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Topic: Anyone get any new CDs recently?
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Nuclear Vampire
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posted September 06, 2006 12:56
Some major haulage this past couple of weeks:Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death (w/bonus DVD) fucking excellent even though they've plagarised themselves on quite a few tracks (A Different World = Rainmaker, etc) The DVD is very cool. Diamond Head - Lightning For The Nations Diamond Head - Borrowed Time Finally got around to getting these. Love 'em. Vader - Litany Vader - Reign Forever World On a Vader kick lately. Gonna get the new one next week. Ajattara - Tyhjyys Pasi Koskinen (ex-Amorphis singer) is the main guy in this mid-paced Black Metal group. Good stuff. Agalloch - Of Wind Stone And Pillar Haven't had a chance to really give this a good listen, but so far it's really good. I must get everything they've done now. Mez turned me onto them with The Mantle, which I still play at least once a week. Thanks buddy! Ancient - The Cainian Chronicle Ancient - Svartalvheim Ancient - Det Glemte Riket True Norwegian Black Metal. Nuff said.
Daath - The Hinderers Heard about these guys on Andy Snaeps forum (james Murphy mixed and mastered it). Crazy tech-death with sort of industrial overtones alomst like Anata. http://www.myspace.com/daath Vehemence - The Thoughts From Which I Hide This is their first album, totally self done right down to printing their own CD covers. Fucking excellent death metal. Slayer - Christ Illusion Amazing. Best Slayer since Seasons. Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam Holy shit I love this record! This is the album I crank while driving to work. Gets me pumped up for a day of...sitting in front of a computer. Asmegin - Hin Vordende Sod & Sø Folk/Viking/Black MEtal. Fucking excellent. Go check them out now http://www.asmegin.com/index_low_res.html
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schroeder
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posted September 06, 2006 22:54
quote: Originally posted by hexonutz: King Crimson - Collector's King Crimson, Vol. 6 (incl. ProjeKct Two live in Northhampton, Detroit, MI & Nashville, TN)
That was the last Japanese KC box set I purchased when I finally came to my senses and realized I didn't need need two copies of every collectors club cd since I was buying each one as they got released and then each Jap box set when they came out. I'm insane when trying to be a completist with collecting bands. I think I finally got a grip on my problem... financially I just can't afford to keep buying doubles, triples, quadtruples of albums because they are released in other countries, there's promos, etc... However those KC collectors Club releases are awaesome and I have purchased everyone that has come out. Hex, you will be as upset as I was when you realize only one of the 2 EOLB shirts are available Hopefully they will do another run on the out of print shirt so we can get one. Both designs are GREAT and one is just not enough for me -------------------- yawn
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AngelRat
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Member # 88
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posted September 14, 2006 18:15
CD's:Can - Limited Edition Faust - Faust IV Mastodon - Blood Mountain Moonspell - Memorial Pixies - Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim Klaus Schulze - Moondawn Steroid Maximus - Gondwanaland The Mars Volta - Amputechture Vader - Impressions In Blood And on vinyl: Klaus Schulze - Mirage -------------------- "Appearing like Ra"
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Mezcalhead
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posted September 21, 2006 08:02
Is NMN's later stuff any good Cube? Cause I love their early albums....just wondering.My most recent purchases: GOROD - Leading Vision Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (call me a sap but these guys write great pop songs!)
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Mezcalhead
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Member # 26
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posted September 27, 2006 21:26
quote: Originally posted by hexonutz: Dave, beware. I'm challenging you now. A shitload of Czech masterpieces this time, plus some.Love History - Anasazi (anasamazing) Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain Atrox - Orgasm Root - Madness Of The Graves Atrox - Terrestrials Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy - Relic Dances Agalloch - The Mantle (aka Mez Don't Cry Any More) Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy - Behind The Shadows Manes - Vilosophe Woods Of Ypres - Pursuit Of The Sun And Allure Of The Earth Thee Maldoror Kollective - A Clockwork Highway Alchemist - Austral Alien Agalloch - Pale Folklore Green Carnation - A Blessing In Disguise Manes - [View] EP Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy - Themes Fucking cancelled (twice - still out of fucking stock - ARRGH!): Green Carnation - Journey To The End Of The Night
Hahaha...looks like we've both come to our senses eh Hextomeister??????? To answer Hypercube's question about NMN....The ones I got were WRONG and something else..another album right before or after that one...both INCREDIBLE in my opinion...WRONG may be one of the most intriquing albums I've ever experienced..almost a fun experience as Nothingface was for the first time...okay, not that great but somewhere close to that. That one you sent me, 'Dance of the HEadless', I never could get into for some reason. WRONG is simply a classic, no doubt about it.
