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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on May 18, 2015 4:50:43 GMT
Huh, your first metal album purchase is a lot more interesting than mine. Mine was Lateralus by Tool (still love it!). If one doesn't consider Tool metal, then it would be Dio's Holy Diver (still awesome). I've never heard of The Eternal before, but this is good stuff. (I'm listening to the original on Spotify.) Why isn't there more good gothic-ish doomish metal like that? -- I've listened to two albums lately which immediately grabbed me. -- Ego Dominus Tuus [Album] by Nightbringer. Excellent deathblack. Requires some attention span, but even if you play it in the background, the opening tracks are weirdly engaging, and the last track is just fantastic. Well worth it if you like dark, dense, and intense deathish black metal with touches of doom and melody woven in. -- Gateway to the Antisphere [Album] by Sulphur AeonExcellent melancholy doomy blackdeath Lovecraft Cthulhumetal! I very much enjoyed their previous effort, Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide (also heavy Cthulhumetal), but I found it to be a bit too much like a wall of sound to be able to get into easily. Not that it was bad, it was excellent, and in a way it added to the feel of being underwater -- but I just didn't have enough attention span to spare at work that day. XD This one's produced with more focus on the actual composition of the songs. (That makes it sound like the previous album was just chugging, which it most certainly is not.) . That's not to say it's gotten more melodic, softer, or processed - it's equally heavy, just not so constipated in sound. I found this album oddly soothing and beautiful. That makes it sound soft, but it isn't -- it's heavy as shit, yet I could actually fall asleep to this. Excellent. Gateway to the Antisphere is available on Bandcamp for listening and as a paid download. Link above.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on May 18, 2015 5:14:18 GMT
Huh, your first metal album purchase is a lot more interesting than mine. Mine was Lateralus by Tool (still love it!). If one doesn't consider Tool metal, then it would be Dio's Holy Diver (still awesome). I've never heard of The Eternal before, but this is good stuff. (I'm listening to the original on Spotify.) Why isn't there more good gothic-ish doomish metal like that? Just a warning on the Spotify stuff - at least in the web player, there seems to be multiple bands mixed up under the same name. Of what's listed, only Kartika, Sleep of Reason and The Sombre Light of Isolation are by this 'The Eternal'.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on May 18, 2015 19:28:01 GMT
Yeah, that seems to be a weirdly common Spotify bug.
Just listened to the album Savage Gold by Tombs.
I'm not sure what to feel about this. Opens in a more dirty crunchy death metal style, before switching to random black metal interspersed with doomy lyrics. A couple of songs sound like Triptykon, one sounds like Dark Tranquillity, and some sound like almost happy shoegaze...and the vocalist sounds like the vocalist of Sylosis. It's got some weird moments. I'm not sure what it's trying to be...prog or black metal? The people on Amazon seem to love it, but I'm not sure whether it's good and I'm just not seeing it, or if it's a bit all over the place. I'm confused.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on May 20, 2015 5:11:17 GMT
Ladies and djentlemen, TesseracT is back in the act!
Odyssey/Scala - Concert CD/DVD by TesseracT.
If it's as good as the reviews say, there will be much prog metal prettiness and awesomeness! I'm so glad that Daniel Tompkins is back as the vocalist. Really looking forward to watching this, and can't wait for their next album!
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Post by Siana Blackwood on May 29, 2015 17:18:35 GMT
Some pretty good instrumental post-rock/post-metal: Full album on Bandcamp and I think it's on Spotify but I can't get the web player to talk to me at the moment. I don't know why 'post' rock/metal. What does that even mean?
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Post by Siana Blackwood on May 31, 2015 19:15:50 GMT
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Post by Siana Blackwood on May 31, 2015 21:06:31 GMT
New Helloween album!!! It sounds like Helloween. Not really anything surprising or experimental, just a bunch of good songs from a band who knows what they're good at and sticks to it. But really, aside from the weird people who still say Helloween was better with Michael Kiske, who wants anything else? *hits play again*
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jun 6, 2015 19:15:19 GMT
New Cradle of Filth album 'Hammer of the Witches' coming July 10th.
Below is the video for their new song 'Right Wing of the Garden Triptych'.
They've gone a lot more melodic on this one. Tentative like, but I'm not sure what to think yet. I'd have to hear the rest of the album.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jun 9, 2015 6:14:21 GMT
[Dragonfire of Fire - The Power of the Raging Horse] Ahahahaha! *pause* Headbanging. Horse.
Listening to The Divination of Antiquity [Album] by Winterfylleth. Pretty good melodic/atmospheric black metal.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jun 12, 2015 23:22:41 GMT
I was listening to an old favorite by Tyr, when it ended and Spotify played the next album on the list, Eric the Red. Now, I really liked the two Tyr albums I've heard so far, and their newest release, Valkyrja, and my erstwhile favorite, By the Light of the Northern Star. Epic Viking power metal. Eric the Red is an older release, but from the first note this thing blows them both out of the water! If Dream Theater chose to do melancholy progressive Viking power folk metal with crunchy riffs, it would be somewhere in this neighborhood. I have to say something about the chords/riffs. These are weird-sounding creations from hell which should not work, but yet which are played and woven together so masterfully that the beast becomes beauty. Holy crap. \m/ *Restarts from beginning*
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jun 29, 2015 17:52:41 GMT
Normally I try to avoid multi-posts, but I always make a giant list of these things to post and then I forget to post them. All of these happened this morning. The Congregation by Leprous I thought their album Coal was a bit weird, but this album was instant WIN for me. PROGGG! Kind of like Dream Theater, except not, and awesome! I also found this today. Here's the Metal Sampler - Amazon A couple of these tracks I've already heard and those bands are awesome, so I'm looking forward to listening to the rest. Aw hell. HEY LOOK IT'S FREE METAL! Monotony Fields by Shape of Despair I completely forgot that Shape of Despair was coming out with a new album this month. Came across it today, and wooow it was better than I thought it would be. How can something be melancholy and crushing and bleak and heavy yet also dot dot dot HOPEFUL? Yes. Hopeful. BRAIN. BROKEN. MONEY. TAKEN. (Okay, not really, but does a Spotify subscription count?) It totally works and it's beautiful! This is definitely making it onto my writing playlist for when I need a heavy, crushing atmosphere with a ray of sunshine. ^_^
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jul 14, 2015 4:03:58 GMT
So here's the newest thing that hasn't left my playlist for the last few days: Hammer of the Witches by Cradle of Filth. Yes, the new album is out! It's like old style Cradle of Filth with touches of the newer stuff, like Midian and Cruelty and the Beast with a bit of Nymphetamine. They've gone back to a more melodic sound, and man this thing is killer. In short...
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Aug 31, 2015 23:09:54 GMT
I don't know why. Metal Injection posted the Simon and Garfunkel cover and I listened to that, and then I listened to a couple of other songs because Youtube and rabbit holes, and then I wanted to see how Spotify went on my 'new' computer, so I listened to the full album. Then a couple of days later (today) I felt like listening to it again, so I guess that probably means I like it. 'Things I've listened to this year and wanted to listen to again' is a pretty short list.
It does bother me that the song 'fire it up' mentions a character I have guilty feelings about, though. #writerproblems
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Sept 8, 2015 5:42:35 GMT
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Sept 22, 2015 15:56:53 GMT
Meliora by Ghost B.C.This album is good and it makes me feel good. No idea how to describe this. Kind of rock-metal?
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