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2 hours ago, markm said:

Something about Halford's porky Santa Clause look was annoying. I was hoping he's at least make an attempt to resurrect the Metal God of days of ore. 

Yore.

Give him a break, he's an old man!

There is supposed to be a new KK's Priest album in the mixing stage, which reminds me I really should listen to the first one again. I wonder if they'll bash out this new Priest record, since its already written and mostly recorded, and then get KK back. 

NP: Conan - Evidence of Immortality

Evidence Of Immortality | Conan (bandcamp.com)

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10 minutes ago, markm said:

Which reminds me, the only Halford albums outside of the Priest moniker that I have or have heard are Crucible and Resurrection, both of which I think are pretty solid. 

The first Fight is also solid. Resurrection and Crucible are probably better than any post Painkiller Priest. Only let down by being front loaded and a few tracks too many.

If you have/had a good relationship with your mother, try and make it through bonus track "She" without bursting into tears.

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Bring on the EMP. I, for one, look forward to once again stretching dried skins across frames, stringing gut over resonant cavities, and yelling with abandon, to create unique and ephemeral musical experiences recorded only in the hearts and minds of my tribespeople (unless someone keeps a spreadsheet). It may lead to my exile, or even death by stoning, but such is my love for music. 

NP: Killing Joke - Fire Dances

 

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13 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

I wonder if, in a hundred years, they'll be remembered as anything more than a novelty (there will likely be a record of the music, but will anyone actually still listen to and enjoy it?).

I suspect in a hundred years metal is largely forgotten.  Nothing lasts forever.  What remains in museums or with odd music history specialists will be at best the big name bands - Metallica, Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Slipknot. 

But then the internet does makes things live long past their use by dates so who knows.

 

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I think there is a market in apocalypse proof music formats.[/quote]

 

I don't think civilisation will collapse.  I think instead humanity will continue devolving back to older systems more akin to 19th century laissez faire economics or earlier.  So you might have advanced technology but it's only beneficiaries will be the rich.  Everyone else lives in conditions similar to Brazilian favelas or Indian slums.   This is already the direction we've been heading for 40 years and nothing much is changing.

So more Elysium with Matt Damon than Mad Max.

Though there's been some good news recently - male sperm counts have apparently dropped by 62% since 1970s.  By that rate, human are basically extinct by 2200.  Good riddance to us.

Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings

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  • Swans/Filth Deluxe Remaster 2015 (Bandcamp Stream)-so another bucket list listen. So impressions? Interesting which usually means it's not very good. As an art experiment, I didn't hate it. But I never need to listen to this again. Or do I?
  • King Buffalo/Dead Star-I think Jon really liked this one....enjoyable at minimum. There's not a lot you can say bad about King Buffalo. Unfortunately for me, there's not a lot great to say either which is to say, it's perfectly fine but that's all. 
  • Acid Witch/Riot Among us- an AMG rave...this is silly and basically pretty much sucks. Ya know, I'm always on the lookout for good stoner and doom. This does not qualify as good in the most marginal reading of the word good.  So forget pretty much. This is just bad. 
  • Bloodbath/Survival of the Sickest-preleased tracks for all time it seems-meh
  • Gevurah/Gehinnom-I do not hate this.
  • Morbific/Squirm Beyond the Mortal Realm-as much as I liked last year's debut, nothing about this holds my interest. Insert sad face. 
  • Peace Clinic/Bayonet / L.I.C.E. / Peace Clinic-a couple of the Vortex dudes I follow on my stream bought this so it must past elite standards-it's like a ten minute blast of hardcore/grind/power violence type thing.

All in all-unfruitful afternoon. Then again, I'm just working in my classroom on a student early release day/teacher proff day-so fuck it.

Time for cocktails-five days off from work....thank you Pilgrims....sorry Native Americans....we were pretty shitty to you, apparently. 

