why was i not dragged in a body bag to this album and left there for a week
― imago, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:31 (seven years ago) link
Is this one a LOT better than their previous? Because I never bothered with it since I'd heard White Tomb etc. and found them boring.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
133 Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend 1256.666667 Points, 7 Votes , One #1http://i.imgur.com/vORTYu1.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/1SDWCGyps5EdSgcRt9BZcnspotify:album:1SDWCGyps5EdSgcRt9BZcn
gonna take us through to 121 so hang around imago & co
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Is this one a LOT better than their previous?
Yes.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Monday, 12 September 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
I'll give it a go then.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
I didn't realise Psychic Paramount had placed already. I definitely threw some points to that one, in the unranked part of my ballot, I think.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Monday, 12 September 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
132 Oneida - Each One Teach One 1260.7 Points, 8 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/5qn1T3I.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/1y2huEv3i1homXLHV9W4hfspotify:album:1y2huEv3i1homXLHV9W4hf
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
131 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control 1269.2 Points, 9 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/843Fdm3.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/7GCWs2hmWYvS1OOiRcbLbWspotify:album:7GCWs2hmWYvS1OOiRcbLbW
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
late but Gridlink was one of the bands I finally got around to checking out because of the EOY poll. Good stuff.
(and I also have heard no Altar of Plagues since White Tomb; I got burned out on post-black metal -- even Furia from Poland, whose first two albums are on my list, started moving in that direction on their 3rd and 4th, and failed to keep my interest)
― Devilock, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
I was a bit obsessed with the Gridlink album. It's cool as hell.
― jmm, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
Each One Teach One! That's a special album for me. I remember seeing them in Toronto, not knowing who they were, and feeling a little mindblown that someone was doing this in (what was) the present day.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Monday, 12 September 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
130 Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R 1273.4 Points, 10 Votes, One #1http://i.imgur.com/PonKJgC.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/4aHGoMJUqP9t5IkUDmpN8fspotify:album:4aHGoMJUqP9t5IkUDmpN8f
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
i was into Oneida from about the 2nd album as they got lumped in with stoner rock bands so I remember buying their first 2 CD's in the old Virgin Records in Glasgow (downstairs)
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
I also saw Qotsa in a small club (cathouse) the week Rated R came out. They played most of the 1st album and a fair amount of this. I had somewhow missed them live when the 1st album came out.
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
I think Alfredo was still drumming for them at the time
129 The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano, Island, Burn 1273.666667 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/VpcLCrZ.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/2W2cfsT8a83t9tHgeGrLXUspotify:album:2W2cfsT8a83t9tHgeGrLXU
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 12 September 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
128 Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left And Fear Expecting Ahead 1279.666667 Points, 8 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/81YqLpV.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/wSxbWr3.jpghttps://youtu.be/ezpuogyNf9w
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
127 The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand 1280.3 Points, 8 Votes, One #1http://i.imgur.com/AHqucBg.jpghttps://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/weighing-souls-with-sand
Such a huge loss to music.
RIP K.Angylus
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
126 Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ 1286 Points, 6 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/CWs7dtr.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/3fM90ZJk0UkMDornac6Ypxspotify:album:3fM90ZJk0UkMDornac6Ypx
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
nearly voted for WSWS but didn't because i hadn't really listened to it for so long. my memories of it are good though. very crushing music
― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
125 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 1293.166667 Points, 7 Votes, One #1http://i.imgur.com/ZakVf67.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/6d6v23GFBa74XhHD9DgKMuspotify:album:6d6v23GFBa74XhHD9DgKMu
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
