Kim told me about it too but its not on spotify or anything. and I'm not buying grindcore 'blind' as its not exactly a genre I'm into but I'd like to check it out
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
It's on bandcamp:
http://haloofflies.bandcamp.com/album/moksha
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 13 January 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
Stream it in it's entirety here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVBoZw04LZs
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 13 January 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
66 Indricothere - ii 228 Points, 8 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/HdPvE0r.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/4Db4JofaDxR6C3ZHBQIkRGspotify:album:4Db4JofaDxR6C3ZHBQIkRGhttp://www.deezer.com/album/6974415
Genre: Avante Progressive MetalColin Marston
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
Yes big thanks to Kim from me too, and I think it got an early mention on the rolling grind thread so thanks to that person too, Moksha came in really late and snuck really high up my list.
Also my contribution to the impromptu Cloud Rat awareness campaign, it was hard to find but the band themselves put the album up for free digital download via link on their site:
http://cloudrat.blogspot.com/p/discography-lyrics.html
scroll down to the Moksha section at the bottom and there's a mediafire link.
― a chance to cross is a chance to score (anonanon), Monday, 13 January 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
cheers I'll check it out!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
65 Tribulation - the formulas of death 230 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/oH9zwuK.jpghttp://www.deezer.com/album/6496372
Genre: Death Metal
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
this is the second year in a row death metal has made a comeback on ilm. Influx of new American posters or a genuine rise in quality the past few years?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
Yes.
― J3ff T., Monday, 13 January 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
Wish I could participate but got more meetings. You trying to finish this all up in 2 days??
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 13 January 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
i'll assume jeff says yes to both
fnb nah
might finish thursday with 20 a day might just finish friday with a top 10. who knows. Just winging it just now.
taking it down to 61 tonight
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
64 Raspberry Bulbs - Deformed Worship 238 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/FIk9XJy.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/68NO4FDXOsUAYwD4HfAriOspotify:album:68NO4FDXOsUAYwD4HfAriO
http://www.deezer.com/album/6875419
Genre: Black Metal/PunkBone Awl related
could even do 15 each day tues-fri
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
63 Amon Amarth - deceiver of the gods 240 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/QmENRq8.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3UgW8SaWQ1r1hCIJRlQEYVspotify:album:3UgW8SaWQ1r1hCIJRlQEYV
http://www.deezer.com/album/6959716
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
^ now that's a fucking album cover
Didn't vote for much, but I did vote for Batillus (love the control and restraint in their aggression, kinda reminds me of the Swans) and Hey Colossus (some heavy Can vibes on that thing eh?). Have been a bit wary of that Raspberry Bulbs record cos just about everything else I've heard on Blackest Ever Black has been a no contest triumph of style over substance, but I guess this is my cue to give it a whizz.
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
I have a Raspberry Bulbs lp somewhere but not that one. It's good though.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
62 Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: the Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer 243 Points, 6 Votes, One #1http://i.imgur.com/VAx8YHz.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/4yImCANhDj8ygyzQOhMWbsspotify:album:4yImCANhDj8ygyzQOhMWbshttp://www.deezer.com/album/6913590
Genre: Atmospheric Black/Doom Metal
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
Last one for today coming up
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
61 Orchid - The Mouths of Madness 244 Points, 8 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/kHFXMxJ.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/0YApj7YuIN5oyydA642YKpspotify:album:0YApj7YuIN5oyydA642YKp
http://www.deezer.com/album/6539531
Genre: Doom Metal/Occult
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
Magic Circle - #17 Obelisk http://youtu.be/o-5RdDRZOoQ
In my top 15, love it.
