Black Metal!

btw what wave is BM currently on now?
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roguewave

wait 2nd wave? so darkthrone is like the specials of black metal? who's the king tubby?

venom hellhammer bathory

ah gotcha

sure do wish this was the current BM wave. no such luck, tho:

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/collin_boot_ultrawave_101b.jpg

There's so many kinds of BM, it's impossible too like or hate all of it. Listen to as many different bands as possible before you can say anything about the genre. Some of my favourites off the top of my head: early Satyricon, Immortal, Enslaved, Windir, Solefald, Burzum, Bathory, Shining, Watain, Darkspace, Rotting Christ, Drudkh, Ulver, Von, Mystigo Varggoth Arkestra, etc etc etc. Good luck \m/

But tonight I've been listening to Bruce Springsteen, Plastikman and the Jesus and Mary Chain, lol

Fenriz is a Plastikman stan

I'm not surprised, the minimalism and repetition are quite alike, even if the instruments aren't.

new DsO is amazing. is this being discussed elsewhere?

Who are DsO?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDnwd9GLhe0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TUlsy6o0To

i would just tell people who don't listen to a lot of metal but are curious about black metal to just listen to darkspace and be done with it. cuz they rule and are appealing in many different ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sp8Q-zEX5E&feature=related

and they are totally addictive.

and lustre. i would tell them to listen to lustre. cuz its black metal but also just ambient minimalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT7VdVAYhbg

why this guy isn't a poster child for shoegaze nation on ilm is beyond me. maybe he's too under the radar. so get on it slowdive dudes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzQSR2QqEUM&feature=related

speaking of which, i LOVE the newest Theologian album on Crucial Blast. so cool. title is: The Further I Get From Your Star, The Less Light I Feel On My Face. if you like ambient dark stuff it will really hit the spot.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_95msu-VwXUk/TNszU2m_5fI/AAAAAAAAA20/1vfBnRV7Fjc/s1600/theologianposter.jpg

really digging those starlit and lustre clips, scott.

yeah, starlit is just the lustre dude again. he's got lots of project names for his one-man stuff. i think his new stuff is great.

ah, didn't realize. definitely going to dig in further - thanks!

there's something (actually in this darkthrone album) about the tempos and rhythms, once it gets too fast it sorta ceases to be heavy.

like actually darkthrone sounds like the opposite of heavy to me...it's definitely aggressive and harsh but not heavy.

it's kinda the same w/any hardcore bands...like i only like hardcore bands i was too young to really see (w/a couple exceptions)...

darkthrone kinda reminds me of like goth for ppl who like 90s hardcore or something.

also a certain monochromatic gray quality that reminds me of why i never really hung with much 90s industrial (like true industrial not NIN)

Most of this is kinda why I love Darkthrone tbh

going to see Liturgy tonight . . . stoked!

scott is it just me or are you getting blunted and listening to black metal tonite

3 weeks time I'm going to see Mayhem, first time. Anaal Nathrakh supporting - I only really love The Codex Necro, their more recent stuff has too much, er melodic singing is the only way I can describe it, which sounds kind of stupid but never mind. But they were great live last time I saw them.

dude, we bought a thousand mint classical records last night! i'm getting blunted and listening to Purcell.

Purcell's *Funeral Music For Queen Mary* is old school black stuff. so beautiful. so sad.

I have a soft spot for Profanatica's "Funeral Music For Queen Mary's Asshole" but that's different I guess

a soft spot I tell you

scott is it just me or are you getting blunted and listening to black metal tonite

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welp at least now i have something to do

and like i said i got rid of that cali shit. back to local hillbilly organic. my special friend said everyone loved the cali stuff except me. he said i was weird. like he should talk.

<3 this guy

Listening to Bulldozer a lot this week. More thrash than black but fuck yeah, Bulldozer.

lying in bed listening to scarlatti and reading old musical heritage reviews from the 80's. snobbiest damn editorial columns on earth! plus, incoherent rants from harlan ellison. every magazine needs some of those. life is good.

I don't think I ever saw this magazine

it was put out by the people who did the musical heritage society label. a non-profit classical cabal! they sold mail order stuff too. its part catalog for new cassette releases and part classical freak political organ. or something. lots of little essays and blurbs about hot new baroque releases.

oh man messiaen. he's messing with my head right now. its like living in a ghost world where haunted churches speak to you.

oh wait musical heritage society, we subscribed, they were kinda columbia-house-ish only they printed all their own stuff - that uniform presentation! but I don't remember Ellison writing for that catalog -- ! really??

don't know how long he did it for. man, i got a ton of copies of magazine of fantasy & science fiction from the 80's and his movie reviews... wow. just wow. what a strange strange man. he's something else. he just can't stop himself. he just goes and goes. him and asimov. his columns too. so many words over so many years.

I used to love his movie reviews in F&SF (for some reason my junior high school library had a subscription). Man, did he hate Gremlins. But he liked Repo Man.

he's kinda nuts!

gonna transcribe this bit in this one column. be back with ellison.

answered my fan mail when I was a kid - long hand-typed specific-to-my-question answer. forever solid in my book for that

this is from a "freewheeling" piece on benny goodman:

"One tends to forget, if one is continually exposed to what passes for popular music today, that it is possible for music to make you smile. One need not wish to stuff one's head in the oven or drink Lysol after having spent an hour listening to music. There is a panacea available for the logorrhea of Top-40 babble. It comes as an over-the-counter medication packaged under the trade name Goodman."

i make fun, but i respect his weirdness big time.

actually part of the liner-notes he wrote for a new benny goodman album in 1986. Benny's response to the notes: "This kid can write."

http://books.google.com/books?id=2VvWm6_QZFEC&pg=PR23&lpg=PR23&dq=harlan+ellison+benny+goodman&source=bl&ots=mZ9JymljFD&sig=eApOLCSOUWQHl4CMA5Vyz2HYf-M&hl=en&ei=CZfoTNvGGYT48Aa5xIGpCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

oh no don't get me wrong dude is v. high on his own rhetoric -- all his nonfic writing is basically MY DISPARAGING ADJECTIVES, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM

I spoke to Ellison on the phone once, and met him at one of those I'm-gonna-sit-in-this-bookstore-and-write-in-front-of-you things he used to do. He dated my stepmother in the late 60s when he used to live on the East Coast, and when I mentioned her name he said "______ from Brooklyn?" in this excited I-remember-that-person voice. So that was cool.

I got a hand-typed response when I wrote to Hubert Selby Jr. I wish I still had that letter but it disappeared somewhere/somehow.

dudes, i am listening to some seriously troo norwegian darkness right now. Fartein Valen. wow. string quartet no 2. dude was into some heavy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeJa_TnB0M&feature=related

more kult norwegian stuff now. Ketil Hvoslef! concerto for contrabasso. very cool. why isn't he famous? sounds unbelievable. here's a weird one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivsTNzty-L0