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3 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

The High Voltage album was recorded November '74 almost immediately after Bon joined because all the songs were written and they were originally going to record it with Dave Evans. It wasn't released here until Feb 17 1975.

Love that album!  Back to where it all started with my all-time favorite rock 'n roll band.  "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n Roll) never ceases to get my head nodding, with the bagpipes thrown in for good measure.  After seeing your post here, I'm gonna be playing this album all the way through this morning. 

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7 minutes ago, navybsn said:

 

Grave Miasma - Abyss of Wrathful Deities

Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning

 

What do you think about these? I was looking forward to both of them but haven't really connected like I did with the previous ones from both bands... Feels like there's nothing wrong with them, but I'm still at arm's length after listening a bunch of times.

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1 hour ago, FatherAlabaster said:

What do you think about these? I was looking forward to both of them but haven't really connected like I did with the previous ones from both bands... Feels like there's nothing wrong with them, but I'm still at arm's length after listening a bunch of times.

I'm with you. Not sure how I feel about them. I like what SH are trying to do, but I like In Passing Ascension much better. GM are not a band I listen to that much. It's decent, but I don't see much to set it apart from the myriad of other releases in the same style. My buddy had both high up on his EOTY list, so I figured I should go back and revisit them to see if I was missing something. Neither would have made my list. For perspective, the rest of his list consisted of Portal, Nekromantheon (which is good), Mortiferium, Antediluvian, Oxygen Destroyer, Obscura, Evil, and a few others that we did overlap on like Archgoat, Worm, Cerebral Rot, Witch Vomit, and Malignant Altar. Our tastes are similar enough but different enough to keep our conversations interesting. He certainly exposes me to shit I would never investigate on my own.

NP: Ghastly - Mercurial Passages

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56 minutes ago, SurgicalBrute said:

Grave Miasma full lengths have never quite held up, quality-wise, with their EP stuff. It's weird, but the longer format does them no favors

They start sounding pretty homogenous after a while, but Odori Sepulcrorum is still my favorite thing from them. They called themselves Goat Molester early on, right? I thought what I heard of that stuff was cool too.

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8 hours ago, JamesT said:

Love that album!  Back to where it all started with my all-time favorite rock 'n roll band.  "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n Roll) never ceases to get my head nodding, with the bagpipes thrown in for good measure.  After seeing your post here, I'm gonna be playing this album all the way through this morning. 

AC/DC is a band I have seen many times from pubs to arenas and they have always put on good shows. They aren't a band I put on that often but I still know most of the songs and still do get the urge to get my 'bogan' on and rock out to a bit of Acca Dacca.

Septagon - We Only Die Once (The Anthrax vibes are strong on this album)

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31 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

They start sounding pretty homogenous after a while, but Odori Sepulcrorum is still my favorite thing from them. They called themselves Goat Molester early on, right? I thought what I heard of that stuff was cool too.

Don't think I've dug into Goat Molestor before, but really, I think the Exalted Emanation EP was their best material. They've never quite hit that height again IMO

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10 minutes ago, SurgicalBrute said:

Don't think I've dug into Goat Molestor before, but really, I think the Exalted Emanation EP was their best material. They've never quite hit that height again IMO

I enjoyed the heck out of that one as well. Been a while since I listened to it. I remember it having a bit more agressive and immediate feel compared to Odori Sepulcrorum, I can see how that would rate higher for some people. Something about the combination of songwriting and sound/atmosphere on OS just immediately clicked for me, it's stayed my favorite of theirs since it came out. I like Endless Pilgrimage as well, but somehow it doesn't stick to my ribs.

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Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse (2021)

I flat out missed this.  It is getting a lot of love in my regular haunts as the 2021 best of lists start to fade.  It is a lot to take in and I might just be able to take stock come 2024 at this rate.  Less dissonant than the Ulcerate brand of auditory evolution that came from them last year and also not as immediate a connection as I find with Gorgut's output.  If anything a bit too avant-garde and jazzy for me on first listen.  Polypolyphony and polypolyrhythms probably sums it up best at this stage and certainly needs revisits before I cast final judgement.

Gotta applaud the effort though and the minute levels of detail are obvious but don't always compute, even in the off-kilter sense that they are intended.  In a way it almost needs more promise of balance in order for it to completely hold my attention but I am still falling through it at present and will need more listens to find things to latch on to.

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1 minute ago, MacabreEternal said:

Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse (2021)

I flat out missed this.  It is getting a lot of love in my regular haunts as the 2021 best of lists start to fade.  It is a lot to take in and I might just be able to take stock come 2024 at this rate.  Less dissonant than the Ulcerate brand of auditory evolution that came from them last year and also not as immediate a connection as I find with Gorgut's output.  If anything a bit too avant-garde and jazzy for me on first listen.  Polypolyphony and polypolyrhythms probably sums it up best at this stage and certainly needs revisits before I cast final judgement.

Gotta applaud the effort though and the minute levels of detail are obvious but don't always compute, even in the off-kilter sense that they are intended.  In a way it almost needs more promise of balance in order for it to completely hold my attention but I am still falling through it at present and will need more listens to find things to latch on to.

This one took the right mindset and a few close listens to really unfold for me. Lots of walks in the woods with headphones, kinda thing. Once I started getting my head around it, I felt that they'd completely outdone themselves and given most of the other bands in that vein some serious homework. Not a casual listen but probably my favorite album of last year overall.

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Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars

...this right here is why I revisit albums I didn't connect with at first. My first BAN album was The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion and I was expecting something much different the first time I tried this one out. The experience turned me off enough to not bother with any of their melodic stuff for years. Eventually I found my way to the third MV album and totally fell in love with it, but even then for some reason this one just didn't make sense... which itself doesn't make sense, they're not dramatically different in style or sound. But whatever. Finally heard it with the right set of eardrums and I can honestly say I have no idea why I didn't get into it before. Life, huh?

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