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The host of a popular weapons YouTube channel, which also frequently features explosives, had close to 40 government agents show up at his Georgia house this week.
According to the Athens Banner-Herald, the agents with the U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and state and county law enforcement went to the Carnesville home of 26-year-old Kyle Myers, who runs the YouTube channel FPS Russia, which has nearly 4 million subscribers. The agents went to his home, ATF spokesman Richard Coes said, to find explosives that might be in violation of federal law.
The violation, according to Coes, was that Myer was being paid for his use of explosives.
"The claim is that he was using explosives and getting paid for it via YouTube," Coes told the Banner-Herald, noting that if a person is going to sell, distribute or use explosives for business, they need a federal explosives manufacturing license.
A similar restriction was recently reported about as it pertains to companies using drones, or unmanned aerial systems for their business, like videography or photography. TheBlaze reported a Minnesota company recently being told by the FAA that they couldn't use their equipment under current regulations because they were getting paid for it. Hobbyists, on the other hand, are able to fly such systems.
Coes told the Banner-Herald no arrests were made during the raid that took place at both Myers' home and that of his parent's Tuesday. No firearms were seized but he was not sure if explosives were taken.
There is an ongoing investigation in to the death of Myers' 32-year-old business partner Keith Ratliff, who was found dead outside of FPS Industries on January 3. Ratliff too filmed videos for the popular YouTube channel.
The Banner-Herald reported that law enforcement would not comment on suspects or persons of interest in the case.
Myers is reported to have not been at home and his father was not reachable.
Here's FPS Russia's latest video, which was posted a few days ago and had more than 1 million views:
- FAA Halts Drone Photography Business Over Regulations
- 'Foot on the Necks of Innovation': Drone Business Alleges Curious Case of Gov't Hypocrisy as Feds Try to Stifle Its Work
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- Electoral commission reports just over 73% turnout
- ANC garners 62.2% of the vote; the closest contender gets 22.%
- Still, the ANC's overall percentage is less than it got in 2009
- The party of Nelson Mandela has been dogged by scandals
The African National Congress has won South Africa's general election, holding on to power despite economic woes and corruption allegations that some felt might weaken its grip.
Some 62.2% of votes cast went to the ANC, according to provisional results from the country's electoral commission as of Saturday morning. The Democratic Alliance placed a distant second with 22.2% of the vote, while four other parties split the rest.
The millions of voters who participated in Wednesday's elections were charged with electing 400 members of Parliament, as well as representatives in new legislatures in South Africa's nine provinces, according to the South African Press Association.
The electoral commission reported just over 73% turnout among the nation's 25 million registered voters.
Earlier, South Africa's Government Communication and Information System called the elections "a resounding success."
The result represents an expected victory for the party of Nelson Mandela, who died last December. But it's not necessarily a total one, considering that the ANC garnered a lower portion of the overall vote from the 65.9% it won in 2009.
The ANC, which has governed for the past 20 years, still enjoys widespread support after the defeat of the apartheid system and the beginning of democracy in South Africa.
But its popularity and that of President Jacob Zuma have been hit by various issues, including a scandal centered in Zuma's rural homestead in Nkandla, in the province of KwaZulu Natal. The state watchdog has alleged that more than $20 million of public money was misused in improvements to the sprawling complex. Zuma has denied any wrongdoing.

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Richard Childress Racing
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race Notes:
RCR at 'Dega ... Richard Childress Racing boasts 11 victories at the storied Alabama race track amongst three drivers, the most by any car owner in Sprint Cup Series history. Dale Earnhardt captured nine wins while Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer allowed RCR to sweep both events in 2010. Additionally, in 126 starts, RCR boasts four poles, 33 top-five, 53 top-10 finishes and have led 1,654 laps of competition.
The Collective RCR ... Over the season's first seven races, RCR's four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series entries have notched two wins, six top-five and 10 top-10 finishes. The No. 31 team kicked off the 2011 season with a non-points win in the second Duel 150 qualifying race at Daytona International Speedway. Most recently, the No. 29 team visited Victory Lane at Auto Club Speedway in March and backed that up with a win the following weekend at Martinsville Speedway. RCR-prepared Chevrolets have also completed 8,601 out of 9,284 total laps (92.6 percent) with drivers Bowyer, Jeff Burton, Harvick and Paul Menard, who have led a combined 272 laps. At least one RCR driver has led laps in each of the season's first seven events.
Get to the Points ... Following last weekend's race at Texas, Harvick moved to ninth in the point standings where he is 28 markers in arrears to the top spot. Menard and Bowyer advanced to 11th and 12th, respectively, after their top-five runs, placing Menard four points and Bowyer 12 points behind Tony Stewart's 10th-place tally. Burton gained three spots, to 25th, in the rundown and is now 18 markers from cracking the top 20.
Did You Know ... Chevrolet holds the record as the manufacturer with the most success at the 2.66-mile superspeedway with 36 victories. RCR contributed 11 of Chevy's wins.
Place Your Vote ... Fan voting for the 2011 Sprint All Star race is underway and while Burton and Menard hope to qualify for the event by each claiming a victory, both have the opportunity to be voted in by race fans. Online voters can visit www.nascar.com/promos/allstar to cast their votes, and Sprint customers can send their nominee by texting VOTE to 7777.
Paul Menard
No. 27 Schrock/Menards Chevrolet Impala
Race Notes and Quotes
This Week's Schrock/Menards Chevrolet at Talladega Superspeedway ... Paul Menard will pilot chassis No. 338 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. This No. 27 Chevrolet Impala was a brand new addition to the RCR fleet for the 2011 season. Menard recorded the fourth-quickest lap during the Daytona 500 time trials in February and went on to finish ninth in both the Duel 150 qualifying race and Daytona 500.
Talladega Days ... In nine starts at Talladega Superspeedway, Menard has earned one top-five finish and four top 15's, completed 75.6 percent of his laps (1,295 of 1,713) and led for 14 circuits. He has an average starting position of 23.6 and an average finishing position of 24.9. His best finish of second and his best start of fifth were recorded in his October 2008 visit to the 2.66-mile Alabama facility. The second-place result is Menard's best career NSCS finish. He also earned one pole award (April 2005) in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and one win (September 2003) with the ARCA Racing Series at the superspeedway.
Menard Career Highlights ...
Number of NSCS starts: 154
Career best start: 1st (Daytona International Speedway, July 2008)
Career best finish: 2nd (Talladega Superspeedway, October 2008)
Top-five finishes: 4
Top-10 finishes: 11
Race Rewind ... Last week, Menard and the No. 27 team brought home a fifth-place finish from Texas Motor Speedway, the team's second top five of the 2011 season. Menard heads to Talladega 11th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver championship point standings, only four points out of the 10th position.
You finished 25th and 13th last year at Talladega. How do you feel about those runs?
"I definitely feel like our restrictor-plate program is a lot stronger this year. Talladega is a crapshoot any way you look at it. All four of our RCR cars were strong in Daytona. The cars are fast and our ECR horsepower is really good. Talladega isn't one of my favorite tracks to go to, but I know that we'll have a strong piece when we get there."
Do you have a lot of confidence going into Talladega because of Daytona?
"Absolutely, we learned a lot in Daytona. I think we're going to see a lot of two-car drafts - the push-drafting. I think it's going to be a wild race."
What do you think about the two-car draft as a driver?
"I like it better than being three-wide all day long. You're still at everybody's mercy, especially the guy who is pushing you, but I think a lot less can go wrong."
Is it uncomfortable to be the "pusher" in the two-car draft?
"No, it's actually pretty comfortable either way. Probably more so to get pushed, but it's not bad to be pushing. The communication between the drivers is very important. The lead car is essentially spotting for the back car and the back car just has to manage his water temperature."
