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41 minutes ago, Serpentboi1992 said:

F.Y.P – Extra Credit E.P. (1991, Grey Marbled, Vinyl) - Discogs

Yo Serpie, that 5 Year Plan EP was really cool. Had not been familiar with these SoCal punks. I've been wanting to ask, are you a young(er) dude (born in 1992 possibly) who has just spent a lot of time looking into and unearthing all these old 90's black metal and punk records, or are you an old seasoned punk from back in the day like Marko who is pulling all this cool obscure stuff out of your private vault?

 

F.Y.P. - My Neighbores Is Stoopid 7"

 

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At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being   ...still digging this a bunch. Super slick mix, and maybe I don't dig every choice or riff 100%, but for my money it's the best thing they've done since Terminal Spirit Disease.

Chopin - Nocturnes (Jan Lisiecki)

Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya   ...let's see if I can make it through without getting hijacked!

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1 hour ago, FatherAlabaster said:

At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being   ...still digging this a bunch. Super slick mix, and maybe I don't dig every choice or riff 100%, but for my money it's the best thing they've done since Terminal Spirit Disease.

Chopin - Nocturnes (Jan Lisiecki)

Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya   ...let's see if I can make it through without getting hijacked!

Excellent call with At the Gates!  I've just begun making my way through their discography again, myself.

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3 minutes ago, JamesT said:

Excellent call with At the Gates!  I've just begun making my way through their discography again, myself.

They used to be one of my favorite bands. I played the hell out of Slaughter Of The Soul and Terminal Spirit Disease in high school and then got more into their first two albums. Love the debut especially. Didn't really dig the other reunion albums, but this latest one is what I was hoping they'd do.

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4 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Yo Serpie, that 5 Year Plan EP was really cool. Had not been familiar with these SoCal punks. I've been wanting to ask, are you a young(er) dude (born in 1992 possibly) who has just spent a lot of time looking into and unearthing all these old 90's black metal and punk records, or are you an old seasoned punk from back in the day like Marko who is pulling all this cool obscure stuff out of your private vault?

 

F.Y.P. - My Neighbores Is Stoopid 7"

 

thanks. i'm 30. i got introduced to f.y.p by an old roommate of mine at a punk house i used to live at many years ago. he had a record of their's. but, i didn't start getting super into them until just recently. i got into black metal when i was going to community college a few years back. some classmates introduced me to stuff like burzum, immortal, etc. and then discovered some more old bands through youtube and encyclopedia metallum. the internet today is an incredible media time capsule. some people say i'm an old soul, but i don't think i am. because i really love the efficiency of ordering, downloading and streaming music, merch and video games online. i am very much a stereotypical millenial in that way. lol. 

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22 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I don't mind the drone if there's also a little something going on musically. That first Nadja album I listened to (Labyrinthine) had some structure to it, enough that my brain identified it as "music." I wouldn't call it riffs, but there was some instrumental stuff happening there for my mind to focus on as well as some much needed vocals. Not an every day kinda listen, it'd be mood dependent for sure, but I liked the ominous atmosphere. I might end up grabbing just that one album Labyrinthine, the other three Nadjas I listened to didn't have the same effect on me. I will say I liked the Labyrinthine album's experimental drone a lot better than something like Chelsea Wolfe which is more traditionally structured music but doesn't check any boxes for me at all. But if I ever find myself in desperate need of some more defined fuzzy doom riffs over female vocals I can always go back to my Windhand, which always feels like coming home after a long hard day of work.

 

I gave it a Spotify proper listen yesterday driving to the river for good upstream workout with some friends. I like it. These kind of drone albums interspersed with harsh and clean singing are definitely a sporadic-when the mood strikes-listen but I think it's good. I just ordered a copy. I'm pleasantly surprised you like it. You might enjoy the drone album Boris just dropped at the end of the year-Fade

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/fade

Driving home, last night Elder/Innate Passage hit me hard. I bought Reflections of a Floating World (2017) but it never did much for me. It was the absence of their heavier stoner riffs of lore with increased focus on prog that turned me off and I skipped their 2020 release. I can't say if there's much different from Reflections because I haven't listened to it in a long while, none of those qualities bother me with Innate Passage-perhaps merely an acceptance of what they are doing, but the arrangements, the songwriting, but the interplay, the intermittent hard stoner riffs sans any real metal influence and synth orchestrated touches, and the improved smooth vocal harmonies hit me as beautiful, sophisticated, etc. I just grabbed this on BC.

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41 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I never got to see them. It's a bummer. That must have been amazing.

 

NP: Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still

Amazing is an understatement. Saw them 4 times and it was better each time. Live albums are great but don't do them justice. Perfect sound, never kept you waiting, different setlist on each tour, and very respectful of the audience. Just sorry it's done.

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22 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Amazing is an understatement. Saw them 4 times and it was better each time. Live albums are great but don't do them justice. Perfect sound, never kept you waiting, different setlist on each tour, and very respectful of the audience. Just sorry it's done.

This makes me even more sorry I missed them! 

NP: Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

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So Boris-Fade dropped late in December is quite an immersive drone experience and after one listen might be my favorite of the 3 albums they dropped in 2022. It's only available on Bandcamp. I bought it. downloaded into a Flac file and I'm just about done listening on my my stereo first speakers and finished with my LCD-3 headphones. I went bourbon, but some sensory narcotic help dropping in and zoning out might be a good call as this is wordless, exploratory drone trance music to explore the existential existence of your mind.

We're talking about 50 minutes of Sunn0)))ish  psych noise drone-heavy, meditative, and beautiful in its own way...more accessible than Sunn0)), swirling formless that the band describes as "not bound by concepts of rock music" into (my words now) a formless void of noise, feedback and general awesomeness..... 

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