What Are You Listening To?

[Thatguy]

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors, Manchester UK 2021, haven't listened to this since the month it came out 3 years ago. It's not a bad album, it just pales in comparison to the first two which were pretty formidable and superior.

Sadly, I must agree.

[AlSymerz]

Leper Colony - S/T

[GoatmasterGeneral]

28 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

Leper Colony

That's your new address where we should send your Chrissie prezzies from now on?

 

 

Scattered Remnants - Inherent Perversion, Massachussetts 1995

 

Scattered Remnants - Destined to Fail, 1998

 

Vile - Stench of the Deceased, California 1999

 

 

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Misotheist - Vessels By Which The Devil Is Made Flesh

▶︎ Vessels by which The Devil is Made Flesh | Misotheist | TERRATUR POSSESSIONS (bandcamp.com)

Don't know the band, but I feel like their label (Terratur Possessions) has a pretty good nose for this stuff, so we'll see. For those not sent running for the hills by the "disso" tag, there are Deathspellesque moments and use of dynamics. Their tone and mood is rooted slightly more in traditional black metal than others.... At least the first couple minutes, or so it would seem. I've got no beef with dissonance or most of Deathspell Omega's work so it works for me. Your experience may vary.

[AlSymerz]

15 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

That's your new address where we should send your Chrissie prezzies from now on?

I'm chuffed that you're sending me a prezzie

[Arioch]

Morbid Angel - Domination (1995)

Mekong Delta - The Music of Erich Zann (1988)

Mekong Delta - Dances of Death (and Other Walking Shadows) (1990)

 

[MacabreEternal]

Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged (2019)

 

[JamesT]

6 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors, Manchester UK 2021, haven't listened to this since the month it came out 3 years ago. It's not a bad album, it just pales in comparison to the first two which were pretty formidable and superior.

 

Crowbar - Sonic Excess in its Purest Form, NOLA 2001. The only Crowbar album I've ever bought.

 

 

Dude! We'll be needing to see those Kirkstein snaps forthwith bro. Forth-motherfucking-with!

Didn't realize Exhorder was your album of the year JT. Thought it would have been Pweest. Heavy rotation down there in Carolina eh? Hope my earlier comments about Omnium didn't hurt your feelings too deeply.

Seems to me though when all you have left of a 30+ year old band that was dormant for many years is the vocalist, and your style has changed that much from where you started, you can't even really consider it Exhorder anymore. They should definitely change their name.

How's it going, my friend?!  Oh yes, the new Judas Priest will be hard to beat for my album of the year.  Exhorder is really good, but not album of the year for me.  The only other competitor I anticipate as of now is the new Accept album, "Humanoid", due out April 26.  We'll see how it goes!

I'll see if my technologically challenged self can figure out how to post my pics with Mr. Windstein as soon as I can!  What an incredible show it was.  I believe there were around 500 people or so, over in the state capital of Raleigh.  Really cool that you bought "Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form"!  That album is in my top 5 of their catalog - truly underrated.  My favorite Crowbar album tends to flip-flop between "Broken Glass" (1996) and "Odd Fellows Rest" (1998), but "Symmetry in Black" (2014) and the newest album, "Zero and Below" (2022) give them both a run for their money.  There's not a single weak album in the Crowbar discography, and truthfully, very few weak moments in general.  Love them to death and will be playing through their albums on my commute over the next few days!

[Arioch]

Nocturnus A.D - Paradox (2019)

New album due May 17! Here's a first track.

 

[Arioch]

Obituary - The End Complete (1992)

 

[Arioch]

Les Vieilles Salopes - Aime-moi tendre, aime-moi vrai (2003)

French punk band Les Vieilles Salopes (the old sluts) have released two albums, including this one (love me tender, love me true).

 

[JonoBlade]

12 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

You know that Wode album is from 2017, right? Love the first two Wode albums. The last one from 2021 not so much. Not aware of any new one incoming, but I miss a lot of announcements like that.

I remember now... I got the first two Wode albums and like them well enough, but the 2021 one is (still) £666 on bandcamp to download, so fuck those guys.

[Arioch]

Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (1997)

 

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

3 hours ago, Arioch said:

Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (1997)

 

 

I remember around the time that Death Cult Armageddon came out this and Spiritual Black Dimensions were fairly well regarded, and they even got a small live tour stateside. I went to see them in St. Louis in a smaller club on the East side ( St. Louis East side at the time had some major gang issues, and was generally regarded as unsafe) and wondering how they intended to pull off the more orchestral sounding material in a live setting like that. The truth unfortunately proved that they kinda couldn't. I get they wanted to go for the truly "symphonic" sound, but overall it just didn't carry in a smaller venue. It's understandable considering you're just not going to get a professional orchestra jammed into that kind of setting, but I had to wonder if maybe the extra spice on the album was due to them moving away from the much more synth oriented material, or perhaps the material itself was just weaker. either way this one and Enthrone... played much better in a live setting.

NP: Miasis - Consumacion Humana

▶︎ Consumación Humana | MIASIS | Nebula Forest Prod. (bandcamp.com)

If you're going for brutal death, this is probably how you want to do it. Distinct and clear, but still with a foul enough sound to wilt the local plant life. Pretty good.

