Themed Mixtape Game Mk. 2

[challenge_everything]

"Formative" is a bit of a stretch.

Why? How many other bands were playing occultish doom in the late 70s?

 

[SonOfNun]

You cant "form" anything when no one knows about you. Pagan Altar is an overrated internet sensation.

 

[challenge_everything]

Whatever you think about Pagan Altar they are unmistakably metal and certainly far and away more metal than a borderline case like Wytch Hazel. Are you one of those people who like to argue that Sabbath wasn't metal?

 

[CiG]

Why? How many other bands were playing occultish doom in the late 70s?

Because there's no evidence whatsoever that anybody ever heard the band until the 1998 bootleg of their 1982 demo.

I don't subscribe to the theory that their backstory is fabricated (sup HBB) but has a copy of the original demo ever resurfaced for sale? Any 70's or 80's interviews in a magazine? Any merch documented from that era? They seem to have been a total musical nonentity until the 1998 bootleg.

Pagan Altar is an overrated internet sensation.

Calm down religitard.

 

[SonOfNun]

Sabbath invented metal. Pagan Altar is a metal band. Wytch Hazel is a metal band. I think you got a little defensive about Pagan Altar and misunderstood me.

 

[SonOfNun]

Calm down religitard.

What does that have to do with anything? Making yourself look like an actual retard.

They're overrated for some of the very reasons you pointed out. People act like they invented Doom Metal when they were a complete non-entity until years later.

 

[CiG]

They're not overrated, they're fucking amazing. But a band that didn't really reach ears beyond their local scene until 20 years into their existence can't really be formative.

 

[SonOfNun]

OK. I'm not gonna split hairs over the word "overrated."

 

[Bloopy]

Because there's no evidence whatsoever that anybody ever heard the band until the 1998 bootleg of their 1982 demo.

1994/1995 bootlegs actually, presumably sourced from a tiny bit of tape trading that was going on in the years before that. But yeah, fuck all people heard them until the 1998 release which seems to be official.

 

[CiG]

1994/1995 bootlegs actually, presumably sourced from a tiny bit of tape trading that was going on in the years before that. But yeah, fuck all people heard them until the 1998 release which seems to be official.

Good point. I always forget about the 1995 bootleg.

 

[no country for old wainds]

all this other shit aside c_e is correct that pagan altar are a lot more metal than wytch hazel (who are not), i accept the PA song in this mixtape is borderline though.

 

[challenge_everything]

Because there's no evidence whatsoever that anybody ever heard the band until the 1998 bootleg of their 1982 demo.

I don't subscribe to the theory that their backstory is fabricated (sup HBB) but has a copy of the original demo ever resurfaced for sale? Any 70's or 80's interviews in a magazine? Any merch documented from that era? They seem to have been a total musical nonentity until the 1998 bootleg.

Ah ok fair enough, I wasnt really trying to suggest they were influential at the time, I probably misused the word formative, i guess i was after something more like nascent

 

[EspaDa]

im doing this today but im at work, gimme some time u fags

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

The Conjuration of the Spectral Twats...

The Chasm

The Chasm

The Chasm

the chasm

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I don't know anyone who doesn't classify Wytch Hazel as a metal band. Most people associate them with the NWOTHM. Despite having medieval and 70s rock influences, they are clearly a metal band. That song is at least as metal as the Pagan Altar song ffs.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

The Conjuration of the Spectral Twats...

You should check out the new Chasm TB, I feel like it could be your favorite Chasm album.

 

[CiG]

Slayed lookin' pretty majestic on that cover art.

 

[EspaDa]

where do u have each other's faces from? you stalking other men on facebook? how dare u...

 

[Vegard Pompey]

where do u have each other's faces from?

grindr

 

[SonOfNun]

Pungent Stench - Happy Re-Birthday - 6/10

Overall sound is kind of thin and weak. I enjoyed the moments where they groove for a bit but that's all. Hollenthon seems like the better Shirenc project to me.

Forsaken - Resurgam - 9/10

I dig Forsaken. This is great epic doom that doesn't slacken despite the song length. I need to spend more time with this album as I mostly listen to "After the Fall."

Gorguts - With Their Flesh, He'll Create - 8/10

Good stuff.

Pagan Altar - Reincarnation - 4/10

Long jam band-y track with poor vocals that isn't very heavy or interesting.

Dismember - Reborn in Blasphemy - 6/10

Eh, it's OK. Vocals are too shouty and outside of the opening and the lead at the end the music doesn't do much for me.

Wytch Hazel - Dry Bones - 10/10

Great songwriting and melodies.

Tomb Mold - Infinite Resurrection - 10/10

I thought this would just be some gurgle blast stuff from the logo and some comments but this is kick ass old school style DM.

Virgin Steele - I Will Come For You - 5/10

Eesh that middle section.

Dream Death - Back from the Dead - 5.5/10

OK sounding Thrash. Too long.

Disciples of Power - Ice Demons - 6.5/10

A little better.

Terror - Exiting the Grave - 6/10

See Dream Death.

Forbidden - Through the Eyes of Glass - 7/10

Pretty good. Appreciate the leads.

The Chasm - Fiery Rebirth - 7/10

More death metally than some of their other stuff I've heard.

Black Veil Brides - Born Again 1/10

Speaking of non-metal...