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Mezcalhead
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posted October 02, 2006 05:58
quote: Originally posted by vroomfondel: Napalm Death - Smear Campaign I must be getting old Too much groind for me. I like their Death Metal albums the most. Harmony Corruption, Fear, Emptiness, Despair and Diatribes. F.E.D kicks rear the most.
Here's a great review of their latest. Bergman makes one really key comment here which I totally agree with...they're actually doing their best work now at the end of their career, which is SO rare in musicmaking (although I agree with you Harry, 'Fear Emptiness Despair' still rules): Somehow, the phrase "on a roll" seems wholly inadequate to describe the phenomenon of NAPALM DEATH's years-old post-Earache renaissance. It's more like a fucking avalanche. For a bunch of guys getting acquainted with their late thirties and forties (that's, like, 104 in grindcore years), they've never sounded hungrier, angrier, or more dead-set on musical destruction. And "Smear Campaign" may just be the pinnacle of their lethal fury… at least until next year! You may have heard a few things about "Smear Campaign" that worry you — Anneke van Giersbergen from THE GATHERING does vocals on one track, yes. But it's a few lines of spoken words and indistinct coos, similar to the female voice in CELTIC FROST's "Return To the Eve", nothing more. And there's talk of Barney doing "different styles of vocals", as if he's joined a damn barbershop quartet or something. There are a few lines in "Persona Non Grata" where a vocoder is used to add an extra dimension to the voice, and the title track features some SWANS-influenced, echoed-out bellows that I suppose some would call "clean vocals". But there's nothing to get upset about here — 95% of "Smear Campaign" is fast, furious, urgent to the point of a heart attack, and utterly compelling. Not every song is a blast-fest — "Identity Crisis" and "When All Is Said and Done" are throttling midtempo raveups, akin to DISCHARGE doing "Protest and Survive" while snorting crushed-up trucker speed — but there are plenty of blast beats, and that loping punk/thrash polka tempo, and even the slowest moments on the album bristle with nervous tension. There's a raw intensity here, from the positively grimy and overdriven sound of the vocals to the insistent tempos to the blunt-force trauma of the simple and bludgeoning guitar lines. It all combines to make an album that beats you mercilessly and refuses to let up. That's not to say it's not textured, or that there aren't catchy parts. There are even a few overt CELTIC FROST homages (old-schoolers will probably laugh out loud at a couple guitar breaks and vocal "ooh" and heyyy!" outbursts), the aforementioned SWANS creepiness, and a few bone-cracking breakdowns. But all of that comes at you like a runaway truck, with an energy level that tops even the band's own storied past, and trumps just about anything and anyone currently making extreme music today. Grindcore, punk, death metal — throw out the categories, because at this point, NAPALM DEATH are a class unto themselves. It's hard to think of a band this influential, around for this long, that's doing the best work of their career right fucking now. Suffice it to say that "Smear Campaign" is one of the best, most important albums of 2006, and it's a must-own for anyone who claims to support the underground. The only question is — how the hell are they gonna top this? - Keith Bergman
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Slaytanic
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posted October 21, 2006 03:04
After a brief period out:THE BEATLES - Anthology DVD box set (awesome, NEEDED that one); The Matrix Experience (10 DVD box set); GUITAR WOLF - Jet Generation (Jeto Genelation!!!!); MEGADETH - Peace Sells and So Far remasters; SLAYAH - Christ Illusion; -------------------- "Forty-five moments of perfection translated through a cautionary escape into the perils of the mundane, the inherent entropy in ultimate order, and the potential threats of eternal, unchecked apathy in civilization; all cloaked in musical expression so thoughtful, creative and forward thinking that almost a quarter-century later, few can even comprehend it, much less match it." (autothrall)
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