What Are You Listening To?

[Dead1]

2 hours ago, navybsn said:

heshers

Second time in less than 24 hours to see that archaic term for metalhead!

 

Personally I love early Anthrax and even some of their modern stuff.

 

Bathory - Nordland I

Love the Nordlands.  Quorthon went out in style!

[FatherAlabaster]

18 minutes ago, Hungarino said:

Oh, and you can thank them (and Aerosmith I guess) for rap-rock/metal.

thanks guys

[Dead1]

Pure Disgust - Pure Disgust

Modern hardcore punk  - a bit more song orientated than many of the acts that I've been listening to lately but still raucous and energetic as hell.

 

 

G.I.S.M. - Military Affairs Neurotic

Kind of like Venom & Celtic Frost meets Iron Maiden and occasionally early Def Leppard/toned down NWOBHM, some random industrial stuff and a black metal vocalist.

 

[Dead1]

Integity - Systems Overload

1990s metallic hardcore.

 

 

 

[CumBloodSucker]

8 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Bangin' top 10. I've just never been that much into Revenge and I've never heard of Linekraft I don't think.

I've found some more room to Revenge. A bit more grinding approach compared to Archgoat's more blasphemous style.

5 hours ago, navybsn said:

Re Anthrax, not sure how old you are @Nasty_Cabbage, but it's one of those bands you had to be there for. Early thrash wasn't flush with options and they were the early leader in the clubhouse on crossover appeal. A band heshers and punks could both like, even the burgeoning hip-hop crowd found something to like. Along with Suicidal, they were huge in skate culture. They don't have real staying power and much of it hasn't aged as well as the other 3, but they're in the big time for a reason. I personally never have a need to listen to any of their stuff ever again though. Especially not these days when I have so many more choices from Deathrow to Watchtower to Blind Illusion to Devastation or any of the myriad of bands I had no clue of back 30+ years ago.

I naturally respect people for liking what they want. I definitely wasn't there, being born in '89. Anthrax sounds like a bland rock band to my ears, but in this case also a bit annoying like those rocking guitar chicks that youtube is trying to shove down my throat with their algorithm.

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More Revenge for the morning.

Revenge - Infiltration.Downfall.Death

 

[Dead1]

Fear Factory - Demanufacture

Been a while since I spent some quality time with this one.

 

Death - Individual Thought Patterns

[Nasty_Cabbage]

1 hour ago, Dead1 said:

G.I.S.M. - Military Affairs Neurotic

Kind of like Venom & Celtic Frost meets Iron Maiden and occasionally early Def Leppard/toned down NWOBHM, some random industrial stuff and a black metal vocalist.

 

Caught this one a while ago. It's... not for me. It definitely feels like a Relapse band though, like back when Goatsnake and Today Is The Day were some of their biggest signings. Not a knock against the label at all. They brought a bunch of bands into the (relativelly) mainstream that may have gone otherwise unheard. Still they definitely had a touch of the weird and out of left field back in the day.

 

NP:  KÖRGULL THE EXTERMINATOR - Built To Kill

▶︎ Built to Kill | KÖRGULL THE EXTERMINATOR | Xtreem Music (bandcamp.com)

Welp, pretty much what you expect. All the standard influences Venom, Hellhammer, maybe Midnight for something modern. I can dig it.

[Dead1]

1 hour ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

Caught this one a while ago. It's... not for me. It definitely feels like a Relapse band though, like back when Goatsnake and Today Is The Day were some of their biggest signings. Not a knock against the label at all. They brought a bunch of bands into the (relativelly) mainstream that may have gone otherwise unheard. Still they definitely had a touch of the weird and out of left field back in the day.

Relapse were (and still are) definitely the more off kilter label in those days especially when compared to other big extreme labels ala Roadrunner, Century Media, Combat, Noise (noting Celtic Frost and Voivod started off more conventional) and Nuclear Blast who tended to go with more conventional offerings.

To be fair it's very hit or miss too.  Sometimes they really latch on to something awesome (eg early Mastodon) and other times they're unlistenable turds.

But kudos to them for keeping an open mind.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Graveland - Following the Voice of Blood, Poland 1997

 

Graveland - Thousand Swords, 1995

 

[JonoBlade]

NO | Old Man Gloom (bandcamp.com)

From time to time I need gloom.

