sargon
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Rising from the deep...
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Post by sargon on Feb 23, 2022 15:07:52 GMT -5
I almost missed it this year, what with everything going on, but it was 19 years ago that my first review went up on this site. My time here has made me friends, gotten me a shit-ton of music, and outlasted 2 houses, 5 jobs, and a marriage.
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Post by metalcrypt on Feb 23, 2022 19:20:07 GMT -5
I'll always remember coming a split second from deleting an email with the subject "So why should we hire you?" (something like that), thinking it was spam and as my finger was about to push the delete key I caught the first line and thought, "Wait a minute..."
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sargon
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Rising from the deep...
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Post by sargon on Feb 23, 2022 19:32:29 GMT -5
I was such an idiot. I just literally had no idea what to say.
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mjolnir
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Your observations of my nonsense fail to excuse your bad sense
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Post by mjolnir on Feb 24, 2022 8:13:37 GMT -5
Glad to still have you around. Your work had a big hand in getting me into Metal.
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metalmike
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We need it as a liquid in our veins instead of blood
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Post by metalmike on Feb 24, 2022 19:07:46 GMT -5
Cheers, brother! I don't think I ever would have responded to Michel's offer to bring new reviewers on board 13 years ago if I hadn't been reading your reviews, as well as those from Michel, Bruce, Larry, etc.
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Post by reigninbloodygore on Feb 25, 2022 2:57:15 GMT -5
Glad to still have you around. Your work had a big hand in getting me into Metal. In some way I echo this. I had only been listening to metal for about 3 or 4 years by the time I discovered the site. Sargon's review of Bal-Sagoth was the first I read. I was into Cradle and Dimmu Borgir at the time, kind of a gateway band Black Metal mode at that time in my life, largely thanks to albums a friend had burned to a disc for me. I still remember finding this site while at my mom's workplace on a "bring your kid to work" kind of day one summer and finding that review after searching for more black metal bands. This site showed me there was a huge underground of bands I'd never heard of that I needed to check out. I read a lot of Sargon's reviews during those times and discovered a lot of great stuff as a result. Living in Central Arkansas back in the early 2000's wasn't the easiest to be a metalhead. The best record shop around was Hastings, and they didn't have most of the stuff I searched for after reading about them here. But nonetheless, this site gave me a proper Metal education. Thanks for the many years of reviews, Sargon!
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Post by irontortoise on Mar 5, 2022 9:20:13 GMT -5
Thanks to Sargon, I discovered some of my favorite bands - Manilla Road, DoomSword, Ironsword, Summoning...
Congrats!
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Post by doomyguy on Mar 11, 2022 17:34:18 GMT -5
I think I have written this before, but your reviews have had a large influence on my journey into epic/true metal.
Your reviews on bands like Battleroar, Doomsword, Atlantean Kodex, Holy Martyr and the like was read with great interest back in the day.
So thank you. (even if you are a cranky bastard at times.)
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