Good to hear The Faceless are holding it together. I think they get a lot more flak than they deserve online for some reason. Finally caught them live myself about a year ago here in Manchester, and aside from some technical difficulties and one spectacularly missed sustain, they were great. I still hold their two middle albums up as standards for the genre, even if the latest was a bit limp.
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I forgot to mention one of the most hilarious moments of the Amon Amarth show the other night: near the end of the show, about 20 people in the audience sat on the floor together to simulate rowing a goddamn boat. Too bad the band didn't seem to notice.
Good to hear The Faceless are holding it together. I think they get a lot more flak than they deserve online for some reason. Finally caught them live myself about a year ago here in Manchester, and aside from some technical difficulties and one spectacularly missed sustain, they were great. I still hold their two middle albums up as standards for the genre, even if the latest was a bit limp.
I think they were getting so much flack because the lead singer/song writer was an addict and kept relapsing and showing up to shows drunk/high, and did some other crappy things like steal fan/bandmate's money to buy drugs. Apparently this ended with the entire rest of the band quitting all at the same time.
Good to hear The Faceless are holding it together. I think they get a lot more flak than they deserve online for some reason. Finally caught them live myself about a year ago here in Manchester, and aside from some technical difficulties and one spectacularly missed sustain, they were great. I still hold their two middle albums up as standards for the genre, even if the latest was a bit limp.
I think they were getting so much flack because the lead singer/song writer was an addict and kept relapsing and showing up to shows drunk/high, and did some other crappy things like steal fan/bandmate's money to buy drugs. Apparently this ended with the entire rest of the band quitting all at the same time.
Tbh I went cause I was expecting a total cluster fuck show where I could rubberneck a train wreck due to all of what you mentioned but it ended up being a solid concert.
I forgot to mention one of the most hilarious moments of the Amon Amarth show the other night: near the end of the show, about 20 people in the audience sat on the floor together to simulate rowing a goddamn boat. Too bad the band didn't seem to notice.
So my friend is quite the Amon Amarth fan, and when we saw them at download she was so fucking hyped for the row pit. I think it's a pretty regular occurrence at their gigs at this point >_<
I forgot to mention one of the most hilarious moments of the Amon Amarth show the other night: near the end of the show, about 20 people in the audience sat on the floor together to simulate rowing a goddamn boat. Too bad the band didn't seem to notice.
So my friend is quite the Amon Amarth fan, and when we saw them at download she was so fucking hyped for the row pit. I think it's a pretty regular occurrence at their gigs at this point >_<
I'm just a casual listener of the band. I had no idea it was a regular thing! Well, it's easier for me to deal with than a proper mosh pit, at least.
I forgot to mention one of the most hilarious moments of the Amon Amarth show the other night: near the end of the show, about 20 people in the audience sat on the floor together to simulate rowing a goddamn boat. Too bad the band didn't seem to notice.
So my friend is quite the Amon Amarth fan, and when we saw them at download she was so fucking hyped for the row pit. I think it's a pretty regular occurrence at their gigs at this point >_<
They happen at Alestorm shows here in Seattle too and they're just pure drunken fun. Though, absurd drunken fun kinda sums up an Alestorm show in general. It's easily the most outright silly and fun show you can ever go to and the audience is just the absolute fucking best.
Canadian NecromonicoN, upping their ante in the sympho-death department. Fans of Septicflesh, Carach Angren, Shadow of Intent, Fleshgod Apocalypse, you want your death metal with a shot of Wagner? Have at it.
I also pre-ordered the new Angel Witch album after listening through it, Kevin's vocals aren't the greatest but the riffs are mighty and it's their strongest written material I think outside the legendary s/t debut.
It's definitely riffier than the last few 1349 albums, I'm not super impressed with it mainly because I've gotten exhausted with a lot of hyperblasting black metal, but it's solid indeed.
Dipping back into some favourite Bathory albums. Some of the Viking metal ones, specifically.
Objectively speaking, Quorthon had some definite deficiencies as a vocalist, but I know he would likely have been the first to admit it (since IIRC he was looking for another singer early on). But one thing he nailed was the feel - there's, for want of a better word, an integrity to his performances. And his compositional skills are very often off the goddamn scale.
I honestly don't know if I could ever get anyone else into more than a handful of songs off these records, but no matter, they still kick ass.
I ripped it off from someone before me, but I honestly forget who it was.
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It's definitely riffier than the last few 1349 albums, I'm not super impressed with it mainly because I've gotten exhausted with a lot of hyperblasting black metal, but it's solid indeed.
