Recent content by Jer

Not bad, good guitar work, though the singer sounds like Michael Vescera with a strong accent or something.

I’m still of two minds on this one. On the one hand, making it both a sequel and an alternate timeline reboot was kind of brilliant, and the casting was really good. On the other hand, it’s J.J. Abrams, so it’s going to be shallow and poorly thought out in the end. But this initial reboot...

The thing that stood out to me about Firepower (and Invincible Shield) was the influence of power metal coming full circle with Priest. Priest’s 1980-1990 sound had a huge influence on power metal through the 90s and early 2000s, but Priest integrated some of these newer derivative sounds back...

Yes, but you claimed that the protests had nothing to do with Hamas, when in fact many of the activist groups and whatever number of paid protesters are involved may very well be being bankrolled in whole or in part by Hamas-linked non-profits. There’s definitely a lot of smoke there, and I’d...

Correct for 2 points! Your turn, mademoiselle.

No to all. “An Evil Feeling, Or Maybe Just A Really Strong Feeling…?” Clue #1 (Country Of Origin): United States Clue #2 (Genre): Hard Rock Clue #3 (Artist): Lynch Mob Clue #4 (Year Of Release): Incorrect guesses: Metallica - Am I Evil? Judas Priest- A Touch Of Evil Iced Earth - Pure Evil...

As he said, I'm certain he has absolutely no regerts about his choice of the best Maiden song ever!

No and no.

I posted more detailed thoughts on the album a while back, but I think it manages to still be a pretty good record overall, but it's very uneven and has a terrible quality arc that just swan dives through its first half from a great opening song to the pretty bad "Sacrifice", then gets up and...

Let me be clear that I think it's perfectly fine for other countries to make comparable demands upon Google and Meta, whose whole existences revolve around exploiting user data. The GDPR and comparable state legislation in California were great steps toward putting this more in check, and in...

No to all. “An Evil Feeling, Or Maybe Just A Really Strong Feeling…?” Clue #1 (Country Of Origin): United States Clue #2 (Genre): Hard Rock Clue #3 (Artist): Clue #4 (Year Of Release): Incorrect guesses: Metallica - Am I Evil? Judas Priest- A Touch Of Evil Iced Earth - Pure Evil Megadeth -...

Not possible since a Metallica song was already guessed (albeit a cover of a Diamond Head song), and the silly band short-circuit rule would have triggered if the cryptic song had been recorded by Metallica. This is another reason I don't like the rule, because it basically means that an entire...