Referencing both Darkthrone and Lietterschpich in last night's roundup wound up reminding me of Barbara... A totally whacked-out Israeli Bass/ Drums dirge duo that kinda sounded like Man is the Bastard stomping their way through primitive ugly Scandinavian blackthrash.
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Weekly Roundup #8
Well, the good/ bad/ ugly this week is that our new noise boxes and the box of N95 masks we ordered showed up without a hitch, but the Mork Gryning CDs I ordered from Season of Mist got stolen off our porch... Bummer, but I guess I'd rather be out $45 worth of CDs rather than almost $400 worth of new gear.
Upside is that those new Electro Lobotomy boxes sound savage.
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Muzak:
Savage Republic - I've had my eye out for a copy of Tragic Figures for a couple years now and it turns out it just got reissued with a bonus disc of unreleased stuff from that same era. Stoked! "Next to Nothing" is one of my absolute favorite songs of all time. Gloomy punked-up scrap clatter equal parts Joy Division, Crash Worship, and Neubauten.
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Abigor - I'm pretty sure "Verwustung: Invoke the Dark Age" was the very first black metal album I ever heard and as such it still holds a special place in my heart. Raw early/ mid 90's savagery.
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Darkthrone - I've been meaning to replace my copy of Plaguewielder for a while now and finally just made it happen. Still probably my pound for pound favorite Darkthrone CD even though I kind of hate the cover art on the reissue.
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White Mice - Demented noiserock/ sludge destruction from a bunch of weirdos in blood splattered mouse costumes. Up there with Burmese, Lietterschpich, and early SWANS in terms of complete annihilating heaviness. I hope someday that one of our projects sounds even half as fucked up as "BLasssTPhlEgMEICE"
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Sex Gang Children - Every couple months I get this song stuck in my head. YMMV, but for me it brings back a lot of weird memories involving blacklight, crushed velvet, and friends who have been gone for a lot of years.
https://youtu.be/GTdSBWxU7bI
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Loop - I knew Loop had been playing shows again, but I had no idea they had a new album out until it was right in front of my face over at Long in the Tooth earlier today. Seriously, I was spaced out staring off into the middle distance for a minute and when my brain zoned back in I realized I was staring at a Loop CD I didn't recognize. Sounds pretty much exactly how you'd want it to.
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Video Games:
Dawn of the Monsters
Gynoug
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Reading:
Finally trying to sit down and plow through the Michael Moorcock "Elric" books that I've been meaning to read since I first got into Hawkwind almost three decades ago.
A bunch of weird articles about spooky Fortean/ Cryptid shit... Mostly sea monsters/ ghost ships and other oceanic weirdness this week.
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Tube:
Spongebob Squarepants - Goes down smooth when my brain is mush.
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War of the God Monsters - This was less a movie and more a fever dream.
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Creature - Abysmally low budget ALIEN/ The Thing ripoff circa 1985-ish that actually manages to be more enjoyable than Any of the ALIEN films barring the first two.
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Shocking Dark - Another low budget ALIEN knockoff. This one Italian and filmed in what appears to be a sewer.
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Screamers - Dorky 90's era mangling of a Philip K. Dick short story. I don't like Screamers quite as much as something like, say, Hardware, but I've always had kind of a soft spot for this flick.
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Jouissance
Pretty interesting combo of New Wave-y synth, and ultra blown out bedroom recorded black metal... Definitely recommended if you dig stuff like Lonesummer, Planning For Burial, Dunnock, etc. etc.
Highlight of the album for me was the third track that sounded almost like a 60's girl-pop group smashed through a bunch of those orange boss distortion pedals with dismal blackened wraith shrieks lurking in the background.
Truly weird and wonderful... Man, stuff like this always makes me really miss aQuarius RecOrds.
Friday, May 6, 2022
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Hypocrisy
I never really kept up with Hypocrisy after their first two or three albums... Well, that is until today when I picked up a bunch of their later stuff and realized it's all pretty fucking great.
"A Taste of Extreme Divinity" especially is pure fucking gold from start to finish.
This Is Oblivion
If I’m being honest this track kind of loses me when the vocal falls into that weird almost hip hop cadence at the end (it’s not even poorly done, it just feels super out of whack with the rest of the track), but up to that point this is pretty fucking phenomenal. Almost sounds like Chelsea Wolfe or the chick from Made out of Babies fronting a dubbed out SWANS. Looking forward to hearing how the full album plays out when it comes out tomorrow.
Our days are filled with graves.
Just found out that two of my old friends passed away. One back in 2020 one in 2021. Hadn’t been in touch with either of them for 20+ years but it still feels pretty shitty. The passage of time is fucking weird man.
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