[Music] Metal

[Duilliath]

Oh Goriq - what do you think of this one?

[Duilliath]

Yea, not to keen on most of their stuff. It's the addition of Messiah Marcolin to this album that made it stand out for me.

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Btw, are you guys familiar with this one?

[hellhamster]

New Deafheaven stream m8s, let's see what all the fuss is about

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/23/441531...en-new-bermuda

1st track: 6.5/10, starts strong, second half is kinda weak, goes full Mogwai and I'm just sitting here wondering why the cheese.

2nd track: 8/10, really well written overall, ending is kinda SUN BAT HER for the nostalgics

3rd track: 8/10 GYBE! intro, another really well written song, great fucking outro, probably because it reminds me of something else that's good and I can't put my finger on it

4th track: 6.5, starts pretty weak, but redeems itself during the second half, even goes chugga chugga

5th track: 7, it's decent, pretty middle of the pack Deafheaven, the soft parts became kinda boring/expected/cliche

8 min 38 sec * 6.5 + 10 min 15 sec * 8 + 9 min 18 sec * 8 + 10 min 7 sec * 6.5 + 8 min 23 sec * 7 / 48 min 44 sec= 7/10

Final verdict: Decent/good. It might be their weakest album though.

All those piano outros...

[Fencers]

I'm just sitting here wondering why the cheese.

Sums up the whole record pretty much.

I agree it is fairly decent. Just kinda too obvious and sappy. After Sunbather I wished they would have tightened up their arrangements and song structures. Somewhat indulgent and that indulgence is not particularly remarkable when you do almost exact same thing on every song.

[hellhamster]

New Bermuda kind of sounds like the slightly darker, dreamier alternative version of Sunbather. I liked Brought to the Water more than when I first heard it and Come Back is still the best song on this album, even though it, like most of the rest of the album, starts out stronger than it ends. Most of the intense parts are still good.

I liked Gifts for the Earth because they took a slightly different approach to their sound and it had some nice additional instruments, but it's not exactly a strong song. I feel like, overall, they overdid the vocal reverb a bit and I don't really like the guitar effects on Baby Blue as well as the really weak ambient outro on that track.

It turned out as expected, decent but not as good as Sunbather and that's even though I used to like Sunbather a lot more. I hoped that From the Kettle onto the Coil was an indication of how the new album would sound since I really liked its dark and urgent sound, mostly focussed on the black part of blackgaze but as it turns out they kinda took their sound elsewhere and kept a lot of post rock/shoegaze in there.

6-7/10, more listens will tell.

Dude they completely abolished the shoegaze elements. I mean, most of it.

[Feali]

Ice Nine Kills are really on point this year!

[hellhamster]

New Cryptopsy song, from apparently a new EP.



Not that bad tbh. Could be better, but that's because I'm used to Cryptopsy sounding insane.

[hellhamster]

I just listened to the new Tyranny and holy fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Some of the dankest fucking funeral doom I've heard in my life. Blows Tides of Awakening completely the fuck out. Easy AOTY material.

Listening to it in high volume is a completely surreal experience, it reminds me of Ataraxie at points (also a top tier funeral doom band).

[Erisdar]

New "Immortal":

[hellhamster]

Never fails to kick my ass.



Easily the greatest OSDM revival band out there. That "Teeth Into Red"...

[Duilliath]

Whoah. I missed this being released.

[hellhamster]

These guys are in my top 10 most underrated bands ever.



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The best Deafheaven record:

[Duilliath]

For some odd reason Vuvr reminds me hugely of Mr Jarzombek (of Watchtower / Spastic Ink etc.).

[Duilliath]

Trying to dig up stuff to possibly put on my EoY list.

So far it's dreadfully full of metal

[Duilliath]

Got about 15 bands on my list currently, though I'm quite sure I'll drop a couple of them. Most of them wind up there as a reminder for later, not necessarily because they'll be on that list.

At least PIL released something this year and that might make it in.

[hellhamster]

Here's mine so far:



Metal pretty much annihilated everything else from other genres, from what I've heard so far at least. Obviously metal is one of my most comfortable genres, that should go without saying.

[hellhamster]

Your top 50 is also missing Slugdge, m8.

I didn't have time to listen to it properly yet.

[hellhamster]

I'm listening to it right now, definitely loving it so far. First 3 tracks are close to Gastronomicon quality tier, I hope it doesn't go downhill from there.

[hellhamster]

Just done with it, it was pretty good. A 7/10 I think, almost as good as Gastronomicon. The end was as good as the start, but I think that a couple of tracks were a bit weaker compared to the whole album (like the 7th one). Definitely a band for a niche audience.

For the early 90's Obituary fans, this is a must listen:

[hellhamster]

Yeah they are doing pretty well considering they are pretty low profile.