SKULL FIST
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Dammit I never heard Cretin either.
― Devilock, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
I just remember I had Alcest at #1
I also voted for The Atlas Moth, Pallbearer, Crosses, BABYMETAL and Kayo Dot but I don't remember the order (probably this tho?)
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
Band logo of the year:
http://i.imgur.com/3DZm2WH.jpg
― Devilock, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
Also, winner of the most unreadable logo of the year is Basarabian Hills:http://f1.bcbits.com/img/0000204172_10.jpg
― Siegbran, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
That's probably because they don't want anybody to know that their album's called 'Groping In A Misty Spread' tbf
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
xpost to me
I guess I can not be coy and actually post their bandcamp.http://hothmusic.bandcamp.com/
Relatively unexciting but well done melodic black metal, maybe like a Kampfar or a less reeling and jigging Mithotyn, a concept album about Darth Vader. Didn't make my list but kind of fun for background music.
― Devilock, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
My ballot:
Comet Control - Comet ControlPallbearer - Foundations of BurdenGeneration of Vipers - Coffin WisdomYOB - Clearing the Path to AscendJudas Priest - Redeemer of SoulsPrimordial - Where Greater Men Have FallenBlack Bombaim - Far OutEarth - Primitive and DeadlyGiant Squid - MinoansThe Skull - For Those Which Are AsleepTweak Bird - Any Ol' WayBrownout - Brownout Presents Brown SabbathUnconscious Collective - Pleistocene MoonMenace Ruine - Venus ArmataWo Fat - The Conjuringvarious artists - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch CanticlesVulgar Trade - Gross CenturyDeath Penalty - Death PenaltySkull Fist - Chasing the DreamOpeth - Pale CommunionThe Body - I Shall Die HereTaurus - No/ThingShooting Guns - Street RockTowers - IIWizard Rifle - Here In The DeadlightsBludded Head - Reign in BluddAgalloch - The Serpent & the SphereUlaan Markhor - Spiral Horns, Black Onions, et alBig Red Panda - Big Red PandaAccept - Blind RageAtlas Moth - The Old BelieverBaring Teeth - Ghost Chorus Among Old RuinsDwellers - Pagan FruitElectric Citizen - SateenEyehategod - EyehategodPanopticon - Roads to the NorthWitch Mountain - Mobile of AngelsRigor Mortis - Slaves To The GraveSeason Of Arrows - Season Of ArrowsSlough Feg - Digital ResistanceBody Count - ManslaughterFloor - OblationGodflesh - A World Lit Only By FireLo-Pan - ColossusMonolord - Empress RisingRaspberry Bulbs - PrivacyMonarch - SabbracadaverCode Orange - I Am KingAlcest - Shelter
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
― imagoYeah I can't even begin to grope grasp what they were going for there. It makes no sense. What is a misty spread? And why would groping it be a good idea?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
It's such a bad album title that I'm going to find their work and listen to it immediately
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
btw EZ that Comet Control is some of the best heavy psych I ever did hear - awesome find
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Glad you like it! I fell in love with it immediately. My most played new record of 2014 by a far distance.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
it bangs extremely hard
Basarabian Hills is lovely, really dig this sort of synthscape. His appearance on the Metal Archives forum is deeply heartbreaking (check the month-later post edit!): http://www.metal-archives.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=64985&start=6160
― imago, Thursday, 18 December 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
I mean, Metal Archives and the Encyclopedia Metallum are totally run by ridiculous dipshit snobs, right?
― imago, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
It's a good resource for discographies and the like. And for finding out about stuff that's happening generally.
And those are the positive things I can say about the site.
― Devilock, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
Thanks sloppy! Missed the rollout today (family stuff), but had a good time catching up over the last few min. And thanks for the Oi Magoi vinyl link.
