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The Otolith-Folium Limina Haunter-Discarnate Ails-this has been a consistent favorite of mine all year-not much interdweeb attention, but I dig it.

l won't argue that Darkher is really metal, but I did caveat metal adjacent and will say to the goat gentleman from NY that with a modicum of patience there is some low and slow doom guitar styling. The Buried storm is her/their 2nd album. The first is a bit heavier, She belongs to a handful of female fronted doom lite acts like Vouna but even less metal-more along the lines of a slightly more metal leaning Chelsea Wolfe or doom(ish) slice of acts like Sylvaine -but here I go making word salad twisting myself into pretzels for the various female fronted bands that have an obvious dark or heavy atmosphere but are lite by metal standards...I think you either have a soft spot for the witchy femme bands or you don't....we can all recall the female-occult-witchy-stoner doom bands that were a thing a few years ago-I'm recalling Witch Mountain and Royal Thunder-both bands I have spent time with....and yes, heavier than the more ethereal Darkher. I missed their earlier albums but I recall Negative Plane had a following. I tried it twice and I agree-it's just aight. Bjork-Fossora

Sonja-Loud Arriver-giving this one another go White Ward-False Light Negative Plane-The Pact Phobophilic -Enveloping Absurdity-I'm not finding anything remarkable about this while hitting all the usual hallmarks that have been hit time and time again without any special sauce for me-just another perfectly fine OSDM platter.... Darkher-The Buried Storm-One of my favorite melo metal adjacent albums of the year which I intend to finally pick up at year's end.....doom meets dark folk

That's too bad. My wife really wants to watch Black Adam. I must see if I can sidestep.

Man, I'm sorry you're going through this ordeal. Being sick is the absolute worst. I had a lingering Covid cough for nearly 2 months. I was thinking I was on the way to being having long Covid. Finally saw a Doc and she suggested trying a nasal rinse which I thought sounded disgusting, but I figured it was worth a try and I've been pretty darn healthy so far. Normally I'd have at least a small cold by now. I think there might be something to this nasal rinse thing. Now GG, I said nasal rinse not anal rinse, so don't get excited.

Yeah, butt, I mean but, that's the I think therefore I am pose.

Mantar-Pain is Forever and this is the end-at this point in the year I need to bowled over. This is fun but not essential 22 for me....will pass but thank you Mantar-I enjoyed our little man(tar)ly time spent together.

I drink green tea, therefore I am-quote on that, please. We really need a separate men touching men thread....at least not while I'm drinking my refined genmaicha tea. It's interrupting my philosophical green tea drinking mental flow with the idea of GG and TG having a circle jerk. In fact, I think I've lost the taste for my tea. Thanks a bunch.

I'm drinking some genmaicha green tea right now. Anyone familiar? I do like Tea after breakfast typically during the work week late morning through early afternoon. I use tea bags at work and occasionally after dinner with herbal tea, but usually will drink Irish or English black tea, Jasmine, Green tea, china white, etc. at home and prefer to brew a pot-old school kettle. But, it's pretty random and not an every day thing. Anyway, I'll pick up loose leaf tea usually at a health food store where you weigh it. Saw Genmaicha green with these little brown seed looking things. Decided to give it a shot. It's not bad. Apparently it's a Japanese tea where they used brown rice as a filler either by itself (yuck-starch tea anyone) or in this case mixed with actual green to tea for the poor as it was cheaper to produce, but eventually it caught on and now all segments of Japanese society drink it. Sometimes called popcorn tea because they roast the brown rice and they somewhat resemble popcorn kernels. The rice gives it a nutty flavor. It's purported to ease the stomach. I mixed the genmaicha green with straight up green tea no chaser for a little more green with poor man's brown rice nutty toasty tea....it's making me feel very much...... Except I don't have the Adonis beefcake build.

Swans/Filth https://www.angrymetalguy.com/mantar-pain-is-forever-and-this-is-the-end-review/

Crippled black phoenix-Banefyre New country old road-Ants from Up There Grimma/Frostsbitten

Reportedly, their earlier output is rawer. I think Pain is Forever might be too polished for your tastes.

