anyway what a profoundly stupid yet unsurprising name for a tour by swedish suicidal black metal band shining, hope no one sees them
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
Are people "up in arms" or "laughing at jackasses who think they're being provocative"? 'Cause in my case it's mostly the latter.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Those two bands are the worst. That Shining SWE guy especially, what a clown. Give me Norwegian Shining any day.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
the only thing that really bugs me about the tour name is "more". no safe space would be alright.
― Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Maybe they meant it like "no safer space".
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
Can't wait for a tour called Triggered, Snowflakes? with a kvlt pepe logo
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
i read it as "no more [oppression, this is a] safe space"
― Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
Give me Norwegian Shining any day.
Yeah, it sucks for them that they share a name.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
Crazy talk, Swedish Shining is so much better than the Norwegian one, despite the stupid PR shtick.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
Nah, even if you discard the moronic schtick, Swedish Shining is crap. Norwegian Shining is great.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
This Cloud Rat half-LP is good stuff.
https://soundcloud.com/halo-of-flies/sets/cloud-rat-moloch-split-lp
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
oh cool I like them
idk about Swedish Shining but Norwegian one could put together a 45-minute compilation of killer material
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 23:34 (seven years ago) link
Swedish Shining is crap. Norwegian Shining is great.No, seriously? I rate III, IV and V easily among the best black metal albums of the last 15 years, as well as 8½ (with all the guest vocalists). Anyway, I have this theory that as jazz-Shining-with-the-emo-singer adds ever more metal, and metal-Shining adds more jazz, both will eventually fuse into one multinational Shining entity.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 23 March 2017 08:36 (seven years ago) link
That Cloud Rat stuff is great. Goth grindcore!
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 23 March 2017 09:42 (seven years ago) link
"Baby Sling Ballon Born" is such a Cocteau Twins title.
The Moloch side sounds pretty good too. I don't know anything about that band.
― jmm, Thursday, 23 March 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link
Wow, more new Cloud Rat stuff just this morning.
https://soundcloud.com/halo-of-flies/sets/cloud-rat-crevasse-split-7
― jmm, Thursday, 23 March 2017 12:53 (seven years ago) link
Cirith Ungol's King of the Dead is being reissued by Metal Blade next month with a bunch of live bonus tracks (some from the 80s, some from last year) and a DVD with a live performance from 1983.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
I love these little mini grind suites Cloud Rat keeps putting out
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
man I'm surprised to hear Siegbran digs Shining, that stuff has always sounded super poseur to me. not that people who like it are posing but their whole shtick feels so forced and personality/persona-driven and the music just has never worked for me at all
― though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
JCLC, allow me to point you (and everyone else) to Suffering Hour, whose debut album In Passing Ascension comes out in May. Two songs are streaming on Bandcamp, and they rule. Doomy, dissonant, clanging death metal that reminds me of Aevangelist and Esoteric.
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-passing-ascension-cd-12lp
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
just on a song title basis "devouring shapeless void" really delivers. looking forward to listening
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:40 (seven years ago) link
both of those tracks sound v good
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
Doomy, dissonant, clanging death metal that reminds me of Aevangelist and Esoteric.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱)
colored curious. dig the latter but not not not the former (despite love for doomy, clanging dissonance). will check tonite when near proper speakers.
― Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 March 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
Shining, that stuff has always sounded super poseur to me. not that people who like it are posing but their whole shtick feels so forced and personality/persona-driven and the music just has never worked for me at all
― though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:29 AM (one hour ago)
this, but i'm so completely put off by the DSBM schtick that maybe i've never given the music a fair shake. norway shining bugs too, tho for different reasons.
― Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 March 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
all of my life-loathing psychedelia/Kvarforth needs are met by the Skitliv album; that thing is massive and wonderfully exhausting
also
this is the suicidal black metal shining right
― Devilock, Thursday, 23 March 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link
I can hear it being announced in one of those crackling warbling 80's high school filmstrip voice-overs like in a My Life with the Thrill Kult song
― Devilock, Thursday, 23 March 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
Bunch of actually decent bands on Warped Tour this year. Not enough to make me deal with being old and sitting through the requisite gaggle of pop-punk kids, but I wouldn't mind seeing*** Alestorm, Barb Wire Dolls, Riverboat Gamblers, Street Dogs, The Adolescents, The Alarm, The Dickies, Municipal Waste, Sick Of It All, T.S.O.L., Valient Thorr, The Acacia Strain, Candiria, Hatebreed and GWAR.
