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NP: Fabricant - Drudge to the Thicket ▶︎ Drudge To The Thicket | FABRICANT | Fabricant (bandcamp.com) I'm going to be kind of a dick here and call attention away from that striking cover art for a moment to their band photo on MA Why? Why would you include that? Is Weird Al going through a beatnick phase? Never mind those two poorly disguised cenobites behind him. Was this taken in a church basement? Is the body of a high school senior who was about to have his yearbook photo taken splayed about in a half eaten bloody puddle behind that screen. Just please please tell me Weird Al Beatnovick sounds exactly as I imagine he does. Like listening to Steven Wilson talk through a word problem in an artsy and all too self serious whisper. He has to sound that way. This is like an entire David Lynch film in one photo. The music's good by the way. They've got a cool way of gluing riffs together that sort of tumbles and lurches along unpredictably.
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WARLUST - Unearthing Shattered Philosophies
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BLACKRAT - Hail To Hades
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MERE MORTALS - Defeat Z-PAK - 15 Minutes With Z-Pak GLOBAL HOLOCAUST - Act Of Disaster
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I was never a fan of DiAnno so I'd dump him before dumping songs. But here's a list no one asked for. IM I would dump Transylvania, Running Free and Remember Tomorrow Killers I'd dump the instrumentals, Prodigal Son and Another Life NOTB I could happily get rid of Gangland, The Prisoner and Run To The Hills (although the film clip for RTTH is fun and a bit goofy). POM I'd dump Still Life, Sun And Steel and To Tame A Land. Powerslave I'd get rid of Losfer Words and The Duelists SWIT I'd dump DejaVu and Heaven Can Wait 7th Son I'd probably keep all. After that it would take some thinking. While I said yesterday that some times the songs I'd take off albums changes depending on my mood at the time those Maiden songs are nearly always songs I skip or tune out when they come on. With songs like Running Free, Run To The Hills and Heaven Can Wait it's a case of over play. They might be well written songs, catchy or someone elses favourite but they are songs I got sick of quickly.
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On Saturday my flatmates were watching rugby. I set up a new audio interface and switched to Windows 11 to solve some problems it was having. Finally started working. I then went to a gig in the evening, but not quite worth reporting. A local band Verminthrone, (The Cull | Verminthrone (bandcamp.com)) which sounds like it would be black metal, but closer to Pantera. Meat and potatoes. Decent. The opening band was Electric Wizard worship (Industrial Nightmare | Voidlurker (bandcamp.com)) but just a little too simple for me. The guitarist lost his pick before the last song and played with a credit card. You couldn't tell the difference. My favourite part was the knob twiddling guitar effects feedback over drum and bass that they finished with. That was pretty cool. Sunday was fairly uneventful. Played mini-golf. Point being, I found occasion to write something on this here forums. Oh, big name drop, on Friday night I had quite a long chat with Karl Sanders from Nile. It was like we'd been buddies forever. Nice bloke.
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As it goes - opinions are like assholes, everyone has a shitty one... Most of what I would consider "perfect" or "unskippable" I'm sure would fall out of your wheelhouse and most likely the opposite is true. NBD. Fortunately, we both passed the metalhead certification test years ago. Enslaved - Mardraum
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CEMETERIES - Filth Ritual ANCST / AST - Split
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That's just wild. Not that there could ever be any right or wrong opinions for these things, so I'm not knocking you dude 'cause it's all totally subjective. We all like what we like, fuck what anyone else thinks about it. But just for shits & giggles.... Sad Wings to me is a total loss, nothing of any interest at all to me on that one, except I guess the Ripper's kinda cool. NotB is a little better, I liked 3 (Children, Hills, Hallowed) or nearly half of the 8 songs on offer. Title track is ruined for me by the silly lyrics. Piece of Mind was one of those side 1 only albums, all 4 killer tracks on side 1 with only the one lone song of any value to me on side 2, the Trooper. So that's 5 out of 9. I've never heard 7th Son so I can't even say. Killers was always my favorite Maiden album, but even that one, setting aside the intro there were 10 tracks and I liked 6 of them. Drifter and the title track were my favorites.
