An anime series off of Adult Swim, has two seasons: Ghost in the Shell: SAC and Ghost in the Shell SAC 2nd GIG.
The series receives its subtitle from a theoretical mental complex attributed to the adaptation of cybernetics into the mass public. In the story, 'stand alone complex' is said to describe copies with no original and is portrayed by copycat crimes with no original criminal or, in other words, an imaginary criminal. It also refers to the structure of each first season episode: each episode can be viewed independently of each other, and there is little catch-up (if at all) given in each episode to keep the viewer up to date (unlike many anime series). The individual episodes are discreetly marked either "stand alone" or "complex" in the title screen. The "complex" episodes are more closely entwined with this encompassing plot, and the "stand alone" less so.
Taking place in a fictional city of Japan called New Port City in the year 2030, SAC tells the story of a special operations task-force called Public Security Section 9, or simply "Section 9". The series follows the exploits of Section 9's agents who range from ex-military to ex-police to even ex-mafia as they address each case and how it affects them on a personal level, eventually leading to the mysterious figure dubbed by the media as "The Laughing Man".
If you like nice action, deep stories, utterly BEAUTIFUL animation, and rich dialouge, watch it on Adult Swim. Or better yet, get the DVD releases- Amazon should have them.
The series receives its subtitle from a theoretical mental complex attributed to the adaptation of cybernetics into the mass public. In the story, 'stand alone complex' is said to describe copies with no original and is portrayed by copycat crimes with no original criminal or, in other words, an imaginary criminal. It also refers to the structure of each first season episode: each episode can be viewed independently of each other, and there is little catch-up (if at all) given in each episode to keep the viewer up to date (unlike many anime series). The individual episodes are discreetly marked either "stand alone" or "complex" in the title screen. The "complex" episodes are more closely entwined with this encompassing plot, and the "stand alone" less so.
Taking place in a fictional city of Japan called New Port City in the year 2030, SAC tells the story of a special operations task-force called Public Security Section 9, or simply "Section 9". The series follows the exploits of Section 9's agents who range from ex-military to ex-police to even ex-mafia as they address each case and how it affects them on a personal level, eventually leading to the mysterious figure dubbed by the media as "The Laughing Man".
If you like nice action, deep stories, utterly BEAUTIFUL animation, and rich dialouge, watch it on Adult Swim. Or better yet, get the DVD releases- Amazon should have them.
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex is all around cyberpunk and politics. It is not made for the close-minded group of people; take that retarded, grammar-challenged flamer below here as an example.
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 28, 2007
Metal Blade Records is an independent record label (founded in 1981 by Brian Slagel) for metal/rock bands.
It has offices in USA, Germany and Japan.
Bands such as As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cannibal Corpse, Fates Warning, GWAR, King Diamond, Slayer and Unearth are/were labeled to Metal Blade.
In my own opinion, Metal Blade Records is the best record company out their right now. Because MBR has many great death metal and grindcore artists signed to them.
It has offices in USA, Germany and Japan.
Bands such as As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cannibal Corpse, Fates Warning, GWAR, King Diamond, Slayer and Unearth are/were labeled to Metal Blade.
In my own opinion, Metal Blade Records is the best record company out their right now. Because MBR has many great death metal and grindcore artists signed to them.
Run down of current Artists of Metal Blade Records!
