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The Infernal Sea have been announced for the New Blood Stage. SUPERB band! Check them out if you haven't already

Recent purchases for me include: Finntroll - "Blodsvept" Sabaton - "The Art of War" Ex Deo - "Caligvla" Panopticon - "Social Disservicies" Panopticon - "Collapse" Panopticon - "Panopticon" Panopticon - "On the Subject of Mortality" Panopticon - "Kentucky" Cryptik Howling - "Them" Cryptik Howling - "Vitium Intus" ... and I pre-ordered Cryptik Howling's "Synthetic Ascension Design". The Panopticon stuff is amazing! I wrote a review of "Kentucky". I'd be happy to share the link if anyone is interested.

According to my Last.fm, my top 5 bands for this week are: 1. Finntroll 2. Eastern Front 3. Theudho 4. Frostwork 5. De Profundis Obviously, this changes week by week.

Apologies for the double post... but... I'm seriously hooked on the new album. It's ridiculously good!

Ummm... maybe "Ordinance" by Secrets of the Moon.

I'm looking forward to getting the debut EP from Sidious. Just been listening to the stream on ZT Mag's site and it sounds great. Just my cuppa tea!

I'll give it a go!

Finntroll - "Skogsdotter"

I got the album yesterday - I love it already. Not a grower like "Nifelvind" (although I now also love that album). Roll on May when I can see them! Keep of Kalessin are supporting as well - it's going to be fantastic!

I do a bit.... I took part in Nanowrimo in 2011 - that was a lot of fun (although no-one will EVER read that novel!). I'd like to actually write a novel someday and get it published, but it's difficult to get started. Do you write? Can you give me any tips?

Hey Deb, welcome to the site! I'm a newbie too

Great to meet you!

I get what you're saying, but I'd still say it was theft to a degree. I think we need to rethink these terms when discussing digital media, as they no longer refer physical products. On a personal note, if I created an album and someone illegally downloaded it, I'd feel like it was theft. What about you? Alternatively, we could use the 'piracy' word. Although it does make me think of actual pirates...

I agree completely. Well, aside from the Watain comment - haha! If a band works hard and remains true to their sound, then I'm happy for them to achieve some sort of commercial success.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]459[/ATTACH] I hated "Illud...", but I don't think Morbid Angel should die because they created it. Saying that Darkthrone 'should die' because they've created music that is not to your tastes is a little OTT.

I'm a MASSIVE Finntroll fan. (I also love Moonsorrow too - I thought I'd mention that since I noticed someone had mentioned them earlier in the thread). I found that "Nifelvind" was difficult to get into at first, but it's definitely a grower. I've got high hopes for the new album and I'm seeing them live again in May. Woo hoo!

I think if "Taake" had have been released by anyone else, it would have been adored - the fact is that Hoest has just set the bar too high for himself! lol It's definitely going to be hard to top the first three albums. Now that the 'best of' album (I guess it's a best of!) has been released, I wonder if Taake are going to take a slightly different direction. It does feel like they're drawing a line under what's been released so far. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

Ok, I've just had a quick read of this thread and I feel ready to throw in my two cents... Firstly... This...

The first 3 albums are amazing... but I've become obsessed with "Noregs Vaapen". Perhaps unhealthily so. People have gone to rehab for less.

Do you think I can think of a single song that hasn't already been mentioned? Nope. Typical! Good call on "1916" by Motorhead though - that song always gives me goosebumps whenever I listen to it. A superb piece. Although I'm not entirely sure what all of their songs are about (sadly, I haven't had the time to look up/translate the lyrics), Cor Scorpii's stuff has a wonderfully melancholic atmosphere.

Moon - "The Shining"

Oh, I agree completely.

I think the use of shit production for the sake of it is a bit rubbish. However, I do also feel that there is a time and a place for the harsher sound. Sammath recently released a demo track from their forthcoming album and I think the low-fi production gives it a really raw and uncompromising atmosphere. I think the track is going to be tidied up somewhat before its actual release, so it'll be interesting to compare the two versions when the album becomes available. Just in case you're interested, here's the track I was talking about: rlszQkcCuqY