What Are You Listening To?

[Arioch]

Deicide - Deicide (1990)

 

[AlSymerz]

Witchburner - Bloodthirsty Eyes

[RelentlessOblivion]

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

It's not the album that matters, it's just the total number of songs we've played by that band. Although you can sort it by how many times you've played songs from each album if you'd like, I could do a top 200 most played albums if I wanted to. But for the purposes of our top 200 thing here, we're just going off our total number of plays we've accumulated for each band, and then CumBlood and I are just picking a random album of our choice to represent each band.

Now I happen to have mine set to count the number of plays starting from October 21st 2016 (the day we moved into our house in Denver) until today. Just 3 months shy of 7 years. Sometimes I'll set my thing to start from October 19, 2017 (the day my wife died) or sometimes January 27, 2014 (the day my son was born). Several years ago I used to sometiemes use December 5th 2012 (the last time I got married) but I don't ever use that date anymore. Or you could do one year or one month or a specific week in 2015 or any time period you want. I originally started this lastFM scrobbling shit in December 2010 I believe it was, but somehow the stats for the first year or two got all fucked up and when you click on individual scrobbles it just says "unknown date" so I never sort it all the way back to the very beginning in 2010, I'll always use one of my dates. I started this Top 200 thing with it set to Oct 21, 2016 so now I have to leave it set there til I finish. 

There are 50 bands per page, and I have 75 pages full of bands, 3,705 bands I've scrobbled at least one song by in all.  If an album has 10 tracks and I play it all the way through that counts as 10 scrobbles for that band. So the numbers will be skewed in favor of bands that have more tracks on their albums. A grindcore band which puts out 22 minute albums with 27 sub one minute tracks on them will rack up more scrobbles much quicker than a death/doom band that makes albums with six 10 minute songs. And like we've said it's only counting the songs I play on my desktop MusicBee player while sitting at the computer, not my Youtube plays or anything I listen to in the car or anywhere else.

My #200 band Hellshock as of yesterday had 249 plays since Oct 2016. My #173 band from a few hours ago Insect Warfare has 261 scrobbles. My #100 band Arnaut Pavle has 332 plays. (this will change in a week or two because by the time I get to #100 I will have played music by some of these bands in my top 200 and that will change the numbers and affect which place stuff is in slightly, my #100 band today could end up at #104 or #97 in two weeks) My current #50 band Undergang has 455 scrobbles. My current #40 band Utzalu has 509. My #30 band Cemetery Urn has 596. My #20 band Killing Joke has 679. My #10 band Type O Negative has 826. My #1 band Darkthrone has 1,678.

Just FYI this unknowable horror, wow again I’m leaning into the Lovecraftian schtick a bit too much, would play along but there’s no option for an audio challenge. If I want to verify, I’m not a robot. Also, Spotify doesn’t track that data in an accessible way as best, I can tell.

 

Weighing in on the whole youngest generation, and understanding the historical context for music I listen to thing: it’s a serious problem, I almost always forget first wave black metal is a retroactive label for example.

 

NP: disEMBOWELMENT - s/t compilation

I literally forgot I own this

[Arioch]

Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream (1991)

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

9 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Thanks, mate, but it wasn't me getting nostalgic, it was him. Thatguy hates nostalgia. Thatguy always found AC/DC only mildly risible.

Thatguy always hated Rose Tattoo and my hate only grew over the years as it became more and more clear what a prick Angry Anderson was.

For the record though, my favourite Aussie bands from back in the day were - The Church, Midnight Oil, The Saints.

Don't you mean scrobbles? ( My spell check made me type that word three times. Another reason to say fuck you to the GG)

See that's the thing, I've never been crazy in love with AC/DC the way a lof of people I know are/were, and I rarely ever find a reason to play them these days, because I have much better musical options now. But the first time I ever heard Whole Lotta Rosie at 15 I had a boner for a week. Because I'd found a new band that rocked hard and didn't write stupid ballads. A rare commodity in 1977. Rose Tattoo was just some album I found in the store 40 some odd years ago that I listened to a few times, I don't have any nostalgic connection to them.

