FatherAlabaster

Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab

Really putting the "somewhat" in "somewhat raw"

Oy, Devin Townsend. I still think City is the best thing he did. I used to like Ocean Machine, Physicist, and I thought the self-titled SYL and The New Black were pretty cool. That's all the Hevvy Devvy I need in my life.

Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis

Akercocke - Antichrist ...this has long been my least favorite album by one of my most favorite bands. Listening again at the behest of the bassist I've been jamming with. Maybe I'll like it this time!

Fucks sake man, have some decorum.

If you are looking for Rammstein-alikes, the style you're looking for is called Neue Deutsche Härte. You might enjoy Megaherz: Oomph: Eisbrecher: I never got too into these or other NDH bands because they all sound too close to Rammstein to be anything other than ripoffs. But the style is poppy and formulaic no matter what, and I guess being ripoffs doesn't stop them from still writing good songs if this is the kind of thing you're looking for. I could imagine myself having a playlist of this kind of stuff in the background if I'm, I dunno, cleaning out the basement or something.

Circle Of Ouroborus - Autuala

Yup, it's totally subjective. I like Rammstein but I definitely don't get any kind of out-of-body transcendent vibes from them, it's just simple fun music.

What do you think of this one? I'm really proud of that cover painting... and I think they did a great job on the music too Apparently that album and cover are getting a spot in Heavy Music Artwork's 2023 book, which is super cool.

Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab Forhist - s/t ...yeah ok, it's "not a Blut Aus Nord album", whatever

Abigor - Time Is The Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint

Creature - Eloge de l'Ombre Crimson Moon - Oneironaut Abigor - Totschläger

This was basically the goal of my post too But yeah, no, I doubt I'll be any more thrilled by your favorites than you would be by mine. I do listen to the stuff you put up sometimes and I'll probably like your blurbs even if the albums all sound like different shades of the same color of paint.

Says the guy who hasn't posted doodley squat yet. "Credibility" my foot.

They were phenomenal. The Conductor's Departure is the one I play the most. I guess the melodies drew me in. But as far as cool ideas per minute, Under A Stone really goes hard. And the mix is better too, less pushed mids, more natural sounding. I wonder just how great that supposedly finished but unreleased last album is. NP: Abigor - Opus IV I guess tonight's playlist has been brought to me by the letter "A".

Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription

Anachronism - Meanders

He doesn't even need corpse paint, he was born for this.

Why does it matter? Wouldn't it be cool if a friendship opened you up to something you wouldn't have considered otherwise?

Well said, both from you and @MacabreEternal. I want to clear a point up with you though. The issue wasn't that I or the other mods were personally offended by your post, or Dead's posts or whoever. We let a lot of "objectionable" stuff stay up as long as it's part of a reasonable discussion people are having in good faith. Most everybody here has never and will never get a PM or a warning from us. But sometimes we have to use our judgement about it, and there's some stuff we just can't have on the forum. It's not about our personal feelings; we also have to think about everyone who comes through, even if they're just a lurker looking for a song they used to like or someone dipping their toes into a metal community for the first time, and we've got to do that considering the overall goals the owner has for the place. I don't expect all of you to have those considerations in mind every time you post, but it's part of the job for us. Kicking out a longstanding member of your Metal-Fi group was not something we decided lightly or quickly. Macabre and Relentless have already said their piece about it and I agree with both of them, but here's mine. Dead would still be here if he could have left the violent rhetoric and bigoted comments out of his posts. He posted a bunch of other annoying crap and had a bunch of doubtless fun and fulfilling arguments on the back of it, and nobody handed him infractions over it. If he cared enough about talking with you guys, he could have swallowed a small amount of his pride, left the anti-Asian/anti-Aboriginal comments and "we need a society where everyone who doesn't follow my rules gets executed" bullshit at the door, and he'd still be here telling us all about how metal has lost its teeth and needs gatekeepers while posting Lamb Of God albums. All I asked him to do was edit himself. He was more interested in pushing to see how much he could get away with. He's not the first person to do this here and he doubtless won't be the last. I'm sorry for you guys that feel like you lost a friend but he wore out his welcome fair and square.

Considering how many months this year I spent out of the loop and how few albums I've heard, a list of the ones that I happened to like enough to get sucked into and play all the time for a while would be utterly meaningless, so here it is. Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2/The Kinetic Infinite Enslaved - Heimdal Afterbirth - In But Not Of Fen - Monuments To Absence _____ Some albums I liked enough to save or buy that I want to spend more time with: Anachronism - Meanders Sól Án Varma - s/t Slidhr - White Hart! культура курения - Полночь в Новосибирске Acausal Intrusion - Panpsychism Baring Teeth - The Path Narrows Jute Gyte - Unus Mundus Patet Furia - Huta Luna Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations EP _____ In another year filled with the usual soul-sucking try-hard genre retreads getting pumped up by clickbait websites staffed by rootless hacks who think a few years of experience with their own personal touchstones gives them special insight into some objective truth about the quality of new releases, the above albums, along with some others I'm doubtless forgetting, gave me a modicum of hope. Most of this is white on white, and I thought the forum wasn't loading it, but once I highlighted it to read, cool beans.

Furia - Nocel ...for some reason, listening to "Huta Luna" brought home how good this album is. Took me a while to come around to it when it came out, and I never really loved it, but now I'm hooked.

Furia - Martwa Polska Jesien Furia - Nocel

Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis