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2 hours ago, navybsn said:

Never go wrong with Miles.

And Gil Evans' superb arrangements! Love this record.

NP:

Furia - W snialni   ...as much as I love some of their stuff, can this even be called music

Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Noktvrn   ...enjoyable and pretty cool atmo-melodic-post-something BM, yes, but "progressive, avant-garde black metal experimentalists" who are "smashing through the boundaries of the genre" to "expand the minds and perspectives of their ever-increasing fan base" is PR copy run amok.

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Phrenelith - Chimaera (2021)

Well, it finally happened. My most anticipated new album of the year finally releases aaaaaaaaaaaand...... it's a bit of a letdown, not gonna lie. Half the album is just a re-recording of their previous EP from 2017, so we only get 3 new songs. New songs are good, to be sure, but definitely not amazing. I guess it's my fault for my expectations being really high but it's hard not to when the band's last album was one of the best death metal albums of the last decade.

Oh well, life goes on...

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1 hour ago, zackflag said:

Phrenelith - Chimaera (2021)

Well, it finally happened. My most anticipated new album of the year finally releases aaaaaaaaaaaand...... it's a bit of a letdown, not gonna lie. Half the album is just a re-recording of their previous EP from 2017, so we only get 3 new songs. New songs are good, to be sure, but definitely not amazing. I guess it's my fault for my expectations being really high but it's hard not to when the band's last album was one of the best death metal albums of the last decade.

Oh well, life goes on...

I was a bit underwhelmed myself. The new Suffering Hour left me with the same meh feeling. What we need is a new Chthe'ilist album.

For the afternoon push:

Ares Kingdom - Return to Dust

Ares Kingdom - By the Light of their Destruction

Hyperdontia - Hideous Entity

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5 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

Mastodon - Leviathan

Love that album!  I'm not a huge Mastodon fan, but that album is one of my favorite metal albums, period.  So much variety in the song structures.  It just flat out rocks.  "Blood and Thunder" and "Megalodon" are my favorite tracks, but there's not a weak track on it. 

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15 minutes ago, JamesT said:

Love that album!  I'm not a huge Mastodon fan, but that album is one of my favorite metal albums, period.  So much variety in the song structures.  It just flat out rocks.  "Blood and Thunder" and "Megalodon" are my favorite tracks, but there's not a weak track on it. 

 

Same here.  Leviathan is their pinnacle and one of the best 21st century metal albums imo. 

2 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Sabaton - The Great Tour Live In Prague

 

One of those bands I really tried to like but I can't help despising their weak gutless sound.

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38 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

They are almost the KISS of power metal. Everyone expresses distaste for them but their concerts are huge and they are selling out shows everywhere.

No doubt they have a lot of fans,

I've known wargaming nerds who don't like metal but Sabaton appeals to them.

 

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I think their fan numbers and their success are quite a credit to them given they self manage. I certainly wouldn't manage a band in this day and age, let alone my own band. Most people seem to rag them more for their attire and their single theme rather than anything else though.

 

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