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the Metallica & Lou Reed album has leaked online at Iso-Hunt

Boardwalk Empire - Season 1 UK Release date is 9th January.

 

Preorder at Amazon: 37.49 on Blu Ray, 29.99 on DVD

Just watched [Rec], picked it up cheap from ASDA a couple of months ago as it was only

Next year, HBO Home Entertainment will release Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray. The critically acclaimed and Emmy Award-winning series stars Steve Buscemi (Fargo) as Nucky Thompson, the real-life figure who ruled Prohibition-era Atlantic City's criminal and political underworld.

 

Throughout this first season, Thompson encounters a diverse cast of characters given life by such esteemed performers as Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road), Michael Pitt (Funny Games), Kelly Macdonald (Trainspotting), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), Shea Whigham (The Lincoln Lawyer), Stephen Graham (Gangs of New York), Paz de la Huerta (Enter the Void), Gretchen Mol (Rounders), Dabney Coleman (Domino), and Michael Kenneth Williams (HBO's The Wire).

 

HBO's long-awaited five-disc Blu-ray set presents all 12 episodes of Season One in their original broadcast aspect ratio of 1.78:1 with 5.1 DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 audio tracks.

 

The collection also includes a number of bonus features, such as:

 

Enhanced Viewing option on all episodes

Six audio commentaries

Evolving Character Dossier feature

Making Boardwalk Empire featurette

Speakeasy Tour featurette

Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season streets on January 10th, 2012. Pre-orders are now available on Amazon.

 

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7507

"Hello, my name is Mr Burns. I believe you have a letter for me"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogaJ0CygjnI

 

Way back in season two.

 

I was just about to post that, beat me to it though dam you mikey

Ralph: Hi Lisa, hi Super-Nintendo Chalmers

Deicide are always a good shout. Glen Benton was a bit of a bellend in the early days, but the the tunes are top notch. 'Once Upon The Cross' is one of the greatest death metal albums in my opinion.

Homer: We're going out Marge! If we're not back, avenge our deaths

 

Homer: I swear I never touched her, I cant even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl (breaks into a giggle)

 

Homer: Water bill, third notice. Jury duty, third notice. Mortgage Bill, oohhh second notice

 

Homer: Oh my god, a naked celebrity. Don't stare at his famous wang!

Iced Earth are a band i used to love I was at uni and they do have a decent discography. However, Jon Schaffer made it abundantly clear that it was his band after Matt Barlow the first time, and Schaffer just seemed to believe his own hype a little bit too much. The Glorious Burden was an ok album and Tim 'Ripper' Owens did a competant job on it (recorded his vocal parts in 2 days). After that with the two-album 'Something Wickid...' concept saga, they just seemed to have delusions of granduer in terms of their importance to the genre

YES!I've never been the biggest Mastodon fan. I bought Blood Mountain and Crack The Skye but ive always found them to be a band that i need to be in the mood for, they aint the most easily digestable listens and at times i do find me thinking that i'd love the band to just be a little more straightforward (although i guess some argue that they aint is what makes the band what they are). Anyway's The Hunter for the most part is more straight forward and its fucking brilliant. Some of the stuff here doesn't sound anything like classic-Mastodon but it all sounds f'n killer. Great album. One of the biggest improvements on the record is the vocals. At first i always felt Mastodon's vocalists let them down, but now there's more confidence and it pays off big time. They now have 3 distictive voices in the band and they all sound better than ever. Some of it even comes off a little like cKy? anyone else feel that?

I second everything that Ebb says here. Mastodon have never sounded better than they do on this album. And in a way, its good to see them play it more straight forward. No track goes longer than 5:30, which is a refreshing change. I love a progressive epic as much as anybody, but only if its right in the greater context of the album rather than just having it on there for the sake of it.My mrs ended up getting both the new Mastodon and Opeth albums for our 1st year engagment anniversary, so i got to hear them both a couple of weeks earlier than I was expecting. I love the new Opeth album. Ignore what the fuckin idiots on other sites are saying about how they should "come back when they want to make a real album", just because it doesnt have the death metal growls in it. 'Heritage' is much an Opeth album as anything else that they have put out so far, its good to see the band try go in different directions rather than put out the same thing time and time again. At times beautiful and at times Floyd-like psychodelic, this album is a great body of work. It didn't hurt the band when they put out 'Damnation' and this won't hurt their career either

checked out some of the clips on itunes of those two bands, just to see what people are making reference to. The vocalist from La Dispute sounds like hes having an emo-kid "I've just been dumped" breakdown.Touche Amoure doesnt sound as bad, but the last release (Painting The Sea Between Brightness And Me) runs for a total of 20:48. Sorry, but thats not an album, thats barely even an EP. I'd expect something a bit more for my money. Having said that, nither band seems to be my thing so I wont rip it to shreds for the sake of it.I've just given TesseracT's 'One' album a spin, after hearing its to be re-released instrumental-style. If your a fan of Misery Signals, Between The Buried And Me et al. , its worth checking out

