ive seen him use them to exhuberant amounts. not always but occasionally. maybee he has to be in the mood. :D

This is for Nathan... I heard an interesting quote watching national geographic podcasts that you might enjoy. It was in the context of a certain religious sect that eat their dead. The guru was talking about their beliefs. Knowing that your a huge proponent of "the filth" as you so readily have been describing many bands over these past however many years, I though this might apply in some way to your journalistic work. I remember you using the term, you may have even coined it, since I first starting reading metal maniacs. Anyway, there was a quick narration which I thought insightful: "Pure and impure exist only in the mind." I would argue that this applies directly to a large body of extreme metal. The more direct statement however came directly from this guru. He said, "For us, filth is comparable to a flower. We do not see any difference between the filth and the flower." Hearing this, I immediately thought back to all your interviews and all your UGBM segments and realized that for all these artists, the most beautiful flower for them is the "filth"iest one. For them, there is no difference between the flower and the filth because what is pure and what is impure exist only in the eyes of the BEHOLDER.[/b]