But you being down under in '76 what the fuck else were you listening to if not AC/DC?!? There were only a fairly small number of what you could call "heavy" bands back in those days before metal. But all 3 of the Aussie bands you just named are soft-cock bands. I bet you probbaly liked Elvis Costello and the Police back then too. (I actually like The Saints' first couple of albums myself but still in the big scheme of things they're not very heavy, the Church and M.O. even less heavy) You're really not one of us dyed in the wool headbangers are you Doc. And that's OK man, I still love ya just as much, but I'm just saying our 1970's musical experiences were quite different from one another, and not just because we lived on opposite ends of the world.

You never heard the calling. You were never on a mission to find the heaviest most skull crushing music you could possibly find. You didn't give blood or sell your textbooks to get money for Slayer tickets. You didn't stay in the club to see Celtic Frost after your ride back home to the burbs had left you stranded because you loved them that much and weren't even gonna consider missing them. I think you just somehow came to like some prog metal and post-metal in your late middle age so now you've become sort of an honorary metalhead...but not really. I think it might even be a fairly fascinating story to hear how the good doctor came to find metal in his old age if we could get you to tell it. But you won't. You'll stick with your stoic man of few words persona you've created for yourself here on the forum. But that's cool, whatever makes you happy. 

And you stil haven't told us why you say Angry Anderson is suck a prick. I personally don't give a flying fuck about the dude one way or the other, but I suspect by the time I finish typing and post this our friend the Orca will have posted in support of the lovely Mr Anderson and his altruistic tendencies. 

 

The Church - The Blurred Crusade, 1982. It's not "bad" but it's about as soft as a cock can get.

 

54 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

I never once called it hunor!!

If you came to the farm for a month we wouldn't need to agree on music, it would be Taylor Swift 24/7, unless Doc came to visit and then it would be Rose Tattoo

Don't think I've ever actully heard Taylor Swift. I know what she looks like though. Tall and bony. And take it easy on the Rose Tattoo, that slide guitar gets old real quick.

[Thatguy]

5 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

M.O. even less heavy

You're listening to the wrong albums and you never saw them live back in the day. My ears rang for 2 days - it was probably this gig that started my tinnitus.

Angry Ant went further and further right wing as time went on. He ran for parliament for the 'National' Party (used to be called the Country Party but eventually even those morons got tired of the obvious joke.) It's the party that pretends to represent 'the man on the land' but is in fact the party of big mining and that's about it.

12 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

whatever makes you happy

It does.

Catharthis -> ataraxia

[AlSymerz]

15 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Don't think I've ever actully heard Taylor Swift. I know what she looks like though. Tall and bony. And take it easy on the Rose Tattoo, that slide guitar gets old real quick.

It wont matter if you've heard her or not, after a week here you'll be singing all her songs in your sleep.

Rose Tattoo is only to keep Doc happy, if he didn't turn up it's Tay Tay 24/7!!

5 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

You're listening to the wrong albums and you never saw them live back in the day. My ears rang for 2 days - it was probably this gig that started my tinnitus.

 

That I do agree with. They put on some amazingly powerful shows, they played some gigs really fast too.

6 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

 

Angry Ant went further and further right wing as time went on. He ran for parliament for the 'National' Party (used to be called the Country Party but eventually even those morons got tired of the obvious joke.) It's the party that pretends to represent 'the man on the land' but is in fact the party of big mining and that's about it.

Bah politics. Baldy man from MO was as bad if not worse in parliament but you don't seem to speak the same way about him. Fuck the politics the music stands by itself.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

30 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

You're listening to the wrong albums and you never saw them live back in the day. My ears rang for 2 days - it was probably this gig that started my tinnitus.

Angry Ant went further and further right wing as time went on. He ran for parliament for the 'National' Party (used to be called the Country Party but eventually even those morons got tired of the obvious joke.) It's the party that pretends to represent 'the man on the land' but is in fact the party of big mining and that's about it.

Thanks for the exlpanation. So he's a right-wing wanker. Should have just said so in the first place. You said "prick" I didn't know if that meant he was an axe murderer or a kiddie-fiddler or what.

Doc my dude there are no "right" Midnight Oil albums, they're all "wrong." I haven't heard any of them right or wrong because they suck. I did watch a live concert video of theirs one time maybe a year or two ago after you'd mentioned liking them and hinted that your speaking voice sounds like the bald guy's voice. But I saw and heard nothing to change my mind that they suck. You're just nostalgic for them the same way I am for Molly Hatchet. Aha! Thatguy does get nostalgic.

