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Went a little crazy on bandcamp this morning. Picked up some things I've had on my list for a while, a few I thought I had, and some new items. The Moulting by Tomb Mold The Bottomless Perdit

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I'm psyched, my recording gear showed up today    

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Finally got round to checking out Satyricon. Thought their latest was rubbish so picked up "Now, Diabolical". Not blown away by it but like the odd fusion of black metal with some more traditional sounding metal riffs. Also picked up Ritual Chamber "The Pit Of Tentacled Screams" - another great DM release from 2013.

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Jute Gyte albums: Discontinuities Verstiegenheit Isolation I think I love this stuff, but I have to spend a lot more time with it.

Finally got round to checking out Satyricon. Thought their latest was rubbish so picked up "Now, Diabolical". Not blown away by it but like the odd fusion of black metal with some more traditional sounding metal riffs. Also picked up Ritual Chamber "The Pit Of Tentacled Screams" - another great DM release from 2013.
I know a few people here dig their later stuff but for me the absolute last thing they did that was worth a shit was Volcano, and I really prefer the folkier black metal sound they had on the first three recordings. I gotta plug The Shadowthrone here. That Ritual Chamber is fucking cool, too, thanks for the heads up on that.
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Jute Gyte albums: Discontinuities Verstiegenheit Isolation I think I love this stuff, but I have to spend a lot more time with it. I know a few people here dig their later stuff but for me the absolute last thing they did that was worth a shit was Volcano, and I really prefer the folkier black metal sound they had on the first three recordings. I gotta plug The Shadowthrone here. That Ritual Chamber is fucking cool, too, thanks for the heads up on that.
Jute Gyte is brilliant but my fucking brain hurts if I listen too much. I forget the guys name but he is one busy motherfucker when it comes to releasing albums.
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Jute Gyte is brilliant but my fucking brain hurts if I listen too much.
Yeah, I hear what you mean by that, but it's brand new to me and I'm really excited by it right now. It's great how open-ended this stuff is, in a way - he doesn't resolve a lot of the riffs, so you can just pick up fragments. It's inspiring me. There's some music - like Dead Congregation, for instance - that sort of puts me in this melodic box that's hard to find my way out of, a very confining feeling, whereas this is more like an open plain to me right now, if that makes sense.
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oh dat's fully sick bro :D Hmm recent purchases for me were: 2 x 750ml drink bottles (you can never have too many drink bottles) 2 x sets of shimano pedals for the tandem I don't yet have (it's meant to be ready for pickup but no email with a time I can do so). 1 x set of clip on time trial handlebars (they'll have to do until I get an actual time trial tandem)

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Oh I should have clarified. The clip on TT bars are going on the bike hooked up to my indoor trainer. I bought them to practice getting into a TT position and to work on my core a little more when training at home. They could clip onto the tandem as well if the setup allows though.

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Motorhead Classic Album Selection - rarely bother with Motorhead and had no logical reason not to so picked this up in HMV over the weekend. Standout album is "No Sleep Til Hammersmith" which is odd considering I don't usually get along well with live albums. Also picked up a crackin book in "Fade To Black - Hard Rock Cover Art of the Vinyl Age" by Martin Popoff with Ioannis. Some killer covers in this and I am like a kid in a record store back in the late 80's/early 90's again everytime I turn a page.

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I just recently bought Alice in chains - The devil put dinosaurs here on CD after having it played on my ipod constantly. Great album!
Totally, it's a really good album. I like the perspective it's given me on Black Gives Way To Blue, also. Some of the songs drag a little, but I guess they've always had that quality. That lead part in Stone sounds like Katatonia! I'm excited to hear what they do next.
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Totally' date=' it's a really good album. I like the perspective it's given me on Black Gives Way To Blue, also. Some of the songs drag a little, but I guess they've always had that quality. That lead part in Stone sounds like Katatonia! I'm excited to hear what they do next.[/quote'] They are definitely still going strong even after layne's death. They do drag their songs on a little but their music and vocals are so good that it doesn't matter, I could listen to this album for hours on repeat. I hope their next release will be just as good as this one if not, better.
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