Balor

17 hours ago, yunggrave said:

thank you! mostly into stuff like mayhem, burzum, darkthrone, gorgoroth (''mainstream'' bands, ya know), but aside from bm bands, i like cannibal corpse, exodus, metallica, death, iron maiden

hi! I don't play anything but soon I'll get an electric guitar

A lot of great bands there!  Hope you enjoy your guitar.

Greetings!  It's mostly noise and power electronics for me right now.  Do you play any music yourself?

Greetings!  What arts are you interested in?

19 hours ago, salmonellapancake said:

Hmm, i feel like these guys are a little noisier than RotUGF.  There's also some cybergrind elements in CUM's work.

A little noisier is never a bad thing!  I think some cybergrind carries over to Reek too, even though they want to call it "industrial."

5 minutes ago, salmonellapancake said:

Catasexual Urge Motivation- "Death to Pigs"

I have been meaning to get into this project more after hearing them compared to Reek of the Unzen Gas Fumes.

How is this one?

It's not my favorite, though I have a soft spot for System of a Down on rare occasions.  I think the hate probably stems from the genre's adoption of a more commercial/rock/rap sound.  The people who hate it the most are probably those who are also very concerned about remaining in the "underground."

5 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

War Master, The IVth Crusade, Those Once Loyal, For Victory should be all you need.

This 100%.

5 hours ago, salmonellapancake said:

I particularly enjoy the split with Satanic Warmaster. If you're not able to find it, I can message you a link.

If it is with SW, then I think I should be able to find it!

From what I have heard, the split with Evil is pretty good to (at least the Evil side, that is).

9 hours ago, salmonellapancake said:

I hear that. Ya gotta jump on it when the labels first put them up for sale. The stuff is fantastic, though. You can find some of it on YouTube and probably some downloads on various websites.

I really need to get over it and check his stuff out more seriously.  I have liked the few tracks that I have heard.

1 hour ago, salmonellapancake said:

Vothana- "Commando"

Did anyone else get their hands on this? Loving it more with every listen

I keep meaning to check this band out, but the drama surrounding the limitation keeps pushing me away!  Some of his stuff recently sold for over $1000 on discogs not long ago.

On 8/22/2020 at 5:51 AM, Requiem said:

Hate Forest - 'Nietzscheism'

I remember that bloke from university. Yeah, it's all coming clear now. Mr Forest. Great guy. 

Out of curiosity, did they release any lyrics from this?

20 hours ago, Thrashman said:

Cool!  I need to finally get some patches for my jacket (which has been sitting, patch-less in my closet for the past few years).

4 hours ago, Requiem said:

Lots of great songs on that album, if you break them down into individual tracks. That's what makes the album such a huge seller. Heaps of great tracks. 

That's my thought too.  I don't go to the album for a well-put-together whole (as I would Filosofem, for instance), but to listen to/treat it as a compilation of great tracks.

8 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I grabbed her and moved her off the carpet just in time. What the hell, I ask you, is wrong with a perfectly nice expanse of floor? Why must the puke go on things? Cats are the best.

Haha!  I have to do this every other week it seems!

2 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

On my mind: in a perfect world, cats would yak up their hairballs before they ate a bunch of food so that the food wouldn't just be forced back out by the hairballs afterwards.

And NOT on the carpet!

XE - Victory cd

XE - Past Atrocities 2cd

1 hour ago, lia_kat15 said:

I think you can probably find them on Youtube if I'm not mistaken. A Jap horror film I always recommend is Reincarnation (Rinne). Check it out if you get the chance! 

Thanks, I never thought of youtube!

57 minutes ago, lia_kat15 said:

They're superb. I usually prefer the originals, but I think for those two the re-makes were better. Do you like Japanese horror films? 

I want to say that I like Japanese horror (I like a lot of Japanese things actually), but I have never been able to see the originals because my local libraries don't have copies.  Still, I think the American remakes are excellent movies in their own right.

Also, it's probably worth posting here that I just finished season two of Castle Rock, and it was amazing.  Though the backstory of Annie Wilkes was far more tragic than scary.

5 hours ago, lia_kat15 said:

The Grudge, The Ring

Probably my two most favorite horror movies of all time, though Sinister was great too.

2 hours ago, lia_kat15 said:

Did you get to watch it? I loved it. It's one of the most beautiful films I've seen in recent years. 

I did!  Amazing film and lighting!

57 minutes ago, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

I like the cover art work but balor looks like the album is sending the kid on the horse to sleep. ?

Haha!  Never noticed that before.

On 7/23/2020 at 4:25 AM, Requiem said:

'Esoteric Warfare' is easier to listen to due to its more standard riff structures (sort of), but the tracks are just so strange and weak. Teloch, the new guitarist/songwriter was all at sea. At least 'Ordo ad Chao' has that gay abandon that is Blasphemer's last musical tantrum before he left the band. It has a degree of artistic thrust that 'Esoteric' just lacks.

But I don't enjoy listening to either album in I'm being honest and they don't get played at parties at Castle Requiem. 

I don't think I have ever managed to listen through the entirety of Esoteric Warfare, while I have for Ordo ad Chao.  I didn't like the few tracks that I had heard, and didn't think the rest was really worth my time.  I guess you are right that an album like that would edge out as being worse when compared with an album that is utterly forge table yet tolerable.

2 hours ago, salmonellapancake said:

 

I would get to it sooner than later. I'd say it's along the same lines as the demo, if not even more primitive and punishing. It also sounds more raw to me, but it could be that I've only listened to this on cassette with my crappy speakers

It is interesting that they would go for a more raw sound on a full length than the demo!  I will have to give it a listen sometime soon.

12 hours ago, Sabazios said:

I don't know if you're meaning like lyrically or musically though, I tend not to be interested in lyrics so much, I'm all about the music. For instance I've always been a fan of drudkh, I only found out earlier this year that they're considered NSBM, when I first learned that I thought "well that's fucked then, cant listen to that anymore" but then I thought, the lyrics are in Ukrainian anyway, which I dont speak, fuck it the music is quality, I care not for their ideology. So I guess for me it's the energy of the music that purges away the negativity... does that make sense? Probably not haha

Not just lyrics, though.  Sometimes the negativity extends to cover art too sometimes.  I suppose that I am pushing the boundaries of the discussion, though, as my response was at least partly referring to power electronics/noise music as well (stuff like Xenophobic Ejaculation or Zyklon SS).

I think that Drudkh is a highly political band, and their political views seems to come out at least partly through their music itself.  However, I never really considered their music to be negative - it seems too romantic and warm for that.

In terms of metal, I was thinking about stuff along the lines of Konflict (whose music videos consisted of clips of various bombings/gunfights from the Sri Lanakan civil war) or Catasexual Urge Motivation (with pictures of gore/corpses as album art).  Sometime the negativity seems too strong to just dissolve into the music.