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57 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

Baiting? You were desperate for a 3am conversation about a band you won't like who plays the music of a guy you hate. I was saving you the early morning effort of replying with a 500 word diatribe about how terrible the album was or how MegaDave is not your favourite person. I was letting you take the initiative of using Google only if you wanted to, not force feeding you a bunch of information that was irrelevant to you. I thought I was doing you a favor by not providing you an encyclopedic like story of something you'd have zero interest in. Now I know your feelings on the matter I'll be sure never to provide a description in my post ever again.

OR, alternately, you could have just said it was Dave Ellefson's band with some ex-Megadick mercs and other hired help on tour playing some of the early Megadick tunes. Then your post would have made sense. But please don't do me (or the rest of the board) any favors.

I don't hate Megastaine or his band, after all I did buy their first 7 albums before I lost interest. I just don't have any respect for big Dave as a human being. I've got no beef with little Dave or Mr. Young. I will say big Dave always did have really nice hair though, the best hair out of the Big 4 by far. You can't take that away from him even if he does act like a fucking asshole most of the time, even since he cleaned himself up and got sober and then devoted his life to the sky fairy. 

FWIW I happen to think Chaz does an excellent job of singing those old Megadick tunes. At least he did a fine job on Peace Sells, the one song I dialed up and listened to. Not an exact replica of MegaDave's very distinct and extremely nasally voice, but it was close enough and if anything I liked Chaz's voice better.

Peace Sells  - KoT @ Whiskey a Go Go

 

P.S. you know you love my 500 word diatribes.

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DOWNFALL OF GAIA - Silhouettes of Disgust. How can you have silhouettes of disgust? You can't. The music is pretty good though.

NORSE - Ascetic. Norse is noice.

NOSTROMO - Bucephale. Not a new band apparently but new to me. Aggressive and noisy. Good stuff. 

NP - VOLKER LANKOW - The Transience Of Life. Electronic ambient wankery. Nice background sounds.

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54 minutes ago, SurgicalBrute said:

Coffinborn - Cadaveric Retribution

Yes this is really good, from Hungary. I like that it's not all just let's blast-away rapid-fire, he's actually playing the drums like a human being. This is hitting me much better than that Brazilian one Podridão with the purple cover you texted us earlier.

 

This is the best death metal album I've found recently though. Can't get enough of it. Straight fire as Marko would say.

Parasitario - Everything Belongs to Death, Osaka Japan

 

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Mammon XV - Woes and Winter's Breath, San Diego CA, fuzzy atmo-black. Releases on the 31st. BMP has it on his page as black/death but there's not much death metal to be found here. It does however slay. Wish it was longer than 19 minutes.

 

Carcinoid - Metastatic Declination, proper filth, Melbourne Australia 2019

 

Goatvomit/Kratornas - Sovereigns Gathered Split, 2003 Greece/Philippines. This pretty much hits the limit of how lo-fi I can go (the Kratornas half anyway) but this is fucking awesome. Released on cassette 20 years ago but I got lucky, the label put it on BC digitally two years ago for $6. As Doc would say, youse will hate it.

 

Horda - Obsession, Poland 2020, now this is black/death. Thought their new one "Form" was very good so now I'm checking out their first album.

 

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24 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Fluisteraars - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I: Harslo (2023)

Fucking record title is longer than the EP itself.

I grabbed their first two albums Dromers and Luwte, and the EP right after that ('14, '15, '16) but then I wasn't really feeling their 2020 album Bloem, so I've kinda lost track of them since. I see you've been firing up a Fluisteraars album each day lately for the past several days and I've gotta say this one here might be the best thing I've ever heard from them. Although yeah, at just 12 and a half minutes it certainly leaves you wanting more. I think Doc would really like these Dutchmen (if he doesn't know about them already). This ain't Darkthrone, it's post-black (I almost wanna call it progresssive post-black) weird in spots but not too weird, and they don't overdo the post part, it still has grit. 

 

NP: Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking, 2021, this one's not bad either.

 

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5 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I grabbed their first two albums Dromers and Luwte, and the EP right after that ('14, '15, '16) but then I wasn't really feeling their 2020 album Bloem, so I've kinda lost track of them since. I see you've been firing up a Fluisteraars album each day lately for the past several days and I've gotta say this one here might be the best thing I've ever heard from them. Although yeah, at just 12 and a half minutes it certainly leaves you wanting more. I think Doc would really like these Dutchmen (if he doesn't know about them already). This ain't Darkthrone, it's post-black (I almost wanna call it progresssive post-black) weird in spots but not too weird, and they don't overdo the post part, it still has grit. 

 

NP: Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking, 2021, this one's not bad either.

 

I had heard Bloem as my first foray into these guys and quickly dismissed it - as it turns out it was a poor starting point.  The latest is digestible enough though for a quick yet thoughtful blast.  Have enjoyed the compilation of songs from their first 2 demos (Relaas) the most though and it underlines how whenever I hear hype around a band I should always go for the early stuff first to understand what they were all about at the start before venturing into their more popular or simply most recent release.

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Inferno - Paradeigma: Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity (2021)

 

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