The lead car is essentially spotting for the back car and the back car just has to manage his water temperature.
Does it require a bigger trust factor due to the fact that you can't really see?
"You can see enough. You can't see directly ahead, but you can kind of see through the windshield of the car in front. When you get to the corner, you have a lot of visibility because you can look up the track and see ahead of you. The guy that is getting pushed, he can't tell what is going on behind him. He looks in his rearview mirror and sees a hood pushed up underneath of him. But, you do need to have a lot of trust in the two-car tandems."
What is it like to be involved in a wreck at Talladega - the sights and sounds of the experience?
"Especially with the way that we raced in the past in the big packs, at any given second you know that something can happen so you're a little bit on edge. When you actually get in the wrecks, it all depends on where you're pointed and where you are when it happens. Sometimes it hurts and sometimes it doesn't."
Kevin Harvick
No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet Impala
Race Notes and Quotes
This Week's Budweiser Chevrolet at Talladega Superspeedway ... Kevin Harvick will race chassis No. 343 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. Harvick led twice for five laps in February's Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway before exiting the race at lap 22 when the car's engine expired.
Last Time Around ... Harvick and RCR's No. 29 team went to Victory Lane after last year's Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway. He started from the fourth position and led two laps during the race - laps five and 200. Harvick took the checkered flag with a 0.011-second margin of victory over Jamie McMurray in the No. 1 Chevrolet.
So Close ... Harvick nearly swept both races at Talladega Superspeedway last year. He started 14th in the October race and moved all the way up to first by lap two. He led a total of 12 laps and was passed for the top spot as the caution flag waved on the final lap of the race by his RCR teammate Clint Bowyer.
Talladega Notes ... In 20 starts at Talladega Superspeedway, Harvick has earned one win, five top-five and nine top-10 finishes. He has completed 97.8 percent (3,706 of 3,789) total laps and has led 120 laps at the 2.66-mile track. Harvick has an average starting position of 21.8 and an average finishing position of 14.8 at Talladega.
In the Loop ... Harvick owns several notable loop data statistics at Talladega Superspeedway as he enters this weekend's Aaron's 499: fourth in Closers, fourth in Green-Flag Passes (3,980), sixth in Fastest Laps Run (50) and eighth in Laps Led (84).
Double Duty ... In addition to his duties in the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet, Harvick is also scheduled to compete in the No. 4 NASCAR Nationwide Series entry for Kevin Harvick Incorporated at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday.
You hardly got to run at Daytona since your car's engine expired just 22 laps into the race, but did you get a feel for your car and say "We're going to smoke them in Talladega?"
"I don't know if anyone's going to smoke anybody at Talladega. In all of the practices and races leading up to the race in Daytona, the cars were really fast. We had a good Speedweeks all the way up until the (Daytona) 500. Then, the bottom fell out and we had a little problem with the engine. Those things are going to happen. I think we should be good at Talladega. We'll see where all the rules fall as far as where NASCAR thinks we need to be with our car package and cooling packages and things like that. That will affect how we race. Based on everything we did in Speedweeks and the first 20 laps of the Daytona 500, everything was rock solid."
There has been a lot of development that has gone into the ECR engine. Is it shocking when something goes wrong with one of them?
"Well, it was 152 races in between engine failures for the No. 29 team. There are just too many parts and pieces and too many tolerances that are way too tight to not have something go wrong every once in a while. I felt like they did a great job analyzing everything and understanding where the problem was and what they needed to do going into Talladega. Everyone feels fairly comfortable with what we're doing with the engines."
What did you think of the two-car draft?
"Sometimes when race tracks are repaved, they develop new characteristics. When you take the grip option out of a race, you can do things with a race car that people don't necessarily plan on. I go back and I look at when I won the Daytona 500. I was pushed all the way through Turns 1 and 2 and all the way down the backstretch by Matt Kenseth, and that's what won the race. We just weren't able to do it through the corners at full speed like we are now because the race track was bumpy and not as much grip. Now that you take that grip out, you can push each other all the way around. It's a different concept, and it takes full commitment from the guy in the back because you can't see what's going on in front of you. You just have to feel the guy's car in front of you as to how hard you push. As drivers and teams, you try to race under the conditions that are presented to you that weekend. New race tracks are tough with asphalt because it takes the grip out of the equation."
You just hold it on the mat, and if you hit something, you hit something.
We know what the pusher has to do, but what is the responsibility of the driver in front of the pusher?
"There's a lot of different scenarios that are presented as to where you are around with cars, as to how much you have to let off the brakes and things like that, that keep the rear car attached to you because when the air starts moving around other cars it becomes a little more difficult. But, when you're by yourself, you hold it wide open, and everyone pushes and off you go."
What's it like to be the pusher when all you see in front of you is a blade?
"It's just full commitment from the back because you can't see anything in front of the guy in front of you. You just hold it on the mat, and if you hit something, you hit something. The only way to go as fast as you can is to try and stay square on the guy in front of you. The guy in front of you has as much responsibility just holding his car straight and trying to make as little movement as possible. There's a lot of responsibility on both sides, and it doesn't take much to mess it up and wreck the guy in front of you. You have to be paying attention the whole time."
What did you think about the radio communications at Daytona? Not only were teammates talking to each other, but drivers from other teams could pipe in and talk to you. Do you want anyone else doing that to you?
"Anyone that gets on another team's radio frequency has to get that approved by that team. The only thing that makes me nervous is if we get to Homestead, and your radio has someone else on it, and things aren't working so well with your radio. It seems like a lot of confusion, and it seems like it will cause more problems that are necessary down the road. Hopefully, that gets addressed, and we can move forward."
Jeff Burton No. 31 Cat Financial Chevrolet Impala Race Notes and Quotes
This Week's Cat Financial Chevrolet at Talladega Superspeedway ... Jeff Burton will race Chassis No. 331 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable in this weekend's Aaron's 499. Built new for the 2011 season, this No. 31 racer first competed in the second Duel 150 qualifying race at Daytona International Speedway where Burton drove it to victory. He then raced this Caterpillar Chevrolet in the 53rd running of the Daytona 500 that ended eight laps shy of the halfway mark for the Todd Berrier-led team when the engine suddenly expired, crediting them with a 36th-place finish.
Unfinished Business ... In 34 Sprint Cup Series starts at Talladega, Burton owns four top-five and 13 top-10 finishes. Although he has yet to visit Victory Lane at the storied race track, his best finish of third came in October 2001. The South Boston, Va., native also boasts a 24.3 starting average to go along with a 19th-place finishing average and has led 115 laps of competition.
Loopy at 'Dega ... The 21-time Sprint Cup Series race winner is the series' best green-flag passer. Over the past 12 races at the larger-than-life oval, Burton has made 4,634 passes under green-flag conditions, 553 more passes than Martin Truex Jr. in second place. At the same time, the 43-year-old driver leads all drivers as the sport's best quality passer. Of his 3,822 passes, 3,202 were made while running in the top 15. Other notable loop data statistics for Burton at Talladega Superspeedway are: Driver Rating (fifth), Fastest Drivers in an Early Run (10th), Fastest Drivers in a Late Run (third), Green-Flag Speed (fifth), Laps in Top 15 (fourth) and Speed in Traffic (first).
A Streak Looking to End ... Burton currently owns an 84-race winless streak that he hopes to break in this weekend's 188-lap showdown. The Caterpillar driver's last visit to Winner's Circle was in October 2008 when he led the final 57 laps en route to his 21st Sprint Cup Series career win at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Rearview Mirror ... In his 900th career NASCAR start, Burton and the Cat Racing team turned their troubled early season finishes into a respectable 11th-place effort on Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway. Posting his second-best qualifying effort of the 2011 season, Burton rolled off the starting grid 12th and fell to as low as 21st before necessary adjustments on the Caterpillar Chevrolet, in order to keep up with changing track conditions, on multiple pit stops helped him climb through the field and post his best finish of the season thus far.
Last year, you had good cars but bad finishes at Talladega. That must have been disappointing.
"Our (restrictor) plate season last year was less than desirable. We had really fast cars. I am grateful for that. I feel like we have cars that can win races, run in the front and lead a lot of laps. We have to miss the wreck. What happened in both of last year's races was me minding my own business and the next thing you know, I'm in a wreck. That's kind of the way Talladega has been for everyone. It seems like you go through spurts where you miss the wrecks and, all of sudden, you go through a spurt where you can't do anything right. That's kind of what happened to us last year. We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It makes you think about what your strategy should be going back."
Given how you ran in Daytona, how does that set you up for Talladega?
"We were really fast at Daytona. I was real excited about our car in Daytona. I think the two-car draft is something that everyone is going to try to use at Talladega - there's no question about that. A lot of people have worked on their cooling packages. It'll be interesting to see how long people can push each other now. A couple of our cars had engine problems, including us. Those guys work really hard and I'm sure we have that remedied. But, certainly, that will be in the back of our mind."
It'll be interesting to see how long people can push each other now.
What do you think of the two-car draft and do you think we'll see it again?
"We'll definitely see it again, there's no way around it. The doors open, and the only way to shut it is to change some rules. I don't even know how you can change the rules to make it so you can shut it. You would have to do something pretty radical. You're going to see a lot of that. There's just no way around it. Two cars can go faster than three. You'll without a question see a lot of it."
How uncomfortable was it to be the pusher?
"Well, there were times when it was uncomfortable to be both. The thing about being the pusher is you can't see. If you're not communicating with the guy that you're pushing, or the spotter isn't working well, its very nerve racking because you can't see what's going on. A lot of communication is required. You really have to be talking a lot. You spend a lot of time explaining to the guy behind you what's going on. The guy pushing has to have full trust. If he's not fully committed, fully dedicated, to pushing the guy in front, a lot of speed will be lost by not being committed. It takes some trust, and it's an interesting way to race for sure."
Clint Bowyer
No. 33 BB&T Chevrolet
Race Notes and Quotes
This Week's BB&T Chevrolet at Talladega Superspeedway ... Clint Bowyer will pilot chassis No. 294 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. This No. 33 Chevrolet Impala has significant restrictor-plate track success, including a top-five finish (fourth) in the 2010 Daytona 500 and a trip to Victory Lane in last October's Talladega 500 after starting from the front row.
Career Talladega Stats ... The Aaron's 499 marks Bowyer's 189th NSCS start.
In 10 NSCS starts at Talladega, Bowyer owns one win, two top-five and four top-10 finishes.
He has completed 78.2 percent (1,487 of 1,901) of the total laps contested at TSS during his career.
The Emporia, Kan., native has led 25 laps at the 2.66-mile oval.
Bowyer owns a 22.2 average starting position and a 19.4 average finishing position.
BB&T Colors ... Bowyer's Chevrolet Impala will sport the maroon and yellow paint scheme of BB&T this weekend. The Winston-Salem, N.C., corporation has 35 bank branches located within 60 miles of Talladega Superspeedway.
Site of First NASCAR Pole ... In just his third career start, Bowyer earned his first career NASCAR pole award for the April 2004 running of the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Talladega.
Winner, Winner ... Bowyer and RCR teammate Kevin Harvick finished 1-2 in last October's Talladega 500. The trip to Victory Lane with Bowyer gave car owner Richard Childress his 11th victory at Talladega, the most by any car owner at the track. Bowyer led nine times for 19 laps on the way to his fourth career NSCS victory.
Top-Five in The Lone Star State ... Bowyer and the No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet team, riding momentum from two straight top-10 finishes, led 44 laps en route to a second-place result in the Samsung Mobile 500 under the lights at Texas Motor Speedway.
Points Racing ... After his third top-10 finish in as many weeks, Bowyer jumped four more positions, to 12th, in the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver championship point standings
You won in Talladega the last race in October. Are you pumped to go back?
"Yeah, I am. We were really, really fast in Daytona, and basically, got destroyed there at the end. Our cars and engines are really good. I look forward to getting to Talladega and having a chance at winning. That's what it's all about when you go to a race track. It's such a good feeling. It's now up to us to make it happen."
Do you ever rag on Harvick about beating him by a couple inches there?
"No, not really. It just came down to the wire. When you're sitting in the equipment that we get to sit in at those superspeedways, it doesn't surprise me that I was racing a teammate for the win."
That was kind of a weird ending to that race. What were you thinking when the yellow light came on? Did you think you had it won?
"I really did think when the caution came out that I was ahead of him, and I was. I didn't know it was that close, but I really did think that I won."
If they're racing hard in front of you and you don't think you should be around, get out of there!
Do you have to be more lucky than good to stay out of trouble at Talladega?
"Not really. You have to be conscious of your surroundings. You can't put yourself in a bad situation. If they're racing hard in front of you and you don't think you should be around, get out of there! Get out of it and just don't stay there and hope it's going to change because nine times out of 10, that's when it's going to bite you."
So, you have to have like a spider sense that something's about to happen?
"Well, usually it's pretty apparent when things are going to happen believe it or not. There might be someone up there that's not used to being up there and they are racing pretty wild and erratic. That's the thing, you get used to racing around people. It doesn't matter if you're a 20th place team or a top-10 team. You get used to racing around those people. You get comfortable. It's when those two collide and are racing against one another. That's when things happen. I hate to say that, but that's how it is."
Have you ever been in the situation when that spider sense says 'alright, this is trouble, I have to get out of here,' and there's no place to go?
"That's usually when you get wrecked. You realize you're in a bad situation, but you might be three-wide, three deep and there's nothing you can do and nowhere to go."
Do you feel like Daytona sets you up for Talladega?
"I think it definitely does. Obviously, we have a lot of work to do, body work and stuff like that, but we'll be alright."
You led 31 laps at Daytona. Was it disappointing to not get something more out of that?
"Absolutely. Anytime you run up front as much as we did, we had a shot to win that thing. We really did, with four laps to go; we were one of the six cars in the hunt. We just got wiped out."
RCR's NASCAR Nationwide Series History at Talladega ... Richard Childress Racing has acquired five top-five finishes and seven top 10s in 21 NNS starts at Talladega Superspeedway. The organization has led 87 laps in NNS competition at the 2.66-mile superspeedway.
Where it all Started ... Car owner Richard Childress began his NASCAR career at Talladega Superspeedway in the track's inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event in 1969, finishing 23rd in his first of 285 NSCS starts as a driver. Childress launched his NASCAR Nationwide Series program in 1995 but did not field a car in NNS competition at Talladega until 2000.
Pole Position ... RCR has led the starting field to the green flag at Talladega Superspeedway on two occasions - with Johnny Sauter in April 2002 and with Clint Bowyer in April 2004.
Tim George Jr.
No. 21 Applebee's Neighborhood Bar & Grill/Potomac Family Dining Group Chevrolet Impala
Race Notes and Quotes
This Week's RCR Chevrolet at Talladega ... Tim George Jr. will pilot chassis No. 247 in this weekend's Aaron's 312 at Talladega Superspeedway. Although this Chevrolet has served as a backup car in the past, this weekend will mark RCR's first competitive laps on track with this chassis.