Exhumed - #24 Decibel, #17 Pop Matters, #9 Metal Sucks, #26 Pitchforkhttp://exhumed.bandcamp.com/releases
Coffinshttp://youtu.be/6oMiU5QYUPkhttp://coffins.bandcamp.com/releases
True Widow - #19 Rock-A-RollaMutation - #31 Rock-A-Rolla
Cult Of Fire - #36 Stereogumhttps://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/cult-of-fire
Ken Mode - #44 Stereogum, #4 Metal Sucks musicians, #24 Pitchforkhttp://kenmode.bandcamp.com/album/entrench
Bölzer - #12 Stereogumhttp://youtu.be/mvkoqNrHFdw
Indricotherehttp://indricothere.bandcamp.com/album/xi-3
Tribulation - #10 Decibel, #16 Pitchfork, #27 Terrorizerhttp://youtu.be/xFxhzKUI-Go
Raspberry Bulbs - #50 Stereogum, #38 Pitchforkhttp://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/deformed-worship
Amon Amarthhttp://youtu.be/lgWtCD9T3lg
Ruins of Beverast - #20 Decibel, #29 Stereogum, #19 Pitchforkhttp://youtu.be/BXo-yy83s_Ahttp://www.20buckspinshop.com/products/the-ruins-of-beverast-blood-vaults-cd
Orchid - #16 Obelisk readers, #7 Captain Beyond Zen, #36 Metal Hammerhttp://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/orchid-exclusive-album-stream-the-mouths-of-madness/
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Direct Link to poll recap & full results
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
Another 15 on Tuesday then
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
Things I voted for:
100 Watain - The Wild Hunt, 150 Points, 5 votes76 Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones), 208 Points, 7 Votes67 Cloud Rat - Moksha, 225 Points, 6 Votes65 Tribulation – The Formulas Of Death, 230 Points, 7 Votes
Things I will check out hopefully:
101 Monster Magnet - Last Patrol, 146 Points, 6 Votes99 Woe - Withdrawal, 153 Points, 4 Votes97 Sahg - Delusions of Grandeur, 155 Points, 5 Votes96 Goatess - Goatess, 158 Points, 4 Votes, One #1 91 Cult Of Luna - Vertikal I & II, 166 Points, 6 Votes87 Batillus - Concrete Sustain, 173 Points, 6 Votes, One #186 Ulver - Messe ix-vix, 178 Points, 6 Votes83 Mammoth Grinder – Underworlds, 193 Points, 6 Votes, One #1 81 Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door, 202 Points, 5 Votes80 Russian Circles – Memorial, 204 Points, 6 Votes75 Magic Circle - Magic Circle, 214 Points, 5 Votes, One #172 Coffins - The Fleshland, 219 Points, 6 Votes72 True Widow – Circumambulation, 219 Points, 6 Votes63 Amon Amarth – Deceiver Of The Gods, 240 Points, 7 Votes62 Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer, 243 Points, 6 Votes, One #1
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 13 January 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
i don't think i've heard that purson album before the poll but it's fantastic
― Mordy , Tuesday, 14 January 2014 00:46 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure Hey Colossus is the only one I voted for so far. Had the pleasure to see Purson support uncle acid at their first official show and to be honest they blew the main act out the water I'm sad to say.
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
Wish I saw that. Not sure why Uncle Acid supported Sabbath in Europe but not the U.S. More of these bands need to cross the Atlantic dangit.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 05:19 (ten years ago) link
Remember to vote in ILM 2013 | End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll | VOTING THREAD (Voting closes MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 17th, 2014)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 08:10 (ten years ago) link
I just voted in it.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 08:53 (ten years ago) link
What do you guys prefer finishing on Thursday or finishing on Friday?
It's nicely set up for either. It can be 15/15/15/15 or 20/20/10/10 or 20/20/20 to finish thurs.Im not bothered either way - whatever suits the majority of those who can be arsed to reply.
Hope everyone is enjoying the poll and making new discoveries.
All thoughts on already placed tracks/albums are welcome.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:01 (ten years ago) link
never heard of Purson until today. extremely curious to hear them based on how people have been describing their sound!
― charlie h, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:15 (ten years ago) link
btw, i vote finishing the poll by Thursday
― charlie h, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link
Thursday
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:51 (ten years ago) link
I thought ilxors preferred a slow rollout over 5 days
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:26 (ten years ago) link
If we decide to finish by thursday I will need to start earlier each day at around 2pm so we're not rushing it and finishing after people have gone home. That's not so bad when countdown just starts but we cant rush the top half.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:41 (ten years ago) link
Are those on the west coast of the USA ok with that?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:42 (ten years ago) link
Remember you can subscribe to albums playlisthttp://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/6fsnIonKsPLF5NzZ9hJg27
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:54 (ten years ago) link
Will resume in about an hour or so, hopefully most will be awake by then.
Still time to say whether you want a thurs or friday finish
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
ok lets go....
