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23 hours ago, navybsn said:

Love me some Charles Mingus. I've been on a Blue Note/Hard Bop binge for the past 2 days. Setting up my new home office and rearranging the hifi and nothing is better for calibrating a sound system than jazz.

Killer. Yeah, jazz gives you a good idea of what your system can do. Here’s the show if anyone’s interested:

Also this from the same show:

 

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Thanks for the Blut Aus Nord recommendations. It is quite a lot to sift through. 

The main band floating my boat in the last few days is:

https://kingbuffalo.bandcamp.com/album/acheron

A healthy back catalog to work through.

I think it was a Dom Lawson Blabbermouth review that peaked my interest. I am almost put off by the "you must smoke a massive blunt to get this" rhetoric when it comes to these kinds of bands. It is just well made (production and vibe) music.

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Panopticon/And Again into the Light-Panopticon is one of those bands I should love on paper, but never quite delivers 100% for me. After Roads to the North, Autumn Eternal and the hot mess of the double album The Scars of Man.....with a split between BM and roots American, do I really need another album that largely delivers more of the same? I think this might be the best distillation of what he does. Not completely decided for a purchase, but I get why it's on lists. Solid album.

Melissa Nadler/The Path of the  Clouds-for those not in the know-a Cheaslea Wolfe, Emma Ruth Rundle song writer who sometimes works with metal artists. Often come across these artists on metal sights, ironically. She has a softer dark folk sound-this album  has more rock instrumentation. Dig this.

Tribulation/When the Gloom Becomes Sound-sounds like Tribulation-not much to say

Mystras/Empires Vanquished....need more time with this one-

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Helloween/Helloween-Good lord, sat through most of the tracks.  Pretty dreadful afIc. I can absolutely do early Heloween, Blind Guardian and Gamma Ray.in the early 2000's I went through a classic PM phase to break up the black and death I was discovering.  Back then I found the classic late 80's-90's PM refreshing and fun. Shoot, I've even got some of Helloween's 2000's output. I remember getting Blind Guardian's, A Night at the Opera in 2002 and then bailed and I even liked Gamma Ray's Land of the Free II in 2007. That was probably the last actual power metal I picked up.  Don't get the appeal of this album....sounds like manufactured Disney Channel metal.

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