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No one would ever think you were insulting them Cabbarella. We have quite a few smart people here and musicians who actually understand these technical terms. I'm not among that group, so I do appreciate you making the effort to dumb it down for me. Yes that made sense. Still don't fully understand your explanation about the black metal vibes you were getting from the minor chords on that black/death album the other evening though. Tbh as a non musician your explanation was still a good distance over my head. I've never attempted to dissect riffs in such a technical manner before. I don't really know anything about keys and modes and steps and all that technical stuff. I just separate riffs into 2 main categories: the ones I like, and the ones I don't. As a non musician I do enjoy the freedom to experience music on a purely visceral and non anytical level. It's all about the feelings music inspires in me. I will often disengage my conscious brain and just let my lizard brain take over so I can just feel the music on a primal gut level. I'm a metalhead simply because that's what gives me the most desirable feelings. The more extreme the metal, the more intense the sensations. That's why I tend to gravitate towards the farthest ends of the spectrum. There are plenty of exceptions of course, but I generally either want extreme savagely filthy brutal stuff to rip my face off, or I'll go for really quiet mellow but often quite bleak and depressing non metal stuff with a lot of emotion. Music in between those extremes that can't stir up those intense feelings often just gets passed over and ignored. But back to the other thing again, to me anyway, black metal is more of an idea or a feeling that you recognize when it hits you. It's not a strict musical style with hard and fast rules because there are multiple different styles of music that can all legitimately be considered black metal. So many people seem to get hung up on the 2nd wave Norwegian styles and things like tremolo riffs and think that's what black metal has to sound like, without exception. That's just wrong. Other genres can be much easier to define though, thrash for instance is a musical style with a certain kind of riffing. A piece of music either has thrash riffs or it doesn't, there's less interpretation required, it's pretty straightforward to determine what's thrash and what's not. Black metal though provides endless room for interpretation, discussion and debate which I very much enjoy.
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Circle of Ouroborus - MatterEther Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred Arnaut Pavle - Arnaut Pavle
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Searching With My Good Eye Closed and Room A Thousand Years Wide are my two favorite tunes on Badmotorfinger. I probably like the B side better than the A side all things considered. Down On The Upside is the one Soundgarden album I can't make it through. Too many low points. Maybe it's the lingering flavor of disappointment from 25 years ago or whenever it came out. A handful of songs I like, but the rest is a slog. No idea why I like King Animal better, but I do.
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@Nasty_Cabbage bringing the fucking Nina Simone! Cheers mate. Great stuff. Fornicus - Sulphuric Omnipotence Scourge Lair - One Hundred Eyes One Hundred Arms (demo) Judas Iscariot - To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding Non-skipper albums for me: Sad Wings NOTB Piece of Mind Seventh Son
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Savage Grace - Master of Disguise Nuclear Assault - Game Over/The Plague Nuclear Assault - Survive Deicide - Serpents of the Light Deicide - In The Minds Of Evil
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DragonForce - "Warp Speed Warriors" I'm a couple of days late on this one, but my favorite power metal band has never disappointed me, so I cannot wait to dive into the brand new album today. This has been the longest gap between releases of their career - including the time when they changed singers. The pandemic set them back for sure, but finally, the new slab of majestic melody and speed has arrived!
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I'll take a look at the interview when I get a chance. Yes, Down on the Upside holds up pretty well actually and has some great tracks. Agreed it's not as complete a package as Superuknown and is somewhat of a hot mess but there's aren't any tracks I feel like skipping either.
