What Are You Listening To?

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Stygian - Ambience of Evil

▶︎ Ambience of Evil | Stygian | Chaostorm Records (bandcamp.com)

Well it's not ambient, that's for sure. Decent stuff, but you can only get by for so long on the charm of low production values, and raw energy. Still can't fault them too much.

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

AVSKUM - En Annan Varld Ar Mojlig

HEATHEN PRAYER - The Devil And The Dayplay Laborer

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

The next 38 should be some appendage of goat

Laugh if you want but Goat Penis is a really good band. Better than most of the crap you post. They're actually one of the more musical war metal bands and they have a long solid catalog unlike a lot of lesser war metal bands. Their main founding dude Sabbaoth died two years back after 30 years of Goat Penising so that might put a damper on their career going forward even though they're still listed as active. I get why people are put off by the name and if someone asked me what bands I liked (as they will often do when you say you like metal and then reply that no, Metallica, Ozzy, AC/DC and 5FDP weren't what you meant by "metal") I probably wouldn't lead with Goat Penis. Or Goat Semen for that matter, another good American war metal band. But no, even as much as I can't resist collecting Goat bands, rest assured there won't be any more Goat bands in my top 38.

 

 

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM 

 

38. Schrat - Alptraumgänger, A German two-piece, these guys were amazingly good but they broke up after this, their last album. The guitar/bass/vocals half Gråin who was also behind other favorite bands of mine Gråinheim and Drudensang has apparently quit all of them according to M-A so seems he's out of the metal game, for now anyway.

 

37. Ad Hominem - Napalm For All, France. Yes there is badass black metal from places other than Finland. I think I like one man bands so much (or bands that turn out to be one or two man bands) is because there is no one else there to compromise his artistic vision.

 

[Innominate]

Brodequin - Methods of Execution 

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Funeralopolis - ...of Deceit and Utter Madness, Swiss 3-piece of death. Must have missed this in 2020. Maybe their name led me to believe they were gonna be a stoner doom band or something. But they're not, this is really good death metal. Allways a shame when a band finally gets their full length out after a decade or more of existence and then breaks up shortly after.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM 

 

36. Purtenance - Awaken from Slumber, Finland (554) CBS took MoID so I'll take the comeback album. Two original members on drums and guitars with two young guys on bass and vox, I like Purtenance Mk II.

 

35. Cemetery Urn - Barbaric Retribution, (556) wonderfully ugly death metal from Melbourne Australia. I actually wore this shirt yesterday.

 

[Miss_Havisham]

"Raven" by DARK THE SUNS. A very interesting band from Finland I'm starting to know.

They make Melodic Death mixed with Gothic Metal.

Months ago I did listen to them; they did appear in the "related videos" in "Youtube", I saw some title that I found interesting. However maybe it was not the right time, nor the right song, I guess.

And recently, I saw a recommendation of the song called "Sleeping beauty" in "Reddit".

And I started to like them. It was like a second chance. So, I'm starting to know this band.

It reminds me of another band, from when I was young.

[CumBloodSucker]

2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

37. Ad Hominem - Napalm For All, France

Awesome band! The rest are killers also. And nobody understands Goat penis until one has experienced it!

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CBS's top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM 

20. Sodom - Obsessed by cruelty

19. Angelcorpse - Exterminate

18. Beherit - Drawing down the moon

17. Man is the bastard - Sum of the men "the brutality continues"

Hardcore/sludge/noise, this group just went and forgot what's actually music. I like it.

16. Pungent stench - Been caught buttering

 

[Serpentboi1992]

[Kristiko]

Metallica - Kill 'Em All (album)

[Innominate]

Minutemen - Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM 

 

34. Alastor - Crushing Christiendom, Portugal (562) Very consistent but overlooked band. Raw black/thrash just doesn't get the respect it rightfully deserves.

 

33. Diaboli - The Antichrist, Finland (564) now we're getting into the unfuckwithable tier of bands. Starting with these two the rest of my list is all bands that I hold in the highest esteem, these are "my bands" as it were. There are other newer bands not on this list that I think of as "my bands" as well, the only reason they're not here is they only have an album or two out and haven't had enough time to rack up a ton of plays yet. So this entire list is really more of a favorite established longstanding bands list than what I would come up with if you just asked me to list my 200 favorite bands. There will be only 3 more Finnish bands in my top 32. There have been 24 so far, so that means 27 altogether or 13.5% of my 200 have been Finnish bands. Which is nuts considering they only have 5.54 million people up there.

