What Are You Listening To?

[~Mere~]

Vektor - Outer Isolation

[MacabreEternal]

B F Trike - S/T (as in Big Fucking Trike)

[MacabreEternal]

Sun Worship "Elder Giants"

[JBaker]

Electric Wizard- Dopethrone

[MacabreEternal]

Sun Worship - Split with Earth Chaos. Not usually a massive fan of modern BM but Sun Worship have really impressed me with their blistering pace and savage vocal delivery seeped in atmosphere. So much so I have just paid money on a "name your price" deal on Bandcamp. I've grown as a person!

[FatherAlabaster]

Sun Worship - Split with Earth Chaos. Not usually a massive fan of modern BM but Sun Worship have really impressed me with their blistering pace and savage vocal delivery seeped in atmosphere. So much so I have just paid money on a "name your price" deal on Bandcamp. I've grown as a person!

I'll have to check them out as well. Sounds like good stuff.

[Iceni]

'Hallways Of Enchanted Ebony' by Agalloch.

[~Mere~]

Descend - Wither Never listened to these guys before. They're a prog band from Sweden and this is their newest album. Really diggin it

[FatherAlabaster]

Irkallian Oracle - Grave Ekstasis Thanks Macabre, this is cool! I'm getting a real Abyssal vibe, but with more old-school DM influence and less dissonant chording. Some of these grooves are heavy as fuck!

[Iceni]

'Fall To Rise' by Persefone. Oh greatholybloodybuggerfrickingcrapofmajesty ...suchutterandabsoluteawesomeness

[JBaker]

Darkthrone- Transilvanian Hunger I'm finding this hard work tbh. Good melody and pretty cold/atmospheric, but the production is so raw and muddy it just sounds a bit feeble to me. Is it worth sticking it out?

[JBaker]

Still in a BM mood so switched to Marduk's Serpent Sermon. This is more the ticket!

[Iceni]

I'm finding this hard work tbh. Good melody and pretty cold/atmospheric' date=' but the production is so raw and muddy it just sounds a bit feeble to me. Is it worth sticking it out?[/quote'] Yes it is. I've never heard it but it's worth listening through albums that everyone else loves that you find annoying and/or crap so you can speak on them with authority. I didn't think Painkiller was that great an album but I thought it was worth listening to just to see what people liked about it. I still haven't made it through Blackwater Park yet because the acoustic bits bore me to tears (yet I've listened through 2 Agalloch albums and well through a third) but I should finish it just so I can figure out what people might like about it.

[JBaker]

Yes it is. I've never heard it but it's worth listening through albums that everyone else loves that you find annoying and/or crap so you can speak on them with authority. I didn't think Painkiller was that great an album but I thought it was worth listening to just to see what people liked about it. I still haven't made it through Blackwater Park yet because the acoustic bits bore me to tears (yet I've listened through 2 Agalloch albums and well through a third) but I should finish it just so I can figure out what people might like about it.

I will probably check it out again, but I was particularly in the mood vicious black metal, and this really didn't 'scratch that itch', as it were. The Marduk album is doing a much better job at satisfying this mood. Surely there is a balance to be struck between being open-minded and trying new things and not spending hours of your life listening to music you don't like, though?

[Iceni]

'The Melancholy Spirit' by Agalloch.

Surely there is a balance to be struck between being open-minded and trying new things and not spending hours of your life listening to music you don't like' date=' though?[/quote'] I didn't know what your thinking was going in, but yes. This is why I often listen to some Redemption, DSO, Alchemist, Bolt Thrower or whichever intermittently or just after the album I'm 'testing'.

[JBaker]

'The Melancholy Spirit' by Agalloch. I didn't know what your thinking was going in, but yes. This is why I often listen to some Redemption, DSO, Alchemist, Bolt Thrower or whichever intermittently or just after the album I'm 'testing'.

That could make things easier, but I wouldn't wanna kill the flow of the album, which I feel should generally be appreciated as a whole work of art. Somehow pausing Darkthrone mid-album to switch to, say, Alice in Chains or Deftones seems kinda wrong. Need to check out more Bolt Thrower. Aren't they kind of Warhammer-themed death metal, if I remember?

