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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
I made a relaxing mix that I’ve been listening to a lot this month, give it a listen here.
A lot of black metal recently!
Black Birch - Weak
Beenkerver - De Rode Weduwe
I went into a bit of a rabbit hole about the genre not too long ago because it has a really interesting history. Most probably know or have heard of Varg Vikernes and the Norwegian church burnings of the 1990's. But there's a lot more to it, because neo-Nazism has an unfortunate history in the genre, to the point that NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) is a whole genre, and there are even festivals with bands of only this genre in France, Ukraine, and others. It's mostly a problem in Eastern Europe, but it can be quite wide spread and it is problematic to such an extent that someone created a website to dive into band histories and give them a rating of 1 to 5 to judge how Nazi they are lol - some bands that aren't NSBM by themselves but have relationships to those bands will be given a higher rating for example.. not great.
I am the type that cannot separate the art from the artist, so I do not ever listen to bands associated with it. Polish band Mgla for example are still doing business with a NSBM record label, and despite having listened to them a lot in the past because they make genuinely incredible music, I have made it a point to never listen to it again.
Long story short (and I know this was a needlessly long comment) to every force there is also an opposite, and the opposite in this case is RABM (Red and Anarchist Black Metal), and one such band that I have been listening to recently is Black Birch from above - if you're into black metal in any way, I highly recommend them! Their vocalist is female too, which is always crazy when it comes to harsh vocals!
I linked a Beenkerver song too but I can't find much info about them as I don't speak Dutch. Not sure they are RABM.
Have you listened to Dawn rayd yet? They split up recently but were very much an anti fascist black metal band.
Literally just listened to some of it 45 minutes ago haha, it's not bad!