What Are You Listening To?

[Nasty_Cabbage]

1 hour ago, JamesT said:

Totally fair point!  It doesn't derail it for me, honestly.  I love a lot of melo-death, and to be honest, I was kind of jumping all over my music library yesterday.  I knew I wanted death metal but wasn't paying too much attention to the order of play.  My only exposure to The Crown is their album "Cobra Speed Venom".  I like it well enough, but it's not one I revisit much.  I'll check out some more of their stuff over the weekend!  As Mr. GG pointed out, I think of The Crown as more death/thrash - not that that's either here or there haha.

Today, I have listened all the way through - in chronological order - the first 12 albums in the Judas Priest catalog, culminating my day with my favorite of them all, which is the mighty Painkiller.  Not only is there not a single weak song in my opinion - there's not even a weak moment from top to bottom.  Incredible effort from the metal gods.

 

Eh. I won't trash Slaughter. I actually think it's a good album, and incredibly influential as well. You can definitely count me in the camp that wishes they had stayed with the direction they had with TRITSIO, though. The songwriting is just so much more involved and interesting to me on that one. Bass or no bass, Slaughter is very streamlined and really slickly produced. There's really only room in each song for one to three admitedly very strong riffs and transitions, and if that's more what I'm going for I tend to prefer The Crown which can feed that direct approach right into the main vein a little faster.

The thrash thing does make sense I suppose, but at the point where you're dealing with extreme metal with speed, crunchy riffs, and Gothenberg melodicism the really neat and tidy distinctions start to break down. Not that they're not there, but it's a little like the difference between Mexican food from different regions. Yeah one might have more seafood, and one might have more pork and eggs and cheese, and one might just be tex-mex and not representative of Mexico's palette at all, but at some point somebody is going to place a giant plate of carbs protein and assorted other deliciousness in front of me that I'm going to shovel into my facehole like a swine regardless of these differences.

Note to self: Try not to post when hungry.

[Innominate]

Norcos Y Horchata - Forever Disheveled

Norcos Y Horchata - Aloha Motherfuckers

[Nasty_Cabbage]

Lucifixion - Trisect Joys of Pierced Hearts

▶︎ Trisect Joys of Pierced Hearts | LUCIFIXION | Sentient Ruin Laboratories (bandcamp.com)

Pretty standard, but enjoyable.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Buddy of mine says he's stuck on this album, says it's his aoty.  I said I thought it was very good but not top 10 for me, might not even make my top 20.  Because I go for the wall of noise Norsecore sound. But I've listened to this a few more times and it is actually quite good, it might even crack my top 20 after all. 

 

Apocalyptic Leaders - Theory of Death, Greece

 

[Hungarino]

Vile Ritual - Caverns of Occultic Hatred

[Nasty_Cabbage]

I will give that Apocalyptic Leaders album a try in a second Herr Ziegemiester. Will report back.

NP: BARRABÁS - The Arrival of Yog Sothoth

▶︎ BARRABÁS: The Arrival of Yog-Sothoth | Kadax Azuhos, Paulo Portes & Oksarrak | Nyarlathotep Records (bandcamp.com)

Had to give this a spin just because it's from what looks to be a South American label called Nyarlathotep Records. I know Lovecraft references are a cliche, but with charm like that I just can't help myself.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

3 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

Herr Ziegemiester

I prefer Maestro de Cabras

[Nasty_Cabbage]

59 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Buddy of mine says he's stuck on this album, says it's his aoty.  I said I thought it was very good but not top 10 for me, might not even make my top 20.  Because I go for the wall of noise Norsecore sound. But I've listened to this a few more times and it is actually quite good, it might even crack my top 20 after all. 