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Then you miss out on the lovely idiom - 'he trousered it' - meaning he nicked it, innit? And Barry Humphries was very old when he died a year or two ago, so he had plenty of time to do what he done. I am many things, not all of them worthy, but I ain't 'high falutin' and I reject the existence of that strange North Americanism in my world. Today...CORPUS DIAVOLIS - Elixiria Ekstasis YFEL - Beneath The Mountain's Vigil COAST - Live 2023 NP - LYCIA - In Flickers
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Ah. This one's pretty easy as it's about how our brains process music. A musical phrase "resolves" usually when it ends on a note that more or less demarks it's conclusion as a single musical statement within the song like a single sentence in grammar. So if you were to take Twinkle twinkle little star / How I wonder what you are, the resolution is the note that the word "Are" is sung over. Note we're going one syllable per beat. Line one line goes up three times in a row so: twinkle/up twinkle/up little/up, star/middle, and the second line goes down how I/down wonder/down what you/down are/down, with the fourth down breaking pattern from the first line and resolving the phrase (and for what it's worth I wasn't choosing a children's song as some sort of taunt. It's just a melody everybody knows). Of course it's music so there's all manner of complications that can and will come into play, but that's the basic idea. It's also possible to create songs without neatly resolving melodies like Nina Simone's rendition of Langston Hughe's poem Strange Fruit. Note that the piano behind Ms. Simone here begins with a relatively simple four chord series that moves and shifts as the song goes on because it needs to be malleable and not static or neatly timed out to use the exact cadence the poem necessitates. I hope that helps some. The way human pattern recognition works, whether we like it or not, is moment to moment, and a big part of our enjoyment of music is following this kind of thing (often subconsciously) with it's surprises and it's predictability going hand in hand. I also think you're perfectly fine enjoying music on a much less analytical and much more visceral level. Bringing the music nomenclature into it just helps me with articulating some of this stuff a little more exactly. I don't need anybody to think that I'm insulting them by throwing that kind of language around. It's really more for my benefit than anyone else's.
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Afterbirth - In But Not Of (2023)
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My friend there is very little that goes on here I take seriously,
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Absolutely. It's all totally subjective to each of our tastes, which as you say are all going to be unique to ourselves. Which is why you can't take most of these friendly little arguments/discussions/debates we have here too seriously. Obviously when I'm talking to Orca or Doc or Mark or Jon or some of the other members here we have such drastically different tastes in music that it's almost a miracle that we have ever actually heard enough of the same music over the years to even be able to discuss anything coherently or in any kind of depth.
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I really do mean to keep up with this thread, but every time I make a post here I then forget all about it for the next few months. Bokluk - Taphonomy, Spain 2014. I've definitely listened to this album far more than any other over the last few weeks since I stumbled over it on YouTube. Probably click on it two or three times a day, I can't seem to stop myself. They're billing it as old school death metal and that's not a lie, it is, but it's not a clone of Morbid Angel or Deicide or Dismember or Entombed. There's definitely quite a bit of grindcore present and some crust influence worked in here too. But that's the way I like it, which is why I don't really ever listen to any of those four 90's bands I just mentioned. Machetazo - Mundo Cripta, Spanish deathgrind 2008. Could have chosen any Machetazo album because I've been playing the shit out of all of them lately, but tonight I picked this one. The Atomic Bitchwax - Scorpio, NJ 2020. Riff heavy stoner rock from New Jersey. Catchy. As. Fuck. Their 3-piece lineup has changed a few times over the years, but the three current members responsible for this latest album have all played together as hired guns for Dave Wyndorf in that other notable Jersey shore stoner rock band Monster Magnet. But this album is better than anything Magnet's done in at least a decade. The Lords of Altamont - Midnight to 666, LA 2011. Another random find on YouTube. Garage rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock, whatever you want to call it, I love this stuff when I'm not death-grinding it up. I think I keep coming back to this one at least partly for the Ain't It Fun Dead Boys cover. But still it is a great album all the way around.
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that’s the funny thing about taste, though isn’t it? Not only does our own shift overtime, but it will be completely unique to the taste of those around us, thus we will view what is and isn’t filler on an album differently. I.e I consider My Dying Bride’s Feel the Misery to be entirely filler, with the exception of, and my father left forever, while I happen to know a former user here regarded that record as among their best work.