What are you listening to right now?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Aug 09, 2022 3:24 pm

JCC wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:49 pm Uh... It's Amon Amarth. They play melodic aggressive death metal with lyrics about vikings/norse mythlology. In the early 2000's they basically refined/perfected their sound. They've done this for decades. What do you want them to do, make a prog metal album?

Could they make melodic aggressive death metal with lyrics about miniature schnauzers? I'd buy that.

JCC · Post by **JCC** » Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:23 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 3:24 pm Could they make melodic aggressive death metal with lyrics about miniature schnauzers? I'd buy that.

LOL.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:05 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 3:24 pm
JCC wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:49 pm Uh... It's Amon Amarth. They play melodic aggressive death metal with lyrics about vikings/norse mythlology. In the early 2000's they basically refined/perfected their sound. They've done this for decades. What do you want them to do, make a prog metal album?
Could they make melodic aggressive death metal with lyrics about miniature schnauzers? I'd buy that.

no, but you could be thinking of Nasenarbeit. they only had two albums tho

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:13 pm

Schnauzers are so metal.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:49 pm

How am I just now hearing Teksti-TV 666?

Not one, not two, not three...not even four electric guitars. They go with five and sometimes six. Ah, Finland. You are so wonderfully weird.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:57 pm

Wormrot - Hiss

grindcore from Singapore with a bunch of other metal-isms and modernizations thrown in

JCC · Post by **JCC** » Fri Aug 12, 2022 5:19 pm

Two Fridays in a row we get a new melodic death metal from a band whose name begins with "A". This week it's Arch Enemy. They had put out more than the normal amount of singles than is the norm, so I was already familiar with some of the songs. In any event, I really like it. There is one song where they let Alissa do some nice clean vocals and it's unsurprisingly good. (Much better than the tepid weak vocals done on the ill conceived power ballad from Will to Power.) I was curious to see how much they would blend clean/harsh vocals, and the answer is - only on that song.

Amusingly, like Amon before them this is a short album at almost the exact same length (42-43 minutes). I am enjoying it a lot, but for the "more of the same" police, it may not be for you. But, in theory you would have dropped Arch Enemy a while ago...

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Aug 12, 2022 8:33 pm

I…should probably keep my opinions about Arch Enemy to myself.

JCC · Post by **JCC** » Sat Aug 13, 2022 6:53 am

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 8:33 pm I…should probably keep my opinions about Arch Enemy to myself.

haha! No worries. I have certainly been there with many bands where I get bored and take years off without listening to them. In fact, it's happened before with Arch Enemy! I gave them a break for several albums and then got back into them when I saw a video of "The World is Yours" on YouTube a few years ago.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:44 pm

Been a life long ELO fan.

Also loved HoJo in the 80s

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:21 am

Since I'm now driving all day, I'm listening to radio more than I have in decades. Bluetooth does not play well with the Uber app (it suppresses ride offers) and besides, not many customers are keen to listening to a book I'm in the middle of. So I play WXRT -- given the vast range of styles and their reputation for playing deep cuts over the past 50 years, I'm surprised how repetitive their play list is...even with old stuff. I've heard Peter Gabriel's Steam 4 times in the past week, the Talking Heads Burning Down the House also 4 times, and numerous other oldies played on an almost daily basis. The new stuff they play get played several times a day...I don't really have a gripe with that, except some of the songs don't hold up to the umpteenth listen.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 8:15 am

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Wed Aug 24, 2022 3:13 pm

Los Bitchos - Let the festivities begin!

instrumental rock/cumbia fusion group from London; really fun.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Thu Aug 25, 2022 8:57 pm

Johnny Nocash and the Celtic Outlaws - Suehalfemfog

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:38 pm

Enslaved dropped a new track completely out of the blue today. It’s excellent.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Aug 25, 2022 10:36 pm

Been reliving the 1990's.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Thu Aug 25, 2022 10:46 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:38 pm Enslaved dropped a new track completely out of the blue today. It’s excellent.

Saucy little monkey rift!

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:05 pm

I love this song but I find it very sad and I have no idea why. I have absolutely no idea what the lyrics mean.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:20 pm

Wiki

When at age 50 Cohen first recorded the song, he described it as "rather joyous", and said that it came from "a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way, but with enthusiasm, with emotion."[13] He later said "there is a religious hallelujah, but there are many other ones. When one looks at the world, there’s only one thing to say, and it’s hallelujah"
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Cohen's lyrical poetry and his view that "many different hallelujahs exist" is reflected in wide-ranging covers with very different intents or tones, allowing the song to be "melancholic, fragile, uplifting [or] joyous" depending on the performer

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:11 pm

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:38 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:05 pm I love this song but I find it very sad and I have no idea why. I have absolutely no idea what the lyrics mean.