Random thoughts.... New E-Wiz isn't terrible, isn't brilliant. Sounds awesome fucking LOUD (of course), catchy & dense enough to reward repeat visits, underwhelming as whole. And I'd agree that that Melana Chasmata weighs in about the same. Solid, but limited by that. My sentimental attachments run deep, though, and I wouldn't for a moment consider putting them aside in favor of imaginary "objectivity" when voting. Like, if I had voted, Rigor Mortis would have been very near the top, not only on the strength of present work. Anyway, the Yob album is fucking fantastic. No qualms about the the top spot.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
metallum is a great resource, invaluable. just have to accept it on its own terms.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
― Devilock, Thursday, December 18, 2014 3:17 PM (58 minutes ago)
that album's damn good, too. way (way) better than a star-wars themed black metal concept band has any right to be.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
thanks for organizing the poll / results countdown
my votes: unweighted
Aenaon - Extance Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere Anatomy of Habit - Ciphers + Axioms Ascending Dawn - CoalesceBehemoth - The Satanist Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution The Contortionist - Language Darkspace - Dark Space III I DOOM:VS - EarthlessDownfall of Gaia - Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Epitimia - (Un)reality Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails Fen - Carrion Skies Foscor - Those Horrors Wither Ghost Brigade - IV – One With the Storm Goatech - ExquisitenessGodflesh - A World Lit Only by Fire The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn Inanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron - Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery Lotus Thief - Rervm Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith Murmur - S/TNachtmystium - The World We Left Behind Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel Nero di Marte - Derivae Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
Novembers Doom - Bled White Opus of a Machine - Simulacra Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden PoiL - BrossaklittPrimordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen Revocation - Deathless Saor - AuraSchammasch - Contradiction Shihad - FVEY Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
Sólstafir - Ótta Spectral Lore - III Swans - To Be Kind Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise Triptykon - Melana Chasmata Voices - London Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity Woccon - Solace in Decay Words of Farewell - The Black Wild Yonder YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
last year Glenn did his fancy stats: e.g the most sheep-like / hive mind and the lone-wolf / most individualistic. will Glenn be doing his data science on the 2014 ilm metal poll results?
some albums that didn't make the top 100
2 black metal albums that deserve to be in the top 100:Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus - blistering buzzing guitars ala EmperorSchammasch - Contradiction - intense industrial black metal sweeping you into a sonic immersive vortex
most overlooked: a unique hybrid of influencesNero di Marte - Derivae - influences from sludge metal, progressive metal, technical metal and killing joke type guitars
death / doom hybrids for katatonia/ novembre fans
Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn Woccon - Solace in Decay
on a more melodic / prog tip - for those that like clean vocals and atmospheric arty prog production
The Contortionist - Language Opus of a Machine - Simulacra Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
intensive black sludge:Downfall of Gaia - Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
my most obscure selection: for fans ofAtmospheric Black Metal / Ambient, Shoegaze, Post-RockGoatech - Exquisitenessit's on spotify
one for Neo Obliviscaris fans: complex extreme progressive metalLost Ubikyst in Apeiron - Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery
technical death metal: that deserved more votesInanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
band with pedigree that get ignored: a strong hybrid of progressive/ death/ black/ avantgarde metalVoices - London includes ex members of akercocke
melodic death metal never polls well on ilm:Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun Words of Farewell - The Black Wild Yonder
blackgaze / shoegazer metal with some ethereal female vocals:Lotus Thief - Rervm
metal in opposition / avant-prog: for those unfamiliar with avant-prog this got a confusing / mixed reaction but worth experiencing:Murmur - S/T
and Brutal avant-prog that i only voted for, PoiL - Brossaklittit's on spotifyhttp://open.spotify.com/album/2TU9wTRmUXgH19pcLZsj7z
― djmartian, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
I liked that Schammasch record. Intense but way too long.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
Metal Storm
current top 20 @ Metal Storm
http://metalstorm.net/bands/albums_top.php?album_year=2014
1. Ne Obliviscaris Citadel 8.47 | 2812. Insomnium Shadows Of The Dying Sun 8.35 | 5823. Septicflesh Titan 8.31 | 4254. Behemoth The Satanist 8.23 | 5725. Helevorn Compassion Forlorn 8.18 | 1016. Aenaon Extance 8.18 | 2327. Empyrium The Turn Of The Tides 8.17 | 2048. Epica The Quantum Enigma 8.17 | 3859. Triptykon Melana Chasmata 8.16 | 28110. Mastodon Once More 'Round The Sun 8.16 | 36711. Dark Fortress Venereal Dawn 8.16 | 13612. Agalloch The Serpent & The Sphere 8.15 | 40313. Vader Tibi Et Igni 8.15 | 19814. Mors Principium Est Dawn Of The 5th Era 8.15 | 14915. Sólstafir Ótta 8.14 | 22216. Ghost Brigade IV - One With The Storm 8.14 | 15717. At The Gates At War With Reality 8.14 | 27218. Ancient Bards A New Dawn Ending 8.14 | 5719. Schammasch Contradiction 8.14 | 4920. Eluveitie Origins 8.13 | 200
― djmartian, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
Great call on P.Oil. This is cool.
