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If your mate had been disturbed to the point of reporting himself as a rape victim, then he simply would have been in the same position as tens of thousands of girls who have woken up to a man having sex with them without explicit verbal consent. I.e. he wouldn't have much of a case at all, unless he could a) prove he asked for it to stop and b) prove that she didn't.

Would also be difficult because as under Irish law a woman can't rape a man.

What? Really?

Yeah rape is specifically defined as a male on female crime in the statute books. Women get carded with sexual assault.

Is it just a Dublin thing? No bother here at all

They're also addicted to the end of the world which, if you strip them of the fairy tale they think that will entail, is pretty nihilistic.

Right on both counts. He mustn't remember previous moral panics and buys into Jordan Petersons notion it that outrage created by those pesky Marxists in Liberal colleges.

Better an evangelical than a miserable nihilist addicted to complaining and outrage (not a dig at any user). At least the former have some kind of code.

Erm.... What is it you actually think evangelicals do?

They already did that with Coven 

Haha. Listened to it again lately and it is great but, no.

This. Coven is great but Haxan and Henbane are perfect.

Why in the name of god would anyone be giving 2 doses of the Pfizer shot to a 2 year old is the only question worth asking of that report. The details of the death are indeed unknown but what it has done is confirm that the kid got the jab.

There was no need for it, but there's the greed for it. It's dirty. Would you give it to your own kids? I wouldn't.

For all you know the child had serious respiratory  issues. Covid has killed some children. It's effects on the young and healthy are not as benign as you seem to think.

I do wonder how many of the people screaming Trans women are real women would actually date a trans woman who still had her Wang.

Shemale porn is very popular.

That venue has never been bettered in Dublin.

Nope, top notch, saw some great gigs there. What happened to it?

Saw a few days ago that Chauvin has a slim chance of getting away with it. The amount of fentanyl in Floyd's system was way above what was necessary to overdose. Even if he got away with it he wouldn't be safe anywhere on the planet.

He had a high level in his system, not a fatal amount, plus you need to account for any tolerance he may have had. Plus opiod overdoses come on incredibly quickly, fenthynal even more so, when did he last take it before the incident?

Yer wan from Dead Label has to be about 30 at this stage.

Well that's a young wan to Andy now, he's getting on 😂

Was pretty good, the 2 lads ag caint came across really well. For non-metal fans it gave a bit of an insight.

"Wall of Chaos" on the other hand... I was picturing being a teenager watching it at home with my parents and they asking, "is that what ye be at, running at each other?" There doesn't exist an answer where you'd come out of it not looking like an eejit.

Typical fibbers type. Ugh 😂

I've seen it in friends circles where they won't talk to someone who holds a different position on an issue. Well if u take that position you'll have no friends. Everyone disagrees on something. And existing in an echo chamber where u only hear views you like isn't good imo.

Yep it's made, I don't think I agree with my friends on anything we have different politics, music tastes, football allegiances etc. The only common ground is a general hatred for humanity 😂

I think in your own case you are able to separate the performative element of the artist you admire from your own enjoyment of it but in the case of black metal you can't make the same separation. I don't believe you think that BM fans in general walk around in corpsepaint, carrying candlabra and howling at the moon while burning churches.

Ah here you can't bate an aul moonlight walk with the candelabra, howling like a mad thing.

Surely 00s black metal is modern black metal? What stuff from that era are you specifically into? I think there are always a few cool bands operating and doing something that is their own but I agree that there seems to be a lot of Instagram BM about which seems to miss the point of the whole thing to a degree. Another factor that puts me off, and possibly it's a foolish reason, is how every band uses the same few artists to design their albums, or more so seem to use the same exact imagery. It's a bit mind numbing to look at and gives a possibly false impression of musical interchangeability. It all comes back to over-saturation I think, which is pushing me in other directions.

00s ended 10 years ago but I get you.

Modern Black metal is missing that undeniable atmosphere and individuality from earlier outputs. Black metal has a blue print but De mysterious sounds so different from the likes of a Pure Holocaust or Filosfem.

I'm into a lot of Marduk, Dark Funeral, 1349 etc and those bands had the same ethos in that the music was incredible, had the same style with slightly better production.  However its not the production that annoys me about modern BM, it just seems that a lot of modern black metal bands are attempting to be Burzum rather than forge their own direction.  The slow plodding lo-fi tracks have only ever sounded good with Varg and Burzum composing same.

Just out of interest, have you listened to many of the bands in the original post? Most, if not all, are better than Dark Funeral, 1349 and later Satyricon imo.

Most black metal is better than 1349 tbf

Deathspell Omega and Blut Aus Nord have really pushed the boat out resulting in bands like Thantifaxath, Dodecahedron etc. The likes of Mammaleek, Cultes des Ghoules and Jute Gyte have their completely own mental thing going. Black metal is better now than it ever was. Mgla have taken that Burzum Filosofem sound that was aped so badly by so many bands and actually modernised it and they have some serious technical chops.