currently active web forums?

[re:evolution]

I am just interested in what are the currently active web forums our there dealing with noise/ power electronics/ death industrial/ dark ambient?

Obviously this Special Interests Forum appears to be the most active with regular debate and discussion.

By comparison Maniacs Only and Pure Stench seem to be less active overall and more of a place to post release info etc.

Also there is obviously a lot of specific Facebook based groups for this sort of thing.

But what else is out there? Am I missing any important ones?

Interesting I came across the www.electroracle.com site recently which seems to be an information portal type site.  Rather strangely I found someone has been re-publishing a number of my reviews from the noise receptor blog which I guess I don't really mind. BUT whoever they are have then taken it upon themselves to include a rating out our 10 for each, which is something I loathe and never do myself.

[Vermin Marvin]

http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/
http://forum.noiseguide.com/

[Andrew McIntosh]

Noise Guide is fucking terrible, always has been. Don't waste your time.

[Bloated Slutbag]

Noiseguide had its moments, but it's been a looong time since I've even looked. Maniacsonly pretty much ditto.

[Cementimental]

Forums are over.

[tiny_tove]

although more tecchie oriented I really like muffwiggler forum.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Forums are over.

Most at least! I would guess that function they served for many people, is filled by other media now.
Personally I can't see for example FB and such to replace forums. It's utterly rare to see any discussion going there. At least what I'd see. Something what goes beyond mere flood of spam. I don't follow any other forums than SI anymore. Couple forums I may visit once in a while to see that not much happens.

One can't complain about this development. Anyone who cries that nothing happens anymore, might have to look into mirror.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Facebook options are useless. A good attempt was made by Hal McGee, who is a veteran of the international home taping movement, but I haven't kept up with fucking Facebook in a year or so anyway. Every page I'd seen apart from McGee's was just post after post of "check out my latest excretion!". Fuck right off.

If there was another forum as good as this one we'd all be on it and personally I can't see the point. Comparatively, the Noise/PE/Industrial/etc. movement is still small, and why not? Maybe somewhere some other scenes are having a good time online, best of luck to them. I like it here.

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

"Forums are over."
One can't complain about this development. Anyone who cries that nothing happens anymore, might have to look into mirror.

Because people don't like talking about music or art... I suppose. Every topic (in our genres of music) was discussed many times... nothing new in music besides of new releases....
FB is total, fucking shit. I consider to close my personal profile there.

[Vermin Marvin]

It`s been always little mysterious/funny thing that there is millions of people with internet connection, some somalian pirates have wlan in their ships but even some better known heavy boards have those same 30 or so active writers.
maybe they are on some Rap forums, those pirates..can`t say.

[Cementimental]

I imagine there's a whole bunch of teenage gamergaters taking PE at face value over at /mu/ but there and on reddit people mostly discuss genres internet people actually care about. Noise people in this day and age, if they even still actually like noise at all, have just sour-grapes/bridge-burned themselves out of any inclination towards open community and discussion, people still care about and discuss it a lot but I think privately/pseudo-privately online or irl more than in designated online spaces.

[martialgodmask]

I only visit here regularly and occasionally lurk the Gear section on Maniacs Only. I can't bare to spend too long in any other section on there. Currently, SI is enough forum for me.

[tiny_tove]

By comparison Maniacs Only and Pure Stench seem to be less active overall and more of a place to post release info etc.

Forgot to say that I hang around there as well and I find several interesting infos especially in the gear section.

[re:evolution]

If there was another forum as good as this one we'd all be on it and personally I can't see the point. Comparatively, the Noise/PE/Industrial/etc. movement is still small, and why not? Maybe somewhere some other scenes are having a good time online, best of luck to them. I like it here.

I pretty much figured the SI forum was the central hub, but as I don't go out of my way to search for 'new things' on the net, didn't know if something else of interest had passed me by. Thanks for people's comments.

[eric faustus]

SI is on the top of my list for all Noise related information and enjoyments. no bullshit here thankfully. yes, FB is as boring and pointless as reading a tabloid rag with everyone screaming the loudest to be heard with no real opinion. I don't get it at  all.