"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Hm, seems I turn my back on the metal world and they're popping out albums like candy.

I recently acquired:
Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free Pt 2
Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
Iron Saviour - Megatropolis
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

So far I'm loving the first two, and 'Cybernatic Queen' off Megatropolis, the others haven't had a good listen yet.

Good to see Helloween do a good album at last, and anything Kai Hansen does is gold. :D
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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I personally wouldn't bother with the new Nightwish album. It's just not the same without Tarja on vocals.

Speaking of vocalists, Altaria is recording their fourth album with their third lead singer. I think getting a new singer every couple of years is just how that band works. I have their first two albums, and they're pretty damn good.
 

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just goes to show how out of touch I am, I didn't realise they'd changed singer. I haven't heard the album yet..
 

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Serialized3 said:
Pig Destroyer's "Phantom Limb" is pretty good, if you're into grind crossover.
Stellar album! :rockon:

Other good ones...

Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien

Nile - Ithyphallic

Obituary - Xecutioners Return
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Prowler in the Yard and Painter of Dead Girls were always my favorite PD albums. Them and Nasum are probably my favorite straight grind bands, but a band that fuses grind with black metal with epic ****, extremely well, is Anaal Nathrakh:
 
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