Negative Plane/The Pact (22)

I dig this one, too. Haven't picked it up yet but that will probably change! The dirty crusty punk metal bare knuckled Motorhead vibe meets sludge is pretty rad. Blast Tyrant is in a league of its own. I'd put that album up with any hard rock album of any era-it's so good. The new one, from one listen is pretty solid overall and moody with some cool textures. Mother of Graves/ Where the Shadows Adorn (2022)-melo-doomdeth (Dan Swano master)

Two days of Christmas with my daughter joining us on the 26th as she had 3 straight nightshifts through the 25th plus cold temperatures keeping me homebound more than usual and most of the afternoon yesterday at a Toyota dealership has resulted in my catching up on some marathon listening reevaluating my 2022 albums and investigating possible new ones: Spurred by Navy's: listening: The Cult (a longtime favorite band of mine, didn't even know they released anything in 2022)-Under the Midnight Sun and King's X (Gretchen Goes to Nebraska is buried somewhere in my collection)-Three Sides of One And Clutch/Surprise on Slaughter Beach Wovenhand-Silver Slash Bill Callahan-YTI⅃AƎЯ (singer songwriter) Luces Lejanas-Partida (post metal) Phobophilic-Enveloping Absurdity Candy-Heaven is Here Archenspire-Hostile Architecture AEVITERNE-The Ailing Facade Alixonfire-Otherness (post punk) Mantar-The Pain is Forever and this is the End 40 Watt Sun-Perfect Light Antichrist Emporium-III Darkthrone-Astral Fortress Autopsy-Morbidity Triumphant Blackbraid-Blackbraid I Cavernlight-As I Cast Ruin Upon the Lens That Reveals My Every Flaw Big Thief-Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (Indie folk)

My parents would spend their evenings when I was growing up as a young child in the 70's drinking tea along the lines of Earl Grey after dinner reading the Washington Post or whatever books they were into. They rarely watched TV and if they did it was a PBS Masterpiece Theater min series like Upstairs, Downstairs or I, Claudius. That show was sick. They'd often have tea cookies. But my Dad also loved good coffee. It's funny how those formative experiences affect you. I'm more of a coffee drinker, I can't drink coffee all day-it gives me the jitters and affects my sleep if I drink after 3 PM, unless I'm tired which is frequent during the week, I migt break down and get an expresso drink. Green Tea is supposed to have a lot of health properties. So, that' been my go to during the day.

I drink a couple cups of strong coffee each morning. Occasionally I'll have an espresso drink mid day. But lately it's been hot green tea with a little honey.

It sounds win win. I mean if you're in hell, you don't have to worry about keeling over from health issues. So pile on the cholesterol, calories and fat. Fuck it. We're already dead.

Navy, you are going to hell. Hopefully, Satan has good bourbon and I will surely be there with you.

Queuing the one piece of Christmas music I try to play once a year-Handel's Messiah-one of the great pieces of classical music in the repertoire as they say-the whole bloody thing-it's up there with Bach's Mathew Passion as two of the great religious oratorio's in Western music. Both versions I have by John Elliot Gardiner-one of the father's of the period instrument movement -big fan of this style-doing it like they did it in the late 1600-early 1700's vs the overblown modern orchestras.

some quick sampling- Sonja-Loud Arriver-boring Hath-All that was Promised Candy-Heaven is Here Phobophilic-Enveloping Absurdity

Give yourself some time dude, it's like watching the Godfather I, II, Once Upon a Time in the West and LOTR trilogy in one sitting. The Chasm somewhat proggy for GG I would think. Pretty straightforward and not as uber as I was expecting. Rather mild mannered OSDM-but enjoyed my time here.

That is truly sad

That's how I like to celebrate the night before Christmas-much easier now with just the wife and I in the house. She's watching something on Showtime. I only got through a couple of tracks on that Nechochwen album. I plan to revisit, but it was much proggier than I was expecting. The liquid tonight is: Founders Breakfast Milk Stout and Left Hand Path Wake Up Dead Imperial Stout. Digging in to two of my more ethereal pick-ups so far tonight: Otolith-follium luminith -I'm a big Sub Rosa fan so this is pretty much comfort food. Crippled Black Phoenix-Banefyre-holy smokes-100 minutes of gorgeous sounding mix of doom, rock, post rock and Floydian prog but completely immersive....long time prolific project but new to me from Justin Greaves who spent time as a drummer with Electric Wizard-multi instrumentalist with a collective of musicians and male/female vocals. The female vox are superb. Chanting, dreamscapes, it's a time commitment and absolutely massive cinematic in scope, defies genre and is metal adjacent. Now on to some Bandcamp saved music: The Chasm-The Scars of a Lost Reflective Time

Kuke's life is like a really boring episode of Yellowstone. But do you have underpaid ranch hands raising hell, getting into fist fights?