[Iceni]

Need to check out more Bolt Thrower. Aren't they kind of Warhammer-themed death metal' date=' if I remember?[/quote'] Their old stuff is, and I don't like it all that much. I prefer the material from The IVth Crusade onward, which is more about war in general, with surprisingly perspicacious lyrics. Even the one about the Crusades avoids the obvious, ragged and tired perspective of saying what essentially amounts to 'evil priests ugga bugga boo' and focuses much more on the combatants themselves and what murderous liars they were as they succumbed to their selfishness. ...For Victory is their best album in my opinion, that was the one recommended to me when I expressed a desire to examine them more closely than in my few cursory inspections.

[JBaker]

Their old stuff is, and I don't like it all that much. I prefer the material from The IVth Crusade onward, which is more about war in general, with surprisingly perspicacious lyrics. Even the one about the Crusades avoids the obvious, ragged and tired perspective of saying what essentially amounts to 'evil priests ugga bugga boo' and focuses much more on the combatants themselves and what murderous liars they were as they succumbed to their selfishness. ...For Victory is their best album in my opinion, that was the one recommended to me when I expressed a desire to examine them more closely than in my few cursory inspections.

Interesting. I'll give 'em a listen. It's probably for the best they grew out of the 'Warhammer death metal thing', I guess.

[EveryThingStartsWithCore]

Exodus- Bonded by blood

[Iceni]

'Shin-Ken Part I' by Persefone. If my mind gets blown much harder my skull will shatter. This album has been utterly enthralling.

[FatherAlabaster]

Darkthrone- Transilvanian Hunger I'm finding this hard work tbh. Good melody and pretty cold/atmospheric, but the production is so raw and muddy it just sounds a bit feeble to me. Is it worth sticking it out?

That one is a contender for my favorite black metal album. But you do have to be in the right mood. It's all about that cold atmosphere. Blaze In The Nothern Sky is more angular and has more of a DM/thrash quality to it, and Under A Funeral Moon might have a slightly more vicious feel. But if it's Marduk you're looking for, just, you know, listen to Marduk. I've never particularly liked them myself.

[Iceni]

'Light And Grief' by Persefone. Some guy commented on this that the female vocals sounded like Dolly Parton... the thing is, he's totally right. It works with the album but I can't help cracking up listening to the female vocals part.

[FatherAlabaster]

Yes it is. I've never heard it but it's worth listening through albums that everyone else loves that you find annoying and/or crap so you can speak on them with authority. I didn't think Painkiller was that great an album but I thought it was worth listening to just to see what people liked about it. I still haven't made it through Blackwater Park yet because the acoustic bits bore me to tears (yet I've listened through 2 Agalloch albums and well through a third) but I should finish it just so I can figure out what people might like about it.

I think the urge to listen to new things is healthy. I agree that it's better to at least give music a chance so you're not talking out of your ass, but if you're only looking for the ability to cogently explain why you don't like it, well, then that's probably exactly what you'll find. And it's not a particularly open-minded approach to being open-minded, if you take my meaning. With Opeth in particular, Still Life and Deliverance were the two that opened up for me right away, and every other one took quite some time for me to appreciate. For Blackwater it took a few listens over a week or so; for Ghost Reveries, it took several years. I am glad you're checking all that stuff out, just like I'm glad JBaker is listening to old Darkthrone. To each his own. I just think it would be a shame if the experience closed you off to it further.

[MacabreEternal]

De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead

[Iceni]

The 'Beyond The Self' album by Fractal Gates. C'est melodeath acceptable vient Ile-de-France, mais cette album devient meilleur et plus interessant en ecoutant plus. J'entends en peu d'Amon Amarth et Before The Dawn ici et la-bas, mais cette group developpe leur mode unique pendant que l'album progresse.

I think the urge to listen to new things is healthy. I agree that it's better to at least give music a chance so you're not talking out of your ass' date=' but if you're only looking for the ability to cogently explain why you [i']don't like it, well, then that's probably exactly what you'll find. And it's not a particularly open-minded approach to being open-minded, if you take my meaning. With Opeth in particular, Still Life and Deliverance were the two that opened up for me right away, and every other one took quite some time for me to appreciate. For Blackwater it took a few listens over a week or so; for Ghost Reveries, it took several years. I am glad you're checking all that stuff out, just like I'm glad JBaker is listening to old Darkthrone. To each his own. I just think it would be a shame if the experience closed you off to it further.

I agree, I remember hating Primal Fear for a long time but now I love them. In fact, this band Persefone was one I didn't like the first time round but I have them another go...and MAN am I glad I did, I am loving almost everything I'm hearing from them.