Notes:"Semen Dried Into the Silence of Rock and Mineral" is a line from Anaïs Nin's House of Incest. "The Inexpressible Loneliness of Thinking" is a line from the essay "On Poetic Truth" by H.D. Lewis, sometimes mistakenly attributed to Wallace Stevens; I confess that I haven't read the essay and got the line from Marshall Boswell's Understanding David Foster Wallace. I regard this song title as the best I'm likely to come across and I sometimes lament having used it already. "Refusing a Heavenly Mansion" is a line from Yeats. "What in our lives is burnt/in the fire of this?" is a line from "August 1914" by Isaac Rosenberg. Several lines on this album are appropriated from the poetry of Clark Ashton Smith."One-man Missouri avant-garde black-metal project Jute Gyte uses guitars retrofitted to play 24-tone equal-tempered scales—meaning he's got twice as many notes in an octave as an ordinary guitarist. His songs teem with unearthly clusters of seasick dissonance, so that they sometimes sound like early Sonic Youth with blastbeats and shrieking. Unfamiliar microtonal intervals create intricate acoustic interference patterns, so that tones shimmer and dislocate. Ears accustomed to Western 12-tone polyphony can barely process these sounds—they sink into your skull like red-hot stones into ice. It's like you're listening to a tape at the wrong speed, or to music warped by a black hole's gravitational lens on its way here from several galaxies away." - Chicago Reader"You'll recognize the use of microtonal riffing if you've experienced last year's Discontinuities, only rather than repeating that album, he's interpreted the technique into a more unpredictable, angular geometry that throws you curve balls in almost every track on the album. Songs are divided into harsher passages of insectoid, bristling dissonance, or springier and cleaner riffs set off against distorted dementia, with the tempos fluxed between the faster black metallic rushes of his prior works and a slower, creepier miasma of impenetrable doom that is compounded by the fresh intervals being picked and strummed. I couldn't even begin to accurately compare this to anything outside of Jute Gyte's own body of work, but strange word puzzles like 'Philip Glass being filtered through the unwashed demos of the stranger LLN bands' seem to pop into my imagination as I'm listening." - From the Dust Returned"Kalmbach plays a microtonal guitar, which allows him to lever unbelievable amounts of dissonance into his compositions — so much that it’s easy to forget that he’s playing a guitar at all. And yet his songs are weirdly compelling, thanks in part to his awesome vocals and lyrics. This is seriously some of the most insane-sounding metal I’ve ever heard." - Stereogum"Vast Chains takes all the tropes of black metal and transforms them into something super psychedelic and avant, the tunings, the arrangements, the melodies, fans of groups like Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord, who traffic in woozy, slippery riffage, and blurred blackness, Jute Gyte takes that experimentalism a step further... the guitar parts and riffs are so odd, so damaged and atonal, sometimes they conjure utter beauty, lush lovely sonic swells, other times, they're so warped they almost make your eyes water. Opener "Semen Dried Into The Silence Of Rock And Mineral", lays it all out, sounding a bit like a slow motion Mesuhuggah, or a super spare, 20th century Deathspell, the sound chugging and churning, creeping and slithering, the vibe more doomy really than black, the arrangement confoundingly mathy, intricate and constantly shifting, and the guitars, holy shit, even when the heaviness is peeled back, leaving just some haunting clean guitar shimmer, those parts somehow sound even MORE strange and alien." - Aquarius Recordscreditsreleased February 3, 2014
"One-man Missouri avant-garde black-metal project Jute Gyte uses guitars retrofitted to play 24-tone equal-tempered scales—meaning he's got twice as many notes in an octave as an ordinary guitarist. His songs teem with unearthly clusters of seasick dissonance, so that they sometimes sound like early Sonic Youth with blastbeats and shrieking. Unfamiliar microtonal intervals create intricate acoustic interference patterns, so that tones shimmer and dislocate. Ears accustomed to Western 12-tone polyphony can barely process these sounds—they sink into your skull like red-hot stones into ice. It's like you're listening to a tape at the wrong speed, or to music warped by a black hole's gravitational lens on its way here from several galaxies away." - Chicago Reader
"You'll recognize the use of microtonal riffing if you've experienced last year's Discontinuities, only rather than repeating that album, he's interpreted the technique into a more unpredictable, angular geometry that throws you curve balls in almost every track on the album. Songs are divided into harsher passages of insectoid, bristling dissonance, or springier and cleaner riffs set off against distorted dementia, with the tempos fluxed between the faster black metallic rushes of his prior works and a slower, creepier miasma of impenetrable doom that is compounded by the fresh intervals being picked and strummed. I couldn't even begin to accurately compare this to anything outside of Jute Gyte's own body of work, but strange word puzzles like 'Philip Glass being filtered through the unwashed demos of the stranger LLN bands' seem to pop into my imagination as I'm listening." - From the Dust Returned
"Kalmbach plays a microtonal guitar, which allows him to lever unbelievable amounts of dissonance into his compositions — so much that it’s easy to forget that he’s playing a guitar at all. And yet his songs are weirdly compelling, thanks in part to his awesome vocals and lyrics. This is seriously some of the most insane-sounding metal I’ve ever heard." - Stereogum
