Skipped straight to track 5 and started headbanging! Not the sound I was expecting tbh, more thrashy black n roll than grim frostbitten castle black.

I'm not sure if these albums have been posted before, but new label Pile of Heads has a deal where you can get all three for $0.50. Also, vinyl for Winterburial are in the pipeline.

https://pileofheads.bandcamp.com/album/white-tomb-pilgrimage-3

Winterburial - White Tomb Pilgrimage

Northern Solitude - El meu cos gelat als voltors

1789 - 1789

On 1/10/2022 at 1:08 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

I don't think I'd call this folk, but I like it a lot. Really fits my current mood, too, I needed something this chilled out right now. Thanks for posting.

Yeah, folk isn't really the right genre. I was kind of struggling placing it. A friend suggested dark folk?

On 1/10/2022 at 1:54 AM, KillaKukumba said:

I also don't mind a bit of MOD but I got in a huge fight on another forum about 8 years ago because I said Billy was an idiot, although not in such polite terms, and despite being in a different country and not even knowing who I was this fan, who claimed to know Billy personally, threatened to come to my house and kill me for dissing his mate.

Well, you're not wrong. I think it's hilarious when people decide to death trheat people over the internet. Talk about impotent raging.

Well fuck, infection rates are rising to record numbers right now, so I might have to take a break from the gym after the only a week!🙃 But I'm getting my third shot on wednesday so we'll see now things look next week.

Welcome to the forums, and yes you do indeed have a lot (40 years worth) of metal to discover! It's kind of fascinating to think that there was a time when all this, which we do kind of take for granted, was nothing more then assorted fragments in individual musicians/genres skill-set. Distorted guitars from Dick Dale, non-conventional and fast (some may even call them blast beats) from Gene Krupa and the jazz-genre, and (perhaps this is a stretch) raw, emotionally resonant, and not necessarily cleancut vocals from afroamerican soul, jazz and blues. Bring it all together and you have the embryo of metal.

This might be the best neofolk/folk album i've heard in a long while. Meditative, beautiful and organic.

Fields of Mildew - The complete woes

14 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

35ks on the bike this morning and the drizzling rain still wont leave me alone.

You biked 35 km in a morning? That's pretty impressive!

I recently started going to the gym again after almost 2 years of wokring out at home. Words can't desribe how much more fun it is to be in a place with a wide assortment of tools and weights, and not having to worry about knocking over the TV. I've been 4 times since sunday and started a new program called The Minimalist. Two days in and it's kicking my ass!

neverSATE - The Minimalist

On 1/4/2022 at 8:24 PM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I look at it this way Mark. If something is underground, like a sprinkler system for instance, or septic pipes, or maybe a potato, that doesn't mean it's hard to find if you know it's there and you're looking for it.

It's the same way with underground music. Underground just means it's hidden from view to the general public. The normies and soccer moms and teachers and plumbers and secretaries and the mainstream pop music loving American Idol/Spotify crowd who have absolutely no idea that these aggressively heavy forms of music we listen to and take for granted like death metal and especially black metal even exist.

I think this is a spot on analogy. The stuff is there, but it's more or less hard to find it, not find out about it. There's what most think of when they think of metal, the mainstream (GNR, Metallica, Motörhead), then the mainstream for metal fans (Gojira, Lamb of God, Mastodon and SLipknot). And then there's like 2-3 sub-levels more until we reach stuff like Till, Wharflurch, Thy Dying Light and Jute Gyte lol. It's all there, but you have to know where to look

Man I recognize almost none of @Hungarino picks. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing! I do like that you gave some love to SexMag though! Those guys really channel the sleazy vibe of 80's eastern europe black/thrash. Have you heard Hexenbrett of the same label (Dying Victims)?

Hexenbrett - Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi

On 1/1/2022 at 10:43 PM, Parker said:

Hey, I know, I haven't been around in a while, but I had to tell you guys about this. The other day I was listening to A Grand Declaration of War by Mayhem when my wife said, "Is this The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack?" 

"What?" I said, confused.

"That's Dr. Frankenfurter, isn't it?" she replied. And then it hit me: Maniac's "political rally voice" (for lack of a better descriptor) on that album DOES sound pretty much just like Tim Curry's character's voice in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Definitely not what Maniac intended, and this is seriously fucking with my ability to appreciate that awesome album without laughing my ass off.

Hahaha this is awesome! I'd rather listen to Rocky Horror any day than Grand declaration tbh. That album has not aged well. Though the production did improve with the recent remaster.

