What Are You Listening To?

[JamesT]

Candlemass - "Tales of Creation"

[RelentlessOblivion]

The Impending Blindness - The Gift You Cannot Return EP (2024) {USA}

Some passages here make me think it has potential, but the overall package is underwhelming

[AlSymerz]

Epidemic - The Truth Of What Will Be

[Thatguy]

5 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Tyshawn Sorey - For Wadada Leo Smith (Adagio)   ...new classical, low-tuned and slow. Only for Thatguy, and maybe markm or Macabre if they're feeling patient. I loved it. Pulitzer winner this year. Unprofessional recording here:

Lovely and very nicely paced. Thanks.

By way of contrast, this is what I listened to this morning.

BONGRIPPER - Empty

And just before I came here for a visit, and before I resume work on a series of pieces I'm writing for 3 marimbas, vibraphone and double bass

BING SATELLITES - Extensions Of Reality

But I'll listen to the whole Sorey's piece before I start.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Skull Bong - Drug Addict EP (2024)

pissed off Sludge with blackened undertones

[AlSymerz]

Evil Invaders - Pulses Of Pleasure

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

8 hours ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

COFFINS - Sinister Oath

....these guys are the fucking coolest......

Album of the year hands down right there. I have to restrain myself from listening to it some days and make a conscious effort to choose something else.

 

Forcefed Horsehead - Monoceros, Norwegian death/crust

 

Sentinel - Age of Decay, crusty crossover from NY 2023

 

[Thatguy]

21 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Album of the year hands down right there. I have to restrain myself from listening to it some days and make a conscious effort to choose something else.

It is noice.

[RelentlessOblivion]

34 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

It is noice.

Yeah Coffins has my vote for album of the year as well and we’re not even halfway through 2024 yet…

 

NP: Orpheon Passage - Apart (2024) {South Africa}

This is fine, nothing groundbreaking, and it won’t replace any of my favourite melodic doom/death bands, but there’s nothing really wrong here either

[Arioch]

Ennio Morricone - The Good the Bad and the Ugly OST (1966)

 

[AlSymerz]

Evile - Infected Nations

 

[Arioch]

Coffins - Sinister Oath (2024)

 

[JamesT]

1 hour ago, AlSymerz said:

Evile - Infected Nations

 

Great choice!  That album actually took a little while to grow on me.  I absolutely loved the debut - and it's still my favorite album from Evile - and was really looking forward to this one.  As a whole, the tempo of the songs on "Infected Nations" was notably slower and more mid-paced than a lot of the songs on the debut, and at the time, I wanted almost every song to be played at a million miles per hour.  These days, however, I appreciate it when thrash bands vary the tempos a bit.  I still prefer for the majority of the songs to be fast-paced, but more varied tempos are a pro for me now, rather than a con.  

I thoroughly enjoy "Infected Nations" now, as I do every Evile album.  Even the newest one, "The Unknown", is an enjoyable listen for me now, even though I wasn't crazy about it at first.  If I had to rank the 6 albums thus far, it would go like this:

6) Infected Nations

5) The Unknown

4) Five Serpents Teeth

3) Skull

2) Hell Unleashed

1) Enter the Grave

These guys are in my top 4 "new wave" thrash bands, along with Angelus Apatrida, Enforced, and Havok.

Curious to hear what your favorite Evile album is!

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Exorcizphobia - Spiritual Exodus

Spiritual Exodus | EXORCIZPHOBIA | Doomentia Records (bandcamp.com)

It's firmly planted in the more thrash/hardcore version of things. Vocals are very clean without singing or full-on growling. Unfortunately the modern production can sometimes really expose the flaws in the typical hardcore bark, and especially so when the guitar goes with plain old thrash.. Not a dealbreaker by any means, but there's far better out there.

[navybsn]

12 hours ago, SurgicalBrute said:

Black Witchery - Desecration of the Holy Kingdom

All the fucking horns.

14 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

This was kind of my take on it too, when I went back to it recently. I loved it when it came out and saw them on that tour, they were fantastic live. I still like some of the spoken parts but I think it would hold up better with less theatrics and more songwriting. Check out Chimera if you haven't already.

Never met a Mayhem album I didn't like, but GDoW should have been an EP.

This morning:

Perihelion Ship - To Paint a Bird of Fire - Finnish prog metal goodness

Perihelion Ship - A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Hässlig - Apex Predator, Spain black/crust

 

Abhorrency - Climax of Disgusting Impurities, Sacramento CA 2022

 

[JamesT]

Candlemass - "Chapter VI"

Candlemass - "Dactylis Glomerata"

Candlemass - "From the 13th Sun"

[FatherAlabaster]

Big Black - Songs About Fucking

 

[MacabreEternal]

Selbst - Despondency Chord Progressions (2024)

 

[AlSymerz]

8 hours ago, JamesT said:

Great choice!  That album actually took a little while to grow on me.  I absolutely loved the debut - and it's still my favorite album from Evile - and was really looking forward to this one.  As a whole, the tempo of the songs on "Infected Nations" was notably slower and more mid-paced than a lot of the songs on the debut, and at the time, I wanted almost every song to be played at a million miles per hour.  These days, however, I appreciate it when thrash bands vary the tempos a bit.  I still prefer for the majority of the songs to be fast-paced, but more varied tempos are a pro for me now, rather than a con.  

