Non-gay bro thread a.k.a. Random offtopic stuff.

[Moonshield_]

If you like melodic/epic black metal, here is the new album just released by my project (vocals not by me) Eminentia Tenebris :

 

[miniroch]

HsB with their latest release reminds me of their Antigone days. Some tracks, bar the vocals, easily could make it to late 90's MDM albums. Don't miss out on that one, easily one of the best albums of the year in that near-MDM category.

 

[DE4life]

Thanks for the heads up. What a great album. I can definitely hear the Antigone vibe. Production has a wide but still crushing sound. Music is the heavier side of European metal core but has a strong groove element throughout. You obviously know what you're getting lyrics-wise with HSB. Vocals sound as solid as ever. Really cool that they have a cover of KsE's Numbered Days on here, too. Probably my favourite Killswitch track. Even cooler that they got Jesse to do the clean vocals. Not many covers where the original vocalist is on the track! Now granted I still prefer the original song by some distance, but this is a solid alternative take. Very much in HSB style.

Antigone takes me back. I bought that album when I was still getting into extreme metal. I was in the States at the time visiting an ex, saw it in a store and picked it up purely because the cover and song titles looked cool. I guess the kids would say I picked it up purely on vibes. I didn't know anything about HSB at the time. I remember sitting down that evening and listening to the album from start to finish, reading along with the lyrics in the booklet. The classic method of listening to an album. By the final song I had goosebumps. It's an album that really hit me emotionally. The juxtaposition of the absolutely crushing, visceral standard tracks and the beautiful, melancholy instrumentals was just perfect.

Unfortunately, HSB albums after that never hit me the same way. Not even close. Heimat doesn't either, but it's still a solid album. Easily the best stuff I've heard from them since Antigone.

 

[DE4life]

Probably my favourite from the album. Goddamn this is a fantastic track.

 

[The Grayfox]

HSB is always a pleasure to listen to. This is no exception. Love the Numbered Days cover. When they covered BG's Valhalla, they got Hansi to do the cleans on that one too and it turned out really nice.

 

[Xpyro125]

I think I can finally handle Metalia and Cyberia being as disastrous as they are (Don’t listen to those albums, there are maybe five good songs from them and it’s a double album), since Ryo’s back in Blood Stain Child. I was really sad when I found out he left the band since he’s one of my favorite MDM vocalists, so this is awesome.

Also, I decided to relisten to Augment by Erra since their new single, Echo Sonata harkens back to Drift, one of their actually good albums. Genuinely a 10/10 album for me, and all of the people who say that their self-titled is better or even that good are wrong. Fuck modern metalcore, this was the last period of metalcore when it was actually good imo.