What Are You Listening To?

[AlSymerz]

Rusted Dawn - The Black Tides Of War

[FatherAlabaster]

1 hour ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

Good lord. Why? Just why? I understand they've a long history of religious/cultural warfare from both in and outside their borders (primarily because I find it funny when some idiot with too much money and not enough brains decides they're going to travel through the territory of the Sunni hill tribes trying to buy an ancient jeweled dagger ostensibly from the source, and comes up missing), you have to perform some major league mental acrobatics to put into any quantifiable terms how the bpm figures into anything that makes any sense at all. Do they have a national tempo I'm unaware of? I'd love to hear the logic behind this. 

There's preserving culture, and then there's whatever this is. It looks like misguided essentialist nationalism to me. "Western influences" are "polluting" their artistic traditions. If you want logic, I think you'll be disappointed, but here are relevant quotes from one of the articles I read: 

"Musical, vocal and choreographic" works will be limited to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM) to "conform to the Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm," said Dadayev, according to the Russian state-run news agency TASS.

"Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible," Dadayev said, per a translation by The Guardian. "We must bring to the people and to the future of our children the cultural heritage of the Chechen people. This includes the entire spectrum of moral and ethical standards of life for Chechens."

 

[MarkhantonioYeatts]

FIREWALKER - Firewalker

 

[AlSymerz]

Dead Head - Slave Driver

[Thatguy]

1 hour ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

I'd love to hear the logic behind this. 

Yeah. But there won't be any logic to be found, of course.

[JamesT]

Sonata Arctica - "Winterheart's Guild"

My favorite Sonata album.  Can't wait to check out the brand new release!

DragonForce - "Maximum Overload"

My favorite DF album - not a single weak track.

[AlSymerz]

Flotsam And Jetsam - When The Storm Comes Down (pre production demo)

[GoatmasterGeneral]

6 minutes ago, JamesT said:

DragonForce - "Maximum Overload"

My favorite DF album - not a single weak track.

Was almost tempted to check this Maximum Overdrive record out to dispute your claim that there are no weak tracks (because I'm firmly convinced they're ALL weak tracks) but I'm not tryna click play on no fkn Dragonforce videos. Could you even imagine what something like that would do to my sidebar feed? Might take weeks or even months before YouTube would want to offer me something good and filthy and evil again. So I'm gonna have to let your ridiculous claim go by unchallenged....this time JT. Consider yourself lucky my friend. 😜

[AlSymerz]

Raped Ape - Land Of Broken Promises

[Nasty_Cabbage]

3 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

There's preserving culture, and then there's whatever this is. It looks like misguided essentialist nationalism to me. "Western influences" are "polluting" their artistic traditions. If you want logic, I think you'll be disappointed, but here are relevant quotes from one of the articles I read: 

"Musical, vocal and choreographic" works will be limited to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM) to "conform to the Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm," said Dadayev, according to the Russian state-run news agency TASS.

"Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible," Dadayev said, per a translation by The Guardian. "We must bring to the people and to the future of our children the cultural heritage of the Chechen people. This includes the entire spectrum of moral and ethical standards of life for Chechens."

 

This is sort of like when I occasionally hear (usually an older person) complain about how some pundit/entertainer/whathaveyou online "talks too fast", and that you don't even have time to laugh at the jokes, accept this is like you gave that older person an rpg launcher and had to find entertaining videos for them at an acceptable speed since old man Mcgarret's known to be a little trigger happy.

We all slow down some as we age. It's just the way these things work, and for the record, most of the complaints about younger generation's lack of attention span and constant need for meaningless stimuli and it's effect on developing brains is very valid. Why you would make an insane rule like that is one question. How in the hell you intend to enforce it, though, is quite another. Maybe if they had faster music they'd be able to deploy in a timelier fashion.

NP: Brutalism - Solace in Absurdity

▶︎ Solace in Absurdity | BRUTALISM | Comatose Music (bandcamp.com)

Decidedly average brutal death. In the right environment I could see them having a sort of home-town hero status. I will grant them that their drum sound is much more tolerable than most others in their niche. Good to catch a buzz during the opening act, if not really a headliner.

2 hours ago, JamesT said:

Sonata Arctica - "Winterheart's Guild"

My favorite Sonata album.  Can't wait to check out the brand new release!

EDIT: Probably my favorite as well. I feel so conflicted about their material from Unia onward. So much of it is interesting and really brings what feels like a more authentic "folk" essence from that part of the world as opposed to what we're used to getting with most folk-power bands. It also takes a lot longer to really get it's hooks into me, and what we lose from albums like this in their bouncier and unabashedly power-cornball era is too much not to miss. Their identity as a band has clearly changed with good and bad on both sides.

[AlSymerz]

Newstead - Heavy Metal Music

[Yannis]

Evoken - Quietus

 

[AlSymerz]

Dublin Death Patrol - DDP 4 Life

[GoatmasterGeneral]

2 hours ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

This is sort of like when I occasionally hear (usually an older person) complain about how some pundit/entertainer/whathaveyou online "talks too fast", and that you don't even have time to laugh at the jokes, accept this is like you gave that older person an rpg launcher and had to find entertaining videos for them at an acceptable speed since old man Mcgarret's known to be a little trigger happy.

