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4 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Nekrokrist SS - Suicide, got this one from Serpentboi's post in the alphabetical band names thread. This is KILLER SHIT!! ☠️ I'm gonna need their whole catlog, or at least the 3 full lengths because I'll never track down all these spilts.

 

finnish black metal is where it's at. here's a link to their second album, der todes king. also check their self titled e.p. another really good release of their's.

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6 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Scarcity - Aveilut   ...Brendon Randall-Myers of the Glenn Branca Ensemble and Doug from Pyrrhon with an artsy post-black recording. I think this has Thatguy's name encoded in it somewhere.

 

Got it. Loved it. Got the T-shirt. Well, no T-shirt actually...

IMPERIUM DEKADENZ - When We Are Forgotten

LUXURIA - Unanswerable Lust. 'I simply may be evil, I simply may be evil.'

And, of course, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT - Spirit of Ecstasy. First listen -  too long and - despite the fact that I know it would have been carefully planned and scored - muddy and amorphous. But it will probably grow on me.

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I discovered a new genre, NLBM. The more genres the better, I say. 

Oh and that stands for Netherlands black metal. Not anything sketchy, so don't worry!

From what I can tell the Dutch play this style as long form, kind of drone-y, a little melody, a little bleak but with some soaring emotive moments. Not low-fi, not hi-fi, kind of mid-fi. All of this was learned by me, today. Ha!

I enjoyed this one. And its a new release, fwiw. Sick art.

Balans | Dinbethes (bandcamp.com)

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15 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Still muddy and amorphous. I could say these guys have disappeared up their arses, but that would be unkind.

I'll say it though cuz I don't care. I love pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes. When someone tells me they're unironically listening to Imperial Triumphant I can't keep from rolling my eyes. Literally cannot help myself. Fortunately they usually aren't here and can't see my eyes rolling. But I'm sure these people are rolling their eyes at many of my listening choices in return, so I figure it's only fair. 

 

12 minutes ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Heavy Dub Selection

TOMMY GUERRERO - Soul Food Taqueria

I still haven't ever quite figured out what "dub" or "dub step" are supposed to be but this video turned out to be raggae and on a hot as fuck Sunday afternoon it's actually pretty cool. 

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