3
7th plague
The Absence
Amon Amarth
Ancient
Angel Blake
Apiary
John Arch
Armored Saint
As I Lay Dying
Behold... The Arctopus
Beyond The Embrace
The Black Dahlia Murder
Bolt Thrower
Born From Pain
Brainstorm
Callenish Circle
Cannibal Corpse
Cataract
Cattle Decapitation
Cellador
The Crown
Demiricous
Disillusion
Falconer
The Fallen
Fates Warning
Fleshcrawl
Forever In Terror
Fragments of Unbecoming
From a Second Story Window
Ed Gein
Goatwhore
God Dethroned
The Heavils
I Killed the Prom Queen
If Hope Dies
Impious
In Battle
Incapacity
Into the Moat
Jacob's Dream
Job for a Cowboy
King Diamond
Lizzy Borden
Losa
Machinemade God
Mortification
Mrs. Hippie
Nasty Savage
Neaera
Neal Morse
The Ocean
Paths of Possession
Phoenix Mourning
Powerwolf
Primordial
Psyopus
Raven
The Red Chord
Riot
Rival
Sacrifice
Sanctus
Shai Hulud
Supershine
Since The Flood
Sin of Kain
Six Feet Under
Starwood
Symphorce
Torchbearer
Tourniquet
Torture Killer
Transalantic
Unearth
Vader
Vehemence
Vomitory
Winter Solstice
Former artist:
3rd Stage Alert
Agent Steel
Agony Column
All That Remains
Anacrusis
Angel Witch
Angkor Wat
Anvil
Artch
Atheist
Attacker
The Awful Truth
Ballistic
Beseech
Bitch
Broken Hope
Candlemass
Castastrophic
Chinchilla
Cradle of Filth
Corrosion of Conformity
Cirith Ungol
Cities
Cryptic Slaughter
Crisis
D.R.I.
Dark Funeral
Dave Brockie Experience
Dead End
Decoryah
Demon Flight
Desultory
Détente
Dies Irae
Diamond Head
Dr. Know
Dream Child
Drop Hammer
Eidolon
Eldritch
Enthroned
Epidemic
Eviction
Flotsam and Jetsam
Galactic Cowboys
Goo Goo Dolls
Goddess of Desire
Grip Inc.
GWAR
Hades
Hallows Eve
Hecate Enthroned
Heir Apparent
Hexenhaus
Hellhammer
Hirax
Ignorance
Immolation
Incapacity
In Extremo
Jesters of Destiny
Juggernaut
King's X
Krank
Labyrinth
Lamb of God
Lethal
Liege Lord
Little Caesar
Loss For Words
Malhavoc
Malice
Manowar
Masi
Masquerade
Mercyful Fate
Memory Garden
The Mentors
Metal Church
Metallica
The Obsessed
Obsession
Omen
Overkill
Paria
Pandemonium
Panic
Paradise Lost
Possessed
Predator
Psychotic Waltz
Purged
Quartz
The Quiet Room
Rigor Mortis
Sacred Reich
Sacred Steel
Sacrilege
Savage Grace
Savatage
Scar Symmetry
School of Violence
Skrew
Slaughter House
Slayer
Soulstorm
Sound Barrier
Spock's Beard
Sye
Symphony X
Tattoo
Thought Industry
Trouble
Thrust
Transatlantic
Tyrant
United
Joey Vera
Viking
Voivod
Wardog
Warlord
Witchkiller
YOB
X-Cops
Y&T
(Love ya, wikipedia)
3
7th plague
The Absence
Amon Amarth
Ancient
Angel Blake
Apiary
John Arch
Armored Saint
As I Lay Dying
Behold... The Arctopus
Beyond The Embrace
The Black Dahlia Murder
Bolt Thrower
Born From Pain
Brainstorm
Callenish Circle
Cannibal Corpse
Cataract
Cattle Decapitation
Cellador
The Crown
Demiricous
Disillusion
Falconer
The Fallen
Fates Warning
Fleshcrawl
Forever In Terror
Fragments of Unbecoming
From a Second Story Window
Ed Gein
Goatwhore
God Dethroned
The Heavils
I Killed the Prom Queen
If Hope Dies
Impious
In Battle
Incapacity
Into the Moat
Jacob's Dream
Job for a Cowboy
King Diamond
Lizzy Borden
Losa
Machinemade God
Mortification
Mrs. Hippie
Nasty Savage
Neaera
Neal Morse
The Ocean
Paths of Possession
Phoenix Mourning
Powerwolf
Primordial
Psyopus
Raven
The Red Chord
Riot
Rival
Sacrifice
Sanctus
Shai Hulud
Supershine
Since The Flood
Sin of Kain
Six Feet Under
Starwood
Symphorce
Torchbearer
Tourniquet
Torture Killer
Transalantic
Unearth
Vader
Vehemence
Vomitory
Winter Solstice
Former artist:
3rd Stage Alert
Agent Steel
Agony Column
All That Remains
Anacrusis
Angel Witch
Angkor Wat
Anvil
Artch
Atheist
Attacker
The Awful Truth
Ballistic
Beseech
Bitch
Broken Hope
Candlemass
Castastrophic
Chinchilla
Cradle of Filth
Corrosion of Conformity
Cirith Ungol
Cities
Cryptic Slaughter
Crisis
D.R.I.