"Vast Chains takes all the tropes of black metal and transforms them into something super psychedelic and avant, the tunings, the arrangements, the melodies, fans of groups like Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord, who traffic in woozy, slippery riffage, and blurred blackness, Jute Gyte takes that experimentalism a step further... the guitar parts and riffs are so odd, so damaged and atonal, sometimes they conjure utter beauty, lush lovely sonic swells, other times, they're so warped they almost make your eyes water. Opener "Semen Dried Into The Silence Of Rock And Mineral", lays it all out, sounding a bit like a slow motion Mesuhuggah, or a super spare, 20th century Deathspell, the sound chugging and churning, creeping and slithering, the vibe more doomy really than black, the arrangement confoundingly mathy, intricate and constantly shifting, and the guitars, holy shit, even when the heaviness is peeled back, leaving just some haunting clean guitar shimmer, those parts somehow sound even MORE strange and alien." - Aquarius Recordscreditsreleased February 3, 2014
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
it seems so long ago
'the fire of this' is a noose by which we are all hung
― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:29 (seven years ago) link
iirc 'the inexpressible loneliness of thinking' is the other standout
obviously anyone remotely interested should basically listen to all of it as a matter of urgency
― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
124 Absu - Absu 1301.166667 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/JWN3ezH.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/5T3rlqUOLStiXnZWupDyzxspotify:album:5T3rlqUOLStiXnZWupDyzx
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
123 Harvey Milk - Life The Best Game In Town 1302.166667 Points, 9 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/zEWOck2.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/6vM94PYeGkn35S8bB8vJmgspotify:album:6vM94PYeGkn35S8bB8vJmg
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
122 Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness 1304.166667 Points, 10 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/em2KfIt.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/2U8p8554m2MLrR2Edl0nLjspotify:album:2U8p8554m2MLrR2Edl0nLj
121 Melt Banana - Fetch 1316.1 Points, 9 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/IUPOYeA.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/4C8VqFE4h4KWIsbAViqIbyspotify:album:4C8VqFE4h4KWIsbAViqIby
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
Last one for the night coming up
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link
120 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 1328 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/f5gVWlR.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/5jxBi6eZrzosLglD1l23XGspotify:album:5jxBi6eZrzosLglD1l23XG
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
Shit! This album is fucking incredible. SO excited for what they can achieve in future. Gasping In Darkness and Panic Becomes Despair are two of the most kickass metal tracks of the last few years
― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
RECAP 300-120
300 Clutch - Blast Tyrant 558 3 299 Enslaved - Ruun 559 4 0298 Comets on Fire - Comets on Fire 560 3 0297 Pyramids - A Northern Meadow 560 4 0296 Satan - Atom By Atom 562 3 0295 Xasthur - To Violate The Oblivious 564 4 0294 Nightwish - Wishmaster 567.1666667 5 0293 Panopticon - Roads to the North 572 3 0292 Melvins - A Senile Animal 572.6666667 5 0291 Fantômas - The Director's Cut 577.6666667 5 0
289 Vektor - Outer Isolation 580 3 0289 maudlin of the Well - Bath 580 3 0288 Horseback - The Invisible Mountain 581.5 4 0287 Slipknot - Iowa 582 4 0286 High on Fire - Death Is This Communion 583.1666667 5 0285 Devil - Time to Repent 584.1162791 4 0284 Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre 586 4 0283 Neurosis - Given To The Rising 586 5 0282 Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 590.5 4 0281 Domains - Sinister Ceremonies 592 2 1280 Melechesh - Sphynx 595.6666667 5 0
279 Cough - Ritual Abuse 596 3 0278 Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess 599 3 0277 Sunn 0))) - White 1 599.6666667 3 0276 Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor 602 3 0275 Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand 603.6666667 3 0274 Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis 605.5 3 0273 Obliteration - Black Death Horizon 608 4 0272 Swans - To Be Kind 613.6666667 4 0271 Toxic Holocaust - Hell on Earth 614 4 0270 Devin Townsend - Addicted 615.6666667 3 0
269 Enslaved - Mardraum - Beyond the Within 629 4 0267 Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God 630 3 1267 Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye 630 3 1266 Sunn 0))) - Flight Of The Behemoth 632 3 0265 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - La Novia 633 4 0264 Metallica - St. Anger 634 3 0263 Cloud Rat - Qliphoth 635.6666667 4 0261 Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil 638 3 0261 Panopticon - Kentucky 638 3 0260 Deafheaven - New Bermuda 649 4 0
259 Summoning - Oath Bound 650 3 0258 Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction 652 4 0257 Thumpermonkey - Sleep Furiously 656 3 0256 Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part 2 656.1162791 4 0255 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 659.6666667 5 0254 Oneida - Rated O 664.1162791 4 0253 Skepticism - Farmakon 665 4 0252 Vastum - Patricidal Lust 667.6666667 4 0251 Raventale - After 675 4 0250 Gojira - The Way of All Flesh 680 5 0