― jmm, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
Least favorite:
Anubis Gate - HorizonsArchenemy - War EternalBabymetal - BabymetalBrainstorm - FiresoulDisentomb - MiseryExmortus - Slave to the SwordFallujah - The Flesh PrevailsGoatwhore - Constricting Rage of the MercilessIndian - From All PurityInsomnium - Shadows of the Dying SunOozing Wound - Earth SuckOrigin - OmnipresentScythia - Of ConquestToday Is the Day - Animal Mother
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
wuh
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 19 December 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
yep it's also on bandcamp
Brossaklittby PoiLhttp://poil.bandcamp.com/album/brossaklitt
i don't know why it's indexed on spotify as P.Oil
― djmartian, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
This was my weighted list (more or less):
EarthDead CongregationThouSpectral LoreMare CognitumPlanning for BurialHave a Nice LifeThe Great Old OnesKriegBotanistWoldPsalm ZeroNadjaHorrendousBlut Aus NordGodfleshLord MantisWolvhammerJute Gyte - RessentimentJute Gyte - Vast ChainsAbyssalPallbearerYobFunereal PresenceMorbus ChronReverorum ib MalachtVoicesScott O)))Agalloch
― Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Friday, 19 December 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
If that's the UK Abyssal who had the (admittedly massive) album with the long Latin name, that was from last year. I was just listening to it last night, actually! Kind of a head fuck. Much creepiness.
I see now that Krieg has released a veritable buttload of stuff this year. All I've heard of theirs (his?) are The Church EP and the Destruction Ritual LP, both of which I hope are significantly worse than whatever they (he?) may be doing nowadays.
― Devilock, Friday, 19 December 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
First time I've voted in the metal poll! YOB was my #1, but don't have ballot anymore to share. I will say this year was very much about metal for me, though mostly older stuff. I listened to a ton of old Darkthrone, Motorhead, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Gorgoroth, etc and I say with no small amount of happiness (ha!) that finding 2014 music by bands of like-minded heaviness was one of the big high points, musically, for me this year. I'm still a beginner with this stuff, but already am well aware that some of my favorite music ever will be metal.
From what I remember, my ballot was:YOBThantifaxathStargazerInconcessus Lux Lucis (fun revival old school black metal, a little less reverent than Old Wainds)SwansDarkspaceTeitanbloodOld Wainds
I would have voted for a Jute Gyte had I remembered they were 2014, though in fact I'd say that my tastes tend to err on side of "rock", ie I'd go for Thantifaxath over JG due to visceral-ness
― Dominique, Friday, 19 December 2014 02:06 (nine years ago) link
My weighted list:A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A NameYOB - Clearing the Path to AscendHorseback - Piedmont ApocryphaWoods of Desolation - As the StarsGhost Bath - FuneralFuneral Sutra - meditationsNux Vomica - Nux VomicaBölzer - SomaMare Cognitum - Phobos MonolithMyrkur - MyrkurCuscuta - The Wildness WithinThou - HeathenMastodon - Once More Round the SunFalls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming ShoreYellow Eyes - The Desert MournsAgalloch - The Serpent & the SpherePallbearer - Foundations of BurdenSwans - To Be KindBongripper - Miserable Winterfylleth - The Divination of AntiquityPyrrhon - The Mother of VirtuesBoris - NoiseCoffinworm - IV.I.VIIIHarakiri For The Sky - AokigaharaIndian - From All PurityJute Gyte - RessentimentTriptykon - Melana ChasmataInter Arma - The CavernWitch Mountain - Mobile of AngelsObliterations - Poison EverythingEarth - Primitive and Deadly
― satans favourite son, Friday, 19 December 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link
Cosmic Slop - can you post my ballot, i didn't save it. Cheers!
― auto focus, Friday, 19 December 2014 05:20 (nine years ago) link
Mine, non-weighted...
