What Are You Listening To?

[FatherAlabaster]

5 hours ago, Arioch said:

I have enormous respect for Rush. I discovered progressive hard rock thanks to two tracks, and I've never looked back.

It was The Trees and La Villa Strangiato.

Just talking about it makes me want to listen to the album.

It goes by so quickly, you may as well listen to it twice! 

For me it was Moving Pictures, especially Red Barchetta. First heard it when I was 10 or 11. I've gradually moved on from most of the music I got into back then, but my appreciation for Rush has only gotten stronger. 

I've told the story here before, but my dad borrowed the album from someone, and I made a tape for myself by sticking a boom box in front of one of the speakers. I didn't know what "stereo" meant. I listened to it all the time. When I finally got a real copy of the album in my late teens I was blown away by all the extra parts I'd been missing.

[Arioch]

Rush - Hemispheres (1978)

I've been wanting to listen to this record since this morning! 😁

 

[Yannis]

My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

 

[Arioch]

And to finish off the working day:

Mad Throng - Retribution Is At Hand (2024)

I just love these palm mute riffs!

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

4 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

It goes by so quickly, you may as well listen to it twice! 

For me it was Moving Pictures, especially Red Barchetta. First heard it when I was 10 or 11. I've gradually moved on from most of the music I got into back then, but my appreciation for Rush has only gotten stronger. 

I've told the story here before, but my dad borrowed the album from someone, and I made a tape for myself by sticking a boom box in front of one of the speakers. I didn't know what "stereo" meant. I listened to it all the time. When I finally got a real copy of the album in my late teens I was blown away by all the extra parts I'd been missing.

Sounds like how I started out in the early 70's recording albums with a boom box in front of the speaker. But I acquired a set of RCA cables somewhere in my early teens that I could plug into the back of mom's stereo and record the signal directly into the boom box. Not sure where I found those, I think I just walked into a Radio Shack and asked the guy if something like this was possible, because the tapes I'd been making through the open air were pretty shitty. Not to mention people would walk through the living room either talking while I was recording or causing the record to skip. Then I'd have to rewind back to the last song break and start the tape again.

Not a Rush fan at all, but it's interesting (to me ) that when I thought I wanted to be a Rush fan 40+ years ago, Red Barchetta was the one song I latched onto. Well I guess Bastille Day was the first a few years earlier, and then Red Barchetta. And to a lesser extent the Trees song captured my attention at one point too. Although I don't think I ever bought the Hemispheres album, and I only bought Moving Pictures when I found it cheap in the used section. I'd just been burned too many times before with shitty Rush albums. That's about as far as I go with Rush though. I hated Tom Sawyer and Limelight with a passion, so I never listened to that album just like I didn't listen to any of the other Rush records I'd bought. I probably threw the song on a mix tape along with stuff from other bands. I made a lot of mix tapes in the 80's with my favorite songs from different bands. 

 

Varenth - The Unsilent Winterdark, Austin Texas

 

Wampyric Rites - The Eternal Melancholy of the Wampyre, Ecuador 2021

 

Vanagandr - Lycanthropic Black Metal, moving farther south to Santiago Chile.

 

[RexKeltoi]

18 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

Witchtrap - Hungry As The Beast

First time hearing them, I dig it, they are from Columbia apparently? Vibes of Kreator and Exciter to my ancient ears 

[Yannis]

Cult Of Eibon - Lycan Twillight Sorcery

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Sørgelig - Φθορά (Decay) Greece

 

Ignominous - Dawn With No Light, Greece

 

[AlSymerz]

2 hours ago, RexKeltoi said:

First time hearing them, I dig it, they are from Columbia apparently? Vibes of Kreator and Exciter to my ancient ears 

Definitely Kreator vibes in some of their earlier songs.

 

Sabire - Jatt

[RexKeltoi]

Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory 

[Thatguy]

4 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Sounds like how I started out in the early 70's recording albums with a boom box in front of the speaker.

I have never liked Rush at all, but been there done that with homemade teenage recording.

