig the rest regardless and man thanks for listening to it, I couldn't ask for more :]
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| CaptainDooRight Yeah lol it's pretty lengthy bro but not intentionally, every transition was meant to carry on from the last so I was working on better cohesion from my last effort, some ideas took a little more time to develop as I was working with dynamics as well. I'm the sole member of this project and I received zero assistance from anyone else. I did all the mixing myself too.
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| CaptainDooRight new album is done bro - http://trvth.bandcamp.com/album/black-horse-plague
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 | Cygnatti It's not on Red, it's on the album before Red, Speak Now.
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| Cygnatti there ya go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHvys3BJmko
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 | Storm In A Teacup Oh hah. I tried changing that rating but it didn't work. It's a 4 now but a few years ago I was obsessed with Crisis and lowered my opinion of their first two albums for awhile.
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| Storm In A Teacup Theyd my response to you for some reason, but anyway. Yeah bro I never fell head over heels for tha D. Believe is my second favorite album from them too. I thought it was my fab but I just realized I do still like 10,000 fists. I was in to the Slipknot, Papa Roach side of nu-metal back then plus I had Chevelle so I kind of tend to overlook and wave off Disturbed.
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| Atari nah that's cool man i'll just keep trying to improve as i write. baby steps baby hehe. i'll try and spice up my next review somehow or approach it from a different angle than usual like you mentioned.
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| Atari they are definitely helpful man. it was just kind of discouraging hearing calc say my reviews lacked personality now that i've written 65 of them lol.
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| Atari nah somebody else mentioned a thesaurus not you hehe. and agreed the little things can make a difference i'd rather take input from people like you and try to improve than studying a thesaurus every time i write a review lol. ;)
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| Atari thanks again for the feedback. i hope you didn't think i was being close minded about the thesaurus comment. i'll take all your input into consideration there's just only so much i can tweak my writing style though.
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| Atari worship music kind of has its own sound closest thing would probably be spreading the disease to be honest. glad you're digging them! they did a new cover of AC/DC's TNT and it sucked ass though so hopefully their new album is good
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 | andcas I reviewed that roses are red album so please check it out man.
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 | taylormemer Considering that it is Williams playing the music of someone else, the album must be placed in Williams' page as an LP. If the album was a collaboration, then a new page would need to be created incorporating both artists. In terms of classical itself and how to properly add it, stand by, because all of those questions will be answered shortly.
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| taylormemer The question is worded as well as one could have expected. What is it that you wish to submit to the database? Links help, as does your own input. Thanks.
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 | OmairSh Check out Riverside's Out of Myself next if you want intense atmosphere, and REM if you like a good balance of aggression and atmoshpere (like SLS), and ADHD if you want some quality prog metal.
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 | MinusDrummer Yeah I did and I'm really enjoying their stuff.
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| Atari glad to hear it man. i think you'll probably like the walking wounded better than killing time it's probably my favorite. they have an acoustic album too taht's pretty sweet you should check out.
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| Atari Nice! I like it better than killing time don't you have that one too?
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| Atari Lol right on just glad you're digging anthrax even if you don't like all their albums
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| Atari so what you gonna rate worship music!?
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| MinusDrummer I'll deff check them out if they sound similar to Karnivool. I like Sound Awake a lot more than Themata, but both are really good. I have such a hard time with most of the drum parts. Their drummer is brilliant. Some of his drum parts are the most difficult Ive ever had to learn.
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| MinusDrummer LOL I wasnt being sarcastic. I'm hoping Karnivool releases a new LP in 2013, but so far I havent heard anything.
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| Atari Well I'll be getting a wii u eventually but with the holidaysim broke right now so hopefully I cam just fix my wii and finish Kirby
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| Atari Right on yeah his voice will definitely grow on you over time, glad you're enjoying them man. Dude the other day after i downloaded kirby super star my wii stopped working : ( Im gonna borrow my brothers chord to see if it's my chord not my wii cause i miss kirby!!!
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| Atari Nice man haha which one?
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| Atari check my new profile picture haha i'm obsessed with kirby right now
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| OmairSh Well yeah there's quite a spectrum of genre's on this site. Its good for discovering new music.
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| OmairSh And he's modest, you must get all the girls :P. Well when you're reviewing obscure stuff 500 views is decent I say.
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| OmairSh Yeah but I only have 5 reviews.
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| OmairSh Damn real noice approval rating
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 | YoYoMancuso White Light's out of print so you'll have to find a FLAC/mp3 rip of it. Or you can always get The Great Annihilator which also very accessible (relatively speaking at least)
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| YoYoMancuso Haha i certainly see how all those bands could be a bit difficult to take in. Like you said, you need to take it a full album at a time for each. For Swans, I would recommend White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity as your first real full-length.
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 | Jom Hey dude, you should be good to go, but do let me know if you run into any further issues. Cheers.
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