Liturgy

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/why-are-black-metal-fans-such-elitist-assholes

At their gig. They're on in forty minutes. Stoked, yah

HHH is on the arena floor, swigging some fizzy beverage. Guy in a Liturgy shirt next to me wandered over to say hi but the second he moved, HHH drifted off to the other side of the floor, without looking. I now think he was drinking a special energy drink that gives him ESP

He only notices you if you start chanting HE-EEEY HE-EEEEY HE-EEEY

Hahaha they are totally dressed to troll

hope youre enjoying it lj! Not seen them live, and despite having their first two albums I havent heard the new one yet as im skint.

Oh man that was rad

I was about 4 feet from Greg Fox

Can't hear anything except tinnitus now

Do we (gf + me) stay at the front now or let the Three Trapped Tigers fans have a go? We know nothing about them

Correction: "I've listened to two of their albums on Spotify!"

Well so-rry

The people behind us are very, very short. With a heavy heart, we're staying put

how straight fire does a band have to be in order to justify your tinnitus?

Fairly. They have to have guitar canons.

erm I own both their first 2 albums and the 12" (and the manifesto) why say i only heard them on spotify?

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/why-are-black-metal-fans-such-elitist-assholes

Because band like Liturgy, Deafheaven and Myrkur are thrust into our faces and we're told if we don't like them it's based on some kind of horrible, prejudiced elitism and not knowledge of the form that dates back to, you know, before last year.

However, at some point you need to just accept that the thing that you love may get more popular or have elements of it co-opted by other genres—and if you take a step back, that's part of what makes music or any other art form valuable to the culture.

"The culture." Yessss. Black metal is, traditionally, very concerned about the culture and integrating itself into it. That's why the word "misanthropy" figured into half of the early album titles in the genre.

"I don't understand metal at all, let me tell you metal guys why you're jerks."

lol that article is such garbage. p lol that somebody'd bother to write it and then somebody'd read it and go "this is good, let's publish this"

suspect it was more like "this is bad and will generate pageviews via its badness, let's publish this"

it is extraordinarily feeble though and I suspect the tone of wounded surprise to be disingenuous, which makes it worse

pretty sure i defended this album when it came out but with time and experience i realize that i don't even really get it. aesthethica was great though.

seeing these dudes tonight.

Mr. HHH, on the astronomically small chance that you read this, please understand that I genuinely love Liturgy, but goddamn it you make it so hard to defend you sometimes

https://kelvalhaal.bandcamp.com/releases

looool

i can't hate on music this weird tbf. it's definitely at risk of being shit but there's something compelling in there too

he's turned pretentiousness into a fine art!

He kind of reminds me of that Kula Shaker guy

he reminds me of an ilxor

i cannot help but like this

been thinking about hunter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib5UR5T6rTw

could use an update: Fuck Off the NPR Black Metal

Hah, I quite liked that. It's no Reign Array though.

Which other hipster metal threads can we bury Attila in?

the ones you started?

Aluk Todolo really need a thread of their own and Oranssi Pazuzu too but I think we missed the boat on that.

greg's solo album is...baffling MIDI wank?

always thought he was the straight role to hunter's freaked-out cyber-shaman thing but this is more unsuccessfully pretentious than anything hunter's released

his 'Mitrial Transmission' album from a few years ago is a favourite of mine, hypnotic processed gamelan pieces. not heard the new stuff

i haven't listened to the greg fox's solo album yet
it's not percussion?

From the review I read it's apparently MIDI triggered by drums. This is on my to do list but not high priority...

Mitrial Transmission is amazing.

Huh on the track here it sounds like the kick drum is triggering the synth bass, which always reminds me of playing Roland V-Drums in a music store in the late '90s.

https://gregfox.bandcamp.com/track/catching-an-l

The Ark Work still bannngs

yes.

um...holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dNmymSI8uQ

that's some really, really good Liturgy

i am now a huge fan of this ridiculous record (the ark work)

Brad! <3

(it's become one of my absolute favourites of the decade, what a vision)

New album is out aaaah

opener is fucking sick

The Nepalese lady who cleans my room just came in and slowly backed out again. Fair response: this is fucking mental.