Black Metal.

[SomeGuyDude]

Is it just me or is this mix really unsatisfying? It sounds like the folk instruments are laid on top of the rock instruments in a really artificial way, like two separate tracks that happen to be at the same tempo playing simultaneously.

I don't think the mix is bad, I think the writing is incongruous. The distorted guitars are driving really hard and quickly, but that higher pitched stuff is going at a more lilting, lazy pace. Like you said, it feels like two different songs at the same tempo layered.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Agalloch tickets were like 17 bucks, what a steal. Anybody seen them live before?

 

[unknown]

seen them 3 times. They always put on a fantastic show

 

[wandering_taco]

Saw them in Chicago a couple years back, nice small venue and intimate atmosphere, it was amazing.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

 

[Avigrus]

Love the new album.... just a hint of Agalloch, but still dark as fuck.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

I really enjoyed the latest Cold Body Radiation, anyone here into them? I personally wouldn't really label them as black metal, but they definitely have some BM parts/influences.

 

[KafkaX]

Didnt even know they had a new one out. I really liked Deer Twilight.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

Didnt even know they had a new one out. I really liked Deer Twilight.

Deer Twilight is a masterpiece.

 

[[)eadmund]

Love the new album.... just a hint of Agalloch, but still dark as fuck.

Yea I like this a lot too. Seems kinda like the black metal version of My Bloody Valentine.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

 

[Master_Yoda77]

God, that album art is so damn awesome.

 

[Draehl]

God, that album art is so damn awesome.

The whole album is amazing. I'm surprised I haven't heard of Spectral Lore before...

 

[KafkaX]

For those interested, Woods of Desolation's newest can be ordered on vinyl now from Northern Silence Productions.

EDIT:

no the mix bothered me a bit as well. I think this is the band's first album? I'm not sure

edit: Nevermind. According to Cody, this guy previously recorded under a different name, so this is technically the second album. Opinion remains. Cool ideas. Weird mix

Yeah, check out the first album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q13UWbcH9A

Fucking awesome.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBzQvuMEMo

This whole album is fucking magical! Man a good contender for AotY for me.

 

[KafkaX]

Anyone hear the new Dornenreich album yet?

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I do enjoy Dornenreich from time to time, but had no idea they had a new album in the works. Hopefully it's going to be in a more black direction than ambient/neofolky. But that can be good too, so whatever.

 

[Mort Divine]

Dornenreich need to return to doing stuff like Hexenwind.

 

[KafkaX]

I really enjoyed Flammentriebe. Im curious to see what they bring to the table with their newest because they arent going to be putting out another one for awhile after that.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Dornenreich is pretty pedestrian. Even their best material is only solid, nothing special. And the vocalist is kind of annoying.