[Nasty_Cabbage]

13 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

Scott Ian was a VH1 host and programmer at one stage so hardly surprising VH1 played Anthrax. It was probably the only way they could get air play on anything. Someone who uses the term 'legitimate metal' wont like JB era Anthrax

 

Malignant Tumour - Maximum Rock N Roll

Aww now. Just because I acknowledge the existence of gatekeeping within the metal scene, doesn't mean I necessarily adhere to it. We all carve our own way through the scene and pick up a few points of disgrace that being young and dumb can't excuse. The other day I admitted to having owned The Sickness when Disturbed first appeared.

...Also I really hate Scott Ian and think he's the textbook definition of an absolute tool and his consultation on those interminable VH1 shows back then was absurd and completely unearned, but if we're going to have the four horseman conversation again, lets keep it out of the hands of music television to dictate with any authority the terms by which an era was defined. Then again, music television on basic cable in general was an absolute joke. The rise of music videos was a product. Pure market data driven taken, turned out, and wrung through the washboard by people who may in fact not enjoy the music they push at all. The internet being the great equalizer that it is just made it more transparent.

[AlSymerz]

10 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

Aww now. Just because I acknowledge the existence of gatekeeping within the metal scene, doesn't mean I necessarily adhere to it. We all carve our own way through the scene and pick up a few points of disgrace that being young and dumb can't excuse. The other day I admitted to having owned The Sickness when Disturbed first appeared.

...Also I really hate Scott Ian and think he's the textbook definition of an absolute tool and his consultation on those interminable VH1 shows back then was absurd and completely unearned, but if we're going to have the four horseman conversation again, lets keep it out of the hands of music television to dictate with any authority the terms by which an era was defined. Then again, music television on basic cable in general was an absolute joke. The rise of music videos was a product. Pure market data driven taken, turned out, and wrung through the washboard by people who may in fact not enjoy the music they push at all. The internet being the great equalizer that it is just made it more transparent.

I wasn't aiming to upset with the comment about 'legitimate metal'. I kind of stand with it when it comes to Anthrax. I wouldn't use such a term myself but I would separate Anthrax, especially the JB era, from other thrash bands. SOWN is as far as I'm concerned the best Anthrax album out there, but it's not thrash metal and thrash addicts generally don't like it, so it goes without saying that those who dislike thrash aren't going to like it.

We never really got much MTV here (well not in the 80's and 90's when I was interested in TV) so thankfully I didn't have to put up with any of it, including Scott Ian. I was an Anthrax fan early on, up until that stupid Public Enemy song Scott and Charlie keep claiming changed the world, but I was never a fan of Scott and Charlie no matter how much I listened to their music

 

Sabretung - Conquest

[GoatmasterGeneral]

21 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

I have never liked Rush at all, but been there done that with homemade teenage recording.

I wanted to like them because there were so few heavy bands in the mid 70's. I was always on the lookout for new heavy bands. Rush were marketed to us as the next Zeppelin back in the early days, so being a big Zep fan I bought a couple of their records hoping to hear some good hard rock. But it turned out to be not very hard at all. It was all proggy, nerdy and weak, nothing at all like Zeppelin. Alex's guitar tone was all wrong and the other dude's high pitched voice is absolutely insufferable. So yeah deffo not a Rush fan, but still there have been a few songs that I thought were alright. Most high profile mainstream bands that I don't care for will usually still have at least a song or two that aren't all that bad.

 

Afsky - Om Hundrede År, Denmark. Thought there was a new Afsky record for a sec, but I forgot about this one that I never bought from last year.

 

Oneiros - Ruminations, solo melodic black metal project from Derby UK.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Eternal - Cryptic Lust, Phoenix Arizona, feel like checking out some new death metal.

 

Deceitome – Deceitome, Estonia

 

Solifugia – Ageless Sadism, Belgium

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

2 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

I wasn't aiming to upset with the comment about 'legitimate metal'. I kind of stand with it when it comes to Anthrax. I wouldn't use such a term myself but I would separate Anthrax, especially the JB era, from other thrash bands. SOWN is as far as I'm concerned the best Anthrax album out there, but it's not thrash metal and thrash addicts generally don't like it, so it goes without saying that those who dislike thrash aren't going to like it.

