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PANZERFAUST - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain. Well, the thing about this is that it's mellow. I didn't expect PANZERFAUST to do mellow, but there you go. I guess when your album name is almost as long as the album it means you are OK with mellow.

ALTARS- Ascetic reflection. Not mellow at all. Good stuff.

DÉHÀ - 4 5 6 . Noice. Kind of mellow too.

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23 hours ago, Dead1 said:

That Cruciform album rocks hard!

Yeah don't know what happened to them, there were a few heavy bands around that time who released an album or two and then disappeared. If you never heard of Cruciform before then I got a few others you may not have heard.
Misery (QLD) and Anatomy (VIC).
Pretty sure Anatomy was a support band for Cannibal Corpse when I saw them in Sydney at the Phoenician Club in 1995. I think I saw Misery at the ANU in Canberra.

 

 

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34 minutes ago, madmick666 said:

Yeah don't know what happened to them, there were a few heavy bands around that time who released an album or two and then disappeared. If you never heard of Cruciform before then I got a few others you may not have heard.
Misery (QLD) and Anatomy (VIC).
Pretty sure Anatomy was a support band for Cannibal Corpse when I saw them in Sydney at the Phoenician Club in 1995. I think I saw Misery at the ANU in Canberra.

 

 

I saw Misery live with Napalm Death and picked up A Necessary Evil on vinyl.  I will check out Anatomy.

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2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

PANZERFAUST - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain. Well, the thing about this is that it's mellow. I didn't expect PANZERFAUST to do mellow, but there you go. I guess when your album name is almost as long as the album it means you are OK with mellow.

The vibe is very similar to the other ones, but yes mellower overall. I definitely like the atmosphere but have not been grabbed quite like when I first heard the second one. 

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It's Friday! Not an official Bandcamp Friday, but the end of the week seems to prompt me to make some purchases.

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    The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain
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    Despite initial impression, by the time I got to the end, I am not so sure it is that much more mellow than parts I and II. It should hold up.

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    It is a big call, but I wonder if Inter Arma isn't my favourite band (I mean, of current crop of active bands, excluding legacy/nostalgia acts obviously). There is a sweaty, "this is what a band sounds like playing in a room" realism to them. A rare balance of catchiness, doominess, cavernousness, sprawling yet purposeful. 
    Not sure when the next proper album will be, so have to be content with a covers album. Purple rain made me smile. It sounded like a drunken rant but I think that was the point.
     
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    Just discovered the other day and not a million miles from hitting same selling points as Inter Arma.
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2 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

It is a big call, but I wonder if Inter Arma isn't my favourite band (I mean, of current crop of active bands, excluding legacy/nostalgia acts obviously). There is a sweaty, "this is what a band sounds like playing in a room" realism to them. A rare balance of catchiness, doominess, cavernousness, sprawling yet purposeful. 

I've never gotten into their recordings, but I gotta say they were fantastic live. Memorable and charismatic. I was there for Ulcerate but TBH Inter Arma had a better set.

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8 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

It is a big call, but I wonder if Inter Arma isn't my favourite band (I mean, of current crop of active bands, excluding legacy/nostalgia acts obviously)

Why 'obviously'? Why couldn't a newer and more currently relevant band in their prime with several albums under their belt be considered as good or better than any legacy/nostalgia band? Vast majority of any legacy band you care to name's best stuff was almost certainly created within their first decade (give or take) of existence. Your dudes Inter Arma have been around since 2006, that's 16 years and counting so why wouldn't you allow yourself to think of them on even footing with say Maiden or Priest or AC/DC?

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Not to answer for Jono, but I know for me there are a few different buckets. There are a good few bands that have been important enough to me for long enough that I'd have to call them all-time favorites even if they aren't currently doing anything I like. I don't usually think of them in comparative terms, that winds up feeling like apples and oranges unless they're really similar.

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Yeah I get the apples and oranges thing too. Bands from different sub-genres and different eras can be difficult to compare. And it's probably pointless to compare them anyway. Not sure why we all love to compare stuff and rank stuff but we do. 

I just see so many people putting some of these 'legacy' bands on a pedestal and that mystifies me. There are so many newer better bands. I'll see people talking about how some old 80's band's 19th album is coming out Friday and they can't wait to hear it, and I'm dumbfounded. I wouldn't have any desire to even briefly check out a bands 19th album if I thought their last 12 albums were all shit. I have no band loyalty I guess. I'll continue to enjoy a band's early albums that I liked and just think of them as having broken up years ago, even if they continue to release new stuff every few years. The only band/artist from 35 years ago I've ever pedestalized is Celtic Frost/TGW. And I believe his later work totally justifies that. He is not just going through the motions like most of the decrepit old hacks. The rest of them I'd rather pretend they've disbanded 20 years ago and just remember them as they were in my youth.

I'm sure there are exceptions to this that someone will come and point out but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

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34 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

And to think I was going to go out of my way to answer that for you. Pfft!!

You're not fooling anybody old man, you never even would have gotten your lazy arse up off the couch.

 

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