Thatguy

CHORD - Chord IV Yep, there is a new album. Shorter and more focused tracks of guitar based melodic noise. Get it into you.

Thanks for bringing this back, Dead. Never heard of this band of course. It's actually not bad. Too much bluesy rockism to really keep me interested though. I don't like her voice... I give it a solid Meh.

YEAR OF NO LIGHT - Consolamentum. I really wanted to like this, but second time through and it is still bland. Thatguy does not like bland.

Ulcerate are also coming to Sydney. I hope to go with my son and your old sparring partner Carlos M. Fucking COVID fucking willing...

This album is Thatguy approved!

Now, SUSS - High Line Earlier, THRON - Abysmal

Yo, Dead. You should bring back your 'unknown classic or piece of shit' poll thing here if you can figure out how to do it. I always liked that and the bigger numbers here could make it more interesting.

ALVARO DOMENE - The Sword Still Hangs Upon The Wall. Solo electric guitar. A bit of noise, but mainly melodic to my ears. Not scary like CHORD ya big babies, but you still won't like it.

And so you should!

Fun trivia for all you guitar focused dudes - of which I am one these days. There are an infinite number of types and subtypes of saxophone mouthpieces, but the fundamental split is between Link guys (and girls) and Berg-Larsen guys. Fela Kutis is using a Berg-Larsen - as does Sonny Rollins. Coltrane was a Link guy. I use Link for tenor/baritone, but B-L for alto.

Well, he would have been but I missed this. You know your poseur. This seems like my sort of thing. Thanks.

All good, GG. I know you have a very open musical mind but I don't expect you to like much of what I enthuse over. I just like to poke the goats... And, yes, the album name Obsian bugs me too, and yes, the album is full of intriguing rhythmic and harmonic twists and turns - just the kind of wankery I like. I listened to it every day for an age when it first came out and I am listening just now, just because, and fuck me if I don't love just as much as I did then.

Thanks for this. I have been praising Castavet forever and the unworthy Metal-Fi goats just ignored me. I will check out Aeviterne and Turris Eburnea right now.

SIGIL - Nether. The blurb on Bandcamp compared then to Castavet. Remember Castavet? I do - they were great. A good comparison, and this is a good album.

Thatguy likes noise and so of course I have listened to this. I liked it...the old M-Fi'ers will know that I have seen Portal live and lived to tell the tale. Just now listening to Daniel Herskedal - Harbour. DH is a composer and tuba virtuoso. Excellent tuba playing but a bit nice/jazz lite for my taste and I am about done with it now.

Whereas this boomer really likes all sorts of other stuff blended into metal. Nothing has a permanent, substantiial being, yet here we are.

EPIPHANIC TRUTH - Dark Triad: Psalms to a Sordid Species On my run this morning. Thatguy approved degree of musical interest but many of the Goats would appreciate this. Massive drumming and a stunning vocal performance. Either there are multiple vocalists or it's one incredibly versatile guy.

ANTI-GOD HAND - Wretch

They are a gang of second rate chancers. They and theirs are vaccinated and their donors are still doing fine and they still have their snouts in the trough, so all good. Here's a press release to keep the plebs happy...

I was trying to think of a polite way to tell them they are sad obsessionists. This will do. DRAWN AND QUARTERED - Congregation pestilence

Good trumpeter I agree, but not on the level of the legends, I think. His singing was god-awful.

PLASMODIUM -Towers of Silence. They call it cosmic black/death metal. I would call it nasty noise - but in a good way. And yes, Goatmaster, there are riffs amongst the noise, but most if not all are carried by the drums. CHASSM - Falling Forever. Progressive metal I guess. Full of musical interest but not at all wanky. Will be worth returning to.

BISMUTH - The slow dying of the Great Barrier Reef Doomy in every sense.

BRENDAN BYRNES - 2227 Microtonal guitar based jazz, I guess. You won't like it.

Meshuggah may have opened the door to djent, but they ain't djent. Djent is like porn. It may be hard to define but you know it when you hear it. (And avoid it when you can.)