Reverorum ib MalachtTer Agios Numini(The Ajna Offensive)Release Date: 8/18/2017
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http://open.spotify.com/album/79tFlu1bgF1hNQq6Gfd1tC
Duo from Sweden got static when they converted to Roman Catholicism a few years back, but this album is a total mindfuck of horror sound effects and ambient percussion; four dismal hymns subliminal atmospherics created by haunting strings and synths and bizarre, cryptic vocal samples. It's dense and loopy and undeniably foreboding and I have trouble believing the church of Rome would understand. Not even sure that I do, for that matter. But it's intriguing and disconcerting in a Goblin/Pinkish Black if they were Black Metal kind of way.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 25 August 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
Wanted to like thatDid not
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 26 August 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
new Chasm samples hello hooray
https://luxinframundisproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-conscious-creation-from-the-isolated-domain-sampler
― Devilock, Saturday, 26 August 2017 07:10 (six years ago) link
Darkspace still exists, apparently: they're playing at the Dutch Deathfest next year (with loads of other bands obv) - http://www.deathfests.com/event/ndf-2018
― StanM, Saturday, 26 August 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
This Pyrrhon album is a motherfucker
and they sample Tom Lehrer
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 August 2017 07:44 (six years ago) link
is it 'we will all go together when we go' by any chance
― imago, Monday, 28 August 2017 09:41 (six years ago) link
heh nah just spoken word, the "life is like a sewer" quote
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 August 2017 10:22 (six years ago) link
holy shit @ the Tilburg Deathfests lineup
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 28 August 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link
This Pyrrhon album is a motherfuckerand they sample Tom Lehrer― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ)
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 28 August 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
Cool! Man, that music would be overwhelming live.
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 August 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
OK Pyrrhon's been bumped up to the top of my shopping list. In other "difficult" metal news, the new Ehnahre album is extremely fucking good.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 28 August 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
can somebody in the know give me the gist of the Matt Harvey op-ed for Decibel magazine regarding NSBM, cos my anger level is too high to wade through it
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
Some weak sauce along the lines of 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it'.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
Yeah. Also I think my eyes slid off of some "let's have a conversation" style shit? Dunno.
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
My late night coffee is kicking in so let me rep this in this thread, too, even though it is guilty of being a few years old - Stilla's "Ensamhetens Andar"
http://stillaswe.bandcamp.com/album/ensamhetens-andar
Black metal with some Virus/Voivod weirdo elements and some keys. Not super vicious and thrashy, which is just fine with me.
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link
Basically Harvey says Nazis are bad and no one should buy their shitty albums, but distributors should feel free to choose for themselves whether to make a few bucks off the suckers who do want that shit in their houses. He does a better job of considering counterarguments like "easy for you to say, white boy" than an empty-headed fuckhole like Neill Jameson might, but trips over his dick by calling metal "apolitical" when what he really means is that metal is a political free-fire zone. It's better than I expected it to be, but still pointless.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
Has Jameson stood up for NSBM bands? Hadn't seen that.
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 12:00 (six years ago) link
That's not what I'm saying at all. What I'm saying is that Jameson is an idiot and a bad writer who caricatures counterarguments in a buffoonish and unfunny manner, and Harvey doesn't do that - he grants them the weight they deserve and even says "you could say x...and you'd be right."
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
Ah okay, sorry I misunderstood.
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 12:07 (six years ago) link
didn't decibel publish an opinion peace by some buffoon complaining about "social justice warriors" a few years ago (as the gamergate wars raged)?
― adam, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
christ piece*
That would be Jameson.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 12:20 (six years ago) link
this is why when I make friends w/ metalheads I like basically put them through an interview process.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
let's just all agree that Craig Pillard deserves to have his stomach turned into a punching bag and move on I guess
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
Master of Puppets to become a gigantic box set November 10.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
No disc of isolated Cliff bass tracks, not interested
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
I'm probably a sucker for wanting to hear those riff tapes, but I do.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
I'd love to hear those, too, actually!
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
Like me as a teenager learning to play guitar and recording myself playing those riffs poorly would love to hear proper Jaymz chopping it up.
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
Huh. New album.
http://peaceville.com/bands/fleurety
― Devilock, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
didn't decibel publish an opinion peace by some buffoon complaining about "social justice warriors" a few years ago (as the gamergate wars raged)? ― adam
The one you're referring, I think, was by one Professor *shrug* Jeffrey S Podoshen which asked Does the Underground Metal Scene REALLY Have a Social Justice Warrior Problem? and answered in the affirmative in such tone-deaf ways that he got push-back even from the likes of Metal Injection and Metal Sucks.
On a personal note, author Laina Dawes and myself (among others) were discussing exactly how lame his thesis in a Facebook group devoted to Metal in Academia. As a member I had the authority and went and added him to the group, thinking a robust discussion would come around. Instead he started saying that the antisemitism that he allegedly deals with is just as pervasive as the death threats that inundate Amalie Bruun (Myrkur) whenever she has a new release available. When this was met by push-back, especially from Dawes who, as a black female metalhead of some renown can herself lay claim to "my dad can beat up your dad" stories about what it's like being a minority in metal, he proceeded to evidently leave the group and put Dawes, myself and likely others on ignore.
This was a while ago and I didn't think much of it. I only thought of it at all when in a thread on Decibel editor Albert Mudrian's Facebook page context clues showed me that the Professor was getting into it with Albert and others. I casually mentioned that the exchange I only saw half of showed me that he blocked me, which was fine and his right, but it apparently got back to him because he sent me a Facebook message which I was unable to respond to (because he had me blocked; he likely unblocked me long enough to send it and then ensure I would be unable to respond).
"Hi Brian. The reason I choose not to have a dialogue with you is because I don't like your comments. Belittling anti-Semitism is not ok with me. Now you can belittle anti-Semitism all you want, as is your right, but I don't need to read your comments in my newsfeed or an social media. Simple as that."
I posted this on my friends-only Facebook page so it would get back to him (since other things got back to him) that sending me a one-way message was cowardly and that, hey, guess what, my mom was Jewish and I was raised culturally Jewish in a New York kind of way, though not religiously. Frankly his accusations of Dawes and myself as being antisemitic made me think that the supposed abuse he gets as a Jew in metal is vastly overstated because neither of us said anything antisemitic unless saying that he didn't get it as bad as some other groups as he claimed was somehow antisemitic in and of itself.
It's a private group FB page but I can't even copy and paste the exchange to let people judge for themselves since (I am pretty sure) he deleted the exchanges (they are certainly deleted).
He got a lot of justified criticism, for that column as well as for the clumsy way he tried to run a panel on inclusivity in metal with a panel entirely made up of white and white-passing males (a panel I was at, which thanks to the uproar was fleshed out with actual diversity) and he cuts off those who would dare have a different perspective yet still send them snarky one-way messages. He's an ass.
He also penned One Of The Worst Takes Ever Written About Online Gambling, which frankly affects me a lot more because my actual job is working for a New Jersey online casino and his misinformed opinions presented authoritatively in a well-known outlet could influence opinion of the populace and legislators negatively which would directly and negatively impact my ability to keep my job/grow a career in the field because expansion to Pennsylvania may be crucial for the company I work for. I would be happy to debate him on that one but the website I linked to does a good enough job and I would hate for him to think my disagreement is because he's Jewish.
For the record I like Neill Jameson quite a bit and think he's a genuine, flawed but still evolving human being who has helped create music that I enjoy. It's not my place to defend him otherwise; he is easy enough to find and he does not shy away from answering questions (though I am sure he doesn't waste his time with everyone who attempts to correspond) so feel free to take things up with him.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 31 August 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
Kevin Hufnagel (Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, etc.) is going to be doing a duo performance with keyboardist Craig Taborn at The Stone in NYC on Tuesday.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
Revolver Magazine has relaunched with four separate Mastodon covers and a limited 7" single from the band.
"The new issue of Revolver magazine hits newsstands on September 12th and features an all-new editorial direction and visual design," says the press release.
"The issue is both the culmination of a long journey and the start of a new one. When we started down the road to reinventing Revolver over a year ago, we had many goals. We wanted to create the smartest, most sophisticated metal magazine and website that have ever existed. We wanted to champion artists — particularly younger, up-and-coming artists like Code Orange, Venom Prison and Full of Hell — who really have something to say and who are pushing heavy music into brave new places. We wanted to show heavy music to be the intellectually and technically challenging art form that we've known it to be since we first became fans. But maybe most of all, we wanted to celebrate metal not only as a particularly badass style of music but also as a hard-fighting, never-give-up attitude and an empowered, iconoclastic way of living. It's a philosophy embodied in everyone from blue-collar road dogs Mastodon, to gravity-defying skateboarder Elliot Sloan, to gate-crashing fashion designer Ashley Rose, to any diehard fan who has ever had to dig deep to persevere through tough times or overcome a daunting obstacle. And it's a philosophy that, we think, is embodied in the first issue of Revolver 2.0."
Any ILXors involved with this? I am hopeful it will be decent - I am a Luddite who likes metal magazines and the overseas ones are cost-prohibitive to subscribe to.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't this be Revolver 3.0, since Revolver started out as a classic-rock-worshipping Rolling Stone wannabe? I mean, they had Jim Morrison on their first cover.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
thank you for the context about that podoshen essay! i also like physical magazines and that thing kinda turned me off of decibel
― adam, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't this be Revolver 3.0, since Revolver started out as a classic-rock-worshipping Rolling Stone wannabe? I mean, they had Jim Morrison on their first cover. ― grawlix (unperson)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 31 August 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
Doug Moore of Pyrrhon has thoughts about metal and fascism.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
damn that was well done
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 31 August 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
Good read. And I like Neill Jameson, too, dammit. Even if he's said and says some dumb things he's evolving and I feel like it's important for metal dudes to see it's possible.
And this is nowt to do with that, but it's good discordant death metal with bass that sounds like it's being played by a giant scarab creature.
http://daemogog.bandcamp.com/releases
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 1 September 2017 04:21 (six years ago) link
New Mastodon song. New four-song EP out 9/22.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u44bs_Cwoms
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 1 September 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
new Botanist! now with full-band action
https://verdant-realm-botanist.bandcamp.com/album/collective-the-shape-of-he-to-come
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 1 September 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
The Botanist is fucking great...
Also out today is the new one from SxuperioN:http://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/myriad-e-p
I like them both lots as well as the new Dalek that also came out today (not metal, of course, but they've always been indie-rap-metalheads-like and the new one is a return to the noisier stuff of old).
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 1 September 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
yeah the new Botanist is instant top 10 material
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 1 September 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
I liked it a lot on first listen, although it's a surprise. Sounded a bit like melodic folk-metal epics!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 1 September 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
Man I love a lot of black metal but the lyrics to Goat Mockery Ritual are so otm
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
that title just gives me a hard-on
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
I forgot I bought that Pyrrhon the other day...lol
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
so I'm hearing the new Akercocke is actually good?
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
one of my old SSMT buddies apparently reviewed it for Decibel. givin it a spin now....
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
damn those vocals
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link