RelentlessOblivion

Thergothon - Stream From the Heavens

Rush - Moving Pictures

I’ll tend to buy things when I can afford them, they at the moment I’ve got no space for physical media so if something isn’t available digitally, I’ll try and support the artist in other ways buying merch etc

well, it would seem my prayers to the metal gods have been answered, Hellhammer and Eyehategod both visiting my neck of the woods in just a few short months

Invocation Spells - Spread Cruelty in the Abyss (2018)

2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Not me. As long as they are not enhancing performance then the silly buggers should be able to take what they like - just like the rest of us silly buggers.

Often, if it is in your system on the game day, or you are still affected by the drug, to some extent, it actually is performance enhancing. The previously mentioned Essendon incident really should have had far more extreme consequences, considering it was the club forcing players to use or lose their place on the list. The consequences of having a system designed to protect players and ensure those who speak out/seek help to deal with their addiction. Issues are condemned, and let’s be under now illusions that is exactly what would have been happening, is appalling. It honestly makes me yearn full the early 2000s when I was a naive, kid blissfully, unaware of just how problematic the AFL’s policies were, and are even when compared with other sporting codes approaches to off field issues.

I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but, only fellow Australians will get this once again by the way, Eddie Maguire is right. It isn’t mandatory to play football, but it should be mandatory to play football drug free. 

it will depend on the sports integrity Australia investigation I think, you can’t get away with blatantly avoiding anti-doping measures for 20 years without some serious consequences.

well, with any luck, this will be the straw that breaks the camels back, surely federal and state governments now have a valid reason to terminate any, and all funding for the AFL as a starting point, and if it turns out that rugby, soccer, and cricket have similar problems at the top level which is probably the case that we can stop funding those two. 

Oh boy what a doozy of a news story. Think I might need to convert to NRL after the recent revelations about the AFL. Non-Australians, feel free to skip over this post by the way, so apparently the AFL, in an effort to circumvent what is now sports integrity Australia, had a policy of club doctors, hiding a players illicit drug use by inventing injuries prior to game day, so a player who would otherwise fail their drug test Could get off scot-free. Also, they wouldn’t even get a strike against them for the AFL illicit drugs policy. now first and foremost by the sounds of it that had been going on for at least 10 years, and because of the AFL’s illicit drugs policy club. Doctors weren’t allowed to tell any other officials at the clubs that a player was using drugs, I can only imagine how many players have ongoing issues rather than being referred to programs which could help them kick the habit, they were given the green light to use as much as they wanted consequence, free and the doctor would get them out of any potential trouble. I know lead has had plenty of problems with player behaviour before,  but I don’t think they’ve ever had a competition wide conspiracy to protect players from the consequences of illicit drug use before.  

Bathory - Nordland I

With my vision gaming of the non-board/card/tabletop variety eludes me. I may be GMing a D&D campaign for my youngest bro and his friends soon though.

…and yet, somehow he thinks one in three black metal bands. Have stupider names then fuckiyet, somehow he thinks one in three black metal bands have stupider names then fucking Lawnmowerdeth? I think his advanced age is catching up with him…

I think his advanced age is catching up with him.…

NP: Blood Duster - C*ntng

1 hour ago, markm said:

Trying to keep up a bit more this year, going through some of the usual blogs to see what's what. I do tend to go for the anointed ones or at least albums with some 'net momentum rather than random searching through the wilderness. Streaming  a tiny fraction the continual steamroll of releases looking for gold is pretty hit and miss with me, but this week finding some promise:

Dodsrit -Nocturnal Will-Big fan of these guys-simple but effective melodic black metal, doom influence and crust punk-Today, the entire album was available to stream-I tend to be over enthusiastic about stuff I like, so it would be a mistake for me to beat my chest with AOTY claims before more time spent. I'd need to go back and really compare but have a sense this album sacrifices a wee tad of crust aggression for melodic black with flirtations with post metal, but when these guys hit their stride, it's jaw dropping. This feels pretty great.