We never really got much MTV here (well not in the 80's and 90's when I was interested in TV) so thankfully I didn't have to put up with any of it, including Scott Ian. I was an Anthrax fan early on, up until that stupid Public Enemy song Scott and Charlie keep claiming changed the world, but I was never a fan of Scott and Charlie no matter how much I listened to their music

Maybe that was my problem; that by the time Anthrax reached me I'd seen too much of the dude and not heard his music. Dunno. Armored Saint as a band name for a pseudo trad.-metal outfit, and especially one with old school cred like early Metalblade does sound appealing to me. I mean Brian Slagel basically nosed out Omen, Hallow's Eve, and eventually Cannibal Corpse. I don't know how much he's involved any more, but the man's got an ear for the stuff for sure.

Anyway now that you mention it that stupid Public Enemy track was at best a footnote in the pages of metal history, and he does seem to place way too much importance on bands like Helmet and their ilk when their overall influence didn't reach much farther than something your parents might halfway tolerate if it came on the radio in the car.

 

Now this is what I needed to hear today. Can't believe this never crossed my radar. Fantastic opening track.

[AlSymerz]

12 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

Maybe that was my problem; that by the time Anthrax reached me I'd seen too much of the dude and not heard his music. Dunno. Armored Saint as a band name for a pseudo trad.-metal outfit, and especially one with old school cred like early Metalblade does sound appealing to me. I mean Brian Slagel basically nosed out Omen, Hallow's Eve, and eventually Cannibal Corpse. I don't know how much he's involved any more, but the man's got an ear for the stuff for sure.

Anyway now that you mention it that stupid Public Enemy track was at best a footnote in the pages of metal history, and he does seem to place way too much importance on bands like Helmet and their ilk when their overall influence didn't reach much farther than something your parents might halfway tolerate if it came on the radio in the car.

 

Armored Saint is John's band and while I'm sure other players at times have had input it's more likely that John has had the final say. That kind of makes most of their stuff very similar because John's got a style and that style has worked for a whole bunch of albums.

Scott and Charlie are dicks. They both seem more content on playing for others than writing a new Anthrax album while at the same time claiming Anthrax is their priority. Anthrax is what it is because of both of them, but that's no longer praise like it once might have been.

 

Malignant Tumour - Overdose and Overdrive

[RexKeltoi]

4 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

Definitely Kreator vibes in some of their earlier songs.

 

Sabire - Jatt

I think Sabire is fronted by a Canadian that relocated to Australia? On the fence with their stuff but I admit I have not heard a lot of their material  

[AlSymerz]

12 minutes ago, RexKeltoi said:

I think Sabire is fronted by a Canadian that relocated to Australia? On the fence with their stuff but I admit I have not heard a lot of their material  

That's exactly what the intro on their bandcamp page says.

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Sully - s/t

▶︎ Sully | SULLY | HPGD (bandcamp.com)

So we've got some grindy stuff out of Rochester with former members of Nuclear Assault and Psyopus of all things. At least it seems they're not really taking themselves too seriously. I hadn't even thought about Psyopus is a while. They were always a little on the fringes, but then this stuff is pretty plain Jane grindeath. Eh.

 

[RexKeltoi]

15 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

It goes by so quickly, you may as well listen to it twice! 

For me it was Moving Pictures, especially Red Barchetta. First heard it when I was 10 or 11. I've gradually moved on from most of the music I got into back then, but my appreciation for Rush has only gotten stronger. 

I've told the story here before, but my dad borrowed the album from someone, and I made a tape for myself by sticking a boom box in front of one of the speakers. I didn't know what "stereo" meant. I listened to it all the time. When I finally got a real copy of the album in my late teens I was blown away by all the extra parts I'd been missing.

Ironically Red Barchetta and Spirit of Radio are 2 songs I loathe and were big factors in me moving away from Rush  

[Yannis]

Anathema - Judgement

 

[AlSymerz]

Kyuss - Wretch

[Yannis]

Profane Existence - Scorn

Nyktophilia - Dwelling In The Fullmoon Light

 

[Yannis]

Overkill - Under The Influence