Welcome Back ... George Jr. has one previous NNS start, finishing a disappointing 32nd at Road America in 2010 after a turn-three incident while he was running in the top 10 with less than 15 laps remaining. This weekend also marks a return to the NNS for RCR, which has not fielded an entry in the series since the November 6, 2010 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
George at Talladega ... George has competed at Talladega Superspeedway in the ARCA Racing Series on three previous occasions, leading 12 laps and earning a career-best third-place finish at the track in 2010 after starting fourth. He also has posted finishes of 13th and 20th at the track, in 2009 and 2008 respectively.
What are your thoughts on Talladega?
"I'm excited to be back at Talladega after a great test a few weeks ago with the ARCA Racing Series. We are coming back with Applebee's and Potomac Family Dining Group on the car, and it will be great to represent both a national brand and the regional brand of PFDG.. We are also running the Nationwide race. I enjoy restrictor plate racing a lot, and to be with a great team such as RCR it makes it that much more fun."
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The third Far-Cry title was one of my favourite games of 2012. It offered a fun and accessible mix of open-world exploration, first-person shooter dynamics and a decent storyline with compelling characters. But now, watching a live demo of Far-Cry 4 in the Ubisoft booth at E3, the game suddenly seems so primitive and dated. Just seconds in, it is clear that the team at Ubisoft Montreal have completely outdone themselves this time around.
Far-Cry 4 has a similar setup, with an everyday character named Ajay Ghale being caught up in a anarchistic civil-war when he returns to his primitive home in Kyrat, a rural town in the Himalayas. The once peaceful town has been devastated by the regime of a despotic, power hungry self-appointed ruler by the name of Pagan Min (voiced by the brilliant Troy Baker of Bioshock Infinite and The Last of Us fame).
Before our hands-on experience with the game, we were shown a few of the features by Ubisoft's Julian Laferriere, a producer on Far-Cry 4. Just like in the previous game, players are presented with a huge sand-box-like world to explore, except this time around a tropical island has been replaced with a picturesque Himalayan environment. Which includes jaw-dropping heights and snow encrusted mountains, but also lower altitude rice paddies and beautiful ruins to explore.
It is truly an epic location and despite the intimidating terrain - it's incredibly inviting to explore at the same time. Players will be able to do so with a plethora of tools at their disposal too, including grappling hooks for scaling mountain sides, vehicles to traverse large distances and of course, the fan favourite glider makes a return as well, allowing you to launch yourself off mountain sides and swoop down for miles until you find a safe spot to land.
Along the way, you'll witness captivating scenery such as villages perched alongside towering mountains, native wild-life including a random surprising encounter between an eagle and a rather unfortunate goat, and even religious and cultural pieces of art drawn directly into the rock face by the locals. Far-Cry 4 is simply breath-taking - both immersive and exciting at the same time.
The action is just as good too, as my brief hands-on time at E3 demonstrated. Players can chose a new weapon, the crossbow, for silent and stealthy take-downs. Scaling above enemies and taking them out one at a time. Or they can embark on a more 'Michael Bay' approach (as Ubi's Laferriere liked to call it) and simply blow everything up. One particularly fun move was to attach a timed explosive onto a flammable barrel and send it rolling toward unsuspecting enemies.
It's not just humans getting in on the murderous antics either. Animals will also get involved and there were certain times where we had allies in the form of elephants and yaks, who would trample and take down enemies purely because they got in their way. There is something quite remarkable about being in the middle of a gun-fight and seeing one of your enemies get picked up by an elephant and thrown across the map like he was a weightless rag-doll.
When not on foot, players can ride these wild beasts to get from place to place. But they can also drive vehicles too, which make a return from Far-Cry 3. Except the developers have ensured that the driving is more fun this time around, finally allowing players to shoot and drive at the same time. Coupled with narrow, high-altitude dirt roads and rocky terrain, the driving in Far-Cry 4 looks more exciting and treacherous than ever.
Just before the end of our time with Far-Cry 4, we also briefly witnessed two-player co-op play where a second player could enter the game and help take-down enemies in a stronghold. It began with the Ajay calling for back-up and a second, human controlled player arriving in a small flying gyrocopter to help from the air.
After hours of fun with Far-Cry 3, I'm pretty excited for this follow-up and my time with the game today has only elevated my expectations. Thankfully, considering the number of delayed titles this year, it appears that we'll see Far-Cry 4 this November when it releases worldwide on the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
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Bit that had me drooling:
"Legendary items are a really exciting part of Mines of Moria," Steefel said. "The idea is to have the player's own weapon become a quest hub." More prosaically, legendary items are rare-to-epic class-specific items that drop (though some can be crafted) throughout the world and can be bound to a specific adventurer of level 51 or higher. New legendary items start nameless and must be identified by a new NPC. Once identified, they acquire a random set of "Legacies," or class-specific bonuses and begin acquiring experience points when their owner uses them in combat.
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The latest GNOME rolls out with better contact management and new features for handling virtual machines.
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Originally posted by surrender_dorothy
Originally posted by random hero
um no. werewolves aren't real. come on, ask a real question.
"even a man who's pure in heart
and say's his prayers by night,
can become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
and the autumn moon is bright."
Curt Siodmak
I put forward the idea that was first discussed in Universal's "The Wolfman" 1941.
Perhaps the metamorphosis from human to wolf is a figment of the imagination but the change in the behaviour of the human actually occurs. In this case, the act of becoming a werewolf is actually a psychotic breakdown of some kind.
Am I explaining this properly?
In any case the same applies for women as explored in the quite good movie "Ginger Snaps". When it's that time of the month...
Originally posted by surrender_dorothy
I imagine that Romania have many superstitions and superstitious folk...
...what's this about the Liverpool, England case? You didn't give any links or sources. And is it plausable or is it reminiscent of the famous "vampire" case in highgate or wherever. You know with that Sean Manchester dude? Know what I mean?
Originally posted by surrender_dorothy
yeah werewolves exist. They are very rare though.
You will only become a werewolf if you have the curse.
Symptoms of the curse include a five point star that can be seen on your palm, loss o memory for extended periods of time, heightened sense of smell and hearing, elongated teeth, a thirst for raw meat/blood, monobrow and extensive hairyness aka hypertrichosis.
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Originally posted by hogtie
One of the more interesting theories that I've heard is that lycanthrope is actually an astral projection that has some real form, created from ether. This is performed by a magician/witch/shaman type. The projector uses an animal form that has some symbolic meaning to them (wolf, bear, what have you), and the animal form also helps to disguise the real person behind it. The reason silver was supposed to be effective against lycanthropes was because steel is very disruptive to ether, but silver is especially so.
Originally posted by random hero
more likely, historical accounts of werewolves were either simply the work of actual animals, or were(as i mentioned above) the work of human serial killers with their acts explained by werewolves since the psychiatric idea of psycho(socio)pathy didn't exist yet.
There have been cases, there was an one in Liverpool, England only during the late 80s and early 90s. It was very famous case. Plus, in Romania, Werewolves are still feared to this day...a lady was reported attacked by it (this was on a television program).
Originally posted by Apoplexy123
I would say with 100% rationality, that it is ridiculous to truly belive that warewolves exist. Remeber these are creatures created out of myth, much like the centuarians or vampires.
It isnt logical for them to exist.
The terrifying animal tore into one of the horses and killed it, while the other horse broke free from its harness and galloped off into the night.
The attack took place just after dusk, with a full moon on the horizon. The moon that month seemed blood red, probably because of dust in the stratosphere from a recent forest fire in the Hatchmere area.
The locals thought the moon's colour was a sign that something evil was at large and the superstitious phrase, "bad moon on the rise" was whispered in travellers' inns across the region. In the winter of 1791, a farmer went into his snow-covered field just seven miles east of Gresford, and he saw enormous tracks that looked like those belonging to an overgrown wolf.
