Really liked Oathbreaker. Found it powerful and surprisingly varied.
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
32 Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love 263 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/P3CHJ8v.jpghttps://cultesdesghoules.bandcamp.com/album/coven-or-evil-ways-instead-of-love
The metal underground is awash with more bands than ever, but none quite sound like Poland's CULTES DES GHOULES. And now, with the release of the band's highly anticipated third album, Coven, HELLS HEADBANGERS is proud to present CULTES DES GHOULES' magnum opus and forever prove that no one ever will quite sound like THIS.
A mysterious collective with a full lineup but no facts fully revealed about it, CULTES DES GHOULES have always let their music speak for itself. Their early demos and Odd Spirituality EP, all highly sought after upon their initial release, eventually culminated in CULTES DES GHOULES' classic debut album, Häxan. Released in 2008 but eventually reissued by HELLS HEADBANGERS in 2011 after its first two versions quickly sold out, Häxan was a mesmerizing monolith beyond compare - ghoulish, gibbering, and ghastly in equal measures - although its sinful stench fondly recalled the likes of earliest, evilest Necromantia, Beherit, Mayhem, and Mortuary Drape. Also in 2011 came the Spectres Over Transylvania EP, which was an epic 25-minute track that suggested the ambitious direction to come. And come it did with 2013's Henbane, a five-song/58-minute monster of mesmerizing power. Dread and disease wafting up from the abyss like fumes of the most potent sulfur, coiling and releasing in a tense coitus of godless abandon, the unremittingly repulsive sounds of death worship: Henbane soon became a modern classic for a new generation of black metallers hungry for foul sounds with fathomless depth(s).
Alas, even all that cannot prepare the willing for CULTES DES GHOULES' Coven. On the surface, the epically winding ritualism the band had worked toward is present and accounted for...until you realize that that's simply the first track. For Coven is indeed a literally MASSIVE album, totalling nearly 100 minutes across five near-equally massive songs; not for nothing will it be presented individually on two CDs and three vinyl LPs. But there is purpose to such staggering lengths: the album is, in fact, a sort of "play" whose full title is Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love. Inspired by Master's Hammer's The Jilemnice Occultist, which is a black metal operetta with a story about romance and witchcraft, CULTES DES GHOULES wanted to write something similar but with more serious intent and without any "romance" themes. And with time, it evolved into the form that's finally revealed to the public.
Essentially, Coven sonically and especially (lyrically) illustrates a spiritual quest and the wish of death - death to a mundane world of moral laws and social conventions and shallow existences. It comprises a whole cast of characters - an actual dramatis personae, in the manner of a traditional play - whose innermost thoughts and outermost deeds are given life by the devilish throat of CULTES DES GHOULES. Each of the five songs is a whole "act" in itself, travelling across tension and cresting to high drama. Suitably, the music follows in kind, encompassing the band's trademark teeth-gnashing gnarliness to more dynamic - and, yes, dramatic - iterations of what were mere sonic suggestions in past, particularly in swaggering Sabbathian groove. That the band moves so freely across such a relatively wide swath of (super-)sonic terrain isn't so surprising as how effortlessly they do so, mirroring the myriad characters who bind the Coven. Olde tyme rock 'n' roll? Not exactly, but it's as patently diabolical as the medieval devil-worship CULTES DES GHOULES have been slavishly devoted to lo these many years.
