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KharBevNor:
Added a few more.

I'll add more in a bit as well, but here are two of my favourite albums that are currently enjoying heavy rotation:




-Album: Ultraviolence Uber Alles
-Band: The Count Nosferatu Kommando
-Genre: Industrial Black Metal
-Year: 2002
-Mood: Misanthropic, hateful, angry
-Other Bands this sounds like: Not much else. A much, much heavier Rammstein or KMFDM, or a cross between Laibach and Anorexia Nervosa.
-Summary: Best pissed-off album of all time. Each bass thump is a fist to the face, each riff a pounding jackboot trampling on a human skull, each syllable a vioent curse spat from blood-flecked lips, each keyboard line a soaring Wagnerian high of pure hatred. And it's really, really fun too. 'Get a Gun, Shoot at Random' is the REAL music to make your parents shit themselves.



-Album: Radio Ixtlan
-Band: Ewigkeit
-Genre: Industrial/Progressive Rock/Death Metal with significant tribal and folk elements.
-Year: 2004
-Mood: Radio Ixtlan is a concept album about spiritual enlightenment, so it's generally somewhat upbeat, especially on tracks like 'Strange Volk', which is just about the funnest thing to dance to like a maniac ever.
-Other Bands this sounds like: I think the best description I ever saw was 'Pink Floyd and The Prodigy getting mugged by Dark Tranquility'. It's a very unique sound, however.
-Summary: Radio Ixtlan is a complex but rewarding album that invites endless re-listening. It's musically diverse and excellent, with wonderful song-writing and completely kick-ass sampling (Including such unlikely sources as Thunderball and Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy). And this is a one-man project. Conceptually it's incredibly dense: It is the only album I've ever seen with a booklet that not only contains an essay explaining it but also a recommended reading list...




-Album: Nattens Madrigal: Aate Hymne Til Ulven I Manden (Madrigal of the Night: Eight Hymns to the Wolf in Man)
-Band: Ulver
-Genre: Extremely harsh black metal
-Year: 1997
-Mood: By turns, bleak, sorrowful, enervating, even beautiful, imo.
-Other Bands this sounds like: Every old-school black metal purist, but taken further.
-Summary: One of the least accessible, but most highly rewarding albums of all time, Nattens Madrigal is a gloriously low-fi affair. Recorded, according to legend, in the middle of a forest, production values may have indeed been negative, with Ulver essentially out-grimming everyone in one fair stroke. this stands, however, as one of the best black metal albums of all time. Chillingly atmospheric.






-Album: Themes From William Blake's 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'
-Band: Ulver
-Genre: Experimental electronics/eclectic
-Year: 1999
-Mood: Thought-provoking
-Other Bands this sounds like: Well, Ewigkeit a bit actually...
-Summary: And then Ulver got bored of black metal. Can't blame 'em really. Themes... is their break, and what a break. It's a concept album, obviously, as all of Ulvers works tend to be, using mainly direct quotation from Blakes works for lyrics. This was the album on which Garms vocal work really took off, helped by the range of styles: one moment he may be chanting about the nature of angels over what sounds suspiciously like dub, the next analysing the views of Emmanuel Swedenbourg in a bombastic electrorock assault. Definite choice for any who like their music interesting.






-Album: Hardangervidda
-Band: Ildjarn + Nidhogg
-Genre: Ambient keys
-Year: 1999
-Mood: Peaceful/blissful
-Other Bands this sounds like: The concept invites comparisons to later Burzum and possibly Beherit, but this is much more upbeat then either of those, whilst retaining the mystical feel of the ambient Burzum material.
-Summary: Simply put, a day wandering in the Norwegian wilderness transformed into beautiful ambient music. A product of the black metal scene that will interest anyone who likes music.

Misereatur:
This thread is a great idea. Seriously exallent.


Artist: Erik Truffaz
Genre: Jazz
Year: mid 90's to current.
Mood: Chilled out modal Jazz to Free Jazz.
Other Bands this sounds like: Not a lot. Mainly John Zorn's Electric Masada
Summary: Erik Truffaz is a french Trumpet player that took Acid Jazz to new level. Starting from Bebop (his first album) and ending up expirimenting in Dub, Metal, and Hip Hop. Truffaz has two main group. His Quartet that includes Marc Erbetta on Keys and Piano, Marcello Gulliani on Bass and Patrick Muller on Drums. And Ladyland, that includes Michel Bénita on Double Bass, Phillipe Garcia on Drums and Manu Codjia on guitar. Truffaz also worked with rapers Mounir Troudi and Nya.
Truffaz melodic sence of playin never ceases to amaze me. A modern Miles Davis if you will.
Recommended albums:
Mantis

A very strange album that explores arab music, and fetures Mounir Troudi, Manu Codjia and Michel Bénita from Ladyland. Great album for listening at 2:00 in the morning after a good night out. Truffaz's melodic sence really bursts out in songs Nina Valeria and Yasmina (In which he douets with guitarist Manu Codjia). Nina Valeria, to me, represents Truffaz's intrest in arab music, part melodic outline part improvasing over and "arab"  (harmonic minor) melody on oud.