 

 

Been sparring with these crazy Ozzies for so long now I've been slacking off on posting my top 200. Where am I up to now?

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

170. Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria, Sweden, really wanted Blood Rapture but there's no YT video for that one. Overlooked Swedish death metal band, I'd take these dudes over DIsmember or Entombed any day.

 

169. Pig's Blood, S/T Milwaukee Wisconsin (both of these have 268 Scrobbles) I really liked these guys' albums in '17 & '19 but haven't listened to either one of them since then I don't think.

 

[CumBloodSucker]

CBS's top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

184. Mercyful fate - Melissa

183. Katatonia - Dance of december souls

182. Disharmonic orchestra - Expositionsprophylaxe

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

168. Nunslaughter - Red Is the Color of Ripping Death, Cleveland Ohio

 

167. Megiddo - The Devil and the Whore, Toronto, Great White North

 

[CumBloodSucker]

45 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria, Sweden, really wanted Blood Rapture but there's no YT video for that one. Overlooked Swedish death metal band, I'd take these dudes over DIsmember or Entombed any day.

Seeing them in a month for the first time I think. Haven't paid attention until this summer when the new album came out. Grave is my swedish dm.

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CBS's top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

181. Behexen - Rituale Satanum

180. Dimmu borgir - For all tid

179. Torchure - Beyond the veil

 

[AlSymerz]

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Been sparring with these crazy Ozzies for so long now I've been slacking off on posting my top 200. Where am I up to now?

 

I'm sure you were going to post something good, but I see you failed again!

[Arioch]

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (1994)

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

2 hours ago, CumBloodSucker said:

Seeing them in a month for the first time I think. Haven't paid attention until this summer when the new album came out. Grave is my swedish dm.

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CBS's top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

181. Behexen - Rituale Satanum

Grave is mine as well, but we're not up to them yet, they'll be my number 19. The only death metal bands to get more scrobbles than Grave were The Chasm at #6, Necros Christos at #17 and Necrophobic at #14. But Necrophobic and Grave while both Swedish death metal, are two very different things, like apples and oranges. Funny though, I would not have guessed that I played Necrophobic more than Grave, but I guess the scrobbles don't lie. 

I also have Behexen coming up in a few more days here, they're currently sitting down towards the bottom of page 2 which surprised me quite a bit as I thought they'd have been much higher somewhere on page 1. Feel like I should count up how many Finnish black metal bands I have in my top 200 but I don't have enough fingers.

 

 

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

166. Osculum Infame - Dor-nu-Fauglith, France

 

165. Gråinheim - Hexndeifl, Germany

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

7 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Grave is mine as well, but we're not up to them yet, they'll be my number 19. The only death metal bands to get more scrobbles than Grave were The Chasm at #6, Necros Christos at #17 and Necrophobic at #14. But Necrophobic and Grave while both Swedish death metal, are two very different things, like apples and oranges. Funny though, I would not have guessed that I played Necrophobic more than Grave, but I guess the scrobbles don't lie. 

I also have Behexen coming up in a few more days here, they're currently sitting down towards the bottom of page 2 which surprised me quite a bit as I thought they'd have been much higher somewhere on page 1. Feel like I should count up how many Finnish black metal bands I have in my top 200 but I don't have enough fingers.

 

 

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

166. Osculum Infame - Dor-nu-Fauglith, France

 

165. Gråinheim - Hexndeifl, Germany

 

Didn’t Necrophobic transition into black metal? Could explain why it’s a feature so high?

Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll 2023

[JamesT]

8 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I know you didn't ask me JT, but I went and had myself a wee little listen to this new Evile album. Very little, just a couple of small portions of the first track, maybe a minute total, and what struck me immediately was how hard they're trying to sound like Metallica. Very much the same impression I had when I randomly checked out Avenged Sevenfold a few months ago just to see what they're about. It's quite clear to me they're both openly and actively trying to sound like Metallica. And not 80's Metallica either, but 90's/00's.

