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I think there should be an optional re-tagging when users hit ten years. Rat Boy inspired this belief.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I think there should be an optional re-tagging when users hit ten years. Rat Boy inspired this belief.

Do you have to disappear from the site for a couple years before it can happen?

garion333 wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

I think there should be an optional re-tagging when users hit ten years. Rat Boy inspired this belief.

Do you have to disappear from the site for a couple years before it can happen?

I hope not. It definitely wouldn't work for Legion - wasn't he the originator of the "I ALMOST DIED" phrase/thread so many years back? It was in reference to GWJ going offline for a bit.

If I disappear for two years weeks, send someone looking for me.

*Legion* wrote:

If I disappear for two years weeks, send someone looking for me.

Huh, I didn't think you'd want to talk about your honeymoon and my old sig.

*Legion* wrote:

If I disappear for two years weeks, send someone looking for me.

Huh, I didn't think you'd want to talk about your honeymoon and my old sig.

Your snark's effectiveness has been undercut by double posting like a pleb!

SON OF A!

Good news, everybody!

New High on Fire album "Electric Messiah" due October 5th

Pikey wrote:

"I think there’s 10 tracks, 11 tracks," he noted. "It depends, because there’s a bunch of songs -- like I wrote a Sumerian anunnaki rock opera that actually is two songs but they’re separate tracks. ... There’s tracks that don’t have names but, they’re there. It’s just one stream of High on Fire consciousness and it’s f*cking good, that’s all. I’m really stoked on that record."

Same Ol' Pike.

Also, Anciients is working on their next album.

High on Fire, Windhand, and Beyond Creation all releasing albums in October, and SUMAC in late September.

I know what my playlist posts around there are gonna look like.

Toddland wrote:

Also, Anciients is working on their next album.

YES!

Keep the posts coming, Legion! I've been loving Churchburn and especially Barren Altar all week. Fedaykin, that Atavisma is pretty great too.

d4m0 wrote:

Keep the posts coming, Legion! I've been loving Churchburn and especially Barren Altar all week. Fedaykin, that Atavisma is pretty great too.

I've been enjoying those along with Beyond Creation's most recent album (Earthborn Evolution, from 2014) in preparation for their upcoming new album. One of those groups I had heard positive things about but had not yet gotten into.

*Legion* wrote:

High on Fire, Windhand, and Beyond Creation all releasing albums in October, and SUMAC in late September.

I know what my playlist posts around there are gonna look like.

Nov 2 is the first half of the new album from The Ocean.

garion333 wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

High on Fire, Windhand, and Beyond Creation all releasing albums in October, and SUMAC in late September.

I know what my playlist posts around there are gonna look like.

Nov 2 is the first half of the new album from The Ocean.

Ooh!

And Horrendous has an album release at the very end of September.

That's gonna be a hell of a 6 weeks.

Toddland wrote:

Good news, everybody!

New High on Fire album "Electric Messiah" due October 5th

Pikey wrote:

"I think there’s 10 tracks, 11 tracks," he noted. "It depends, because there’s a bunch of songs -- like I wrote a Sumerian anunnaki rock opera that actually is two songs but they’re separate tracks. ... There’s tracks that don’t have names but, they’re there. It’s just one stream of High on Fire consciousness and it’s f*cking good, that’s all. I’m really stoked on that record."

Same Ol' Pike.

Also, Anciients is working on their next album.

Has a Motörhead-ness to it, I like

"Wink_and_the_Gun” wrote:

Has a Motörhead-ness to it, I like :)

That track is about Lemmy, it turns out.

Plus there's always a little undercurrent of Motorhead running through anything High on Fire does.

The lyrics absolutely make that song.

"He's playing bass and he's melting your face."

"All give praise as the ace hits the stage."

Awesome

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Current playlist:

Lowen - A Crypt in the Stars

Female vocal doom metal. Kind of like a fuzzier Messa. The vocals often take on a Middle-Eastern call-to-prayer quality (particularly in the first track, which is sung partly in Persian), which really works layered on top of the fuzz. Not too shrill. The sing about the "Lord of the Ziggurat" in multiple songs. They also have a song named after a Magic: The Gathering card.

(I also can't read their name without mentally completing it like: "Lowen away, Ball 1". Even though I haven't actually watched a baseball game broadcast in a very long time.)