 

[Thatguy]

6 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I get why people are put off by the name

I'm not put off at all. It is amusing. I genuinely want more goat appendage bands.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM 

 

32. Murg -  Varg & Björn, Sweden (572) these guys should be much higher up on my list but their discography is only 3 albums, just 24 songs. Without question they're my favorite of all the newer young black metal bands who just got started in the last 10 years.

 

31. Bathory - Hammerheart (575) I really don't listen to Bathory as often as I should, and whenever I do I always think I should really do this more often. Been playing the ever loving shit out of Hammerheart lately though, these last couple of months I just keep going back to it again and again. I might even be willing to say this has become my favorite Bathory album.

 

25 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

I'm not put off at all. It is amusing. I genuinely want more goat appendage bands.

But if you're searching for something to listen to you're not gonna click on Goat Penis are you? You wouldn't take them seriously as a band even though for war metal they're really a cut above most other bands.

[Dead1]

Enjoying these counting down lists.  Interesting to see what people really like (ie listen to often). 

[Dead1]

6 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

33. Diaboli - The Antichrist, Finland

 

Actually checked this out,  It's not a bad album but it does blur after a while.  It seems to struggle with pacing too as it seems to lose puff at times.

4 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

32. Murg -  Varg & Björn, Sweden (572) these guys should be much higher up on my list but their discography is only 3 albums, just 24 songs. Without question they're my favorite of all the newer young black metal bands who just got started in the last 10 years.

 

These guys seem a bit more tighter and a bigger sound than Diaboli.  Also somewhat generic BM.  Again it's listenable and enjoyable in a non-offensive kind of way but forgettable to my ears.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Suffocation - Pierced From Within

[Innominate]

Vacuous Depths - Demo 2017

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

2 hours ago, Dead1 said:

Actually checked this out,  It's not a bad album but it does blur after a while.  It seems to struggle with pacing too as it seems to lose puff at times.

These guys seem a bit more tighter and a bigger sound than Diaboli.  Also somewhat generic BM.  Again it's listenable and enjoyable in a non-offensive kind of way but forgettable to my ears.

I know you're not a black metal guy. But that's OK, a lot of people aren't into it. Diaboli had much "bigger" souding records than that one, like Wiking Division and the last one Pagan Gods Rise. I think Wiking Division is my favorite, it's WWII themed so you might like that one better.

The dude Pete behind Diaboli also put out a couple of death metal records under the name Psycopathic Terror. What do you think of this? The title was his prisoner number.

Psychopathic Terror - 230204

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Type O Negative - World Coming Down

[GoatmasterGeneral]

I see Cum Blaster's awake and liking shit so I'd better get on with the countdown.

 

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

30. Napalm Death - Apex Predator, Birmingham UK (588) Had no idea which one I'd pick for Napalm as they have so many good ones. Almost went with the Code is Red and I thought about it then changed it to Harmony Corruption at the last minute.

 

29. Discharge  - End of Days, Stoke, Midlands UK. Yeah I could have gone with the classic era but Cum Blaster already used HNSNSN for his list so I took this one which was a good crust record in 2016. ( 595)

 

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

SONIC POISON - Eruption

 

[AlSymerz]

Sacrilege BC - Party With God

[Dead1]

2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

 

The dude Pete behind Diaboli also put out a couple of death metal records under the name Psycopathic Terror. What do you think of this? The title was his prisoner number.

Psychopathic Terror - 230204

 

That's far more up my alley! Meaty and riffy!

[CumBloodSucker]

I guess I should also point out that as we are now approaching the bottom of this volcanic, toxic gas-fuming pit, there is nothing more to be found than fear, agony, disgust and despair. In other words, my favorite bands. It's been so for quite some time. I just didn't care to mention it until the good old american warrior decided to go passionate. And to throw back the ball to the American GoatG, there are still three US death metal bands in this list. There would probably be finnish bands also, if they were in digital form and lastFM would find a way to scrobble them. I should make my own top 100 list after this.

Actually this is not a list anymore. I'ts the monolith of Dagon and I'm just blindly reading the carvings written in it.

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CBS's top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

15. Mütiilation - Vampires of black imperial blood

Ma personnalité est supprimée. Tout ce que je comprends, c'est le vide.

14. Mystifier - Aleister Crowley

I was thinking to put Wicca or Göetia here to "better" represent Mystifier's music, but fuck it. This demo is my favorite.

13. Eyehategod - Southern discomfort

Sludge is Eyehategod!

 

And the next two changed my early teenage life forever... I could go with any of The Key albums from both bands, but these were the first ones.

12. Darkthrone - Transilvanian hunger

11. Deicide - Deicide