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This again' date=' full of dissonance, off-kilter melodies and riffs and atmosphere - quite pleasing.[/quote'] That one is probably my least favorite of theirs, yet it's still great. I feel that The Work Which Transforms God and The Mystical Beast of Rebellion offer much of the same, but in a more powerful and well executed package. Odinist almost felt like a stop-gap release of leftovers from that era before Memoria Vetusta II, but again, it's still great. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Car Bomb- w^w^^w^w (yes, that's the album title.) I figured I'd check these guys out since they're opening the show tonight. A lot of Meshuggah-meets-Dillinger going on here, but maybe because I'm in an expansive mood, I don't hate it! I actually kind of like it. I'm curious to see whether they can pull it off, given how "produced" this album sounds. I wonder what Iceni would think of this - there's not much melody and the texture is typical of this genre, but it's well-done mathcore.

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I've only ever feigned solipsism, I'm uncertain as to why I'm always taken so seriously, despite constantly insisting not to be. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Give yourself more credit. Growing up thinking I was only a small part of Brahma's transient dream has prepared me well for the realization that I'm actually part of yours.
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'Ballerina' by Thought Industry.

Give yourself more credit. Growing up thinking I was only a small part of Brahma's transient dream has prepared me well for the realization that I'm actually part of yours.
Wow, Hinduism's even stranger than I thought.
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'Ballerina' by Thought Industry. Wow, Hinduism's even stranger than I thought.
I do feel a bit more of a connection with the eastern concept of god as a pantheistic/panentheistic entity than the western anthropomorphic "man in the sky", in addition to my previously stated feelings of alienation from reality's distorted/fucked up nature. I guess the point of the post being that I don't think the notion of this world being nothing but a dream is as fucked up as believing that this world in all of its filth and degradation is all that we have. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I guess the point of the post being that I don't think the notion of this world being nothing but a dream is as fucked up as believing that this world in all of its filth and degradation is all that we have.
We did not know that day that the two titans would clash - but the signs were there.
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That one is probably my least favorite of theirs, yet it's still great. I feel that The Work Which Transforms God and The Mystical Beast of Rebellion offer much of the same, but in a more powerful and well executed package. Odinist almost felt like a stop-gap release of leftovers from that era before Memoria Vetusta II, but again, it's still great. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
I downloaded "The Work Which Transforms God" the other day and got to listen to it at the gym yesterday over a couple of hours. It is frankly one of the most brilliant auditory experiences of my life. So bleak and desolate, seeping with dissonance but also ethereal beauty at the same time. It's extraordinary how there is so much going on yet none of it seems out of place despite it's off-kilter delivery. With every twist or distortion to the structure there is still a real feeling of that is exactly what should be happening. It is an album made by a band completely at ease with themselves who are not simply trying to tick boxes or live up to genre tags. "The Odinist" was billed to me as being "experimental" which is not what I get from it. It's more aggressive than some of the reviews would have you believe to. It's leagues away from "The Work.." and "MORT" but it is still enjoyable all the same.
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I downloaded "The Work Which Transforms God" the other day and got to listen to it at the gym yesterday over a couple of hours. It is frankly one of the most brilliant auditory experiences of my life. So bleak and desolate, seeping with dissonance but also ethereal beauty at the same time. It's extraordinary how there is so much going on yet none of it seems out of place despite it's off-kilter delivery. With every twist or distortion to the structure there is still a real feeling of that is exactly what should be happening. It is an album made by a band completely at ease with themselves who are not simply trying to tick boxes or live up to genre tags. "The Odinist" was billed to me as being "experimental" which is not what I get from it. It's more aggressive than some of the reviews would have you believe to. It's leagues away from "The Work.." and "MORT" but it is still enjoyable all the same.
It should be obvious from my handle here that they're one of my favorite bands, and The Work Which Transforms God is one of their best. I don't think they ever topped the swirling chaos found on that album for their dissonant sound, it just shrieks and howls from the darkest corners of existence and is simply haunting. However, I adore their standard black metal albums just as much, Ultima Thulee and both Memoria Vetusta albums are stunningly beautiful and dense listens. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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