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
before I post the next one.... just out of interest is anyone using deezer? Should I keep posting the links?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
60 Coliseum - Sister Faith 247 Points, 8 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/GaYdhJw.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/5wBu50BQLZiAv7XmuVVBMDspotify:album:5wBu50BQLZiAv7XmuVVBMD
http://www.deezer.com/album/6424231http://www.stereogum.com/1337832/album-of-the-week-coliseum-sister-faith/top-stories/
This used to be what indie rock sounded like. During the 1990s, Elephant 6 and Belle And Sebastian were outliers, and the genre (which really was more genre and less loose lifestyle appellation) hadn’t erased all traces of the get-in-the-van ’80s hardcore that helped birth it. As late as a decade ago, when the Louisville trio Coliseum formed, the term “indie” evoked images of Pretty Girls Make Graves or Blood Brothers as much as, I don’t know, Beulah, and it was still vaguely novel to hear a flugelhorn on a Sub Pop record. These days, Coliseum are creatures of the loose metal underground that’s become our greatest resource for facepunch guitars, but they’re not really a metal band. The ingredients of their sound come from other places: Pummeling locked-in bass-thuds from Girls Against Boys, swampy-but-skronky guitar fuzz-bursts from Sonic Youth, beardedly beery vocal blurts from about a thousand different bands. And with their new Sister Faith, Coliseum have made an album that stews all those influences into something powerfully satisfying and maybe even nourishing. It’s not an innovative album by any means, but it might scratch an itch that you didn’t even know you had.Here’s the best way I can think to describe Coliseum’s sound. It starts with another Louisville band: Slint, who did math-rock throb with a distant but hot emotional fire and who are, low-key, one of the most influential metal bands of the past few decades despite not being remotely metal. But plenty of bands start with the Slint blueprint and take it nowhere; Coliseum do something interesting with it by speeding it up like Motörhead, turning it into no-bullshit rage-out adrenaline music. They’ve been doing it for a while now, growing into their sound and internalizing it, getting better at it to the point where it’s entirely theirs. Sister Faith is their fourth album, and it’s their second with producer J. Robbins, whose involvement is also an important key to this thing. Robbins used to lead Jawbox and Burning Airlines; he’s a principal architect of the post-hardcore clangor that finally mostly disappeared into emo. Those bands blew minds because they led with the rhythm section, keeping everything rigorous and disciplined on the low-end while guitar and voice freaked out, tied melodic knots, threw tantrums. They brought the sense that the rhythmic lockstep was the only thing holding those stretched-out and distended guitars together, the last line that kept them tethered to the earth. And even though Coliseum frontman Ryan Patterson riffs more than Robbins ever did, he brings those same dynamics — all tension, no release, but with a beat that keeps things pushing forever forward.It’s hard to pick out their individual contributions, but Coliseum called in a whole mess of friends to help out on Sister Faith, turning it into a community affair, and that list of names is a fascinating and illuminating thing. Robbins played on it, of course, and Sister Faith is the first album recorded at his new Baltimore studio. (A note to bands: Use this guy more. Baltimore is a cheap and lovely place to stay, Robbins could always use some extra money for very noble and important reasons, and he will make your drums sound like they’re ready to cave in chest cavities.) Boris frontman Wata, whose own band fits just as uncomfortably into the metal scene as Coliseum does, is here. So is Jason Loewenstein, from the comparatively wussy Sebadoh, whose most iconic song is about the exact moment when a hardcore kid decides that he’s an indie rock kid. Another guy, Jason Farrell, comes from Swiz and Bluetip, two of the bands that pushed DC hardcore into further-out sounds. And so is Elizabeth Elmore, whose bands Sarge and the Reputation came at the tail end of the riot-grrrl boomlet and put a vulnerable human face on the feelings behind that movement. These are all good people, and none of them dictate the direction of the album, but all of them find room for themselves in the racket.Listening to the album, you’re not necessarily thinking about the people involved in making it, or what their involvement might express. It’s too fun for all that. “Last/Lost” is all strained propulsion, like Hüsker Dü in full attack mode. “Under The Blood Of The Moon” has a big, meaty stomper of a riff working for it. “Everything In Glass” sounds like At The Drive-In if they were a half-step slower; it’s got that same righteous chaos to it. At its climax, “Bad Will” reverts back to straight-up old-school hardcore, its final chorus the sort of thing that demands a raised-fist gang-chant. This is the sound of guys playing hard, aggressive music because it’s what comes naturally to them; it’s the stuff their fingers feel themselves playing when they’re touching instruments. God knows, the world doesn’t need a million more bands like this, and we weren’t necessarily better off when bands like this were the exception rather than the rule. But it’s still an absolute pleasure to hear a band like this is still around, playing this music and playing it well.Sister Faith is out today on Temporary Residence.
