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Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2
Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
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16 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:
After 5 or 6 listens to the new Thantifaxath I gave up trying to get under the skin of it. I think it sets its stall out too early and so I have no sense of build, just forcibly immersed into its mesmerising depths from the off. Even my best Oranssi Pazuzu, BAN and Jute Gyte listening hats cannot fathom this one.
Yeah, I hear that. My negative hot take on first listen: Exactly the sum of its parts. Some great ideas that get overused and needlessly complicated in a way that sounds forced/cerebral and misses out on emotional depth. I really like a lot of the riffs, but the rhythmic hiccups and stutters don't convince me. Less of that would have been more. There's something about it that's weirdly all surface-level, polished, not disorienting or surprising in a meaningful way. Krallice and Ad Nauseam feel authentic when they do this kind of thing; this album just feels like a "hey look, we do it too".
Having said that, I like this band and I want to enjoy their stuff. Might have been listening in the wrong mood. Maybe I'll warm up to it.
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49 minutes ago, Thatguy said:
Yeah, baby.
Yeah baby indeed. I liked the synth parts you didn't on Crystalline Exhaustion but it's thrilling to hear them get back to this kind of stuff.
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16 minutes ago, markm said:
I'm OK with plodding DM 🙃 I liked Bringer Drought. Are you down with the Thantifaxath album? It's going to be a '23 arty black avant darling. I listened to a couple of tracks on the way into work this morning. Not super feeling it tho.
I hadn't listened to it yet. Thanks for the reminder. I just put it on. Seems to get more interesting as it goes on, definitely worth coming back for a second listen, but I'm not sure how much of this I need in my diet right now.
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4 minutes ago, markm said:
Too straightforward?
Yup. Felt like it was plodding, I wanted the songs to do more than they did.
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Hope their AC works!
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43 minutes ago, markm said:
I'm looking forward to the new Phobocosm. What do you think?
I don't think it's for me. Cool riffs and enjoyable drumming, though.
NP: Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2
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Phobocosm - Foreordained
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No duplicate threads please. Closing this. Don't worry, people will see your OP in the death metal section.
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Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror ...argh, these vocals are killing me. I can't.
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12 hours ago, agamerwholovesmetal said:
if you haven't already I highly recommend reading the original novel by Michel Crichton Its just as good as the movie in my opinion.
I liked Michael Crichton's books a lot when I was younger. Sphere was the first one I read. I feel like his older books hold up better and his newer ones just feel like retreads of the same schtick, but maybe that's just because I happened to read the older ones first.
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The first October Tide (Rain Without End) is really good if you like the older Katatonia stuff. Second one (Grey Dawn) is good too but feels a little more polished and less interesting to me. I don't know if it'll appeal to you. But honestly, I've never come across an album that really sounds like Orchid. Unique and one of my favorites. I like everything from Opeth until Watershed but there was a bit of magic in that early sound that they lost afterwards. It also took me a while to come around to some of their later albums, so who knows, you may find yourself warming up to something unexpected.
Rain Without End:
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42 minutes ago, JonoBlade said:
Oof. I can't be doing with anything remotely "reality TV". Is Noel Fielding still doing that? Jeez, how the mighty have fallen. The Mighty Boosh was one of those beloved cult comedy shows that I really liked at the time.
It's the only show along those lines that I can watch. I hate every other one I've seen and I can't be in the room for more than a couple minutes if they're on. I don't know why I like it. Maybe the format just corrupted my brain while I was vulnerable during Covid lockdown.
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3 minutes ago, JonoBlade said:
I don't think I've ever had a family tradition at Christmas. Other than the usual. We certainly never watched a particular movie. Don't think I've ever seen It's a Wonderful Life.
Same. Although we watched one of those horrible Netflix Christmas movies a couple years in a row because my son actually liked it. He is way too cool for that now.
We're rewatching Schitt's Creek and we just finished the latest season of the Great British Baking Show (Bake Off). Silly fluff to unwind. We took our son's personal screen time away for being a dingus, so now he's getting his jollies by watching the Bake Off with us, or hate-watching Peppa Pig and Blue's Clues while the little girl enjoys them. It's weird. I wouldn't be doing any of this if I was spending the evening by myself.
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3 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:
Murphy’s law strikes again, in a case of everything going wrong at the worst possible time now the AC has blown. It can’t be repaired and the quote to replace. It is running at about $2000, fan fucking Tastic…
That's "fan" tastic for sure.
I don't remember now how much we've put into our cars since we moved in June but it's probably over $3000. Next time something breaks it'll have to stay broken for a while. We're tapped out.
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Cryfemal - Apoteosis Oculta
Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
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24 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:
What's with the no more posting of pictures? Is this 24.208 Kb file size limit a new thing, and if so, why? It's gonna suck here without any pictures. Think of poor Serpico, that's all he ever posts are pictures of album covers so now he can't.