Too bad they continued with the use of bullshit interludes. This album really doesn’t do anything for me.
“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
I haven’t listened to the intersection of post rock / post hc / black metal in a while
Celeste, Rorcal, Plebeian Grandstand, etc
Any reccs? Looking for more the emotional churning side than too limpid and weepy
Cult of Luna and Cranial both had recent releases. Both are post-metal, not really falling into black metal, but maybe into HC.
Emma Ruth Rundle (touring with Cult of Luna) is really damn cool, she's more post-rock/post-folk.
Tides from Nebula had a new album about a month ago. Russian Circles had an album out earlier this year too. Both of these last two are largely instrumental.
Respire had a great album I want to say late last year. They're kind of a mix of post-hc and post-metal.
Caspian's usually a good time in the post-rock realm but they haven't released anything in a bit I think.
Alcest has an album out on Friday. I think they're technically considered black metal-shoegaze, but the argument could be made that that's just another term for post-black metal.
Ranges had an album out a few weeks ago. They're post-hardcore but without any vocals, so that might hit you where you want.
PSOTY released an album earlier this year too called Sunless. They're really cool. They kind of have that spacey feel of late era ISIS, with a good mix of screamed and clean vocals.
I'll add the new Astronoid to that, the self-titled, the band that used to be Vattnet Viskar and then they dropped the Viskar.
I was lukewarm at first, but it's surprisingly good upon further listens. However it lies on the happier side of that scale, I don't know about 'churning'. But it's extremely infectious, like a midway point between groups like Mew and Passion Pit and post-black metal.
We talked about Vukari earlier but you probably already saw that, as well as the new Great Old Ones album.
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I went ahead and spun DEP'sMiss Machine again this weekend for the hell of it, hadn't heard it in quite a while, and now "Unretrofied" has been an earworm for at least 2 days.
If you're itching for some more of that math-core sound, The Number Twelve Looks Like You released an album last month that has some very DEP sounding vibes.
If you're itching for some more of that math-core sound, The Number Twelve Looks Like You released an album last month that has some very DEP sounding vibes.
I road tripped to their last show at Terminal 5 in NYC. Drove 10 hours to get there the day of the show. Probably one of the best concerts and overall experiences I'd even been to.
The last few months/weeks have just been stacked with good releases. I feel like I'm never going to catch up.
Agreed.
Hell I've already got my RYM list for 2019 full with 100 worthy releases and I can almost guarantee at least a dozen of those will be supplanted by New Year's Day.
The last few months/weeks have just been stacked with good releases. I feel like I'm never going to catch up.
Agreed.
Hell I've already got my RYM list for 2019 full with 100 worthy releases and I can almost guarantee at least a dozen of those will be supplanted by New Year's Day.
Can't wait! I'm woefully behind on 2019 new releases.
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Opeth and Insomnium have been sucking most of my time recently. They're both p great releases, for their respective genres.
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It’s been a weird year with a lot more quality releases than I remember 2018 or 2017 having.
New Teitanblood just bumped Haunter out of my top ten list for 2019.
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Opeth and Insomnium have been sucking most of my time recently. They're both p great releases, for their respective genres.
Same, also been playing Lacuna Coil's Black Anima (this and their previous album Delirium are my favorite 1-2 punch from them since Comalies and Karmacode way back in 2002 and 2003) quite a bit at work when I'm paired up with gal that's a huge Cristina Scabbia mark.
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i think i'm done buying music for 2019
i picked up ~80 albums this year, mostly on vinyl
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The new Sarcasm album kicks some butt, it's as if you were still smack dab in the middle of the 90s Swedish melodic death metal revolution and this band had never disappeared.
If you were to put this on with no reference to who it was, I would swear it’s from 1995 or 1996. Jesus.
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The new Sarcasm album kicks some butt, it's as if you were still smack dab in the middle of the 90s Swedish melodic death metal revolution and this band had never disappeared.
The new Sarcasm album kicks some butt, it's as if you were still smack dab in the middle of the 90s Swedish melodic death metal revolution and this band had never disappeared.
If you were to put this on with no reference to who it was, I would swear it’s from 1995 or 1996. Jesus.
As a fan of that time period, it was pretty awesome listening to this.
Yea, definitely a nice throwback. The new Rimfrost kind of gave me that vibe too, but it has way cleaner production.
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Uneven Structure has a new album out. I really liked these guys during the Februus era, where they were kind of the proggiest of the djent bands when it came out in 2011.
The new album still has some polyrhythms, but it feels more aligned to Meshuggah polyrhythms vs the Periphery style.
They've also moved generally away from that, and more towards prog and even some post.