We all slow down some as we age. It's just the way these things work, and for the record, most of the complaints about younger generation's lack of attention span and constant need for meaningless stimuli and it's effect on developing brains is very valid. Why you would make an insane rule like that is one question. How in the hell you intend to enforce it, though, is quite another. Maybe if they had faster music they'd be able to deploy in a timelier fashion.

Alright now Cabbage, what kind of dumbass nonsensical drivel is this?? We all slow down as we age?? Older people complain about how some people talk too fast?? Fuck you bruv, you can slow down to a crawl when you hit 40 if you like, but this old geezer's only getting leaner and meaner and faster and faster and more brutal with each passing year. By the time I'm Doc's age I'll be moving at light speed bruv, Mach 874,030. 😎

Haha but ok yeah seriously Chechnya is wack man. 80 to 116 bpm is pretty damn slow. Obviously this was a backdoor way for them to outlaw all or most forms of western popular music. Both top 40 pop music and hip-hop in particular generally have higher BPM than 116. I looked it up, one study said there are four levels of popular musical tempos. They are slow (66-76 bpm), medium (76-120 bpm), fast (120-168 bpm), and very fast (168-200 bpm). I'd think a lot of EDM would be up toward the higher end of that range, 130 to 150 bpm at least, so this must be like Footloose where they think they can protect the kids from the evils of dancing. I guess they couldn't set the upper limit too low or they'd end up outlawing all music completely, even the traditional Chechnyan stuff they want to encourage. 116 seems like a strange choice though, wonder how they arrived at that number?

[Yannis]

Abigor - Nachthymnen

 

[AlSymerz]

Decap Attak - Vol II Savagery Sex And Madness

[Nasty_Cabbage]

10 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Alright now Cabbage, what kind of dumbass nonsensical drivel is this?? We all slow down as we age?? Older people complain about how some people talk too fast?? Fuck you bruv, you can slow down to a crawl when you hit 40 if you like, but this old geezer's only getting leaner and meaner and faster and faster and more brutal with each passing year. By the time I'm Doc's age I'll be moving at light speed bruv, Mach 874,030. 😎

So you went with the mount and not the rpg launcher? I totally get wanting your dex build to finally pay off, but for me the choice between an rpg launcher and something cool that's not an rpg launcher isn't a choice at all.

NP: Mudshow - Destiny

▶︎ Destiny | MUDSHOW | HPGD (bandcamp.com)

Sludge. Feels like sludge is either the most or the least interesting genre between albums. I'm only on the first proper track though, so we'll see.

 

 

[AlSymerz]

Chainbreaker - Lethal Desire

[Yannis]

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

 

[Arioch]

I've known this band for about 2 years, when I discovered their second album, Grand Currents.

When you know that these 3 brothers formed Hammerhedd in 2012, that the guitarist was then 9, the drummer 7 and the bassist 4, it makes you smile eventually, except when you watch their first videos. And that's when we calm down. It's enough to see them covering Sepultura covers in their garage...
Now aged 21, 19 and 16 respectively, the 3 brothers have already released 3 albums and 1 EP.

Stamped Thrash Metal on Wikipedia and other sites, Hammerhedd's music goes far beyond that. It's aggressive as Thrash, with lots of palm-muting, snarling vocals, but there are plenty of progressive moments.
One of my finest discoveries of recent years, if not THE finest.

Hammerhedd - Essence of Iron (EP) (2018)

Hammerhedd - Nonetheless (2023)

 

[Yannis]

Painface - Fleshcraft

 

[Arioch]

Holy Moses - The New Machine of Liechtenstein (1989)

 

[AlSymerz]

52 minutes ago, Arioch said:

I've known this band for about 2 years, when I discovered their second album, Grand Currents.

When you know that these 3 brothers formed Hammerhedd in 2012, that the guitarist was then 9, the drummer 7 and the bassist 4, it makes you smile eventually, except when you watch their first videos. And that's when we calm down. It's enough to see them covering Sepultura covers in their garage...
Now aged 21, 19 and 16 respectively, the 3 brothers have already released 3 albums and 1 EP.

Stamped Thrash Metal on Wikipedia and other sites, Hammerhedd's music goes far beyond that. It's aggressive as Thrash, with lots of palm-muting, snarling vocals, but there are plenty of progressive moments.
One of my finest discoveries of recent years, if not THE finest.

Hammerhedd - Essence of Iron (EP) (2018)

Hammerhedd - Nonetheless (2023)

 

I remember hearing them when they first broke, but I never actually followed them. Had no idea they released an album last year.

 

NP: Danzig - Black Aria II

[Arioch]

6 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

Had no idea they released an album last year.

And a new one this year. 😊

[MacabreEternal]

Serpentine Path - s/t (2012)