The expectations were so high following The Blackening, its almost inevitable that people woundnt be blown away on first listen. But its definatly worth sticking with it

I know exatcly what your saying Ebb. Its especially annoying when your having a disscusion about a band/genre that you have been following for years and are very knowledgeable about to have some random prick say "yeah but thats just a ripoff of/there not as good as INSERT NAME OF BAND THAT NO-ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF", just to try and say "ner! ner! i know music better than you!".I like to think that im not an 'eliteist' when it comes to metal, but its a genre I have followed for years and am knowledgable about

I never got the appeal of Korn. I know that Follow The Leader was held in pretty high regard but I just never saw why. Alot of my friends at the time thought they were the greatest band on the planet, only to completly sack them when Untouchables (think thats what it was called, the album after Issues) didnt "meet their usual standards". Maybe I just didnt get what they were trying to do

Is the re-release any different to the original (more footage, improved fx etc)?

 

no additional footage from what I could remember. the trilogy is out on Blu Ray next month, so i think its just a digital remaster more than anything. We just went for the nostalgia fix

Wade Barrett needs his own show!!!

 

Wade: "Is it true that no-one knows who Joynny Curtis is?

Curtis: "I won NXT Season4 man!"

Wade: "No you didn't, Johnny Curtis did"

Curtis: "I am Johnny Curtis"

Wade: "Oh, I guess it is true then"

 

funnier than Ryder's been recently

went to watch the re-release of Jurrasic Park last night, havent seen it since it was out the first time around (93?)

 

* Didnt know that Samuel L Jackson was it (since I was 9 at the time and his career hadnt really taken off by that time)

* when talking about Jeff Goldblum's character, I came out with "Jeff Goldblum - one of the more suave jews"

i did get your sarcasm Ebb. It seems its just a reunion for a festival in Australia

 

That 'worst' albums list is a complete joke. 'Load is a fucking great album in my opinion and Ive always said so, Re-Load has some good tracks tunes of it too but is the weaker of the two. And I have said before that St Anger's final third is actually retty good, but you do have to get past a lot of bad stuff to get to it.

I also like how everyone has seemingly judged this Metallica/Lou Reed collabation completely based on the youtube preview clip a full month before its even released. I honestly dont know what Im going to make of it, but I'll only make a judgement once Ive actually heard the album in full.

 

Speaking of Metallica/Lou Reed - Lulu, Megadeth's new album 'Th1rt3en' is released the same day. A wise move by Mustaine?

also....

 

was the world really crying out for a Coal Chamber reunion?

 

 

That has got to the most shocking promo-photo of a band Ive ever seen:

* A massive red backdrop, for some reason

* Kid on the right looks about 13 years old, and is looking at Dez with gay-thoughts

* guy on the left is doing that head slant thing that every fucking nu-metaler used to do

* Dez wearing a Christian string-shirt circa 2001 looks like hes watching a fly go by

* Didnt even get the yellow pages out for the midget woman to stand on

i asked the misses for the new Opeth and Mastodon albums for my birthday, and so requested not to get send the promo copies from who i do my writing for, so that i would actually be pleased to get them on my birthday rather than having heard them already.

 

Mastodon are booked on 'Later With Jools Holland' on October 17th according to Metal Hammer:

 

Our current coverstars will follow in the footsteps of Metallica by making an appearance on the BBC

PersOnally i thought X Factor was a good album, and Virtual XI had its moments but not many. Blaze's first two solo albums are immense though, cant recommend them enough

Testament are also worth a mention. The albums from Demonic onwards have been spectacular, particularly The Gathering

New Mastodon album is great but seems to be getting overshadowed by the new Machine Head.

 

Can anybody name a band as consistently great as Mastodon?

 

Fear factory, as long as you pretend they never made digimortal.

 

Agreed, ignore Digimortal and you've one of greats in Fear Factory. Other consistant performers are Gojira, Opeth, Coheed & Cambria.

 

Its an interesting few weeks for metal, with new albums from Machine Head, Opeth, Mastodon, Alice Cooper and Dream Theater all being released in quick succession, with new ones from Megadeth and Manowar also on the way