I loved cassettes, back when I owned a cassette player that I used on a daily basis. But I just did a quick search and could only find one major brand cassette player — an ugly boombox:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81OaqdwzkqL.jpg
Everything else I saw was from some company I've never heard of and would probably last a month. No thanks.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 5 July 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
Even that one probably isn’t up to much from a technical standpoint; Techmoan on YouTube has done multiple videos about the quality of contemporary cassette tape player mechanisms.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 5 July 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
after about 5 plays in that, you'll be getting the Chopped n Skrewed metal experience, and then the "lol i ate ur tape' experience
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 July 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
are pencils coming back too? (how else are we going to rewind the loose tape?)
― StanM, Monday, 5 July 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
how else are we going to rewind the loose tape?
Bic biros were always better for that, almost as if they were designed for the job.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 5 July 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
Avant Garde Polish non-metal according to Encyclopaedia Metallum group Dola just released a new album Czasy.
Bandcamp: http://dola.bandcamp.com/album/czasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGQkRx_9vM
Only the first single "Kije" is on Spotify as of now:http://open.spotify.com/album/6eAMheANKpXAWFANB3Q6NI?si=4bs4n28CQdWdbfdtWlROsQ&dl_branch=1
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 5 July 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
holy fuck this fossilization album really is all that, hails pomenitul
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 5 July 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
also, you can get truly excellent, often mint tape players on eBay, it's a buyer's market. if you were feeling completely bonkers you could get a two-owner nakamichi dragon (generally considered the highest point of technical excellence that tape decks ever reached) for 1500 which is a steal.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/114875004316?hash=item1abf15759c:g:hz8AAOSw7lhg3k24
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 5 July 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
I mean, the band IS called Defacement...
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1502519686_10.jpg
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/defacement
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
Nice.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
boringly literal album covers thread to thread
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
PR quote of the day: "Dawn Of A Dark Age is the main project of the multi-instrumentalist Vittorio Sabelli, a classical and jazz musician who gave to the clarinet a leading role for the first time in black metal." OH GOOD.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
The Defacement album is pretty good in a Portal-ish amorphous roaring-with-ambient-interludes sort of way.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
yo you're clowning but black metal with a clarinet sounds rad
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
ok I"m listening to Dawn of a Dark Age's 2020 album and it's fantastic
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that got me to go look up Dawn of a Dark Age, too. Nice.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link
If you're interested in a sampler of mostly obscure black metal, sadly almost all of it not involving clarinets, here's one I just made: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3lbWHmuy1TU9wAh1yFYZb1?si=3695e91ca7954032
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 00:33 (two years ago) link
Promise you haven't sneaked in some goth metal there, Glenn?
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 11:20 (two years ago) link
The line between black and goth is drawn by an unsteady hand. In blud.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
If the prospect of Zeuhl inspired by Brazilian modernist literature and steeped in sludge sounds appealing to you – and it should! – then may I suggest checking out Papangu's Holoceno?
https://papangu.bandcamp.com
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 July 2021 10:51 (two years ago) link
On the more Cratylian end of metal, Sewer Fiend's EP Echoes from the Cistern is exactly what you think it is, and it's the shiznit (even more so than the Fossilization imo):
https://drycough.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-from-the-cistern
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 July 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link
New Spirit Adrift EP (three songs) in August! The title track, "Forge Your Future," is out now. Closer to their earlier, doomier stuff than the epic power metal anthems on the last album IMO, but I'm into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIR6Y_vVxU
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 9 July 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
Should we start taking bets on the next full-length album title?
Guided by Glory is my call.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 July 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
Cool, I'm always up for more Spirit Adrift.
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 July 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
One more, for the tech death-inclined:
https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/album/lost-on-voids-horizon
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
Ok I lied – two more because I can't believe no one's talking about the new Drawn and Quartered, which pwns:
https://krucyator.bandcamp.com/album/congregation-pestilence
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 July 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
i only just got into them recently (their older stuff). i'll check it out
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 July 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
thrilled to see Abigor's Nachthymnen got reissued this year apparently, back in June.
Attila sings a la how he does on "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" on the opening track of the new Mayhem, it's kind of LOL.
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 July 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
It's a solid little EP, packed with all punk rawk covers in the second half (Discharge, Dead Kennedys, Rudimentary Peni, Ramones), but I don't think I'll be revisiting it very often.
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 July 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
they’re back baby https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/authority-through-intimidation
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 10 July 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
I was gonna order the Mayhem EP that just was released but for some reason Century media is asking $18 for a seven-song EP with only one new song and four punk covers that combined take up less than eight minutes. So fuck that.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 11 July 2021 12:19 (two years ago) link
(Please note I am referring to a Digipack CD, not vinyl!)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 11 July 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
Is that including shipping, at least? Insane either way.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 11 July 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
It is not including shipping at the Century Media site. It does come with free shipping through Amazon at the same price assuming you have Prime or tack on enough stuff for free shipping from them.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 11 July 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
For shits and giggles I checked it out - this is what it costs to buy an EP Digipack CD by itself from Century media:
Subtotal$17.98Shipping$6.82Tax $1.49Order Total$26.29
They do offer $5 shipping for orders $50 or more and free shipping for orders $75 or more, to be fair, but it's still ridiculous.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 11 July 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
I mean I kind of understand why Deathcrush was always $19.99 (cashing in on historically important material) but this EP seems like a good argument for $9.99 EPs
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 12 July 2021 11:34 (two years ago) link
Yep, I haven't found that EP for less than $18 base price anywhere, I'll stick with streaming on that one.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 July 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
same here
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 July 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
So, I am ashamed to admit that I am only just now getting around to Thy Catafalque, despite seeing you folks hyping his stuff for awhile now. Glad I finally did though, Vadak is just so gloriously bonkers and insane, I absolutely love it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 July 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
For me Thy Catafalque is one for the "bands you keep trying to get into" thread.
― beard papa, Monday, 12 July 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
Here's one of those sentences you have to read several times: Eyehategod will be playing a show on 9/11 (the 20th anniversary!) and Stormy Daniels will be running the merch table.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 12 July 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
that rules tbh
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Monday, 12 July 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
good call on the Drawn and Quartered upthread. it's a bit different than the older D&Q that I've heard.
and thank fuck for blastbeats, the last three DM albums I bought didn't really have any and I've missed them.
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
Overkill bassist DD Verni putting out a rockabilly/big band record was not something I ever thought I would type... Here's the first single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4psjGtIRS3c
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
new Andrew WK songs sounds like he would love to do a power metal song but hasn't got the vocal range.
His twattish fanboys are trying to compare him to Dio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk8wi4XcQgk
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
The song definitely has a Dio-ish feel. I've hated AWK for 20 years but all three videos from this album have been freakish and fascinating, and honestly I'm kinda curious about the whole thing in a way I have never been about any of his previous work. He's going for a very explicit cosmic-horror/cult-initiation vibe here that reminds me of movies like Beyond the Black Rainbow and Devil's Candy, and I'm into it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
New Dola (BC link upthread) is excellent, don't sleep on it if you enjoyed last year's s/t.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 15 July 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
I dreamed I was at a Deicide show and Glen was getting his dick sucked while performing.
that is all.
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link