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13 minutes ago, markm said:
  • Acid Witch/Riot Among us- an AMG rave...this is silly and basically pretty much sucks. Ya know, I'm always on the lookout for good stoner and doom. This does not qualify as good in the most marginal reading of the word good.  So forget pretty much. This is just bad. 
  • Bloodbath/Survival of the Sickest-preleased tracks for all time it seems-meh

Totally agree on both.  Bloodbath especially seem to be a spent force.

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1 hour ago, Dead1 said:

I suspect in a hundred years metal is largely forgotten.  Nothing lasts forever.  What remains in museums or with odd music history specialists will be at best the big name bands - Metallica, Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Slipknot. 

But then the internet does makes things live long past their use by dates so who knows.

History is written by the victors. It's always been this way, the little guys will generally be forgotten. It does seem in this digital age that recordings of music and video can be preserved much longer periods of time without much if any degredation of quality, unlike a lot of older stuff from the early 20th century which has sadly deteriorated. But even considering the lack of technology back then we still have some surviving music and movies from almost 100 years ago available today. (78 rpm records came out in 1925, "talkie" movies debuted in 1928) Lots of people out there have the interest and the desire to preserve and enjoy art forms from the past. No genre of anything ever truly dies, there's always somebody somewhere out there who loves it and will keep it alive. So unless there really is a complete societal collapse and the internet just disappears overnight, I think the music and movies made in our lifetimes will be able to survive for quite some time. Not forever obviously, but certainly for the next 100 years, which is a relatively short time in the overall scheme of things.

 

male sperm counts have apparently dropped by 62% since 1970s. 

Man, what wouldn't I have given to have been aflicted with this problem for all of those years since the 70's.

 

Terrörhammer - Gateways to Hades, I know Marko already posted this one fairly recently but I've just gotten to it now. These Serbians have made a damn good thrash record, or speed metal or whatever you want to call it. I'll call it black/thrash I guess, but I think it leans a little more toward thrash. Definitely gonna pick this up sometime after it drops Friday.

 

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49 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

 

Terrörhammer - Gateways to Hades, I know Marko already posted this one fairly recently but I've just gotten to it now. These Serbians have made a damn good thrash record, or speed metal or whatever you want to call it. I'll call it black/thrash I guess, but I think it leans a little more toward thrash. Definitely gonna pick this up sometime after it drops Friday.

 

Very good album indeed!  Definitely leans more to thrash than speed - basically early Teutonic thrash.

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Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance, 2013. I'm a massive Darkthrone fan and I don't know what's going on the last few years but I didn't really like their last album very much tbh, and now the new one is alright, a little better I guess, but after 3 times through it I'm still not excited about it like I'd normally be with a new Darkthrone album. Oh well.

 

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13 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance, 2013. I'm a massive Darkthrone fan and I don't know what's going on the last few years but I didn't really like their last album very much tbh, and now the new one is alright, a little better I guess, but after 3 times through it I'm still not excited about it like I'd normally be with a new Darkthrone album. Oh well.

 

Oh wow, that's unexpected!  I've actually enjoyed the last two (Eternal Hails and Astral Fortress) and Arctic Thunder.  Old Star was a bit tedious.

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Just gonna put out there that DT has yet to make an album I haven't liked. Honestly wish more legacy bands took there approach of switching things up while maintaining your musical integrity than just trying to rehash the good old days in search of another magic album like the one that gave them their status. As much as I dislike modern Metallica, I've more respect for them than many of their contemporaries because they took a chance on a new sound and stuck with it. They're not trend hopping like many did when grunge hit or after the Black album when everyone tried to duplicate the success but quickly abandoned it when it didn't work out. For DT, if they had continued to make stuff in the vein of the trilogy, or the period immediately after, I think they would be a parody at this point. They haven't become that and stay relevant/interesting because they change it up. Bathory is another good example of a band (artist) that wasn't afraid to make a drastic change. I'd put Enslaved and Opeth in that category too.

DT exists in their own world outside of our silly mortal dimension. The rules just don't apply to them the way they do to other bands, and that's just unheard of for a band 30 years old. They have full license from me to do whatever the fuck floats their boat short of an Illud-level debacle for the rest of time. May not be an AOTY situation, but they won't fail to get my money.

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