Grrahgh time for a HUGE FUCKIN POST TO MAKE THIS THREAD POPULAR AGAIN!
anonymousnick2001 said:
Haha. I just rediscovered the first three And Oceans albums for the fifth time. So incredible.
Trollfan, Acid Sex and Marble Teeth, Postfuturistika, it never ends...
TA MIG OVER BREE-NAHN-DAY! VAAH-TEEEEEEN!
LA SNEN! SMEEDA! IANDEN!
FANGAD! AV! STAR-KEST-EH! NET!
SANDENSTARTOR! OCH HEEEEEEET!
Fucking METAL AS FVCK. Sålipsism is such a fucking good song, it's PAINFVL.
RosesofShadow said:
Oh i just checked Aes Dana's site and downloaded a sample and it's great! Thanks guys!
Indeed!
Guardian of Darkness said:
I think it rules. Opinions seem very much divided on it.
I don't understand the negative reactions to it. It's incredible atmospheric black metal. Anyone who thinks it sucks has no idea what they're talking about.
Dextronaut was very disappointing, since I decided to download it after checking out the newer stuff (including the great
Music For Falling Buildings demo you mentioned on M-A MD). It's too generic and it really doesn't have too much personality. I think with the invention of the dieselharp, their incredibly fucked up outlook on the general public, etc. they really got to connect with what they were making and allowed us to connect as well. The dark ambient track at the end is fucking INCREDIBLE BREATHTAKING SPECTACULAR, also.
Freanan said:
The problem is that all bands that i know, that have a similiar sound and that are concentrating on atmosphere that much, often are very monotonous and get boring very fast
I'm pretty sure it's very subjective for you and others. I can understand what you mean here, but I really don't understand people who love atmospheric black metal and say it's bad to be different...I mean...even Demiurge likes it. Hell he
loves it.
Velvet Cacoon do focus on the atmosphere...but it's certainly not boring. I listened to
Genevieve over 3 times when I downloaded it (in a row), and I am pretty confident in saying that it didn't get "boring" throughout all three of my listens, even though they were back to back. They do play very minimalistically, and they may use 1 or 2 riffs the entire song, but the entire sound is just works so well and has that depressing yet uplifting feel to it that I just couldn't be bored by it no matter how hard I tried.
I've seen it on Redstream, but a friend of mine said he bought it; now I'm wondering if they have a second copy I can buy. If not, I guess I'll have to look elsewhere (I know some other place that have it).
Let's see...been listening to some great shit lately...included:
-Velvet Cacoon
p)
-Brighter Death Now (some samples
here)
-Gruntsplatter (dark ambient/minimalistic noise, one sample
here)
-In Flames (mostly
The Jester Race...rediscovered classic)
-the Umbra Nihil/Aarni split (BRILLIANCE, DOWNLOAD OR BUY IT! Sample from Umbra Nihil track "A Mere Shell"
here)
-Atrium Carceri (torturous dark ambient with a dark cellblock-like sound, which explains the name...download
Machine Elves,
Incubation, and
Blue Moon)
-Coph Nia (more ambient...
a few tracks are available here, but they are samples, I believe)
-Prurient (devastating harsh noise)
-Cancer's
Death Shall Rise album
-Invocation Of Nehek...one of the better metalcore bands I've heard who put most bands who use the genre's name to shame. Get three tracks
here)
KEEP THE THREAD ALIVE MOTHERFUCKS AND STAY FUCKING METAL