What Are You Listening To?

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Burn - Burn, Sweden 1983. My first Swedish metal album back when I thought that was exotic. Love this record.

 

Heavy Load - Death or Glory, Sweden 1982. The other Swedish heavy metal band I knew about in the 80's. Good for an occasional nostalgia spin, has a certain charm, but nothing you'd need to track down and own. The next record after this one was atrocious.

 

Necronomicon - Necronomicon, German thrash 1986. Bought it just for the cover but it became a favorite. Poorly produced, but at least they got the buzzsaw guitar tone which is more than Destruction can say. These guys could've been somebody, but then the next record was ass. They seem to have a small cult following online, but I've never met anybody who's ever heard of them. The mounted a comeback in 2004 and released 6 newer albums on top of their first five from '86 to '94, so somebody must be listening.

 

Sortilège - Métamorphose, French heavy metal 1984, had to find a French band for Ari. Weird how the dude's accent sounds Japanese when he sings, even though the lyrics appear to be totally in French. Which is fine with me, I don't listen to the lyrics anyway.

 

[Yannis]

Cemetery Of Scream - Sameone

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

1 hour ago, Yannis said:

I'm happy to hear that 😄 I very well enjoyed this album and one day i'm sure to come back for more! 

Funeral - Tragedies

 

Cloaked by Ages, Crowned in Earth the best album in my opinion. As a matter of fact, I’m listening to it right now.

[Arioch]

Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger (1994)

 

[Yannis]

Mourning Beloveth - Dust

 

[Arioch]

Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags (2008)

Yes, today is a special Darkthrone day for me 😁

 

[MacabreEternal]

Absu - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (1993)

 

[Yannis]

7 minutes ago, Arioch said:

Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags (2008)

Yes, today is a special Darkthrone day for me 😁

 

Nice! This is just like me when i'm having my Anathema and Tiamat days 🤭

[Yannis]

Panopticon - Autumn Eternal

 

[markm]

 

 Cruciamentum/Charnel Passages (2023)-One of my favorite DM albums from last year. I dig the combo of unsettling atmosphere and relative broootality

[FatherAlabaster]

6 minutes ago, markm said:

 

 Cruciamentum/Charnel Passages (2023)-One of my favorite DM albums from last year. I dig the combo of unsettling atmosphere and relative broootality

I like Charnel Passages a lot, but it came out in 2015. Did you mean Obsidian Refractions? 

[markm]

39 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I like Charnel Passages a lot, but it came out in 2015. Did you mean Obsidian Refractions? 

Yes, thank you for the correction! 

[Yannis]

Nightfall - Athenian Echoes

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

9 hours ago, Thatguy said:

And, despite my reluctance to listen to one person projects...

BIAḺYWILK - Próżnia

Which was very good indeed

Are you not yourself a one person project? There's so many of them now in the underground black metal space, solo acts and two-pieces that I'm sometimes surprised to learn that a band has multiple members with no one playing more than one instrument.

 

Hate Manifesto - To Those Who Glorified Death, black/death Greece 2017 one man project with a session drummer.

 

 

Morticide - Death Cannot Hold Those With Purpose, death metal from Albany NY, looks like there's 3 of them.

 

[AlSymerz]

Coroner - The Unnknown Unreleased

[Thatguy]

7 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Are you not yourself a one person project?

Kinda, but kinda not.

And some one person projects are really good like this one, but so many are not.There is no time to listen to everything.

[RexKeltoi]

18 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Burn - Burn, Sweden 1983. My first Swedish metal album back when I thought that was exotic. Love this record.

 

Heavy Load - Death or Glory, Sweden 1982. The other Swedish heavy metal band I knew about in the 80's. Good for an occasional nostalgia spin, has a certain charm, but nothing you'd need to track down and own. The next record after this one was atrocious.

 

Necronomicon - Necronomicon, German thrash 1986. Bought it just for the cover but it became a favorite. Poorly produced, but at least they got the buzzsaw guitar tone which is more than Destruction can say. These guys could've been somebody, but then the next record was ass. They seem to have a small cult following online, but I've never met anybody who's ever heard of them. The mounted a comeback in 2004 and released 6 newer albums on top of their first five from '86 to '94, so somebody must be listening.

 

Sortilège - Métamorphose, French heavy metal 1984, had to find a French band for Ari. Weird how the dude's accent sounds Japanese when he sings, even though the lyrics appear to be totally in French. Which is fine with me, I don't listen to the lyrics anyway.

 

I bought that Sortilege album on import in 84. I liked the way the bass was audible in Burn ( never heard of them surprisingly). When I heard the intro on Heavy Load it was reminiscent of Swords and Tequila. Necronomicon reminded me a bit of Gates of Purgatory early Running Wild a bit too. 

7 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

Coroner - The Unnknown Unreleased

Thats a band I haven't listened to in awhile 

[RexKeltoi]

Buenos Aires - Baron Rojo 

I remember Metallica opened for these guys at a bunch of shows around 84ish astonishing looking back. I was probably the only metalhead buying albums in foreign languages in my circle.   

[AlSymerz]

10 minutes ago, RexKeltoi said:

 I was probably the only metalhead buying albums in foreign languages in my circle.   

I was a bit like that but it took me until 87 to actually find a shop that was selling such things on local release (we had enough trouble getting major label US and UK releases let alone other countries).

My first international album like that was Kruiz (Круиз). The other stuff they released before and after wasn't much but I still like that album to this day.

 

NP: Nuclear Assault - Game Over

[RelentlessOblivion]

Azaghul - Nemesis

[RexKeltoi]

49 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

I was a bit like that but it took me until 87 to actually find a shop that was selling such things on local release (we had enough trouble getting major label US and UK releases let alone other countries).

My first international album like that was Kruiz (Круиз). The other stuff they released before and after wasn't much but I still like that album to this day.

 

NP: Nuclear Assault - Game Over

In Canada 70's early 80's UK stuff for the bigger acts you could get on domestic but other stuff like Angel Witch for instance or mainland Euro like Accept you had to get on import. Even 70's things like Taken by Force and Tokyo tapes I had to get on import for 3 times more coin I would pay if I waited for the domestic release. There was also the clout of being the only metal head with releases not yet domestically available so making good cash being around a lot of musicians it was worth it.   

[Yannis]

Thus Defiled - Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn

Elysian Fields - Adelain

 

[Arioch]

Machine Head - Diamonds in the Rough (92/93" demos) (2024)

 

[Yannis]

Treblinka - Crawling In Vomits

 

[AlSymerz]

2 hours ago, RexKeltoi said:

In Canada 70's early 80's UK stuff for the bigger acts you could get on domestic but other stuff like Angel Witch for instance or mainland Euro like Accept you had to get on import. Even 70's things like Taken by Force and Tokyo tapes I had to get on import for 3 times more coin I would pay if I waited for the domestic release. There was also the clout of being the only metal head with releases not yet domestically available so making good cash being around a lot of musicians it was worth it.   

In Australia it pretty much took until Metallica released AJFA that any metal label signed deals with local distributors taking shit off the import list. Local branches of labels like Sony, EMI etc had to pen local distribution deals with labels like Megaforce and Earache etc so that would see albums released locally through a major label. These deals weren't by any means unique to Australia, it just took a long time for these labels who were predominantly overseas labels with local offices to realise that selling metal here was worth doing.

 

NP: Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain