they were so much fun live even though there seems to be a significant meathead contingent in their fanbase
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
Hmm...it seems I forgot to vote for this. A solidly furious album. I love that the choice of font for the title is like a film subtitle.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
The font is pretty much the only thing I don't like about that cover.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
it makes me think of Lynch, so of course I love it.
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link
It makes me think of the opening to a 90s dystopian anime, but I can see Lynch too.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
Nightmare Logic works pretty well as an alternate title for Inland Empire.
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
Anyway, I hadn't heard the album before but it sounds great. Reminds me of early Sepultura.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
I remember telling a co-worker who's mostly into 90s alt-rock and older mainstream metal that I was going to see a band that night, and she asked me who it was, so I sent her a link to "Executioner's Tax." She said, "it's just that same riff over and over!" and I'm like, "I know! Isn't it great?"
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
21 Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception 323 Points, 9 Voteshttps://i.imgur.com/dUREZfu.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3h7OBtsmcCxn4HYnIInBSS?si=U5h9ZdDVRCK0UcioBNbWNA
https://spiritadrift.bandcamp.com/album/curse-of-conception
http://www.angrymetalguy.com/spirit-adrift-curse-conception-review/
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
I didn't hear it on time because I was put off by the Diamanda Galas comparisons but the Lingua Ignota is overwhelming.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
Immolation aren't entirely my bag but the feedback solo at the end o the second track was sick, I hope there's more of that
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
I've been following along and trying to listen where I can. I have a bit of metal fatigue, if I'm honest, and find myself mostly playing a 'this sounds like...' game, which makes me feel old and jaded. This Lingua Ignota, though. Holy shit.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZIw7JwP.jpg
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
Gotta catch up with Lingua Ignota, shit's fierce.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
My hopes of seeing Au champ des morts here are beginning to dwindle.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
yeah, I'm listening to Lingua Ignota now and very intrigued
― jmm, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
20 Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter 326.0 Points 11 Voteshttp://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Thantifaxath-Void-Masquerading-As-Matter-e1510623464660.jpghttps://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/void-masquerading-as-matter
“Ocean of Screaming Spheres” opens Void Masquerading as Matter with a lenticular Escherian riff that detonates in all directions once the drums, bass and vocals kick in, only to focus back into itself as fast as T-1000 de-obliterating. The energy is supernova, the drums fill out the riffs like some kind of laser-strewn galactic skirmish. Then, four minutes in, everything drops out. Makes way for a rather shy piano part. They’re tricksters, these prog guys.The following track, “Self Devouring Womb,” offers a more pensive vibe, keeping the fusillade of blasts at bay in favor of stranger beats, sometimes tribal, sometimes jazzy. Swamped in synths and uncharacteristically straight-forward, “SDW” is Thantifaxath’s idea of a catchy song. But they remain at their most potent when they’re shredding impossible riffs, as in “Cursed Numbers.” Introduced by the acoustic guitar/violin outro to “SDW,” “Cursed Numbers” is the obvious finisher. Where those evil circus riffs are at their most sinister, the tension is at its most repressed. And, man, Thantifaxath really know when and precisely how to release that tension.
The following track, “Self Devouring Womb,” offers a more pensive vibe, keeping the fusillade of blasts at bay in favor of stranger beats, sometimes tribal, sometimes jazzy. Swamped in synths and uncharacteristically straight-forward, “SDW” is Thantifaxath’s idea of a catchy song. But they remain at their most potent when they’re shredding impossible riffs, as in “Cursed Numbers.” Introduced by the acoustic guitar/violin outro to “SDW,” “Cursed Numbers” is the obvious finisher. Where those evil circus riffs are at their most sinister, the tension is at its most repressed. And, man, Thantifaxath really know when and precisely how to release that tension.
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
Obligatory 'too low'.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
what sort of sick madness is this? oh, the sort of sick madness i vote for :) 'cursed numbers' is truly insane
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
Great title too.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
Terrifying and incredible and extremely weird.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
I don't get what's so special about Spirit Adrift. Thantifaxath is more my thing.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
I'm looking forward to the reaction on the next one. Shame I'll only be able to follow it from my phone. back later
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
I've seen the results for 19-11 and I'm (redacted) about it
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
Good luck, hope it all goes well and quickly. xp
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
Yep, best to you Odysseus
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
happy to see some group love for Thantifaxath, tho in truth getting floored right now by the Lingua Ignota. How did I miss this?
