that's just a link to a search i made to keep up w/ ~MENA metal
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/user/SpaceBlackMetal/videosI have a feeling I'll be hitting this stuff heavily while I wait for Darkspace IV IIII to drop
― ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
oh wait, wrong thread? I know people were discussing Darkspace somewhere recently--mighta been on the Deafheaven thread
― ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
it was. I basically rep for them whenever the (solar) winds change
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
darkspace aren't branca metal tho, they're totally space-bm as the youtube name implies. nobody else does it remotely so well
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
they can play here tho coz this thread is basically about the awesomest metal
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
now playing: Polish band 'Cold Womb Descent' because o_O that name........this is pretty chill but the drumming is hella-weak/synths way too forward in the mix
next up: Celestial Oblivion, "Prison Without Walls"
whoever curates this youtube channel is a hero, obviously
― ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
it's kind of blowing my mind right now to see how many bands are out there following the Darkspace blueprint with minor variations in production quality & use of movie samples....... do we need a dedicated a space-black-metal thread? because I am determined to find the diamonds in the rough
Celestial Oblivion was a lot more interesting, structurally & texturally. have now moved on to Galaktik Cancer Squad, whose buzzy Switched-On Bach synth harmonies are about the farthest thing imaginable from the images conjured by that name. enjoyable!
― ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
i dunno i was listening to darkspace the other day and it sounded like a less-committed / less-ecstatic paysage d'hiver. later parts sounded a bit more spacy/malevolent, but.
― j., Monday, 25 August 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
lol i just realized upon doing some googling that that dude is in darkspace. sonic signature, check.
― j., Monday, 25 August 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
just recalled the other space-BM band I'll really ride for: Progenie Terrestre Pura. check 'em out if you can bernard
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
here
http://progenieterrestrepura.bandcamp.com/album/u-m-a
it is sick
plus i'm in italy rn so forza PTP
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
(it's probably closer to, say, Ocean Machine-era Devin Townsend than Darkspace, but this should be of equal encouragement)
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
I will wholeheartedly second Progenie Terrestre Pura. Their album is hypnotizing and way the fuck out there.
― Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
k I will check it out as soon as this Cosmic Church song ends in 9 minutes
― ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
Cosmic Church is a great band.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 12:04 (nine years ago) link
^this dude's proper-trad-BM as fuck and had PTP, a decidedly avant/experimental BM outfit, authoring his album of the year, which should demonstrate its quality, coherence & entirely un-gimmicky nature
will also check out Cosmic Church yeah
― imago, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 12:30 (nine years ago) link
On the subject of space BM this album to me is pretty similar in vibe but not necessarily in style to both Darkspace and especially PTP and if you like those you should definitely check this out
http://petrychor.bandcamp.com/album/makrokosmos
Doesn't sound anything like Branca though admittedly
― a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
Oh and Oranssi Pazuzu are pretty spacey too, psychedelic BM that blends these elements really well rather than having 'metal' and 'prog' sections awkwardly jammed together.
― a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
cool :) plenty for me and andrew to check out
― imago, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Loved loved loved the last Oranssi Pazuzu album
― rockist raccoon (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 30 August 2014 09:42 (nine years ago) link
this Petrychor is so far extremely great
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link
um this is fucking phenomenal
― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 10:05 (nine years ago) link
this is one of my fave youtube channels. lots of stuff i wouldn't have heard (heard of) otherwise:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AtmsphericBlackMetal/videos
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 August 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
ANOTHER NEW JUTE GYTE
http://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/ressentiment
released approximately 1 minute ago
impromptu MTSLGB listening club: commence
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
absolutely fuck yes. best artist in music imo
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
Halfway through the second track, this might actually be better than Vast Chains.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 September 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
omg wait for the third track
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
and dear christ the fifth track, might be the best so far
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
have his vocals gotten more tolerable, or disappeared maybe? I would have loved the last one as an instrumental record.
― Simon H., Monday, 1 September 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that's a stunner.
2xpost
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 September 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link
his vocals are still there but the music is if anything even more kickass, so he increasingly comes off like a master of despair rather than simply a magnificent sufferer
this closing track is showing all the signs of being......beyond, above
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
:O
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
I do sometimes feel a bit of a sense that his compositional skills are becoming sophisticated enough that the vocals might feel superfluous at times. I don't mind them the way some people seem to but they're generally the least interesting element. I'm at about 6:45 in "The Grey King" and they're working for me here, though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 September 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
The Grey King is some monstrous realness. Up there with The Fire of This (which is saying a LOT)
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
goddamn
― ODB's missing grammar (bernard snowy), Monday, 1 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I *just* got Vast Chains, there's no way my brain is ready to process this
― ODB's missing grammar (bernard snowy), Monday, 1 September 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
i'm going to do the microtonal trilogy marathon at some point either tonight or tomorrow :D
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
the climactic bit (i.e. pretty much the entire second half) of The Grey King is just...just...
― imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
BLACK VOID OF LONELINESS
― imago, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
The Grey King is song of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eAZHnfe394
If I could transfer the Hey QT fuckabout discussion to this song I would in a flash. This is...almost disturbingly good
― imago, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
I'm still processing Vast Chains... never noticed how awesomely hellish & cavernously fucked "The Fire of This" gets in its final half. Dude knows how to close an album.
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
yeah I mean, The Fire of This is monstrous, intense, lethal stuff, but this is heightened to the grisliest, most demented panic of mind I think I've ever heard
I actually think the closer of the first part of the 'trilogy', Acedia, is by far the weakest song on all 3 albums! but the two 2014 closers, yeah I mean, fuck
― imago, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Ok I downloaded Vast Chains.
Jesus christ. I think this the first use of microtonal scales I've heard that didn't just sound like some muso nerd in-joke to me. The parts where he resorts to straight up power chord chopping for a few seconds are like brief islands of sanity.
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 September 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link
welcome to the cult, so glad you could join us
― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Saturday, 27 September 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
srsly ressentiment. srsly. the man himself regards it most highly of the three, as do i. the most exciting/intimidating aspect is that he claims all three albums are primitive in comparison to what he's working on now. gimme that sweet primitive fire tbpfh, i can wait
― pretentious over rated bloody old rubbish (imago), Saturday, 27 September 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
So far I'm finding that I still want to play Vast Chains all the time but can't really spin Ressentiment the same way. Maybe it's a matter of time?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Can get why Ressentiment might be too much - it's one of the most intense albums ever made, I'd wager. You have to be in the right place for it. Vast Chains, while almost equally brilliant, is slightly more introspective, more measured. Ressentiment is vicious
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
Hm, maybe that's it.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
"The Fire of This" pretty much shattered my mind into a million glittering shards last night, so I can finally officially say I am fully on-board the Jute Gyte wagon. Holy fuck, man. I've been listening to his stuff fairly regularly for almost a year now, but it didn't really click until last night for some reason. Now I need to hear it all.
― Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link