What Are You Listening To?

[FatherAlabaster]

Spiegel String Quartet - Elarouse Interesting music. It's a musical project in which they blend Western classical music and sufi. Lovely and exotic melodies here.

Ooh, I might love that, Sufi music has always been enjoyable to me. Did you say a teacher of yours is in that, or something?

[Midi]

Ooh' date=' I might love that, Sufi music has always been enjoyable to me. Did you say a teacher of yours is in that, or something?[/quote'] Yes, he plays the cello in the Spiegel String Quartet and in another duo which is dedicated to playing works of Belgian composers unable to afford breaking through, but I forgot its name. I believe you can find one of those classical/sufi songs on Youtube under the video name 'Spiegel String Quartet'. http://www.spiegelstringquartet.com might also be interesting. I'm not sure whether it features music or not, since I'm not very familiar with the website.

[FatherAlabaster]

I found a nice piece of theirs with a Sufi musician playing some sort of plucked instrument on YouTube. Very cool. Thanks!

[Midi]

I found a nice piece of theirs with a Sufi musician playing some sort of plucked instrument on YouTube. Very cool. Thanks!

You're welcome. I'll let you know if there are any recordings of next Saturday. NP: Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came (album)

[FatherAlabaster]

My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World

You're welcome. I'll let you know if there are any recordings of next Saturday.

Cool, thanks!

[BlutAusNerd]

It all comes down to execution, right? It's unfair of me to judge the album based on the two songs I heard, but my immediate impression was that it fell victim to the same sterile production and predictable song structures that plague a lot of recordings (or make them accessible, depending on who you are). It sounded like an album that would be perfect for fans of a whole bunch of other shit that also sounds like that. NP: Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval

That was my impression of it, completely unremarkable do nothing death metal that really serves no purpose. I haven't heard the new ones, but the songs that I had heard from them before must have been quite similar. They would have sounded sterile even without the plastic production job. I agree with the vocals too, which is why I was surprised by how much better he sounded in his other band, Bereft. He's definitely the weak link, but with a much better band around him. It's kind of like doom/death meets Intronaut, if that makes sense.

[jfk36]

Triptykon- Black Snow

[Midi]

Ulver - Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell (album)

[shikawkee]

Vanir-The Glorious Dead

[FatherAlabaster]

That was my impression of it, completely unremarkable do nothing death metal that really serves no purpose. I haven't heard the new ones, but the songs that I had heard from them before must have been quite similar. They would have sounded sterile even without the plastic production job. I agree with the vocals too, which is why I was surprised by how much better he sounded in his other band, Bereft. He's definitely the weak link, but with a much better band around him. It's kind of like doom/death meets Intronaut, if that makes sense.

You recommended Bereft before, and I liked them. Going back to it, those low vocals do sound pretty strained, but it fits the music better. It's interesting to hear some of Intronaut's chord choices and odd rhythms show up in standard doom/death. It makes it more fun to pay attention.

Ulver - Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell (album)

That's definitely an acquired taste, but it's a personal favorite of mine. What do you think?

[Midi]

That's definitely an acquired taste' date=' but it's a personal favorite of mine. What do you think?[/quote'] I'm revisiting this one; I couldn't get into it the first time. It does sound more interesting now, but it's still a grower.

[FatherAlabaster]

I'm revisiting this one; I couldn't get into it the first time. It does sound more interesting now' date=' but it's still a grower.[/quote'] It takes a few listens; you've also got to be in the right mood. I was really into it when it came out, listened to it a couple of times daily for a while.

[FatherAlabaster]

Was: My Dying Bride - As The Flower Withers Now: Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer

[~Mere~]

Necrophagist - Epitaph

[MacabreEternal]

David Bowie "Low"

[GorboGorboze]

Mindrot - Dawning

[MacabreEternal]

Darkthrone "Transilvanian Hunger"

[RPA]

Black Sabbath. played: "Vol 4", "Sabotage" now playing: "Sabbath bloody Sabbath" will play: "Paranoid" The best band of all time, definitely. Just genius, what to say more? First 6 LP's just crush the rest of metal scene, without caring about being "truly metal", so many music styles, so many mighty ideas... not even single fuck was given these years. Ozz vocals on "Sabotage" - the best in his career.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I don't think there is one clear "best metal band ever" Black Sabbath were very good at a time, their music was very influential on later metal bands and they fathered a genre, but this does not make them objectively better then their contemporaries.

[GorboGorboze]

Right on RPA, but I had already started listening to Black Sabbath-Heaven And Hell before reading your post. I'd been watching a Ronnie interview. But I've been listening to the classic Sabbath albums, including the other two, pretty much daily when I drive to work.

[~Mere~]

Victims of Contagion - Parasitic Unborn EP

[MacabreEternal]

Serpents Lair - Demo MMXIV

[RPA]

I don't think there is one clear "best metal band ever" Black Sabbath were very good at a time' date=' their music was very influential on later metal bands and they fathered a genre, but this does not make them objectively better then their contemporaries.[/quote'] Remember it's only my own opinion. They were first and great from the start, recorded so many influential and full of ideas albums. Moreover, every living to this day musicians from this band are a legend now, and still play awesome gigs. What more to expect from a band? I'm pretty sure that any other musician wouldn't write riffs like these.

[BlutAusNerd]

Remember it's only my own opinion. They were first and great from the start, recorded so many influential and full of ideas albums. Moreover, every living to this day musicians from this band are a legend now, and still play awesome gigs. What more to expect from a band? I'm pretty sure that any other musician wouldn't write riffs like these.

While they haven't been without missteps along the way, they are an excellent candidate for a vote of best band ever. To have an early run of such insanely high quality, and then adapt and still release good material after their prime is all you can really ask for.

[BlutAusNerd]

Inquisition - Magnificent Glorification of Lucifer Inquisition - Ominous Doctrine of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm I feel that Magnificent was a slight misstep for the band, doing away with much of their melody and subtlety to ramp up the aggression. It's still good, but I'd missing some of what makes Inquisition so special for me. Ominous corrects this misstep in wonderful fashion, being their most varied and melodic album to date, with a production job that lets their heaviness stand up while letting their big epic melodies shine through. One of their best, don't miss it.