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, 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
yes
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
haha
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
The vinyl is selling for $800.
I laughed pretty hard at this, then I clicked the Bandcamp link and realized you added a zero by mistake.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
shipping to Canada is 63$ :( :( :(
I know it's noted on the bandcamp blurb but damn
― Simon H., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Whoops! Sorry about the typo.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:01 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
In any case, the album art >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the actual music.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 8 June 2019 17:23 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
As promised, my review of the Dio hologram show.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 10 June 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
JCLC, you were not lying. this is crazy!
― Simon H., Monday, 10 June 2019 18:05 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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
:(
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/megadeths-dave-mustaine-diagnosed-with-throat-cancer/
― pomenitul, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
do your best Dave, hopefully you've got years of recording albums i have no interest in hearing ahead of you
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
In a way it's a real shame since their last one Dystopia had a couple of really excellent songs but man those lyrics. I'm not easily offended but it's just facepalm after facepalm.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
I don't want him to get cancer but I would like it if he wasn't such a right wing tool.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
exactly
btw Siegbran if you remember the track titles could you post them, I'd be interested to hear them
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
For example The Threat Is Real is a pretty awesome song but I dare you to sit it out.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Well the music's good
There are several ways to interpret the lyrics and I don't think I like any of them
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Not sure how long this has been floating around out there, but I just found out about it today - not so excited about anything new from Vektor any longer.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
DiSanto's wife's appeal for help got RTed by Kim Kelly but I don't think it mentioned Vektor so I'm just figuring this out too. Yeah, horrifying and I'm done with them.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Yep, that's exactly how I found out about it. Awful story.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
from what I gathered, he was the only remaining member.
― beard papa, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
The new Organectomy album, Existential Disconnect, is out today on Unique Leader.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2958267555_10.jpg
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
So are Meads of Asphodel sketchy? I hope not. I always thought they were genius weirdos and the new one out today doesn't change my mind.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
They're pretty sketchy, yeah.
meads of asphodel, whose song titles include the lovely "jew killer" and "children of the sunwheel banner"— machine girl kelly (@mulchlord) June 12, 2019
Are Meads of Asphodel one of those problematic acts? I honestly need to start keeping a spreadsheet.— Jeff Treppel (@JeffTreppel) May 20, 2019
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
That Treppel tweet begins a thread to which I contributed.
I know you're gonna "BUT DA RIFFFFFS" anyway, but hey, at least you asked. That's something.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
That thread doesn't really say much. The band was asked about Sonderkommando:
What is the story of Sonderkommando? From what I’ve read, it’s taken from the point of view of the individual who takes the bodies from the gas chambers and searches their bodies for valuables before finally putting them in the incinerators.The story is of hatred and how racism can create such horror. The album deals with Hitler and the German war machine that cloaked the racial elimination of the Jews. It tells of most European countries being complicit to the crime of murder where women and children were slaughtered because of a twisted ideology. Anti-Semitism, no matter what your view is on this subject; can be no excuse for killing children and treating a race of human beings like vermin. Hatred is the key lesson the human race needs to learn as it is hatred that drives us to obscene cruelty and illogical acts of brutality. The Sonderkommando were the unfortunate Jews who dragged the naked corpse covered in piss and vomit from the gas chambers. They pulled out the gold teeth of the dead and cremated the remains. It was mass murder unlike anything else in history. Maybe not as vast as Stalin’s crimes, but the deliberate European scale of an industrial death machine that involved vast logistics and efficiency is beyond comparison.The Grim Tower
The story is of hatred and how racism can create such horror. The album deals with Hitler and the German war machine that cloaked the racial elimination of the Jews. It tells of most European countries being complicit to the crime of murder where women and children were slaughtered because of a twisted ideology. Anti-Semitism, no matter what your view is on this subject; can be no excuse for killing children and treating a race of human beings like vermin. Hatred is the key lesson the human race needs to learn as it is hatred that drives us to obscene cruelty and illogical acts of brutality. The Sonderkommando were the unfortunate Jews who dragged the naked corpse covered in piss and vomit from the gas chambers. They pulled out the gold teeth of the dead and cremated the remains. It was mass murder unlike anything else in history. Maybe not as vast as Stalin’s crimes, but the deliberate European scale of an industrial death machine that involved vast logistics and efficiency is beyond comparison.
The Grim Tower
Also, kindly keep your self-righteous snark to yourself.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
I snark because we've done this dance before, and we'll do it again. You always come down to "separate the art from the artist" (even when the art is called "Jew Killer") and "but the music's good" (as though there's not multiple lifetimes' worth of good music in the world without the taint of Nazism on it) and "I know I'm not a Nazi, so it's OK". So whatever. Be happy with what makes you happy. So far as I know, Miles Davis beat every woman in his life at one point or another - I'm not throwing away any of his records.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link