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Peccatum - Strangling from within I can't quite put my finger on the genre, but it sounds great and creates atmospheres rather well. This is a band I'll look into farther
The stuff they did after that album is much softer and more rock based. Not bad, but that one is my favorite. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Oh lovely. Is it middle-aged people you work for? They're the bloody worst, just old enough to believe they're entitled to ass kissing from everyone, but not old enough to make the mature realization that nobody cares what they do for a living or what they've accomplished.

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I missed them at MDF and when they came through my town, how does the album sound? Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
I would love to see them BAN, Regarding Soma by Windhand, I listened just once, but yearn to give my impressions. It is wicked heavy. In that way it is like all the little bits of them that I have heard. It's a very even and constant pressure, which is to say that it's not dynamic, no interesting architecture of composition, just constant oppressive weight with the occasional folkish coma of punctuation that might, in my opinion, have been delivered with richer style. I'd like to hear something a little more opulent somewhere, but mostly I just love to be steeped in the thick distorted heaviness of the thing they do. I can't say for sure that they have the real pathos, but it does it for me just in digital, so now I want the vinyl in cream with a splatter of green. Thanks for Asking. I forgot to mention there was this one point about 2/3 of the way through were it just falls apart. It's maybe "experimental" and who am I to judge, but I would have edited it out.
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Some stuff from Otargos and Belenos. Tonight shall be known as the-night-in-which-Midi-discovers-a-lot-of-new-black-metal-which-makes-him-very-happy-night. Suggestions anyone? :)
Furia's first two albums, Drudkh's first two albums, Castevet's new album Obsian, and Averse Sefira's Advent Parallax get a lot of playing time from me, along with some of the classics like Satyricon's The Shadowthrone, Ulver's Bergtatt, Darkthrone's A Blaze In The Northern Sky, and more recently Burzum's Filosofem and Blut Aus Nord's Mystical Beast Of Rebellion. Maybe check out some of the "melodic" black metal from 90's Scandinavia, too - Dawn is a great band, though hard to find, and Vinterland has some cool stuff.
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Furia's first two albums' date=' Drudkh's first two albums, Castevet's new album Obsian, and Averse Sefira's Advent Parallax get a lot of playing time from me, along with some of the classics like Satyricon's The Shadowthrone, Ulver's Bergtatt, Darkthrone's A Blaze In The Northern Sky, and more recently Burzum's Filosofem and Blut Aus Nord's Mystical Beast Of Rebellion. Maybe check out some of the "melodic" black metal from 90's Scandinavia, too - Dawn is a great band, though hard to find, and Vinterland has some cool stuff.[/quote'] I've heard Furia's debut album, which is great. Same goes for Filosofem. I saw the conversation on Castevet earlier today, but I just can't get into them. As for the rest, they're now on the list
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I've heard Furia's debut album' date=' which is great. Same goes for Filosofem. I saw the conversation on Castevet earlier today, but I just can't get into them. As for the rest, they're now on the list[/quote'] Oh shit, how could I forget one of my new favorites, Thantifaxath? Their album Sacred White Noise offers some really cool melodies and maybe the clearest use of odd time signatures I've heard in black metal. It gets better with repeated listening, for me anyway. Another band that knocked my socks off live. They were awesome.
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Some stuff from Otargos and Belenos. Tonight shall be known as the-night-in-which-Midi-discovers-a-lot-of-new-black-metal-which-makes-him-very-happy-night. Suggestions anyone? :)
Bran Barr, ...And Oceans, Lengsel, Agalloch, Antestor, Lo-Ruhamah, Extol, Holy Blood, Crimson Moonlight, Renascent, Drottnar, Carach Angren, Diabolical Masquerade, Voices and Kekal are all ones I like. Immortal is good as well.
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'After the Fall' by Seven Kingdoms. I can't decide on this, really. It's solid but not really grabbing me just yet. I seem to remember them being like mid-period HammerFall (back when they weren't embarrassing) and I can hear that, but the drumming is bugging me.

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