Wow, really enjoying the new Anael. They take that stripped down old black metal circa Samael and then do some cool atmospheric things with it throughout the album.
I love that Cult of Luna put out a 40 minute album and is like "yes, this is an EP."
Reminds me of NIN's "Head Like a Hole" single, where with all the B-sides (even if they were remixes of the A-side), the CD single actually ran longer (50+ minutes) than the accompanying Pretty Hate Machine album.
I think a lot of EPs are just branded EPs because they're not meant to be considered a proper full-length from a creativity/productivity standpoint. One of their previous ones, Vertikal II was also like 35 minutes.
But yeah, I can even remember a lot of maxi-singles with a ton of remixes and B-sides thrown on that are longer than albums.
Hell, people still argue if DSO's The Synarchy of Molten Bones should be called an EP or an LP. The band calls it an LP but they've released longer EPs.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
Arjen Lucassen just announced he's working on a new Star One album. Unlike the other albums, it's going to have a different vocalist for each song, which kind of makes me sad. {aty of what made Star One fun was having the same four vocalists on each song. I wonder if any of the former vocalists will be returning. I've heard he and Russell Allen had a falling out a few years ago, so he might not be coming back.
BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
Me likey. They also score points for using the original grammatical construction Dante used in naming the second track, though February Funeral is my favorite overall.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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edited February 2021
something kind of cool vola are doing with their new single is releasing tabs and stems for the whole song as a kind of "creator pack"
obviously this is partly to generate publicity but its a nice idea in general
EDIT: also ill be real that song is an absolute fucking earworm its fucke dup
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Another Orbit Culture song came across my Youtube feed because I listened to them at some point and I have to say I really fucking hate that band.
It's been quite some time since I didn't just "not dig" a band and have actively gone into vehemently disliking them, but man, they follow a long tradition of bands like Machinehead or Puddle of Mudd where their success is absolutely fucking baffling to me.
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
edited February 2021
To balance out the negative vibes, I finally got around to Rivers of Nihil's 2018 superprogasfuck album Where Owls Know My Name and it's pretty goddamned glorious, I gotta say. Definitely on the heavier side of prog, with screams that sit somewhere between stereotypical black metal and what Devin Townsend was doing on Alien, but also leaning towards Vader's death rasp often.
It's nice to have a newer Japanese band playing in such an old school, blazing style, but I have to say I'm quite surprised at all the hype around it. When I got the promo I didn't think it would set the world on fire; happy to have been wrong! Been seeing it pop up all over the place. It's almost like it intensifies the old Loudness style similar to how Dragonforce sped up and intensified the anthemic Euro Gamma Ray power metal thing. Fun stuff if nothing else.
But yeah, that YouTube copy looks like it's just taken from the Dying Victims sell sheet. Haha.
BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
Being a major fan of old school Loudness and early Concerto Moon, SP is exactly the type of stuff that I want to just inject directly in my veins.
Japan's overall scene maybe the most stacked the last 3-5 years, considering the range of styles their bands are churning out top shelf stuff at a staggering rate. Loudness still going strong, Lovebites, Aldious, and Unlicky Morpheus for female fronted power metal and thrash, Crystal Lake is killing it, Ningen Isu having a powerful rebirth, Babymetal doing whatever you want to call their chaotic clash of styles, etc...
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
Not a lot of surprises here, unless anyone isn't familiar with Magma. I kept wanting to add Bitches Brew to this, but every time I went back to it I would get entirely plugged in to the first 2-3 tracks and then it would just sound like noodling after that.
Anyways, hit me with your favorites that you don't see here.
All these folks trying to be the Hiroo Onoda of the Loudness War...
I definitely listened to the Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, and Black Widow. Maybe I'll return to them when I check out the others that you suggested. I was going through so much music that it's inevitable I didn't spend enough time with something great.
All these folks trying to be the Hiroo Onoda of the Loudness War...
My new reaction video addiction is The Charismatic Voice, with opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff who is just an absolute delight. She just put this one up a couple of days ago.
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edited February 2021
I like her as well and she is a reactor/reviewer that strikes a great balance of providing a lot of technical info without going overboard on jargon and also not just filling time with monosylabic bullshit or stupid ass catchphrases.
I'm quite happy she kept going back to metal after getting a decent amount of trolling for doing the Buenos Aries Ghost Love Score for her first Nightwish vid. Me and a several others gave her lots of support for doing that one before the Wacken performance, as it let her hear Floor while she was still experimenting on what she could do with the song before perfecting it.
"A year and a day after the last Delain show, it is with heavy heart I inform you all I am no longer part of Delain. Charlotte, Timo and Joey are also no longer part of the band.
I played my very first Delain show in March 2010 in the Garage, London. Almost exactly 10 years later, Timo, Joey and I sent an e-mail to tender our resignation from the band.