Dark Funeral
Dave Brockie Experience
Dead End
Decoryah
Demon Flight
Desultory
Détente
Dies Irae
Diamond Head
Dr. Know
Dream Child
Drop Hammer
Eidolon
Eldritch
Enthroned
Epidemic
Eviction
Flotsam and Jetsam
Galactic Cowboys
Goo Goo Dolls
Goddess of Desire
Grip Inc.
GWAR
Hades
Hallows Eve
Hecate Enthroned
Heir Apparent
Hexenhaus
Hellhammer
Hirax
Ignorance
Immolation
Incapacity
In Extremo
Jesters of Destiny
Juggernaut
King's X
Krank
Labyrinth
Lamb of God
Lethal
Liege Lord
Little Caesar
Loss For Words
Malhavoc
Malice
Manowar
Masi
Masquerade
Mercyful Fate
Memory Garden
The Mentors
Metal Church
Metallica
The Obsessed
Obsession
Omen
Overkill
Paria
Pandemonium
Panic
Paradise Lost
Possessed
Predator
Psychotic Waltz
Purged
Quartz
The Quiet Room
Rigor Mortis
Sacred Reich
Sacred Steel
Sacrilege
Savage Grace
Savatage
Scar Symmetry
School of Violence
Skrew
Slaughter House
Slayer
Soulstorm
Sound Barrier
Spock's Beard
Sye
Symphony X
Tattoo
Thought Industry
Trouble
Thrust
Transatlantic
Tyrant
United
Joey Vera
Viking
Voivod
Wardog
Warlord
Witchkiller
YOB
X-Cops
Y&T
(Love ya, wikipedia)
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 01, 2007
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One of the most brutal and successful death metal bands out there right now. They are widely known for their infamous grossed-out lyrics and extremely explicit album art- "extremely" can barely cover the nastyness of the artwork.
Their guitar chords have deceisively complexity and nice patterns here and there. Be glad that George Fisher's voice is usually incoherate, for the lyrics can paint some nasty imagery in your mind that can even make a full-blown maniac (like me ;P) shudder big time.
One of the most brutal and successful death metal bands out there right now. They are widely known for their infamous grossed-out lyrics and extremely explicit album art- "extremely" can barely cover the nastyness of the artwork.
Their guitar chords have deceisively complexity and nice patterns here and there. Be glad that George Fisher's voice is usually incoherate, for the lyrics can paint some nasty imagery in your mind that can even make a full-blown maniac (like me ;P) shudder big time.
If Cannibal Corpse made videos off of their songs... then those videos will be the best ever made in history.
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 05, 2007
(Also see "bass guitar", if you're looking up the kind of fish, sorry)
The bass is a stringed instrument; they are modeled to have 4 strings (Tuned to E-A-D-G), 5 strings (B-E-A-D-G), 6 strings (B-E-A-D-G-C), and even up to 15 strings... although the usual bass you'd see have 4-5 strings (4-stringed being the basic).
There are two types of bass guitars-
#1 is the acoustic upright/violin/double bass (which is the size of an obese adult and would weigh half as much as one.
#2 is the electric bass which is much lighter, much smaller, and much louder than the double bass- which because of that, it replaced the double bass and the cello.
***HEY, IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT TRYING OUT A BASS GUITAR, READ THIS BIT FOR TIPS***
Compared to a regular guitar, the bass has a longer neck and thicker strings, making the frequency lower than what a guitar could reach. In technique, the bassist has to concentrate more on where to place his/her fingers on the fingerboard than what string to pluck. This would mean that the bass is easier to learn but is harder to master than a guitar.
Also, since the bass can produce a low level of Megahertz and if it's at a high volume, this means you can FEEL the rumbling every time you strike a note, and since that the neck is very long, it makes an awesome chick-magnet!
