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only the ones that are decent and worth noting

Karnivool x2
Opeth
Contrive
Sleep Parade
Porcupine Tree
Pain of Salvation
Dream Theater
Hilltop Hoods
The Galvatrons
Tame Impala
Midnight Juggernauts
The Mess Hall
The Basics
Hoodlum Shouts

soon to come:
Behemoth
Job for a Cowboy
Goatwhore
Isis
Baroness
Meshuggah
Faith No More
Decapitated
Origin
Psycroptic
Misery Index

possibly:
nile
hate eternal
abigail williams
paradise lost
sirenia
lycanthia
wolves in the throne room
monarch!
4dead
agents of abhorrence

The Ace Of Spades, Motorhead - The first legitimately "metal" track I ever heard, sparking an instant obsession with Lemmy and Motorhead in general. The Best Of Motorhead was the first album I ever bought.

Shimmy, System of a Down - I listened to this right before my first proper school fistfight. I first heard Toxicity when I was 12, and SOAD became my new favourite band of the moment. I quickly bought all their other albums, but nothing matched it. Toxicity remains one of my favourite albums of all time.

Walk, Pantera - I got a lot of flak when I first got into metal, as a lot of my friends were still listening to fucking Coldplay and The Killers (they would go on to suddenly discover Thrash some 4 years after me and act as though they'd loved it all along). I felt out of place initially, but there was something about Walk's signature riff that just felt undeniably cool.

New Faith, Slayer - I despise religion in general, especially Christianity, so Slayer really struck a chord with me. God Hates Us All also quickl cemented itself as a favourite album of mine, every track oozing experienced metal charm. The first two verses in particular will always have a place in
my heart.

The Stench of Redemption, Deicide - I'd heard Glen Benton's voice earlier on in life and found it a bit too intense. However, this song is an absolute masterpiece, an exercise in concentrated ferocity that never gets old to me. It piqued my interest in the less explored areas of metal, provoking a deep love for Death Metal in particular.

Sweet Child O' Mine, Guns N' Roses - Perhaps less of a musical influence and more of a personal one, but I felt like I'd channeled the direct brilliance of Slash himself when this song led to my first proper girlfriend. As such, it deserves a place on this list, since it served to make me who I am now.

The Night and the Silent Water, Opeth & Stillborn (Acoustic), Black Label Society - Granted fairly dissimilar bands, but both songs affected me profoundly, and both appear for the same reason. They both feature dazzlingly technical and undeniably beautiful acoustic sections that continue to astound me. Moreover, it's what they stand for: metal does not have to be huge tattooed men growling through gravel-filled throats or huge-haired wailing pretty boys (although its just as good when it is).

Laid to Rest, Lamb of God - I'd listened to Lamb Of God casually before, but this was the breakthrough track for me. It was simultaneously aggressive and catchy, without one making any concessions to the other. The thing that strikes me most about it, however, is how direct it is: while other songs may peter out during breakdowns for a breather, it remains unrelenting. Afterwards, it turned me into an LoG fanatic, as you can probably tell by glancing at my charts.

Sigh - Scenes from Hell
http://www.myspace.com/sighjapan

Estilo: Post-Black/Avant-Garde Metal
Data de Lançamento: 19/01/2010



Nos últimos 20 anos não houve uma banda tão eclética e enigmática como Sigh. Na sua relatividade, eles começaram surpreendentemente humilde, o som que Sigh toca pode ser descrito como a mistura do antigo e do novo black metal; uma continuidade relativamente linear com som do Venom. Eu digo relativamente porque, mesmo em sua infância, havia algo diferente sobre Sigh.

Considerando 'Scorn Defeat' o primeiro álbum da banda, o álbum é completo em refêrencia que você acabou de ler. Sigh empregava um senso palpável em tocar guitarra, com algumas influências de blues de uma forma que não era tecnicamente competente e ao mesmo tempo intrigante, porém original suficiente para separá-los da multidão de clones derivados que saem da Europa na época.

Conforme o tempo passava, black metal começou a existir apenas em vestígios ao longo da música, e como ele se dissipou a banda continuava se intensificando ainda mais em um mundo caracterizando palavras como 'psychedelic' e 'avant-garde'. Para a década seguinte, Sigh continuou a expandir o seu som, liberando cada vez mais álbuns desafiadores.

Iniciando uma nova década, 'Scenes From Hell' inaugura a nova era, reiniciando o ciclo como melhor álbum da banda, talvez ainda não. Esse álbum se resume a tudo que Sigh é sempre foi, aproximadamente. A maneira de descrever o novo trabalho desses japoneses, é como se 'Scenes from Hell' fosse rum álbum de grandes sucessos. Isso quer dizer que, embora de algum modo, uma compilação, e exclusivamente novas músicas da banda que transporta uma insinuação do seu completo trabalho. É uma redefinição dos seus maiores hits, que serve como lembre de que eles fizerem para que possam se superar.

