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Killing Joke - Killing Joke (Axis of Evil) 2003, something has finally clicked in my brain tonight. It's taken years of Marko's recos and checking out various albums from these guys every so often but never really quite getting it. For whatever reason tonight I got it and now I just can't seem to get my fill of Killing Joke. Think I'm gonna have to try to see them live now.

 

Killing Joke - Pandemonium, 1994

 

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Thatguy approves of KILLING JOKE.

TOADEATER - Bexadde. Why have none of you kiddies told me about Toadeater? Do I have to find the good stuff all by myself? This album uplifted my spirits and 44 minutes passed in a flash.

MALIGNANT ALTAR - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity. Noice.

MORBID EVILS - Supernaturals. Miserable. In a good way.

NP - VOLKER LANKOW - Journey To Transient Places. Everything is transient.

 

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46 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Thatguy approves of KILLING JOKE.

TOADEATER - Bexadde. Why have none of you kiddies told me about Toadeater? Do I have to find the good stuff all by myself? This album uplifted my spirits and 44 minutes passed in a flash.

MALIGNANT ALTAR - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity. Noice.

MORBID EVILS - Supernaturals. Miserable. In a good way.

NP - VOLKER LANKOW - Journey To Transient Places. Everything is transient.

 

We're not so different you and I, eh? From Killing Joke to Morbid Evils to NRL we have a lot of common ground. Don't think I ever realized over at M-Fi that your tastes ranged so broadly. You were just the Aussie pimple popper Krallice guy.

Everything might be transient, but the more things change the more they stay the same.

I posted Toadeater for ya Doc, I coudn't possibly forget that artwork. Quick search tells me that was on August 12th. It was just the pomo track then though, the album wasn't out yet til Sept 9th. Never did buy it though, it's good but probably not gonna be purchase worthy for me. But I specifically remember thinking that you might like it which is why I posted it. Glad you found your way to it.

Toadeater - Bexadde, German atmo-black

 

 

37 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Denouncement Pyre - Almighty Arcanum

Tried so hard with them when the first album came out but I never did get into them. I feel like I've been avoiding their more recent releases, one of these days I'll have to give them another go.

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16 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

We're not so different you and I, eh? From Killing Joke to Morbid Evils to NRL we have a lot of common ground. Don't think I ever realized over at M-Fi that your tastes ranged so broadly. You were just the Aussie pimple popper Krallice guy.

Everything might be transient, but the more things change the more they stay the same.

I posted Toadeater for ya Doc, I coudn't possibly forget that artwork. Quick search tells me that was on August 12th. It was just the pomo track then though, the album wasn't out yet til Sept 9th. Never did buy it though, it's good but probably not gonna be purchase worthy for me. But I specifically remember thinking that you might like it which is why I posted it. Glad you found your way to it.

Toadeater - Bexadde, German atmo-black

 

 

Tried so hard with them when the first album came out but I never did get into them. I feel like I've been avoiding their more recent releases, one of these days I'll have to give them another go.

Don’t bother, that album is exactly average imo, forgot I had it until I started looking over my 2013 albums.

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5 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I posted Toadeater for ya Doc, I coudn't possibly forget that artwork. Quick search tells me that was on August 12th. It was just the pomo track then though, the album wasn't out yet til Sept 9th. Never did buy it though, it's good but probably not gonna be purchase worthy for me. But I specifically remember thinking that you might like it which is why I posted it. Glad you found your way to it.

I felt fairly certain you'd say this. You post so much though and a lot of it I know I won't like and who has time to sample it all anyway? And 'Toadeater' and that album art? Neither the name nor the art grabbed my attention I guess. Thanks anyway for the thought. It really is very good.

And I had a T-shirt that I wore till it died (or more likely was declared dead by my wife)for a jazz festival held in Sydney once upon a time called 'Music is an open sky.' That's a motto I live by.

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WFH day - so big playlist. Go big or go home. Wait, I am home...

Haunter - Discarnate Ails

The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow

Escotrilihum - Mystic Echo From A Funeral Dimension

культура курения - Холодные Провода/Цемент (EP)

культура курения - Некрофилия

Predatory Light - Death and the Twilight Hours

Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade

Autonesis - Moon of Foul Magics

Conan - Evidence of Immortality

Goatriders - Traveler

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