Now obviously guys like you and I are naturally going to disagree on whether that's a good thing or not. Predictably I hate all their music since Justice obviously whereas you just said you enjoy the 3 most recent Metallica offernings. I'm not gonna argue taste with you here, but I wil give you my take on this Evile situation. Which is: whatever you may think of their music, wouldn't one Metallica in this world already be more than enough?

Whether I asked or not, it's always great to hear from you, my friend!  

That's a completely fair point.  The Metallica influence - or downright rip-off - is immediately obvious here.  Ol' Drake has completely overhauled his vocal style from "Hell Unleashed" and is definitely trying to channel his inner Hetfield on "The Unknown".  Admittedly, I turn to Evile for some great thrash, so I can certainly still say I'd rather they continue with the sound from the previous album.  However, I've found that if I try and take the thrash expectation out of the equation (much like I do for the newer Metallica output), I'm able to give the material a better chance.  I will say, I'm still not necessarily digging this new Evile album yet, but I'm hoping it will grow on me.  It was a long, 8-year absence before "Hell Unleashed", so I'm glad to have these guys back!

[Thatguy]

4 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

Fuck the politics the music stands by itself.

If you like. And RT always sucked. Rumpah-rumpah music at its worst.

But I think we can agree that the GG and CBS are in a race to the bottom.

[Arioch]

28 Days Later - Soundtrack (2003)

 

[Arioch]

Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971)

 

[Arioch]

Elend - Leçons de Ténèbres  (Lessons of Darkness - 1995)

 

[CumBloodSucker]

3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I also have Behexen coming up in a few more days here, they're currently sitting down towards the bottom of page 2 which surprised me quite a bit as I thought they'd have been much higher somewhere on page 1. Feel like I should count up how many Finnish black metal bands I have in my top 200 but I don't have enough fingers.

My list won't do much justice to my real death and black metal favorites which is why it's called "according to lastFM" in the first place. Still feeling kind of gutted Behexen is so low on the list.

3 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Didn’t Necrophobic transition into black metal?

I've always found them blackened death metal like Dissection, Unanimated and 90's At the gates.

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CBS's top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

178. Fleshpress - Fleshpress

177. Bloodbath - Grand morbid funeral

176. Kvist - For kunsten maa vi evig vike

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

4 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Didn’t Necrophobic transition into black metal? Could explain why it’s a feature so high?

Well they were formed by a dude David Parland (guitar) who went by 'Blackmoon' who also played in Dark Funeral in the early 90's. He left both bands in '96 to go do his own Blackmoon project. (He has since died in 2013) So he was only on Necrophobic's multiple demos, 2 EP's and first album. So the black metal elements have been there from the very beginning. But as CBS said, they play a mix of black and death that's all their own, but it is along the lines of a Dissection or an Unanimated or a Sacramentum. I know I've heard some people call all 4 of them 'black metal' but I would consider them all to be blackened death metal.

I know I love Necrophobic, they are my #14 most listened to out of 3,700 metal bands after all. A band doesn't climb that high up the list by pure chance. But having my thing counting my plays only back as far as Oct 2016 I thought over that specific time period I'd have been playing Grave more since they're by far my favorite old school Swedish caveman death metal band, and my tastes have changed over the years toward the cavemen. In the years from 2006 or '07 until roughly 2012 I was a Necrophobic fanboi and I played their records more than almost any other band except probably Inquisition and possibly Overkill. But none of those years are being counted for my top 200 thing here as I wasn't even scrobbling back then for most of those years.

 

 

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

164. Blood Red Fog - Thanatotic Supremacy, Finland

 

163. Aegrus - Devotion For the Devil, Finland

 

 

4 hours ago, Thatguy said:

If you like. And RT always sucked. Rumpah-rumpah music at its worst.

But I think we can agree that the GG and CBS are in a race to the bottom.

RT is Aussie drinking music Doc. It's not meant to be critical listening music. Didn't you ever round up your gang of fellow Docs after a long hard day of pimple popping and head down to the local pub for a piss-up to unwind with a few brewskis (that's American for bevvie, coldie, frostie, tinnie, stubbie...a bit o' the amber liquid) and maybe try your luck at having a wee chinwag wiv a pretty young Shiela or two or have a gander at the footy as you all told each other outrageous furphys and regaled your mates with wild fabricated tales of glory all whilst listening to Acca-dacca, Cold Chisel & RT and periodically ducking out the back to throw some more prawns, croc, roo meat and assorted other roadkill of the day onto the barbie? If not, then what kind of a self-respecting Aussie are you anyway mate?

