speaking of which, as a spotify holdout, i appreciate the bandcamp links, Cosmic Slop!
triple-itto.
the bandcamp links have been my way of checking the stuff out.
cracking idea.
― mark e, Thursday, 18 December 2014 08:51 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking of about 3pm (2 hours from now) so that west coast Americans dont miss out too much
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
Glad people are enjoying the poll. Lot of listening and buying can be done over xmas.
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
Might be a bit late actually as I forgot I have an appointment at the docs to get my blood pressure checked then ive got my prescription to pick up and you can wait over 30 mins in the chemists.
so i'll post #10 before I leave so you have something to discuss
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
It's the only album in the top 10 without a #1 vote
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
10 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 697 Points, 18 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/bmxfTr4.jpghttp://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/ressentiment
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
dunno how long i'll be but hope to be back by 4
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
actually it does have a number 1 vote
in the parallel universe where I voted
BLACK VOID OF LONELINESSSSSSSS
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
I thought this was his best work when it first came out but didn't end up playing it all that much in the long run and wound up finding it a bit cold. Maybe it's time to pull it out again?
I think the Botanist is the metal album I've listened to the most this year.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
need to give the Botanist a really good, full listen - what I've heard is phenomenal
this album is just so goddamn kickass. Vast Chains is perhaps more malign, more creepy, more hidden-in-shades, and sustains a consistently horrifying soundworld, which has its own great appeal (it'd be my number 2 obv, with not much between) but Ressentiment is bold, luminous & utterly dynamic, and features much of Kalmbach's best songwriting (imo) - it's the nameless horror leaping out at your throat, the combination of the principles of the first two microtonal albums (first album more tuneful & direct, second more, um, 'endless moths swarming')
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
have been listening to some of these btw. Myrkur is really excellent, Comet Control pretty fun as well, and Saor had its moments. will get around to that Krautrock one at some point too
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
Comet Control are really really good in fact! If not even remotely metal. They're like…really really good noise psych pop
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Woah, Jute Gyte is the first extreme band I've listened to for ages that I find truly unsettling. Something about their use of dissonance is profoundly odd and anxiety-inducing. Don't think it'll be on heavy rotation by any means, but impressive certainly.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
xp check out Quest for Fire, they feature some of Comet Control's previous band, heavier psych http://open.spotify.com/album/3NbGPpLYhBxqR781rsjpmz
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
yeah agree with chap there. "the fire of this" from vast chains was the first JG I heard. it is so visceral. those queasy and nauseating guitars.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
I'm pleased both Jute Gyte albums made the top the top 20, Ressentiment #10 no less.
I'm pretty surprised considering how bleak and inaccessible they are, even for truly experimental extreme metal. For me what makes them so horrifying is that it all feels very human, rather than trying to convey some eldritch/cosmic terror (not that I don't like that sort of thing). Vast Chains is the severe depression to Ressentiments' self-loathing anxiety.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
You say bleak and inaccessible - as above, I've found that people who are not necessarily into much metal have taken to Jute Gyte really readily - it's exceptionally compelling music, and melodically incredibly interesting - dare I say catchy? And yeah, totally agreed on how human it feels - it has the quality of literature, of insane personal struggle. And always - that mocking, drilling, genuinely mad high guitar tone filtering in to dance across the wreckage! Ressentiment is the externalisation of the self-hatred, the blood actually being shed.
For both albums to be in the top 20 is pretty amazing. And let's not forget that Kalmbach himself has said that these albums feel 'primitive' compared to what he's working on right now.
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Would kill for Jute Gyte instrumentals. (also, called it!)
― Simon H., Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
save us (from jute gyte), cosmic slop!
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
I think I'd like to hear instrumental Kalmbach compositions at this point, too.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
There are loooooads on his bandcamp fwiw, mostly his neoclassical/dark ambient/electronic stuff, though. Some intrepid soul should listen to them all and report back (not necessarily volunteering)
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
no sign of Soft Pink Truth yet...