249 Darkspace - Dark Space I 686.5 5 0248 EyeHateGod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives 687.6666667 5 0247 Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients 690 4 0246 Satan - Life Sentence 692 5 0245 Stargazer - A Great Work of Ages 693.6666667 5 0243 Mournful Congregation - Book Of Kings 697 4 0243 Sunn 0))) - ØØ Void 697 4 0242 Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy 698 4 0241 Sannhet - Revisionist 701 5 0
240 Mastodon - Blood Mountain 703.6666667 5 0239 Yob - Elaborations of Carbon 707.1666667 4 0238 The Darkness - Permission To Land 708 3 1237 Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells 712 5 0236 Krallice - Ygg Hurr 712.3333333 7 0235 Enslaved - Isa 713 5 0234 Nails - Abandon All Life 714 5 0233 KEN Mode - Success 716 4 0232 Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey 717.2829457 5 0231 Babymetal - Babymetal 718 3 0230 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius 723 5 0
229 Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel 736 3 1228 Motörhead - Inferno 737.1666667 5 0227 Opeth - Watershed 739.6666667 6 0226 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata 742.6666667 6 0225 Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather 743.7829457 5 0224 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 748 4 0223 Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue 751.6666667 4 0222 Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard 753.6666667 4 0221 Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm 759.6666667 6 0220 Spectral Lore - III 763.6666667 4 0
219 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus 767.6666667 6 0218 Baroness - Purple 771.1666667 7 0217 Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape 773.6666667 7 0216 Opeth - Ghost Reveries 779.6666667 6 0215 Yob - The Illusion of Motion 787.1666667 4 0214 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 790.8333333 6 0213 Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux 796 3 0212 Asva - Presences of Absences 805.6666667 4 0211 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge 805.6666667 5 0210 Zu - Carboniferous 822.1666667 6 0
209 Yellow Swans - Going Places 822.4146341 4 0208 Murmuüre - Murmuüre 828.6666667 6 0207 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones 835.5 5 0206 Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane 842 4 0205 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée... 844 5 0204 Oneida - Secret Wars 845.1162791 5 0203 Om - Pilgrimage 849.7829457 7 0202 Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer 851.6666667 5 0201 Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame 853.6666667 5 0200 Orphaned Land - Mabool 856 4 1
199 Liturgy - The Ark Work 857 5 0198 Solstafir - Otta 858.6666667 5 0197 Shape of Despair - Shades Of... 862 4 0196 Krallice - Years Past Matter 864.6666667 5 0195 Yob - Atma 871.1666667 6 0194 Portal - Vexovoid 872 8 0193 asg - blood drive 873.6666667 5 0192 Electric Wizard - Time To Die 874.7829457 7 0191 Mastodon - The Hunter 875.6666667 5 0190 mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas 901.3333333 7 0
189 In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil 903.7829457 6 0188 Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution Into the Continuum 905 4 1187 Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide 914 5 0186 Morbus Chron - Sweven 926.6666667 7 0185 Alcest - Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Ame 938 4 0184 Mgla - Exercises In Futility 943.3333333 6 0183 Oceansize - Everyone Into Position 944 4 0182 Disma - Towards The Megalith 971.6666667 5 0181 Jute Gyte - Isolation 975.1666667 6 0180 Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm 981.6666667 6 0
179 A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See 988 5 0178 Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées 991.1162791 6 0177 Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation 991.6666667 7 0176 Liturgy - Aesthetica 999.6666667 7 0175 Mastery - VALIS 1002 7 0174 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller 1002.5 7 0173 Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg 1006 5 0172 Zombi - Spirit Animal 1009.616279 7 0171 Ulver - Blood Inside 1019.782946 5 1170 Virus - The Black Flux 1027.666667 7 0
169 Cynic - Traced In Air 1027.666667 7 1168 Baroness - Yellow & Green 1029.666667 5 0167 Kylesa - Static Tensions 1033.616279 7 0166 Shellac - 1000 Hurts 1033.666667 6 0165 The Goslings - Between The Dead 1033.666667 5 0164 Mayhem - Ordo ad chao 1035 6 1163 Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields 1040.666667 6 0162 Mournful Congregation - The June Frost 1063 6 0161 Drudkh - Autumn Aurora 1077.414634 7 0160 Tool - 10000 Days 1079.666667 6 0
159 Reverend Bizarre - II - Crush The Insects 1080.116279 6 0158 Psychic Paramount - II 1088 7 0157 Deftones - White Pony 1094 6 0156 Darkspace - Dark Space II 1094.5 8 0155 Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage 1096 6 0154 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valionielu 1108.414634 9 0153 Solstafir - Svartir Sandar 1111 6 0152 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper 1117.616279 7 0151 Beastmilk - Climax 1119.5 6 0150 Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern 1122 6 0
149 Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness 1128.666667 7 0148 Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance 1135 7 0147 Fen - Epoch 1146 7 0146 Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars 1146.666667 9 0145 Slough Feg - Hardworlder 1150.5 7 0144 Enslaved - Below the Lights 1160.666667 8 0143 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters 1181 8 0142 Jesu - Conqueror 1183 7 0141 Agrypnie - 16[485] 1190 5 0140 Christian Mistress - Agony and Opium 1195.5 6 0