[MacabreEternal]

Miserere Luminis - Ordalie (2023)

 

[JamesT]

Riot - "Rock City"

Be'lakor - "Stone's Reach"

Really enjoyed this melodeath experience.

Crypta - "Echoes of the Soul"

Fantastic all-female death metal band - formed by 3/4 of the former Nervosa lineup.

Heaven & Hell - "The Devil You Know"

A true shame they could only release this one album due to Dio's passing.  Fantastic stuff.

Dog Tired - "The Red Verse"

Solid groove/stoner metal band.  Not as crazy about this newer offering as some of their previous albums, such as "It Came from the Sun" or "Titan", but still really good.

[navybsn]

8 hours ago, Dead1 said:

G.I.S.M. - Military Affairs Neurotic

Kind of like Venom & Celtic Frost meets Iron Maiden and occasionally early Def Leppard/toned down NWOBHM, some random industrial stuff and a black metal vocalist.

 

G.I.S.M fucking rules. Batshit insane Japanese amalgamation of every style imaginable leaning heavily into hardcore punk and NWOBHM. M.A.N and Sonicrime Therapy are also fun listens.

 

Sijjin - Sumerian Promises

LIFE - Ossification of Coral

Taphos - Blood Plethora demo

 

[FatherAlabaster]

Virus - The Black Flux    ...what is "prog rock" anyway

[navybsn]

Excruciation By Silence - Metal Madness

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

Apocalypse - s/t

▶︎ Apocalypse (Deluxe Edition) | APOCALYPSE | Tribunal + Divebomb Records (bandcamp.com)

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

2 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Virus - The Black Flux    ...what is "prog rock" anyway

Age old question. Some say we may never know. Scientists claim we have only begun to scratch the surface and have only as yet been able to explore maybe 10% of the existing prog rock in the universe. Recently an observatory listening post in New Mexico has detected messages from outer space that have been decribed by astronomers as coming in such odd time signatures and polyrythyms that it could only be described as prog rock. An anonymous consortium of billionaire benefactors headed by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has put together a 5-man dream team of progonauts to launch a space mission into the outer galaxies in search of extra-terrestrial prog rock. This will be a strategic alliance joint venture between NASA and SpaceX. The $34 billion dollar solar powered vehicle will be mannned by: Colin Marston, Steven Wilson, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Chris DeGarmo. Robert Fripp wanted to be a part of this mission but was deemd to be too old to handle the rigors of space flight, so he has been grounded. John Petrucci wanted to go as well but was said to be too fat and smelly, no one wanted him in there with them. There will also be two as yet unnamed NASA dweebs onboard to do some scientific experiments once their destination has been reached and two Air Force test pilots will be enlisted to fly this sucker until it breaks free from the Earth's gravitational pull at which time they will board a lifeboat shuttlecraft and be jettisoned from the main spacecraft to return back down to Earth. The spacecraft will then be navigated and piloted from the ground by Elon's crack team of space nerds. The progonaut team will be cryogenically frozen and sealed into pods, kept alive intravenously and their vitals monitored closely by computer for the 540 year journey to the Andromeda galaxy where the messages are thought to have originated. Then the onboard computer will reawaken them in 2562 in hopes they will be able to make contact with the alien prog rockers. NASA has no plan to re-freeze them and bring them back safely (if there'd even be anything left on Earth to come back to in 1080 years) but when asked for comment a spokesman for the SpaceX company has reportedly said: "Hey listen, we can't think of everything man."

[FatherAlabaster]

