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lol i just realized upon doing some googling that that dude is in darkspace. sonic signature, check.

j., Monday, 25 August 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link

just recalled the other space-BM band I'll really ride for: Progenie Terrestre Pura. check 'em out if you can bernard

imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link

here

http://progenieterrestrepura.bandcamp.com/album/u-m-a

it is sick

plus i'm in italy rn so forza PTP

imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link

(it's probably closer to, say, Ocean Machine-era Devin Townsend than Darkspace, but this should be of equal encouragement)

imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link

I will wholeheartedly second Progenie Terrestre Pura. Their album is hypnotizing and way the fuck out there.

Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link

k I will check it out as soon as this Cosmic Church song ends in 9 minutes

ODB's missing grammy (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link

Cosmic Church is a great band.

Siegbran, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 12:04 (nine years ago) link

^this dude's proper-trad-BM as fuck and had PTP, a decidedly avant/experimental BM outfit, authoring his album of the year, which should demonstrate its quality, coherence & entirely un-gimmicky nature

will also check out Cosmic Church yeah

imago, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 12:30 (nine years ago) link

On the subject of space BM this album to me is pretty similar in vibe but not necessarily in style to both Darkspace and especially PTP and if you like those you should definitely check this out

http://petrychor.bandcamp.com/album/makrokosmos

Doesn't sound anything like Branca though admittedly

a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link

Oh and Oranssi Pazuzu are pretty spacey too, psychedelic BM that blends these elements really well rather than having 'metal' and 'prog' sections awkwardly jammed together.

a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link

cool :) plenty for me and andrew to check out

imago, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link

Loved loved loved the last Oranssi Pazuzu album

rockist raccoon (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 30 August 2014 09:42 (nine years ago) link

this Petrychor is so far extremely great

imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link

um this is fucking phenomenal

imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 10:05 (nine years ago) link

this is one of my fave youtube channels. lots of stuff i wouldn't have heard (heard of) otherwise:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AtmsphericBlackMetal/videos

scott seward, Saturday, 30 August 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link

ANOTHER NEW JUTE GYTE

http://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/ressentiment

released approximately 1 minute ago

impromptu MTSLGB listening club: commence

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link

absolutely fuck yes. best artist in music imo

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link

Halfway through the second track, this might actually be better than Vast Chains.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 September 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link

omg wait for the third track

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link

and dear christ the fifth track, might be the best so far

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link

have his vocals gotten more tolerable, or disappeared maybe? I would have loved the last one as an instrumental record.

Simon H., Monday, 1 September 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, that's a stunner.

2xpost

EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 September 2014 13:37 (nine years ago) link

his vocals are still there but the music is if anything even more kickass, so he increasingly comes off like a master of despair rather than simply a magnificent sufferer

this closing track is showing all the signs of being......beyond, above

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link

:O

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link

I do sometimes feel a bit of a sense that his compositional skills are becoming sophisticated enough that the vocals might feel superfluous at times. I don't mind them the way some people seem to but they're generally the least interesting element. I'm at about 6:45 in "The Grey King" and they're working for me here, though.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 September 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link

The Grey King is some monstrous realness. Up there with The Fire of This (which is saying a LOT)

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link

goddamn

ODB's missing grammar (bernard snowy), Monday, 1 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link

I *just* got Vast Chains, there's no way my brain is ready to process this

ODB's missing grammar (bernard snowy), Monday, 1 September 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link

i'm going to do the microtonal trilogy marathon at some point either tonight or tomorrow :D

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link

the climactic bit (i.e. pretty much the entire second half) of The Grey King is just...just...

imago, Monday, 1 September 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

BLACK VOID OF LONELINESS

imago, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link

The Grey King is song of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eAZHnfe394

If I could transfer the Hey QT fuckabout discussion to this song I would in a flash. This is...almost disturbingly good

imago, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link

I'm still processing Vast Chains... never noticed how awesomely hellish & cavernously fucked "The Fire of This" gets in its final half. Dude knows how to close an album.

Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link

yeah I mean, The Fire of This is monstrous, intense, lethal stuff, but this is heightened to the grisliest, most demented panic of mind I think I've ever heard

I actually think the closer of the first part of the 'trilogy', Acedia, is by far the weakest song on all 3 albums! but the two 2014 closers, yeah I mean, fuck

imago, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link

Ok I downloaded Vast Chains.

Jesus christ. I think this the first use of microtonal scales I've heard that didn't just sound like some muso nerd in-joke to me. The parts where he resorts to straight up power chord chopping for a few seconds are like brief islands of sanity.

sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 September 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link

welcome to the cult, so glad you could join us

Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Saturday, 27 September 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link

srsly ressentiment. srsly. the man himself regards it most highly of the three, as do i. the most exciting/intimidating aspect is that he claims all three albums are primitive in comparison to what he's working on now. gimme that sweet primitive fire tbpfh, i can wait

pretentious over rated bloody old rubbish (imago), Saturday, 27 September 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

So far I'm finding that I still want to play Vast Chains all the time but can't really spin Ressentiment the same way. Maybe it's a matter of time?

EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link

Can get why Ressentiment might be too much - it's one of the most intense albums ever made, I'd wager. You have to be in the right place for it. Vast Chains, while almost equally brilliant, is slightly more introspective, more measured. Ressentiment is vicious

Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link

Hm, maybe that's it.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link

"The Fire of This" pretty much shattered my mind into a million glittering shards last night, so I can finally officially say I am fully on-board the Jute Gyte wagon. Holy fuck, man. I've been listening to his stuff fairly regularly for almost a year now, but it didn't really click until last night for some reason. Now I need to hear it all.

Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I don't know if this is Branca-esque at all, sometimes it sounds like mid-80s Greg Ginn playing black metal, sometimes it sounds like Jute Gyte without the mictrotonality...

http://horsesacrifice.bandcamp.com/album/ambergris

Name your price, too.

Brocktoon Tanuki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 7 November 2014 08:35 (nine years ago) link

This band might actually sound more like the Theater of Eternal Music on this album but what the hell:

http://morkomusic.bandcamp.com/album/iv

Brocktoon Tanuki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 7 November 2014 08:42 (nine years ago) link

We really enjoyed both of those. The Ambergris is fantastic!

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 7 November 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link

is that the royal we or do u have a partner who enjoys metal that sounds like glenn branca, next question how

imago, Friday, 7 November 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link

also lol ok imma hear those now

imago, Friday, 7 November 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link

ambergris is sick

imago, Friday, 7 November 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link

This Morko record is great. Sounds like a black metal This Heat. Admittedly I'm predisposed to love anything that sounds like "insert genre" This Heat.
Also - Did it really come out in 2008? Kind of amazed it's never crossed my path.

Oblique Strategies, Friday, 7 November 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link

It did! I think they did a really limited run of physical copies - I actually got it because they saw a review I wrote of their second album and emailed me and offered a copy. Their newer one (long Finnish title, also on their bandcamp) is pretty weird too but different in style - IV almost seemed like an extended black metal Fall of Saigon, to continue the This Heat comparison.

Glad you guys liked Ambergris, too - as soon as I heard it I thought of this thread!

Brocktoon Tanuki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 November 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link

Damn. I need to track down a physical copy. I also need to book more Finnish shows for my bands so I have an excuse to go there and beg Morko to play the show.

Oblique Strategies, Saturday, 8 November 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link


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