My primary criteria for liking music is, does it sound like it was recorded in a cave?
― Schammasch Cannonball (Tom Violence), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
vote for plastic crimewave syndicate
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/4wtGBr4zr5E
vote for drugs
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
PCS is like a cross between Chrome/Helios Creed & a Rallizes that wed its feedback overload to Stooges-style brat-beat rather than the mesmeric churn of the Velvets
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
vote for jim jones & the righteous mind
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 February 2020 04:12 (four years ago) link
ok they're nominated at all...don't vote for them
vote for lightning bolt
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 February 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
they're *not* nominated at all🙄🙄🙄
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 February 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
vote for things that are there!
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 13 February 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
yes agreed the Jim Jones album doesn't belong (the eyeroll emoji directed at my mis-typing)--it's only a joke
vote for lightning bolt, no joke
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 February 2020 12:03 (four years ago) link
My top 50 is pretty much set in stone at this point so I'm going to submit my ballot in the next couple of days.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 13 February 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
I found your list on rym. There's at least a few of those that are on my homework shortlist for next week. I def know your no. 1 will be making my ballot
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 February 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
I like this Sordide album but it's a bit awkward and patchy. It doesn't quite measure up to Fuir la lumière. Nonetheless, they very well might be the best RABM band
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 February 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
That was my feeling as well, except I haven't heard Fuir la lumière.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 13 February 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
rage against black metal?
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 13 February 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
rural american black metal
― Siegbran, Thursday, 13 February 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
red and black metal. For all the leftists out there...
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
Or the Stendhal fans.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
seandalai how many ballots do we have? Only a couple of people have said in here they have voted.
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
I want to vote but I’ve had no time. Will probably get in right at the deadline.
― beard papa, Friday, 14 February 2020 01:47 (four years ago) link
Hoping to spend a bit more time perusing the list of nominations before I vote, since my ballot is likely to be one of the shorter ones.
― o. nate, Friday, 14 February 2020 02:06 (four years ago) link
another week to go so plenty of time but a good idea to start planning now if you havent
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 14 February 2020 11:39 (four years ago) link
Has anyone seen seandalai?
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
A little last minute campaigning for Imprecation, which doesn't seem to get as much love as it should. If you have a taste for the slower end of old-school death metal, this is one worth checking out. This is a difficult style to pull off, you can't hide behind a blitzkrieg of riffs or pure speed. The songs have got to be there. Recommended for fans of Autopsy, Convulse, Asphyx, Disma, Serpentine Path.
― o. nate, Saturday, 15 February 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
Never got a chance to chime in on the DM vs BM thing because I was too busy, but I'm firmly in the DM camp. Came to it by way of thrash in the late 80s. Like many things I love, it did sort of unsettle or disturb me at first in kind of a: "Jesus... what kind of person makes music like this?" None of my friends were into it and it was kind of a personal shame that I listened to on headphones in private. I lived in TX at the time and they had this awesome radio show on Tuesday mornings on the public radio station - from like 1am - 5am. The knuckleheads who DJ'd that show framed the music well. This fondness for the relentless brutality, but also an appreciation for the comedy of it. I used to listen as much as I could, armed with blank tapes (of which I made many). I loved the Florida bands (First few Morbid Angel albums were huge favorites for years), was big into the European stuff on Earache, as well as the low budget local stuff that sounded the most demented: Muddy tape recordings of unhinged guys in a dank basement screaming/growling over indecipherable down-tuned guitars and drums that sounded like someone was banging on cardboard boxes at breakneck speeds with spatulas. Always an appreciation for the absurdity of it. But, it was the 80s, too, so the blatant satanism was still a bit shocking for a time when the PMRC was still going after guys like Alice Cooper and Ozzy.
I got bored of it in the 90s with so many new styles of music to explore. Every couple of years I'd go through a metal phase, but I think I'm a bigger metal fan now than I have been. I like a fair share of sludge, doom, and black metal, but a good DM album blows everything away. Probably my favorite albums of the last decade are Immolation's "Atonement", Gorguts' "Colored Sands", and Ulcerate's "Destroyers of All". I also love that strain of black metal with a hardcore influence; Castevet's "Obsian" one of my favorites of the decade.
