Search: Metal that Sounds Like Glenn Branca

you're practically inviting me to google 'islamic black metal' and then make a trite infographic about it

i was wondering where ppl were talking about botanist. this new album is the shit.

btw, for islamic black metal start here

oh yeah I recall you showed me a few (some impromptu copyediting iirc). ty!

that's just a link to a search i made to keep up w/ ~MENA metal

http://www.youtube.com/user/SpaceBlackMetal/videos
I have a feeling I'll be hitting this stuff heavily while I wait for Darkspace IV IIII to drop

oh wait, wrong thread? I know people were discussing Darkspace somewhere recently--mighta been on the Deafheaven thread

it was. I basically rep for them whenever the (solar) winds change

darkspace aren't branca metal tho, they're totally space-bm as the youtube name implies. nobody else does it remotely so well

they can play here tho coz this thread is basically about the awesomest metal

now playing: Polish band 'Cold Womb Descent' because o_O that name........
this is pretty chill but the drumming is hella-weak/synths way too forward in the mix

next up: Celestial Oblivion, "Prison Without Walls"

whoever curates this youtube channel is a hero, obviously

it's kind of blowing my mind right now to see how many bands are out there following the Darkspace blueprint with minor variations in production quality & use of movie samples....... do we need a dedicated a space-black-metal thread? because I am determined to find the diamonds in the rough

Celestial Oblivion was a lot more interesting, structurally & texturally. have now moved on to Galaktik Cancer Squad, whose buzzy Switched-On Bach synth harmonies are about the farthest thing imaginable from the images conjured by that name. enjoyable!

i dunno i was listening to darkspace the other day and it sounded like a less-committed / less-ecstatic paysage d'hiver. later parts sounded a bit more spacy/malevolent, but.

lol i just realized upon doing some googling that that dude is in darkspace. sonic signature, check.

just recalled the other space-BM band I'll really ride for: Progenie Terrestre Pura. check 'em out if you can bernard

here

http://progenieterrestrepura.bandcamp.com/album/u-m-a

it is sick

plus i'm in italy rn so forza PTP

(it's probably closer to, say, Ocean Machine-era Devin Townsend than Darkspace, but this should be of equal encouragement)

I will wholeheartedly second Progenie Terrestre Pura. Their album is hypnotizing and way the fuck out there.

k I will check it out as soon as this Cosmic Church song ends in 9 minutes

Cosmic Church is a great band.

^this dude's proper-trad-BM as fuck and had PTP, a decidedly avant/experimental BM outfit, authoring his album of the year, which should demonstrate its quality, coherence & entirely un-gimmicky nature

will also check out Cosmic Church yeah

On the subject of space BM this album to me is pretty similar in vibe but not necessarily in style to both Darkspace and especially PTP and if you like those you should definitely check this out

http://petrychor.bandcamp.com/album/makrokosmos

Doesn't sound anything like Branca though admittedly

Oh and Oranssi Pazuzu are pretty spacey too, psychedelic BM that blends these elements really well rather than having 'metal' and 'prog' sections awkwardly jammed together.

cool :) plenty for me and andrew to check out

Loved loved loved the last Oranssi Pazuzu album

this Petrychor is so far extremely great

um this is fucking phenomenal

this is one of my fave youtube channels. lots of stuff i wouldn't have heard (heard of) otherwise:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AtmsphericBlackMetal/videos

ANOTHER NEW JUTE GYTE

http://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/ressentiment

released approximately 1 minute ago

impromptu MTSLGB listening club: commence

absolutely fuck yes. best artist in music imo

Halfway through the second track, this might actually be better than Vast Chains.

omg wait for the third track

and dear christ the fifth track, might be the best so far

have his vocals gotten more tolerable, or disappeared maybe? I would have loved the last one as an instrumental record.

Yeah, that's a stunner.

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his vocals are still there but the music is if anything even more kickass, so he increasingly comes off like a master of despair rather than simply a magnificent sufferer

this closing track is showing all the signs of being......beyond, above

:O

I do sometimes feel a bit of a sense that his compositional skills are becoming sophisticated enough that the vocals might feel superfluous at times. I don't mind them the way some people seem to but they're generally the least interesting element. I'm at about 6:45 in "The Grey King" and they're working for me here, though.

The Grey King is some monstrous realness. Up there with The Fire of This (which is saying a LOT)

goddamn

I *just* got Vast Chains, there's no way my brain is ready to process this

i'm going to do the microtonal trilogy marathon at some point either tonight or tomorrow :D

the climactic bit (i.e. pretty much the entire second half) of The Grey King is just...just...

BLACK VOID OF LONELINESS

The Grey King is song of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eAZHnfe394

If I could transfer the Hey QT fuckabout discussion to this song I would in a flash. This is...almost disturbingly good

I'm still processing Vast Chains... never noticed how awesomely hellish & cavernously fucked "The Fire of This" gets in its final half. Dude knows how to close an album.

yeah I mean, The Fire of This is monstrous, intense, lethal stuff, but this is heightened to the grisliest, most demented panic of mind I think I've ever heard

I actually think the closer of the first part of the 'trilogy', Acedia, is by far the weakest song on all 3 albums! but the two 2014 closers, yeah I mean, fuck

Ok I downloaded Vast Chains.

Jesus christ. I think this the first use of microtonal scales I've heard that didn't just sound like some muso nerd in-joke to me. The parts where he resorts to straight up power chord chopping for a few seconds are like brief islands of sanity.

welcome to the cult, so glad you could join us

srsly ressentiment. srsly. the man himself regards it most highly of the three, as do i. the most exciting/intimidating aspect is that he claims all three albums are primitive in comparison to what he's working on now. gimme that sweet primitive fire tbpfh, i can wait