― Dominique, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
xpand good luck Odysseus!
― Dominique, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
Best of luck!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
Indeed!
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
Good luck, Odysseus. And yay Thantifaxath. I was surprised by how eclectic this album was.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
Planning for Burial has been in regular rotation btw.
Fuck you guys move fast. Are we finishing this today? Anyway for some reason I have resolved to listen to the top 25 in their entirety, even if it kills me. Won't pretend that I'm not dreading some of it.
Unsane sounds pretty all right so far.
And hope everything goes well Odysseus
― scroot gyte (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
we're going to 11 today.
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
This penultimate track on the Boris album is stunning!
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I listened to that album last night and really liked it. I never think to listen to Boris but I usually seem to enjoy them when I do.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
19 Cleric - Retrocausal 336.0 Points 8 Votes 2 #1 Voteshttp://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Cleric-Retrocausal.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/4LUiTgSAzBciSeoFeDcZDc?si=XotAe8okQy20Y1dTIN7Khg
Beyond the accurate comparisons to both Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3 mentioned above, in both the ambitious scope and multi-genre blender approach to music that Cleric share with them, Cleric have a well-developed, Swiss-army-knife style of metal welded to their theatrical, noisy, and film-score-sounding layers, filtered through atypical labyrinth-like songwriting structures. While Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3 have always had metal in their blood, they often played it in various styles, whereas Cleric on Regression, and even further developed on Retrocausal, have a highly specific and zeroed-in mesh of metal influences that weave together like sheets of abstract armor on acid, terrifying yet complementing each other splendidly.On Retrocausal, that takes the form of something akin to Fantomas-meets-Dillinger Escape Plan clashing with Converge, Botch, Meshuggah, and proggy sludge influences. But beyond that, I’ll quote our esteemed overlord Islander’s past description of Cleric’s music at NCS as well, since the music is so vast and expansive, so easily defying any simple singular description. He described them as “something like Portal, Blackjazz-vintage Shining, and Behold… the Arctopus communing in a hurricane. During an earthquake.”
On Retrocausal, that takes the form of something akin to Fantomas-meets-Dillinger Escape Plan clashing with Converge, Botch, Meshuggah, and proggy sludge influences. But beyond that, I’ll quote our esteemed overlord Islander’s past description of Cleric’s music at NCS as well, since the music is so vast and expansive, so easily defying any simple singular description. He described them as “something like Portal, Blackjazz-vintage Shining, and Behold… the Arctopus communing in a hurricane. During an earthquake.”
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
Ah! My #1. A portal into the world of musical chaos I would prefer to exist.
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
once again resolutely Not My Thing but more power to you goddamn freaks
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
Of course, it isn't chaos. Everything here is rigorously-composed and minutely thought-out by four mad geniuses
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
someopick image up off the floor please
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
(I am pretty stoked to see them live though - with Thantifaxath, appropriately enough)
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
bloody autocorrect
Cleric/Thantifaxath had best have a UK reprise at some point
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
Unlistenable rubbish
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Lol
I sincerely hope the cover image was taken from their actual studio. 2017 turned out to be a wonderful year for bizarre metal.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Too many ideas for you ultros? ;)
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
I think the cover is meant to be from the cut-off submarine of the album's concept - a sci-fi idea I came up with independently but which I couldn't have realised half as well as here, in the form of mad, mad metal
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
Seriously though I still don't really know what to say. It feels like a real achievement and is somehow even better than Regressions. Well worth the wait.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
If the length is forbidding, btw...try Ifrit if you like King Crimson gone feral; try Resumption if you like the idea of The Mars Volta being tortured; try Triskaidekaphobe if you like Kayo Dot underwater (my personal favourite) and try Grey Lodge if you like John Zorn - like, the actual John Zorn. He's on it. In fact the whole thing is in some avant-jazz/prog-metalcore crossover, it's bonkers
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link