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Doomed to Fail: The Incredibly Loud History of Doom, Sludge, and Post-metal

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Keeping things concise can be a challenge - hell, even this review I'm writing right now came out a lot longer than I thought it would when I started typing. It suggests that a degree of American involvement in Vietnam was probably inevitable, given their fundamental assumptions about how to defeat communism in Asia.

While Zoch presents legitimate criticisms of today's students, society's educational expectations and the excesses of the "learning styles" specialists, the narrow purpose of the text prevents a more nuanced discussion of the drawbacks and merits of innovative forms of pedagogy. Most discussed here are still kicking on, churning out their particularly bleakly-tuned variant of metal. He presents a convincing evolutionary phylogeny of all that is heavy and serves as a wise and helpful tour guide for the journey. They are certainly meant for crushing, but for their destruction Calvin’s God employs a cruel inventiveness.While the respective chapter is interesting, I would venture to say that the three musical styles mentioned actually have quite different roots and paths of evolution. adj If something is doomedto happen, or if you are doomedto a particular state, something unpleasant is certain to happen, and you can do nothing to prevent it. Who could not be tempted by a career as a vessel of “menial use,” not only in this world, but for all eternity? Definitely didn’t need half a page on Lord Of The Rings characters, or how dumpy Fresno is (a city which no band mentioned in this book is from). In the part on Doom, Sweden’s Candlemass and Katatonia are discussed, but Triptykon is never even mentioned.

Anselmi definitely hits his stride, spending more time in showing how the culture and drug scene of the poor parts of New Orleans, for example, and the difficult experience of Hurricane Katrina, informed Eyehategod’s music. It's because I think that doing so would have helped the book live up to its subtitle even more precisely than it does. But this sometimes descends into fanboy declamation, including a lengthy interpretation of Sleep’s weed epic Dopesmoker. I like to read about music that I love (or loved at another time in my life), and I was ready to like this book.J. Anselmi’s veneration for doom, sludge, and the various other children of the grave spawned by a couple of hard-luck lads in Birmingham all those years ago positively leaps off the page, and he packs this tome with enough detail to make even the most devoted doom dog bow their head in praise. A lovingly written retrospective of doom+ metal that tends to loop a bit; the descriptions of the bands' histories are interesting enough, but the descriptive language for the music itself doesn't do a great job distinguishing one band from another (at least to someone who hasn't listened to them before).

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