This is a cool album! I think its #11 for me!
― fuck like fight like fuck (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, now we're talking. Didn't expect it to do so well!
The frontman told me they're carrying on with a different guitarist btw
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 19 December 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
Today is the best! The lowest fi, the most forest...this is so adorable. So atmospherically immersive too. This was very high in my ballot.
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
Oh my giddy aunt, this made it?!
It creates a really lovely atmosphere to bathe in and dream of pure humanless nature, plus the vocalist might be the most adorable in metal
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
Is the frontman as adorable as his vocals, ultros?
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
idk the email he sent me was pretty nice
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 19 December 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, I'm loving Astronoid so far.
Mew singing over a Sunny Day Real Estate/Scale the Summit mashup?
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
xp in fact he sent me an ilxmail so he could even be INSIDE THE BUILDING
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 19 December 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
Also I want to point out I really like the Astronoid album too even though some people are doing their best to put me off
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 19 December 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
lol
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
omg @ ilxmail <3
hi amalgamoth, please keep making lovely forest music
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
Astronoid is interesting and I wanted to like it. I feel like I'm resistant to its particular emotional wavelength.
― jmm, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
^imago says you smell of Squirrel piss
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
40 Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. . 228 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/zY0ohOx.jpghttps://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/-
Second full length Mesarthim albumdigipack CD / vinyl LPdetails and release dates t.b.a.creditsreleased October 15, 2016
Band's digital release August 28, 2016
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Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)tagstags: black metal metal avantgarde metal dark metal doom metal Italy
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
braaaaad
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
yaaaay! I voted for the EP tho cause it had the best song ever on it.
― Frobisher, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
also really digging this Ophidian Forest! very interesting that it's all long-distance collaboration.
― Frobisher, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
Same. I'm yet to hear this one. Time to put that to rights. xp
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
mew is def the vocal approach here. astronoid yet to record anything as monstrously kickass as 'rows' on this evidence but i'm reasonably impressed tbh
Yeah, I mean, Mew might be my favourite currently going rock-qua-rock band. I think almost no one is recording anything as kickass as their best songs, including "Rows", but I'm liking Astronoid more than most heavy rock music from 2016.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
I think Pillars was the Mesarthim I voted for, mostly because it's the only one I own. I enjoyed them well enough but don't find that I spin them very often.
Im feeling weirder and weirder about leaving Mesarthim off my ballot
― fuck like fight like fuck (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
Absence (which is what we should all refer to this album as, because screw Morse code sorrynotsorry) feels more straight-up BM, less sparkly twinkly space-pop than Pillars, so it didn't grab me as instantly, but we're listening to it now and it's sounding pretty intense, so fully prepared to allow it into the fold as well
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
it is testament to pillars' quality that i don't know what track frobisher's referring to - it really could be any of the four (i'd maybe put '11' top myself)
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
he clearly means 'orbiting'
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
ok lets take this down to 31
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
39 Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP 228 Points, 9 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/J8sUhdJ.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/1WhPiaUqIlQIaXmcT8vYF6spotify:album:1WhPiaUqIlQIaXmcT8vYF6
https://ulver.bandcamp.com/album/atgclvlsscap
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
Probably a bit too long and unwieldy and loose but BUT this is the first time it's made sense that Daniel O'Sullivan is in Ulver and I think this is the sound of he and Garm finally collaborating effectively so I'm in favour (and I voted for it of course - that early run of tracks is very cool)
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
Lots of wonderful mysticism in this. It scraped my ballot at #50 (probably for the reasons imago mentioned), but Desert/Dawn and Nowhere are great standalone tracks that I've listened to quite a bit.
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
also, what the hell, Absence (tags: mesarthim morse) is glorious! how was this not initially apparent?
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
xx^xp I'll never tell!
― Frobisher, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
38 Wormed - Krighsu 231 Points, 6 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/BicFV9o.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/2yXHHgK7ssb0sxuJi8GPbTspotify:album:2yXHHgK7ssb0sxuJi8GPbT
https://wormedsom.bandcamp.com/album/krighsu
WORMED are without a doubt one of the most ferocious and technical of contemporary death metal bands, and their long-awaited new album 'Krighsu' exceeds all expectations. Each of it's tracks are wildly technical without sacrificing an ounce of brutality. Sharp, staccato riffing, savage vocals, and machine-gun drumming are delivered with maximum concussive force. WORMED are leading the genre into its future and 'Krighsu' is nothing short of death metal on hyper drive.creditsreleased March 25, 2016tagstags: decapitated gorguts hate eternal meshuggah metal necrophagist nile origin wormed brutal death metal death metal scifi technical death metal Madrid
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Beginning to think it was a fantastic year for metal after all... Feeling so happy that some of these are appearing. My #17
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
holy shit ANOTHER of my votes - insanely technical machinelike grindcore with surprisingly airy and spacious production and the swagger of oasis napalm death - it really impressed me during the nominations period. what an awesome riposte to megadeth this run has been lol
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
napalm death IN SPACE
This is next level shit
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
Uh I mean that in a positive way
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
lol i reckon wormed would take either
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
37 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235 Points, 6 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/xnzzKl4.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/6Kaa4KSOPHxkGnLczBYRn6spotify:album:6Kaa4KSOPHxkGnLczBYRn6
https://cometcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/center-of-the-maze
Toronto space rock cosmonauts COMET CONTROL re-enter the atmosphere with their stargazed sophomore album, Center Of The Maze. Flooded with swirling synths, ghostly vocals and fuzz-bomb guitars that burst into flames in electrifyingly airborne ways, the record effortlessly merges the ethereal and the terrestrial; the end result a 43 minute collection of blinding explosions and brilliant fade-outs. Overdriven riffs reign supreme and songs build with mantra-like power before collapsing into majestic dreaminess. Like watching a rocket take off at close range, the sound of COMET CONTROL is both exhilarating and mesmerizing, propelled into orbit by unwavering melody and unhinged creativity.creditsreleased June 24, 2016tagstags: center of the maze comet control rock psych rock psychedelic rock stoner rock Toronto
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
Oh cool
― fuck like fight like fuck (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
confirmed that wormed are kinda on the inaccessible side of tech death for me. fun in the moment but hard to hold onto
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
!!!!!!
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
george now takes the lead in tastemaker stakes
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
Lol this was not that high up on my ballot tbh. I'd lose my shit if Cosmic Dead showed up though
― fuck like fight like fuck (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
My #5. First half is all deliriously catchy psych-pop, second half sets sail for SPACE. Listen if you like: Spiritualized, Hawkwind, space
Also, it may be some maddeningly simple giant-corny-bliss-trip Spiritualized shit from 1976 but the closing track Artificial Light burrowed its way into my skull this year and stayed there. It's kind of everything Secret Machines tried to do but couldn't quite
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
the Mesarthim morse album called Absence is ending now. holy shit this was a ballot oversight and a half
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
boy this really is the year heavy music went to space, innit?
― alpine static, Monday, 19 December 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, December 19, 2016 2:45 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i TOLD you
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
;_; / :)
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
Yes, no one wants to be here. xp
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
Mesarthim's morse code album was truly wonderful. Felt much darker than the rest of their output.
This last Comet Control track has a very similar structure to Paramore's 'The Only Exception'...
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, 19 December 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link