FatherAlabaster

Nice! I love swords, though I don't anticipate ever being able to collect them. I really enjoyed the little bit of kendo I did in martial arts. Japanese swords make more practical sense to me than European ones.

Re: What's on your mind?

Re: Bullet For My Valentine It's fun to see someone who can be so consistently and confidently wrong about it. I like a lot of hardcore and hardcore-inspired music.

I can always tell you apart - you're the one with long hair, a sword, and glasses.

Appreciative of nuance.

Re: What's on your mind?

Re: Bullet For My Valentine

On my mind: professional mastering. I just got my new album back from the mastering house - Audiosiege, in Oregon. They focus on metal and their mastering prices are absolutely the best I've seen. I have some more critical listening to do on my album, but it's already pretty amazing to me what a difference this process can make. I've had one other album professionally mastered, and I recall having a similar reaction. In some ways it's like hearing a different recording. There's a lot more detail, especially in the guitars. I'm really impressed with what they were able to do... and to think I had my doubts! Some of the money that I'd wanted to use for pressing went to this, but I can honestly say it was worth every penny and then some. I've been a little burnt out on this music for a while, but it's reinvigorating to hear it this way. I'd recommend Audiosiege to any of my fellow musicians on here.

It took me years to start liking them because his voice was such a turn-off at first. I love it now, but I remember cringing when I heard Undertow for the first time and wondering why my friends were shitting themselves over it. It finally clicked for me when Ænima came out.

Re: What's on your mind? Must let the blanket dry slowly.

His really good joke was "blackcore". The one untouched corn kernel in an otherwise disgusting turd.

Yeah, I know, it's been almost a year. We should have had four or five albums by now. I'm amazed he found the time for so many.

That's happened to me a few times as well. The post does seem to go through.

Yep, couldn't agree more, I feel just awful for my small amount of complicity in deriding this obviously sincere and needy young man.

Yeah, I hear what you mean by that, but it's brand new to me and I'm really excited by it right now. It's great how open-ended this stuff is, in a way - he doesn't resolve a lot of the riffs, so you can just pick up fragments. It's inspiring me. There's some music - like Dead Congregation, for instance - that sort of puts me in this melodic box that's hard to find my way out of, a very confining feeling, whereas this is more like an open plain to me right now, if that makes sense.

Jute Gyte - Isolation This is captivating.

Yup, I live in Brooklyn. Got some friends on LI and my wife works out there.

Jute Gyte albums: Discontinuities Verstiegenheit Isolation I think I love this stuff, but I have to spend a lot more time with it. I know a few people here dig their later stuff but for me the absolute last thing they did that was worth a shit was Volcano, and I really prefer the folkier black metal sound they had on the first three recordings. I gotta plug The Shadowthrone here. That Ritual Chamber is fucking cool, too, thanks for the heads up on that.

Hey man, welcome to the forum.

Jute Gyte - Verstiegenheit This one's more solidly "black metal" - still a little odd. Not the same dissonant thing, just extended melodies and counterpoint that don't really ever resolve. Very cool. I bet BAN and Parker would like this stuff if they haven't already heard it.

Jute Gyte - Discontinuities (via bandcamp) BAN, I wonder what you'd think of this - black metal with some kind of hardcore influence. Overtly "weird", slow chromatic melodies that never resolve, all dissonance, drowned-sounding bendy clean guitars alternating with raw pummeling through distortion, screams in the vein of Dictius Te Necare if a bit less unhinged.

I think it's more that centuries of being governed by whoever felt like dropping in, with only a brief period of self-rule, and watching your language and culture be replaced, might distort some people's sense of identity.