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Work from Home day which means access to my server and home office system. Also means I don't have to listen to my playlist at low volume to avoid disturbing coworkers. So going through my bandcamp spree from yesterday at unreasonable volumes.

mgla - Age of Excuse

mgla - Groza

mgla - With Hearts Towards None

Autonesis - Moon of Foul Magics

Nightbringer - Apocalypse Sun

Blackbraid - Blackbraid

Sepulchral Curse - Deathbed Sessions

 

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17 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Today so far:

Celeste - Infidèle(s) (2017)

Blackbraid - s/t (2022)

Soulfly - Totem (2022)

Machine Head - Of Kingdom and Crown (2022)

fucking hell

What's the skinny on that new Machine Head? They're a band that surprises me every now and then with a good tune or two. The Blabber-Sucks media says this is the heaviest thing they've ever done.

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1 hour ago, navybsn said:

What's the skinny on that new Machine Head? They're a band that surprises me every now and then with a good tune or two. The Blabber-Sucks media says this is the heaviest thing they've ever done.

It isn't.  It is heavier and better than Catharsis (how could it not be) but it is more heavy going than outright heavy.  A bloated concept album with flashes of The Blackening era MH with some of the more intelligent parts of ...Locust thrown in for good measure.  Considering it is essentially Rob Flynn & Friends in terms of line-up nowadays it sounds a lot like post-Supercharger MH and I am not sure the guy who used to be in Decapitated is stretching his legs much on this.  

Also has some cringey clean vocal passages that make my shit itch.  In summary, MH have not been shit twice in a row.  But is there any success in just avoiding failure?

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2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

It isn't.  It is heavier and better than Catharsis (how could it not be) but it is more heavy going than outright heavy.  A bloated concept album with flashes of The Blackening era MH with some of the more intelligent parts of ...Locust thrown in for good measure.  Considering it is essentially Rob Flynn & Friends in terms of line-up nowadays it sounds a lot like post-Supercharger MH and I am not sure the guy who used to be in Decapitated is stretching his legs much on this.  

Also has some cringey clean vocal passages that make my shit itch.  In summary, MH have not been shit twice in a row.  But is there any success in just avoiding failure?

 

49 minutes ago, SurgicalBrute said:

They surprise me too...with how they manage to continually lower my expectations 😁

Certainly not something on my list to check out. Honestly nothing from them has been after the debacle that was The Burning Red. There was a moment or two on The Blackening where I thought they found the plot again, but alas it seems that was just fleeting. Not really surprising considering the lineup changes. They've had potential with various members in the band over the years to do something memorable but just never put it together.

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18 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

BTW Mark, have you listened to the Swans Are Dead live recordings from the mid-late 90s? Bunch of great stuff on there too, big post-rock vibes and some more visceral performances of their later stuff. A different animal from their studio versions.

I have not...will keep that in mind tho!

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...I don't know man....I would'nt say questionable human...just human....flawed like everyone else....just happened to be under the microscope of public life...drugs can do a massive amount of damage on peep's lives and minds when you get caught up in them as deep as JB did....he did a lot of horrible things to people around him but I try to balance my opinion of him regarding that with the amount of pain he endured growing up in the atmosphere that surrounded him as a child to becoming the man he evolved in to...at the end of the day, he acknowledged his flaws and tried to atone for his mistakes as best he could.... 

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That was two days ago, and times move on...

GARGANJUA - Toward the Sun. Always good.

GLASSING - Twin Dream. Thatguy approved.

FERUM - Asunder/Erode. Yep, but I enjoyed the GLASSING more.

LÁSZLÓ HORTOBÁGYI et al - Kurtágonals. Electronic music of a degree of artfulness well beyond the average.

NP - THROTH - Haunted by the medium. A band new to me. I'm enjoying this gloomy doomy album

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