What Are You Listening To?

[JJWO]

Incantation - Unholy Deification (2023 record)

[Thatguy]

2 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

I absolutely adore Arvo Part. His acapella choral compositions are my favorite. Wonderful music for wandering alone on a chilly night not sure and not really caring whether you're lost or not.

 

Yep. A composer of beautiful and mysterious music. (Although I have to say I don't need to hear Fratres again - I must have heard at least 5 or 6 versions.)

I was not familiar with the specific works WTF performed so I can't say how faithful they were to Pärt's scores. It sounded like very slow doom metal to me - so slow and spare that everyone here would hate it but me, apparently. I really enjoyed it though on a run through the hills behind where I live, hills full of blooming wattle and smelling like spring.

Later - DEFORMATORY - Harbinger. Faster.

CABINET - Claustrophobic Dysentry. Miserable, but in a good way.

[FatherAlabaster]

19 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Yep. A composer of beautiful and mysterious music.

You might dig this, some friends in a string quartet recorded a string version of "Summa" a few years ago.

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Marble Dagger - Marble Dagger

▶︎ Marble Dagger | MARBLE DAGGER | Solar Asceticists Productions (bandcamp.com)

What the fuck is this?! Why would anybody think that combining black(ish) metal with shitty early nineties indie rock was a good idea? Good God this is sickeningly awful. I recommend staying clear unless you absolutely need to know what black metal chord progressions interspersed with Dinosaur Jr. vocals would sound like.

[Thatguy]

22 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

You might dig this, some friends in a string quartet recorded a string version of "Summa" a few years ago.

Nice. Thanks.

 

10 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

I recommend staying clear

Nice cover art though. But I will heed your warning.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

3 hours ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

NP: Lantern - Below

It's surprising how many times I've come back to this album in particular over the years. There's probably many death metal albums that have passed me by and been forgotten from this time (2013), but not this one. There's just something weirdly distinct about it that makes me return after a while.

There ain't much in the black and death realm hailing from Finland that I don't like at least a little bit, but this band is one of the few. I tried real hard with this one too because so many people I know were singing its praises, but it was just too unusual for me. "Weirdly distinct" is a pretty good way to describe them. Crazy to think that Below's 10 years old already. 

 

Black Spell – Seasons of the Damned, fuzzed out Satanic Italian doom, sort of a cross between EW and Possessor, but a bit lighter and more tongue in cheek.

 

2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

It sounded like very slow doom metal to me - so slow and spare that everyone here would hate it but me, apparently. I really enjoyed it though on a run through the hills behind where I live, hills full of blooming wattle and smelling like spring.

Later - DEFORMATORY - Harbinger. Faster.

CABINET - Claustrophobic Dysentry. Miserable, but in a good way.

Yeah, all your taste is in your mouth Doc but we'll keep you around because we've learned to like you. And I'll give credit where credit is due, you do bust out with a ripper every now and then. I do really like that Cabinet band. And that Reformatory EP ain't bad either. Not used to seeing you post regular straight-up death metal like this. It's not even weird or progressive or avant-garde or anything!

[Nasty_Cabbage]

17 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

There ain't much in the black and death realm hailing from Finland that I don't like at least a little bit, but this band is one of the few. I tried real hard with this one too because so many people I know were singing its praises, but it was just too unusual for me. "Weirdly distinct" is a pretty good way to describe them. Crazy to think that Below's 10 years old already. 

That's perfectly fair. I've heard some people talk about it with the whole "It's more about hearing what they're trying to sound like first and then listening to the whole thing fall apart into something new." thing which I think might be a little too much credit, but it's hard to deny that they have a way of upending expectations. And myself being the type of slavering from the mouth listener who's always asking "Good, but could it be weirder somehow?" I took to it when it came out and have been semi-regularly championing it's weirdo virtues ever since. I'm not gonna break out the poms poms and cheerlead it like it's the second coming of Demilich, though just because a) nobody needs to see that, and b) I completely understand why it's not for everybody.

 

NP: Negative Plane - The Pact

The Pact | NEGATIVE PLANE (bandcamp.com)

Then of course sometimes an excellently structured collection of carefully curated riffs like the above is sometimes more than enough to satisfy.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Aphotic -  Abyssgazer, Italian death

 

Escarnium - Dysthymia, Brazilian death 2022

 

[Arioch]

9 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I figured as much by your response that you just weren't familiar with his desert island reference. It's just this thing we English speakers do where we'll ask the question: "Si vous étiez bloqué sur une île déserte, quels 10 albums emporteriez-vous?"

It's an expression that we French also have. We use it in the same way as you do, but when we react to listening to an album we like, we tend to say that "it's an album we'd take to a desert island" rather than just a "desert album".

I had understood something quite different, hence my reaction. My sincere apologies!

[RelentlessOblivion]

Misery Index - Traitors

Demial - Catacombs of the Grotesque

[navybsn]

1 hour ago, Arioch said:

It's an expression that we French also have. We use it in the same way as you do, but when we react to listening to an album we like, we tend to say that "it's an album we'd take to a desert island" rather than just a "desert album".

I had understood something quite different, hence my reaction. My sincere apologies!

No offense taken. Besides the fact that I completely acknowledge everyone has different tastes and opinions on music, I figured that the reference was different in France. Colloquial sayings usually don't translate that well between cultures without some explanation.

[MacabreEternal]

12 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

 

 

Inspired by this that got me all gooey inside, now playing:

Arvo Pärt - Fratres (1980 version for violin and piano -Tasmin Little, Martin Roscoe and Richard Studt)

 

 

[FatherAlabaster]

Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes

Rotting Christ - Triarchy Of The Lost Lovers

[JamesT]

Primal Fear - Self-titled

Cannot wait for the release of album #14 on Friday, "Code Red"!

