have we done this yet
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnzm7/this-youtube-channel-streams-ai-generated-black-metal-247
headline is an error (vs the story), it's death metal mostly, though there are moments at first when it sounds black
― j., Friday, 19 April 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
They characterize their work with Dadabots as working towards “eliminating humans from black metal.”
True misanthropy
― jmm, Friday, 19 April 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
The Dead to a Dying World is alright, but it feels a tad… emotionally manipulative? I don't think it holds a candle to the Inter Arma.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 April 2019 09:55 (five years ago) link
oooh I love emotional manipulation
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 April 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
So do I, when it's seamless. Anyhow, I liked it better the second time around but I stand by my initial comment.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 April 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
I like the Leonard Cohen-esque vocals on the first track
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 April 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
I love Lenny Cohen but that intro just screams faux world weariness to me. I'm probably not very receptive to the Southernness of it tbf.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 April 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
That Judiciary album sounds great. Reminds me a bit of Power Trip.
― o. nate, Monday, 22 April 2019 01:28 (five years ago) link
rigging up the brad signal for this very Katatonia-esque record
https://sermonsound.bandcamp.com/
― Simon H., Monday, 22 April 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
xp - That album sounds like my favorite late-period-Slayer song expanded to half an hour. Fantastic stuff.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 22 April 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
Digging this Canadian epic doom
http://smoulder.bandcamp.com/album/times-of-obscene-evil-and-wild-daring
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 22 April 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
That Smoulder album is one of my 2019 favourites so far. Very strong swords & sorcery metal in the vein of Atlantean Kodex.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 22 April 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
Worshipper album sounds very promising from the one preview track.
Enjoyed Smoulder as well.
― Armand Frippanino (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
Worshipper is very good - a big step up from their last album, which I didn't love.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
Anxious to hear that Worshipper one. I really, really liked the new Magic Circle record. Yes, very Sabbath derivative, but derivative of the Vol. 4 era in the best possible way - meaning not just the riffs, but the sense of widening the lens a little.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
Holy shit, a postmillennial Darkthrone track I actually enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6h4b-Jm8iU
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
that fucking rocks
― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 April 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
FUCK YEAH
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
Yeah, this fucking rules. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I look forward to the new LP now.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
HI ALL OF YOU! As you may know we have a new album coming out (I am not on social media at all anymore so I don't know what you've seen or heard so far) and Ted said that this time our fans will hear a new song first. So guys here it is - our new track, “The Hardship Of The Scots” and since Ted and me always write our own songs, one song could not fully represent Old Star, but let’s start with this one. Normally the journalists and other scenesters get to check out new albums 2-3-4 months before fans get to hear it, but not this time .. you are first!FENRIZ
love fenriz so much
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
This is so good!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
This Dark Heresey reissue on Svart is pretty cool
https://darkheresy.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-principles-taken-to-their-logical-extremes
If you're looking for weird riffs in the Argh*slent vein but with no abhorrent political baggage (that I'm aware of) and much more imagination, check it out. I hear a Sabbat UK influence and there's some jazzy acoustic bits.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
Can someone Cliff Notes what's going on with MGLA?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
Two gigs with Deus Mortem got cancelled in Munich and Berlin due to alleged antisemitism. Members of the latter were apparently in a Nazi band called Infernal War. Mgła claims it's all just a smear campaign and will take legal action against any and all instances of 'defamation'.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
Here's an article about Infernal War, published last year after one of their shows got cancelled in the UK:
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/infernal-war-metal-band-nazi-atrocities-antisemitism-hope-not-hate-1.464498
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
So wait... Nobody in MGLA is sketchy? They were just playing with a band whose members *other* band was sketchy? Do I have that correct?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
As far as I can tell, yes.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
Huh, because I definitely saw some vague comments on twitter about MGLA being "cancelled". Glad to have more context though.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
dont read the comments on mgla's facebook post
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
Tbf M. put out a cassette titled Judenfrei under his power electronics moniker, Leichenhalle, back in 2000, so make of that what you will.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/rtoynz4v32v21.png
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but uhhhhhhhhhh "brown mud" seems a weird inclusion.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
yeahhh that's a little odd huh
also a release called "Bloodsoil"
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
You're not the only one who did a double-take at 'brown mud'. And that's besides the defensive verbosity alone -- which, by the way, includes no disavowals or denials of what they've been accused of, only vague threats of legal action. (Like, GTF over yourselves, band that's been caught out platforming Nazis.)
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
Exactly, there certainly wasn't any heartfelt (or even feigned heartfelt) disavowal of anything in there. The "brown mud" thing struck me because it was so pointless, just "mud" would do guys.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
I'm not exactly shocked (that would be dumb, at this point) but as someone who really liked the Mgla releases this is pretty shitty to learn
― Simon H., Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link
Not to mention Kriegsmaschine, so yeah, this blows. I think it's safe to assume that at least 50% of BM bands are affected by the rot in some way, whether its symptoms are visible or not.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
Mgla always bored the shit out of me so I'm fine with this development
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
^high five!
― imago, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
<i>I think it's safe to assume that at least 50% of BM bands are affected by the rot in some way, whether its symptoms are visible or not.<i/>
The rot, for me, is in the feigned 'we're apolitical!' BS. Too often to me that's a couch for 'we've chosen a side: we prefer being edgy to, like, taking any kind of stand against right-wing populism'.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:47 (five years ago) link
Bleh messed up the tags there.
we regret to inform you that these guys making some of the most violent and hateful misanthropic music on earth are not as woke as we hoped
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
there's a pretty huge gap btwn "not being woke" and generalized misanthrophy vs the stuff cited in the MetalSucks post
― Simon H., Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
More like I prefer it when it's just a depiction of violence and hateful misanthropy rather than a tacit vehicle for far-right propaganda. Thankfully, art is always more (and less) than what its catalyst/creator intends it to be, so I have no qualms about listening to this stuff (I won't pay for it, though). Nor do I have any qualms about saying that M. is an edgy shithead and that there are other ways of meaningfully engaging with anti-theism and the holocaust.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
If you're as tired of all this "which black metal band is racist this week, and how racist are we talking here, really?" bullshit as I am, here's something different.
Tanith are a NYC-based band who combine 70s hard rock/metal crunch (think BÖC, Heart) with excellent, folky male/female vocal harmonies. Their debut album, In Another Time, comes out 5/24 on Metal Blade. Here's the first song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPY_Jw-O5k0
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
70s hard rock/metal crunch (think BÖC, Heart) with excellent, folky male/female vocal harmonies
sold!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
Whoa, thanks for the Tanith recommendation, Phil! It's so much better than the black metal bs that's distracting the hive mind these days.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
Not bad, although I still struggle with this neo-trad stuff due to its relative lack of aura. I like their touchstones but the original records' documentary value is at least half the fun for me.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 May 2019 08:23 (five years ago) link
Going back to the Polish fash/black metal bs for a second, the Deus Mortem album is actually quite good and the lyrics don't contain any objectionable material as far as I can tell.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 May 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
new Misþyrming announced for 05/24
https://misthyrming.bandcamp.com/album/algleymi
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link