FatherAlabaster

Welcome to the forum. Good Pilsner is a real treat. I don't know a ton of metal bands from the Czech Republic but the few that I've heard seem to be weird and unique. 

Welcome to the forum. Now @thrashinbiker will have some company when he goes on about motorcycles. Cool.

59 minutes ago, markm said:

Krallice/Mass Cathexis

Which one? I still haven't really gotten into the first one.

Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega

Christmas is "over", eh? And here I just got the roast in the oven.

We're fucking sick again for the holiday this year. I thought I had avoided the plague until I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like I had swallowed a razor blade. Oh well. Kids are gross, doctors' offices are gross. We're caught in the middle.

Evoken - Embrace The Emptiness

14 minutes ago, markm said:

I really haven't listened to them since their first self titled album which I never really took to. I think I heard the next couple of albums and just wasn't my thing.  Time to give them another shot: NP Krallice/Porous Resonance Avyss.

The newest one is Mass Cathexis 2. Really good. Best on headphones for me, following their guitar parts is an immersive experience. Their last several albums have been hit or miss, some of them needed more time in the oven. 

NP: Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Worlds Within   ...layers and layers of cello. Just cello, with effects. This is nice, soothing, hypnotic. Maybe Mark, Thatguy, Navy, or Macabre... maybe nobody. 

https://raphaelweinroth-browne.bandcamp.com/album/worlds-within

19 minutes ago, Arioch said:

What do you think of this extract?

Some cool guitar parts, boring songwriting, annoying vocals. I couldn't listen to a whole album that sounded like this.

37 minutes ago, markm said:

Enslaved/Heimdal-worth a listen but their hey day is over for me sadly. 

Isole/Anesidora -saw some love for this so called "epic doom" -super clean, pristine melodic doom. Vox remind me of power metal. Just OK. Too shiny even for me.

Heimdal was a grower for me. Had to reserve judgement for a few listens and take it on some walks in the woods. I really like it now. 

I haven't heard the new Isole but I didn't really connect with any of their albums aside from Bliss Of Solitude. You might dig that one if you haven't heard it. 

40 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions

 

Hmm I’m torn on this one. It’s fine but I have come to expect better from one of my favourite modern death metal bands.

It's weird because it does all the things and it seems like it should work, but I just felt kinda meh about it and didn't even make it to the end. 

22 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Культура Курения (Smoking Culture) - Полночь В Новосибирске (Midnight In Novosibirsk) Russian post-punk, post-black something or other. Alright I'll have a go at this one. The cover is a bit disturbing. Music sounds a little something like Circle of Orobouros to me. It's not terrible. Then the second track started. This really is post-punk. Now I'll have to listen to the rest of it just to see where it goes from here. I'm waiting for the screamy Russian dude to bust into a chorus of: I'll stop the world and melt with you.

 

 

You might like their album Некрофилия more, but it's all along the same lines. Sad rock/post black metal with anguished Russian vocals. I like this band a lot. Thankfully no goddamn clean vocals.

https://kulturakureniya.bandcamp.com/album/-

культура курения - Полночь в Новосибирске  

Furia - Huta Luna

Afterbirth - In But Not Of  ...best thing they've done maybe? Love it.

Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions   ...I dunno. I like this band and this is all well-done and stuff, but it feels like a bit of a chore to get through right now.

Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2

Just now, thrashinbiker said:

Bourbon is a good thing my man!  I am on the beer (now finished) and the raspberry vodka.  Fuck man, I am rather drunk, I admit.

I love good beer so much. Been a few weeks. My stomach doesn't agree with my positive take on beer anymore, and some parts of my brain are voting with my stomach to discontinue. It hurts, but I'm giving them a chance to make their point. I figure a glass of whiskey every week or so might be enough to keep all parties at a detente.

Bulleit bourbon and soda. I liked their rye, never really loved their bourbon, but with a bit of soda water it goes down fine. 

Ivar Bjørnson and Einar Selvik - Hugsjá

4 hours ago, thrashinbiker said:

@FatherAlabaster I am getting to yours once I've done the third and final recommendation by GG.  

No worries man, those albums have all been there for at least 36 years, they can wait.

NP:

Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

Anachronism - Meanders

Slidhr - White Hart!

21 minutes ago, trogne said:

Oh, I thought Entombed was the father of Gothenburg death metal

They were from Stockholm. Home of Sunlight Studios, the classic "Swedish death metal" sound.

No idea about your album, sorry.

Katatonia - Dead End Kings

Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts

Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

14 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

How can one be "missing out" on something they know they don't like? I listened to about half of the disharmonic album in question and it wasn't accessible or straightforward enough for me. Very much like Jute Gyte, which I don't even have to sample to know it's rubbish (to me). I'm aware that to a bunch of you guys "straightforward" is generally seen as a negative, but for me it's a huge positive. I did truly fall in love with Hallucinogen, by far my favorite of their albums. The retro 80's style leadwork and the buried vox were perfect for me. They have several other records I'll play from time to time, but the new one didn't do anything at all for me, I couldn't even get through it. With a name like Disharmonium I wasn't expectig much anyway. I won't disparage it or anything because you guys obviously like it a lot, but I can assure you I'm certainly not "missing out" on anything. "Missing out" would be like if Archgoat dropped a new full length and I somehow missed hearing about it.

"Missing out" because I think there's a lot in there you'd actually like. More so than the last one. But I'm also saying it to needle you (in good fun) for your intransigent tastelessness, ya buffoon.

8 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

It didn't engage me at all.

And how could it have... there's nothing much there. 

15 hours ago, markm said:

First of all, thank you for inspiring me to give it a good listen-the it being BAN's masterful album -Disharmonium - Nahab, which I set about to digging into today and let just say-I LOVE THIS FUCKING ALBUM. Phew, glad I got that off my chest. 

So, I managed to avoid the hipster, I mean the  hamster wheel for 11 out of the last 12 months and I am officially back to the MarkM metal immersion program looking for the best metals available over the past year. 

One of my missions is to find the indispensable death metal albums of the year. I have determined that proggy or not, I think the new virtuosic and inventive and infectious Horrendous and the very cavernous  Phobocosm album that is indeed plodding, but I believe also has rewards waiting for me to mine will surely make Mark's 23 deathy list.  Today I also spent time with Outer Heaven and I have decided that this will also help round out the slightly more technical but brutal uber DM heavy lifters for me. 

On the noise front, Khanate whom I may revisit at some point is a no as I said yesterday, but the rather hyped Body Void/Atrocity Machine gets a yeah baby from me for horrific, torrential nihilistic pain. The first music association I had was sludge like Indian/From All Purity and Primitive Man. Shoot, maybe something like Extreme Noise Terror. This is music to slit your throat to. It's noise doom with piercing atmosphere that also make me think of the super heavy post metal band LLNN. Anyway, I'm not sure I really need this in my life, but I get why it's getting plugged in a lot of lists right now. The screamer in this band is really, really suffering unfathomable pain or he deserves an Oscar nomination. 

But back to Disharmonium - Nahab, I didn't love Hallucinogen. I mean, it wasn't a bad album per se and I might have been enthusiastic had it  been recorded by by mere mortals, but for BAN it was too melodic and approachable somehow, at least for these ears. Really, is there a shortage of star struck atmoblack bands out there?!

Conversely, while I learned to love Disharmonium part 1, it was so swampy, and thick and dense , it made me work harder than usual to penetrate the BAN goo, and hey, that could be a good thing.

All that said, Disharmonium - Nahab  Agonal Hymns, one listen in, is probably my favorite -time will tell- since the 777 trilogy back in 2011-12. I'm hearing reverberations from their early Works which Transform God industrial era with some very inventive shit going on. After the first track which sounded much like part 1, I was impressed with the range of inventive hellscapes. In fact, I'm reminded of my wife telling me when I first bought TWwTG, that I was listening to pyscho serial killer music which, you must admit, when done inventively is sort of an amazing compliment.

F.A., hang on for a minute. The noises coming from my basement or so annoying. SHUT UP DOWN THERE! I can't seem to find my Hannibal Lecter mask at the moment, and the blood is ridiculous to clean properly. Torture really isn't all that it's cracked up to be. 

OK, back....just had to take care of something. Anyway, doing a little research, I found Stereogum has a list of obscure "best metal of of the year" that I'm checking out, much of it experimental, challenging, or tangentially metal. I only recognize two names-one being Jute Gyte. And you'll never guess their album pick for #1.....apparently you have impeccable taste....

https://www.stereogum.com/2245459/the-10-best-metal-albums-of-2023/columns/the-black-market/  

I really enjoy this post. Cheers.

I'm happy to hear the vocals more prominent on a BAN album again. I would probably feel more connected to the last couple if the vocals were more prominent. And I love the melodies scattered throughout. 

Also happy to see this list from Stereogum, thanks. I didn't know Anachronism had a new one out. I'm listening now and it kicks ass. I really liked "Orogeny" but this one is grabbing me more off the bat. You might dig them too, if you're looking for DM that isn't plodding. Three others I recognize and descriptions that have me interested in some others. I've been slowly getting back into tolerating new music over the past several months. I guess the whirlwind of moving over the summer threw me for a loop. It's been weird to be this disengaged from listening to stuff for this long. Glad I'm coming back around. It helps having better stuff to listen to.

Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Nahab  ...phenom. Goatmaster is missing out. That's ok though.

Jute Gyte - Unus Mundus Patet   ...some truly gripping stuff and some that I need to come back to. 

Khanate - To Be Cruel  ...honestly I was hoping for something more extreme than this. The music is, dare I say, kinda boring. Not quite a soundscape, not hearing riffs either. Vocals hit me as a little contrived. Give me real riffs and Edgy 59 on vocals. 

Anachronism - Meanders  ...man this is good. 

23 minutes ago, thrashinbiker said:

 

I enjoyed Bathory, I really did.  If you would be kind enough to provide any recommendations, FA, I will promise to give them a try.  It's an area of metal I know zilch about, really.  I can always post my thoughts, too, if they would be welcome.

For you, more Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark:

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion:

Sarcofago - INRI:

Mayhem - Deathcrush:

NWOBHM classics all.

Don't listen to this clown, embrace the grimness. You're nearly there! You were already listening to Bathory earlier... two more Bathory albums and it's permanent.

Protector - Golem