If it’s happening in Montréal, I think it should be Voïvod for being Québec’s most popular metal band.

1. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side (melodeath)
2. Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron NSFW cover (epic heavy metal)
3. Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance (epic heavy metal)
4. Ensiferum - Ensiferum (melodeath and folk metal, with power metal influences)
5. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God (melodeath)

This is a common question in economics.

It’s called technological unemploymemt and it’s a type of structural unemployment.

Economists generally believe that this is temporary. Workers will take new jobs that are now available or learn new skills to do so.

An example is how most of the population were farmers, before the agricultural revolution ans the industrial revolution. Efficiency improvements to agriculture happened, and now there’s like only about 1% of the population in agriculture. Yet, most people are not unemployed.

There was also a time in England when a large part of the population were coal miners. Same story.

Each economic and technological improvement expands the economy, which creates new jobs.

There’s been an argument by some, Ray Kurzweil if I remember correctly, but others as well, that we will eventually reach a point where humans are obsolete. There was a time when we used horses as the main mode of land transportation. Now, this is very marginal, and we use horses for a few other things, but really there’s not that much use for them. Not as much as before. The same might happen to humans. Machines might become better than humans, for everything.

Another problem that might be happening is that the rate of technological change might be too fast for society to adapt, leaving us with an ever larger structural unemployment.

One of the solution that has been suggested is providing a basic income to everyone, so that losing your job isn’t as much of a big problem, and would leave you time to find another job or learn a new skill to do so.

Thanks for sharing. I listen to albums too, not individual songs.

“Acid”, this is acid rock? Or Acid the band? Though they’re not slow at all…

Awesome, thanks for sharing! The discovery of death metal among the metalheads of your school was particularily interesting to me. Also, the more social/conflicting part of being a metalhead then.

You mentionned “garage metal”. I had never heard of that. Would the second wave of black metal count as garage metal, considering how raw and low-budget it was? Perhaps that’s just the tip of the iceberg we younger metalheads know about.

I didn’t because I didn’t even know who were the oldest people here.

Doesn’t that encourage urban sprawl?

Thank you. I think anyone who spends a lot of time reading about history comes to these conclusions.

So I’m not the only person to believe that symphonic metal is a subgenre of power metal?

To me, it really seems to belong to it, but at the same time, I’m not well versed in technical knowledge about music, so I’m not too confident.

Wow, thanks!

I’m listening to the Stormkeep EP and it’s excellent! I got to say that the band logo and album artwork are amazing!

I didn’t mention Summoning and Emyn Muil, because I feared it would throw the recommendations on the path of Epic Atmospheric Black Metal. I like them, and they do combine black metal and dungeon synth, but I feel like they’re somewhat different. I can’t explain why.

Thanks for all the recommendations, I’ll try them all.

I sometimes gave them a try. I don’t remember the dungeon synth. I’ll give them a try again.

Thanks to you, I just found out that in the web version of Bandcamp, it’s possible to combine genre tags in search. Will be trying this. Thanks! (Black metal + Dungeon synth)

Almost everything from them is excellent. And yes, this album is particularly good. I’ll see them live in Québec city in May 11, for the first time. I’m so excited.

Legumes fix nitrogen from the air and still need soil.

I love this song so much.

The first 3 sentences are actually coherent. The last 2 too. But the first 3 don’t belong with the last 2. It’s like they’re 2 different posts.

Yeah our alliance with Turkey is problematic for several reasons. I understand the great geopolitical benefits. Even now it is of great help in Ukraine. I think it’s a balancing act. Until they become more democratic, they are merely an ally of convenience, really an enemy at heart.

We Western nations should align with Armenia instead of Azerbaijan. I think it’s sad that a democracy had to align with Russia to survive. Democracies should stick together.

My hypothesis is that positions of power attract people who want power. Someone I know knew a protestant pastor. He was the worst kind of human, groomed a girl from his family, had no consideration for anyone. But there’s one person he really loved: himself.