In February 1992, a national newspaper reported sightings of a strange bear-like animal that had been seen across Wales. In the north of the country, a farmer who had spotted the animal on the night of a full moon said he had afterwards found two of his lambs had been killed.
And in 2001 the local newspaper, the Evening Leader ran a series of articles about sightings of big cats, like a puma in Treuddyn, near Mold, and Bangor-on-Dee, near Wrexham.


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Singular force
With a unique name and a unique talent; LeBron is one of a kind
We live in an Age of Hype, and we have become conditioned to expect letdowns.
The Next Great Thing never turns out to be quite that, unless, of course, it does, and then it has a distinct, unforgettable name: LeBron.
"Le" means "the" in French. I'm going to guess that "Bron" is just something that popped into the head of his then 16-year-old mother, Gloria, when he popped out of the womb on Dec. 30, 1984. We don't know whether she had any grand designs for this baby boy, but after watching him play basketball for several years, I hereby declare that "Bron" means "Chosen."
Check out that birth date. LeBron has embedded himself into our consciousness so deeply that we feel as if we've known him for at least a decade. But LeBron James is only 23, and if you'd like to put his accomplishments in perspective, consider that Larry Bird turned 23 a little under two months into his rookie year. And at the end of that season, as great as he was, we knew he had a lot to learn.
LeBron is a different kind of 23, and never mind the face that could pass for 33. At 23, LeBron is a four-time All-Star. He is the leading scorer in the history of the Cleveland Cavaliers, doing in 380 games what it took Brad Daugherty to do in 514. He is a member of the Olympic team. He has been to the Finals. If there's an accomplishment with the word "youngest" attached to it, LeBron has done it.
Was it supposed to be this way? Why, yes, it was. LeBron is simply living up to everything that was predicted for him when he was, oh, 14.
He had to have been the toast of Akron youth basketball society at 8, 9, 10, and 11, but let's pick him up at 14, when he became a starter for St. Vincent-St. Mary High School. He averaged 20 points and 6 rebounds a game, and the team won the Division 3 state title.
That was the first of three state crowns, the only disappointment coming in his junior year, when the team moved up in class and was defeated in the tournament by Cincinnati's Roger Bacon. By that time, LeBron was so far out of his class individually that he very much wanted to forgo his senior year in order to enter the NBA, right then and there.
You needn't ask how David Stern felt about that. Put it down as a "No."
By this time, the 6-foot-7-inch swingkid had already appeared on the covers of Slam, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN The Magazine, and you'd really have to be living in a deep, dark, cable-less cave to be an American sports fan and be unaware of LeBron James.
His senior year was rather eventful. His team became the most sought-after attraction in the history of high school basketball. The team began practicing at the University of Akron and began playing in far-flung time zones. Having some national matchup games televised on ESPN2 was one thing. Having plain ol' ordinary Ohio games televised on regional pay-per-view was quite another.
They won the state championship, naturally, with LeBron averaging 31.6 points, 9.6 rebounds, 4.6 assists, and 3.4 steals per. The only loss was a technicality, a forfeit after LeBron had been suspended for an incident we shall call Jerseygate. It seems that LeBron had accepted a couple of freebie throwback jerseys (Wes Unseld and Gale Sayers). Oh, and let's not forget Hummergate.
Somehow or other, Gloria James was able to leverage her son's name to secure a loan, enabling her to buy an $80,000 Hummer H2 for her son's 18th birthday. So, yes, the Ohio High School Athletic Association had a query or two before the whole thing blew over.
Let's just say that nothing about LeBron's high school career was what you might term "normal."
The same can be said of his game. For LeBron James really is a singular basketball package. His lineage is pure Elgin Baylor, but we are now 50 years on, and the evolutionary process is relentless.
Elgin gave us Doctor J, who gave us Michael, and now we have LeBron, bigger, stronger, and in possession of more technical skills than his predecessors.
Baylor changed the game more than any individual in the last 70 years by making it diagonal, and not merely horizontal, or, occasionally, vertical.
And he did it as a midsized player (6-5). He combined forward and guard skills in a larger physical package than the game had previously known. Julius Erving put his own flourish on it, and then Michael Jordan took it all to another level, combining the physical skills with a will to win and icy bloodlessness that only Bill Russell had ever possessed.
And that, really, is the only question we have concerning LeBron James, who is the most physically gifted player in the history of the game. He is 6-8, 250 or so, very strong and astonishingly quick. He is a better rebounder than Michael. He is a better passer than Michael. But Michael wanted to win badly enough to make himself into the best defensive player in the league as well as the best offensive player. LeBron has improved defensively, but he has yet to make that commitment.
There are no yeah-buts at the offensive end. LeBron's offensive instincts are pure unselfish. Like so many virtuosos we've known, he would have been better off if basketball had become a four-on-four or three-on-three game, rather than five-on-five. (A conspicuous exception: Bird, who would have been a great seven-on-seven or nine-on-nine player.) Then he could simply take over a higher percentage of the time.
But LeBron understands that it's a five-man game, a team game, and he knows how vital it is to have the other four feel sufficiently involved. The only time people criticize him is when they think he passes when he should have shot.
If you're a Celtics fan, this is what you wanted. LeBron will be here either two or three times and at some point he will take your breath away, guaranteed. You will see him do things, and you will say, "Don't tell me he's 23," but he is, and you'd better hope the Celtics can deal with him now because he will get better.
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The wife of the doctor at the center of the 2007 hepatitis outbreak is now the legal guardian over her husband, Dr. Dipak Desai's lawyer said in court Tuesday.
Defense attorney Richard Wright said Kusum Desai has been signing the doctor's documents and has legal guardianship over the doctor.
Wright has said in court papers that a July 2008 stroke left Desai with a "cognitive impairment" that diminished his ability to assist his lawyers and left him incompetent to stand trial.
Dipak Desai appeared Tuesday with his wife before District Judge Jackie Glass. The doctor walked in unassisted and showing no emotion. During the 10-minute hearing, Dipak Desai was stoic as he sat at the defense counsel's table. He stared straight ahead during most of the hearing, occasionally shuffling his feet but saying nothing.
Meanwhile, prosecutors, who have challenged the doctor's incompetency claims, continued their efforts to obtain Dipak Desai's medical records so that an independent evaluation can be done.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Mike Staudaher said Tuesday that he still seeks records from the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, where the doctor received cognitive and speech pathology treatment after his stroke.
Wright said he would verify that all the medical records from local psychiatrist Dr. Norton Roitman, who treated Dipak Desai in June 2009, have been turned over.
Glass scheduled a Nov. 23 status check in the case to verify that all relevant medical records have been obtained. The judge waived Dipak Desai's appearance at the next hearing. In July, District Judge Donald Mosley ordered the criminal case against the doctor transferred to Glass to oversee the medical evaluations. Glass handles all issues involving the competency of defendants in District Court.
Dipak Desai, 60, a gastroenterologist who gave up his license to practice medicine after the outbreak, is scheduled to stand trial March 14 on several felony charges, including racketeering, insurance fraud and neglect of patients. Two of his former nurse anesthetists, Keith Mathahs and Ronald Lakeman, also are charged in the case.
The charges revolve around the health cases of seven people authorities say were infected in 2007 with the potentially deadly hepatitis C virus at Desai's Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.