17 hours ago, ratpfink said:

Zornheym - The Zornheim Sleep Experiment
 

Frummyrkrið is weird. Advertised as icelandic bm, but seems to have been erased from the internets to some extent. The record is gone from my bandcamp collection. Good thing I downloaded? I read an italian blog that says they might actually be a brazilian band. So bonus points for the mystery/fuckery.

Yes! Zornheym are so ridiculously entertaining and catchy. Great stuff. Graveless Souls recently put out a pre-order for cassette. The vinyl is delayed I think.

Frummyrkrið might be the case that they got snatched up by a label that don't want the album online until it's released again? That happened with Zeal & Ardor's first EP "Devil is fine".

15 hours ago, zackflag said:

7. Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime (Epic, melodic Black metal)

I can't believe you're the first one I see mentioning Stormkeep! The rest of you are obviously fucking missing out!

2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Re: my exchange with Navy the other night... after spending the better part of 2 days listening to almost nothing but my 2021 death metal albums, I can honestly say without fear of contradiction that this has most definitely not been a weak year for death metal at all imho.

You my friend should check out the YT channel Melanie Loves Death Metal. She's an awesome, passionate metal fan who really helps me stay attuned to what's happening in the DM world.

MelanieLovesDeathMetal - Top 20 death metal albums of 2021

On 12/25/2021 at 12:54 AM, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

I don't agree with what Sheol has said either. I've only really listened to spiritual healing. What an album. Just gets better the more I hear it. I like that record alot as there's just so much going on and variety too. Probably should listen to the other albums too as I like prog so later albums I may like. I've heard people say Chuck was the first to sing the way he did so part of what Sheol said could be right.  

Well I don't equate them when it comes to musical ability, songwriting or image, that would be quite mean to Death haha. But they're in the same category for me with foundational bands I've never taken to.

I have an IG where I post my records and such, no personal stuff. The IG vinyl community, particularly the metal vinyl sub-genre, is quite supportive and fun. There's some bitching drama but it's easy to avoid. And it's the best place to find new releases and bands. Never fucked with Fb, Twitter etc.

On 12/18/2021 at 10:38 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Arioch's vocals are a weak point here for me

I just have real specific tatses when it comes to black metal and this doesn't check enough of my boxes.

😲 I'd say! I think Arioch is generally considered one of the best black metal vocalists ever, for good reason. I love the variation and pathos in his voice.

On 12/18/2021 at 11:27 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Yeah man this is very good, I'm digging it.

 

The guy behind it, Erech Leleth, has a lot of bands, all good. Ancient Mastery of course, but also Golden Blood (thrash/black/heavy metal with a little dash of punk), Narzissus (more raw black metal), Grandeur (more epic than AM), Carathis (haven't actually listened to this one yet).

Välkommen Toni, hoppas du trivs här!

14 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Vernon Township where I live is 67.6 sq miles with 22,200 people which works out to 328 people per square mile. Compared to Metro New York City's 28,000 people per sq mile that's a world of difference. Metro Stockholm by contrast, the largest city in Scandinavia has 13,000 people per sq mile. I know you don't live down south near Stockholm Johan, but I figure maybe you've been there at least.

Indeed I have, many times. It's the closes town if you wanna see any international bands. Sure sometimes we get something here, but if you wanna see Iron Maiden or hell, even Gojira or Mastodon, off to Sthlm you go. For the record, I find Stockholm too crowded and smelly for my taste. I can visit, but I'd never wanna live there. I figure that Stockholm is the kind of city that's too big to be inviting as a whole, and too small to have any sort of separated sections/boroughs/districts that function as insular "small towns".

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and dumb ass deer that want to jump out right in front of your car at night. But I guess nowhere's perfect.

Here we got reindeer and moose. Dumb motherfuckers run along the roads, licking the roadsalt. Cause a few hundred accidents every year, especially in the spring when the year old moose calfs are rejected by the mother and runs around all disoriented and sad.

14 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Vernon Township where I live is 67.6 sq miles with 22,200 people which works out to 328 people per square mile. Compared to Metro New York City's 28,000 people per sq mile that's a world of difference. Metro Stockholm by contrast, the largest city in Scandinavia has 13,000 people per sq mile. I know you don't live down south near Stockholm Johan, but I figure maybe you've been there at least.