Spectral Voice/Sparagmos-somehow missed their debut-but this strokes my soft spot for doom death or death doom as the case may be with gnarly atmosphere and I absolutely am a atmos guy...maybe one dimensional, not sure yet

 Early Moods/A Sinner's Past-traditional old school doom basically, done reasonably well, less enthusiastic about this one as I listen to much more hard doom today than Pentagram, and modern clean doom is oft to mamsy pamsy for me, but  doom in various presentations is absolutely one of my favorite genres and this deserves another listen or two. 

i’m in a similar boat, trying to stay on top of new releases this year, unfortunately, one of the sources I was using is now permabanned from YT which doesn’t help.

NP: Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

1 hour ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

In general I agree. There are cases though, where curiosity gets the best of me and I end up finding out I was really trying to get at an album or artist from the wrong mindset or just happened to have some negative associations with them that I'd allowed to cloud my listening. It doesn't happen super often, but it does happen. I just wish whoever's managing that tiny little office in my brain would email me a memo or something when they decide to change their position like that.

NP: Drowned - Idola Specus

▶︎ Idola Specus | Drowned (bandcamp.com)

Archive keyword roulette again today. This one's a little odd. Coming out of Berlin with a string of shorter demos and singles, they supposedly formed in '92, but didn't record a full length until this album came out in 2014. The members seem like some of the same people from the demos, but they're abbreviated is such a way that I don't know who's an original member and who isn't. It would certainly be difficult to have the same exact people together for an album over twenty years later, but who knows. Stranger things have happened.

That doesn’t tend to happen to me often, with bands, especially these days, though I can say, the opposite happens quite frequently, Benz are used to spin all the time become artists I’d sooner not listen to at all. However, there’s been a number of times where the right band has helped me click with a genre. Sludge immediately springs to mind, for years, I couldn’t tolerate anything which came with that tag. Then I stumbled across Crowbar and things started to make more sense. 

Fair enough, they certainly aren’t everyone’s cup of coffee that’s for sure.

NP: Ulver - Bergtat

I feel compelled to say Bethlehem post Dictius te Nactane is unlistenable garbage, but that and the debut Dark Metal work for me.

NP: Moon Incarnate - Hymns to the Moon (2024) [Germany]

This, at times, sounds like it could be a My Dying Bride album. That’s not a bad thing, certainly it’s not as derivative as many other MDB clones, this is for the most part, just fine, i’d probably listen to it again. The issue is it ends up sounding too much like MDB, I get the feeling that if I were to play this immediately, after one of their records I’d think it was the same band. There’s also some weird flourishes in places that I found very distracting, took me right out of the music

Curse the Australian time zone, I missed a whole Black Metal discussion… Again. So okay I’m much too lazy to go back and multi quote instead I’ll pull my usual trick
1. For our fine French fiend when it comes to Bathory you’re almost certainly better off ignoring everything they did between Twilight of the Gods and Nordland.

2. Beherit’s raw, and filthy debut is slightly underrated in my view, and Drawing Down the Moon is to my ears, at least quite excellent.

3. To each their own but much like the old goat, I have very little tolerance for symphonic BM, especially if it’s driving the sound rather than being a background feature. I can barely tolerate keys in Doom Metal and I think they bring more to the table in that regard.

4. Plenty of killer BM has dropped in the last decade, I’m a little surprised, the old man left Inquisition from his list, unless my admittedly, barely working eyes deceive me.

NP: Inquisition - Black Mass for a Mass Grave

Lost Off-roading Across Denver

ABLE

Slaughter in the Vatican was cool, ranks among my top, 50 thrash albums, but outside of that Exhorder do nothing for me.

NP: Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

i’m learning When Cannons Fade currently, mostly because I thought slowing it down to play a dummy version would be a good idea

1 hour ago, JonoBlade said:

Oof. You're gonna hate me (as if, you are incapable of hate in your heart), that Crowbar played at the same local pub where I saw Verminthrone last Monday and I didn't go! I was keen to see the local opening band Abraxian but, since I don't know Crowbar at all, the ticket price was just a little too much to be worth it.

