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...going full on SST Records for a while tonight....
OVERKILL LA - Triumph Of The Will
....the original OVERKILL(..I have the original L.P. with the OVERKILL name...)..
BLACK FLAG - The Process Of Weeding Out
BLACK FLAG - Nervous Breakdown
GONE - Let's Get Real, Real Gone For A Change
DC3 - The Good Hex
 
 

Those are some of my favorite songs of all time 😟

It occurs to me a lot Finnish metal uses Finnish mythology as subject matter and so did Sibelius-there's my official metal tie-in. 

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures 

Thanks for the rec. I found a good price on Amazon....listening right now...beautiful piano music

And now for something else...FINLAND-land of a thousand lakes and a lot of forking great extreme metal and, uh, one major classical composer of note-Sibelius (1865-1957)-as I make my way though the major composers-i come to a name I've long heard but have never actually listened to.....getting dangerously close to my lifetime...but this is no post modernism. 
Sibelius/Complete Symphonies and Tone Poems/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis-seems to be a well respected cycle....a bit like Brahms looking backwards to the classical era....pretty good after 4 discs.

Thanks for the rec. I found a good price on Amazon....listening right now...beautiful piano music

Those are some of my favorite songs of all time 😟

Xasthur - The Funeral of Being

I enjoyed Mork some time ago when Navy recommended it. That might be a pick-up for me.....note to self: revisit. Looking forward to checking out some of these other releases some of yous'ns have been posting. I was lukewarm on Panopticon....listened last night on speaks but may need to give it the Audeze treatment that tends to sort out what I perceive as the difficulties of accurately presenting black metal on stereo with room acoustic issues-death fares better for me. 
Speaking of stereo, I  picked up Ophiochi/Shibboleth which sounds great on my speaks. I think Navy referred to this band as post doom. I've seen them tagged progressive sludge. Regardless this kind of weird, some might say artsy fartsy-hipster-hard to categorize metal has long been one of the most compelling reasons to follow metal for me.....you know when non metal friends say, metal? REALLY? is that still a thing, I'll often retort that there exists plenty of interesting, creative, often experimental genes of metal that might defy non-metal expectations if they can get beyond the extremity....beyond the often worn out tropes of black and death there exist weird and interesting worms to find crawling in the muck.
Back in the early 2000's when I started hunting down new heavy music after wife/kid/mortgage and before I was willing to listen to any extreme vocals, I went through a lot stoner and doom and then it was bands like Neurosis and Isis and CUL until post metal got tired (except for Neurosis who continue to stun) and then after opening up to black and death, hard doom and weird blackened sludge a la Lord Mantis, Mizmor and so on impressed and to this day just when I think some of these off genres get stale, ROB, Orannssi-Pazuzu and Black Buddha Rising upend my expectations.....long after my initial infatuation with Electric Wizard and YOB seems like 100 years ago in metal years.
All that said, the appeal of this odd mishmash of styles that Ophiouchi present reminds me (I'll throw in some Cobalt and maybe Tool) of all of these bands yet sounds like none of them-certainly the tag-tribal metal works for me.
Shibboleth will divide fans, such as we are (all 50 of us or who knows) the blackened elements are dialed down and the doom elements are dialed up and it's less immediate-took me several spins-but has won my heart at this point. 

How's Whistlepig? 
120 proof Old Forester 1920 and Knob Creek bourbons are about the strongest liquor I've had. 
Tonight enjoying a couple of Stone IPA and a smidge of Uncle Nearest 1884 93 proof bourbon with a piece of strawberry cheesecake. 

This is a very positive development.  Goatworthy and far beyond the horned herd pastures of endless blackened death....not that those pastures aren't opportunities of wonderous gorging. Metal shall be delivered with proper horned fidelity.

Actually, have that one myself. Pretty fun album. 

For some odd reason, I've been going through an Agalloch discog binge. Maybe it's my Spring lust for the great outdoors. Babbling brooks and all that epic stuff.

Probably sponsored by the International College of Cardiologists. Sure, it probably works short term, but not because of anything special about red meat. It's the lack of processed foods that provides the real benefits.
I like red meat and all, but any diet that preaches one or two groups of food exclusively is never healthy in the long run. And yes, I would include veganism in that statement as well. Humans are omnivores. We need animal proteins from a variety of sources. A diet rich in whole foods that limits or eliminates processed foods and refined sugar is the best for 99% of humanity.

Still trying to get home from Vegas. Fuck American Airlines and fuck Dallas. Sat on the tarmac in OKC last night for 6 hours until they finally cancelled the flight because of the weather in Dallas. At 1am. Nothing to eat open, shitty hotel, blah, blah, blah. May get home by 10pm. That would make it 32 hours since we boarded in Vegas. Fucking bullshit.
So my playlist will be appropriately adjusted to match the mood.
Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Cemetery Filth - Dominion
Perdition Temple - Sacraments of Descension

Bad Brains is the shit. I don't listen to them enough these days.
Enslaved - Vertebrae

We have a non-metal section here, feel free to start a thread there if you don't see a topic you're looking for.
And here's a video of Michelangeli playing Debussy's "reflets dans l'eau". I wish it was synced up better. Dude could rip.
 
 

Slowly working my way through classical composers....buying music through the eras...finally broke into the 20th century...Emerson Quartet/Debussy and Ravel stringed quartets
Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst-still evaluating....

Slander - Careless Talk Costs Lives
A buddy of mine just got this on vinyl todsy so I'm checking it out on YouTube. Strangely out of character for me but I'm actually halfway through and digging it, bad vox and all.

Return To Forever - Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy

Kamelot - Haven (album)

Deathspell Omega - Drought
Deathspell Omega - Chaining The Katechon
Schoenberg - Suite, op. 29
Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht

What's your verdict on this release? Is it overhyped indeed or is it a brilliant signing from Century Media?
Bhleg - Ödhin (Recommended on the metal-fi page)
 

Driving to and from the river for some paddling---Monster Magnet-Superjudge and Dopes to Infinity.