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  1. Not all of us do. by hessian · · Score: 1 · on V&A Scraps Napalm Death Gig For Fear Decibel Levels Will Damage Sculptures

    Why do americans put the metal genre under the "rock" tag?

    Not all of us do, and in fact, I'm very glad to meet someone else who agrees with me that this is an important distinction.

    Metal is its own genre, composed by its own standards. It emerged from rock (specifically, prog rock, soundtracks to horror films, loud hard rock and early punk combined) but it is not rock.

    If you're up for some analytical historical data, would you read The Heavy Metal F.A.Q.?

  2. Cathedral/Napalm Death history by hessian · · Score: 1 · on V&A Scraps Napalm Death Gig For Fear Decibel Levels Will Damage Sculptures

    Cathedral's founding vocalist, Lee Dorrian, was one of the original vocalists of Napalm Death and can be heard on Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration.

    Most people consider Cathedral to be doom metal.

  3. Grindcore: yes, it exists, and fits Napalm Death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative · on V&A Scraps Napalm Death Gig For Fear Decibel Levels Will Damage Sculptures

    Fellas,

    Grindcore is a term for the hybrid between death metal and extreme punk hardcore. It grew out of the crust scene (Amebix, Discharge) and the thrash scene (Cryptic Slaughter, DRI, COC, MDC) of the early 1980s.

    Coming just a few years later, it used punk style tunes with metal riffs and the "Motorhead-influenced" gravel voice noisy vocals.

    All members of Napalm Death had previous experience in crust punk bands, and were tight with other crust punkers like Extreme Noise Terror, whose sound is very similar to Napalm Death's.

    In their later years, 1991 and on, Napalm Death took on more influences from death metal bands. However, it is a mistake to consider them death metal, because in spirit and outlook, they're very much punk and choose to keep themselves separate from the metal community.

    Read the motherfarkin' heavy metal FAQ:

    http://www.deathmetal.org/faq

  4. Re:Parallax by Eil · · Score: 1 · on Perl 5.16.0 Released

    The market shifted. First, many Perl programmers shifted to PHP once the net decided security and economy of processing power were not goals on the table. Second, a lot of newer programmers are reliant on frameworks and other pre-built systems and learned the languages that go with those.

    Do you maintain the website linked as your home page? If so, what's it running under the hood?

  5. Science is politics and business by hessian · · Score: 1 · on Dysfunction In Modern Science?

    "Science" doesn't exist in a vacuum. It is a product and a political statement.

    If you don't already have an audience in mind for your research, who will pay for it? No one wants the truth -- we all want "truths" we can use.

    If your sponsor is a Democrat, your science will be blue state science. If your sponsor is a pharmaceutical company, you may find yourself praising SSRIs. If you work for the government, torture = good. And so forth.

    It's time we stopped pretending that science was anything but the work of humans, and funded by humans with different agendas. And as today's most interesting article shows us the effects are a polarization of the population from science.

    There was a great thread about this on our forum which added another wrinkle. Science studies material. It's possible that not all of the universe is materiality. We may need to open our minds to keep our science from becoming controlled by only one voice in the debate.