Kind of regret it, but I'll get over it.

Crowbar’s particular blend of sludge may not appeal anyway, but damn kind of jealous that you even had the choice to see them or not, metal shows a few and far between in my neck of the woods, and quite often those that do make. It are certainly not worth attending.

Crowbar - Time Heals Nothing

My friend there is very little that goes on here I take seriously,

that’s the funny thing about taste, though isn’t it? Not only does our own shift overtime, but it will be completely unique to the taste of those around us, thus we will view what is and isn’t filler on an album differently. I.e I consider My Dying Bride’s Feel the Misery to be entirely filler, with the exception of, and my father left forever, while I happen to know a former user here regarded that record as among their best work.

I think you’ll find in the land of the blind it’s the one with the longest cane who rules the proverbial roost, mostly by virtue of tripping over the least shit…

the proverbial roost, mostly by virtue of tripping over the least shit…

Also, all us headbangers more than a little bit crazy? I know I am.

I had a third point, but I forgotten what it was going to be. Probably something as equally unfunny as the first so perhaps it is best forgotten…

NP: Sadistik Exekution - We Are Death, Fukk You

I tend to go through phases where I will, either very much care about the lyrics of a band, or not care at all what that screening about. As I’m currently starting to write lyrics for my own project I imagine I’m about to enter the phase where I care once again.I tend to go through phases where I will, either very much care about the lyrics of a band, or not care at all what that screening about. As I’m currently starting to write lyrics for my own project I imagine I’m about to enter the phase where I care once again.

NP: Type O Negative - Slow, Deep, & Hard

12 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I can't speak for anyone else, but I can tell you that my tastes have changed and evolved quite a bit over the years. You don't think they ever will, and you don't always notice while it's happening because it' tends to be quite gradual. But looking back from here I can see that I've covered a lot of ground since I first became aware of rock guitar music and discovered bands like Zeppelin and Sabbath in the early 70's. It's only been the last 20 years that I've been listening to extreme black & death metal, which means that for the first 42 years of my life I must have been listening to something else. It was still hard rock, punk and metal, but it wasn't anything more extreme than thrash or hardcore until 2004.

You're still pretty young yet Blivvington, so you'll probably have a few more major shifts in your musical taste to look forward to in the years to come. I know it's hard to imagine now how there will be new genres of music you'll be listening to one day that haven't even been as much as dreamt of yet. But there will be.

Now there are some people who don't do what we do, and will just find some shit they like in their youth and then basically just stick with that forever. We all know people like this. I don't understand these people, I can't relate to that mindset because the search for new music has been a constant in my life. If I couldn't have access to streams of new music I'd probably stop listening to any music at all after awhile, or at least I'd lose all my enthusiasm for music listening just from the sheer boredom of listening to the same group of stale albums over and over again ad infinitum.

That's kinda what happened to me in the 90's when I was on the road and working a lot, and I'd had a child, and I wasn't going to any shows or finding any new music except for the few things I managed to get from the mainstream. Looking back it was pretty terrible, I'd never want to go back to that decade when I was in my 30's and had completely lost track of what the fuck was going on in the world of metal. The only good thing that came out of that period was that my tastes changed drastically when I came out the other side and got back down to the business of hunting for new music and quickly realized that the entire metal world had gone extreme on me while I wasn't paying attention. So after 15 years of being asleep at the wheel running on autopilot, I had 15 years of catching up to do all at once in the mid 2000's which was pretty exciting.

I don’t know what those new genres will be, but I’m sure something will come along. Honestly, the hunt for new music is almost an addiction for me, especially now that I have the means to discover and buy new albums again. Come to think of it. I have the same attitude towards food and whiskey, by stick with the same old reliable when there’s so many things out there to try. That being said, I can’t wait for the new Ulcerate to drop.

NP: Hades - Again Shall Be