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Hi all, I am new to the list, so please bear with me. This is from this list some 15 months ago:
I would be very interested in the outcome of this patch. Has it been reviewed, how was the result, are there binaries/source code I could deploy?On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Federico Simoncelli <federico simoncelli ???> wrote: > Looking at the LVM2 code (LVM2.2.02.40, tools/lvcreate.c:640): > > /* FIXME Allow exclusive activation. */ > if (vg_is_clustered(vg)) { > log_error("Clustered snapshots are not yet supported."); > return 0; > } > > looks like there is no way to activate a snapshot in a clustered > volume group. Is the documentation wrong? > Is there anyone actively working on the "exclusive activation" FIXME > that is mentioned in the comment? Hi all, I worked a little on this issue and I came up with a working patch for LVM2.2.02.32. ... To be able to set the lv as exclusive you have to deactivate it on the other nodes with the command: # lvchange -aln /dev/vg00/lvol1 and then you can create the snapshot: # lvcreate --size 100M --snapshot --name snap /dev/vg00/lvol1 Logical volume "snap" createdIt automatically takes care to set the lv device as exclusive (vgchange -aey). Can anyone review the patch?
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Well, well, here I am, interviewing one of the most underrated and underground pioneering metal bands, whom were always mostly known by name and reputation but almost never through their one-of-a-kind musical quality. Listening to the actual ever-expanding avant-garde metal scene, one has to admit to the fact that they actually had an impact on its development as a genre. Soon enough I got in touch with their band coach singer, drummer, lyricist, synthesizer and piano man Svein-Evil Hatlevik, a most honest, laid-back and intelligent everyday journalist. Along the way I was even given a chance to hear a post-1998 recording of a new Fleurety song, which is aptly called
The Animal of the City
. I immediately sat down deep into my sofa, plugged in my headphones and started the song at a very high volume. What a shock! Could this be Fleurety
at all
? It most certainly is! However, once I got used to it, this experience made me remember that ever since I discovered this band, Ive truly never been able to predict what would be their next disguises. For now, have a seat and discover the unstable world of Fleurety.
Hey Svein-Egil! Lets hope everything is fine on your side of the European ground; anyway, wherever you are, a sunny and warm summer is always a welcome treat, right. Well I would like to take this opportunity to explore in details such a delicate subject as Fleurety, the now cult experimental band you and Alexander Nordgaren both gave birth to. Ever since the year 2000, just after the release of
Dept. of Apocalyptic Affairs
, an album that took everyone by surprise with its refreshing twists of mind, absolutely nothing seemed to happen in your camp. The momentum slowly faded away so to speak. Why was that? Any hurt feelings about that last album? No more inspirations? Of course we probably all know how Hatlevik kept on going with DHG and Zweizz, but Nordgaren all of a sudden musically disappeared, heading off to India and other exotic parts of the world. Between 2000 and 2005, what were then your feelings about Fleurety and its artistic accomplishments thus far?
Well, first thing is that summer here in Oslo is the rainiest ever since they started scientific measurements of the amount of rain in 18-twenty-something. Anyway, I was a little surprised to see that nothing happened with Fleurety after the
Department of Apocalyptic Affairs
album. I was still making songs that I intended to be Fleurety songs, but nothing really happened. So it took me a while to understand that the band was in a hiatus.
In fact, both the songs of the Zweizz 7"
Black Necrotic Obfuscation
(Vendlus Records 2004) were originally intended from my side to be Fleurety songs when I started making them. I programmed some beats and some synth stuff, and I did nothing more about them, since I assumed that Alex would add some guitars. Then all of a sudden three years had passed, and there were still no guitars, so I decided to finish the songs myself. Anyway, I was very happy about the
Department of Apocalyptic Affairs
album, but lately (last five years or something) I've come to the understanding that Alex wasn't too happy with that album. So well, I have no problem with that.
Now it's more like I continue one thread with Zweizz, the electronic experimental one from
Department of Apocalyptic Affairs
. But as I see it Fleurety as it works these days is following another thread that goes back to our very first demo, and the years that followed, with
Min Tid Skal Komme
. That kind of material, that kind of mentality. That's OK with me now, but I don't think I would have felt too comfortable about this in, say, 2004. I was a little embarrassed about the old Fleurety stuff at that time, like
Min Tid Skal Komme
A Darker Shade of Evil
, but in recent years I've started enjoying that stuff. I can very well put on
Min Tid Skal Komme
today and enjoy it. (But not too often, mind you!!!) I wouldn't have been able to do that five years ago.
You appear to be preparing a special comeback with the release of a 7 on Duplicate Records which will basically only contain re-recordings of two older tracks. I always thought that, as an artist, going through material from the vault was like admitting to some sort of a lack of inspiration regarding your present-day creativity. Was this an easier way to get back on track after all these years, in order to get a grasp of what Fleurety once has been and therefore should be nowadays?
Hm. We had to find another label to release this 7", because of all the usual reasons. Fleurety is cursed with label complications, we've been since 1993, so well. We actually made a deal with our very first record label Aesthetic Death Records, who released our
A Darker Shade of Evil
7" EP in 1994 and co-released
Min Tid Skal Komme
with Misanthropy Records in 1995. This label is also releasing the vinyl version of
Min Tid Skal Komme
this autumn. We might be talking November. This version will feature the
A Darker Shade of Evil
EP and our very first demo
Black Snow
that we released in 1993. So let's see what happens and when it happens.
Anyway, when it comes to your question about "going through material from the vault was like admitting to some sort of a lack of inspiration regarding your present-day creativity", I agree. But I don't think that kind of thinking applies to Fleurety. If we were an active band, like Darkthrone or whatever, it would be an entirely different situation. But for a lot of years (1998-2005) we weren't really an active band, so re-recording old material is more like a way to get back on track, some kind of way to reawaken the dead. But as I said: Fleurety got lost, I guess in some kind of fog of experimentation, where the members of the band kinda lost sight of each other.
So I think it is better to keep things clear, and fuck all that experimental shit. I make experimental music all day, so I don't really need Fleurety to fulfill that function. We're never going to sound like your usual metal band anyway, no matter how hard we try. So it's more important to keep the band alive, I think, than being all visionary and shit. I mean, it's cool to be visionary, but we need to keep this band a social unit as well, that brings people together. We've been doing this as two people all these years, and we need to keep doing this as at least two people. Otherwise it wouldn't be Fleurety.
Lets return for the last time ever to your almost entirely unknown and unpublicized last album,
Dept. of Apocalyptic Affairs
. One could obviously argue that this was a total commercial nightmarish fiasco, as I do remember how impossible it was to get my hands on it back to the day of its official release. Now what was Supernal Musics initial reaction to the musical compositions that you guys gave them? And nine years after its conception, are you sometimes still able to give it a few spins?
Last time ever? That sounds kinda dramatic. As far as I know, the guy who runs Supernal Music really liked the album, but I assume that kind of music is not so easy to sell. On the other hand, I don't really suspect him of having tried. The album has been out of print for more than five years, and Supernal still hasn't released that second edition that he's been talking about for years. And in a way, that's fine by me. The problem is that he doesn't want anyone else to release it either, which by my standards makes him a capitalist pig.
Could you please present the lineups that youre going to use for your upcoming 7, and just say how you think that they might have altered the way you both compose together? Why did you specifically choose these guys to play with?
There are two different line-ups for the songs from the 7": One consists of Runhild Gammelsæter (Vocals), Alexander Nordgaren (Guitars), Necrobutcher (Bass), Hellhammer (Drums) and me as more or less a producer or band coach. The song is a re-recording of a song off our
Black Snow
demo. The reason we chose to do this song with Runhild is that she's the only woman I know who was really around when the Norwegian black metal underground existed and who would know how to do that kind of vocals. I initially asked the pretty well known Norwegian singer Maja Ratkje, and she was about to say yes, but she wanted money - she does these things for a living, whereas Runhild works as a biochemistry engineer, so she's pretty well off. And she was really enthusiastic about this project too.
And somehow I have this notion that black metal should not be made by professionals. I honestly don't think that black metal should be someone's way to put bread on the table. It might have worked in a non-capitalist society, but then again I doubt black metal would ever come into existence in a non-capitalist society. Or to be more specific: I have yet to hear a great black metal album made by people who play black metal for a living. Except, perhaps,
Ordo Ad Chao
by Mayhem. But I'm not sure yet if that album is really soooo great. Time will tell.
