What Have You Been Listening To?

[Alrune]

This band gives my day some extra mileage:

[Thricegreat]

I quite like this.

[Amlux]

This shit rocks so fucking hard. This is what melodic death metal is all about.

[Thricegreat]

I don't know whether this is great or terrible.

[Amlux]

Was reminded of this album while drawing, which is the kind of unique obscurity I love metal for:



Noktorn put it very well on Metallum:

What a perplexing little album this is. Ordinarily I'd cite the rather unusual cover art, with its nebula photography and wedding invitation band logo, but these sorts of things are rapidly becoming the rule rather than the exception in underground death metal anyway. Still, even with this being a death metal album in mind, the aesthetics don't really prepare you for what one finds on the disc itself. Solace of Requiem plays a rather unique blend of death metal styles that ends up sounding a great deal if Nile was staffed by New York thug types in Dying Fetus hoodies. It's at once surprisingly nuanced and almost hilariously straightforward, with complex, multilayered, melodic tremolo riffing appearing directly next to ignorant single chord breakdowns. It certainly makes for an interesting listening experience, if a somewhat uneven one.

There's a rather odd combination of styles at work here- a surprisingly nuanced and complex technical death style on one hand, and then a thuggish, substantially hardcore influenced one on the other. Jungle Rot is a readily apparent influence in the slower, simpler sections, bringing that band's channeling of pummeling NYHC to the forefront, while artists like Nile and maybe even Origin to a certain extent make up the tech side. This is substantially more oldschool-sounding than either of those, though; the Stockholm sound is apparent and filtered through a prism of US-style brooding pacing ala Deteriorot. Throughout "Utopia Reborn," the more oldschool and the more modern influences tend to fight each other for dominance through the songs, with tracks like "To Suffer Mortality" openly alternating between highly modern, almost black metal influenced tremolo riffing and sluggish midpaced passages defined by their ominous, apocalyptic melodic structures. And then there's the declaration of "Don't cast your guilt on me like I give a... FUCK!" immediately before a pure Hatebreed section kicks in. Needless to say, keeping a bead on these guys can be challenging.

RIP to Noktorn if any RateYourMusic users remember him from way back in the day... IDK if he literally died or not but he is vanished into the ether. And he made some of the best metal reviews ever, even though some of his opinions were very hard to countenance (his absurd hate-boner for Deathspell Omega never made sense to me, for example).

[kshmr]

Some K-Pop

[Amlux]

This album always amazes me. One of the most intense and insane grind albums ever recorded. 99 (!) songs in under 22 minutes, If anyone remembers Last.fm back when it was good, they had a policy where their program that tracked what you listened to (scobbler) would only work for songs that were at least 30 seconds long. I think literally three of these songs would scrobble by those rules, lmao. The average length is like 12 seconds.

Great song titles such as:
"Ark of Ecoterrorism"
"Living Lolita Blow Job"
"Children Blown to Bits by the Busload"
"Osaka Milk Bar"
"Drive by Blowjob on a Bicycle"
"Utter Mental Retardation and Reversal of Man"
"Pussy Hair Prayer Rug"
"Serpent of the Gay Pride Rainbow"
"Bombs With Butterfly Wings"
"Bong Hit Wonder"
"Debbie Does Dishes"
"Firearms for All Faiths"
"Obi Wan Kaczynski"
and of course the title of the album itself, "Altered States of America," is priceless.

This album is from 2003 and somehow it just perfectly captures the insane, paranoid, surreal post-9/11 feeling of the world at the time. Interesting to revisit such albums in historical terms.

[Thricegreat]

Pithoprakta by Iannis Xenakis



Mode de valeurs et d'intensités by Olivier Messiaen



Bohlen-Pierce Canon by Kjell Hansen

[Thricegreat]

When I tried to find DiPathoS tracks that my favourite doujin singers participated in, I accidentally found this album.



>※この作品は、あおぎり高校所属Vtuber｢千代浦蝶美｣をイメージした個人のオリジナル作品です。本家本元と直接の関係はございません。

???

Is VTuber inspired music actually a thing? :) Also I guess this is a borderline derivative work.

[Thricegreat]

These tracks by The Conet Project are classics.


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