One of the most consistent catalogs in all of heavy metal.  Scheepers is a phenomenal singer, perfect for traditional metal.  These guys cover it all - epic, symphonic songs, hard-and-nasty bruisers, and everything in between.  Gonna be playing through the (current) 13-album catalog this week in preparation for the big day on Friday.  

[Thatguy]

7 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Arvo Pärt - Fratres (1980 version for violin and piano -Tasmin Little, Martin Roscoe and Richard Studt)

It's not that I don't think it an excellent piece, it's just that every man and his dog has a version of it.

[AlSymerz]

It's true, my dog's version was Top 10 in the greats Dog hits of the 80's.

 

[FatherAlabaster]

Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still

[GoatmasterGeneral]

GraveRipper - Seasons Dreaming Death, ever so slightly blackened thrash from Indianapolis. Meat & potatoes thrash I guess you could call it, so you prog lovers can just keep on scrollin'. Every man and his dog could whip up an album like this. But I for one am finding this quite a bit better than the new Cruel Force to use a recent example, and light years better than the latest Enforced because unlike that plodding hot mess this actually thrashes. My buddy JT will probably like it anyway. All the Ockers will probably come and tell me I'm out of my bleedin' mind and should clean the shit out of my ears. Except Doc of course who wouldn't even dream of clicking on something like this.

 

[Dead1]

Incantation - Unholy Deification

This is quite good.  These guys might be predictable but unlike so many older bands, they can still belt it out like it's 1992.  Helps they don't have modern plastic Nuclear Blast Production (tm)  like so many old bands.

 

29 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

and light years better than the latest Enforced because unlike that plodding hot mess this actually thrashes. 

 

I agree.  New Enforced plods.  They've exhausted their rather limited formula and are not stuck in a rut.  Enforced is one of those bands you can own 1 album, thoroughly enjoy it but never need another one.

 

I will check out GraveRipper after Incantation have finished.

[AlSymerz]

Griveripper is on my future to do list because I didn't mind Radiated Remains, but god knows when I'll get around to it because there is others before it and apparently there is jobs I have to do before listening to music.

 

[Thatguy]

2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Except Doc of course who wouldn't even dream of clicking on something like this.

Well I did. It's not horrible, but it's entirely predictable. It's a bit metal-by-numbers, innit? My budgie says no more.

TARDIGRADA - Widrstand (Remastered). Warm and fuzzy.

BEES MADE HONEY IN THE VEIN TREE - Aion. Very nice indeed, but no-one here will like it. Fuck youse all.

CHOIR - Songs For a Tarnished World. Noice.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Step to Freedom - S/T, Russian stenchcore/crust punk

 

Sorrow - Black Crow, Polish stenchcore/death metal/crust 2021

 

6 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Well I did. It's not horrible, but it's entirely predictable. It's a bit metal-by-numbers, innit? My budgie says no more.

You say predictable, I say familiar and comforting like a well broken in pair of shoes. I like predictable, that's the whole point.

[Thatguy]

9 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I say familiar and comforting like a well broken in pair of shoes

That's what TARDIGRADA does for me. I get familiar and comforting. I'm not always after new and exciting

[Nasty_Cabbage]

2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

GraveRipper - Seasons Dreaming Death, ever so slightly blackened thrash from Indianapolis. Meat & potatoes thrash I guess you could call it, so you prog lovers can just keep on scrollin'. Every man and his dog could whip up an album like this. But I for one am finding this quite a bit better than the new Cruel Force to use a recent example, and light years better than the latest Enforced because unlike that plodding hot mess this actually thrashes. My buddy JT will probably like it anyway. All the Ockers will probably come and tell me I'm out of my bleedin' mind and should clean the shit out of my ears. Except Doc of course who wouldn't even dream of clicking on something like this.

 

Been seeing that one crop up here and there lately. It's enjoyable and might find it's way onto a playlist or two before the years out. I just love how the reaper's clearly having entirely too much fun with his reaper duties like he's saying "Quick, Who's got a thumb, a scythe, and will haunt your nightmares until your very soul leaves your body? This guy!"

NP: Machinations of Fate - Celestial Prophecies

▶︎ Celestial Prophecies | Machinations of Fate (bandcamp.com)

Some dudes out of Kentucky coming in with some really high quality melodeath/thrash that, if maybe not At The Gates levels at least gets the same heights as Nightrage, The Crown, or early Edge of Sanity. The super crisp production hinders it a little bit, but it seems like they caught me in a good mood, because I'm still enjoying.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

30 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

That's what TARDIGRADA does for me. I get familiar and comforting. I'm not always after new and exciting.

Right, and there are times when I'll come across stuff that's less predictable that appeals to me too. I listen to so much new music because I don't want to listen to literally the same albums repeatedly ad infinitum. But most of the time I still want them to basically stick to the sub-genre template, not reinvent the wheel. Color within the lines but write new riffs. Because to me unpredictable usually just means weird, and I definitely don't appreciate weirdness in my music.

 

 

24 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

NP: Machinations of Fate - Celestial Prophecies

Some dudes out of Kentucky coming in with some really high quality melodeath/thrash that, if maybe not At The Gates levels at least gets the same heights as Nightrage, The Crown, or early Edge of Sanity. The super crisp production hinders it a little bit, but it seems like they caught me in a good mood, because I'm still enjoying.

You lost me with the ATG comparison because The Crown totally mops the floor with those ATG poseurs!

Deathrace King