Music Banter - Attempt to Revitalize: Carpe Mortem Returns

Cheesy movie title aside...

I used to be a pretty avid poster here and made some friends, I'm sure there's some new folks though so a new introduction is in order. And some new "traits" or interests anyhow. I figure bombarding the forum with posts all at once might force me to commit to music talk again.

I'm a big metal, rock, and soundtrack fan. I tend to flit around the various subgenres of these primary genres, but there's always an undercurrent of doom. In fact I run the doom metal group on here. At the time it was the only one, that may have changed with the years. If you're into it feel free to join.

I'm terrible at choosing favorite bands, I feel like there's too much finality in it I guess. But the flavors of the week have been Psychadelic Witchcraft, Pagan Altar, and Tarantino soundtracks. As far as new exposures I've been trying to get more into Crowbar, never was a huge fan but heard a great track and I'm giving them a better shot.

In my personal life I have a large collection of pets - about thirty tarantulas, one scorpion, one whip scorpion, one camel spider, two giant millipedes, five feigning death beetles, a colony of deaths head cockroaches, a colony of dubia roaches (mainly food source for the other animals), a bearded dragon, and a mini Rex rabbit. There's also a giant centipede running free range in my apartment - scolopendra polymorpha - he escaped somehow and he's probably dead in a corner somewhere but it makes picking up clothes a real adventure. The exotic animal thing started as a kid and when my partner expressed interest in the hobby I was thrilled to get back into it. Other than work, school, and video games, it's pretty much all I do.

Glad to be here.