3 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Age old question. Some say we may never know. Scientists claim we have only begun to scratch the surface and have only as yet been able to explore maybe 10% of the existing prog rock in the universe. Recently an observatory listening post in New Mexico has detected messages from outer space that have been decribed by astronomers as coming in such odd time signatures and polyrythyms that it could only be described as prog rock. An anonymous consortium of billionaire benefactors headed by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has put together a 5-man dream team of progonauts to launch a space mission into the outer galaxies in search of extra-terrestrial prog rock. The $34 billion dollar solar powered vehicle will be mannned by: Colin Marston, Steven Wilson, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Chris DeGarmo. Robert Fripp wanted to be a part of this mission but was deeemd to old to handle the rigors of space flight, so he has been grounded. John Petrucci wanted to go as well but was said to be too fat and smelly, no one wanted him in there with them. There will also be two as yet unnamed NASA dweebs onboard to do some scientific experiments once their destination has been reached and two Air Force test pilots will be enlisted to fly this sucker until it breaks free from the Earth's gravitational pull at which time they will board a lifeboat shuttlecraft and be jettisoned from the main spacecraft to return back down to Earth. The spacecraft will then be navigated and piloted from the ground by Elon's crack team of space nerds. The progonaut team will be cryogenically frozen and sealed into pods, kept alive intravenously and their vitals monitored closely by computer for the 540 year journey to the Andromeda galaxy where the messages are thought to have originated. Then the onboard computer will reawaken them in 2562 in hopes they will be able to make contact with the alien prog rockers. NASA has no plan to re-freeze them and bring them back safely (if there'd even be anything left on Earth to come back to in 1080 years) but a spokesman for the SpaceX company has reprtedly said: "Hey listen, we can't think of everything man."

This is devastating news. Except for Steven Wilson, they can send him.

[Nasty_Cabbage]

32 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Age old question. Some say we may never know. Scientists claim we have only begun to scratch the surface and have only as yet been able to explore maybe 10% of the existing prog rock in the universe. Recently an observatory listening post in New Mexico has detected messages from outer space that have been decribed by astronomers as coming in such odd time signatures and polyrythyms that it could only be described as prog rock. An anonymous consortium of billionaire benefactors headed by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has put together a 5-man dream team of progonauts to launch a space mission into the outer galaxies in search of extra-terrestrial prog rock. The $34 billion dollar solar powered vehicle will be mannned by: Colin Marston, Steven Wilson, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Chris DeGarmo. Robert Fripp wanted to be a part of this mission but was deemd to be too old to handle the rigors of space flight, so he has been grounded. John Petrucci wanted to go as well but was said to be too fat and smelly, no one wanted him in there with them. There will also be two as yet unnamed NASA dweebs onboard to do some scientific experiments once their destination has been reached and two Air Force test pilots will be enlisted to fly this sucker until it breaks free from the Earth's gravitational pull at which time they will board a lifeboat shuttlecraft and be jettisoned from the main spacecraft to return back down to Earth. The spacecraft will then be navigated and piloted from the ground by Elon's crack team of space nerds. The progonaut team will be cryogenically frozen and sealed into pods, kept alive intravenously and their vitals monitored closely by computer for the 540 year journey to the Andromeda galaxy where the messages are thought to have originated. Then the onboard computer will reawaken them in 2562 in hopes they will be able to make contact with the alien prog rockers. NASA has no plan to re-freeze them and bring them back safely (if there'd even be anything left on Earth to come back to in 1080 years) but when asked for comment a spokesman for the SpaceX company has reportedly said: "Hey listen, we can't think of everything man."

I believe they tried something like this in the seventies. The expidition was going to plan until the Hawkwind guys started communicating telekinetically with Lemmy. This would have been fine if the signals hadn't alerted a nearby satellite piloted by a mysterious figure known as the rose colored ruler who pumped enough acid into the sorounding atmosphere it overwhelmed their neural uptake inhibitors. Some say they ended up crash landing in Asia and after their transmission of their final countdown were never heard from again.

Real talk though, I've always disliked the label "progressive" since it implies an end point. Progression towards what? Is there some perfect song out there in the ether, and once somebody finds it we'll all just say "well that whole music thing was fun wasn't it?"

[GoatmasterGeneral]

I heard the sherpas found them, nursed them back to health, and now they're living a simple life off the grid in a commune in the Himilayas somewhere.

 

Convulsions - Grindcore Not War, Spain

 

Pissing Contest – Pissing Contest EP, sludge/grind 2020 USA

 

[FatherAlabaster]

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I heard the sherpas found them, nursed them back to health, and now they're living a simple life off the grid in a commune in the Himilayas somewhere.

Pretty sure it's actually Vermont.

2 hours ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

Real talk though, I've always disliked the label "progressive" since it implies an end point.

Huh. I've never felt that way about it. Always thought it was about the idea of moving forward, trying new things, constant exploration. You can hear that energy in a lot of "progressive rock" from back in its heyday. Maybe you're right and it's a misnomer now, because it's just another marketing term to help steer people who are looking for something that sounds like other stuff they've already heard. 

