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1 hour ago, Dead1 said:

Belphegor - Necrodaemon Terrorsathan

Curious what you think about this given it's somewhat overproduced and "tame"?

You mean Austria's Bondage Goat Zombie sub-mainstreamers Belphegor? Yeah, I'm not really the biggest Belphegor fan. Hard to put my finger on exactly what it is about them that drags them down to C-tier in my book. It's not like there's anything so terribly wrong with their music, but the overall impression they leave me with is that they're maybe a little too polished and a little too blasty and a little too one dimensional. There's nothing at all remarkable about their music, I don't find it compelling or rewarding, but there's nothing egregiously bad about it either. They're not the worst offenders in the too slick commercial black metal category. They seem to kinda go for blinding speed and shred over riffs, (but that varies from album to album) but I don't hate them or anything. I could enjoy a Belphegor album if someone wanted to put one on, but they aren't in the rotation, I haven't reached for one of theirs in years. Their 3rd album you posted from 2000 is probably one of their better ones, as I remember they moved to a slightly more overproduced and more commercial sound as they went on subsequent albums. But I'm only familar with them up through 2008's Bondage Goat Zombie. I lost track of them after that and they fell off my radar, I haven't heard any of their newer stuff.

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9 hours ago, Dead1 said:

Probably a good way to describe them.

 

Cave In - Heavy Pendulum- feel tired and in the mood for something mellow.

 

Still one of my favourite albums of the year even if it isn't speed, thrash or traditional heavy metal!

 

https://youtu.be/sN3_dRyT5Kw

Agreed, interesting mix of styles very much in an accessible alt metal sort of feel to me but not overly commercial-at least for my tastes. 

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1 hour ago, Dead1 said:

Actually I was referring to Blaze of Perdition!  😜

Oh!! Hahaha...yeah well I'm not really a huge fan of them either. I mean they're ok, I didn't turn off the video in disgust or anything, but I'm not sure if I made it all the way 52 minutes to the very end. They're not the kind of thing that gets me fully engorged. You know I like my black metral rawer & filthier.

See what happened was I picked up this black metal album recently by a 2-man Polish band called Piołun (Wormwood in English) that I really like and I've been playing daily for a week or two. So when looking up their M-A page I learned that Sorh the guitarist/vocalist (the dude on our right with hair in the video thumbnail) is also the guitarist and longest standing member of another Polish band by the name of Blaze of Perdition. So I was just refreshing my memory on what they sound like last night by checking out their latest album. There are so many god damned Perdition bands floating around these days I often have trouble keeping them straight. It won't be a purchase or anything.

 

Piołun - Rzeki Goryczy, Poland

 

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King Giz & The Liz Wiz - Omnium Gatherum-gave this one another listen and it's not for me. I like eclectic, but it feels like a bunch of odds and ends thrown together without an arc, which I gather was the idea. Some garage, rock, a little R&B, throw in some hip hop inflected indie, jazz cabaret lounge.....

Acephalix -Theothanatology-Think this may make the cut. I bought Interminable Night way back in 2011 when Vastum released Carnal Law as I loved Vastum and they shared band members. I've followed Vastum's work but haven't paid much attention Acephalix. This is a bit more meat and potatoes than the crusiter, Interminable NIght, but still nasty in it's own right-solid OSDM.

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