The Devil's always had the best tunes, and sometimes even had the best plays. Now he's got both in CULTES DES GHOULES Coven, and a new dark age has begun.creditsVinyl releases February 17, 2017
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
death to a mundane world of moral laws and social conventions and shallow existencesa new dark age has begun
a new dark age has begun
:/
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
i know, i know, it's all about the music, i know
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
also, i know, metal, yes, it's metal, hails, i know, i know
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
hmm, there's some ambiguity there i guess. plus yknow fuck christian morality right? pluuuus it seems proper literary. idk. someone else say something for hell's sake
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Idk, I tried with CDG a few years back and found it unlistenable shit, apologies to voters
― fuck like fight like fuck (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
31 Opeth - Sorceress 265 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/1NnhTOj.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/3TmHGVTgRAlYKa9qHOgJhGspotify:album:3TmHGVTgRAlYKa9qHOgJhG
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
speaking of nazi metal!
just kidding mikael. you're a dear
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
Remember to subscribe to the Spotify playlistspotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:4zMb8zr6MP7xO6DAowXVG4
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
fastnbulbous currently winning the predictorstakes, only three of yr 20 picks have appeared so far
four of mine appeared just today :/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
RECAP
101 Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia) 108 4 198 Abbath - Abbath 109 3 098 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109 3 098 Lord Vicar - Gates of Flesh 109 3 097 Dawnwalker - In Rooms 109 4 095 Madder Mortem - Red In Tooth and Claw 110 4 095 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110 4 094 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112 3 093 Truckfighters - V 116 4 092 Atomikylä - Keräily 118 3 091 Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh 121 4 090 Grand Magus - Sword Songs 122 3 089 Rotting Christ - Rituals 123 4 088 Wrong - Wrong 124 3 087 Melvins - Basses Loaded 126 4 086 Batushka - Litourgiya 127 3 085 Bloodiest - Bloodiest 128 3 084 Wretch - Wretch 128 4 083 Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation 128 4 182 Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether 128 6 081 ColdWorld - Autumn 129 3 080 Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead 131 4 079 Car Bomb - Meta 134 3 078 Anciients - Voice of the Void 137 4 077 Wormrot - Voices 138 4 076 Saor - Guardians 138 6 075 Asphyx - Incoming Death 139 3 074 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139 5 073 High Spirits - Motivator 140 4 072 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141 4 070 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142 4 070 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142 4 069 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143 4 068 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148 5 067 Sumerlands - s/t 154 6 066 Eight Bells - Landless 156 5 065 Anicon - Exegeses 160 4 063 Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP 164 5 063 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164 5 062 The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 165 6 061 Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night 166 4 160 Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law 166 5 059 Amon Amarth - Jomsviking 174 5 058 Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule 177 6 057 Mesarthim - Pillars [EP] 180 5 056 Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner 185 5 055 Lotus Thief - Gramarye 186 6 054 Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis 187 5 053 Sabaton - The Last Stand 190 5 052 Skáphe - Skáphe² 195 6 051 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation 196 6 050 Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith 198 7 049 Blues Pills - Lady In Gold 200 4 148 Megadeth - Dystopia 200 5 147 Russian Circles - Guidance 200 6 046 Astronoid - Air 201 6 045 Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwell 209 6 044 Deftones - Gore 215 5 143 Blood Incantation - Starspawn 216 7 042 Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon 219 5 141 Ophidian Forest - Susurrus 222 6 040 Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. . 228 7 039 Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP 228 9 038 Wormed - Krighsu 231 6 037 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235 6 035 Krallice - Hyperion 246 8 035 Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason 246 8 034 Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder 259 8 033 Oathbreaker - Rheia 262 7 132 Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love 263 7 031 Opeth - Sorceress 265 7 0
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
Any discoveries folks?
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
realising just how great mesarthim are. looooads i'm excited to hear though
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
mesarthim are the new gods
― Frobisher, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
everyone in the world seriously needs to hear this https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-filter-e-p
it's only 21 minutes of your time. holy shit.
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
Really dig Comet Control! It should be in the general EOY poll!Ignored Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard until a few hours ago due to a general inclination to ignore bands with ridiculous names, but I really liked it.
― Frobisher, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
xp fully agree!
I doubt anything from this poll will make the general poll as either nobody here votes or they dont vote for the same metal albums
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
i think mammoth weed wizard bastard are from the 'we couldn't think of a good name so here's the shittest and most ridiculously doom-cliche-filled thing we could think of inside thirty seconds' school of band naming
i quite like the name though lol
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
aaaaalready on it!
