Black Metal.

[divine_torture]

Doom Of The Occult is out in a few months..
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This will alter my present ideas for a top ten. Fuck yes.

 

[divine_torture]

Isn't the new Shining supposed to be out today?

 

[youdontknowme]

I never really got into Greek BM. I am generally pretty ambivalent to most of the stuff from there.

you really need to check out Rotting Christ and Varathron.

 

[youdontknowme]

Funny you should say that because I am always reminded of The Karelian Isthmus when I listen to Thy Mighty Contract. They're not that far removed from each other.

Thy Mighty Contract hits me harder than The Karelian Isthmus. I can see the similarities, but Rotting Christ is way more melodic than early Amorphis.

 

[whiskey funeral]

I'm a lamer and haven't heard Necros Christos yet. Where should I start?

 

[youdontknowme]

I think they only have one full length, Triune Impurity Rites. check that one out. I consider them more death metal, though. very similar to Incantation. good stuff but I was late and missed out on picking up said album. bummer. might have to wait for the reissue which might not happen until 5 years from now.

 

[whiskey funeral]

Cool. Thanks, GMD's resident prick.

 

[youdontknowme]

no problem lol

 

[Koude Haat]

i would start with either Grave Damnation or Black Mass Desecration. has their best work imo. Triune Impurity Rites is great stuff also, but i prefer their older stuff.

 

[unknown]

I was pretty impressed with Triune Impurity Rites

 

[youdontknowme]

i would start with either Grave Damnation or Black Mass Desecration. has their best work imo. Triune Impurity Rites is great stuff also, but i prefer their older stuff.

are those full lengths or EPs? either way, I'll check them out

in the meantime, here's my modified black metal list

 

[divine_torture]

i would start with either Grave Damnation or Black Mass Desecration. has their best work imo. Triune Impurity Rites is great stuff also, but i prefer their older stuff.

Get it all.

 

[Koude Haat]

are those full lengths or EPs? either way, I'll check them out

in the meantime, here's my modified black metal list

It's their demo/Ep's.

The Grave Damnation was rereleased on MCD format and its still available in some places.

The Black Mass Desecration was also rereleased on MCD as a split with goat molestor. Good look finding that, however.

I love my necros christos/goat molestor split.

Get it all.

prett much this, yeah.

 

[Day_Before_Dawn]

Has anyone heard anything about the new Shining yet? I thought it was supposed to be released 2 days ago, but it looks like its not available anywhere and I haven't even seen it over the net. I'm hoping this doesn't mean another push back.

 

[Tonka Time]

Any word on a the next Aborym?

 

[Zephyrus]

None, but I assume they are working on something since they got a new guitarist, Hell-I0-Kabbalus.

 

[whiskey funeral]

Have any of you heard the "new" Bethlehem w/ Kvarforth from Shining doing vocals? It's pretty terrible. Not like I was expecting anything good from this band considering they haven't released anything worth my time in forever but still, this is a joke. For once, I actually agree with a review posted on m-a. Here's part of that review:

It will take you approximately 35 seconds to realize why this album deserved such a low score, and it will then take you approximately 6 minutes to realize why you will never listen to this again.

This was to be a reworked version of the s.u.i.z.i.d. album, which was fine to begin with, and yet aside from the vocals, nothing is different at all. The music sounds very poorly edited in some brief parts, but otherwise it sounds the same except albeit flat and emptier than the original. The atmosphere is somehow gone, though the actual recording is fine. I wouldn't even say the music is bad at all, there just isn't anything new to report of it that hasn't already said about the original.

But the number one issue here is the vocals.

Kvarforth. WHY.

Kvarforth is perfect for Shining, because the music is written in accordance to the juxtaposing of his voice and the flow of Swedish lyrics, so he sounds natural and appropriate during his own songs. Bethlehem is a German band and all of these songs were originally in German, but I suppose to accommodate his inability to speak German, Kvarforth sings the songs in English, which though at times may retain the same meaning, the songs do not match the music in the same way as they did before, and so as a result, the performances sound awkward and unsure of themselves at times. There are several times when there are these vocal sounds that just appear to try to fill space; sometimes it is a series of faint quivering whispers or just inexplicable sounds, but it doesn't sound dark and evil in any way, it just sounds retarded, out of place, and 100% forced.

Ugh.

 

[Tonka Time]

None, but I assume they are working on something since they got a new guitarist, Hell-I0-Kabbalus.

Yeah, I could have sworn that I saw something about a 2009 release but I forgot where I saw it.

Anyways, Anyone else think that Mayhem should re-make Chimera with Attila on vocals? I recently saw them live and IMO Attila's version of "My Death" is the only way to do that song.

 

[divine_torture]

Has anyone heard anything about the new Shining yet? I thought it was supposed to be released 2 days ago, but it looks like its not available anywhere and I haven't even seen it over the net. I'm hoping this doesn't mean another push back.

I asked that the other day when I thought it was supposed to be released...

 

[Draconian]

Regarding Shining:

"due to technical printing problems with the booklet the CD version might be available for the 23rd.
Same problem with the vinyl version excepted we don't have yet a delivery date"