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Ne Obliviscaris are a progressive metal band I've been meaning to recommend here for a while. My favourites are

If anyone knows of any similar bands who do a decent job of blending lots of different elements I'd love to hear about them. I've been gradually shifting away from death and goregrind for a couple of years so this sort of stuff is a refreshing area I know little about.

I want to say something off the first Burzum album? It could be Emperor, but I've not listened to either in ages.

 

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Decapitated have had to pull out of the Damnation Festival because they were on the plane that crash landed in Warsaw on Tuesday. They aren't hurt.

This is pretty fucking mental when you consider that yesterday was the 4th anniversary of Vitek dying from his injuries from the bus crash. Vogg must be a mess.

I don't know whether there's a more appropriate thread for this, since it's far from awesome, but anyway, I just read about a 2 year old girl in China who got run over by a van and got fuck all help as people walked around her and even got run over again by a second van:

It happens 3 seconds in, so be ready. It's heartbreaking to see her put her arms up just before impact . And how in God's name did the driver not see her?

This is tame stuff, but I still cringe thinking about it. I was once dragged to the cinema by my then-girlfriend, who decided to bring her parents along. As a 21 year old (she was 19) with occasional social anxiety I already felt like a tit walking around with these people in tow, looking like a teenage boy on a supervised first date. But then there was a problem at the ticket desk and my girlfriend started shouting 'Mum! Mum!' across the massive entrance hall like a little girl. I detest any form of public attention anyway, but in particular there was a group of 13 year old girls eyeballing me like I was the biggest fucking mong they'd ever set their eyes on. I could only stare at the floor and look forward to the dark screening room.

One day as a 16 year old I somewhat underestimated how well our rather appealing Spanish trainee teacher could hear me telling my friends what I thought of her. Somewhat, as in totally. I thought I was being sly but I looked up and she was staring right at me, with embarrassment and a touch of hurt on her face. I didn't say anything especially gratuitous, but still it's not what you want to hear from a child you're teaching, so I felt like a massive dick and was too humiliated to apologise. It's possible she didn't give a fuck, but recalling that incident does make me feel bad even now.

I've wanked in various weird places but I'm not ashamed of those. The riskiest was the time I wanked in my friend's living room as he made me a cup of tea in the next room. There wasn't even a door between the rooms, but there I was, slumped on the sofa with my cock in a sock as I told my mate how many sugars I wanted. 16 was a bad age for me.

My mate lives 5 minutes from the Salford shopping centre which looks to be on fire, and he's seeing big groups of scallies heading in to town, and a car outside his flat has been smashed up. His mate's car was burnt last night too.

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I saw a bunch of these a while back. One video in particular really got me, but the sound is missing for it in that compilation, so there's the link. Even worse when you hear the boy.