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
Astronoid = favourite discovery so far. It's just magical
― dance band (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:31 (seven years ago) link
I dont think many people put metal albums in their top 5 and with needing 10-12 votes to get in the 77 you need those people to vote high
and seandalai says most people who vote in this poll dont vote in the big poll (esp the lurkers iirc)
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:32 (seven years ago) link
Metallica will likely make the big poll
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
I've tried too hard to keep on top of new releases over the last couple of years so in the rollout it's usually either stuff I've heard (and liked to some extent more often than not) or just not interested in. That said, I will give Moon Tooth and Mesarthim a proper go.
And I just... don't get Cultes des Ghoules at all.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
v happy I stanned for Astronoid as much as I did
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:40 (seven years ago) link
"What's this? It sounds great". It was Deftones again.
I am also unmoved by CdG. I want them to sound more like the atmosphere their album art generates and they never do.
― dance band (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
Me too! xp
― dance band (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:43 (seven years ago) link
Astronoid = favourite discovery so far. It's just magical― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, December 19, 2016 4:31 PM
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, December 19, 2016 4:31 PM
Same here.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
omg 'doomed user'
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link
hoping my Xoth pimping worked too but it's looking highly doubtful
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
is Xoth gonna save my life like Astronoid has?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
Totally different beast, Cthulu-referencing, scrappy, fun as fuck... melodic tech-thrash? Maybe? I'm bad w/ subgenres
https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/invasion-of-the-tentacube
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 01:04 (seven years ago) link
I'll bet Xoth makes it. It only took three or four votes to get in the top 100. If three other ppl said they really liked the album then it's prob in, and if it hasnt shown up yet, that means it got more votes than expected...
― fuck like fight like fuck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Xoth was top 10 for me
― Yelploaf, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link
Enjoying the Anicon. Picked up the Xoth CD/download on bandcamp just now - really enjoying that even if it hasn't placed.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
Skip to the end of this long podcast and you can hear an interview with Astronoid, who was their #1 for the year: http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/12/05/the-best-of-2016-on-the-metalsucks-podcast-173/
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
I wanted to like the Ulcerate more. It's impressive, but I guess too oppressive. OTOH, Nails, The Body, Zao, Wormrot and Trap Them have been handy for channeling rage since November, so perhaps I'll warm up to other extreme stuff too. Bossk, Slabdragger, Boss Keloid, Discharge, Revocation and Ihsahn are other new ones I've been listening to this week.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:23 (seven years ago) link
If it weren't for the vocals, I just might have included that Xoth album too. Riffs!
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:32 (seven years ago) link
I didn't really like the Ihsahn album, I think some of the electronic elements seemed either heavy-handed or just plain goofy.
― Tom Violence, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
Glad to see Wrong, Occult Burial and Cadaveric Fumes placing. So far I've wishlisted Skaphe (reminds me of the churning murkiness of Aevangelist), Wormrot, Howls of Ebb (don't know why I didn't get around to this when I loved "Vigils of the 3rd Eye"), Eight Bells, Chthe'ilist, and Inquisition.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link
fuck me Mesarthim have released another one TODAY
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 11:20 (one second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 11:21 (seven years ago) link
who's gonna run the Mesarthim poll
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:28 (seven years ago) link
30 Mesarthim - Isolate 266 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/LAUnsSd.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1Ufx2MnbehYOpzFDzff6X1spotify:album:1Ufx2MnbehYOpzFDzff6X1
https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/isolate
"Like Summoning IN SPACE "
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. $1 USD or more
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
ok looooooooooool
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
Hahaha
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link
The Great Filter > Absence > Type III* > Pillars > Isolate > Spire
*based on my one listen just earlier
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
It's the best one too. the best synths, the best guitar solos and the best tunes
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
As always, ignore imago
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link