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3 hours ago, Weyland said:

Did you hear new album? I can't find it anywhere :(

There's 2 very recent releases on their Bandcamp from December of 2016. Are either of those the one you are talking about? One of them is called "The Awakening of an Ancient and Wicked Soul Trilogy", and the other is called "XIV".

Edit: This is a link to their latest release on their website. http://www.vulcanometal.com/index1.htm

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3 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Oddly I am listening to a selection of Meshuggah tracks on YouTube and they are starting to click with me.  Really enjoyed "Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion" and "New Millennium Cyanide Christ". Might stretch to a full album tomorrow.

Awesome, a full album might get a little bit "same-y" for you but I highly recommend "Chaosphere" and "Destroy Erase Improve". Probably said it a zillion times here already, but DEI is still their high point for me and probably offers the best combination of variety and focused songwriting.

 

NP: Osmosis - Deciduous Altars Of Obscure Liturgy - Macabre, this might appeal to your filthy-and-fuzzy death metal sensibilities - nice changes of tempo, a bit raw and dirty without being cavernous.

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12 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Awesome, a full album might get a little bit "same-y" for you but I highly recommend "Chaosphere" and "Destroy Erase Improve". Probably said it a zillion times here already, but DEI is still their high point for me and probably offers the best combination of variety and focused songwriting.

 

NP: Osmosis - Deciduous Altars Of Obscure Liturgy - Macabre, this might appeal to your filthy-and-fuzzy death metal sensibilities - nice changes of tempo, a bit raw and dirty without being cavernous.

Wasn't overly impressed with the two I heard off of "Obzen" only heard one off "DEI" ("Future Breed MAchine"??) but that wasn't for me either.

Osmosis are interesting to say the least, too tired to play more than one track now but will add them to the watchlist.

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5 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Wasn't overly impressed with the two I heard off of "Obzen" only heard one off "DEI" ("Future Breed MAchine"??) but that wasn't for me either.

Osmosis are interesting to say the least, too tired to play more than one track now but will add them to the watchlist.

I wouldn't recommend obZen, really, though it was a step up from their prior couple of releases IMO. As I say, I think you'll find some nice variety on DEI; if you're feeling "Meshuggy" you should give the whole thing a spin, it's where they found their voice as a band and they explored some things on that album that I really wish they'd gone back to. But Chaosphere is more intense and kicks ass a bit harder. Anyway I hope you do find your way into them.

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Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza 

This is kind of a bummer for me, I used to really like this album. Listened to it a bunch, haven't put it on in at least a decade. Now I think it sucks. A mish-mash of half baked riffs, with some good ideas and headbangable parts, but no cohesion. If it wasn't for the "memory lane" factor, I doubt I'd be able to sit through this.

 

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Samael - Lux Mundi

This is a band that really flies under the radar. This album from 2011 on Nuclear Blast is a full on masterwork of catchy heaviness and atmosphere. I'm a huge fan of 'Passage' and all those albums, but I have to say, I think 'Lux Mundi' is their best album. It's just amazing. I really need to listen to it more. 

 

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12 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza 

This is kind of a bummer for me, I used to really like this album. Listened to it a bunch, haven't put it on in at least a decade. Now I think it sucks. A mish-mash of half baked riffs, with some good ideas and headbangable parts, but no cohesion. If it wasn't for the "memory lane" factor, I doubt I'd be able to sit through this.

 

Agreed. Apart from a couple of riffs here and there, there isn't a great deal that really speaks to me. Even when I try to put out of my mind the masterpieces that preceded it this comes up fairly empty. Maybe style over substance? I remember the press went crazy for this album in all the magazines. But I remember the whole time thinking it was a bit of an emperor's new clothes type of scenario. 'Tied in Bronze Chains' is a pretty happening song, but god the rest is just bland. Some of it is downright awful. 

I think 'Volcano' is a much better album. Overall, though, with Satyricon who were such a special band for me in the mid-90s it's really weird to see them as a (metal)household name. As for their self-titled album from a couple of years ago, urgh just awful. 

Satyricon Albums in Order from Best to Kill Me: 

The Shadowthrone

Nemesis Divina

Dark Medieval Times

Volcano

Now Diabolical

The Age of Nero

Rebel Extravaganza

Satyricon

 

Now Playing: Funeral - From These Wounds

It's hard to put into words how transcendent this album is for me. 

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Amorphis - Black Winter Day EP. 

It's the first CD I've ever received from the band and I got it in 1995. I was 15 and a kid at school swapped it for some other release (no idea what it was now). 'Black Winter Day' is right here now with me, 22 years later. Perfect EP. Perfect artwork.

22 years of love, awe and connection. 

How many itunes kids will be saying that in 22 years time? 

 

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20 hours ago, salmonellapancake said:

There's 2 very recent releases on their Bandcamp from December of 2016. Are either of those the one you are talking about? One of them is called "The Awakening of an Ancient and Wicked Soul Trilogy", and the other is called "XIV".

Edit: This is a link to their latest release on their website. http://www.vulcanometal.com/index1.htm

Wow, I didn't know that they released almost 20-minutes long single o.O I told about "XIV", I need to buy and check it. 

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12 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Leviathan "Scar Sighted" - it has been a chaotic and oddly menacing day in terms of my skill set being tested to the max at work (insert murder jokes here) and this album just fits perfectly to reflect the bedlam of the past 9 hours of work.

I found this really hard to get into. 

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5 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

I like the inaccessibility of music sometimes, especially if the effort you put in rewards you eventually with uncovering a great record - which is what happened with this.

 

Just gave it another spin and now:

Nocternity "Onyx"

I usually feel the same way. The murk is part of the atmosphere and songs that don't completely make sense until after a few listens tend to stick with me longer. For me it comes from listening to shitty-sounding death metal growing up, required some patience to listen to. Can't stand it when bands hide poor musicianship and songwriting behind chaos and bad production, but it's nice to find a gem. I liked Scar Sighted, but haven't spent enough time with it.

NP: Merciless - The Awakening 

Naglfar - Vittra

 

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