Se você ainda não ouviu 'Scenes from Hell', eu vou te dizer uma coisa, é algo surpreendente: com o lançamento Scenes from Hell e Hangman's Hymn se encontra, uma retrospectiva, como pouco mais que uma planta, sempre crescendo.

01. Prelude to the Oracle
02. L'art de Mourir
03. The Soul Grave
04. The Red Funeral
05. The Summer Funeral
06. Musica in Tempora Belli
07. Vanitas
08. Scenes from Hell


Recomendado para quem gosta de: Between the Buried and Me, Opeth, Cynic, Converge e Agalloch

Radiohead - OK Computer

Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

Radiohead - The Bends

Radiohead - Kid A

Radiohead - Amnesiac

Depeche Mode - Violator

Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion

Depeche Mode - Ultra

Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

The Cure - Disintegration

The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

The Cure - Wish

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

Amon Tobin - Bricolage

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Metallica - Metallica

Metallica - Load

Metallica - Reload

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory

Dream Theater - Train of Thought

65daysofstatic - One Time for All Time

65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas

The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Massive Attack - 100th Window

Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun

Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn

Placebo - Black Market Music

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People

Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Mastodon - Crack The Skye

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

Isis - Oceanic

Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm

King Diamond - The Graveyard

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Shining - Grindstone

Oceansize - Frames

Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Beck - Guero

The Beatles - The Beatles

King Crimson - The ConstruKction of Light

Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord Is Dead

Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland

Portishead - Dummy

Air - Talkie Walkie

The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet?

The Gathering - Mandylion

Tricky - Knowle West Boy

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark, Volume 1

Russian Circles - Enter

Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight

Moby - Play

Scott Walker - The Drift

Blur - 13

... to be continued

Swedish composers tend toward the Romantic, with hints of the modernist era to come. I'd categorize them as sparser versions of the Germans, but in spirit closer to the Italians: full of light, symmetry, and the sense of putting everything in its correct place.

If you like the following metal bands, you'll like this:

* At the Gates
* Incantation
* Burzum
* Atheist
* Sacramentum

If you like the following metal bands, it's over your head:

* Meshuggah
* Opeth
* Cynic
* Necrophagist
* Dream Theater

Lista najbliższego dyżuru w biurze wyszła nam taka...



...monolityczna nieco. w porywach bluźniercza i nieopisywalna.
masywnie i gęsto będzie już we wtorek, od 18:30.

zapraszam

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Zmasowana masywna masa muzyczna wyglądała następująco:


Vaka - Sigma Omega

Woburn House - Omega

Cephalic Carnage - The Omega Point

Opeth - Hex Omega

Omega Massif - Totengebirge

Deathspell Omega - Chaining the Katechon [excerpt]

Omega Massif - Unter Null

OM - Meditation is the Practice of Death

Host - Track 3

Rwake - OmegA

A Storm of Light - Omega


dziękuję za rewelacyjną obecność przy głośnikach i na czacie. i zapraszam na 9 lutego.


stay tuned!

Tomek Nautilus

Not a lot of time to spend on this one but metal is a lot like anime: fandoms of young people are infatuated with something low-quality, formulaic and in bad taste, all the while convinced that it's the deepest, most meaningful shit ever and superior to any "mainstream" forms. Just as the intended audience of anime is Japanese 12 year olds, so too does metal appeal to the 12 year old in the driver's seat of every metal-loving manchild's cumbersome frame. Anime fans brag endlessly about how a lot of anime is "mature" in content, but the reality is that the only thing setting apart "mature" anime from the childish pap that is regular anime are cartoon boobs and geysers of blood (instead of, say, a thought-provoking message). Metal fans suffer from a similar delusion, thinking that pentagrams, inverted crosses, lyrics about how much you hate Christ, album art of gory nun porn, blastbeats, screeching and an overall angsty, disgruntled sound are the hallmark of maturity. They're not, you goddamn fucking idiots.

Metal fans see something like this and instead of laughable find it relatable, maybe because it looks like something a middle-schooler would make and metal fans are either mentally or chronologically still 13. They see some band dressing up with plastic horned helmets, some douchebag in a cape posing with a mace that looks more like a dildo or album art of an imagined viking hacking down a cross and actually think (if that word is even applicable) "wow, what a deep and powerful message these guys have!" instead of being repulsed by the boorishness and idiocy behind each of those things. Metal fans seem oblivious or perhaps just accepting of the fact that Metal is cheap, shallow, kitsch, artless garbage and generally in bad taste. I'm sure the thought processes that go on in the minds of 13 year olds who are obsessed with Naruto are the same as in those who actually think Burzum is good, and I hope that in my life I'll never relate to either.

