Just found the latest Grave Digger album.
DAMN it's GOOD! I'd forgotten about them until recently too.
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Been listening a lot to Killer7's soundtrack during the day, and some Stardew Valley music during my time getting ready for bed. This album is especially good for that.
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This is an excellent, very Krallicean black metal album. Personally I prefer it to any Krallice I have heard. That is perhaps because it feels halfway to Weakling most of the time. These guys build crazy cathedrals out of dissonance. All tracks are meticulously planned and remain compact. In my mind they avoid my main problem with Krallice which is that songs can end up bending under their own weight and manifesting as somewhat aimless grimjams of ten minutes plus.
Song titles are excellent as well. My favourite song out of the bunch is the third - anthemic chord progressions amidst the noise before a warbled choir resolves matters on a sacral note - and it is called "Shrillness in the Heated Grass". Yeah, I hate it when that happens as well.
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I like the black metal - birds combo. I don't usually notice ambient sounds particularly, but I'll be more careful and see if I can detect any bird noises in what I listen to.
I love Weakling as well, shame there was only one album. This is not as dark but I think there are definite similarities, plus the songcraft is outstanding. I hope you enjoy it.
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Thanks for these, I like all of them as well although I always find the first two WITTR demos are what I prefer out of anything they have done. Interestingly I felt Drudkh were a prime candidate for birdsong intros and I promptly got a "positive" on the first song of the first album I randomly tried:
I guess their discography is a fertile hunting ground for avian aficionados.
Mostly, though, the fauna sample that, due to its general psychedelic quality, I tend to notice is of the "satanic frog / cicada" type which I first heard on
Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
The Yellow Eyes album I linked has a comparable sample possibly throughout and surfacing in places, such as 0:50 and 34:40, although I guess it is based on a bird recording in that case?
Anyway, happy birdwatching...
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Sorry about your personal situation. I hope the situation gets resolved in a somewhat acceptable manner, in the interest of anyone near and dear to you, the Ukrainian people as a whole, all the people in Europe and ultimately anyone in the whole world, as a situation where politicians act as irrationally as Putin has through this "special operation" (never even mind its ethical aspects) is incredibly dangerous. Even if the hot war stops, the ramifications in terms of scorched earth are massive, and will no doubt affect generations of people to come. What can we do but hope.
Meanwhile, I have noticed another instance of birdsong. This is a pagan black album, nothing life-changing but perfectly competent and listenable. What is out of the usual is the bass, which can be heard very clearly in the mix and often runs some rather funky lines.
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You mean the usual associations concerning bands like Khors, Astrofaes, Dub Buk, Hate Forest, Nokturnal Mortum etc.? Is it that there are only few people involved and they move from band to band?
I tend to not care about this if it does not affect the music, either with this type of extremism or that from the other side. (If someone screams about Jewish conspiracies or Socialist revolutions, I do not want to hear it anyway.) My reasoning is that all I do is enjoy these albums for free, over the Internet, and so listening to them does not constitute any kind of meaningful support. I realise that this is a cop-out on some level and I would not touch this stuff if, for instance, I would have to buy the albums to hear it.
It's the classic question on whether the art can be separated from the artist, most often asked about Wagner (Richard, not Wagner Group!)
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I would also think that an adolescent need to be as edgy as possible probably underlies a lot of this and skews perceptions as to how problematic the scene really is. If there were some societal taboo around, I don't know, hole punchers, black metal bands would release entire concept albums based on punching holes instead. It's often about the easiest way to shock as many people as possible.
But you are right, the topic easily leads to misunderstandings, especially in writing and in these charged times. Thanks for the conversation and I will keep my ears sharpened for further instances of black metal birds.
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I mainly listen to music in the acid gospel genre.
;)
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My Nonfiction · Miyuki Shirogane(CV:Makoto Furukawa) · Chika Fujiwara(CV:Konomi Kohara)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuEl3LL3CD0
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Doomscroller - Metric
An odyssey from EDM over pop ballad to rock song.
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Bad Habit by Steve Lacy
I Believe by KAMARAD
Borderline by Tame Impala
You're gonna have to look them up yourself, I'm too lazy to add the correct formating for it to redirect on mobile.
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80s style psych pop in the Robyn Hitchcock / Soft Boys mould from this (mostly 90s) bedroom troubadour 4-tracking out of York, England.
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https://youtu.be/ut3gVnO9YnY - Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton
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I've been obsessed with UGK lately, 700 scrobbles in just a month has got to be my new record for a single artist. Usually by this point I'm getting sick of listening to the same shit over and over, but not with these guys, they are (well, were) awesome. 😎 Super Tight and Ridin' Dirty stand out in the discography that is otherwise pretty mediocre imo, but both of these albums are great, and Bun B's verse on the Murder is otherworldly, and I think it's now firmly in my top-3 favorite verses ever. Funny, I did give them a listen two different times years ago and didn't feel much, I don't even remember listening to them at all, until rediscovering them again last month. But that's how it often goes with hip-hop for me, it's rarely love at first listen.
Anyway, I got my proper hip-hop fix, and now my brain is craving some minimalism, as it sometimes does when it needs to chill and take it easy for a bit, so as per usual I'm going with Lubomyr Melnyk or something similarly accessible to start and gonna dive into RYM lists for more "hardcore" stuff later heh.
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The Living Tombstone - Bottom of the Pit
I recently played In Sound Mind and while the game had some decent and diverse tracks, somehow this one really stuck in my head.
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mostly Bao - Citrus Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSsWP2DPSQU
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random thread that i am sure are atleast 300 already but what are you listening to lately (music i mean )... i've been listening a lot of Queen of the stone ages, i tried listening to it a long while ago because foo fighers is my favorite band and dave grohl my favorite musician and they tend to work togheter, but i didnt really liked it before, but now i really love their robot rock, and also Eagles of fucking death metal, i really love those guys, i started listening to them for the same reason that with QotSA but i liked the all along.. here ara a couple of tracks :D... oh and also thanks again to our lord and savior Dave Grohl i've been listeing to the soundtrack of Sound City a lot
Cherry Cola - Eagles of death metal
Sick, Sick, Sick - Queens of the Stone age
Sound City OST - The Man That Never Was (Grohl, Hawkins, Mendel, Smear, Springfield)
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