But as things turned out, I'm really glad we ended up doing this with Runhild, because for her it seemed like it was a journey through the time gate back to 1993. I didn't have to explain anything to her; she already knew what we were looking for intuitively. I remember I called her on the phone, asking if she wanted to do some vocals for us, she said: "Yeah, sure. I used to listen a lot to that demo back in the days." It was that Stephen O'Malley guy who made that tape for her. Now he's some kind of rock star, and we're still a well kept secret. Things really do change in ten years. Anyway, I'm digressing here: So then we met a couple of times, discussing back and forth to make sure that my intuition was correct: That she knew how to do exactly what we needed her to do. When it comes to Hellhammer and Necro Butcher, they are old buddies. They are Alex's buddies first and foremost, since he used to play with them in Mayhem, so that was more of the typical "Guy comes back from some faraway place, wants to meet up with his buddies and have a jam".
The other side of the 7" has Petter of Audiopain and Virus playing the bass and Bjørge from bands such as Yurei and Rex playing the drums. This song has a more punk attitude I guess, so I think Fleurety is in its most testosterous phase ever these days.
Considering where you guys come from, I see Fleurety as at least one of the first Norwegian black metal related bands to have somewhat introduced a humoristic, twisted colorful touch deep into the usually black-and-white, down-to-earth world of despair and suicidal teenage aspirations that black metal came to be associated with. Im of course not saying that Fleurety was a joke in itself, far from that actually but do you think that, in a sense, a good laugh in your case functioned as a first-hand antidote to step out of the black metal rigid and authoritarian structures?
Well, if there is something we learned from the nineties, it was that it's no problem being tongue in cheek and dead serious at the same time. That's what the nineties were all about, at least in Norwegian popular culture, and I guess a lot of other places. If you see it this way, Fleurety is a typical child of its time. That said, we were dead serious all the time way into 1995, and perhaps even longer. Hm, it's hard to remember really. But we've never had an expressed agenda of "bringing humor into black metal". I mean, we don't suffer from a messianic complex.
But sometime after 1994 all the makeup, social intrigues and talking about hate and darkness began sounding hollow. And it still does. So in 1996 we were all about leaving the sinking ship and make some other kind of music. I'm really glad we never made any black metal in the late nineties with Fleurety. In my opinion there is only one good black metal album from the late nineties, and that is
666 International
. I don't think we would have made a black metal album with Fleurety that would have been even half as good as that.
Youve collaborated before with both Czral-Michael and Yusaf Parvez from Virus and DHG fame, be it on a lyrical or a musical level, and by my standards, both Virus (VBE) and Fleurety do share at least a few similarities in atmosphere. What were your relations back in 1995 and were you guys all perceived as some sort of pariahs by the overall "scene? You seem to be good friend with Czral-Michael in particular; would it therefore be possible that either you or he collaborate with the other and vice versa in the future? Im obviously pointing my fingers towards the next Virus album...
I remember very well the day when Yusaf played the entire
Those Who Caress The Pale
tape over the telephone. That was in 1994, I think. That's one thing nobody would do these days. There were close relations between Fleurety and Ved Buens Ende back then. At one point we discussed whether Yusaf should join Fleurety as a permanent guitarist. Ved Buens Ende had good relations with all of the other bands around, with some very few exceptions. We were less popular. So I remember Yusaf in particular being somewhat of a devil's advocate on our behalf. Yusaf and Carl-Michael were also a part of the Fleurety live line-up for a show in 1995 or 1996, can't really remember which year exactly. When Tiziana who ran Misanthropy Records came over to visit us in 1994, we played the
Those Who Caress The Pale
tape to her, which led to Ved Buens Ende releasing
Written In Waters
on said record label.
These days, relations are less intimate, but yes: I will play some minor role on the new Virus album, participating with some lyrics and possibly more stuff as well. Czral also borrowed some photos I had lying around, and they might be used in the layout of the new album. I assume you'd want me to reveal more details about the upcoming Virus album, but I don't really know much more.
Oh and now that were exploring your cult past, what did really happen between you and Ulver back in 1993-1994? I remember reading in their
s liner notes how you Fleurety were nothing. Quite rude to say the least! Now what was wrong with the G-Man?
I don't think there is much to say about this. If I were to explain this, I would get it all wrong, because I don't remember the details or what was the reason for anything. We've been good friends for at least ten years now.
Fleurety, the bands name, not only is connected to the actual name of a demon, but also concerns the psychedelic substances hes known to be giving a form to. Would you dare claim that the more psychedelic bands of Norwegian black metal, at least in the nineties, somehow came to experimentation through the use of chemicals and other sense-expanding substances?
I'll confine myself to talking about hallucinogens here: I'm not really sure about how much of this went on. I don't know too much about other people's use of these kinds of substances, though I know certain members of DHG used to be very heavily into that. I took some substances like this on various occasions, but that wasn't until the very late nineties, like around 1999.
You said somewhere else that Fleurety will be taking a more stripped down approach to music on your (for now only) hypothetical next sonic adventure, going as far as to claim that an upcoming
sounding full-length album wouldnt be out of place. What is so appealing about that kind of minimalism? Do you believe that you could regress to a one-dimensional, sordid black void world of sounds, or are you once again taking the piss at us? Jussi Lehtisalo from Krypt Axeripper fame recently said that "regressive is tomorrows progressive. Is that a musical philosophy youd like to explore further within Fleurety?
Dunno who Jussi Lehtisalo might be, but I've never liked statements about how "X is the new Y". Experimental is the new mundane. Silent is the new loud. Nerd is the new black. Bread is the new cookie. Old is the new new. Obesity is the new plague. And so on. Fucking trendspotters. Obviously, if you're interested in exploring new ground, you'll know that as soon as someone identifies whatever it is you're doing as the "new cool thing", it's time to move on to something else. Otherwise you'll risk being run over by all the clowns who have just jumped on the band wagon. Not a pretty sight, I can assure you.
So well, as I was talking about earlier: At the moment Fleurety works in an entirely different way than it did ten years ago. These days Fleurety is more or less a time portal that opens once every year when Alex comes back from England or India or Canada or Rumania or wherever he might be working at the time. That means we have to work quickly. We don't have any time to hesitate, no time for discussions. We would typically have one day to record a song, that's it. So if there's anything we planned to do, that we didn't get time to do, that would usually mean that you'll have to wait another year until the time portal opens once more. So how do you solve this? We make the kind of music we know best: Simple primitive black metal. It's a question of survival. If we had insisted on being "experimental", "avant-garde" or "sophisticated", we'd be dead.
But I don't think we'll ever enter a "one-dimensional, sordid black void world of sounds". I just put on our first recording of new material since 1998, a song called
The Animal Of The City
, and yes, it is in fact recorded on a Tascam Portastudio, the same type of equipment that we used for recording our first demo way back in 1993. But it is in fact also an electro-acoustic experiment with old school recording equipment, rather than just two thirty year old guys trying to be teenagers again. So in some sense I'm contradicting myself here. Or to be precise: I'm demonstrating why this new Fleurety material is not one-dimensional. Because what might be correct along one axis, is not correct along some other axis. Thus our music is
at least
Oh yeah, I can clearly hear that this stuff has got a multiple personality symptom going on. You guys are now less messing with tricky progressive riffing and more playing with layers and layers of white noise through what sounds like a static but massive wall of guitars. You mentioned Stephen OMalley earlier on, and I would like to know your opinion about what he and his label mates are doing with (black) metal in general. Is that the genres future gateway?