Agalloch - The Serpent & the SphereBehemoth - The SatanistBong - Stoner RockComet Control - s/tConan - Blood EagleEarth - Primitive and DeadlyElectric Wizard - Time to DieGoat - CommuneGodflesh - A World Lit Only By FirePallbearer - Foundations of BurdenRaspberry Bulbs - PrivacySlough Feg - Digital ResistanceThe Body - I Shall Die HereThe Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?Thou - HeathenTriptykon - Melana Chasmatavarious artists - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch CanticlesWolves In The Throne Room - CelestiteYOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Friday, 19 December 2014 09:01 (nine years ago) link
i'm going to give celestite another go on the back of this poll.
― auto focus, Friday, 19 December 2014 10:01 (nine years ago) link
Dominique's ballot
"YOB - Clearing the Path to AscendStargazer - A Merging to the BoundlessThantifaxath - Sacred White NoiseSwans - To Be KindInconcessus Lux Lucis - Disintegration: Psalms of Veneration for the Nefarious EliteDarkspace - Dark Space III ITeitanblood - DeathOld Wainds - Nordraum"
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link
Auto Focus
"Botanist - Vi: FloraPanopticon - Roads to the NorthDawnbringer - Night of the HammerYOB - Clearing the Path to AscendIndian - From All PurityWold - PostsocialPallbearer - Foundations of BurdenWoccon - Solace in DecayThe Flight of Sleipnir - V. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian PoetryOccultation - Silence in the Ancestral HouseFalls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming ShoreThou - HeathenScott Walker & SunnO))) - SousedAureole - AlunarSivyj Yar - From the Dead Villages' DarknessHorrendous - EcdysisWitch Mountain - Mobile of AngelsCoffinworm - IV.I.VIIIAgalloch - The Serpent & the SphereAuroch - Taman ShudConan - Blood EagleBongripper - Miserable Bölzer - SomaVorde - VordeBastard Sapling - Instinct Is SurvivalSpectral Lore - IIIXothist - SimulacrumPrimordial - Where Greater Men Have FallenRevocation - DeathlessWolvhammer - Clawing into Black SunBarghest - The Virtuous Purge
Primitive Man/Fister - Split 12""Lotus Thief - RervmAlraune - the Process of Self-ImmolationYellow Eyes - The Desert MournsThe Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LISecret Cutter - ""Self Titled""Vermin Womb - PermanenceYith - YithArtificial Brain - Labyrinth ConstellationThe Wounded Kings - ConsolamentumLord Mantis - Death MaskEarth - Primitive and DeadlyAtlas Moth - The Old BelieverAtriarch - An Unending PathwayAlaskan - Despair, Erosion, Loss"
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 11:43 (nine years ago) link
TERRORIZER ALBUMS OF 2014
50. NACHTMYSTIUM ‘The World We Left Behind’ CENTURY MEDIA 49. At The Gates49. AT THE GATES ‘At War With Reality’ CENTURY MEDIA48. DEATH PENALTY ‘Death Penalty’ RISE ABOVE47. MARTYRDÖD ‘Elddop’ SOUTHERN LORD46. ESBEN AND THE WITCH ‘A New Nature’ NOSTROMO45. 11 PARANOIAS ‘Stealing Fire From Heaven’ RITUAL PRODUCTIONS44. PRONG ‘Ruining Lives’ STEAMHAMMER/SPV43. Lord Mantis43. LORD MANTIS ‘Death Mask’ PROFOUND LORE42. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM ‘Celestite’ ARTEMISIA41. DECAPITATED ‘Blood Mantra’ NUCLEAR BLAST
40. CONAN ‘Blood Eagle’ NAPALM 39. ACxDC ‘Antichrist Demoncore’ MELOTOVE38. INSOMNIUM ‘Shadows Of A Dying Sun’ CENTURY MEDIA37. OPETH ‘Pale Communion’ ROADRUNNER36. MAYHEM ‘Esoteric Warfare’ SEASON OF MIST35. MASTODON ‘Once More ‘Round The Sun’ WARNER34. THE BODY ‘I Shall Die Here’ RVNG33. TOMBS ‘Savage Gold’ RELAPSE32. ORANGE GOBLIN ‘Back From The Abyss’ CANDLELIGHT31. SCHAMMASCH ‘Contradiction’ PROSTHETIC
