What Are You Listening To?

[markm]

Horrendous/ Ontological Mysterium (2023)-obviously a buzz album. I don't normally love tech/prog death, but this is tremendous fun, musically varied, stylistically diverse and virtuosic. Won me over by the end. 

Khanate/To Be Cruel (2023)-Excruciating experimental drone 

[markm]

Blut Aus Nord-Disharmonium - Nahab (2023) Didn't even know they had a Disharmonium follow up...about as weird and nightmarish as I was expecting

[FatherAlabaster]

11 minutes ago, markm said:

Blut Aus Nord-Disharmonium - Nahab (2023) Didn't even know they had a Disharmonium follow up...about as weird and nightmarish as I was expecting

Enjoying it at all? I think it's my favorite one of theirs from the past few years.

[AlSymerz]

Demolizer - Post Necrotic Human

[Thatguy]

2 hours ago, markm said:

Khanate/To Be Cruel (2023)-Excruciating experimental drone 

Yeah. This band is getting a lot of hype. I reckon most of the love is in theory rather than in practice. Even for Thatguy this is a yeah, nah.

 

2 hours ago, markm said:

Blut Aus Nord-Disharmonium - Nahab (2023)

This is another matter and is very listenable and full of interest.

[MacabreEternal]

Dymna Lotva - Зямля пад чорнымі крыламі: Кроў (2023)

From a playlist somewhere, I stumbled across these guys from Belarus.  Odd blend of doom, post-black metal, dsbm and folk.  An itch I didn't know I needed scratching.

[thrashinbiker]

Supposed to be on a Teams Call right now (well, I am, but totally ignoring it) and listening to this instead, on recommendation:

Bathory - Bathory (1984)

 

[MacabreEternal]

Faidra - Militant : Penitent : Triumphant (2023)

 

[MacabreEternal]

Syn - Villfarelse (2023)

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Dymna Lotva - Зямля пад чорнымі крыламі: Кроў (2023)

From a playlist somewhere, I stumbled across these guys from Belarus.  Odd blend of doom, post-black metal, dsbm and folk.  An itch I didn't know I needed scratching.

Yeah, I remember finding that one when they were doing a full album stream a while back. It didn't really do it for me. Apparently a lot of other people really liked it though.

[markm]

6 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Yeah. This band is getting a lot of hype. I reckon most of the love is in theory rather than in practice. Even for Thatguy this is a yeah, nah.

 

Indeed, I figured you and I would be the ones around here to dig Khanate. But the vocals in particular tested my limits to harsh noise.

9 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Enjoying it at all? I think it's my favorite one of theirs from the past few years.

I need to give it a proper listen.  I only listed to a couple of tracks before bed last night. 

[FatherAlabaster]

6 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Yeah. This band is getting a lot of hype. I reckon most of the love is in theory rather than in practice. Even for Thatguy this is a yeah, nah.

I didn't even know they were back together. Did you ever listen to their old albums? I was into their stuff in college, especially the first self-titled album. Dubin had (has?) a heck of a set of pipes, if you're into the sound of being mangled. I have no idea what you would think of it.

[Arioch]

Antichrist - Forbidden World (2011)

 

[MacabreEternal]

41 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

Yeah, I remember finding that one when they were doing a full album stream a while back. It didn't really do it for me. Apparently a lot of other people really liked it though.

I didn't make it through more than half of the album before the plonk of the piano was getting to regularly placed ahead of everything else and I was losing interest as a result.

[thrashinbiker]

I go through phases with Metallica - I'll binge the first four albums for a little while and then not listen to any for a long time, but whenever I would ride and listen to "Justice", it always seemed to be raining (it probably wasn't every time, but it's how I remember it) and somehow, it always seemed fitting.  

There is a stretch of country lanes around farmland some thirty minutes or so from here that I always seemed to reach when "Harvester of Sorrow" would come on.  The road was always quiet and only sparsely dotted with residential dwellings, so you could cane the throttle a bit on the straight and there were enough twisties to make the ride fun.  Followed, of course, by "The Frayed Ends of Sanity", that used to be an especially memorable (and thoroughly enjoyable) 13 or so minutes of riding.

Makes me want to do it right now!

Metallica - ...And Justice For All (1988) - 2018 re-master

 

 

[MacabreEternal]

Tsjuder - Helvegr (2023)

 

[Arioch]

1 hour ago, thrashinbiker said:

I go through phases with Metallica - I'll binge the first four albums for a little while and then not listen to any for a long time, but whenever I would ride and listen to "Justice", it always seemed to be raining (it probably wasn't every time, but it's how I remember it) and somehow, it always seemed fitting.  

There is a stretch of country lanes around farmland some thirty minutes or so from here that I always seemed to reach when "Harvester of Sorrow" would come on.  The road was always quiet and only sparsely dotted with residential dwellings, so you could cane the throttle a bit on the straight and there were enough twisties to make the ride fun.  Followed, of course, by "The Frayed Ends of Sanity", that used to be an especially memorable (and thoroughly enjoyable) 13 or so minutes of riding.

Makes me want to do it right now!

It's nice to remember the places you've often been while listening to an album.

I have two lasting memories of Metallica.

I listened to Ride the Lightning every night in my bedroom as a teenager, but only one side of the LP. I could spend weeks on one side and then switch to the other. I don't think I've ever done that with anyone else's album and I don't know why I did it with this one.

As for Master of Puppets, I remember listening to it during my school holidays. I was alternating with the latest Ozzy album, The Ultimate Sin. I couldn't go to sleep without playing those two records.

And to think that now I have the greatest difficulty listening to Metallica... That was back in 1991 (what a surprise!). Since then, I've listened to every new album, forgetting that they were my favourite band for a few years. It leaves me totally indifferent, even though I feel the need to talk about it here. 😅

[FatherAlabaster]

Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current 

[FatherAlabaster]

Protector - Golem

[thrashinbiker]

5 hours ago, Arioch said:

It's nice to remember the places you've often been while listening to an album.

I have two lasting memories of Metallica.

I listened to Ride the Lightning every night in my bedroom as a teenager, but only one side of the LP. I could spend weeks on one side and then switch to the other. I don't think I've ever done that with anyone else's album and I don't know why I did it with this one.

As for Master of Puppets, I remember listening to it during my school holidays. I was alternating with the latest Ozzy album, The Ultimate Sin. I couldn't go to sleep without playing those two records.

And to think that now I have the greatest difficulty listening to Metallica... That was back in 1991 (what a surprise!). Since then, I've listened to every new album, forgetting that they were my favourite band for a few years. It leaves me totally indifferent, even though I feel the need to talk about it here. 😅

It's funny, for those of us who listen/listened to Metallica, we all have those "Metallica Moments" (as I call them) and can recall times in our lives when we played al album or song like crazy, only for, years later, us to have set them aside in favour of something else.  

Puppets was the first Metallica album I heard and I adored it, particularly the title track itself (it still remains a favourite to this day) and I can remember vividly the times I snuck into the metal club (I was underage but fortunately enough of a hairy bastard at 15/16 to get in) with a couple of hip flasks in my jacket and would mosh the night away - even if I was having a smoke or just chilling if MoP came on I always got right back in the pit and gave it everything.  

I think the thing we often forget when we cite the "golden era" of a band, or hark back to "these two or three albums were the best" is that members of these bands, like us, grow and mature and are influenced by what happens in their lives, so there's no chance they will ever stay completely the same as either people or as musicians and their output.  I wonder with big bands like Metallica, if the fight to get on top and become a worldwide recognised band, which naturally brings with it riches and fame - is sometimes the cause of that "fight" going out of them.  Where do you go once you are one of, if not THE most successful thrash band?  

I look at myself (not rich or famous in the slightest) and while I still have that metal attitude and love the aggression, the passion and the honesty of metal (still got that fuck you, fuck yeah! attitude even now), I don't have that same fire in my belly I had when I was, say, 15 or 17.  

I don't listen to any of Metallica's stuff beyond those first four albums, in the main.  I remember when a friend of mine played me "Fuel" and was really excited about it and absolutely LOVED the song, it left me cold.  I explained to him that I felt it sounded like melodic rock with a deliberate attempt to "make heavy" and that I just didn't feel it.  I've picked on that one song because of that memory, but compare it to say MoP which is a haunting, terrific, horrifying narration of the grip of drug addiction, or "Harvester of Sorrow" detailing torment, misery and murder, well... a song about a speed-loving adrenaline junkie just didn't cut it with me, even though, as you know, I am a keen biker and love nothing more than a bit of throttle.  It just wasn't the essence of Metallica, to me.  

Anyway, thank you for the discussion  

[Miss_Teala]

On 12/13/2023 at 8:59 PM, Nasty_Cabbage said:

To each their own, and if you enjoy it I'm glad for you, but I want nowhere near this auditory crime against God and man.

Oh, it's not that bad.

Either way, this is what I am currently listening to;
I like to think of it as a bit of a "wind-down" between the really fast songs:
 

 

[AlSymerz]

28 minutes ago, thrashinbiker said:

It's funny, for those of us who listen/listened to Metallica, we all have those "Metallica Moments" (as I call them) and can recall times in our lives when we played al album or song like crazy, only for, years later, us to have set them aside in favour of something else.  

 

Chris Poland is having a Metallica Moment in the press at the moment. Making claims that he forgot about Peace Sells as soon as he heard Master Of Puppets.

[Thatguy]

1 hour ago, Miss_Teala said:

Oh, it's not that bad.

I think I will have to go back and have a listen now to decide the matter.

Hmm...I can see why it's your work-out song. But the world would be a better place if it had never existed. Try Electric Callboy for clever beats good for working out that don't abuse the pentatonic scale.

10 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

especially the first self-titled album.

Yep I have that and have listened a few times. I find it hard going. There is no denying the talent but it seems deliberately unlikeable.

[Miss_Teala]

3 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

I think I will have to go back and have a listen now to decide the matter.

Hmm...I can see why it's your work-out song. But the world would be a better place if it had never existed. Try Electric Callboy for clever beats good for working out that don't abuse the pentatonic scale.

I guess it is the kind of songs that you would need to get used to;
they might be too sugary sweet to some people, I guess.

I have heard "Electric Callboy" a couple times, and it is quite good.

[AlSymerz]

24 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Try Electric Callboy

You must love your Callboys, you've mentioned them a lot over the past year.

 

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