TAKE NOTE!-- Do NOT, I repeat DO NOT, abuse the bass by striking a few random, repeating notes and let the rumble do all the work just to get yourself laid. Grab some discapline and learn what it means to play the bass, get a teacher, be more intuned with your favorite music. I seen and heard enough halfwits in parties and the radio repeating the same few notes on a B-tuned string with a bunch of 15 year old girls watching, be more open-minded than that.
The bass is a stringed instrument; they are modeled to have 4 strings (Tuned to E-A-D-G), 5 strings (B-E-A-D-G), 6 strings (B-E-A-D-G-C), and even up to 15 strings... although the usual bass you'd see have 4-5 strings (4-stringed being the basic).
There are two types of bass guitars-
#1 is the acoustic upright/violin/double bass (which is the size of an obese adult and would weigh half as much as one.
#2 is the electric bass which is much lighter, much smaller, and much louder than the double bass- which because of that, it replaced the double bass and the cello.
***HEY, IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT TRYING OUT A BASS GUITAR, READ THIS BIT FOR TIPS***
Compared to a regular guitar, the bass has a longer neck and thicker strings, making the frequency lower than what a guitar could reach. In technique, the bassist has to concentrate more on where to place his/her fingers on the fingerboard than what string to pluck. This would mean that the bass is easier to learn but is harder to master than a guitar.
Also, since the bass can produce a low level of Megahertz and if it's at a high volume, this means you can FEEL the rumbling every time you strike a note, and since that the neck is very long, it makes an awesome chick-magnet!
TAKE NOTE!-- Do NOT, I repeat DO NOT, abuse the bass by striking a few random, repeating notes and let the rumble do all the work just to get yourself laid. Grab some discapline and learn what it means to play the bass, get a teacher, be more intuned with your favorite music. I seen and heard enough halfwits in parties and the radio repeating the same few notes on a B-tuned string with a bunch of 15 year old girls watching, be more open-minded than that.
The reason why I love the bass is because it's an underestimated and underrated instrument. And the people who hate or think the bass guitar and bassist are worthless are either
A) dumbasses who don't know what real music is
B) tools who needs to take a fucking musical theory class
or
C) retards who think that the bass is an inferior form of the guitar (even though they both have very different backgrounds)
A) dumbasses who don't know what real music is
B) tools who needs to take a fucking musical theory class
or
C) retards who think that the bass is an inferior form of the guitar (even though they both have very different backgrounds)
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 14, 2007
A 4-piece alternative metal band formed in '97 that lasted for 8 years. Also known as the guys who ripped-off White Zombie's sound.
Coal Chamber was very good alt. metal band (that is until System of a Down made the scene). Only thing that they needed was some originality (and the irony in this is that alternative music can easily be original that most other genres).
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 02, 2007
Heavy metal mixed with world music- traditional music done by indigenous folk (African, Austrailian, Middle Eastern, etc.) Instruments such as native aucoustic instruments and drums are used along side with heavy metal instruments.
World metal was most likely created and influenced by the Brazilian death metal group Sepultura (which is my most favorite metal band).
It is a very innovative type of heavy metal because they brought two completely different sounds and fused them together with nice results.
World metal was most likely created and influenced by the Brazilian death metal group Sepultura (which is my most favorite metal band).
It is a very innovative type of heavy metal because they brought two completely different sounds and fused them together with nice results.
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 06, 2007
When a person becomes a humped and dumped victim, here are usual quotes that come after their "diagnosis"
- "Bitch, I thought you loved me! I thought we were going to have a life together..."
- "Hold on, I'm not done yet."
- "You gave bad hummers anyway."
- "Guess it's a great time to tell you that I was trying to hit on your hot friend."
- "Does this mean I have to pay you the $100 now?"
- "HA-HA! Enjoy my gonorrea."
- "Bitch, I thought you loved me! I thought we were going to have a life together..."
- "Hold on, I'm not done yet."
- "You gave bad hummers anyway."
- "Guess it's a great time to tell you that I was trying to hit on your hot friend."
- "Does this mean I have to pay you the $100 now?"
- "HA-HA! Enjoy my gonorrea."
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 06, 2007