Indeed I have, many times. It's the closes town if you wanna see any international bands. Sure sometimes we get something here, but if you wanna see Iron Maiden or hell, even Gojira or Mastodon, off to Sthlm you go. For the record, I find Stockholm too crowded and smelly for my taste. I can visit, but I'd never wanna live there. I figure that Stockholm is the kind of city that's too big to be inviting as a whole, and too small to have any sort of separated sections/boroughs/districts that function as insular "small towns".

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and dumb ass deer that want to jump out right in front of your car at night. But I guess nowhere's perfect.

Here we got reindeer and moose. Dumb motherfuckers run along the roads, licking the roadsalt. Cause a few hundred accidents every year, especially in the spring when the year old moose calfs are rejected by the mother and runs around all disoriented and sad.

1 hour ago, navybsn said:

That and it's highly pathogenic, highly mutable, and has a mortality rate around 60% (pandemic plans normally account for 0.1-0.4% mortality rates, the 1918-19 flu was 2-3%).

Uhhh, oh shit.

On 12/14/2021 at 11:03 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Yeah I know, easy for me to say, I live in New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the US, where we've had over 28,500 Covid deaths among our 9 million residents,

Let me just say that it kind of blows my mind that you have the population of Sweden (450 295 km²) packed into one of your American states (NJ: 22 591 km²). It's just wild. I think I would go stir-crazy with that many people around me at all times.

22 hours ago, navybsn said:

The healthcare system is fucked if H5N1 ever jumps from birds to people, it will make COVID look minor league. Read The Great Flu by John Barry or any of the myriad of books about the 1918-19 epidemic and imagine how much worse an event like that would be today.

Thanks, I hate it.

I've read that Barry book and it's fucking wild. Just death on an unfathomable scale. What exactly is it about the bird flu that is so dangerous compared to Covid?

I think very few Swedes would have a birthday party at the park outside, usually it's at home, maybe out in the familys yard if it's summer. 😄

Great, now I'm craving cake, damn you!

Also, what would be the difference between a dessert and a snack?

14 hours ago, zackflag said:

Trhä - endlhëtonëg

Trying this one out based on Sheol's recommendation. Five minute keyboard intro (that's never a good first impression lol) followed by overly raw, synthy bm. Not bad. I am growing tired of the "sound as terrible as possible on purpose" trend in black metal though. 

I think it was kinda meh. Nothing that really caught me. I think this is the best outing of Trhä so far.

Trhä : Novej Kalhnjënno

I started googling what Daniel Heiman (Lost horizon) has been up to lately and got sucked into a huge, purple vortex of OTT power metal cheese. In particular Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom. An epic 3-album fantasy story with tons of guestsingers and musicians. Incredibly overwrought, ambitious and nerdy, but I love it. I mean, there's one song with Michael Kiske and Daniel Heiman duetting. How much more power metal can you get?

Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom - Temple of the ancient gods.

I don't think I've been to a birthday party for anyone above 10 years old that didn't feature a Princesscake. It's pretty much a staple in Sweden. If there's a grown-up party odds are high that you start off with a Smörgåstårta first. For kids it's usually icecream or just a regular cream cake with jam between sponges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_cake

http://swedishspoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DSC05617-1024x683.jpg

https://www.thelocal.se/20191113/swedish-word-of-the-day-smrgstrta/

Celestial Sword / Trhä - edënohhdlha hálgra tu majtranlh'ha / ga nëcëcta mon idlhi

https://celestialsword.bandcamp.com/album/ed-nohhdlha-h-lgra-tu-majtranlhha-ga-n-c-cta-mon-idlhi

Trhä is gonna be the new Lamp of Murmuur of 2022 when it comes to hypetrain, and CS is just crazy productive as always (6 splits and 1 full-length this year)

On 12/9/2021 at 5:07 PM, FatherAlabaster said:

Agree about Venom but I don't understand lumping Death in with them in this way. Death had distinctive, memorable songs, great lineups with killer musicianship, always pushed forward and stayed creative. Love those last four albums in particular. A far cry from Venom's schlock 'n roll.

No it's not about ambition or skill, but rather that it's bands I've never liked, no matter how important or influential they were. The music just kind of sucked.

13 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Papangu - Holoceno

What did you think of this? I quite liked it, but it's a bit of a weird bird for sure.

11 hours ago, zackflag said:

Acathexis - S/T

I certainly wouldn't mind another album from these guys.

Same. It's a really good album from a band I've never heard of. I think Jacob from Mare Cognitum was involved?

11 hours ago, zackflag said:

Acathexis - S/T

I certainly wouldn't mind another album from these guys.

Same. It's a really good album from a band I've never heard of. I think Jacob from Mare Cognitum was involved?