What Are You Listening To?

[MacabreEternal]

Was Paradise Lost - Obsidian (2020) - whilst out in the car on errrands.

Now, Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World (2014)

 

[markm]

Spent a little time going through the forum recommendations/Youtube posts-I do go through and listen to stuff you guys post from time to time and one of my resolutions is to try to keep up with releases better especially when my outdoor activity heats up in the Spring which is when I fell off the wagon last year. 

Bestiality/Sacrificial Chants-this has promise-the question for me with this kind of raw material is always will it hold up over the course of an album as a complete work with memorable distinctive tracks or blur as indistinct aesthetic. Sometimes that is enough.

Netativa-this one sounds good to me on first listen.

[ratpfink]

Storm Kvlt - Europas Weg zum Grab

[FatherAlabaster]

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

[SurgicalBrute]

10 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

not a top 5 album for me

That's a good indication it's probably time for a Q-tip

1 hour ago, markm said:

Bestiality/Sacrificial Chants-this has promise-the question for me with this kind of raw material is always will it hold up over the course of an album as a complete work with memorable distinctive tracks or blur as indistinct aesthetic.

Then listen to their full length from a few years back

Beastiality - Worshippers of Unearthly Perversions

 

[AlSymerz]

Protector - The Heritage

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

SERPENT NOIR & SARGEIST - Transcendental Black Magic

WIFEBEATER - Masculine Masskilling

 

[Innominate]

Taake - Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik

[Serpentboi1992]

[GoatmasterGeneral]

18 hours ago, Thatguy said:

This is good though. Thanks for reminding me.

Where are these dudes from? Not that I give a flying fuck.

I've been to Iceland. It was great, but it's not a centre of old Norse mysticism. Some damn fine BM comes out of Brisbane, and you couldn't get much less Norse mystic than fucking Brisbane.

C'mon Doc, they're from Finland, where else would they be from? And you obviously do give at least a flying fuck otherwise you wouldn't have asked.

I've gotta say I wasn't aware of all this damn fine black metal coming out of Brizzy. I was under the impression that Melbie was the cultural and musical center of Australia? Bands like: D666, Nocturnal Graves, Cemetery Urn, Coffin Lust, Trench Hell, Pisschrïst, Ignivomous, Disembowelment, Internal Rot, Abominator, Order of Orias and the like. And don't forget the Cosmic Psychos started in Melbie. Sydney has spawned more bands than Brizzy too. Can't think of any more Brizzy bands besides Cult of Horns, Astriaal and Portal whom I despise. 

 

NP: Kêres (Finland) - Flaming Ash

 

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY - Shards Of Silver Face

 

[H34VYM3T4LD4V3]

Blaze Bayley - The Power of Nikola Tesla

[Thatguy]

36 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

C'mon Doc, they're from Finland, where else would they be from? And you obviously do give at least a flying fuck otherwise you wouldn't have asked.

Well, no, I was just being a dick and teasing those who seem to care.

It is true that there are not as many metal bands from Brissie as from Melbourne or Sydney, but Brissie has a smaller population. Two of my favourite Aussie metal bands are from Brisbane -  Hope Drone and Spire. The point was of course - and Spire are the great example - cowl wearing producers of arcane BM are as likely to come from sunny Brissie as gloomy Iceland.

Not metal, but Brissie was also the home of The Saints.

[Dead1]

30 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Well, no, I was just being a dick and teasing those who seem to care.

It is true that there are not as many metal bands from Brissie as from Melbourne or Sydney, but Brissie has a smaller population. Two of my favourite Aussie metal bands are from Brisbane -  Hope Drone and Spire. The point was of course - and Spire are the great example - cowl wearing producers of arcane BM are as likely to come from sunny Brissie as gloomy Iceland.

Not metal, but Brissie was also the home of The Saints.

Sydney scene is also shit.  I think other Australian capital cities have or have had better scenes.

 

I remember talking to some Sydney guys at a gig in mid 00s and they said the Sydney scene was only limited to international bands with very few local bands.

Smattering of stuff I've listed to lately:

Accept - Metal Heart

Cavalera Conspiracy - Blunt Force Trauma

Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

Destroyer 666 - Wildfire

Fear Factory - Demanufacture

Hellacopters - Super Shitty To The Max!

Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

Sepultura - Roots

Skid Row - Slave to the Grind

Testament - The Gathering

Wolf Brigade - The Enemy: Reality

[markm]

You've been busy Dead

NP: Celeste limited tracks on BC from their forthcoming Assassine(s) album

[AlSymerz]

You need to watch the YT doco on the Australia metal scene before suggesting what is and isn't shit. It breaks down a state by state history of Australia metal and which bands were playing. There was bands you wont even have heard of putting on suburban gigs around Sydney in the early 2000's. Thrash and Death were very prominent throughout the eastern states well into the 00's. Some bands were making a name for themselves others weren't as lucky but they were still pumping out gigs.

[Dead1]

I will have to hunt that doco down.

I remember the period 00-05 being a massive renaissance for Aussie metal.  In fact given the late 1980s/early 1990s scene was kind of decrepit by late 1990s I'd call it a rebirth.

It seems healthy across the nation these days except here in Tassie where it is largely comatose or even dead.

 

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Spire - Metamorph

 

This is good Doc, but yet I was getting a bit bored about halfway or maybe two thirds through. Not particularly Nordic sounding is it. Well it's a Doc band for sure, right smack in your wheelhouse so not sure why I would have been expecting anything else. Not saying I didn't like it, they're no Chord, Krallice or Portal or anything. But there's a noticeable lack of goat anus so it's not something I'd buy.

I think a better example than the gold coast is Brazil. There are a lot of really Nordic sounding black metal bands from ecuatorial hot as fuck Brazil. I don't care where a band is from, they can be from anywhere. But I do care in the sense that I like to know where bands I'm listening to are from. The Saints by the way are awesome, or at least Stranded is anyway, better than either of these two gold coast wankers metal or not.

Now these guys are experimental to the point where they're not even black metal. But that's OK and I did find it interesting and I even enjoyed it to a point, if maybe not quite as much as the Spire. 

Hope Drone (Australia) — Husk

 

Now here's some killer Brizzy black metal that I got from the poster True Belief many years ago.

Astriaal - Glories of the Nightsky, from the album Renascent Misanthropy

 

[navybsn]

6 hours ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

SERPENT NOIR & SARGEIST - Transcendental Black Magic

WIFEBEATER - Masculine Masskilling

 

Nice. Serpent Noir's first EP is a big favorite of mine. Most of their stuff is good if not as good that one. And Sargiest is Sargiest which is always fucking excellent.

Serpent Noir - Sanguis XI

 

[Thatguy]

28 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Well it's a Doc band for sure, right smack in your wheelhouse so not sure why I would have been expecting anything else.

Yep. I discovered them when they opened the night at Hymns to the Dead in Hobart a few years ago and got the shirt after. Very cool shirt.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Vortex of End - Abhorrent Fervor 

 

[Dead1]

Chaoshorde - Hordes Arising

Blackened speed/thrash of course!

 

 

[Dead1]

Hypocrisy - Worship

Surely you cunts remember Pete Tagtgren?  Both him and Hypocrisy used to mean a lot more to metaldom.

 

 

 

[ratpfink]

Hegemon - Sidereus Nuncius

 

 

Non Est Deus  - The Last Supper

 

 

[JamesT]

Overkill - "The Electric Age" (album)