Everyone close to us knew that Delain was always a very intense working environment. I could deal with it, because touring with Delain was my biggest passion. And the amazing shows we did, the great fans we had and awesome bands we toured with, all made it worth it. I really started at the bottom when it came to touring, playing for crowds of 10 people, driving thousands of kilometers crammed in a hot and smelly van, and sleeping on the couch at promotor’s houses, so I’ve always been immensely thankful of the level Delain operated on.
In 2018 and 2019 however, the atmosphere in the band deteriorated. This came to an all time low during the 2019 fall tours in the USA and Europe. While these tours were successes in themselves, with great crowd responses, a very good production and amazing road crew, good sales and great (support)bands, it became increasingly clear that Martijn was very unhappy to be on tour, and unhappy about how Delain had developed from his own project, to the band it became. It was obvious to everyone we couldn’t continue in this way.
Joey, Timo and I talked with Martijn and Charlotte at the beginning of 2020, saying we didn’t want to continue with Delain in this way. We proposed Martijn would abstain from long tours, at least for the time being. Those tours were the most intense, and we felt things would be better if he could focus on writing music, both for Delain as well as his long-envisioned side project. Martijn had a different view: he wanted Delain to be his project again, and his proposition was to bring the number of Delain shows down considerably, while degrading Timo, Joey and me to session musicians. Needless to say, that was very different from what we had in mind. It was also quite hurtful to be degraded to session musician after I gave Delain my everything. In March 2020, we concluded we weren’t going to reach a compromise and sent an e-mail tendering our resignation.
A few weeks later, Martijn outlined a proposition for Charlotte, Timo, Joey and me to continue with the band, while he would focus on other things. I was very impressed and humbled by Martijn’s decision to give up his own band, and at the same time very excited at the prospect of continuing Delain with Charlotte, Timo and Joey. For much of 2020, we all hoped Delain would be doing shows again in 2021. Unfortunately, we never came to a deal. We tried to reach middle ground, but we were simply too far apart. I think it’s a real shame and everyone (the fans, Martijn, and us) would have been winning with Charlotte, Timo, Joey and me continuing the band, but I guess it wasn’t supposed to be.
So now, almost a year after I (and Timo, and Joey,) decided to leave Delain, it’s official. Charlotte is also no longer part of Delain, so Martijn will be continuing Delain on his own. Over the past year I’ve been disappointed, furious, heartbroken, frustrated, and most of all I have just really really missed touring. But as you all know, we all happen to be in that same boat. Around the time we decided to quit, COVID-19 became the monster it is today.
This is by no means goodbye. I may be ‘getting too old for this shit’ but have no intention of retiring! I will definitely do everything to be back on the road whenever COVID-19 measures permit shows again. Meanwhile, I’ll be working on play-through videos and I’ll keep sharing my photography adventures.
A lot of the memories I made over the past 10 years are the very best of my life. I want to thank everyone who was a part of it, Delain fans all over the world, bandmates and road crew, and bands we toured with in particular. I wish Charlotte, Timo, Joey and Martijn the very best in the musical adventures that lay ahead of them. For their stories, check out their and Delain's Facebook statements."
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
It's really been fascinating to watch this whole "random people react to heavy metal/other music" thing evolve over the last few years.
I've been glad to see the general sentiment that metal isn't just angryboi music for angryboi manchildren, but that there's an entire universe of absolutely outstanding musical compositions and as a "genre", it's as expansive and vast as you can imagine.
CSNY- Deja Vu (1970)
Neil Young- After the Gold Rush (1970)
The Velvet Underground- Loaded (1970)
Miles Davis- Tribute to Jack Johnson (1971)
Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers (1971)
The Who- Who's Next (1971)
I assume you've already heard Paranoid and Master of Reality?
I assume you've already heard Paranoid and Master of Reality?
Yep. Paranoid (and the s/t) is already on my 1970 list.
Also, I guess I should clarify that I'm not a total noob. I've been keeping an Excel doc of albums I want to check out for over a decade now. but, in the past, I've been going through it sort of haphazardly; now, I'm going through it chronologically because it's more fun that way. For example, I've been listening to (from my current 1970 list) Black Sabbath, Paranoid, In the Wake of Poseidon, and Kobaïa for a while now. They aren't all new to me.
For reference, the distribution of my current digital library looks like the below graph. I tend to only keep albums digitally if I'd given them (roughly) a 9/10 or higher (hence the criterion for my RYM lists).
All these folks trying to be the Hiroo Onoda of the Loudness War...
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its STAM1NA BABYYYYYYYYY albeit less melodic than the last outing?
It's not just you, I'm constantly underwhelmed by the Swedish Tool.
Ooo, now I want a full length Lanegan / Cult of Luna collaboration. This is reminding me very favorably of his earlier solo albums.
