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Looks like some B-Movie SciFi special effects...
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Summoning - In Hollow Halls Beneath The Fells[^]
Summoning, one of my favorite bands for the last 10+ years!
I just stumbled upon a band who released a track on a 3-disc Summoning homage that was released last month.
And that, of course, led me to Summoning.
Only the vocals and their logo betray their black metal roots, I guess it will scare off some people.
Everything they ever did was about Tolkien's Middle Earth by the way 
Too bad they aren't very productive... The last album is from 2013 and there is no indication of a new one coming soon 
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I'm a big fan too. My friend introduced me to the album Dol Guldur a few year ago, and I went from there. I think, on reflection, Oath Bound is my favourite album.
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Wow, I did not expect to find a Summoning fan on CP!
Oathbound was an awesome album. I think it perfected the style they used on Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame (which has lang been my favorite).
Old Mornings Dawn was really more of the same.
I also really love Stronghold even though (or because) it's a little different with the female singer.
Minas Morgul and Dol Guldur are great albums as well, even though they're still a bit rough on the edges, Dagor Bragollach is probably my favorite Summoning song.
The Nightshade Forests EP is quite alright and the Lost Tales EP is among my favorite Summoning work even though it's nothing like their other work.
The only album I never really liked all that much is Lugburz.
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Yeah! Really like my black metal and more ambient style of the genre.
Your album assessment is pretty spot on. Lugburz is very hard to get into, which is why I've skipped over it quite a lot.
As for my favourite songs, more of a toss up between Land of the Dead or Nightshade Forest (for sentimental reasons) Although the more I listen to of Pale White Morns and Darkened Eves the more it grows on me as a possible favourite.
Do you have any other recommendations from other bands of the same genre?
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I have exactly one recommendation high quality band that sounds like Summoning (including the LOTR theme): Emyn Muil - Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga (Full Album) - YouTube[^].
Other bands that you may like if you like Summoning are Caladan Brood, Elffor and L'Ordre Du Temple, although they don't sound quite like Summoning they give off similar vibes 
But yeah, Summoning is pretty unique
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Hmmm...After listening to a few minutes, I found their work yawningly unoriginal. Apologies for the dissenting opinion. 
Marc
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That's interesting as these guys invented a (sub-)genre!
It's called "epic" black metal (although, as mentioned, the metal is now mostly gone).
I wonder what you heard that you think is like this because I'd certainly like to listen to that too!
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Initially completely overrated random access control list followed by drug for craft (7)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Coracle - initials of "completely overrated random access control list" taking an E.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Well done you are up tomorrow
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I had to do a VBA script in Excel the other day. I can't get the taste out of my mouth, and no matter how many times I wash my hands, I still feel dirty.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's the problem when you get the reputation of being the goto guy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: the goto guy
Nice pun! 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I used no goto's. At least I have some of my integrity intact...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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At one place I worked, a cute girl in the wallah department complained over a beer that she had to spend a huge amount of time decompiling delivered excel sheets into multiple contract-related sheets, so I whipped up a cool macro that did it for her in less than half a minute -- all graphically, so you could see the new sheets open and populate lightning fast.
Boy, did I ever regret it.
Sure, I had fun with the young lady, but that turned out to be transient.
The "Hey, I've heard you're good with excel!" factor, however, stuck like dog sh1t.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not even their God can help them now...
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Sounds like an Access 2003 system (originally started much earlier) that I have to support... 
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I wrote some Javascript about 10 years ago and I still feel the same.
You think you're over it, you think it's in the past, you think life's back on track ... then one night you wake up screaming and it's like it only happened yesterday. You spend hours in the shower trying to get clean but the filth just sticks to you. A car back-fires and you're back there on the battlefield. Blood everywhere. People screaming. People dying. And in the middle of it all - that filthy, filthy excuse for a language.
There is no recovery. No road back to sanity. No road back to dignity. You are marked for life. And all for a few lines of code.
Why? Dammit! WHY????
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Yeah, it's something you can only talk about if you have a doll you can use to identify what hurts.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's funny, Somehow I always took you for a
Combats
type of guy, instead of
Uggs.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: VBA script in Excel
Awesome. You can do all kinds of fun stuff.  And, it's easy because you can record half of it usually.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Did you get therapy for this? You should write a blog about your painful experience, and other snowflakes can follow you.
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