i had no idea she was in Bethlehem, can only help them imo.
pomenitul just to help very slightly: the early Bethlehem stuff is great, kinda black metal and doom in equal measures. Dark Metal is my favorite but check out Dictius Te Necare if you like absolutely unhinged vocal performances.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link
Thanks GP!There are a lot of incredible female vocalists on the extreme metal front at the moment. See also: Turia, Xenoblight, Venom Prison.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 June 2019 06:27 (five years ago) link
Xenoblight is a name I keep running across, gonna check 'em out. Already love VP!
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 1 June 2019 09:33 (five years ago) link
Unsure what to make of the new DsO. Ignoring the political ambiguities for a second (and I'd say, having read the lyrics, that it's probably fine, albeit crazed), the music is this kind of impressive wash that I can't really latch onto. It feels like punishment. I know it's black metal and all but there's no sense of ritual, of incantation or magic here - it's didactic in sound as well as content. You WILL suffer. You WILL behold the incessant towers of sound. I'm aware that coming from a Jute Gyte fan, this may sound somewhat hypocritical, but there's a wit and a sense of surrender to mathematics and technology that somehow sublimes the latter act into something bewildering and Other - this simply feels like a bunch of pissed-off humanities professors inflicting their revenge on the idiotic world. While I would agree with much of their analysis, and even their methods, I don't necessarily want revenge - I want transcendence. There's only so much fast-fingered atonal rage I can listen to before I wonder how else these ideas can be approached, and how else this amount of musical talent and ingenuity can be manifested.
― imago, Monday, 3 June 2019 08:51 (five years ago) link
I haven't listened to it yet but your assessment echoes my own experiences with their previous albums.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 June 2019 09:32 (five years ago) link
I kinda think 'atonal rage' is exactly what I want from black metal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Or hatred, it's supposed to be hateful. I've been really delving into the satanic trilogy, including all the eps, and they're much more faceted than this, filled with allusions to Bataille and Hegel and Pascal, coopting so much of catholic thought and ritual. It's just a more interesting subject. But as far as political black metal goes, I'm really impressed by it. It's absolutely raging and hateful and out for blood, and I'm honestly kinda impressed that it still doesn't feel fascist, you know? I wasn't sure it could be done...
― Frederik B, Monday, 3 June 2019 11:19 (five years ago) link
Having just heard The Furnaces of Palingenesia for the first time, imago otm x2. Also: I can only take so much Finnish street preaching.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
Have you checked out Abigor?
― Siegbran, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
I thought the problem with DsO wasn't their lyrical content but the fact it's Mikko Aspa singing?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
If that was for me, yeah, I very much enjoy Verwüstung / Invoke Dark Age and Orkblut - The Retaliation in particular. I haven't heard their stuff post-Opus IV, though.
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― pomenitul, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
their post-Opus stuff like Leytmotif Luzifer and Hollenzwang should be right up yr DsO-alley, super dense avantgarde ‘atonal rage’.
― Siegbran, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
Time Is The Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint too.
― Siegbran, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
I'll check them out, thanks. DsO-style dissonance is an oft-disappointing BM subgenre in my experience but when it's on, it's a misanthropic feast, and I can't imagine the genre as a whole without it.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
thoughts on the new Darkthrone:+ maybe my favorite Ted vocal production, sounds very Cronos+ title track is pretty great+ it's Darkthrone- they're not as good at slow/epic hm riffss as I want them to be- it's not as good/memorable as Arctic Thunder
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 10:09 (five years ago) link
ok listening to it rn and+ the back half is actually super fucking solid
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 10:24 (five years ago) link
imo in their current phase (their regal phase as far as I'm concerned) they've gotten impeccable with the back half of their albums
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
New Wormed song! (New Wormed EP in July!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TwlPMrQYQ8
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
Box of the first four Krallice albums just went up on Bandcamp. The vinyl is selling for $800.
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/the-wastes-of-time
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, June 4, 2019 3:09 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think it's much better and more memorable than arctic thunder, though i should really revisit the last two again
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
i mean "much better" is overstating it
guess i'm gonna listen to darkthrone all day
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
does this go here or emo thread
https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/42
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
yes
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
haha
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
The vinyl is selling for $800.
I laughed pretty hard at this, then I clicked the Bandcamp link and realized you added a zero by mistake.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
shipping to Canada is 63$ :( :( :(
I know it's noted on the bandcamp blurb but damn
― Simon H., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
Whoops! Sorry about the typo.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
New Wormed song!
lol i knew this was you before i got to the end of the post
i count on you for my contrarian metal gatekeeping
― j., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
yeah the riffs on the new darkthrone are my fav they've come up with ages. not that i'm complaining about how good they've been for the past hundred years
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 June 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
i own all of their albums now and really they're all at least good. avoided Total Death, Ravishing, etc for a long time but really i celebrate their entire catalog.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 June 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
that new Wormed song is fucking sick. I listen to Krighsu maybe once a year and that's about all the sci fi grind-death or whatever I need these days, but it seems like they're expanding their palette a bit?
― Simon H., Thursday, 6 June 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
Yeah the production's a little clearer and it feels a little more accessible in some indefinable way?
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 June 2019 08:57 (five years ago) link
Contemporary trad metal isn't usually my jam but the Traveler record is awesome:
https://travelermetal.bandcamp.com/album/traveler
― pomenitul, Friday, March 1, 2019 12:27 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is great, thanks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
the new Bergraven (not sure when it came out exactly) is absolutely fucking fantastic
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 6 June 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
This is sort of surprising...a one-man Australian black metal act paying tribute to Yukio Mishima.
https://kommodus.bandcamp.com/album/an-imperial-sun-rises
When I think of Yukio Mishima, I think of one word: discipline. Here’s a man who never missed a deadline for his writing, or art. A man who identified the physical weakness within himself and sought to crush it.In his short lifetime he left a body of work, a legacy that contained 35 novels, 25 plays, 200 short stories, and 8 volumes of essays. An amazing bibliography that assured him a place as Japan’s most celebrated author. An athlete who forged himself a new body from sun and steel. A pariah who disregarded the zeitgeist of his era – the erosion of Japanese tradition and the cultural pressures to transform the country into an emasculated leftist shadow of its former self. He contested his surroundings and matched his words with action, transforming his world to reflect his art. Training religiously, forming a militia, and ultimately immortalising himself through his work and through his death. Total commitment, total belief. Mishima had the drive and vision to make a poem out of his life. And in our contemporary era I think there is much to learn from him. To attempt to attain and exercise that same monastic drive in our own chosen paths. To have the sheer will and faith in ourselves to ignore all the ephemeral influences, distractions, and rabbit holes that are shoved down our throats, that obscure our focus, and derail our progress. To recognise and understand what it is we want and attain it, to attack it mercilessly until we are synonymous with it. How can we change the world if we can’t first change ourselves with discipline, determination and steadfast focus? News, politics, social rhetoric and trends it’s all agenda and half-truths. Instead, we need the glorious sun, that defined our earliest incarnation of gods and goddesses. We need the steel to make us stronger and conquer. We need Mishima.
In his short lifetime he left a body of work, a legacy that contained 35 novels, 25 plays, 200 short stories, and 8 volumes of essays. An amazing bibliography that assured him a place as Japan’s most celebrated author. An athlete who forged himself a new body from sun and steel. A pariah who disregarded the zeitgeist of his era – the erosion of Japanese tradition and the cultural pressures to transform the country into an emasculated leftist shadow of its former self. He contested his surroundings and matched his words with action, transforming his world to reflect his art. Training religiously, forming a militia, and ultimately immortalising himself through his work and through his death. Total commitment, total belief. Mishima had the drive and vision to make a poem out of his life. And in our contemporary era I think there is much to learn from him. To attempt to attain and exercise that same monastic drive in our own chosen paths. To have the sheer will and faith in ourselves to ignore all the ephemeral influences, distractions, and rabbit holes that are shoved down our throats, that obscure our focus, and derail our progress. To recognise and understand what it is we want and attain it, to attack it mercilessly until we are synonymous with it. How can we change the world if we can’t first change ourselves with discipline, determination and steadfast focus?
News, politics, social rhetoric and trends it’s all agenda and half-truths. Instead, we need the glorious sun, that defined our earliest incarnation of gods and goddesses. We need the steel to make us stronger and conquer. We need Mishima.
Having read the blurbs he's posted alongside his previous three albums, I don't think this guy's a fascist; I think he's just a dummy who's absorbed Extremely Online ideas about nihilism and filtered them through his own mental problems ("'One Thousand Years Of The Wolf' was recorded in the dry, infernal summer of MMXVIII amidst constant mental anguish and instability"). And the music is standard shouting-from-the-back-of-the-cave, dull and monotonous; I was just intrigued to see YM's photo on the cover.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:08 (five years ago) link
Going by this cover I've got to imagine he's goofing on some level
https://imgur.com/fao70P1
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:35 (five years ago) link
well anyway dude's wearing a baseball cap on his first demo and what looks like his grandma's mink stole on his head on the second...
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
I don't think this guy's a fascist
Mishima was famously a Japanese nationalist, so 'far-right dog whistle' warning still applies.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 8 June 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
I wonder if he knows Mishima was gay, and whether finding that out would change his impressions any.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 8 June 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
In any case, the album art >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the actual music.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 8 June 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
Inter Arma stop in Chicago was a lot of fun this week - if they come through your town, go see 'em! Great bill, too - Thantifaxath & Pulchre Morte had great sets.
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 8 June 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
I am at the Dio hologram show in Asbury Park, NJ. Full report next week.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:49 (five years ago) link
Mishima's revered in the Noise/PE world for the same qualities the Kommodus dude mentions and his sexuality is embraced as perverted/transgressive. I'd guess Kommodus has read only Sun & Steel and maybe Patriotism. Doubt he's delved into Confessions of a Mask.
― Yelploaf, Sunday, 9 June 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link
hey seriously though this Bergraven album is the fuckin business
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 9 June 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link
As promised, my review of the Dio hologram show.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 10 June 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
JCLC, you were not lying. this is crazy!
― Simon H., Monday, 10 June 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
Yeah, this new Bergraven - which came out in March, apparently - is great. And how did I not know these guys made four albums under the name Stilla (with a different vocalist) between 2013 and 2018? Gonna check those out soon.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 10 June 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
I love the Stilla stuff but haven't enough Bergraven to compare them. Ensamhetens Andar has some really interestingly weird riffs and basslines.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 10 June 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
Imprecation's Damnatio Ad Bestias is one of the better death metal albums I've heard so far this year.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 01:18 (five years ago) link
As usual, Esoctrilihum delivers the esoteric goods:
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-telluric-ashes-of-the-o-vrth-immemorial-gods
It's at least on par with last year's Inhüma.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 June 2019 11:00 (five years ago) link
On the tech death end of things, I'm really enjoying Sinners Bleed's Absolution:
https://war-anthem-records.bandcamp.com/album/absolution
I should probably check out their debut.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 15 June 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link