Any opinions on these albums...

[JayKeeley]

Xasthur - Nocturnal Poisoning
Hades - Dawn of the Dying Sun
RuneMagick - Requiem of the Apocalypse
Scythe - On My Way Home / Poetry of Illusions
Wyrd - Vargtimmen pt 1

I know some of you have Xasthur...

 

[J.]

I've heard that Hades is pretty good, if you like blatant viking era Bathory worship.

 

[JayKeeley]

BUMP

 

[Erik]

Xasthur is great, if you like Manes "Under..." then definitely get it. Wyrd is OK but I only have "Heathen." (51 minute song) Runemagick is good, it's like old Swedish Sunlight death metal mixed with Black Sabbath or something.

 

[JayKeeley]

Who doesn't like Manes "Under ein Blodraud Maane"??? Guess Xasthur is a 'go' then, in combination with npearce's review: http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89828&highlight=xasthur

 

[Erik]

Sure. I actually bought myself a Xasthur t-shirt today. Note the incredibly legible logo:

 

[JayKeeley]

Nice.

By the way, I would never consider "Under..." to be disturbing in the way that npearce describes "Nocturnal...". Where or how are the comparisons drawn then?

 

[Erik]

I dunno... Xasthur is more depressive/blacker... It's obvious once you hear it where the comparisons come from, can't really point my finger at it, but there's some very similar riffing etc going on. They do a Mütiilation cover, I guess some of it is similar to Mütiilation in its use of dissonance etc. and also Burzum peripherally.

 

[JayKeeley]

OK well I'm placing an order at 'thebasar' for a bunch of stuff, so I'll include it.

 

[Nate The Great]

Xasthur rules! Somehow California is pumping out all kinds of whacked out black metal filth. Xasthur (it's only one guy) lives like 3 hours from me. He's probably within an hour of NAD. If you liked Nattens, you'll be able to comprehend Nocturnal Poisoning. It is so sick it becomes beautivul at times. In my opinion, the guy did a top notch job with that album. I tried to get an interview with him, but he said he had done too many lately. Maybe you can get one with him. It's been quite a while since I asked.



Phyre: Where'd you get that shirt?

 

[Erik]

npearce: http://thr.cjb.net/

 

[bloodfiredeath]

RuneMagick - Requiem of the Apocalypse

I'm a little late on this question, but this album is very awesome.