But that was the thought behind my little tongue-in-cheek aside about Virus. Weird timing, lots of weird chord changes and unusual vocal melodies, non-traditional songwriting, focus on musicianship, the whole thing is utterly quirky, it's arranged for a power trio format and even the mix sounds like a descendant of fat, organic 70s prog and fusion mixes, and yet I've never heard anyone call them "progressive rock".

[navybsn]

4 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Age old question. Some say we may never know. Scientists claim we have only begun to scratch the surface and have only as yet been able to explore maybe 10% of the existing prog rock in the universe. Recently an observatory listening post in New Mexico has detected messages from outer space that have been decribed by astronomers as coming in such odd time signatures and polyrythyms that it could only be described as prog rock. An anonymous consortium of billionaire benefactors headed by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has put together a 5-man dream team of progonauts to launch a space mission into the outer galaxies in search of extra-terrestrial prog rock. This will be a strategic alliance joint venture between NASA and SpaceX. The $34 billion dollar solar powered vehicle will be mannned by: Colin Marston, Steven Wilson, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Chris DeGarmo. Robert Fripp wanted to be a part of this mission but was deemd to be too old to handle the rigors of space flight, so he has been grounded. John Petrucci wanted to go as well but was said to be too fat and smelly, no one wanted him in there with them. There will also be two as yet unnamed NASA dweebs onboard to do some scientific experiments once their destination has been reached and two Air Force test pilots will be enlisted to fly this sucker until it breaks free from the Earth's gravitational pull at which time they will board a lifeboat shuttlecraft and be jettisoned from the main spacecraft to return back down to Earth. The spacecraft will then be navigated and piloted from the ground by Elon's crack team of space nerds. The progonaut team will be cryogenically frozen and sealed into pods, kept alive intravenously and their vitals monitored closely by computer for the 540 year journey to the Andromeda galaxy where the messages are thought to have originated. Then the onboard computer will reawaken them in 2562 in hopes they will be able to make contact with the alien prog rockers. NASA has no plan to re-freeze them and bring them back safely (if there'd even be anything left on Earth to come back to in 1080 years) but when asked for comment a spokesman for the SpaceX company has reportedly said: "Hey listen, we can't think of everything man."

Sounds like a prog concept album plot

[MacabreEternal]

Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis (2023)

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

2 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Huh. I've never felt that way about it. Always thought it was about the idea of moving forward, trying new things, constant exploration. You can hear that energy in a lot of "progressive rock" from back in its heyday. Maybe you're right and it's a misnomer now, because it's just another marketing term to help steer people who are looking for something that sounds like other stuff they've already heard. 

But that was the thought behind my little tongue-in-cheek aside about Virus. Weird timing, lots of weird chord changes and unusual vocal melodies, non-traditional songwriting, focus on musicianship, the whole thing is utterly quirky, it's arranged for a power trio format and even the mix sounds like a descendant of fat, organic 70s prog and fusion mixes, and yet I've never heard anyone call them "progressive rock".

Yeah, that's the idea, but forward towards what? Is there a goal? How is it determined whether something's going forward or backward? Obviously these are really silly nomenclature nitpicks when it comes to prog rock, and I doubt the dudes from Camel would be any more or less enthusiastic about some sort of musical end-game than the guys from Molly Hatchet. Just a dumb thing that's always bothered me about the label.

NP: Carnage - Dark Recollections

 

40 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis (2023)

 

I've seen this one bouncing around here and there. I gave it a listen a while ago and it seemed good, but a little plodding.

[Thatguy]

8 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Virus - The Black Flux    ...what is "prog rock" anyway

You know it when you hear it. This is such a good album.

13 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

Yeah, that's the idea, but forward towards what? Is there a goal? How is it determined whether something's going forward or backward? Obviously these are really silly nomenclature nitpicks when it comes to prog rock, and I doubt the dudes from Camel would be any more or less enthusiastic about some sort of musical end-game than the guys from Molly Hatchet. Just a dumb thing that's always bothered me about the label.

 

You don't need a goal to go forward. Life is like that. For me progressive -  if it means anything - means open to the new, or re-inventing the old. It's about making music that has not been heard before.

It's a dumb label though...