 

Race to the bottom? I'll have you know our new Finnish friend CBS has more knowledge about and better taste in metal than all 6 of you dirty Ozzy wankers put together. Wish we had 10 more just like him then we could start making the lot of you poseur cunts redundant.  😘

[RelentlessOblivion]

17 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Well they were formed by a dude David Parland (guitar) who went by 'Blackmoon' who also played in Dark Funeral in the early 90's. He left both bands in '96 to go do his own Blackmoon project. (He has since died in 2013) So he was only on Necrophobic's multiple demos, 2 EP's and first album. So the black metal elements have been there from the very beginning. But as CBS said, they play a mix of black and death that's all their own, but it is along the lines of a Dissection or an Unanimated or a Sacramentum. I know I've heard some people call all 4 of them 'black metal' but I would consider them all to be blackened death metal.

I know I love Necrophobic, they are my #14 most listened to out of 3,700 metal bands after all. A band doesn't climb that high up the list by pure chance. But having my thing counting my plays only back as far as Oct 2016 I thought over that specific time period I'd have been playing Grave more since they're by far my favorite old school Swedish caveman death metal band, and my tastes have changed over the years toward the cavemen. In the years from 2006 or '07 until roughly 2012 I was a Necrophobic fanboi and I played their records more than almost any other band except probably Inquisition and possibly Overkill. But none of those years are being counted for my top 200 thing here as I wasn't even scrobbling back then for most of those years.

 

 

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

164. Blood Red Fog - Thanatotic Supremacy, Finland

 

163. Aegrus - Devotion For the Devil, Finland

 

 

RT is Aussie drinking music Doc. It's not meant to be critical listening music. Didn't you ever round up your gang of fellow Docs after a long hard day of pimple popping and head down to the local pub for a piss-up to unwind with a few brewskis (that's American for bevvie, coldie, frostie, tinnie, stubbie...a bit o' the amber liquid) and maybe try your luck at having a wee chinwag wiv a pretty young Shiela or two or have a gander at the footy as you all told each other outrageous furphys and regaled your mates with wild fabricated tales of glory all whilst listening to Acca-dacca, Cold Chisel & RT and periodically ducking out the back to throw some more prawns, croc, roo meat and assorted other roadkill of the day onto the barbie? If not, then what kind of a self-respecting Aussie are you anyway mate?

 

Race to the bottom? I'll have you know our new Finnish friend CBS has more knowledge about and better taste in metal than all 6 of you dirty Ozzy wankers put together. Wish we had 10 more just like him then we could start making the lot of you poseur cunts redundant.  😘

Knowledge perhaps but better tast? My goat hoofed friend you and I both know that without me the collective kvlt grimness of this forum drops by half…

 

also insomnia sucks ass, NP: dunno some Sleep playlist in hopes it makes me nod off

[GoatmasterGeneral]

14 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Knowledge perhaps but better taste? My goat hooved friend you and I both know that without me the collective kvlt grimness of this forum drops by half…

also insomnia sucks ass, NP: dunno some Sleep playlist in hopes it makes me nod off

Welcome to my world. I know you think 3:30am is rather late, but I'm up til 4, 5, 6, 7am every night.

Since you said you'l be running off to play with knives in a fortnight we had to order your replacement. We've already lost FA, Navy, Zach in recent months and essentially Marky Mark for the summer as well. Enough is enough. So I called the metal forum temp agency and they sent us over CBS. The first one they send isn't always a good fit but I think they nailed it this time. He's working out so splendidly that I think I'm gonna see if we can keep him permanently and get him on the books as a full timer.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

GG top 200 most played bands countdown according to lastFM

 

Where wuz we?

162. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom, Sweden. Not counting thrash like Overkill, Candlemass is one of the only 80's 'trad metal' styled bands with clean vocals I still have in the rotation and listen to on the semi-regular. The other two being Exciter and Mercyful Fate. Oh and Black Sabbath of course, but I don't listen to any of their 80's stuff besides just the two Dio albums from '80 & '81.

 

161. Grave Miasma - Realm of Evoked Doom, UK