I think now I might consider them to be progressive post-metalcore or something like that?
Anyways, like with their last album, I like how the song and album sounds but doubt I'll come back to the album to often:
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I think they were getting so much flack because the lead singer/song writer was an addict and kept relapsing and showing up to shows drunk/high, and did some other crappy things like steal fan/bandmate's money to buy drugs. Apparently this ended with the entire rest of the band quitting all at the same time.
Tbh I went cause I was expecting a total cluster fuck show where I could rubberneck a train wreck due to all of what you mentioned but it ended up being a solid concert.
So my friend is quite the Amon Amarth fan, and when we saw them at download she was so fucking hyped for the row pit. I think it's a pretty regular occurrence at their gigs at this point >_<
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I'm just a casual listener of the band. I had no idea it was a regular thing! Well, it's easier for me to deal with than a proper mosh pit, at least.
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They happen at Alestorm shows here in Seattle too and they're just pure drunken fun. Though, absurd drunken fun kinda sums up an Alestorm show in general. It's easily the most outright silly and fun show you can ever go to and the audience is just the absolute fucking best.
I also pre-ordered the new Angel Witch album after listening through it, Kevin's vocals aren't the greatest but the riffs are mighty and it's their strongest written material I think outside the legendary s/t debut.
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I haven’t listened to the intersection of post rock / post hc / black metal in a while
Celeste, Rorcal, Plebeian Grandstand, etc
Any reccs? Looking for more the emotional churning side than too limpid and weepy
Objectively speaking, Quorthon had some definite deficiencies as a vocalist, but I know he would likely have been the first to admit it (since IIRC he was looking for another singer early on). But one thing he nailed was the feel - there's, for want of a better word, an integrity to his performances. And his compositional skills are very often off the goddamn scale.
I honestly don't know if I could ever get anyone else into more than a handful of songs off these records, but no matter, they still kick ass.
I wish we could have heard Nordland III and IV.
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I ripped it off from someone before me, but I honestly forget who it was.
Too bad they continued with the use of bullshit interludes. This album really doesn’t do anything for me.
Cult of Luna and Cranial both had recent releases. Both are post-metal, not really falling into black metal, but maybe into HC.
Emma Ruth Rundle (touring with Cult of Luna) is really damn cool, she's more post-rock/post-folk.
Tides from Nebula had a new album about a month ago. Russian Circles had an album out earlier this year too. Both of these last two are largely instrumental.
Respire had a great album I want to say late last year. They're kind of a mix of post-hc and post-metal.
Caspian's usually a good time in the post-rock realm but they haven't released anything in a bit I think.
Alcest has an album out on Friday. I think they're technically considered black metal-shoegaze, but the argument could be made that that's just another term for post-black metal.
Ranges had an album out a few weeks ago. They're post-hardcore but without any vocals, so that might hit you where you want.
PSOTY released an album earlier this year too called Sunless. They're really cool. They kind of have that spacey feel of late era ISIS, with a good mix of screamed and clean vocals.
I was lukewarm at first, but it's surprisingly good upon further listens. However it lies on the happier side of that scale, I don't know about 'churning'. But it's extremely infectious, like a midway point between groups like Mew and Passion Pit and post-black metal.
We talked about Vukari earlier but you probably already saw that, as well as the new Great Old Ones album.
I've been sleeping on that one.
Probably pick it up after work
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Agreed.
Hell I've already got my RYM list for 2019 full with 100 worthy releases and I can almost guarantee at least a dozen of those will be supplanted by New Year's Day.
Can't wait! I'm woefully behind on 2019 new releases.
New Teitanblood just bumped Haunter out of my top ten list for 2019.
Same, also been playing Lacuna Coil's Black Anima (this and their previous album Delirium are my favorite 1-2 punch from them since Comalies and Karmacode way back in 2002 and 2003) quite a bit at work when I'm paired up with gal that's a huge Cristina Scabbia mark.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
i picked up ~80 albums this year, mostly on vinyl
unless something insane drops
If you were to put this on with no reference to who it was, I would swear it’s from 1995 or 1996. Jesus.
As a fan of that time period, it was pretty awesome listening to this.
Yea, definitely a nice throwback. The new Rimfrost kind of gave me that vibe too, but it has way cleaner production.
The new album still has some polyrhythms, but it feels more aligned to Meshuggah polyrhythms vs the Periphery style.
They've also moved generally away from that, and more towards prog and even some post.
I think now I might consider them to be progressive post-metalcore or something like that?
Anyways, like with their last album, I like how the song and album sounds but doubt I'll come back to the album to often: