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2 hours ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

HELLSHOCK - Live At Saint Vitus

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Whoever is responsible for this Live at St Vitus series of videos is performing a real public service. I should pay more attention to who's playing at St Vitus because I could probably be in Greenpoint in 90 minutes. Alright well Google Maps is telling me more like 2 hours now because weekend traffic at the tunnel's all fucked up. But at nighttime I'm sure I could do the 58.7 miles (95k's) in under 90 minutes.

 

Blackbraid - Blackbraid II, really enjoying this new Blackbraid even more than the first one.

 

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3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Whoever is responsible for this Live at St Vitus series of videos is performing a real public service. I should pay more attention to who's playing at St Vitus because I could probably be in Greenpoint in 90 minutes. Alright well Google Maps is telling me more like 2 hours now because weekend traffic at the tunnel's all fucked up. But at nighttime I'm sure I could do the 58.7 miles (95k's) in under 90 minutes.

 

Blackbraid - Blackbraid II, really enjoying this new Blackbraid even more than the first one.

 

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NP: Vimur - Transcendental Violence

▶︎ Transcendental Violence | Vimur | BORIS RECORDS (bandcamp.com)

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Dammit, space lions always make me wish I could actually get a group together to learn Twilight Imperium. So hard to get a group together to play a board game everybody knows, much less learn a new one.

Anyways, we've got some black metal with this. It's a little early for me to form a full opinion on it. The title track has a hell of an edge to it though even if the opener was a little riffless. Kind of reminds me of Immortal if they had dialed back on the uniform tonality of At the Heart of Winter. Now I enjoy AtHoW as it was an extremely formative record for my early exposure to black metal outside of the inescapable Dimmus of the world, but going backwards through their discography I think maybe it was a case of hearing the right album at the right time. AtHoW is a really trying listen for more than a few songs for me these days since the whole album pretty much never switches up in overall sound and structure. It does one thing really well instead of many things poorly. Pure Holocaust is far more dynamic, creative, and energetic in my opinion, and it sort of feels like a nice medium between the two is what these dudes are going for here. Nice slowdowns too, which I find is often where bm falters.

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Mutilatred - Determined to Rot (2022)

 

Gotta admit, seeing the song lengths on this one, I was thinking it was going to be a lot more grindy in the vein of Defeated Sanity and such. This is straight from the source uncut death metal though, which is good. Sometimes that's all I really want.

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Vimur - Transcendental Violence...we've got some black metal with this. It's a little early for me to form a full opinion on it. The title track has a hell of an edge to it though even if the opener was a little riffless. Kind of reminds me of Immortal if they had dialed back on the uniform tonality of At the Heart of Winter. Now I enjoy AtHoW as it was an extremely formative record for my early exposure to black metal outside of the inescapable Dimmus of the world, but going backwards through their discography I think maybe it was a case of hearing the right album at the right time. AtHoW is a really trying listen for more than a few songs for me these days since the whole album pretty much never switches up in overall sound and structure. It does one thing really well instead of many things poorly. Pure Holocaust is far more dynamic, creative, and energetic in my opinion, and it sort of feels like a nice medium between the two is what these dudes are going for here. Nice slowdowns too, which I find is often where bm falters.

A little early? It's been out for 15 months! I kid, I kid. Thought it was pretty good, I bought it last year, but I don't think it was ever in any serious danger of making my 2022 list. So good, but nothing to write home about as they say. Guess I just find it hard to take black metal coming out of a place like Jawja in the sweltering American south seriously. Ain't no icy windswept forests in Atlanta. But I must say I love how your mini Vimur review turned into an indictment of Immortal and the beloved At the Heart of Winter.

I remember coming home from work one day about 8 or 9 years ago and my wife had been having a rough day with the fussy baby. So when she finally got him down in his crib for a nap she said she went on Youtube and being in a mood she decided to search "black metal" and by chance At the Heart of Winter was the first thing that came up. She knew nothing of black metal other than being aware that it was something I listened to, so she listened to the album and ended up liking it. I get home later and she's like "You have to get this album for me" and proceeded to pull it up on Youtube to show me, to which I laughed and replied "Don't worry, I've already got it." I was glad because I knew if I were to order her the cd, by the time it came in the mail she'd have forgotten all about it. I agree though that while that one certainly has its proponents, there are other more worthwhile Immortal albums, namely Pure Holocaust and Battles in the North.

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Mutilatred - Determined to Rot (2022)

Gotta admit, seeing the song lengths on this one, I was thinking it was going to be a lot more grindy in the vein of Defeated Sanity and such. This is straight from the source uncut death metal though, which is good. Sometimes that's all I really want.

Missed this one last year, this is really good gonna have to grab it. More midwestern death metal from Toledo Ohio.

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