*** "Wouldn't mind seeing" doesn't mean that I love the band but at worst I would go to a show early to catch them if I was going to see the headliner.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 March 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link
going back to last year's thread, the Ruinous album is fuckin' fantastic.
love the vocals on it too......closer to the Benton layered vocals of yore than the "squeal like a pig"-Deliverance death metal style of late
― i am also Tombot (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 March 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it's a solid record. I saw a couple of not-entirely-positive reviews of it saying the vocals were too -core sounding, bollocks that.
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 24 March 2017 06:52 (seven years ago) link
replace solid with great, really
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 24 March 2017 06:53 (seven years ago) link
many thanks for the heads-up on the new Cloud Rat splits, they are phenomenal
― anonanon, Friday, 24 March 2017 12:58 (seven years ago) link
anybody besides me on the More Than Sounds mailing list? mainly (only?) a labor-of-love YouTube project that I don't remember signing up for though that doesn't mean I didn't -- their emails always contain totally obscure gems from the past
This a compilation of unknown, but great heavy metal bands in the old style: 80's heavy metal or even hard rock. Some of these bands don't have released albums, but are worth listening to.
More Than Sounds otm, this shit is really cool -- that Albatross tune is Melissa-era KD worship from India, really amazing, and the other stuff doesn't disappoint
https://youtu.be/9rtPV67kriY
― though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 24 March 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
I always adored Cloud Rat and glad they are still churning out quality stuff. Looking forward to seeing the band with Thou in June.I was advocating that Relapse sign that band, I think it's a perfect mix, but I am not sure if either entity is on the other's radar.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 24 March 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
Cloud Rat apparently have three more splits coming out this year.
― jmm, Friday, 24 March 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link
What is the best split
― calstars, Friday, 24 March 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the unplayed b-side
― Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 March 2017 04:43 (seven years ago) link
BOOOOOOOONANA
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 March 2017 08:42 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for those Cloud Rat links! That split with Crevasse has what's probably my new fave CR song in 'Fish in a Pool'. And I've also discovered Crevasse, who are from the same neck of the woods as Dead Neanderthals. So thanks again!
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 25 March 2017 08:56 (seven years ago) link
testing
― orientmammal, Saturday, 25 March 2017 09:19 (seven years ago) link
oh come on this thread is innocent fun don't poison this one too
― i am also Tombot (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 March 2017 12:28 (seven years ago) link
wow that Mortalized from upthread
those vocals are crazy.....fantastic riffs too
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 25 March 2017 13:26 (seven years ago) link
if Gridlink is anything like this i'm gonna be sad I ignored them for so long
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 25 March 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Oh, you've gotta hear Gridlink. They were amazing. Especially the third album.
https://handshakeinc.bandcamp.com/album/longhena
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
omFG why did I wait so long to hear them, this is fabulous
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 26 March 2017 04:47 (seven years ago) link
^Yeah! That was my favourite album of 2014.
I think Pallbearer is finally clicking for me. I don't think this new one is such a big leap from their previous stuff, but I'm finding it more engaging. Maybe I'm just starved for some metal to listen to.
― jmm, Sunday, 26 March 2017 13:26 (seven years ago) link
same here, gridlink were ~amazing~
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
Darke Complex, the nü-metal band I wrote about for Stereogum, turned the headline into a T-shirt. I couldn't be prouder.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7xjIwfVMAAtQkc.jpg
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
Noice!
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 27 March 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
love longhena, but have to admit i prefer the instrumental "karaoke" version. jon's vocals wear me down quick.
― Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Monday, 27 March 2017 04:14 (seven years ago) link
Slagmaur was discussed above when the band came to Brooklyn for a one-off festival appearance. The band is about to release Thill Smitts Terror, the band's first new release since 2009.
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/files/2017/03/slagmaurthillsmittsterror.jpg?w=630&h=567&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89
I was fortunate enough to get a digital promo of the record and it's brilliant. It orchestral but not orchestrated, it's heady but still heavy, it's unique in a genre that seems more open-ended than most but also has a lot of cliquishness as well. One gets the feeling they don't care. And as someone who adores Goth and industrial music, it's always nice to see those flavors incorporated into metal, hold the cheese.
Invisible Oranges is premiering the album that comes out 3/31 via Osmose Productions. Joseph Schafer says,
Thill Smitts Terror calls on black metal’s history and the underground’s current fascination with industrial music. Slagmaur’s songs share dense, layered production and vague choral arrangements with both symphonic black metal and Deathspell Omega’s coterie of disciples, but their steady, deterministic drums, and ever-present synthesizers seem kindred to Valborg, or even Code Orange. There’s no frostbitten forests in Slagmaur’s fairytale soundscape. Instead, the dilapidated industrial environments of the ‘Silent Hill’ video game franchise comes to mind. It’s the lind of record I can’t imagine receiving any kind of hype five years ago, but it’s exactly what black metal enthusiasts running the raw and atmospheric tape circuit ought to consider.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link