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18 hours ago, Thatguy said:

I have been praising Castavet forever and the unworthy Metal-Fi goats just ignored me.

Well getting a rag-tag bunch of goats to do anything is never as easy as one thinks it's going to be.  But as for me Doc I do check out a lot of the stuff you post at least briefly just to see what the fuck it is you're on about now. I don't always report back because I don't generally like very much of it and I figure there's really no point in shitting on every single thing you post just for the sake of it. I try to reserve comment for when I have something I feel I need to say.

What I will say about Castevet is that it annoys me that I keep wanting to read that 8 year old album title as Obsidian but it's actually Obsian and right off the bat that fucking bugs me. As far as the music goes it wasn't bad, it wasn't good, it was just kinda there. Not riffy or evil enough for me, I found it kinda boring. But I'm sure there must be nuances in play here which might make this compelling for a cerebral bloke like you while sailing right over my head and missing me completely. I'm the kind of guy who usually prefers when my music doesn't play games with me, I like it when it just overtly bludgeons me and gets right to the juicy bits.

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2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

In keeping with today's theme NP: Dispyt, blackened Finnish hardcore

 

....WhiteNoise....

....nice one man......

....here's something you might dig.....

DORAID

 

......regarding ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY and RAGING SPEEDHORN.... I lump them in with bands like HAIL HORNET!, ARTIMUS PYLEDRIVER and BUZZOVEN....all of those bands have punk and hardcore at their roots...whereas, to my ears, that SONS OF DISASTER record lacked any punk influence...it has a more straightforward rock base that I gleaned from listening to it...it is somewhat subtle but my comparison would be the difference between a band that grew up on LYNYRD SKYNYRD and LED ZEPPELIN and a band who listened to LYNYRD SKYNYRD and LED ZEPPELIN but grew up on BLACK FLAG and AGNOSTIC FRONT....

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9 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Well getting a rag-tag bunch of goats to do anything is never as easy as one thinks it's going to be.  But as for me Doc I do check out a lot of the stuff you post at least briefly just to see what the fuck it is you're on about now. I don't always report back because I don't generally like very much of it and I figure there's really no point in shitting on every single thing you post just for the sake of it. I try to reserve comment for when I have something I feel I need to say.

What I will say about Castevet is that it annoys me that I keep wanting to read that 8 year old album title as Obsidian but it's actually Obsian and right off the bat that fucking bugs me. As far as the music goes it wasn't bad, it wasn't good, it was just kinda there. Not riffy or evil enough for me, I found it kinda boring. But I'm sure there must be nuances in play here which might make this compelling for a cerebral bloke like you while sailing right over my head and missing me completely. I'm the kind of guy who usually prefers when my music doesn't play games with me, I like it when it just overtly bludgeons me and gets right to the juicy bits.

All good, GG.  I know you have a very open musical mind but I don't expect you to like much of what I enthuse over.  I just like to poke the goats...

And, yes, the album name Obsian bugs me too, and yes, the album is full of intriguing rhythmic and harmonic twists and turns - just the kind of wankery I like.  I listened to it every day for an age when it first came out and I am listening just now, just because, and fuck me if I don't love just as much as I did then.

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2 hours ago, navybsn said:

Craven Idol - Forked Tongues - newest from these black thrash bastards. Fucking rips.

Into the wish list it goes!

So the Castavet revival goes on.....Castavet/Mounds of Ash-fit into a time and place USBM vibe along with artists like Cobalt, Krallice (share band member), Ludicra, etc. This is really a kind of progressive post hardcore, post black kind of affair. Vocally, remind me of Aaron Turner's vocals. 

Farsot./Failure-keeping the post black or perhaps atmoblack thing rolling...interesting mix of styles

And from GoatmasterGeneral's post: Raspberry Bulbs /Before the Age of Mirrors-yep digging this garage punk sound.

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5 minutes ago, JamesT said:

Great call!  I didn't know anyone else was familiar with these guys!  One of my favorite albums ever.  "Dixie Song" is my favorite, along with "Up the Creek".  Rock on!

....cheers man....really liked that band quite a bit....you should check out BIGFOOT, from Atlanta....a couple of the guys from PYLEDRIVER formed that band....

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