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THE CARS - Since You're Gone

...like this version more than the arena rock tinged official version....this version fits in better with the post punk of the time.....

Man, arena rock or not I loved the first few Cars albums, Candy-O being my favorite. Never thought of them as post-punk though, more like a sanitized palatable mainstream new wave band. But I guess that's what you're saying, this alternate version sounds a bit post-punky, not the original radio version.

 

The Cars - Candy-O, German TV June 7, 1979, I was two weeks from graduating high school.

 

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BEASTIE BOYS - Gratitude

.....more fyre.....

13 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Man, arena rock or not I loved the first few Cars albums, Candy-O being my favorite. Never thought of them as post-punk though, more like a sanitized palatable mainstream new wave band. But I guess that's what you're saying, this alternate version sounds a bit post-punky, not the original radio version.

 

The Cars - Candy-O, German TV June 7, 1979, I was two weeks from graduating high school.

 

....THE CARS were a fantastic band....not nearly as appreciated, as they should have been, outside of the US and Japan....too bad they were diluted by major label executives and producers....despite that fact, their songwriting ability and musicianship shines through....

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48 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

RIP Geordie Walker. Legend. Bummer.

Oh shit, say it ain't true! I'm not one to get too worked up or fall to pieces over celebrity deaths, but this is really sad news, a real loss. Legend is right. And I never got to see them live because I only just got heavily into KJ a couple of years ago. At least we have some good videos.

Man had a stroke. He was only 64 and looked to be in pretty good shape for a man of 64, at least going by concert videos I've seen from just last year. Guess you can never tell, just because he hadn't let his body get soft and fat like so many other 64 year olds doesn't mean he couldn't have had other medical issues.

 

 

46 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND - False Highs, True Lows

Thanks, grumble bum, this is pretty good.

How does one manage to enjoy both Invultation and Plebian Grandstand, back to back? Help me to understand Doc, the two would seem to be in direct conflict with one another. 

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13 hours ago, Arioch said:

Annihilation of the Wicked is also my favourite Nile album. The first two tracks are unforgettable: the construction and evolution of the main riff in Dusk falls upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise throughout the track, Cast down the Heretic. These two tracks alone at the start of the album are well worth the diversions.

I really like In Their Darkened Shrines too (ahhhhhhh, Wind of Horus!).

I'm less familiar with Black Seeds of Vengeance, but you recognise Nile from the first few seconds of the first track. There's no mistaking it.

Yep, that's absolutely true!  Karl Sanders is one of my favorite musicians in all of heavy metal.  I've been listening to Nile since my early high school years, and they've provided lots of great memories for me through the years.  They're in my top 3 favorite death metal bands, along with Hate Eternal and Cannibal Corpse.

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NP: Drunemeton - Age Of Nameless Things and God

▶︎ Age Of Nameless Things And Gods | DRUNEMETON | Der Schwarze Tod (bandcamp.com)

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Damn that is a hell of an album cover. If I saw that in some sort of cool framing on the cover of a fantasy novel, I would read it. The sepia with strong outlines drawing the eye across and up toward the mostly black night sky with a centered figure is bloody perfect. Unless the album is really bad I'm going to search for this on a shirt. Music's passable so far as well. Maybe leans a little too heavy on the keyboard, but far from terrible. I feel like there's a fairly unpopulated space in black metal right now between the muck of In the Nightside Eclipse and super smoothed over and overproduced Dimmu and their kin.

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Maybe leans a little too heavy on the keyboard, but far from terrible. I feel like there's a fairly unpopulated space in black metal right now between the muck of In the Nightside Eclipse and super smoothed over and overproduced Dimmu and their kin.

Being a black metal freak I tried a couple of tracks because that is a pretty cool cover, and I lasted almost 12 minutes before I had to bail. Music wasn't horrible but the keyboards totally ruined it for me. I'm not against keyboards in black metal on principle, it just all depends on how you use them. I probably should have known when you mentioned Emperor and Dimmu, two keyboard laden symphonic bands that I have no use for at all. The Russians' 2018 album Disciples of the Old Faith was better than this one, I'll assume the same artist did that cover as well, same sepia tones, same figure with the antlers. But ultimately even that one was a bit too drenched in keys for my liking.

Disciples Of The Old Faith

 

 

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29 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Being a black metal freak I tried a couple of tracks because that is a pretty cool cover, and I lasted almost 12 minutes before I had to bail. Music wasn't horrible but the keyboards totally ruined it for me. I'm not against keyboards in black metal on principle, it just all depends on how you use them. I probably should have known when you mentioned Emperor and Dimmu, two keyboard laden symphonic bands that I have no use for at all. The Russians' 2018 album Disciples of the Old Faith was better than this one, I'll assume the same artist did that cover as well, same sepia tones, same figure with the antlers. But ultimately even that one was a bit too drenched in keys for my liking.

Disciples Of The Old Faith

 

Yeah. They really lean into it with the keyboards. I should have specified symphonic black metal when talking about there being room in the metal landscape. I like Emperor but on Nightside Eclipse in particular every element is fighting to make it's impact heard so it comes across as kind of a free for all drunken brawl. Dimmu are clearly on the opposite side of that with very clear and crisp production value that's only been getting worse with each passing album. There's a ton of ways you could take the best of both without ruining one or the other. The ...And Oceans album people were fawning over at the beginning of this year seems to be aiming just for that middle ground, but even that one (with a couple of really head scratching tracks) felt overproduced to me.

NP: Astharoth - Gloomy Experiments

Nice thrashier nods to Watchtower here without the screechy vocals.

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Pestilence - Spheres (1993)

The year is 1993... Part of the American Death Metal scene was indulging in technical Death.

Atheist had already released Piece of Time in 1989, Unquestionable Presence in 1991 and now Elements.

Cynic made a big splash with some of its musicians playing on the Human's Death record (1991) and released the fabulous Focus.

Nocturnus released The Key 3 years earlier.

Here we have the 4th album from Dutch band Pestilence who, after 3 very different albums, have taken things a step further with the sumptuous Spheres, which delves deep into technical Death.

 

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