Iceni

Redemption

Adora Vivos

Persuader

Aletheian

Threshold

"Liberation" by Katatonia on a cool dark evening riding the train home. This seems like the right atmosphere.

On 11/26/2017 at 1:46 PM, BlutAusNerd said:

Chalk me up for another vote, that album is stunning.

ayy man you back

Revelations of Rain is good. Pretty consistent band out of Russia.

https://revelationsofrain.bandcamp.com/

Got a lot to be thankful for. I got to spend about 6 days or so of Thanksgiving with my best friend, meaning this was my first really good Thanksgiving in about 3 years and one of the only good Thanksgiving celebrations without my family. I also got an offer for an internship with a journal of Christianity and international affairs, which will be essentially full-time pay - meaning I can quit my humiliating department store job. Gonna take the GRE again since my quantitative score needs work, but I got promotional emails from the Fletcher School at Tufts and the Josef Korbel School at University of Denver, so clearly I'm doing something right.

That all this should happen at the end of a year that I largely wasted is an enormous relief and has been really motivating. Hopefully I spend 2018 at this internship before embarking on grad school and the future writ large.

I like Freak Kitchen's lyrics too, even if their music is kinda bland.

Beginning the "Croire, Decroitre" album by Unholy Matrimony, Vladimir Cochet's third project, because apparently I cannot slurp enough of this man's dingaling. It's cool so far. Pretty strong techy black/death.

The song of my people

Haaaaaartbeesport DAM,

is'n lekker DAMM

14 hours ago, Parker said:

No, it's as big around as a c.d., and full of knotwork.

Fancy X-Men symbol.

6 hours ago, Ecthelion said:

@Iceni I have scrolled through this entire thread and not one mention of Psychotic Waltz was made. That band's practically fundamental to this entire subgenre. 

We've definitely brought them up before in a number of threads. I didn't know they were that influential though.

On 11/16/2017 at 7:42 PM, Parker said:

On my upper right arm I have a Celtic cross, all arms are of equal length so it is pagan/heathen rather than christian, it's black and green, and it has a quarter turn to it so it's an X rather than a +. The turn has no meaning, just thought it would look cool and original.

That doesn't sound like a cross so much as the X-Men symbol.

On 11/15/2017 at 12:24 PM, FatherAlabaster said:

The Last Of Lucy - Ashvattha   ...technical ear candy. I shouldn't like this anywhere near as much as I do.

I don't like the band name. Honestly I would have disregarded the album without a strong personal recommendation from a friend, but I'm happy I checked it out. Somehow they make the whole "ultra-modern" sound work.

I could go for that.

Still making my way through "Fragmentary Evidence" by Augury and it stuns me how good this is. I remember thinking it was OK when I first heard it but I really hear the melodic elements now and that's helped a lot. Clean vocals work wonders and this bass is sublime. They're apparently coming out with some new material next year, definitely looking forward to it.

5 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

The Last Of Lucy - Ashvattha   ...this is modern tech done off-kilter, down-tuned syncopated riffs and Psyopus-like runs interspersed with sudden descents into soft atmospheres and saxophone melodies. Maybe one for @Iceni, @deathstorm? Early stream via Metal Injection.

Aha! Just saw Equipoise raving about them and might have given it a shot. Name seemed like a red flag but I'll try it.

@welkyn

This is an interesting notion and a plausible anthropological explanation, but I think politically it's way off. As for thugs getting into power, that shit was a lot more common during the bygone period you're describing than in the modern era. Nowadays politics does not attract that breed of person as often. I went to a school rife with aspiring politicians. They aren't thugs. They're a bunch of Pharisees, but I could beat up at least half of them. For the most part, thugs now end up as goons for these folks and only become politically powerful in the third world or Eastern Ohio.

As for the 'plastic system of control' - are you referring to the nation-state?

I've got the same problem with horror movies and alcohol. Generally can't stand either but I've lost count of the number of times people have implied I'm an underdeveloped simpleton because of it.

Anyway, I saw The Exorcist recently and it wasn't anywhere near as frightening as I expected. They all but telegraph the scary stuff so you're good and ready when something odd happens. It's pretty funny in a number of places, especially early on then the demon's making Reagan act like a CoF fan. That being said, there are some impressively disconcerting parts of the movie and I did like those. Overall not bad and I did enjoy seeing so many shots of my campus throughout the movie.

44 minutes ago, Parker said:

So, I was trying to work with a government agency to get a job and go back to school. Then they found out from my psych doc that I use weed, now they won't help me. Really, why is it o.k. to take anti-depressants prescribed by a doctor that don't do a fucking thing for me, but if I want to take something that actually works and makes me feel good for a while then I'm a horrible person. Then I posted on facebook that I was depressed and my parents got mad at me for upsetting other people. So I deactivated my FB account. I can hardly even express my feelings anymore, and I feel like I'm going to explode. 

Good Lord, that's dreadful. I'm sorry to hear that. Well, you're not bothering us in any case so don't deactivate your account here. Plenty of folks on this forum, myself included, have vented over less.

ayy man New Mexico native here

6 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Is Katana a Welsh name or have you taken the sword as your username?

Gareth Katana, itinerant shepherd swordsman.

I miss Lost In Thought.

Take this as a perspective from a guy with no academic musical background and an abortive interest in playing guitar. I'm more a fan of the 'verse' sections than the recurring melody since the former struck me as more oblique than the latter. Interplay of lead and rhythm was good, particularly for the former - you made the best use of the very clean production by having snappy intricate leads. The slightly unexpected chord changes also did a lot to distinguish the piece. Like I said before these two elements interacted very nicely. I am certainly curious to see how this fits into the broader context of the album.

11 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Australis - Spaces Of Hope   ...I like this more every time I listen to it lately. Organic-sounding tech DM with some old-school prog death influences. It's becoming one of my favorite DM releases from 2016.

Yeah, this is good too. You might like Excruciating Thoughts if these drums catch your fancy.

I gotta get you some recs, my deficit's getting embarrassing. You heard Nephilim's Howl? They sound kinda like Locust Leaves, Convulsing and Obsequiae.

"Fuck Yeah, Floppy Guys!" by Axis of Awesome.

Maybe try out E Nomine, they're a bunch of German Catholics who listened to a bit of Rammstein.

On 11/5/2017 at 1:40 PM, MacabreEternal said:

A trip to my gf's family today to spend an hour listening to one of them tell me how they think all mental health illness is made up by people who don't want to work.  When I challenged that is cancer made up too by "lazy" people I got the predictable "that's a proper illness though, not like schizo!"

I wish mental illness on nobody, but this fucker deserves it!

So much stupid it is fathomless.

I lament the intellectual deficiency of modern American conservatism but every now and then I get a reminder from across the pond that it could be worse.

Ayy, my granddad's side of the family originated around Norfolk before emigrating to South Africa.

On 2/17/2017 at 5:56 PM, Requiem said:

Jonas Renkse (Katatonia). A sample from 'Old Heart Falls': 

"For every dream that is left behind me, I take a bow

With every war that will rage inside me, I hear the sound

Of another day in this vanishing life, returned to dust

And every chance I've pushed away into the night"

Yeesh, that is depressing. Hits close to home for me, especially over this past year. No wonder FA thought I sounded like him at my most glum.

16 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

The Augury album "Fragmentary Evidence" is really, really good, if you're in the mood for tech death with melody. I'd recommend that before Spasme, honestly.

I probably interpreted these lyrics as being more avowedly anti-theist when last I read them years ago. I can appreciate them as being a little more nuanced now, so...making my way through the album. I do like this bass.

I was listening to South African band Mezzanine Floor earlier and found them lacking, not really a surprise. Interesting idea though, something like a blend of Alchemist with Pantera. Vocals were pretty good, but the guitars and production needed work since the former sounded lazy and the latter was limp-wristed with the drums sounding particularly weak and softened. I don't know what it is about bands from poorer countries and their aversion to palm muting, but it really ruins a lot of the music for me.