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
I actually did that earlier this year (went through JG bandcamp that is) but I was only impressed by the BM stuff to be honest. I think in pre-trilogy stuff like Impermanence and Senescence you can hear hints of what's to come...
Dead excited for what the guy's going to do next
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
9 Earth - Primitive and Deadly 738 Points, 21 votes , ONE #1http://i.imgur.com/UEMak9d.jpgspotify:album:58WkmREY5HFMavDGtOnDcThttp://earthsl.bandcamp.com/album/primitive-and-deadly
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Were I still a drinking man, I'd spend the weekend with a bottle of bourbon and JG's bandcamp. At the least I'll probably delve into the latter with the metal-archives reviews as a kind of concordance to figure out which is the more metal stuff.
― Devilock, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
That jute gyte album getting more votes surprised me as pretty much everyone seemed to prefer vast chains. Maybe of course the most recent album was the one heard by more people of course. It did get 3 more votes than Vast Chains
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
couldn't get on with the lyrics on the earth album at all
― auto focus, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
vocals i mean...
― auto focus, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
I liked them
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Next one up is an album I thought might have been a potential winner
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
auto focus you don like Mark Lanegan?
i really wanted too - it was more the mark lanegan tracks i didn't like, i got into the Rabia Shaheen Qazi stuff more.
― auto focus, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
CS - usually i do but he sounded a bit halfhearted (to me anyhow) on this. bah, probably my ears or something
― auto focus, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
8 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1shttp://i.imgur.com/Hv6byI2.jpgspotify:album:35QvDKN3TUg5CbKeHKjKho
http://scott-o.com/
http://thequietus.com/articles/16068-sunn-o-scott-walker-soused
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
An album that sounds fantastic on vinyl
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Tried really hard to get into this one, couldn't do it.
― J3ff T., Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
I still haven't actually heard this. Something turns me off about it, and I'd go so far as to say the same about Bish Bosch (though I have heard that one). Scott Walker records need 10 years in between to digest.
― Dominique, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
it's a really uncomfortable listen i think
― auto focus, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
It's a great album
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
i mean that in a good way!
― auto focus, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
7 Darkspace - Dark Space III I 813 Points, 22 votes , ONE #1http://i.imgur.com/Ls32cS7.jpgspotify:album:6zrTpLPW6vmaVk6xGa0Fmghttp://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/dark-space-iii-i
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Brilliant album this
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Darkspace III is one of my favourite metal albums ever and I haven't even heard this yet. What delights await! :D
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
I was surprised that I found this one a bit... dull, sadly. I love the other three darkspace albums and all for different reasons but I didn't find this one to be too memorable and I am not a fan of the sequencing. feels too fragmented, kills the vibe for me.
still a good listen but easily my least fave darkspace record.
― original bgm, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
still... "dark 4.20"
http://www.dedleg.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/take_me_to_your_dealer.gif
The title is Darkspace III I??
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
I hate Scott Walker's voice. Sunn O))) were doing some interesting things on Soused, but Walker's Opera Man bullshit sank the whole thing. The whole second phase of his career has been one of the greatest Emperor's New Clothes scams of all time.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
If I like ambient/atmospheric BM but found III to be too much of an undifferentiated wash, is there a chance that I might like this better?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
the earth album has been at the top of my playlist ever since i bought it.i have grown to enjoy the mark l tracks.but the highlight is easily the track with rabia.a full length of earth + her could be absolutely fantastic.getting this album also prompted me to order more from his back catalogue, hex and angels of darkness pt2 - result.
― mark e, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
the earth album was... fine? like good riffs and good singing but they didn't seem to interact in any way. and i fucking love mark lanegan. soused was an uncanny first listen but has been difficult to revisit even though it's like the shortest scott walker record in ages. darkspace yawwwwn
so far the top ten is a bummer 4 me
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link