― beard papa, Saturday, 15 February 2020 06:15 (four years ago) link
As a BM guy, I love these three albums you mentioned. I was thinking about this DM/BM thing again yesterday while listening to the new Tomb Mold and came to two conclusions: I like the kind of DM that is best listened via headphones, and most of my favorite DM albums would probably be even better if the cookie monster vocals were replaced by maniacal high-pitched screaming.
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 15 February 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
As far as DM goes, I prefer the more human-sounding enraged roar over the more theatrical lower-pitched "demon" style. I really like the guy from Ulcerate (Paul Kallend). Though I prefer that style to pretty much any metal vocal style, I do think that BM vocals are more interesting as a whole; there's a lot more variety of styles in BM, and that BM leaves more opportunity for female vocalists as well. One of my all time favorite BM vocalists is Laurie Sue Shanaman. I also love Leviathan/Lurker of Chalice's vocals, and Mick Barr is pretty great - almost that death metal-esque roar at times. Would be fun to do a S&D thread or poll just on BM vocals.
― beard papa, Saturday, 15 February 2020 07:29 (four years ago) link
A little last minute campaigning for Imprecation, which doesn't seem to get as much love as it should. If you have a taste for the slower end of old-school death metal, this is one worth checking out.
for real tho. best DM album of 2019 by far in my opinion.
― Bstep, Saturday, 15 February 2020 07:54 (four years ago) link
This is going to sound completely idiotic but for me the coolest thing about Tomb Mold imo is the vox; singer manages to conform his voice to the exact timbre of a heavy cement lid scraping across a coffin. imo they're one of the latest in a long tradition throughout r'n'r history of great bands that are just perfectly named (like, say, Talking Heads , for instance)
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 15 February 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
Being Canadian they should know better than to omit the 'u', but I forgive them because two four-letter words in a row are inarguably more badass.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, 15 February 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
You weren't kidding about the Imprecation. I might have to tweak my ballot after all.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, 15 February 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
Shit, I have to get on the stick and do this.It may be the last time I can.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 16 February 2020 08:28 (four years ago) link
Please do.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 16 February 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link
Speaking of which: I just voted.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 16 February 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
Voted!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 16 February 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
😎
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 16 February 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
ima do this now, enough pussyfooting around
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
Godspeed or this Cro-Magnon will club your ass.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
it is complete.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
part of my issue is anything released early in te year I barely remembered so I had to relisten
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Wait, this Lingua Ignota album is awesome.
― With considerable charm, you still have made a choice (Sund4r), Sunday, 16 February 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
Yes it is.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 16 February 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
Caligula snuck up on me too. At first I thought it was too slow and boring, then I found myself craving to hear it in the middle of the workday, after a fever dream at 3:00am, etc
― Schammasch Cannonball (Tom Violence), Sunday, 16 February 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
isn't that always the way. tbf you do that with Mahler too
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 16 February 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
Have compiled a (quite short) ballot (god I really hate metal lol) but might try to add to it if I find anything deserving
Nero Di Marte album is 2020 you cheeky so and so :P it can wait
― imago, Monday, 17 February 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link
Ha! Good catch.
I've deleted it. It can and must indeed wait.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 17 February 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
Anyone else here fucking with Jorge Elbrecht's Coral Cross project? I know tangenttangent at least (& LJ too?)(happy birthday btw) got some mileage from the also-great Gloss Coma album he released this year, but Coral Cross is special: another strand of that experimental BM syncretism I was talking about a while ago, but Elbrecht pairs his black metal with spectral keyboards, chanting vox, eerie sound efx, & even some influence from John Carpenter's soundtracks. The resultant hybrid sounds goth af:
https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/track/fossils-unlocked-by-a-boiling-sea
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 17 February 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/track/all-flesh-must-be-removed
Yeah HB LJ! (couldn't find one thread among the dozens of ban lj threads, sheesh)
I'm def down for some BM w/ keys and chanting vox, will get on it!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 17 February 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
Ohh LBI I have a feeling you'll dig this a lot!
― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 17 February 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link