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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/
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Stuff not released recently but I've been listening to:
Korn (various tracks, got a new 7 string guitar so been learning stuff)
Manchester Orchestra (various tracks)
All Pigs Must Die - God is War
Antichrist Siege Machine - Purifying Blade
As far as new releases, this and last week are filled with extreme metal. I might find/add to the lists, but so far:
Stuff released last week:
Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
Demiser - Slave to the Scythe
Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire
Koldbrann - Ingen Skansel
Black Birch - Selftitled
Stuff I'm looking forward to release today/this week:
Concrete Winds - Selftitled (Album of the Year material for me. Absolutely unhinged war/black/death metal)
Pneuma Hagion - From Beyond
Modern Rites - Endless
Nile is one of the my favorite death metal bands. Their album In There Darkened Shrines got me into the genre. I have only listened to the new album once but I can't recall anything rememberable from it. Seems like they have been going on autopilot the last couple of albums.
Need to checkout Concrete Winds.
That is the same album that got me into Nile. IMHO, Those Whom the Gods Detest was the last "great" Nile record. For me, the next two afterward were fine but not great- or had flaws that took away from what good they had- specifically production/mixing. They got very thin on their mixes for some reason and lost all the "meat" of the sound and everything started to blur together, in a way that hid instead of showcased their musicianship.
Vile Nilotic Rites to me was a step towards a return to form, and then so far, I personally think the new one, The Underworld... is as close to "older" Nile as modern Nile will get. The production seems beefy again and the songwriting is fun.
Though, to be fair, they have a very narrow lane and they stay in it, so it's difficult for them to have a bunch of memorable stuff at this point, it all just sounds very Nile haha. I think there are a few moments of experimentation on this latest one that help a bit (choir background vocals in a couple of spots) but they're firmly still in Nile territory. I'll enjoy this record as a slight return-to-form (albeit without Dallas in the band) but the older records are unquestionably better and more memorable.
For sure, Concrete Winds is one of my favorites. Chaotic, extremely noisy and aggressive, just so visceral in sound. For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5nGUM0TD8w -- also HIGHLY recommend their previous record (Nerve Butcherer) too
I recently heard Want Want by Maggie Rogers for the first time and have had it on repeat. It was one of those times where you hear something and think it's been around much longer than it has, like it's a classic you've heard a great number of times.