12 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:Edit: I think there was some chatter here a year or so back about uploading images and that you may need to delete old images because each person is only able to store a certain amount of images.
Yup, this is correct. As far as I know the amount of space for hosting images directly on the forum is still very small. Links to images on other sites should embed automatically, just make sure it's the link to the actual image and not just a page with the image on it (usually ends in .jpg, etc).
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29 minutes ago, Dead1 said:
Just one question then regarding "incendiary shit" - the future habitability of this planet is about as incendiary as you can get especially as one chunk of the planet believes it's a grim life or death situation and the other half believes it's all fine and business as usual.
Or homelessness or decaying education systems or domestic violence or lack of access to healthcare or whatever other decay and rot is setting in? How are these not incendiary issues?
How do you talk about this kind of the stuff in a non-incendiary way?
I guess I need to learn to ignore it. Stop writing letters to politicians, stop signing petitions, stop posting here and anywhere else.
As Nevermore sang in This Godless Endeavour:
Consume, Conform.
This are only real values of our western society, including this forum. Everything else is just pointless virtue signalling.
You can ban me now.
Ah don't be a martyr. Just stop posting calls for an authoritarian government takeover and mass executions, for starters. That kind of stuff is not and has never been acceptable here. You know this.
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4 minutes ago, Dead1 said:
Hang on, the thread's initial OP specifically mentioned politics, music, wars, whatever (see below quote from way back in 2011).
You can't have a "hey talk about whatever the fuck you like" thread and then ban shit you don't like or don't agree with. After all it's a much wider world of opinions than MSM "We don't likez Trumpz so that's cool to talk about but anything else topical is not allowed."
You might want to close this thread down then and state somewhere that no politics or sociology or economics or crime or environmental discussion is allowed. Then it's explicitly verboten and I can stick to talking about 1980s thrash and death.
I'm not asking everyone to stop posting about all politics forever. I'm specifically asking you, Dead1, to stop posting incendiary shit. I've asked you before. I'm asking again. Use your common sense. You've been here what, 2 years? I know you know how to restrain yourself. I understand that you like posting incendiary shit and don't get to do it on your real-name accounts, but we don't want it here.
If that's too loosey goosey and not authoritarian enough for you, and you can't post about (say) the environment or Australian politics without calling for (say) mass incarceration and execution, then by all means, consider politics off limits for yourself and talk about 1980s thrash and death metal. Stop being a problem. You know what I mean. We've let a lot of stuff slide and it's mostly been ok. It would make me personally super happy if you'd just chill the hell out and talk about music without going on your rants. I don't enjoy this part of the job and I don't want to can you.
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37 minutes ago, Dead1 said:
An interesting graph that shows the only time emissions stop and fall is during catastrophes and economic collapses.
The only problem is none of them permanently reduce emissions which indicates something more radical and permanent is required.
Australia's class rooms some of the most disruptive in the OECD.
No surprises
That's because:
A. Australians are entitled
B. They raise their kids without discipline and ensure they're entitled.
C. Australians spoil their kids.
D. Australian parents look to blame everyone else for their worthless little spawn's shitty behaviour - it's the school's fault or they're autistic or they've got ADHD or they have both ADHD and autistic.
I am horrified at the behaviour of other people's kids both at school but also in private sphere. Parents no
(I have tried to raise my daughter in a more disciplined fashion but my Australian wife insists on giving in. My daughter at least knows how to behave in public but she is rude as fuck at home).
Aussie prisons are cushy
My wife visited the main prison as part of her work. She was horrified at how comfortable and pleasant the place was.
Given how much prisoners complain, she was expecting the kind of brutality you see on TV. Not at all, pleasant gardens worked by the prisoners, they each got their own personal cell (that they could lock) with all the personal accoutrements of life and in remand they are allowed their own phones.
Such nice things for society's worst humans who have often committed heinous crimes against others including murder, rape etc etc.
We need a more authoritarian and draconian approach to society. Discipline needs to be reintroduced at the threat of the lash, the gun and the noose. Maybe then we can do something about the environment as consumer capitalism is destroyed.
Dead, please find a different forum to post this kind of stuff on. Keep it off this board. We're not interested in hosting it. I've asked you to stop a couple times. If you don't, I will shut down your account. I can't be any more clear than that.
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Nyktalgia - s/t
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31 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:
Oh that’s right, this thread exists… I don’t even remember what albums made my list now, or where I was up to.
Time for a trip down memory lane!
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13 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:
Tomorrow is officially the last service for me. I still can’t believe just how quickly these last few months have gone by.
What's next for you after this?
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Welcome. Moved this to the promotion forum, please keep posts related to your own band in this section.