Topic: What are you listening to (and discuss it). (Read 916790 times)

Valdemar · « **Reply #3400 on:** 10 Jun 2007, 12:20 »

I can imagine and that 's probably all I'll ever do. Bloody Atlantic.

Caspian · « **Reply #3401 on:** 11 Jun 2007, 05:50 »

Quote from: Sam on 10 Jun 2007, 12:10

Quote from: Valdemar on 09 Jun 2007, 12:30
Kylesa - Shatter the Clock

kylesa are great live.

Tim Hecker - Blood Rainbow
really good ambient.

that is good ambient.

Jesu- Stanlow.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3402 on:** 11 Jun 2007, 06:50 »

My Dying Bride - The Crown of Sympathy

"The mouths that dare not speak His name,
Behold them raised complete and fine.
The battle for our lives are oh so brief,
Take my hand and please walk with me.
When I was young the sun did burn my face,
I let its love and warmth wash over me...

*DOOM*"

It doesn't get any better than this. It just slows down and slows down and gets heavier and heavier, and still melodic...

Caspian · « **Reply #3403 on:** 11 Jun 2007, 21:00 »

I've heard heaps about My Dying Bride. What would be a good album to start on?

Anyway, Falling Snow by Agalloch

Ishotdanieljohnston · « **Reply #3404 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 00:47 »

Pullhair Rubeye- Avey Tare and Kria Brekken.

Second listen and it's still shit scary... good though... in a fucked up kinda way.

the_shankmaster · « **Reply #3405 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 01:59 »

Hod Me Down- Gin Blossoms

Another band I love too much. This song amuses me. It's the theme song for one of the characters that I write about. He goes drinking a lot. Actually, a lot of Gin Blossoms songs can be his theme song.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3406 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 02:21 »

Quote from: Caspian on 11 Jun 2007, 21:00

I've heard heaps about My Dying Bride. What would be a good album to start on?

Turn Loose the Swans

Laibach - Sympathy For the Devil [Who Killed the Kennedys]

"And maybe the Devil is God in exile? And maybe the Devil is / on LSD"

Valdemar · « **Reply #3407 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 02:26 »

Birushanah - Akai Yama(excerpt)

I have just ordered their new album "Akai Yama" from Australia. They are a Japanese six-piece who play sludge metal with metal percussion and take inspiration from traditional music, complete with manic japanese vocals. In other words it is incredible.

Scytale · « **Reply #3408 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 02:41 »

Borknagar - The Spirit of Nature

Flutes, violins and Vintersorg

Origin is a very nice album.

Inlander · « **Reply #3409 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 06:22 »

Charlie Parker: volume 2 of the east coast Dial sessions, featuring J.J. Johnson.

What can I say? It's just perfect music. This volume contains an unusually high number of ballads: everyone knows Charlie Parker was wonderful, but his ballad playing is too overlooked, I think. Just as with the rest of his music, he completely re-defined the approach to playing a jazz ballad, and came out with something new and beautiful and incredibly moving.

Caspian · « **Reply #3410 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 06:25 »

Sigur Ros- Samskeyti

Few bands can get away with only 'riff' throughout the whole song. This song freaking owns. I love it how the release of all the tension is just that the piano line goes up one octave.

Scytale · « **Reply #3411 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 06:26 »

Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera

Good god this song has some fucking amazing riffs in it and the slow section with the solo amazing. My God I'd forgotten how excellent the old Maiden albums are...

Caspian · « **Reply #3412 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 06:37 »

Sigur Ros- Ebow.

Another totally killer song. This tune is so sweet when they play it live.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3413 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 07:34 »

Edge of Sanity - Crimson

Oh man this is so good. I haven't listened to this properly for so long. So fucking good. One single 40 minute long song. Melodic Death Metal meets prog rock with a seasoning dash of goth. Opeths entire career outdone just as they were releasing their second album. I might just upload this, because anyone with even a passing interest in metal needs to hear this.

"A dark formation in the skies.
Unites the powers in her eyes.
Her soul's inhaling all the living light.
Bringing on the dark, eternal night."

Kai · « **Reply #3414 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 07:37 »

since I mentioned it in the electronic thread

Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4

I think I am going to upload it

Scytale · « **Reply #3415 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 07:58 »

Emperor - Beyond the Great Vast Forest

Masterful my favorite Emperor song, it's really interesting listening to the demo version and comparing it to the final version that ended up on In the Nightside Eclipse, the keys just propel the song into unparalled heights of awesomeness, the transformation is masterful, the whole riff that underpins the song, with the synth strings and the choir comming in over the top it's just majestic I don't know a better word to describe it. It really pisses me off when I hear people sneering at the use of keyboards in Black Metal, this album is proof of the wonders they can achieve.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3416 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 08:11 »

Everytime I try and think of it, I come up with more examples of how, tastefully integrated, keyboards can make for awesome Black Metal than I do examples of how keyboards can ruin BM. It could of course have something to do with my tastes (I like Theatres Des Vampires, though I don't exactly consider them true norsk arysk black metal). 'In The Nightside Eclipse' and Sigh's 'Scorn Defeat' are always the first examples I bring up to the haters.

Edge of Sanity - Elegy

This band is so fucking good.

amok · « **Reply #3417 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 09:06 »

Theatres Des Vampires live is a ridiculously comical experience. I can't listen to them on record without cringing/laughing since.

HexRx - Pure Evil

oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz

Valdemar · « **Reply #3418 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 09:59 »

What I have heard of Theatres Des Vampires I love. The Dracula organ in Lilith Mater Inferorum is priceless.

Atheist - Mineral

This is probably my favourite Atheist song. Here they find just the right balance between technique and melody.

Jed · « **Reply #3419 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 14:45 »

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Easy Money

Just beautiful.

Narr · « **Reply #3420 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 14:57 »

I'm listening to the new Queens of the Stone Age album. Still on the first song right now (titled Turnin' on the Screw). I like it so far. It's more of the same from them, which is to say, it doesn't sound like their other albums. The whole album is up at http://qotsa.com/news/default.aspx?nid=8085 if you want to hear it.

Sick, Sick, Sick is a pretty badass song.

Caspian · « **Reply #3421 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 17:34 »

Snowdrift- Alaska

Some pretty nice slow, kind of post-rocky indie stuff. It's hard to find a good comparison.. I think the correct genre name is 'Slowcore' or something.

valley_parade · « **Reply #3422 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 18:27 »

New pornographers - twin cinema. Ive had this album on my computer for quite a while, and am just now hearing it for the first time. Nothing really spectacular, but im enjoying it.

Kai · « **Reply #3423 on:** 12 Jun 2007, 19:59 »

Dismemberment Plan - You Are Invited

Scytale · « **Reply #3424 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 01:49 »

Deströyer 666 - Phoenix Rising

Destroyer 666 mix equal parts Black Metal Thrash and Nietzsche to produce some truly excellent metal. These guys are one of the greatest bands i have ever seen live the intensity of their show is just amazing, I just wish they would hurry up and release something new it's been 5 years since "Cold Steel for an Iron Age" was released

Oh to see our death as majesty
To look beyond our mortal tragedy
Set adrift on seas of infinity
Oh to see the terror of eternity...
before our eyes

Oh to be reborn in fire
Oh to reap the reward of power
Oh to be a sacrifice, a sacrifice...
To a god who sees through our eyes
to a higher self

"Let us chase the sky obscurers,
world blackeners, cloud procurers,
Let us clear the realm of heaven,
Let us roar with free spirits, who are beast,
Roars my bliss, as if storm driven" (Nietzsche)

Through the seas of bitter tears
Unto our death without fear
Sink in to the glowing flames
Knowing I will live again

I can feel the burning fire
Burning all I have been
As the flames take me higher
Rising on the burning wings...

RISING!

Caspian · « **Reply #3425 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 08:03 »

Metallica- FAde to Black.

Tis good times.

Valdemar · « **Reply #3426 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 09:21 »

Laethora - Repulsive

I finally got March of the Parasite and it is amazing! grindy death metal with a twist. Crushing and memorable.

RAWK!

amok · « **Reply #3427 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 09:24 »

Justice - Phantom pt. II

fuck yeah

Spalove · « **Reply #3428 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 09:25 »

I'm listening to London Calling.

I never get tired of hearing the Clash

Kai · « **Reply #3429 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 09:35 »

The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun

It is the Anthology Vol. 3 version

where he fucks up the chords

and is like

"aw shit I am John Lennon whoops wrong chord"

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #3430 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 09:41 »

Fugazi - Birthday Pony

This is one of my favourite Fugazi songs

THIS IS A BIRTHDAY PONY

Mr. Pink · « **Reply #3431 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 09:48 »

The Birthday Party - Capers

Nick Cave singing nonsense into a vocoder is awesome.

amok · « **Reply #3432 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 10:58 »

Monster Magnet

SPACE LORD MOTHERFUCKER

\m/

greenMonkey · « **Reply #3433 on:** 13 Jun 2007, 11:44 »

Do Make Say Think - The Universe!