It's one of the most-covered songs there is.

Written by Leonard Cohen, it's a meeting-place of spirituality and sexuality. There are numerous versions and something like 70 optional verses, some of them suitable for church/temple, some of them for the bedroom.

(Some of the core references are to the Biblical relationships of David & Bathsheba, David & God, and Samson & Delilah.)

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:58 pm

He wrote it as a sad song with no attachment to religion.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Sep 03, 2022 6:07 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:58 pm He wrote it as a sad song with no attachment to religion.

That's hard to say. Cohen was a secular Buddhist Jew, but it's clear that he's drawing on the power of religious tradition here.

The word "Hallelujah" literally means "Praise the Lord." Cohen's treatment here is ambiguous about God, but the expressed longing is very much based in spirituality (whether whole or broken).

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 7:56 pm

I made sure me and my neighbors listened to Boston's debut album tonight.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 10:30 am

Enjoying the new Behemoth album more than I was expecting to.

The new Bloodbath is also surprisingly good old-school death metal. Plus...Barney.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 1:17 pm

The Medium, For Horses.

Weedian, Trip to Mexico

Panda Bear, Reset

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 1:18 pm

Listening to these two songs over and over and over.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Fri Sep 23, 2022 10:47 pm

Cellar Darling - Freeze

Folk/progressive metal, Switzerland, female vocals

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Sep 25, 2022 8:19 pm

Lets go back to when we were younger. I always loved their albums artwork.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 5:57 pm

No one told me there was new deviant industrial metal out.

PIG - Feed The Wound, 2022

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:14 pm

Holy crab, the new KMFDM is awesome too. At least, this one track is.

KMFDM - Hyena, electro-industrial metal, 2022

Xmann · Post by **Xmann** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:18 pm

Skinypupy wrote:Enjoying the new Behemoth album more than I was expecting to.

The new Bloodbath is also surprisingly good old-school death metal. Plus...Barney.

Not a black metal fan per say, but I love me some Behemoth. I really like this album as well. I avoided the songs that have been released the past few weeks because I've been eagerly awaiting this album for months.

And Bloodbath always kicks ass as well.

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hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:19 pm

Sudy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:14 pm Holy crab, the new KMFDM is awesome too. At least, this one track is.

KMFDM - Hyena, electro-industrial metal, 2022

I’ll have to check it out. I wasn’t even aware they were still working, to be honest. The last I paid attention to them, they were going under the pseudonym MDFMK. Next you’re going to tell me Laibach is releasing new stuff.

Edit: well heck, Laibach is releasing new stuff.

Looks like they’re mostly performance art and stage shows these days though.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:26 pm

Based on the early reviews, the new Strigoi (out Friday) might be the heaviest album of the entire year. Can't wait...I do love me some Gregor Mackintosh.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:36 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:19 pm I’ll have to check it out. I wasn’t even aware they were still working, to be honest. The last I paid attention to them, they were going under the pseudonym MDFMK.

That was over 20 years ago lol. I've only given a serious listen to half of the post-2000 stuff. With a few exceptions they just weren't the same after En Esch and Guenter Schulz left. One comment I read today is that they pretty much became an AC/DC and fail to distinguish themselves anymore, which I think is accurate. But each album has at least a couple worthwhile tracks. 2017's Hell Yeah has some good ones.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:57 pm

Yeah, as I said, it’s been a long time since I thought of them. I remember how Rip Up the System took us all by surprise back in the day, though. They brought power chords to industrial. Well, they probably weren’t the first, but they did kind of perfect it.

But a lot of industrial kind of just devolved into EDM it felt like, so my interest waned.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:57 pm

I'm just gonna keep my thoughts on KMFDM to myself...

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 10:58 pm

Oh, KMFDM is cringey and stupid... we all acknowledge that. But sometimes you need to feel the Ultra Heavy Beat™.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:39 am

this was pretty enjoyable. yes, the full-on KMFDM REGGAE

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 8:10 am

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:57 pm I'm just gonna keep my thoughts on KMFDM to myself...

Welcome to my world when it comes to death/speed metal.

Sudy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 10:58 pm Oh, KMFDM is cringey and stupid... we all acknowledge that. But sometimes you need to feel the Ultra Heavy Beat™.

I don't find them that cringey or stupid in comparison to most of their peers in the genre. They have had more than their fair share of critical acclaim over the years, so I'm obviously not the only one that appreciates some of their work. They also are a politically charged band with actual messages in much of their music, so hats off to them for attempting to rise above the pack when it comes to lyricism.