 

Apocalyptic Leaders - Theory of Death, Greece

 

Alright. A few songs in I'm immediately reminded of an album I heard years and years ago when I was just exploring black metal outside of the classics: Dark Forest - In Jeraspunta. This goes right for that pulsing consistent undercurrent that keeps the listener engaged. I couldn't be sure, of course, not knowing these guys personally, but something is making me suspect that when they're listening to music outside of metal one or more of them may be into some of the older industrial/electronic groups out there, which is a genre I deeply respect but can't listen to for myself. These guys are doing all of this with the raw sound of their instruments, though, and the drumming is clearly showing remarkable restraint from the machine-gun effect you often hear. I like it. I'll probably replay it in a few days to see if it's cooled on me though, but I'd say your friend has a good nose.

[Serpentboi1992]

[Nasty_Cabbage]

39 minutes ago, Serpentboi1992 said:

 

I have a cofession. I've never heard any GG Allin anything. I think it's probably because 

I've associated that name with sleazy grindcore for so long I just habitually turned away from it.

Putrid Yell - Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration | Putrid Yell | Pulverised Records (bandcamp.com)

Ahh. I needed this today.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

11 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

I have a cofession. I've never heard any GG Allin anything. I think it's probably because 

I've associated that name with sleazy grindcore for so long I just habitually turned away from it.

It's more sleazy nasty punk rock than it is grindcore. Definitely wouldn't call it grindcore. 

GG Allin - Freaks, Faggots, Drunks and Junkies, 1988

 

[NocJourn]

Inquinok's Entranced by Twilight's Gaze is still a favorite after all of these years of randomly falling onto this album. Very good melodic, symphonic black metal.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Hell - III, sludgy funeral doom Salem Oregon 2012

 

Cerbère - Cendre, sludge/doom France, really fell in love with this one today.

 

[markm]

4 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Buddy of mine says he's stuck on this album, says it's his aoty.  I said I thought it was very good but not top 10 for me, might not even make my top 20.  Because I go for the wall of noise Norsecore sound. But I've listened to this a few more times and it is actually quite good, it might even crack my top 20 after all. 

 

Apocalyptic Leaders - Theory of Death, Greece

 

I'm going to check this one out. Sounds interesting. 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Coffin Mulch - Spectral Intercession, death metal Glasgow Scotland

 

All Consumed – Hallowed Violence, death metal Preston Lancashire UK

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

Goats of Doom - Shiva

▶︎ Shiva | Goats of Doom (bandcamp.com)

Well the first track is damned catchy. I'll stick with this a minute.

[Arioch]

Forever Pavot - L'Idiophone (2023)

Ok, it's not Metal, punk or anything else, but it answers the question of the topic: What am I listening to? Well, this does! 😁

[MacabreEternal]

Bram Stoker's Dracula - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)

 

[agamerwholovesmetal]

1969 demo - earth (black sabbath)

sounds surprisingly good for a demo this old. 

 

[Innominate]

Il Balletto di Bronzo - YS

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Windhand - Eternal Return, 2018, must have listened to this album 10 times in the last 3 days, it's sounding so good I can't seem to stop myself. Clean vocals, major label all the things I say I don't like, I don't know what's wrong with me. Must be crazy from the heat, should probably put the A/C in the window today.

 

[Serpentboi1992]

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Merciless - The Awakening, Swedish death/thrash 1990. Don't listen to this one nearly often enough, it rips.  

 

Messiah - Choir of Horrors, Swiss death/thrash 1991

 

Asphyx - Last One on Earth, Netherlands 1992. MVD definitely a love him or hate him kind of vocalist. 

 

[AlSymerz]

Druid Lord - Grotesque Offerings

[Nasty_Cabbage]

Evadne - A Mother Named Death

▶︎ Evadne - A Mother Named Death | MMR039 | Meuse Music Records (bandcamp.com)

Don't usually go in for the My Dying Bride/Swallow the Sun brand of doom as it's usually palatable, but rarely surprising, and this is very much that. Growls and cleans all exactly where you'd expect them, no real leads, similar tempos across the board, and okay but unmemorable melodies (in fact I'm pretty sure the first and third track use the same key change).  I just don't think this is for me.