30. TRAP THEM ‘Blissfucker’ PROSTHETIC29. TEITANBLOOD ‘Death’ NORMA EVANGELIUM DIABOLI28. SUNN O))) & ULVER ‘Terrestrials’ SOUTHERN LORD27. PYRRHON ‘The Mother Of Virtues’ RELAPSE26. TODAY IS THE DAY ‘Animal Mother’ SOUTHERN LORD25. EARTH ‘Primitive And Deadly’ SOUTHERN LORD24. VALLENFYRE ‘Splinters’ CENTURY MEDIA23. AUTOPSY ‘Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves’ PEACEVILLE22. BLUT AUS NORD ‘Memoria Vetusta III – Saturnian Poetry’ DEBERMUR MORTI21. WOVENHAND ‘Refractory Obdurate’ DEATHWISH
20. DEAD CONGREGATION ‘Promulgation Of The Fall’ MARTYRDOOM19. PANOPTICON ‘Roads To The North’ BINDRUNE18. THOU ‘Heathen’ GILEAD MEDIA17. AGALLOCH ‘The Serpent And The Sphere’ PROFOUND LORE16. SWALLOWED ‘Lunarterial’ DARK DESCENT15. VOICES ‘London’ CANDLELIGHT14. JUDAS PRIEST ‘Redeemer Of Souls’ EPIC13. WINTERFYLLETH ‘The Divination Of Antiquity’ CANDLELIGHT12. MORBUS CHRON ‘Sweven’ CENTURY MEDIA11. MIDNIGHT ‘No Mercy For Mayhem’ HELLS HEADBANGERS
10. ELECTRIC WIZARD ‘Time To Die’ SPINEFARM9. PALLBEARER ‘Foundations Of Burden’ PROFOUND LORE8. SÓLSTAFIR ‘Otta’ SEASON OF MIST7. PRIMORDIAL ‘Where Greater Men Have Fallen’ METAL BLADE6. EYEHATEGOD ‘Eyehategod’ HOUSECORE/CENTURY MEDIA5. TRIPTYKON ‘Melana Chasmata’ CENTURY MEDIA4. YOB ‘Clearing The Path To Ascend’ NEUROT3. BEHEMOTH ‘The Satanist’ NUCLEAR BLAST2. SWANS ‘To Be Kind’ YOUNG GOD/MUTE
1. GODFLESH ‘A World Lit Only By Fire’ AVALANCHE
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 11:55 (nine years ago) link
Cosmic Slop could you post my ballot as well? I want everyone to bask in it's glory (i.e. I can't really remember half of it).
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 19 December 2014 12:04 (nine years ago) link
ok here's your ballot ultros
"Spectral Lore - IIIThantifaxath - Sacred White NoiseOld Man Gloom - The Ape of God IIOld Man Gloom - The Ape of God IScott Walker & SunnO))) - SousedJute Gyte - Vast ChainsAmbergris - AmbergrisMurmur - S/TBoris - NoiseJute Gyte - RessentimentAEvangelist - Writhes in the MurkKayo Dot - Coffins On IoHail Spirit Noir - Oi MagoiMare Cognitum - Phobos MonolithBotanist - Vi: FloraPetrychor - MakrokosmosLantlos - Melting SunPanopticon - Roads to the NorthHave A Nice Life - The Unnatural WorldMorbus Chron - SwevenAlcest - ShelterAgalloch - The Serpent & the SphereOpium Warlords - Taste My Sword Of UnderstandingSunn O))) & Ulver - TerrestrialsFloor - Oblation"
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 12:09 (nine years ago) link
Ta, duck
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 19 December 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:4DzhT7xPiDI3oy9tWVMGoshttp://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/4DzhT7xPiDI3oy9tWVMGos
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
― auto focus, Friday, December 19, 2014 2:01 AM (2 hours ago)
good headphones a must. first track starts of shaky, imo, but it just gets better and better as it goes. 2nd half of the title track is devastating.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
Contenderizer, if you're at all interested, I found Ressentiment much more palatable. Maybe thatd be more your thing...? Of course I really like Discontinuities as well...
