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
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
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
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
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
is that the royal we or do u have a partner who enjoys metal that sounds like glenn branca,
The latter
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 8 November 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
next qn evidently a mystery to be solved by each adventurer alone
morko is gr8888888 omg
― imago, Saturday, 8 November 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
lol they're finnish of course they're a cross between BM and Circle
― imago, Saturday, 8 November 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
This ambergris is almost making me do the ol' invisible orange which means it's fucking rad
― leprous mottlings of disturbing funghi (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 8 November 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
yeah it really is ridiculously good
― imago, Saturday, 8 November 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
For fans of discordance and Portal levels of chaotic murk, the most recent Aevangelist is pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihG-B0WCePk
― pelvic slang (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
HOLY FUCK
https://soundcloud.com/flenserrecords/mastery-valisvessel/s-Wykgz
I'm loving this track, it's an American 1-man project that sounds a bit like DSO played double speed with hints of Mick Barr-ish avant-shred. There's bits that sounds rather like Jute Gyte too. But it's probably at least as twice as complex as anything I've just mentioned.
I've never heard anything quite like this, though.
The album's out this month on The Flenser, who continue to be one of the best labels out there atm
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that's great.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 13 February 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
The Flenser is quickly becoming one of my favorite record labels
― the saer returns (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 14 February 2015 11:06 (nine years ago) link
this is so great
album is here btw: http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2015/02/20/mastery-valis/
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Sunday, 22 February 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
MtSLGB fav Jute Gyte is back with a new album..... of synth noise v_v
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 March 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
btw if I f/w the Aevangelist from 2013 Omen Ex Simulacra but wasn't crazy about it, do I need to hear the new one? they say it has saxophone?
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 March 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
lol I got the email update too. going to work, can someone listen for me plz
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, 2 March 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
xp Aevangelist does a weird thing to my head though, which I kinda dig -- has to do with the way the percussive death assault is so distinct, sonically, from the sotto voce wailing of lost souls & creaking metal in the background, so you can still hear the quiet parts even in the midst of the loud parts, except that they don't quite make sense anymore, & your brain rapidly oscillates between these two radically incompatible sides of a single perceived gestalt. it is the white&gold/blue&black/dancing girl of cavernous metal atmospheres
― bernard snowy, Monday, 2 March 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
I just listened to the first three songs of the new Jute Gyte album on Bandcamp. If you're expecting something that even remotely connects with the Branca metal vibe, you'll be sorely disappointed. It sounds like third-generation Autechre to me. I'm not sure why he'd even release it under the Jute Gyte moniker, as it has nothing of the innovative, hallucinatory quality of his black metal stuff. Not that it's bad, just kinda boring and unrelated to the last few releases.
― A New Heart Sutra for the Golden Corpses of America (Skrot Montague), Monday, 2 March 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Anyone heard Akhlys "The Dreaming"? It's one of the dudes from Nightbringer. I was gonna post about this album in the rolling metal thread but thought the folks in this thread would especially appreciate it. I think anyone into Darkspace / Paysage d'Hiver, The Work Which Transforms God era Blut Aus Nord, Krallice on opioids, Emperor on DMT, etc. would dig this record. It also has dark ambient sections that move from haunting, blissful vibes to truly deranged and evil vibes seamlessly. When the guitars are laid on thick, it feels like Branca heaven.
― Musical strategies to eliminate the ego (Skrot Montague), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
not yet but yeah I've heard great things about it, looking forward to give it a listen
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 06:06 (nine years ago) link
Streaming here: http://www.terrorizer.com/news/listen-to-the-new-akhlys-album-the-dreaming-i/
On track 3 now. Sounds pretty good so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
holy shit Akhlys
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 1 May 2015 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Awesome thanks.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 3 May 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
Uh... not quite sure if this fits the boundaries of the thread (if indeed there are any, but I have been toying with the idea of starting a catch-all avant/weirdo-metal thread though it might just be me that would post in it), but it's got the guitar contingent of Krallice along with Weasel Walter and Some Other Guy.
https://encenathrakh.bandcamp.com/releases
It basically sounds like four dudes playing four different deathgrind songs, with very occasional moments of synchronicity. On one level I like how fucked up and chaotic it is, on the other hand it begins to lose impact after a while and I'm not a fan of br00tal death vox.
Available for only $701.26 or more.
― meaty, desperate, and honest about the world we live in (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 11 May 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Oh and I wanted to like Akhlys but I found it had Dark Space disease, I mean it just hisses and rumbles away with zero impact. For me, anyway.
― meaty, desperate, and honest about the world we live in (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 11 May 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
loooool
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Monday, 11 May 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
the pricing (and the art, and the track titles) surely have this down as a giant spoof
it even sounds like a spoof
the thinking person's anal cunt
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Monday, 11 May 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
"NO DIGIPAK. NO LOGOS. NO SONGS. NO TRIGGERS. NO LYRICS. NO BASS. NO SWEATPANTS. "
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, 11 May 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
ok they're basically doing the whole j0hn d + colin s. barrow black metal fakeposting thing but with real death metal: http://foreverslainzine.com/2015/04/interview-encenathrakh/
:D
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Monday, 11 May 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link