This is worth watching even if you're not a shred fan, if only for Hizaki's epic hat game in the last third of the vid.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Reminds me of NIN's "Head Like a Hole" single, where with all the B-sides (even if they were remixes of the A-side), the CD single actually ran longer (50+ minutes) than the accompanying Pretty Hate Machine album.
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But yeah, I can even remember a lot of maxi-singles with a ton of remixes and B-sides thrown on that are longer than albums.
My Backloggery
~ Buckaroo Banzai
obviously this is partly to generate publicity but its a nice idea in general
EDIT: also ill be real that song is an absolute fucking earworm its fucke dup
It's been quite some time since I didn't just "not dig" a band and have actively gone into vehemently disliking them, but man, they follow a long tradition of bands like Machinehead or Puddle of Mudd where their success is absolutely fucking baffling to me.
And apparently being quarantined led Unlucky Morpheus to train to One Punch Man levels:
Fumiya destroyed this on drums, even getting that screwed-up 19/16 compound meter section right.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
whoever wrote the copy for that youtube blurb should be kicked in the teeth, lol.
But yeah, that YouTube copy looks like it's just taken from the Dying Victims sell sheet. Haha.
Japan's overall scene maybe the most stacked the last 3-5 years, considering the range of styles their bands are churning out top shelf stuff at a staggering rate. Loudness still going strong, Lovebites, Aldious, and Unlicky Morpheus for female fronted power metal and thrash, Crystal Lake is killing it, Ningen Isu having a powerful rebirth, Babymetal doing whatever you want to call their chaotic clash of styles, etc...
~ Buckaroo Banzai
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/EthelTheFrog/1970-1/
Not a lot of surprises here, unless anyone isn't familiar with Magma. I kept wanting to add Bitches Brew to this, but every time I went back to it I would get entirely plugged in to the first 2-3 tracks and then it would just sound like noodling after that.
Anyways, hit me with your favorites that you don't see here.
Led Zeppelin III
Uriah Heep Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble
Bloodrock 2 (especially "DOA")
Hawkwind s/t
Atomic Rooster Death Walks Behind You
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
Lucifer's Friend s/t
Wishbone Ash s/t
Genesis Trespass
Earth and Fire s/t
Can Soundtracks
Mountain Climbing!
Black Widow Sacrifice
I might have the year wrong on a couple of these, if so I apologize, this is before even I was sent kicking and squealing into the universe.
East of Eden Snafu
The Doors Morrison Hotel
Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory
ZZ Top ZZ Top's First Album
Apparently my tags on the latter are wrong and it came out halfway through Jan '71. Darn.
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Fragile and The Yes Album
Deep Purple's Fireball
Pawn Hearts by Van der Graff Generator
Aqualung
Tarkus by ELP
Machine Head by Deep Purple
etc...
Shit, like Jazz I made a mistake. Machine Head was recorded in 71 but didn't release till Feb of 72.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I've got all of these lined up for my 1971 batch except for Pawn Hearts. I'll add that.
Happy listening to you then, my friend.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
The Doors L.A. Woman
Led Zeppelin IV
Edit: and, uh, as previously mentioned, the wonderfully-titled ZZ Top's First Album, now in its correct year.
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A couple more:
She does a lot of non-metal stuff too, all sorts of things.
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I'm quite happy she kept going back to metal after getting a decent amount of trolling for doing the Buenos Aries Ghost Love Score for her first Nightwish vid. Me and a several others gave her lots of support for doing that one before the Wacken performance, as it let her hear Floor while she was still experimenting on what she could do with the song before perfecting it.
This is one of my favorites
(Warning: long ass and detailed vid ahoy)
Its precious how she marvels and thirsts after the guns and pecs on Tommy Karevik.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
My Backloggery
https://i.redd.it/126z3wkd6nh61.jpg
Otto's statement:
I've been glad to see the general sentiment that metal isn't just angryboi music for angryboi manchildren, but that there's an entire universe of absolutely outstanding musical compositions and as a "genre", it's as expansive and vast as you can imagine.
CSNY- Deja Vu (1970)
Neil Young- After the Gold Rush (1970)
The Velvet Underground- Loaded (1970)
Miles Davis- Tribute to Jack Johnson (1971)
Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers (1971)
The Who- Who's Next (1971)
I assume you've already heard Paranoid and Master of Reality?
Yep. Paranoid (and the s/t) is already on my 1970 list.
Also, I guess I should clarify that I'm not a total noob. I've been keeping an Excel doc of albums I want to check out for over a decade now. but, in the past, I've been going through it sort of haphazardly; now, I'm going through it chronologically because it's more fun that way. For example, I've been listening to (from my current 1970 list) Black Sabbath, Paranoid, In the Wake of Poseidon, and Kobaïa for a while now. They aren't all new to me.
For reference, the distribution of my current digital library looks like the below graph. I tend to only keep albums digitally if I'd given them (roughly) a 9/10 or higher (hence the criterion for my RYM lists).