― wonderful about a proletariat-Vorticist version of James Brown (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:31 PM (2 days ago)
THANK YOU DRUGS. Spent the last few hours listening to Discontinuities, Vast Chains and Ressentiment back-to-back, and yeah, I enjoy the latter a great deal more than its predecessor. Keeps the sickening intensity level, but brings back the catchy, layered dissonance-hooks I loved so much on Discontinuities. Fewer anguished dirges also a plus. Honestly, there isn't a single Vast Chains track I like half so much as "The Haunting Sense of an Unrepeatable Unidirectional Vector", "Supreme Fictions and the Absolute Fake" and "The Failure of Transmutation". For that reason, my attention wandered, and I never got back around to check up on Ressentiment. Which is fucking fantastic. "The Grey King"! Ordered the CD-R to go with the other two, and now itching to dive into JG's six (!) prior black metal styled releases.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Some from my ballot that didn't place. Too bad Colour Haze's distributor won't use Bandcamp to let fans hear the album while they wait weeks and weeks for the physical product to trudge their way to the stores. Small Stone was a great model for that -- you could preview the albums sometimes a couple months before release date, pre-order the CDs through the site and actually get them promptly, etc. Fans of The Oath and Death Penalty will appreciate the proto-metal references really need to check out the Brimstone Coven, Demon Eye and Satyress.
Colour Haze - To The Highest Gods We KnowSpiders - Shake ElectricCastle - Under SiegeBrimstone Coven - Brimstone CovenSatyress - Dark FortunesDemon Eye - Leave The LightMotorpsycho - Behind The SunLes Big Byrd - They Worshipped CatsAll Them Witches - Lightning At The DoorOgre - The Last NeanderthalMansion - Uncreation EPPurson - In The Meantime EPAlunah - Awakening The ForestThe Well - SamsaraElectric Citizen - SateenMessenger - Illusory BluesWedge - WedgeThe Socks - The SocksGreenleaf - Trails & PassesBlack Moth - Condemned To HopeOvvl - ScreechHeat - LabyrinthMonolord - Empress RisingMoab - BillowHands Of Orlac - Figli Del CrepuscoloSatan's Satyrs - Die ScreamingDwellers - Pagan FruitLe Betre - MelasJeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus - Spirit KnifeSpiral Shades - Hypnosis SessionsOccultation - Silence In The Ancestral HouseHornss - No Blood, No SympathyBlack Trip - Goin' UnderMars Red Sky - Stranded In ArcadiaJohn Garcia - John GarciaCardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues!Lo-Pan - ColossusHessian - Bachelor Of Black ArtsPapir - Papir IIIISigiriya - Darkness Died TodayFu Manchu - GigantoidSaturn - Ascending - Live In SpaceBig Red Panda - Big Red PandaJohn Gallow - Violet DreamsLecherous Gaze - Zeta Reticuli BluesSungod - Vision SpaceSeven That Spells - The Death And Resurrection Of Krautrock: IOSlow Season - MountainsHoly Mountain - Ancient AstronautsMorgan Delt - Morgan DeltDeep Space Destructors - IIIThe Vintage Caravan - VoyageJess & the Ancient Ones - Castaneda EP
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 19 December 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
who appreciate
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 19 December 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
i thought occultation would feature in the top 50, surprised not to see it.
― auto focus, Friday, 19 December 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
CS, could you please post my ballot as well? I didn't save either.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Vigils not Visions
― Devilock, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:25 PM (2 days ago)
goddammit, i keep doing that (re the howls of ebb album). when i posted my non-ballot a few days back, i had it backwards, but managed to notice and correct before posting. like my brain wants to be wrong...
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
sund4r's ballot
Jute Gyte - Vast ChainsBotanist - Vi: FloraPanopticon - Roads to the NorthMenace Ruine - Venus ArmataThantifaxath - Sacred White NoiseAlaskan - Despair, Erosion, LossZvi - ZviAmbergris - AmbergrisStargazer - A Merging to the BoundlessJute Gyte - RessentimentPetrychor - MakrokosmosSwans - To Be KindBlut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian PoetrySunn O))) & Ulver - TerrestrialsPallbearer - Foundations of Burden
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
am i the only one to find botanist (maybe just maybe) a wee bit staid and comforting? i haven't made a deep study, but listened to III and IV a few times, the new one once. though i love the hammered dulcimer as an instrument, i wish the drums weren't so buried, or were more engaging, or the vocals a little more aggressive. i dunno, something to cut against the basic sweetness of the strings & melodies. its a gorgeous sound, no doubt, but little of it sticks and the whole leaves me slightly unsatisfied.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
yes, you probably are
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
i thought so. just checking.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link