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Well, no I didn't mean it has to carry a specific, vocalized intent. Just that our actions have a political meaning and can be analyzed as such. In other words, there is no such thing as a non-political person. There are however many people not actively engaged in politics. Maybe that's more clear. And I do think that the kind of vocalized politicization you're talking about seems to be a lot more common in USA than Scandinavia.

For what it's worth, Nuclear War Now has a pretty giant online store, and many of the record labels usually have a US store. Or you could do what us Europeans do and bite the bullet and pay extortionate shipping and VAT fees 😂

Always was that way, same with capitalism, only now people are getting pretty good at disseminating the politics behind the message/action. As much as it may annoy you, everything we do has a political and societal effect, even saying "I don't care about politics" is a political statement because it implies that you're so comfortable and secure that you have the option to opt out.

Välkommen! Finally another Swede, we've been sorely outnumbered by the yanks and the brits and even the bloody Australians.

Total Skin Failure is absolutely a Czech grindcore band somewhere

🤔 I like most stuff, but with age I've sort of lost interest in many of the more mainstream BM bands, usually because they've been going for so long that they've lost the spark, or have evolved too far from what I consider good BM. I've moved more towards the xeroxcore one-man band raw stuff like Lamp of Murmuur, The Suns journey through the night, Black Cilice etc., even though there's a huge signal to noise-ratio in that scene. A good middle ground between raw and polished bands are Spider-God and Reign imo. Atmospheric black metal (is that the same as Cascadian black metal??) can be good too, as long as they don't forget the riffs. What's fun is that black metal has really become huge and diverse in the past 5-8 years, there's something for everyone. I'm particularly happy about the wave of indigenous black metal that has started to pop up. I think that's a interesting and viable way to move beyond the standard christ-raping themes and onto more socially relevant themes but still staying grounded in the rebellion and defiance of the second wave bands.

Sons... is having its 20th anniversary next year. Expect 50 different color options for the reissues by then.

Watain went off a cliff after Lawless Darkness. There were moments of greatness after but they blew their creative load on that one and Sworn to the Dark. Rabbit Deaf Hearse is cool for it's unhinged ambition, but it wasn't until Casus that they really started to figure out how to write compelling songs, imo. They're massively overhyped, but they 100% are important as an inspiration for the whole Orthodox Black Metal movement and igniting interest in black metal to a new generation.

Hea-vy!

Haven't heard of any of those, but Jotnarr sounds pretty sketchy. I don't know how PW would marry with black metal? I was introduced to Emanation recently, apparntly it's one of the guys in Teitanblood's sideproject from way back. It's really cool in marrying hypnotic backwards guitars, ordinary bm and general chaos. Feels like music to enjoy in a darkened room. Emanation - The Emanation of Begotten Chaos from God

I think most black metal fans seems to hate Ulver's "Themes from William Blake", even those that like the current sound of Ulver. I how ever think it's great, definitely the logical end-stop for the avantgarde wave that seemed to possess BM around the 00's (looking at you Arcturus, Ved Buens Ende, Fleurety, Solefald). It doesn't get much more pretentious than Garm citing 19th century poetry, and I love it.

That's me and Dissection. Objectively they tick many of my boxes, but they just leave me cold.

Don't underestimate the power of fanatical obsession and having no friends as a teen as driving force. I've never cared for Burzum, the white supmreacy is an instant turn-off, I'll never give him the time of day, but there's no denying that him and Mayhem are some of the cornerstones of all black metal and dungeon synth as we know it today.

I know next to nothing about the man behind the hair, so I just hope he's got a personality that comes through in text (even though it will undoubtedly be ghost written) so it's entertaining. Very few musician biographies are interesting imo. It's either a glorified CV or rambling debauchery.

Considering they're like 40 ppl on stage that must've been crowded 😂 Fun fact, last gig before Covid was CoL in Umeå. T'was massive.

Plams really suffered from Chinos vocals, the man is more limited than Tobias Forge, but at least Forge knows how to play to his strengths. You can say a lot about Deftones but saying Chino is a brilliant vocalist is not one of them. I've never seen Isis live, but I've never walked away from a Cult of Luna concert dissapointed. Even in their early days they spent the extra cash to have a dedicated light guy and it showed.

For some reason I got the urge to listen to R.E.M.'s "New adventures in Hi-Fi" yesterday and now that's almost all that's been played here since yesterday. Me and a friend used to bond over this record and "Ok Computer" a lot in high school. I had a big crush on her for a while, which I funnily enough I think was fueled by our intense discussions about music, not us being in anyway a good match otherwise. Leave is still such an amazing song. love the droning guitareffect that runs through the whole song.

So that sounds like a fantastic opportunity to grift/corruption. Like, what the fuck man?

Now we're talking! I just ordered this piece of Spanish weirdness. By a member of Teitanblood. Unholy black metal/noise/ambient horror. Perfect autumn music. Emanation - The Emanation of Begotten Chaos from God

This is double true for musicians. Another hilarious moment was when everyone was up in arms over Set Teitan of Watain throwing a Nazi salute in a picture. The band put out a statement basically saying it was taken out of context but for peace' sake Set would step down, but he was absolutely not a Nazi. Set goes on to play with Absurd.🤣🤣

One of my favourites was when Monstorsity recived a medium review from a webzine I was on, and the bassist lost his shit and started sending badly spelled hatemail. This was a webzine with few readers that no one except those involved really cared about. The guy could barely string two sentences together, but he was really pissed. He was also quite racist/antisemitic from what I can remember.

Huh! That guy follows me on IG. I never realised he had a band. This was good stuff! I've been listening the shit out of the new Archspire singles. I have no idea how anyone can write that fast, technical, dizzying music and still be so damn catchy and memorble. Incredible. Archspire - Drone corpse aviator Other than that I think LLNN's new album will end up on my top 10 this year. They are kind of in that sweetspot between Godflesh, old Neurosis, Swe-death and Author & Punisher. LLNN - Division

It's kinda fascinating that a new disease can alter our way of life not just by becoming a pandemic, which of course have had enormous secondary consequences on our behaviors and lifestyles, but then come again a second time and fuck us over with longterm effects after the disease has left the body. Scary, but fascinating. This should really be a humbling moment for mankind, but instead we're arguing over a piece of cloth over our faces or "personal freedoms" to go out clubbing. I think the longterm effects of Covid will indeed be vast, given how many people have been infected world wide. It would be funny if American insurance companies decides that symptoms of long term covid (which are vague and general) counts as pre-existing conditions and voids you of your insurance. That would be fucking evil.

There was a record fair last weekend, first one in almost 2 years for obvious reasons, and I scored some great stuff. All vinyl except for the last two which are cassettes. The Ocean - Fogdiver Ghost - Prequelle Dødheimsgard - Kronet Til Konge Terato - The Morbid Wraiths Woods Of Ypres - Woods III: Deepest Roots And Darkest Blues Vinterkrig - Härskare Över Stjärnorna Och Mina Drömmar (MC) Incarnated - Choirs Of The Dead - The Complete Works Of Incarnated (C´MC)

Hahaha ah well, I shall do as the General commands then