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Dordeduh - Dar De Duh

Well this is fantastic. This band is the successor to Negura Bunget's legacy of deep and original progressive/atmospheric folk/black metal, with the same native instrumentation and outstanding songwriting that you would expect from their previous band. Highly recommended.

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1 hour ago, Iceni said:

 

"The Ache of Want" by Anopheli. The musicians describe this as "Cello-driven emo crust", which sounds a lot shittier than the actual music. It's more like a type of black/doom-death with entirely different approach and production, and the aforementioned cello. @FatherAlabaster don't think I tagged you on FB for this but I imagine you'd enjoy.

I'll check it out. I've enjoyed some other stuff along those lines - Fall Of Efrafa and Oroku. Lots of moody potential in a cello, I've always loved the sound.

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42 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I'll check it out. I've enjoyed some other stuff along those lines - Fall Of Efrafa and Oroku. Lots of moody potential in a cello, I've always loved the sound.

I recall their first album "A hunger rarely sated" being better, but I'm not sure.

NP: "The Divine Light of a New Sun" by NORSE.

Definitely something @MacabreEternal should look into, sounds kinda like a more industrial and blackened (albeit less crushingly heavy) Altarage. Imagine putting a diesel engine inside a washing machine, turning on both and plugging a MIDI cable into it, cranking the reverb and then kicking it down a really long flight of stairs.

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1 hour ago, Iceni said:

I recall their first album "A hunger rarely sated" being better, but I'm not sure.

NP: "The Divine Light of a New Sun" by NORSE.

Definitely something @MacabreEternal should look into, sounds kinda like a more industrial and blackened (albeit less crushingly heavy) Altarage. Imagine putting a diesel engine inside a washing machine, turning on both and plugging a MIDI cable into it, cranking the reverb and then kicking it down a really long flight of stairs.

Cheers mucka, will check it out.

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31 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Cheers mucka, will check it out.

Ay oop m8. Finishing up that NORSE album I conclude it's worth everyone's time.

"Further Nowhere" by Cold Insight. Pretty good drawing music provided what you're drawing is kinda miserable. It's not phenomenal but it does suit the mood. Features some guy who's part of Enshine and used to be in Letheian Dreams, so there's some melodic cred for you.

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Iron Maiden - Killers
The mood for some heavy metal just hit me out of nowhere.
It has a way of doing that. I have a friend at work that I'm getting turned on to metal, and she seemed to go nuts over Oz - Fire In the Brain. Now she's looking for more energetic old-school heavy metal, so I'm craving it myself thinking about recommendations.

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39 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

Such a sick album.

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It really is. I keep finding more great stuff from the early 90s. I'm becoming convinced that I've been gaslighted by the space-time continuum; I'm either constantly and unknowingly skipping into alternate universes where more and more good albums were recorded, or bands keep time-traveling back to the 90s and cluttering up our timeline with new "classic albums". No way I could have missed all of this the first time around...

NP: Infera Bruo - In Conjuration   ...I'll be seeing them play later tonight. Apparently the show is at a sushi restaurant, which gets extra super bonus points.

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It really is. I keep finding more great stuff from the early 90s. I'm becoming convinced that I've been gaslighted by the space-time continuum; I'm either constantly and unknowingly skipping into alternate universes where more and more good albums were recorded, or bands keep time-traveling back to the 90s and cluttering up our timeline with new "classic albums". No way I could have missed all of this the first time around...
NP: Infera Bruo - In Conjuration   ...I'll be seeing them play later tonight. Apparently the show is at a sushi restaurant, which gets extra super bonus points.
It's an endless abyss of quality in the extreme metal world around that time. Now matter how long and diligent your search, there is always more to find. Your comment about the space-time continuum is almost eerie in its accuracy, because it seems impossible that there could always be more, as if someone is constantly sneaking shit into the last to pull one over on us.

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3 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

It's an endless abyss of quality in the extreme metal world around that time. Now matter how long and diligent your search, there is always more to find. Your comment about the space-time continuum is almost eerie in its accuracy, because it seems impossible that there could always be more, as if someone is constantly sneaking shit into the last to pull one over on us.

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FINALLY SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES ME :D

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