What are you listening to right now?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:31 pm

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:25 pm Funeral Tears / Поезд Родина - Frozen Tranquility [split EP]

Ukrainian / Russian funeral doom from some years ago

wow wtf...how did you embed that to work here? That was cool!

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:34 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:31 pm
wow wtf...how did you embed that to work here? That was cool!

modern versions of phpBB will automatically embed bandcamp album/song players (i have done this in previous posts)

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:40 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 6:25 pm

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:34 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:31 pm
wow wtf...how did you embed that to work here? That was cool!
modern versions of phpBB will automatically embed bandcamp album/song players (i have done this in previous posts)

I dont know what bandcamp is but will look into it. I am so a noob.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 2:24 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 6:25 pm
hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:34 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:31 pm
wow wtf...how did you embed that to work here? That was cool!
modern versions of phpBB will automatically embed bandcamp album/song players (i have done this in previous posts)
I dont know what bandcamp is but will look into it. I am so a noob.

https://bandcamp.com/ is a music streaming and song/album download and physical record shop that maaaany musicians and bands use to sell their wares and music downloads. ...and a lot of new music articles. if you buy music from them on the first Friday of each month, 100% of the proceeds will go directly to the bands.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 11:28 am

I've had this song stuck in my head for days now. Sometimes you gotta go back to the classics.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 3:08 pm

I listened to Korn's first album for the first time in probably 20 years this afternoon. It actually holds up pretty well, mostly because Davis' vocals are so remarkably emotive and unique. Lots of the songs are simply silly, but you can tell there's a ton of emotion behind the whole thing. I've never liked anything else they've done, but that first album was good.

The main thing that struck me is how incredibly heavy we all thought that album was at the time. It sounds pretty mellow now, comparatively.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Sat Jul 27, 2024 4:39 pm

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Wed Jul 31, 2024 7:12 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jul 31, 2024 7:19 pm

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Wed Jul 31, 2024 8:21 pm

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Jul 31, 2024 8:45 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2024 7:19 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jul 31, 2024 8:48 pm

Yep. I remember first hearing it in some vampire anime movie. And found it from there. I love his most but like hers as sounding a bit diff sometimes. But i do prefer a scottish singer. I cant recall her name.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:33 am

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Aug 01, 2024 11:36 am

Always loved their cover art. And also Molly Hatchet's.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Aug 01, 2024 3:57 pm

'lo-fi darkwave' from Belarus, Молцат Дома:

i think i need 'lower-fi, really dark'

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Thu Aug 01, 2024 6:34 pm

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Aug 05, 2024 3:59 pm

Huh, was definitely not expecting this. Growly Opeth is back!

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Mon Aug 05, 2024 5:14 pm

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Wed Aug 07, 2024 12:38 am

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Wed Aug 07, 2024 6:39 pm

Xmann · Post by **Xmann** » Thu Aug 08, 2024 12:01 am

Skinypupy wrote:Huh, was definitely not expecting this. Growly Opeth is back!

hell to the yeah baby!

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freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Thu Aug 08, 2024 6:00 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 5:01 pm

hahahah I typed in Google "I hate my life" looking for this song....and Google popped up a help thing like "We all struggle" and so and so..lol. Made me laugh. I love it.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:26 pm

Absolutely obsessed with this song and the entire album, from 2007. Not sure how I missed it back then (well, actually I do know - had a baby) but I'm just catching up now.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Mon Aug 12, 2024 7:54 pm

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Aug 12, 2024 11:10 pm

I see your Diana Ross and raise you a Mavis Staples. Released right around her 85th birthday.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 5:34 pm

I cannot stop listening to Gojira's performance of "Ah! Ça Ira!" from the Olympics opening ceremony.

They could have easily dialed it back or toned it down for a mass audience, but went SO fucking hard on this. Every time you think the song might chill, it kicks up to another gear with a brutal stank-face riff (like at the 2:10 mark). I absolutely just love everything about this, and I'm not even a huge Gojira fan.

Watching Elizabeth geek out over it was adorable as well.

JCC · Post by **JCC** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:54 pm

Never really listened to Gojira before. But this song sounded great. I will have to check them out. That has to be the most metal thing ever in Opening Cermony history!

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Aug 14, 2024 12:09 am

JCC wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:54 pm Never really listened to Gojira before. But this song sounded great. I will have to check them out. That has to be the most metal thing ever in Opening Cermony history!

Their best and most consistent album is “Way of All Flesh”, imo. All the others have a few good tracks but aren’t nearly as good overall.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:06 pm

Jeff V wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 11:10 pm I see your Diana Ross and raise you a Mavis Staples. Released right around her 85th birthday.

I need to listen to more Mavis Staples. She's on my list.

But now...

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:02 pm

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 11:29 pm

freelunch wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:06 pm
Jeff V wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 11:10 pm I see your Diana Ross and raise you a Mavis Staples. Released right around her 85th birthday.
I need to listen to more Mavis Staples. She's on my list.

But now...

Another Chicago act, as is Mavis.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Fri Aug 16, 2024 8:53 am

The only The Sword album I had heard previous to this was their debut Age of Winters, but a record show I was watching had accidentally mispriced this one and I got it for a steal. This final album is generally considered the bottom ranked of the six they released, but I'm really digging it.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Aug 16, 2024 10:41 am

Amorphis' "Tales From the Thousand Lakes" is a genre classic. Released in 1994, it was a stunning shift from standard death metal into melodic folk metal that hadn't really been done before (or done this well, anyways). The album's one glaring weakness were the clean vocals, which were...not great. I remember one review saying "Amorphis tries to mix in some clean sections, which doesn't really work". The "doesn't really work" line has become my benchmark phrase for metal bands who try to blend in bad clean vocals.

Since then, the original singer left and Tomi Joutsen has been their frontman for the past 20 years. Tomi is an absolute vocal powerhouse with bellowing death growls and rich cleans. He's a massive improvement in every way.

For the album's 30th anniversary, Amorphis did a live re-recording of "Tales" with Tomi at the helm. It's an absolutely stunning re-creation and while the janky old vocals had their charms, Tomi's new version is absolutely amazing. It vastly improves on an album that was already a classic, which I didn't think would be possible. I cannot wait to see them next month.

YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2024 8:53 am The only The Sword album I had heard previous to this was their debut Age of Winters, but a record show I was watching had accidentally mispriced this one and I got it for a steal. This final album is generally considered the bottom ranked of the six they released, but I'm really digging it.

I saw The Sword open for Metallica once. It was the only good part of that entire evening. Gods, Metallica was so, so terrible.

JCC · Post by **JCC** » Fri Aug 16, 2024 12:42 pm

I will have to check out the live version. I can't handle Amorphis pre-Tomi. It's not just the singing. The production and music isn't as good to me. Love their more recent work.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Aug 16, 2024 4:17 pm

JCC wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2024 12:42 pm I will have to check out the live version. I can't handle Amorphis pre-Tomi. It's not just the singing. The production and music isn't as good to me. Love their more recent work.

It's a HUGE upgrade in quality. However, it's worth noting that this "live" album isn't a concert recording (there was no crowd there) but rather them playing a one-take recording of the album start to finish at a Finnish metal club.

I loved the original (despite it's vocal quirks and muddy production) but would say that this is now the definitive version of the album.

JCC · Post by **JCC** » Fri Aug 16, 2024 5:02 pm

That actually sounds more appealing than a "proper" live album with crowd noise, etc. Thanks for the info.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Fri Aug 16, 2024 10:09 pm

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Sat Aug 17, 2024 7:46 pm