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They have to be registered as a football team to compete in the FA Cup, so no. Yep. If I were to consider Pink Floyd as viable for this game, which they clearly aren't, Animals would've been among my first nominations.

Wish You Were Here would be out of place even if we expanded this game to include hard rock. Their sound isn't heavy enough.

System of a Down - Mezmerise - Haven't heard this album in full, but SOAD's sound appeals to me more than Skid Row's does, and the median average of Mezmerise seems to be higher than that of Skid Row. Death - Scream Bloody Gore - CoC's sound doesn't do it for me, Death is one of my favorite...

Well that's one good positive from this nonsensical ordeal - it ended with us being familiarized with a Monty Python anecdote.

Menza & Hoglan

Danzig - Danzig - Lacrimosa's blend of influences are jelling together enough for me. Danzig is simple hard rock but it's perfectly decent. A weird round with both participants not really being metal. Opeth - Orchid - While nowhere near as refined as their later output, Orchid just has too many...

Responding to this post in the USA Politics thread here so as to not derail that one. I was going to keep the response brief but I have the time to do a tl;dr post giving a fuller picture.

Responding in the worldwide politics thread so as to not derail this thread.

Here, stray dog battles are never-ending at night. They are at it as I'm typing this at 2:45.

That second part was supposed to be a response to @Jer, forgot to quote him. I'll edit it in. Genres and sub-genres are there to group similar artists together in order to facilitate discovery and discussion. If there are clear and consistent differences, even if they are subtle, it serves its...

Yep. Turned it into a "Champions League, but much worse" thing. First they increased the number of teams entering the CL from the bigger leagues, then they changed the knock-out format to one that mirrors the CL.

It is, but I'm not hearing it here - and it's almost certainly not an influence as the songwriter doesn't think highly of Gothenburg death metal. It's a melodic approach and it's extreme metal, that may be the reason why you're thinking along those lines, but I think the extreme metal element...

Perhaps he dislikes Ben-Hur and doesn't think it gets the job done as an epic and needs something like Phantom of the Opera playing to get it there?

The lesser of two evils thing is something I recognize as well. My sentiment isn't an anti-American one, or a full commitment to anti-interventionism either. I do, however, feel it's necessary not to put all acts of American interventionism in the same basket and argue in favor of that basket or...

And that's just the war side of things. You also have all the financial and arms aid provided to morally dubious people across the globe, alliances formed with shady politicians, coup d'etats sponsored so and so forth.

The situation isn't helped by the fact that the US continues to aid PYD/YPG in Syria while it's engaged in a conflict with Turkey as it's perceived as a national threat by Turkey due to its relations with the PKK. So the "supporting the opposition" line becomes a bit more troublesome in that...

Wasn't sure what thread to post this in, but a video of Joe Biden declaring that they need to support the opposition in Turkey to get rid of Erdoğan made the news in Turkey today and was the main topic of discussion. It was the Head of the Presidential Department for Communication (at this point...

Mikael (singer-guitarist-songwriter of Opeth) famously doesn't really care for Gothenburg death so this is a funny take. It's really more of a black metal influence here, no?

Same here. This is also the reason why I firmly believe growls are an acquired taste. Older members with a good memory will recognize that I was in the "growls suck" camp for my first few years on this forum, later discovered Opeth, and gradually came to enjoy growls.

I've heard those albums dozens of times. I get your sentiment, it holds true for the filler stuff, but Meteora does go different places at times.