What Are You Listening To?

[MacabreEternal]

Nightmarer - Deformity Adrift (2023)

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Gloosh - Timewheel, Russia 2020

 

Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt, Norway

 

[FatherAlabaster]

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Opeth - Deliverance

[SurgicalBrute]

Malevolum - Veritas et Violentiam

 

[AlSymerz]

11 hours ago, Arioch said:

By keeping fans waiting and hoping, Gene will bore some of them, while for others, the desire for a new Darkness Descends will only lead to bitter disappointment when the new album arrives. If it ever arrives.

Dark Angel's musicians are no longer 20 years old. And neither are their fans!

True, but it's 3 decades since they released anything, there aren't many fans that are anything but hopeful for something new. DA have toured the world several times in the last few years, they've spoken about a new album since 2013 when they reformed for live gigs only. Gene and Ron only write under specific conditions and they admit that doesn't happen often given they both have other priorities. At this stage a new album would be a bonus but no ones holding their breath waiting for it.

NP: Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

[SurgicalBrute]

For the record..new Aquilus album is out...FA, Mark, and Navy...if you dudes aren't familiar, I'd highly recommend

 

Aquilus - Bellum II

 

[FatherAlabaster]

35 minutes ago, SurgicalBrute said:

For the record..new Aquilus album is out...FA, Mark, and Navy...if you dudes aren't familiar, I'd highly recommend

 

Aquilus - Bellum II

 

Thanks dude, I remember their album Griseus but hadn't kept tabs since then. I'll play this in a bit.

[Kristiko]

Dimmu Borgir - Eonian (album)

[FatherAlabaster]

Aquilus - Bellum II

Really enjoying it. I'm in the mood for the acoustic parts and rainy day atmospheres. Melodic without being stuck in a box, good vibe, good pacing.

[AlSymerz]

Mercyful Fate - 9

 

[Thatguy]

DISTANT SHAPES - Distant Shapes. Just when I think I'm getting into it it goes soft and drops in some cheesy synth  or wholesome singing. Still, good in parts

CONFIÈRE - L'impôt du Sang. This also goes soft and sounds like crap to boot.

VALBORG - Barbarian. By way of contrast, VALBORG never disappoint.

NP - GLASSING - From the Other Side of the Mirror. Just starting on this before I head on out with Mrs Thatguy - it will be SBS Chill while we drive - and it seems like a good antidote to the softness of the first two.

[JamesT]

Candlemass - "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus"

[AlSymerz]

Pride & Glory - S/T

 

[markm]

Reverend Bizarre/ In the Rectory/Return to the Rectory-Finnish traditional heavy doom purists hit career highlight with their debut album, In the Rectory, while Return to the Rectory, a nearly 70 minute EP is largely forgettable. Repetitive, monotonous but also fantastic, I like to listen to In the Rectory every couple of years to remind me why I love trad doom when done right. 

James inspired me to listen to some of my favorite My Dying Bride discs

MDB/Turn Loose the Swans-one of those legacy albums that was on the backburner for a long time and I finally picked it up in the last couple of years-and indeed all things considered, maybe they're  strongest album front to back that 've heard. I'd call it a work of art with heavy death doom passages, and alternating poetic, gothic experiments. The one I've got has a companion disc with the album played with band audio commentary kind of a like a extended director's cut film DVD reminding of Peter Jackson's director's cut of LOTR. Hearing these articulate, British gentlemen go over the recording process sheds light on the genius of this album...and I'd say  this is one of their heavier albums before disbanding DM vox on their following also classic, Angel and the Dark River. 

MDB/Songs of Darkness, Words of Light-mid period highlight for me......one of my favorite albums of all time. 

Accept/Balls to the Wall

Accept/Restless and Wild-another desert classic that I only picked up in the last two years and I think GG is probably right, this is the gem in their discog even though I still enjoy Balls to the Wall and Metal Heart. Fast as a Shark, surely one of the essential and  seminal proto thrash tracks o fall time. 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Wrektomb - Bovine Mockeries of Human Passage

▶︎ Bovine Mockeries of Human Posturing | WREKTOMB | Personal Records (bandcamp.com)

First listen for me, and I'm enjoying it. The real trick with death/doom hybrids I think is keeping it heavy while maintaining some of the better aspects of the early 'epic' doom tonality. There's no operatic vocals to speak of, but the reverence for the old guard is evidenced by the minor key chord progressions and arpeggiated plucking that suffers no pleasance or light. Doom, gloom, and death's the name of the game for sure. I'm probably not going to research much further since that album title indicates a possible 'We take ourselves way too seriously' sanctimonious veganism that you run across here and there in extreme metal, and I just want to enjoy the album without enduring any diatribes from that end. Still a very good doom album.

[AlSymerz]

Black Sabbath - Born Again

[Arioch]

11 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

At this stage a new album would be a bonus but no ones holding their breath waiting for it.

I'm not as categorical as you.

A few years ago, I tried to find out if anyone had a demo of some of Dark Angel's unreleased tracks. It was called Atrocity Exhibition. Yes, like the two Exodus albums.

I found a few traces of this demo, but never got around to listening to it. But I know a lot of fans were looking for it.

And you only have to look on Facebook, whenever one of the musicians posts a message, to see a few messages blossoming about a future album.

Of course, there aren't hundreds of fans expressing themselves on Facebook, so it's impossible to know whether the majority of fans want a new album.

But to say that they'd all prefer to see the band remain rooted in its past, playing old live tracks, I don't think so.

You can have it both ways 😁

[AlSymerz]

13 minutes ago, Arioch said:

But to say that they'd all prefer to see the band remain rooted in its past, playing old live tracks, I don't think so.

 

But that's nothing like what I said.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Haethen - Shaped by Aeolian Winds (2015)

[navybsn]

14 hours ago, SurgicalBrute said:

For the record..new Aquilus album is out...FA, Mark, and Navy...if you dudes aren't familiar, I'd highly recommend

 

Aquilus - Bellum II

 

Dig it. Haven't heard these guys before, so I need to do some homework. Thanks @SurgicalBrute

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Something Like Elvis - Cigarette Smoke Phantom, Poland 2002. Fortunately they're nothing like Elvis. Pretty mellow, we'll call it post-punk meets post-rock meets stoner or something. Cool and laid back for early in the morning, on my second time through.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Albionic Hermeticism/Ynkleudherhenavogyon - Swēsaz Ambos, Split UK 2021

 

Acathexis - Immerse, atmo-black Argentina/Belgium/US

 

[navybsn]

12 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Ynkleudherhenavogyon

Can I buy a vowel Pat? Welsh is such a weird fucking language.

Seriously, I have all this dude's stuff. Pretty decent. Some of his other projects include: 

Ierfeweardian Oþfeallan Snytrucræft

Lafcursiax

Luggaldimerankia

Venymysgourvleydh

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Aquilus - Griseus

Aquilus - Bellum I

 

[navybsn]

3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Something Like Elvis - Cigarette Smoke Phantom

Weird shit man. Kinda dig it though.

[navybsn]

Aquilus - Arbor

Not often for me that a comparison is actually apt, but I definitely see the Opeth comparison here. Black Metal Opeth is pretty spot on.