Here’s the best way I can think to describe Coliseum’s sound. It starts with another Louisville band: Slint, who did math-rock throb with a distant but hot emotional fire and who are, low-key, one of the most influential metal bands of the past few decades despite not being remotely metal. But plenty of bands start with the Slint blueprint and take it nowhere; Coliseum do something interesting with it by speeding it up like Motörhead, turning it into no-bullshit rage-out adrenaline music. They’ve been doing it for a while now, growing into their sound and internalizing it, getting better at it to the point where it’s entirely theirs. Sister Faith is their fourth album, and it’s their second with producer J. Robbins, whose involvement is also an important key to this thing. Robbins used to lead Jawbox and Burning Airlines; he’s a principal architect of the post-hardcore clangor that finally mostly disappeared into emo. Those bands blew minds because they led with the rhythm section, keeping everything rigorous and disciplined on the low-end while guitar and voice freaked out, tied melodic knots, threw tantrums. They brought the sense that the rhythmic lockstep was the only thing holding those stretched-out and distended guitars together, the last line that kept them tethered to the earth. And even though Coliseum frontman Ryan Patterson riffs more than Robbins ever did, he brings those same dynamics — all tension, no release, but with a beat that keeps things pushing forever forward.
It’s hard to pick out their individual contributions, but Coliseum called in a whole mess of friends to help out on Sister Faith, turning it into a community affair, and that list of names is a fascinating and illuminating thing. Robbins played on it, of course, and Sister Faith is the first album recorded at his new Baltimore studio. (A note to bands: Use this guy more. Baltimore is a cheap and lovely place to stay, Robbins could always use some extra money for very noble and important reasons, and he will make your drums sound like they’re ready to cave in chest cavities.) Boris frontman Wata, whose own band fits just as uncomfortably into the metal scene as Coliseum does, is here. So is Jason Loewenstein, from the comparatively wussy Sebadoh, whose most iconic song is about the exact moment when a hardcore kid decides that he’s an indie rock kid. Another guy, Jason Farrell, comes from Swiz and Bluetip, two of the bands that pushed DC hardcore into further-out sounds. And so is Elizabeth Elmore, whose bands Sarge and the Reputation came at the tail end of the riot-grrrl boomlet and put a vulnerable human face on the feelings behind that movement. These are all good people, and none of them dictate the direction of the album, but all of them find room for themselves in the racket.
Listening to the album, you’re not necessarily thinking about the people involved in making it, or what their involvement might express. It’s too fun for all that. “Last/Lost” is all strained propulsion, like Hüsker Dü in full attack mode. “Under The Blood Of The Moon” has a big, meaty stomper of a riff working for it. “Everything In Glass” sounds like At The Drive-In if they were a half-step slower; it’s got that same righteous chaos to it. At its climax, “Bad Will” reverts back to straight-up old-school hardcore, its final chorus the sort of thing that demands a raised-fist gang-chant. This is the sound of guys playing hard, aggressive music because it’s what comes naturally to them; it’s the stuff their fingers feel themselves playing when they’re touching instruments. God knows, the world doesn’t need a million more bands like this, and we weren’t necessarily better off when bands like this were the exception rather than the rule. But it’s still an absolute pleasure to hear a band like this is still around, playing this music and playing it well.
Sister Faith is out today on Temporary Residence.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
excellent album btw
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
One I got for xmas actually.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
flowers growing vpon the skull of a man
― Vote in the ILM EOY Poll! (seandalai), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
the reason I posted that review btw is because i had a conversation on ilm somewhere (with edward iii, hellhouse and possibly contenderizer (where is he?) ) about how indie rock is so fucking boring now everyone has migrated to metal now to get the sonic kicks they used to get and how that might be bands are now adding tropes from 80s and 90s indie rock as more "indie" fans get into metal and start bands which leads to metallers hearing new to them non-metal from ye olden days. (yes not everyone approves I know)
dog latin you must have thoughts on that!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
uh...
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
wut?
you usually have lots of thoughts on things!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
i dunno...
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
maybe i should hear the album and read the review at the same time. i'm not sure about the assumption that indie is boring now.
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
59 Argus - Beyond The Martyrs 248 Points, 9 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/U5Rkzbf.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/5HNwj591St7iS8pZTh4znjspotify:album:5HNwj591St7iS8pZTh4znj
http://www.deezer.com/album/6976647
Genre: Heavy/Doom Metal
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link