METAL for ART-metallers

NIGEL HIPSTER
('nI-jel 'hip-st&r)
Noun: Anyone who appreciates or supports black metal for ironic reasons, or because they find it humorous.

Angelblood is the right answer.

Did you ever hear that track, Louis?

I got the us pressing of the Alcest vinyl in the mail today.
Really liking new Nachtmystium, anyone else like that?

oh and the albums by Ascend and Pentemple belong on this thread

Runhild Gammelsæter - Amplicon isn't really metal but is scary as fuck. Different to the Thorr's Hammer stuff she did with Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley way back when she was 17.
It's out on Utech if anyone cares.

i care. or i'm curious. is it just processed vocals or what?

Well the vocals re the same scary screechy stuff as on the excellent Khlyst album.

Btw there's a Khlyst dvd of a live performance coming out.

hey, do you still read ilm, siegbran? because this speculation from way upthread (and the simpler days of 2003) didn't really come true, did it?

On the other hand, nothing really new has come out of metal in the last five, six years (compared to the abundance of new ideas in '85-'95) so maybe these kind of bands can live up to their promise of taking metal in a radical new direction.

nothing comes to mind, really. maybe om tapping into the indian classical vibe?

nothing comes to mind?!?!?! i'm not in a listy mood but for heaven's sake someone else PLEASE take this

Siegbran is still around

AVANT-GARDE METAL

A Brief And Incomplete History Of An Ongoing Experiment

http://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/stories2.php?id=67

yeah, nothing really does. plenty of bands mixing up little bits of this-and-that... which I like! but I honestly can't think of a record from the last 10 years or so that sounds like nothing I've heard before.

and about that link...
Avant-garde metal has not slowed down; in fact, it has only continued to evolve and expand. Bands like KAYO DOT, JESU, ISIS, DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA, SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM

is this really the best we've got? jesu and kayo dot are basically similar takes on formulas THE PEOPLE IN THE BANDS developed like 10-20 years ago! isis are hardly doing anything new too.

and on that "record from the last 10 years" thing I said... that's in the metal world. I mean, it's not like these kinds of records are popping left and right in any genre, but more than most other genres, metal is all about taking what you liked about a couple of bands and doing your own thing with it.

again, nothing wrong with that!

lol, "not that there's anything wrong with that"
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l256/gswyers/Seinfeld_not_that_theres_small.jpg

nothing comes to mind?!?!?! i'm not in a listy mood but for heaven's sake someone else PLEASE take this

metal has taken exactly zero radical new directions since '03 - especially when you compare things, as Siegbran did, to the convulsive '85-'95 times. There are plenty of good new metal records for sure. None of them that I can think of are really breaking any new ground. I like heavy metal a lot, so that's generally fine with me - innovation is exciting but isn't necessary for me to really enjoy something.

If you honestly think you can make a list of people who've been really breaking down doors since '03, you are mistaken.

There doesn't seem to have been a lot of door-breaking-down going on lately, but it's not like the genre's stagnant. Anaal Nathrakh/Frost & Deathspell Omega have put out interesting albums since '03. Among others, I mean...

You're on the "cranky old man" kick this week, aren't you, John?

he'll never beat gorge at that game.

what would someone have to do to take metal in a "radical new direction". that's what i want to know. i guess we would know it when we hear it.

Years later, this thread still has a very stupid title.
-- xhuxk, Wednesday, March 7, 2007 9:16 PM

im guessing that was actually scott?