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52 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Mork - The new dawn of Norwegian black metal? [Rauta interview] I know there aren't that many hardcore black metal freaks like me here, but I enjoy Mork and I found this interesting. 

That Rauta channel is great. Lots of cool interviews on there. For some Finnish white trash hilarity, check out the Barathrum and Azazel interviews.

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2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Where's Mindy?

She's old now Doc, has you beat even by 5 years.  She's doing what old black metal widows do I would assume, home in the kitchen baking pies, vacuuming and crocheting blankets 'n shit.

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1 hour ago, zackflag said:

That Rauta channel is great. Lots of cool interviews on there. For some Finnish white trash hilarity, check out the Barathrum and Azazel interviews.

I saw the Azazel one the other night it was indeed hilarious. I'll have to dial up the Barathrum one, I love Barathrum. My favorite is still the one with Archgoat's Lord Angelslayer where they're tasting the beers.

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Barathrum at Tuska 2017 with Demonos Sova,  

 

First Archgoat video interview ever! Black metal veterans in Turku! During the interview Rauta claims it's guitarist Ritual Butcherer he's interviewing, but I don't know, I know they're brothers but this sure looks like bandleader Lord Angelslayer bass/vocals. Ritual Butcherer has his head shaved in most pics I've seen as well as the time I saw them live in 2017, maybe this is what he looks like with hair.

 

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8 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Kevin Morby - This is a Photograph. Well alrighty then, let's have a look at what a modern day indie folk blues rocker's latest Dylanesque 2022 album sounds like. Dude definitely sounds like a throwback to the late 70's. A modern but very minimal take on Dylan meets Neil Young meets Tom Petty - but smoother than any of them. Banjos and strings notwithstanding, I get why you might dig this. It's pleasant enough I guess, I don't really mind it, but it's probably a bit too milquetoasty for me. Each song seems to have a bt of a different feel to it, I was expecting to hear some more up front acoustic guitar strumming, but it seems to be missing and instead they went in favor of strings and harps and a pedal steel guitar and a sax and some other decidedly less rock & rolly instrumentation and what sounds like some kids doing backing vocals on some tracks and a woman on some others. Not really my thing so I guess I'll just have to keep looking for the next Bob Dylan. I'm sure it has a very high WAF though. 

 

Yea, I might have said later period Dylan rather than his 60's purely folk stuff. You might give Kurt Vile a go. He's over 40 now. One of better current gen rock guitarists but on the laid back slacker side-with stoner (I.e.-not very) good vocals like if the front dude from Fu Manchu decided to play in a mellow slowcore classic rock band with stream of consciousness lyrics as he piddles around the house, drinks a beer, muses about life. 

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19 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

Yeah I think I need to revisit my end of year list because Terrörhammer wasn't on the purchased list that I finished going through yesterday.

You still have 10 more days left in the year. What if the album of the century comes out next week? I don't even start working on mine until sometime in mid January. I almost always find something eminently list worthy in the last week of December or January. Why so many black metal bands seem to wait until the last week of the year to release their albums I'll never know. Just to fuck with me I suppose, they must get a kick out of making me rearrange my list each year.

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I can edit, but I have looked at new release list and at the moment there is nothing else I want to get this year.

I actually start doing my list in the first week or so of December. Once I have all the albums of the current year listed I start at the top and listen to each one again and see where they sit. Sometimes that only takes a few weeks, but there has been years where it's taken well into January. This year I haven't bought as much as I have in previous years so I only had to listen to about 20 albums.

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Yeah, I have a few more than 20 I need to refresh my memory on so it takes me several weeks. I had my first 20 by sometime in March. But then I always get off to a slow start each year because my January is fully consumed by listening to the previous year's stuff while making my list. Sometimes that process can take up half of February too. 

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