139 Gridlink - Longhena 1197.666667 7 1138 Horrendous - Anareta 1201.333333 8 0137 The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute 1207.666667 6 0136 Boris - Dronevil 1237.081301 7 0135 Boris - Pink 1240 9 0134 Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury 1241.081301 8 2133 Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend 1256.666667 7 1132 Oneida - Each One Teach One 1260.782946 8 0131 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control 1269.282946 9 0130 Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R 1273.449612 10 1
129 The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano, Island, Burn 1273.666667 7 0128 Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left And Fear Expecting Ahead 1279.666667 8 0127 The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand 1280.333333 8 1126 Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ 1286 6 0125 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 1293.166667 7 1124 Absu - Absu 1301.166667 7 0123 Harvey Milk - Life The Best Game In Town 1302.166667 9 0122 Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness 1304.166667 10 0121 Melt Banana - Fetch 1316.116279 9 0120 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 1328 7 0
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah Thantifaxath album's great. Arckanum is pretty decent if straightforward atmospheric bm. Need to get round to listening to Absu one day...
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 01:16 (seven years ago) link
Imago, sund4r, Im p sure Teethed Glory and Injury is mentioned early in the Branca metal thread...
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 01:28 (seven years ago) link
It is.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
Vast Chains was my #1, Thantifaxath my #9.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
Thantifaxath was in my top 10 -- very cool sound. I think they actually split for a short time last year? Hope not for good, because also looking fwd to what they do next. They're "black metal" in a superficial way to me -- a lot of these riffs could easily show up in death metal (of the Stargazer school), or even prog(metal). And like the Australian band, I love how Thantifaxath seems more concerned with perfecting their own style rather than adhering to an existing one.
― Dominique, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
Just reminding myself exactly how good this Thantifaxath is. It's amazing and sort of musically (if not thematically) uplifting. Definitely a unique sound.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 07:25 (seven years ago) link
Thantiaxath was my #30, really cool record. Quite a few things from this last stretch on my ballot. Have never really got on with Harvey Milk though.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link
Catching up now, I'd love to post more but my evenings are too busy atm.
Re: EsotericSiegbran did you vote for this?― Cosmic SlopI voted for The Maniacal Vale.
Just put on the closing track of the Nokturnal Mortum as I forgot to listen to it earlier. tt reckons it sounds like Last Christmas by Wham― imagoIt also sounds suspiciously like that Ewoks celebration song at the end of Star Wars 6.
Lots of really good stuff, happy to see Agrypnie, Fen, Angelic Process etc, all great but didn't make my top 100. The placement Sons Of Northern Darkness feels low indeed, for such a high-profile, universally acclaimed record. Arckanum was #4 on my list, it's a phenomenally fun and riff-tastic thrash/black metal album. That's another one of those one-off surprises where a band suddenly hits it straight out the park mid-career.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 09:26 (seven years ago) link
livid that that only-ok christian mistress demo places so high
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 09:31 (seven years ago) link
like that's not even the best record they've released in the past fifteen years
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 09:32 (seven years ago) link
Between the Dead is completely beautiful! It's like a noisier Jesu, but just as pupil-dilatingly ineffable. Maybe my favourite find of the roll-out so far.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:09 (seven years ago) link
Maybe Definitely my favourite find of the roll-out so far.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:16 (seven years ago) link
Listening now. It's loud.
Altar Of Plagues didn't QUITE get me how I'd hoped, based on the first two tracks, but I might well return to it.
― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:44 (seven years ago) link
'seed' is killer
― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:51 (seven years ago) link
yeah the Goslings album is great, was thrown off by the 9-minute opening track being kind of dull, but since then it's been pretty riveting
― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:05 (seven years ago) link
I'm glad you came around to it!
This Arckanum is nice and dynamic. The vocals are very cute.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:10 (seven years ago) link
I like the track where it just sounds like the dude muttering to himself in a cave
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
fyi Sund4r Vast Chains was my #11 and Sacred White Noise my #21, but both could have been higher
listening to Sacred White Noise again now so I can appreciate the tracks that aren't Gasping In Darkness and Panic Becomes Despair again. fuck it's so good
― imago, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:24 (seven years ago) link