Hm. As a person who used to study digital signal processing at the university, I always end up feeling somewhat uncomfortable when people use the term "white noise" about signals that aren't white noise. White noise is energy distributed evenly all over the frequency spectrum, and is quite possibly the least interesting kind of noise there is. It sounds very much like the sound you get when you turn on your TV without it being tuned in to any specific channel. The noise you'll hear on that song comes from computer processing, from sending the song through a portastudio several times and some of it is differences in signal phase that turns into noise when it's layered a certain number of times. So that was today's lecture.
You'll not gonna hear me talking about who is "the future of the genre", I don't like that kind of speculations. But I know for sure that bands that work hard get somewhere. SunnO))) have been working hard, therefore they've come somewhere. Fleurety, by contrast, never really used to work that hard. That is, we took our music very seriously, but none of us really had any serious ambition of becoming "rock stars". So we hardly ever used to play live, we never toured, but we seized the opportunity to get our music out to people on CDs. And I guess that's as far as our ambitions went.
My experience with SunnO))) is through their live performances, which I think are very good. They played here in Oslo a couple of years ago, and I got the feeling that their tour was a black mass on wheels. Most black metal bands would die to do a concert as powerful as that, but they're stuck with the rock concert format, not being able to think outside of the box. I have some records with them too, but I never really came to the point where I would listen to them more than once or twice. But I like the way these people make the music more physical, in the sense that it appeals not only to the ears, but to your gut as well. But I guess I'm more interested in this stuff because of their ideas than because of their music. If I want to listen to people who work frequencies with their music, I tend to prefer more typical noise acts such as Lasse Marhaug or Kevin Drumm.
And by the way, what is Alexander doing around the globe? Is that a matter of a job-related mission, or is the man only very keen on exploring as many countries as he possibly can?
These days he works in Rumania with some computer game developing company. Other places he's lived have been either education or work.
Have you ever heard anything of his I Left The Planet side-project that weve all read about but unfortunately never were able to listen to? Was it any good?
I think the I Left The Planet recording came out quite successful. They recorded three songs in 1997, I think. But this recording has not yet been released. It would be cool if it were to be released some time. I guess that interested labels ought to get in touch with Alex about this. He has a MySpace profile, and there is a link to it from the Fleurety profile.
Being the prime lyricist in the band must be a handful job to go through. What are you nowadays trying to say when using the pen? Is there a field of thought and of styles that you
feel at home with? Whats on your mind, man?
I don't write that many Fleurety lyrics these days. I was really active ten years ago, but now I make a living out of writing as a journalist. Therefore I rarely sit down and write in my spare time like I used to. The Fleurety lyrics are to a great extent influenced by 20th century writers such as Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf. At that time (1992-1999) I was pretty much fucked up mentally, and the last thing I wanted was to write lyrics about how fucked up I felt. But in fact that was more or less the only thing I was able to write about. So in some lyrics I go to great lengths trying to make the lyrics be about absolutely nothing, but more like an abstract painting made out of words, and also play on the musical aspects of each word. This may sound like a very obvious thing to do if you're into literature and poetry, but my impression is that this way of working is not so usual if you write song lyrics for a metal band.
But if I would try to visualize the Fleurety lyrics, it would look like maybe the entrance of the emergency room on a hospital, where each new patient is the lyrics for one song. The Fleurety lyrics I've written recently have been put together by samples from things I've written as a journalist. I take a phrase here and a sentence there from articles I've written in magazines or newspapers. And if you put that together you get some kind of distorted image of what's happening in the world today.
Would you now say that after having released the new 7 EP, Fleurety has enough material to potentially start the recordings for a new album?
Hahaha. No way.
15. Since we are driving this interview for a webzine primarily concerned with avant-garde metal in general, Ive got to ask you one thing: how do you feel about the actual metal scene? Is it diversified enough to your own tastes or is there still a whole lot to do in order to reach its full potential? What is avant-garde and what is not for both the composer and the listener inside you?
The last couple of years I've been listening more and more to new metal acts. And through MySpace I've had the pleasure of having been in contact with a good number of them as well. I was surprised to hear the new Abigor album, for instance. I really liked that. I've also been checking out bands such as Joey Hopkins' Midget Factory, Bergraven, Blackdrone Inc., Yurei, Execration, Vrolok, Organ: and lots more that I can't remember right now.
I had this very interesting experience a couple of years ago. I was sharing an apartment with a couple of friends, and one guy moved, so we needed a new guy to move in. So it appeared that this new guy who'd just moved in was playing in a band called Nidingr. So he gave me a CD with his band and wanted me to listen to it, and I thought "Oh no, this is probably gonna suck". And that wouldn't be the best way of starting living together. I mean, I had a huge problem with taking the guy who had previously been living in that room seriously, since he liked all the wrong Metallica and Megadeth albums. I was prepared for the worst.
So those of you who know Nidingr very well know that their album
Sorrow Infinite And Darkness
rules soooo hard, and after hearing that, I started to check out more black metal bands and stuff from related genres. And I was so surprised to find out that there was so much cool shit around. You know, I gave up on the entire metal thing around 2000. I'd been losing interest ever since 1995, but in around 2000 I just gave up finding decent bands. At that time there was more or less only crap coming out, or at least: All the metal stuff I ever got to hear was crap. But these days I'm checking out new metal bands with a huge appetite, and I'm constantly surprised that there's so much kickass stuff around. After a while I also started a new band with this new flatmate. He's better known as Teloch, and our band is called Umoral.
I've seen that you've been having this discussion about "avant-garde metal" on your web site, and my answer to what "avant-garde metal" would be is that it is an aesthetic ideology. You know, in most other disciplines like painting or video art or installations and whatever, it's usual to say that the avant-garde is dead, in the sense that the wish to break the rules and try to push boundaries and all these things that are commonly associated with avant-garde have become the
de facto
norm. These days, if you want to break the rules in the art world, you'll have to be reactionary. Or you can just plainly suck. But metal is much more conservative than that. Metal must be one of the most conservative fields of artistic practice in the world, second only to punk rock (perhaps). So metal is a field where it still makes sense to be avant-garde, in the sense that your aesthetic ideology is to make music that's more than just average metal.
Very interesting remark there, I've just started wondering what metal music being always de facto avant-garde will try to sound like when it will start to re-break the new rules, for example, as you suggested, by seriously wishing hard to be reactionary. Now isn't this what you in Fleurey are doing nowadays? Well, I guess time is running out, right... I'd like to say thank you very much, Svein-Egil, for taking your time to answer my questions. I honestly wish you all the best with Fleurety: you guys ought to become the next rock stars! Now what are you doing nowadays? Any upcoming releases from your part that youd like to share with our avant-garde metal enthusiastic crew?
I don't think Fleurety will ever become rock stars. There will be cold winds of funeral frost in Hell the day that happens. These days I work and make music, sometimes getting shitfaced on days off. Fleurety will be featured on some strange compilation CD that comes out next year with DIY black metal recordings. We are working in getting our debut album
Min Tid Skal Komme
reissued, but it seems to take forever. After that we're releasing that new 7 EP I was talking about earlier, which features some re-recordings of material from 1993/94, with a more updated twist, I guess. We're also hoping to record material for another 7 this winter. This will be all new material, so this will be our first proper recording of new material since 1998, when we did the recordings for the
Department of Apocalyptic Affairs
Also: Thanks to anyone who ever reads this far and to all the people holding that avant-garde metal flag high.
Yeah, I guess that was a nice chat with a pretty cool man, don't you think so? Now let's all do Fleurety a favour and browse through their back catalogue all at once and together for a few days, hoping this is gonna send inspiring and ass-kicking signals out to the mysteriously slow-moving, Fleuretean miasmas of cold and dark Norway.
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