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3 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen 

Great minds...

Also today:

Undeath - It's Time...to give an album a dumb name

Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear (the outro riff....so choice: The Fall | Cult of Luna (bandcamp.com))

The Antichrist Imperium - III (the outro warbly vocals...so choice: Misotheist | The Antichrist Imperium | Apocalyptic Witchcraft Recordings (bandcamp.com))

I shit you not I listen to that Anti-Imp album every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

The outro:

We live through Satan

We breathe through Satan

We kill for Satan

...was a little hokey to begin with, but now I find it the crowning glory. So much fun.

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I hear them mentioned all over the place to the point where I'm almost tempted to give those Anti-Imp clowns another shot, but I can't bring myself to pull the trigger. I can't remember exactly what they sounded like back in 2018 but I remember exactly how much I hated them. So instead I've decided to go with something I know I do like.

 

Martwa Aura - Morbus Animus, Poland 2020

 

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3 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I have to admit that anything with less than 5 strings doesn't do it for me anymore. And really I want 24 frets too. But I love the look and sound of a J bass in the right hands. The other one I've always wanted, since I'm a tasteless goon, is a Bongo. 

 

Last few: 

Blut Aus Nord - 777 Cosmosophy 

Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen 

Killing Joke - Night Time 

Weakling - Dead As Dreams

My brain never adjusted to anything more than 4 strings. I've tried a few times and just never got the hang of it.

Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox

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13 hours ago, Thatguy said:

CHAKA KHAN- Epiphany- The Best of Chaka Khan Vol.1. A compilation? 80's funk? What has come over Thatguy?...I had a dream and woke up with 'Ain't Nobody' running around in the tired old brain. What a voice. What a song.

Normal service will return shortly.

C'mon Doc, whataya say we start our own 70's & 80's funk band? I've always wanted to play some of that funky slap bass. Don't know how to play yet but I'm sure our bass mavens Navy and our father can coach me through it to get me started. You'll blow the sax of course, we'll just need to find a funky drummer and would you happen to know anyone with a Hammond organ or maybe a Fender Rhodes?

Mother's Finest - Truth'll Set You Free

 

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Polemicist - Return Of the Sophist (BM, USA)

Saw these guys last night at my local pub in the fucking Yukon Territory. These guys (and gal, their guitar player) made the trip all the way from Portland to play in front of 20-25 people in some buttfuck northern Canadian city. First proper live metal show I've seen since before the pandemic. Very grateful!

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13 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

What do you think of this? I wouldn't have you figured as a fan of theirs.

 

Love these guys. I know they're supposedly "experimental" and that's probably why you like them because they're not 'cookie cutter' bm. But from my perspective it's well written/played Polish black metal and it's not all weird so that's good enough for me. Weird would be the dealbreaker for me, but this wasn't anywhere near that threshold. I only have this one and the newer one from 2016, I should probably look into their back catalog sometime.

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