In the defense of anime at least it has some eye candy sequences that might impress you visually with the quality of the animation, while in metal, even the shreddiest of shred metal is boring and uninspiring. All the "thinking man's metal" bands (and there are a lot of them, keeping in mind that one camp's "intellectual" metal is the bane of another when ironically they both suck) are meaningless and lacking in depth, delivering exactly the transparent attempt at "smart ppl music" that you might expect from a metalhead. Whether you listen to Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Agalloch, Opeth, Enslaved, Burzum and other bedroom black metal shit or Gorguts and Morbid Angel, it all sounds like an intellectually limited attempt at trying to mold a pile of shit into something more than it is (in the case of the black metal, not even getting past the pile of shit phase). That's not to say that each of those bands is equally bad; Dream Theater are easily the best of that bunch and have some good moments, but they're entire orders of magnitude below Gentle Giant, Gryphon and what might be described as good music.

But I digress; I could go on about the how both metal and anime are redundant as fuck but whatever, I've spent enough time writing about worthless childrens' pastimes. Instead I'll leave you with a site that showcases human idiocy at its greatest, providing a display even more pathetic than anything you might see at an anime convention. Enjoy.

100. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
99. All Shall Perish - The Price Of Existence
98. Das Oath - Das Oath
97. 100 Demons - In the Eyes of the Lord
96. The End - Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point - False Omniscient
95. Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
94. Nasum - Human 2.0
93. Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here
92. Snapcase - End Transmission
91. Beneath the Massacre - Dystopia
90. Sweet Cobra - Praise
89. My Lai - Learn...forget...relearn
88. Botch - We Are the Romans
87. Dropkick Murphys - Blackout
86. Starring Janet Leigh - Specturm
85. Meshuggah - obZen
84. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
83. Opeth - Damnation
82. Burnt by the Sun - The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good
81. Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion
80. Baroness - Red Album
79. World's End Girlfriend - The Lie Lay Land
78. Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
77. Despised Icon - The Healing Process
76. Modern Life Is War - Witness
75. DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
74. Buried Inside - Chronoclast
73. Charles Bronson - Complete Discocrappy
72. 7000 Dying Rats - Season In Hell
71. I-Spy - Perversity is spreading ...it's about time !!!
70. Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
69. Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
68. Metavari - Be one of us and hear no noise
67. Death Before Dishonor - Count Me In
66. Fuck...I'm Dead - Bring on the Dead
65. Killwhitneydead - Never Good Enough for You
64. The Bled - Pass The Flask
63. Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
62. Necrophagist - Epitaph
61. Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People
60. Raised Fist - Dedication
59. The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
58. Cursed - Two
57. Sparta - Wiretap Scars
56. Sick of It All - Death to Tyrants
55. NOFX - Wolves In Wolves' Clothing
54. Malady - Malady
53. Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough
52. Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black
51. Robinson - The Great City
50. dead prez - lets get free
49. Crotchduster - Big Fat Box of Shit
48. Devin Townsend - Infinity
47. Randy - Welfare Problems
46. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
45. Poison the Well - Versions
44. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
43. The Great Redneck Hope - 'Splosion!!
42. The Sawtooth Grin - CuddleMonster
41. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is a Dead Scene
40. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
39. Fischerspooner - Odyssey
38. Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
37. Alphawezen - En Passant
36. Doomriders - Black Thunder
35. Love Lost but Not Forgotten - Upon the Right, I Saw a New Misery
34. Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart
33. The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
32. This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain
31. Blood for Blood - Outlaw Anthems
30. God Is an Astronaut - The End of the Beginning
29. Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus - Simian Hybrid Prototype
28. Casey Jones - The Few, The Proud, The Crucial
27. 65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math
26. As the Sun Sets - 7744
25. Hatebreed - Perseverance
24. Pg.99 - Document #8
23. Hewhocorrupts - Master of Profits
22. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
21. The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be on Time
20. Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
19. Eluvium - Copia
18. Russian Circles - Station
17. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
16. Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
15. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
14. RZA- The Rza Presents: Afro Samurai (The Soundtrack)
13. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
12. Randy - Randy The Band
11. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
10. Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
09. The Postal Service - Give Up
08. Air - The Virgin Suicides
07. Strapping Young Lad - City
06. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
05. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
04. Converge - Axe To Fall
03. Comeback Kid - Wake The Dead
02. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
01. Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard