Will post picks in the morning...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 25 October 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
3 more interesting and underdiscussed 2010 releases:
http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d3/29452.jpgEa - Au EllaiElegiac atmospheric whisper doom
http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d38/27587.jpgMandrake - Innocence WeaknessGoth prog death pop
http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d3/26952.jpgNegură Bunget - Vîrstele PamîntuluiEldritch tangled-vine forest-folk metal
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 25 October 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Never even heard fo these glenn. Should be interesting.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
That Ea record is pretty great. Wonderful vibe, which I was I want from any atmospheric metal.
The Mandrake is actively not my thing; they seem to be a dash of this thing I dislike with a smidgen of that thing I dislike and then a big dollop of stuff I really, really don't like.
Negură Bunget is for after lunch.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I am going to be late next week btw, will be away from internets until Tuesday.
― Dame Anna NAGL (aldo), Thursday, 28 October 2010 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I love the Negură Bunget record! I'm playing it again this morning; it's keeping me from the Kylesa which is saying something. Just the right mix of elements to grab me, including what sounds like a raging high pipe in "Ochiul Inimii".
Thanks Glenn. I don't know whether you're on the weirdest promo list or what, but year after year there seems to be something you recommend out of left field that pushes my buttons.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 28 October 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I am on no promo lists. I come by all discoveries the old fashioned way: download everything I ever hear of, delete all but .1% after 1 minute of the second song and 10 seconds of the fifth.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 28 October 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Where are you hearing of stuff like Negură Bunget? I need to widen my metal 'net horizons.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 28 October 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, I would have told you I found about them on Rolling Metal 2008, but Google says that the person who mentioned them on Rolling Metal 2008 was me, so apparently it was somewhere else. But what I do in situations like this, where I happen across something I didn't know about that seems like it could be a vein of greatness, is search for blogs that review them or post their albums, subscribe to a bunch of them, and then weed them back out again if they turn out to mostly produce goregrind or deathcore or something else I don't need more of...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 29 October 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Although chances are decent that my discovery of Negura Bunget had something to do with either Rotting Christ or Estonia.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 29 October 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the idea that you introduced them to yourself; you rewrote the narrative in your mind and were surprised to learn otherwise.
I should do more review hunting and sourcing; when I have in the past I haven't enjoyed the results much, but that's on me as I'm not good at weeding things out - I still have tons of dead blogs in my regular reads folder.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 29 October 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
What? Me? Do another week? OK.
http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d1/26850.jpgKathaarsys: IntuitionWeirdo jazz-fission prog-out
http://www.hellbound.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Nechochwen_lowrescover.gifNechochwen: Azimuths to the OtherworldAmbient tribal metal
http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d1/27000.jpgXasthur: Portal of SorrowIt's always darkest right before the sun gets sucked inside-out
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
That Xasthur album is his artistic peak. Shame it's his farewell gesture.
― No Means Yes. Yes Means Anal. (unperson), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I've heard of two of these Glenn! You're losing your touch.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just going to come and do mine. I did say I was going to be late..
Kerr, what does the schedule going forward look like?
― Dame Anna NAGL (aldo), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Just post yours. There's room for everyone
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay.
Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)
http://denovali.com/celeste/mortes400.jpg
Free download here (but the packaging is lovely, so you should buy it): http://www.denovali.com/celeste/
Are they French? Who knows. There seems to be a suspicion this band are not exactly who they seem, but who cares. Blackened Doom of the highest quality.
Murmuure - Murmuure
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2500715-1287427847.jpeg
http://www.myspace.com/murmuure
Damn if this isn't becoming my album of the year. Avant-Black, like if Zombi put a BM production on everything.
Titan - Sweet Dreams
http://shop.relapse.com/dbimages/sleeves/sweetdreams_362.jpg
http://www.myspace.com/titanaut
Previous releases have been Space/Kraut behemoths with heavy psych overtones, but the move to Relapse adds Steve Moore which pads ut the sound in maybe the ways you'd expect. Awesome.
― Dame Anna NAGL (aldo), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
3 really really good albums there.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I've tried twice to get into Celeste and failed, and Titan didn't appeal to me any more than I expected from the description, but I'm liking Murmuure quite a bit.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link