FatherAlabaster

Enslaved - Utgard Enslaved - E

No way, black metal and mountain country go together like maple syrup and pancakes.

Bulgarian State Radio Women's Choir - Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Vol. 1

Martyr - Feeding The Abscess

Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

Rvins ov Beverast - Rain Vpon The Impvre

Awesome band. Love these guys. They vary their sound from album to album. You gotta hear more. Memoria Vetusta III: 777 Cosmosophy: older pick - Mystical Beast Of Rebellion:

Jeff Buckley - Grace

None that I can remember. But the people I talk to about music are all fans and mostly musicians. It's nice to see you back around BTW... is kayak season coming to a close? Or do you hit it year round?

Welcome to the forum. People like what they like. My parents got me a New Kids On The Block tape when I was a kid and I even had a T-shirt for a little while. Don't tell anybody.

Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces Of Palingenesia

Love this artwork, super cool.

Somebody call this man a taxi! Glad to see ya back safe bud.

It's extra bitter to remember that the whole reason Napster and Limewire were sooooo bad is because they were "devaluing music" and everyone who used them was a bad person driving a nail into the coffin of musicians everywhere, just think about the poor musicians... but as long as you're paying some middleman $10 a month or listening to a bunch of ads, everything is fine. The only real problem is that there was all this activity happening without some tick squeezing profit out of it. Fuck spotify.

Sneap's mix is hit and miss. Neil Kernon too. Even if they don't have an actual template it sounds like they're mixing towards a particular target that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the sound the band is making. Terry Date is a good counterexample, he's got this bone-dry way of capturing exactly what a band sounds like and then presenting it in a balanced mix. The fight for full sound and clarity was still an ongoing thing in extreme metal when I was a kid, and for a while it was exciting to hear more and more bands getting the pro treatment and taking the blankets off their drum and guitar sounds, but it wore thin. Remixed Enemies Of Reality is vastly superior to the original Kelly Gray mix though.

I'd second most of this. Also the female metal musicians I've talked to have mentioned how they were often pushed towards playing more "acceptable" instruments like piano or violin, and in some cases outright forbidden (by their parents) from playing guitar or drums. Yes, I know boys also sometimes get told that they're not allowed to listen to that devil music, but none of them get steered away from it simply because they're boys and playing metal is not a boylike thing to do. Maybe there's something to the idea that metal has a special appeal to young guys navigating their way towards adulthood in the grip of testosterone, too, but that's not the whole picture.

But does this Nekkrofukk stuff shiver your timbers?

Congratulations man, happy they weren't just blowing smoke at you. Hope the job brings good things with it.

Thorn - Evergloom

The first one that always comes to mind is the last few lines of "Comfortably Numb". Even just reading the lyrics makes me choke up a bit. It's how I feel all the time. It's the lyrics that do it though, it's not the music by itself. Swans - "Why Are We Alive", specifically the version on Various Failures, because for some stupid reason they left the best part of the song out of the album version. It starts around 3:51 but if you skip the rest of the song to get there (or if you're not me) it probably won't sound too special. And skipping to the "payoff" would make you a shitty person. Nobody wants that. The part when the music kicks in more after the first verse in Rush's "Witch Hunt", around 2:17 (I bet even Goatmaster might be able to dig this song, but who knows): The chord changes behind the vocal melody that first happens about 2 minutes into Blut Aus Nord's "Henosis": The medieval choral piece "Mundus vergens" as sung by Lionheart (the vocal ensemble, not the band): "Black Rose Immortal" and "Moonlapse Vertigo" by Opeth... both have some of my favorite sections, don't need to post those. The part when Aaron says "turn loose the swans" on MDB's "Turn Loose The Swans" from the album Turn Loose The Swans: The first time Glen Benton says "once upon the cross" in the Deicide song "Once Upon The Cross" from their album Once Upon The Cross (admittedly this worked better on me when I was 16 but it still rules): This recording of the traditional Gower Wassail, I grew up with this on tape and I feel like a kid for a moment every time I hear it: (and yeah, we do already have this thread, what thread don't we have somewhere - it's called "songs that affect you" and I think it's in this section - but a new one is fine, most everybody that posted there is long gone)

I would say so. You're best off drinking the oil.

This one's for Surge

Hieronymus Bosch - The Human Abstract

No! Flawless catalog or death! One clunker is proof that everything else was a fluke! Talentless hacks! I am of course also talking about Altarage.

Before everybody piles on here, I'll say that we don't actually have a specific thread for all this stuff that's open that I can find, so give the kid a break. If you don't like the stuff, like most of us don't, fine... we get it... you have been heard. To the OP, like other people posted, you probably aren't gonna get much good feedback for this stuff here because it's not what we're into. Old Faith No More is great in my book, that's about it for me. I'll leave this one up and maybe you'll get some takers. Please stop posting a bunch of threads about it.