29 definitions by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem
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!
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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 1, 2007
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 25, 2007
Excellent and an original-for-its-time death metal band created in the mid 80s by Chris Barnes, ex-vocalist from Cannibal Corpse. Their music is more slow-placed (for a death metal group) and the cookie monster vocals are pretty understandable- which is pretty rare from such a group.
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem June 13, 2007
One huge reason why today's music is turned rotten to the point of decay.
Weirldly enough, this "music" shares alot of simularies to 70s/80sglam rock and hair metal:
- They are completely mainstream. It takes barely any challenge at all to hit the Billboard. They both use their lack of real talent to
- Annoying vocals. Glam had the ear-spliting torture of yelling and the mediocrity of singing sorrowfully from feminine men while nu metal "artists" do a horrible impression of rapping or use the same method of screaming like their 80s counterpart.
- Lyrics are as deep and complex as a horizontal line. Rather than explaining, listen and find out yourself on how fucking weak the lyrics are- no real meaning, no real work, no real depth; just used to get shitloads of cash and women.
- Completely hated by metal fans so it'll stay far and away from their scene. (Indie Artist for the win!!!)
- They are both fads, FADS. It's just happens that glam was like a nucleur radiation-sensitive bug while nu metal is big, fucking cockroach.
The only contrasts are that:
- Glam/Hair = sex and love; Nu = angst and pity
- Glam/Hair = transvestitial men; Nu = metal noobies and wannabe rappers
- Glam/Hair = making their names to look cute; Nu = misspelling their names in order to look cool
Weirldly enough, this "music" shares alot of simularies to 70s/80sglam rock and hair metal:
- They are completely mainstream. It takes barely any challenge at all to hit the Billboard. They both use their lack of real talent to
- Annoying vocals. Glam had the ear-spliting torture of yelling and the mediocrity of singing sorrowfully from feminine men while nu metal "artists" do a horrible impression of rapping or use the same method of screaming like their 80s counterpart.
- Lyrics are as deep and complex as a horizontal line. Rather than explaining, listen and find out yourself on how fucking weak the lyrics are- no real meaning, no real work, no real depth; just used to get shitloads of cash and women.
- Completely hated by metal fans so it'll stay far and away from their scene. (Indie Artist for the win!!!)
- They are both fads, FADS. It's just happens that glam was like a nucleur radiation-sensitive bug while nu metal is big, fucking cockroach.
The only contrasts are that:
- Glam/Hair = sex and love; Nu = angst and pity
- Glam/Hair = transvestitial men; Nu = metal noobies and wannabe rappers
- Glam/Hair = making their names to look cute; Nu = misspelling their names in order to look cool
FUCK nu metal and their marketing scheme, why give away money on a highly taled about yet a shitty album so it can be shoved up into the asses of MTV, RIAA and that said nu metal "band"?
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 16, 2007
A really powerful game engine used by Epic Games. Very beautiful and popular engine, one of the very best engines out there for video games. It very popular because it supports practically any platform it's put on (PC, XBox, Gamecube, PS2, etc... and even Mac)
A great deal of the gameplay code is written in UnrealScript, a proprietary scripting language, and as such large parts of the gameplay can be modified without delving deep into the engine internals. As with other middleware packages, the Unreal Engine provides various tools to assist with content creation for designers and artists.
It has 3 versions: 1 (1998-2002), 2 (03-06), and 3 (06-future)
A great deal of the gameplay code is written in UnrealScript, a proprietary scripting language, and as such large parts of the gameplay can be modified without delving deep into the engine internals. As with other middleware packages, the Unreal Engine provides various tools to assist with content creation for designers and artists.
It has 3 versions: 1 (1998-2002), 2 (03-06), and 3 (06-future)
Some games/franchises that use Unreal Engine
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Championship
Gears of War
Red Steel
Deux Ex
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Mass Effect
Lost Odessey
Too Human
Brothers in Arms
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Championship
Gears of War
Red Steel
Deux Ex
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Mass Effect
Lost Odessey
Too Human
Brothers in Arms
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 28, 2007
An alternative/experimental metal band with 4 current members that stayed together since and brought back great music into the mainstread. All the members of SOAD are of Armenian heritage and are grandsons of Armenian Genocide survivors.
Their lyrics are somewhat simple yet they have a deep meaning once you finally get the point to those songs (which are either very, VERY political or social).
A ton of people confuse System of a Down as a nu metal band because they happen to debut their first album when a bunch of new bands amerged in the same year and they have somewhat similar styles... although SOAD has disnounced that they are nu metal.
They are currently on hiatus.
Oh, and they are as pop music as Britney Spears is to metal... nice thinking, retards.
Their lyrics are somewhat simple yet they have a deep meaning once you finally get the point to those songs (which are either very, VERY political or social).
A ton of people confuse System of a Down as a nu metal band because they happen to debut their first album when a bunch of new bands amerged in the same year and they have somewhat similar styles... although SOAD has disnounced that they are nu metal.
They are currently on hiatus.
Oh, and they are as pop music as Britney Spears is to metal... nice thinking, retards.
Memebers: Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian, Shavo Odadjian, John Dolmayan
Albums: System of a Down, Toxicity, Steal This Album!, Mezmerize, Hypnotize
Albums: System of a Down, Toxicity, Steal This Album!, Mezmerize, Hypnotize
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem May 16, 2007