Brnding New Corners

Electric album, featuring raper Nya. My personal favorite, mainly for Marcello Gulliani's bass lines. Expirimenting with electronica and Hip Hop but not foresaking Jazz, this is one of the best Acid Jazz albums out there.

Face A Face

A double live CD featuring both of Truffaz's groups in concert, playing a sort of "best of" of the band's discographys. But, with subtle canges that makes listening extra fun. Although this album is more for the Die Hard Truffaz fan, I'd recommend this for its exallent music.

jcknbl:


Album: Loveless
Band: My Bloody Valentine
Genre: Shoegaze, Noise Pop
Year: 1991
Mood: Warm, calming, mysterious, dreamy
Other Bands: The Velvet Underground, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, M83, The Boo Radleys, Lush
Summary: This is one of those few albums that actually sounds like the album cover looks. Highly distorted, noisy guitars and soft breathy melodic vocals blanket what is at its root a gorgeous pop album. Imagine sitting outside wrapped in blankets by a warm fire while watching the the aurora borealis as snow falls. My Bloody Valentine created the shoegaze sub-genre and this performance still has never been duplicated. Most people here already know, own and love this album but if you're new or haven't heard this before: get this album.








Album: Arular
Artist: M.I.A.
Genre: Dancehall, hip hop, electronica, so many
Year: 2005
Mood: Fun, very political, extremely dancable
Sounds like: Seriously no one, maybe Missy Elliott infused with LCD Soundsystem and a third-world aesthetic?
Summary: This album was hyped to no end and if you read about music on the internet you probably heard about it. But the thing is, its still really really good. M.I.A. throws in electronic clicks, buzzes and beeps, horns, african drums, jungle noises, wind chimes, steel drums, beatboxes and more to create an album full of fun, hectic, dance-able hip hip. Ok, so maybe the politics (third-world liberationist) aren't completely authentic but who cares, this girl can make music.




Album: No Kill No Beep Beep
Artist: Q and Not U
Genre: Post-Hardcore, Dance Punk
Year: 2000
Mood: Energetic and Contemplative
Other Bands: Fugazi, The Dismemberment Plan, Sonic Youth, At The Drive-In
Summary: Screeching guitars, strong falsetto and a powerful rythm section scream and pound. But the guitars carry catchy melodic memorable tunes and the rythm is dance-able. Richard's voice can carry a tune and get you jumping around the room at the same time. These guys just want you to run around the city dancing, yelling from buildings and occasionally breaking something.




Obviously more to come. (The idea here folks is to create a permanent list, so don't just limit yourself to things regulars on this forum haven't heard or to things that are recent.)

pat101:


Album: American Water
Band: Silver Jews
Genre: Indie-Rock, Alt-Country
Year: 1998
Mood: familiar, relaxed, lonley,
Other Bands: Pavement, M. Ward, Dylan
Summary: This album is one of my all-time favorites, and seeing that as of right now I only have 4 of them that's some fairly good company. As many of you know, Stephen Malkmus (Pavement) plays lead guitar on here, and it's some of his best work but the one thing outshining the Malkmus wails is David Bermans lyrics. Lyrically this is only below Dylan in flat out greatness, to sum up get this album, your life will be better for it.

Luke C:

-Album: ...And Justice for All
-Artist: Metallica
-Genre: Thrash Metal
-Year: 1988
-Mood: Mostly tracks angry and aggresive, some mellow.
-Other Bands this sounds like: Slayer, Megadeth, Sepeltura
-Summary/Review/Trivia/Whatever You Want: ...And Justice for All (Justice for short) takes its name from the Al Pacino film of the same name. It is a politcally charged album which sees Metallica produce their fourth full studio album and the final before the much criticsised 'Metallica' (also known 'Black Album') which saw Metallica fully break into the musical mainstream. It was the band's first album since the tragic death death of legendary bassist Cliff Burton. The song "To Live is to Die", which was originally planned as an instrumental, was dedicated to his memory by James Hetfield reading a poem written by Burton prior to his death. The political focus of the album varies with each song. From the opening track 'Blackened' which speaks of mankinds destruction of mother earth, "see our mother, put to death, see our mother die" to the anti-war song 'One' the first song by the band to be featured in a video, which featured footage from the film 'Johnny Got His Gun)', which was played on MTV. The song was later covered by the band Korn on their 2003 album 'Take A Look In The Mirror'. Despite not reaching spectacular commercial success Justice secured Metallica as a huge metal favourite. For many Metallica fans Justice and the Metallica albums proceeding it have never been topped by the band in the years since.

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