First time I have listened to the newest DMST album, and it is really good. Before this I listened straight through & Yet & Yet as well as Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn.

Caspian · « **Reply #3434 on:** 14 Jun 2007, 00:26 »

Sigur Ros - Gong. I'm loving this song so hard right now.

Scytale · « **Reply #3435 on:** 14 Jun 2007, 00:41 »

Uriah Heep - Poet's Justice

Ken Hensley, awesome, one of the greatest rock keyboardist ever, It was this album (Demons & Wizards) that convinced me to buy a keyboard. He was a guest musician on the last Therion album too, which was a nice surprise.

Kai · « **Reply #3436 on:** 14 Jun 2007, 06:12 »

The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs

and bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed for me

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3437 on:** 14 Jun 2007, 07:13 »

Job For a Cowboy - Martyrdom Unsealed

Holy shit! They dropped the breakdowns and became a half-decent death metal act. Wonders never cease.

Ernest · « **Reply #3438 on:** 14 Jun 2007, 11:06 »

Unwound- Repetition.

amok · « **Reply #3439 on:** 14 Jun 2007, 12:53 »

Matthew Dear - Shy

Interesting CD this, I'm sure I listened to it a couple of times when I got it but must've been so stoned that I forgot enjoying it. Good stuff.

Ernest · « **Reply #3440 on:** 14 Jun 2007, 21:18 »

Big Black- Atomizer

mmmmmmmm

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #3441 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 03:57 »

I'm listening to the (relatively) new Cradle of Filth album Thornography. I am incredibly impressed. More than anything it reminds me of Principle of Evil Made Flesh or Vempire mixed with 80s Thrash/Electro Goth. I can't for the life of me understand why nobody likes this album (though I accept that people don't). I have made it my study album for Statistics.

Favourite Tracks so far:
- Dirge Inferno
- Libertina Grimm
- The Foetus of a New Day Kicking

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3442 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 07:01 »

Holy crap, I just realised I still haven't listened to that album. I bought it six months ago. I generally can't understand why people don't like CoF, although they've dropped some shite albums (ie, the two before Thornography, which I suppose is what made me wary about putting it on). They're a laff.

Thee Maldoror Kollective - Xaos DNA Released

Post-black metal is so fucking good.

Kai · « **Reply #3443 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 07:03 »

um

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

Misereatur · « **Reply #3444 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 07:06 »

I.. um.. I like that song too.

NP:
Nagisa Ni Te - Deserting You

Japanese psychedelia ftw.

amok · « **Reply #3445 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 07:20 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 16 Jun 2007, 07:01

I generally can't understand why people don't like CoF

The vocals, man. Some of the cheesy keyboards in the earlier albums are kinda fun but when that little bitch starts yelping it just goes so wrong

nails on a chalkboard.

Vitalic - La Rock 01

Stonkin' great house CD this, can't remember if I got the name from the Justice thread here or elsewhere, but it was a solid rec. Great tunes.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #3446 on:** 18 Jun 2007, 02:06 »

Methinks you're missing the point of Black Metal...

Stefan Autsa · « **Reply #3447 on:** 18 Jun 2007, 03:11 »

Quote from: JimmytheSquid on 18 Jun 2007, 02:06

Methinks you're missing the point of Black Metal...

Anal Cunt have a song called Living Colour Are My Favorite Black Metal Band

Scytale · « **Reply #3448 on:** 18 Jun 2007, 04:34 »

I listen to a lot of BM and I'm not a fan of COF at all. Probably doesn't help that they absolutely butchered one of my favorite songs (Hallowed be Thy Name). Cruelty and the Beast, the album about Elizabeth Bathory had some ok moments but not enough to really sell me on the band.

Katharsis - The Last Wound

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3449 on:** 18 Jun 2007, 08:30 »

I can never hold that cover against them, because its the song that got me in to Iron Maiden in the first place. My early explorations into music were conducted in an extremely illogical and haphazard manner. Cradles covers actually helped me discover quite a few good bands: The Misfits, The Sisters of Mercy, Anathema, Sodom, Sabbat and Venom as well as Maiden. Not to mention the fact that Cradle of Filth were at least partly responsible for BOTH resurrections of Sabbat (The fact that Martin Walkyier recorded a song with them abrogates some of my guilt in liking them.) I'm not an obsessive fan of Cradle, but I will defend them to a good extent, especially to the extent to which their music has been critically misread. People on both sides of the fence often treat them as if they were trying to be members of the 'inner circle'. Never the case.

I get your point about the vocals.

Ayreon - The Awareness

"Let us go back to the dark ages...ages...ages...ages..."

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