[Arioch]

8 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

I remember around the time that Death Cult Armageddon came out this and Spiritual Black Dimensions were fairly well regarded, and they even got a small live tour stateside. I went to see them in St. Louis in a smaller club on the East side ( St. Louis East side at the time had some major gang issues, and was generally regarded as unsafe) and wondering how they intended to pull off the more orchestral sounding material in a live setting like that. The truth unfortunately proved that they kinda couldn't. I get they wanted to go for the truly "symphonic" sound, but overall it just didn't carry in a smaller venue. It's understandable considering you're just not going to get a professional orchestra jammed into that kind of setting, but I had to wonder if maybe the extra spice on the album was due to them moving away from the much more synth oriented material, or perhaps the material itself was just weaker. either way this one and Enthrone... played much better in a live setting.

I lost interest in the band when the symphonic part took over from everything else. I often listen to Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, but much less to the other albums I own.

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

NOSTATE - Nostate

ALL OUT WAR - Celestial Rot

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Malignancy - Intrauterine Cannibalism, Yonkers NY 1999

 

Regurgitation - Tales of Necrophilia, Ohio 1999

 

Exhumed - Slaughtercult, San Jose CA 2000

 

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

ALL OUT WAR - Crawl Among The Filth

 

6 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Malignancy - Intrauterine Cannibalism, Yonkers NY 1999

 

Regurgitation - Tales of Necrophilia, Ohio 1999

 

Exhumed - Slaughtercult, San Jose CA 2000

 

....WhiteNoise....EXHUMED is so fucking fyre.......

[JamesT]

Crowbar - "Zero and Below"

Crowbar - "Obedience Thru Suffering"

Crowbar - Self-titled

Crowbar - "Time Heals Nothing"

And by the way, here you go, Mr. GG!  Me and Mr. Windstein!

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Udad - s/t

▶︎ UDAD | UDAD | Peaceville (bandcamp.com)

Nice production value that's very much in the comfort zone for black metal of this sort, but not deliberately indiscernible at all. Organic sounding drums as well. Everything on here has a very DIY feel, but DIY like the handyman was actually really skilled. Nothing completely unfamiliar on the musical front, but the riffs and song craft have a suitably eerie quality. Don't mistake me, this isn't Venom or the first two Bathory albums by any means. That level of raw punk energy is not what you're looking for from an album like this. I'd say it's closer to A Blaze In The Northern Sky or some other form of low-key hedonistic primitivism in the atmosphere. A suitable soundtrack to whatever pagan misdeeds strike your fancy on a chilly evening. I'm honestly fairly impressed.

[Necrolord]

4 hours ago, Arioch said:

I lost interest in the band when the symphonic part took over from everything else. I often listen to Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, but much less to the other albums I own.

I hate the symphonic side of Dimmu (and black metal in general). But there's still tons of great riffs and atmospheres to be found on their later albums. Tracks like Maelstrom Mephisto, Cataclysm Children, The Foreshadowing Furnace just a few I can think of. The non-synth stuff on their later album beats any of their old stuff from SBD or before.

 

This chick I met was listening to this the other day and it caught my ear. I asked what it was. Turns out it was Watain and I've never listened to them before. Aside from a few filler tracks I thought it was one of the best black metal albums I've heard in a long time (I don't listen to a lot of bm usually). 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Watain hasn't done anything worth listening to since Sworn to the Dark in 2007. And even that was nothing special, and had worked its way out of the rotation by 2010 when I really started diving into the sub-genre and finding a ton of much better black metal. There are far worse bands than Watain to be sure, but with so many hundreds of truly superb raw black metal albums to be discovered, I just don't need to waste any time on this kind of mediocrity. But hey, whatever floats your boat man.

Dimmu though I can't even listen to a single note of it with a straight face. I can't help but to crack up laughing. It's like black metal being presented as a Broadway musical, or maybe as a cartoon for little kids. 

 

Vargsang - In the Mist of Night, Germany 2014. Now this is a proper fucking black metal album, I'll be humming these riffs for days. Guess I have my playlist for tonight all worked out.

 

Armagedda - Only True Believers, Sweden 2003

 

Förgjord - Ilmestykset, Finland 2019

 

Deus Mortem - Kosmocide, Poland 2019

 

[AlSymerz]

Miehala - Sons Of Alaheim

 

[Necrolord]

32 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Watain hasn't done anything worth listening to since Sworn to the Dark in 2007. And even that was nothing special, and had worked its way out of the rotation by 2010 when I really started diving into the sub-genre and finding a ton of much better black metal. There are far worse bands than Watain to be sure, but with so many hundreds of truly superb raw black metal albums to be discovered, I just don't need to waste any time on this kind of mediocrity. But hey, whatever floats your boat man.

Dimmu though I can't even listen to a single note of it with a straight face. I can't help but to crack up laughing. It's like black metal being presented as a Broadway musical, or maybe as a cartoon for little kids. 

 

Vargsang - In the Mist of Night, Germany 2014. Now this is a proper fucking black metal album, I'll be humming these riffs for days. Guess I have my playlist for tonight all worked out.

 

Odd, cuz that Watain album blows most black metal albums shared here out of the water. (Well, only the albums shared here which I've checked out which isn't that many...)

I will give your 'proper' bm albums a listen. There will be a head-to-head comparison vs Watain. It might take a few days. This shit BETTER be good! 

 

Dimmu has some good stuff, regardless of the ridicule they get from the troo crowd, who are usually total sheep / scared to like anything outside a certain limit. (Not implying you are one). At the same time I can understand if Dimmu isn't someone's taste at all, there's a lot about them I don't even like.

[Innominate]

Sepsism - Purulent Decomposition