I thoroughly enjoy "Infected Nations" now, as I do every Evile album.  Even the newest one, "The Unknown", is an enjoyable listen for me now, even though I wasn't crazy about it at first.  If I had to rank the 6 albums thus far, it would go like this:

6) Infected Nations

5) The Unknown

4) Five Serpents Teeth

3) Skull

2) Hell Unleashed

1) Enter the Grave

These guys are in my top 4 "new wave" thrash bands, along with Angelus Apatrida, Enforced, and Havok.

Curious to hear what your favorite Evile album is!

I'm not sure how I'd rank Evile, but I do much prefer their older stuff to their newer stuff.

In Malice's Wake - Light Upon the Wicked

[Necrolord]

9 hours ago, JamesT said:

Great choice!  That album actually took a little while to grow on me.  I absolutely loved the debut - and it's still my favorite album from Evile - and was really looking forward to this one.  As a whole, the tempo of the songs on "Infected Nations" was notably slower and more mid-paced than a lot of the songs on the debut, and at the time, I wanted almost every song to be played at a million miles per hour.  These days, however, I appreciate it when thrash bands vary the tempos a bit.  I still prefer for the majority of the songs to be fast-paced, but more varied tempos are a pro for me now, rather than a con.  

I thoroughly enjoy "Infected Nations" now, as I do every Evile album.  Even the newest one, "The Unknown", is an enjoyable listen for me now, even though I wasn't crazy about it at first.  If I had to rank the 6 albums thus far, it would go like this:

6) Infected Nations

5) The Unknown

4) Five Serpents Teeth

3) Skull

2) Hell Unleashed

1) Enter the Grave

These guys are in my top 4 "new wave" thrash bands, along with Angelus Apatrida, Enforced, and Havok.

Curious to hear what your favorite Evile album is!

Infected Nations - first album I heard by Evile and still my favorite. One of the best thrash albums ever and my fav band of the new wave of thrash (followed by Havok, Warbringer and Vektor).

 

And since AlSymerz won't rank them, Here's my ranking:

Infected Nations

Hell Unleashed

Enter the Grave

Five Serpent's Teeth

Skull

The Unknown

 

NP: Megadeth - Killing is My Business...

[JamesT]

43 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

I'm not sure how I'd rank Evile, but I do much prefer their older stuff to their newer stuff.

In Malice's Wake - Light Upon the Wicked

Another great call with In Malice's Wake!  I've been a big fan of theirs for about 7 years now.

11 minutes ago, Necrolord said:

Infected Nations - first album I heard by Evile and still my favorite. One of the best thrash albums ever and my fav band of the new wave of thrash (followed by Havok, Warbringer and Vektor).

 

And since AlSymerz won't rank them, Here's my ranking:

Infected Nations

Hell Unleashed

Enter the Grave

Five Serpent's Teeth

Skull

The Unknown

 

NP: Megadeth - Killing is My Business...

Great ranking!  Yes, these guys always seem to deliver.  I enjoy every single album, including "Infected Nations" nowadays - it just took a bit to grow on me.  "The Unknown" is continuing to grow on me as well, even though there's far less thrash on it.  Both musically and vocally, it gets compared often to Metallica's "Black Album", which is one of my least favorite Metallica albums.  I can enjoy the Black Album very occasionally, but objectively, it's one of the most baselessly overhyped albums ever released in metal's long history.  These days, I listen to "The Unknown" by Evile far more often than I listed to the Black Album from Metallica.  

Also, fantastic call with the Megadeth debut!  That one is actually my favorite Megadeth album.  I enjoy "Peace Sells" and "Rust in Peace" and "So Far So Good...So What" just like a lot of fans do, but the debut has a ferocity to it that those albums don't seem to capture, in my opinion.  I realize I'm in the minority on that, but it's just how I hear those albums!

[AlSymerz]

13 minutes ago, Necrolord said:

Infected Nations - first album I heard by Evile and still my favorite. One of the best thrash albums ever and my fav band of the new wave of thrash (followed by Havok, Warbringer and Vektor).

 

And since AlSymerz won't rank them, Here's my ranking:

Infected Nations

Hell Unleashed

Enter the Grave

Five Serpent's Teeth

Skull

The Unknown

 

NP: Megadeth - Killing is My Business...

It's not that I wont rate them, It's more that I can't without revisiting their albums. IN would definitely be one of my favourites and The Unknown my least but to know where the others fall would need new listen.

7 minutes ago, JamesT said:

Another great call with In Malice's Wake!  I've been a big fan of theirs for about 7 years now.

Been a fan of theirs since just after they formed. They are one of the last bands I worked with (as a part of a larger gig) before getting out of the rat race.

[JamesT]

4 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

It's not that I wont rate them, It's more that I can't without revisiting their albums. IN would definitely be one of my favourites and The Unknown my least but to know where the others fall would need new listen.

Been a fan of theirs since just after they formed. They are one of the last bands I worked with (as a part of a larger gig) before getting out of the rat race.

That's really cool!  "The Thrashening" is just an exhilarating listen all the way through, but all of their albums are great.

[AlSymerz]

2 minutes ago, JamesT said:

That's really cool!  "The Thrashening" is just an exhilarating listen all the way through, but all of their albums are great.

They are nearly finished recording the new one too.