I still have the soundtrack to this on cassette. Same here, along with hooded figures, their a sure sign of quality! We need to come up with the list of standards for black metal covers.
If careless, given the heft of those knockers, there'd be no need to corpse-paint black eyes. Concerning pairs, I've picked up on these two from the list.
The song of the night last night. Smitten especially after it shifted down a dozen seconds after 4:30.
Pitchfork - TOP 10 Metal Releases of 2017, it belongs here as opposed to the other Metal/Hard Rock thread. The 10 Best Metal Albums of 2017 | Pitchfork
Make me listen to more than 10 minutes of Mahogany Rush and you'll find me curled up in the fetal position. And certainly some of this would have the same affect upon those good gentlemen. As I wrote there before regarding this division (for some) "That is why Rembrandt and Jackson Pollock hang in different wings of the gallery. There were too many knife fights." I took what is probably one last swig from the bottle of 2017 in checking out/listening to the last week of 'No Clean Singing' which consisted of a bunch of lists, some 30 items long and I did say "ah shet" when I saw. I jotted down the following albums, which appealed to me to some degree, but I didn't indulge in any as my ears were done. Terra Damnata by Nightbringer Cosmic Reawakening by Crafteon Succumb (Self titled) Tchornobog (Self titled) Exorkizein by Possession Quod Erat Faciendum by Euclidean Cast the First Stone by Hour of Penance Desolate Endscape by Phrenelith Grimen by Glosen Spiritual Bloodshed by Triumvir Foul I listened to a couple of these earlier in the year but they didn't stick and clearly I had this Nightbringer confused with another band as they sound nothing alike.
Now listening to a 2017 album, Voidsphere's To Call | To Speak. This band is part of the Prava Kollektiv and apparently shares members with Arkhtinn which I mentioned earlier. Anyway, this is one cold, dark album with an atmosphere as bleak as a black hole.....
That is a trip! How to return from that? On my search and destroy and in the letter H I found this which was spared. Sometimes all it takes is one song, and it needn't have a sliver of originality, to save an album from the eternal abyss (or Voidsphere) called the Recycle Bin. I watched The Yakuza (1974) and enjoyed it. Too slow to recommend to pure action fans, especially as there are sizable scenes dealing with the former romance of Robert Mitchum and Keiko Kishi from his post-WWII duty in Japan. It didn't bother me in the slightest as I'm a romantic softy and I also really dig the soundtracks from the early 70s. I thought (by default) it might be Lalo Schifrin but it was Dave Grusin. Dave Grusin - Yakuza - Scrapbook Epilogue sounds so reminiscent of Vangelis' later work for Blade Runner, I wonder. Anyway, there is enough Noir, suspense and action to satisfy most.
Dude! I LOVE The Yakuza! That is a great flick! I recently got the Blu-ray but just haven't gotten around to it yet. Do you have Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor And Humanity series? Those are my favorite Yakuza films.
I'm going to be going old-school for a bit. Just got discogs of Beherit, Samael, Gorgoroth, Darkthrone, and Mayhem. Already had the main albums of Mayhem, but now have a ton of demos and boots. Think Samael is more in line with me from the brief bits i've heard, so it should be fun.
So I'm in good company! Good to know. No and I've never seen them. Well, to the top of the list they'll be then! Looking around it seems the cheapest and easiest way is streaming through Amazon. $4 versus $150 for the box set IF it can still be purchased. I'm not a 'Fearless' fuzzface with purchases though for some reason I find myself wanting to make one final purchase for the final day of the year and am wandering around listening.
Not Black Metal in any way, but the new Bootsy Collins album "World Wide Funk" is the best album of the year, IMO. For 2017 stuff I can also recommend Enslaved, Myrkur, Pallbearer, Azaroth, and Goatwhore. If you need traditional, the new Belfagor is decent.
Heh, I am like that myself! I just purchased the OOP Swans CDs Public Castration Is A Good Idea and The Gate. I also got the 3CD reissue of Filth mainly for that 3rd CD which includes the debut EP. I got quite a bit of money for Christmas and it's burning a hole in my pocket so I thought "Why not"? I have a LOT of time for any Swans music!
I really dig the first two Pallbearer CDs but I heard a lot of mixed things about the new one. I heard it was going more in a prog direction so I wasn't sure that I would like it. There have really been soooooo many great albums this year in metal, jazz, avant-garde, hip hop, etc. I thought last year was great but this one might have it beat! Here were some of my favorites this year: Faust - Fresh Air BIG|BRAVE - Ardor Ches Smith - The Bell MONARCH! - Never Forever Wadada Leo Smith - Najwa Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper 176 - Music In Eight Octaves Gravetemple - Impassable Fears Irreversible Entanglements - S/T Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Incidentals Roscoe Mitchell - Bells For The South Side Avishai Cohen - Cross My Palm With Silver Kamasi Washington - Harmony Of Difference James Blood Ulmer with The Thing - Baby Talk Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers King Crimson - Official Bootleg: Live In Chicago, 7/28/2017 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Those Who Came Never Before
All I've been listening to is classic black, death and melodeath albums this week, but here's my top 2017: Whoredom Rife - Dommedagskvad Almyrkvi - Umbra The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia Lluvia - Enigma Rebirth of Nefast - Tabernaculum Kaosophia - Serpenti Vortex Boris - Dear Tchornobog - Tchornobog Ustalost - The Spoor of Vipers Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements Pillorian - Obsidian Arc Aosoth - V: The Inside Scriptures Blaze of Perdition - Conscious Darkness Cultes des Ghoules - Coven Nokturnal Mortum - Verity Venenum - Trance of Death Kalmankantaja - Demonwoods Fen - Winter Enslaved - E Nightbringer - Terra Damnata Battle Dagorath - II: Frozen Light of Eternal Darkness
Uh.... late entry (for me) to album of the year contender... Samael - Hegemony. Hellz yeah! Listening to it for the first time right now and loving it. With a HUGE grin on my face.
Wow! I have 10 of those 22. That is significant! Just under the wire. I made my purchase. I pushed myself but not to the point of breaking a sweat. -20 Celcius/ -4 Fahrenheit outside, it would be inappropriate. Speaking of inappropriate I did see the band name of the year and I will surely find a use for it in the right company, around the boss. Erectile Dementia! I decided upon Hreilia by Tongues as my final 2017 purchase. Hreilia, by TONGUES
Now playing the Bosque/Senthil split from 2006. I guess this one is more in the doom vein but still an amazing release. This is the only thing I have by the disturbing Senthil. Plague would go on to form the doom band Nivathe in 2008 and drop a glorious album of Swans-worshipping sludge called Enveloped In A Diseased Abyss. It's a must have. Anywho, here is the full split: A very doomed/blackened 2018 to you all!
I only have these two. I got the Boris CD a few weeks back but haven't played it yet. I have both of the Battle Dagorath albums on the way. That is a killer band!
Nice! I stuck with Tongues and enjoyed it. By song four I knew I didn't waste my money. ...And The Ever Watchful Clouds, by TONGUES By song six I was very pleased. I don't like that retro/ sludge stuff but this which is similar is just so very well done. I love how after things have gone to chaos it pulls itself back together at 5:50. Acumen Numinous, by TONGUES
