What Are You Listening To?

[navybsn]

Manii - Innerst I Morket

Manii - Kollapse

Witch Ripper - The Flight After the Fall

[MacabreEternal]

Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi (2020)

 

[FatherAlabaster]

18 minutes ago, Arioch said:

I only knew Abigor by name, but I'd never listened to it before. It's because you mentioned it that I thought "here's another band you only know by name! I listened and was pleasantly surprised by what I heard.

I picked up the album and Proscriptor's McGovern Apsû at the same time.

Tomorrow morning, I know what I'm going to listen to: these two records.

As for Abigor, I'll say what I thought of it.

Cool. They seem like the kind of band you'd enjoy. The last one from 2020 was another late December ninja release and I think it's fantastic. Their mid 90s stuff is awesome as well. I don't know why, but I had a hard time getting into them, until things finally clicked a few years ago. Maybe I just hadn't heard the right albums. It helped to be in a band with some die-hard Abigor fanatics, too.

My favorites are Nachthymnen:

Verwüstung:

Time Is The Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint:

Totschläger:

 

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

CREVURE - Brainwash

 

[markm]

7 hours ago, navybsn said:

S'up gents. Been a minute. New job is quite busy so not much time for fucking around on the interwebs. Hopefully the new year is treating you all well. Now that we've made it through the brutal Florida week of winter, things are picking up around here. Spring Breakers will be arriving in the next few weeks. Oh the joys of living in Florida.

Music wise, fest season is getting cranked up too. The agenda this year is quite busy. Kicks off Sunday with the 70K cruise. Lots of Disney princess metal on the bill, but also some decent stuff (Marduk, Sodom, My Dying Bride, and a few others). 5 days of drunken debauchery with 3000 of my closest international friends. Hell's Heroes in March, and of course MDF in May. Lots of shows in between too (Judas Priest in May, Metallica in July). My travel points will be on the rise.

Local shows have been picking up as well. Last night, couple of good semi-local bands (Herakleion and Void from Louisiana). Wednesday is Dead Register from Atlanta. Most recently, we had The Dwarves, Goatwhore/Withered/Spiter, Howling Giant/Restless Spirit, Daikaiju, and probably a few others I'm forgetting. So even though the job is beating me down, I've still been able to get out to hang with the local heshers.

Okay your saying, shut the fuck up navy and tell us what you're listening to. That's the point of the thread right. Here goes:

This morning:

Kreig - Ruiner

Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze - The Fractal Ouroboros

Helms Deep - Treacherous Ways - solid trad metal from my home state of Florida. Good vocals and killer riffage.

Santacreu - Cancons d'Amor, Dol i Enyoranca - really digging this one. Like a heavier DVNE. Stonery doom from Barcelona.

Hauntologist - Hollow

Ildaruni - Beyond Unseen Gateways

Lots of other recent purchases to run through later. Need to update the EOTY thread when I get a chance too. Won't be much, maybe 15 total. Just wasn't able to dive too deep last year due to job/family responsibilities. Fingers crossed this year is back to normal, and I can get around here more as well.

Hells yeah, Navy! Glad to see you back man. I've been wondering about you. I went pretty incognito myself to the river until list season and I've been over indulging in new music-like a year's worth of music in two months-my wife is telling me to knock it off LOL. Glad you're doing well albeit overworked! 

I liked that Witch Reaper pretty well, almost picked it up and then passed on it. 

I just grabbed Poison Ruin/Harvest. If you haven't heard it Navy, I think it would be right up your ally. Straight up punk with maybe a crust angle, but it's mostly just nasty F-U punk with a medieval twist which gives it some metal cross over. Plus they were picked up by Relapse so that's clearly a market they're aiming for. Seems to be getting some love in metal circles. Very cool, gritty stuff.

https://poisonruin.bandcamp.com/album/h-rvest 

[Kiry70721]

Bethor - Unholy  Bride of Mayhem 

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Ô Laudate Domines (2005)

[FatherAlabaster]

Killing Joke - Night Time

[RelentlessOblivion]

Glorior Beli - Manifesting the Raging Beast (2007)

[RelentlessOblivion]

Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory (2024) {Australia}

its dissonant death/grind. I don’t know how I feel about this one, I’ll put it this way it’s not doing anything I don’t like, but the overall package isn’t something I’m sold on just yet.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

4 hours ago, markm said:

I just grabbed Poison Ruin/Harvest. If you haven't heard it Navy, I think it would be right up your ally. Straight up punk with maybe a crust angle, but it's mostly just nasty F-U punk with a medieval twist which gives it some metal cross over. Plus they were picked up by Relapse so that's clearly a market they're aiming for. Seems to be getting some love in metal circles. Very cool, gritty stuff.

Yeah man, I listened to this last spring or summer, pretty cool record. One part Amebix, one part Motörhead, one part The Exploited. But to my surprise they turned out to be from Philly.

 

 

21 hours ago, Thatguy said:

NP - KRIEG - Ruiner

Earlier today it was indeed WALK THROUGH FIRE - Hope Is Misery. When 80 minutes of misery is just barely enough.

Man up and face the gloom.

I'm cool with the gloom and the wall of noise, but some actual riffs would've been nice, don'tcha think Docka Block?

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Misery & Extinction of Mankind – Apocalyptic Crust, Minneapolis/UK 2001. Cool split where instead of each band getting their own side, they alternate tracks, Misery gets the odd numbered tracks, EoM gets the even ones. They then collaborate on track 13.

 

Necroweasel -  Brave New World, Bruce Dickenson side project with guest vox by Di'anno.

 

[Thatguy]

2 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory (2024) {Australia}

Not dreary at all.

 

43 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Poison Ruin/Harvest.

Rumpa-rumpa music for the 21st century.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

38 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Rumpa-rumpa music for the 21st century.

I don't even know what this means. Must be that stupid Aussie rhyming slang again. What rhymes with rumpa,....lumpa, thumpa, bumpa, dumpa, mumpa, jumpa, strumpa, frumpa, humpa...I don't know, nothing's coming to me. Can you give me a hint?

 

 

Deviated Instinct - Re-Opening Old Wounds, UK 1993 comp of early demos '86-'87.

 

Deviated Instinct - Guttural Breath, UK 1989

 

[AlSymerz]

10 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I don't even know what this means. Must be that stupid Aussie rhyming slang again. What rhymes with rumpa,....lumpa, thumpa, bumpa, dumpa, mumpa, jumpa, strumpa, frumpa, humpa...I don't know, nothing's coming to me. Can you give me a hint?

Maybe he's finally lost the plot. I hear it happened to old people

[RelentlessOblivion]

Crowbar - Time Heals Nothing

it’s 41° here at the moment, 105, for those of you, who measure temperature the wrong way, perfect sludge weather

[Thatguy]

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I don't even know what this means.

I've explained this to you before, but you forget stuff because you don't get enough sleep.

Rumpa rumpa rumpa rumpa (a dotted quarter note and an eight note approximates the sound of a rumpa) is the sound of 1960s/70s blues boogie that was ubiquitous in Australia. It was widely deprecated by any musician not in a rumpa rumpa band. I didn't make this up. I think Frank Gambale made it up or maybe he got it from someone else.By extension the ubiquitous crust punk groove is the inheritor of the sobriquet 'rumpa rumpa' music even though it actually doesn't make a rumpa rumpa sound. I did make that up.

All clear now?

[Innominate]

The Wretched End - Ominous 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

42 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

I've explained this to you before, but you forget stuff because you don't get enough sleep.

Rumpa rumpa rumpa rumpa (a dotted quarter note and an eight note approximates the sound of a rumpa) is the sound of 1960s/70s blues boogie that was ubiquitous in Australia. It was widely deprecated by any musician not in a rumpa rumpa band. I didn't make this up. I think Frank Gambale made it up or maybe he got it from someone else. By extension the ubiquitous crust punk groove is the inheritor of the sobriquet 'rumpa rump' music even though it actually doesn't make a rumpa rumpa sound. I did make that up.

All clear now?

What's an eighth note?

 

And what have you got against 60's/70's blues boogie? What else would one have been listening to in the late 60's and early 70's? It was either that, or do-wop 50's rock & roll, or hippie flower power acid rock. Unless you were into jazz or classical or something really crazy like 60's pop or gospel music or C&W or something. 

 

I reckon there'll be plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead.

 

Cadaver Shrine - Benighted Desecration, Netherlands 2023

 

59 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

It’s 41° here at the moment, 105° for those of you, who measure temperature the wrong way, perfect sludge weather

Is that even safe for human beings to be subjected to 105° conditions like that? How can you even breathe when it's that hot? Air-con must be working overtime. If the power goes out you're screwed mate. I'd make my way to the neatest A&E hospital and seek help. Maybe they could pack you in ice or something til the molten inferno subsides.

[RelentlessOblivion]

56 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

What's an eighth note?

 

And what have you got against 60's/70's blues boogie? What else would one have been listening to in the late 60's and early 70's? It was either that, or do-wop 50's rock & roll, or hippie flower power acid rock. Unless you were into jazz or classical or something really crazy like 60's pop or gospel music or C&W or something. 

 

I reckon there'll be plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead.

 

Cadaver Shrine - Benighted Desecration, Netherlands 2023

 

Is that even safe for human beings to be subjected to 105° conditions like that? How can you even breathe when it's that hot? Air-con must be working overtime. If the power goes out you're screwed mate. I'd make my way to the neatest A&E hospital and seek help. Maybe they could pack you in ice or something til the molten inferno subsides.

You never know they could’ve been listening to the blues, Howland, Wolf, and Muddy Waters had been putting out music for years by that point…

You never know they could’ve been listening to the blues, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters had been putting out music for years by that point…

Honestly, I’m surprised it’s taken until this late in the summer for Adelaide to get its first 40+ Celsius day, you get this to it When you’ve lived here all your life. But yes if the power goes out I’m right fucked 

[MacabreEternal]

Naglfar - Harvest (2007)

 

[Arioch]

Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis - Gesänge im Leichenlicht der Welt (2023)

I've just listened to the album twice in a row and I have to say that I haven't managed to form an opinion yet.

The music seems to go off in all directions, exploring different horizons. I really like the chiselled, crystal-clear riffs at times, the female vocals that sometimes make an appearance and the wild accelerations that suddenly appear.

As a reminder, this is the first Abigor album I've listened to, so I'm discovering both the band and their world.

For the moment, I'd say it's special. But not in a pejorative sense! I listen to a lot of convoluted/complex music but this is something else again.

In any case, it's an album that takes a lot more than 2 listens to get into.

Edit : Let's go for a 3rd listening session! 🎧

 

[Thatguy]

5 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

What's an eighth note?

A quaver.

And there was plenty of good rock and roll in the 60s and 70s that wasn't blues boogie.

[markm]

2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Naglfar - Harvest (2007)

 

I have that one, myself. Are you going to post an end of the year list or did I miss it?

[MacabreEternal]

41 minutes ago, markm said:

I have that one, myself. Are you going to post an end of the year list or did I miss it?

No real surprises here from me but here you go. 

 

NP: Dismember - Indecent & Obscene (1993)