If you search for Lowen on Google Play Music, you also get Laura Lowen, who apparently makes sensual piano music, something I'll need to keep in my back pocket for later:

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Ulcerate - The Coming of Genocide
Ulcerate - Of Fracture and Failure

I got into Ulcerate with their second album, Everything is Fire, so since I never listened to anything earlier, I've gone back to check out their earliest releases, an EP combining their first two demo releases (Genocide) and the first full-length (Fracture).

The demos are rough and indistinct, more of a straightforward brutal death band that jumps off into some cool parts here and there, but mostly the tracks just run together.

Of Fracture and Failure is better, more strongly hinting at where the group would go. Though it features a vocalist with a more midrange, screechy attack, who only appears on this album.

Incantation - Onward to Golgotha

I listen to a lot of metal these days, but when it comes to placing where things land within the style, I feel that I am missing a lot of context. I got into metal by listening to the more experimental/avant-garde stuff, coming from an experimental music fan background, as opposed to being a metalhead exploring more adventurous types of a style he's already familiar with.

So while I can point to a band and call them death metal, I can't easily identify what their influences are, if they're unique to them or just derivative, etc.

As such, I've been slowly trying to build that context by listening to some of the landmark artists and albums that defined the genre. I started last year by diving into a little bit of Death and Bolt Thrower, and I'm adding Incantation to that right now.

Whoaw the larynx of the vocalist on that Ulcerate track sounds like it's shredding when he sings.

Of all the old school death bands I prefer Death and Bolt Thrower to the rest. The Incantation, Immolation, etc., side doesn't do much for me. I'm simply not a huge death metal fan, even of the Gothenburg sound, which is why I gravitate to the more technical side of death metal. Or Opeth. Go a little more progressive and I'm good.

Only thing I care to listen to today:

garion333 wrote:

Of all the old school death bands I prefer Death and Bolt Thrower to the rest. The Incantation, Immolation, etc., side doesn't do much for me. I'm simply not a huge death metal fan, even of the Gothenburg sound, which is why I gravitate to the more technical side of death metal. Or Opeth. Go a little more progressive and I'm good.

Have you checked out Obscura's new release from a few weeks ago, Diluvium? It should be right up your alley if you like the newer Opeth and other progressive stuff like that. Also, it's fantastic.

I have, actually. It's the best Obscura I've ever heard as they spent more time writing songs instead of mostly noodling.

I've also been revisiting Alkaloid's new release because I dismissed it after release.

I've given the Obscura album a couple of shots, and it just hasn't gotten anywhere with me.

The Alkaloid has been growing on me.

As far as tech-death goes, nothing else this year has held a candle to Anachronism to me. But they don't bridge into progressive metal quite as strongly as Obscura and Alkaloid.

Whoa I somehow missed the Anachronism release. This is awesome!

Anyone else checked out the new Rebel Wizard? It's more of their insanity, and it's great. You really have to get past the singing, but once you're there, the music itself is straight up... thrash I guess? Tough to say. They are unique, that's for sure. I wish they had better production though. It's probably part of their thing and I'm sure it's on purpose, but really, it's like they're recording in a bathroom with maybe two microphones and you're listening on the outside.

The vocals were unexpected, but not totally off the mark for Black Metal, which he clearly is influenced by to a certain extent. Can't say marrying Iron Maiden with BM vocals is something I ever really wanted, but there's some quality stuff going on here. Hell, the production somewhat works in its favor, as if these were lost recordings from Helvete.

Super props for their song titles. Amazing.

The Rebel Wizard album is working for me.

In general, I'm a fan of artists taking black metal as a starting point and doing something less on-the-nose with it, so the concept here of taking black metal and giving it a NWOBHM spin is one I can get behind.

garion333 wrote:

Hell, the production somewhat works in its favor, as if these were lost recordings from Helvete.

hah, well said!

*Legion* wrote:

In general, I'm a fan of artists taking black metal as a starting point and doing something less on-the-nose with it, so the concept here of taking black metal and giving it a NWOBHM spin is one I can get behind.

I hear that. It's almost like as a subgenre black metal just works well with other types of metal in an especially nice way. Not sure why that is.

On a completely different note, I'm kind of interested in the opinion of the thread on the latest from Frontierer, which just came out a few weeks ago. To me, they kind of stand alone. I can't really think of any other band that sounds like them, which in my opinion is a rarity in metal. These guys have an intensity that is just on another level. Not heavy, though it is certainly heavy, but INTENSE. I don't know how they get through a concert without passing out from exhaustion halfway through. I love this, but that's me. This band is certainly not for everyone. I really enjoyed their first album, and this one is right up with that one, and I'd say even better. It's an evolution of their sound, and they have gone to a great place with it.