What CDs are dominating your player?

[Black Winter Day]

Yeah... come to think of it, I probably did see that on your avatar. Maybe that's why the cover looked so familiar. I'd LOVE to get my hands on that demo tape, but it'll probably turn out to be a fruitless hunt. Speaking of "Of Stone, Wind and Pillor", there is also a band called WINDS. And a band called the Rolling STONES. Maybe they sound like Agalloch?

I just counted 20 CDs in my "Black Metal case" that I have not listened to yet. Time to go through them all.

 

[Black Winter Day]

Hmmmm... come to think of it, I don't know if Pillorian IS a word. You search for it in google and you get a bunch of Absymal reviews!

 

[Black Winter Day]

PILLORY is the closest English word i can come up with that has a possible connection: "A wooden framework on a post, with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly locked to be exposed to public scorn as punishment."

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Bang - same
Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
Bathory - Hammerheart
The Obsessed - Incarnate
Love - Forever Changes

 

[Under a Stone]

Gorguts - Erosion of Sanity
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Dysrhythmia - Pretest

 

[Black Winter Day]

Going back to Absymal... Much like "Autumn Aurora" being the "N' Crugu Bradului" of 2004, I could see "The Pillorian Age" raised to the same status on this board as uber-forgotten cult-classics like Arcane Sun. You know, something no one has noticed that has been out for almost a decade that suddenly people think "Wow! Pwnage!"

 

[spaffe]

right now it's deathspell omega's "si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice", and i think it will remain there for some time due to it's length and complexity. it will take some more time to bore through to the core

 

[Black Winter Day]

Actually I don't think it's THAT good. It's good but not great, except on some tracks like the last one (which RULES.) It has somewhat unrealized ideas at times and song structures and movement are not really stellar. Above-average, yes. A fun gem to unearth too as not too many people know about the band. I might have to change this opinion with further listens.

i don't know, i found it to be pretty damn refreshing. in case you haven't noticed, i've been straying away from most metal and going into the more advanced forms of rock and listening to metal hasn't had the same effect on me the past few months that it has in the past. listening to absymal the other day sort of rekindled my love for the darker shade of things. i don't know if that's something you can identify with, but it has possibly lent a "biased" perspective to the album. or maybe it is just a strong, original record. i don't know. all i know is that i want to listen to it again!

 

[NAD]

Wide signatures are fucking weak, even if Dali kicks ass. I'm guessing the other one is Alex Grey.

Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood

 

[Krilons Resa]

right now it's deathspell omega's "si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice", and i think it will remain there for some time due to it's length and complexity. it will take some more time to bore through to the core

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Drudkh- Autumn Aurora
Xasthur- A Gate through Bloodstained Mirrors [Another long (and Complex?) album]
Negura Bunget- Maistru Sfetnic

 

[SonOfNun]

right now it's deathspell omega's "si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice", and i think it will remain there for some time due to it's length and complexity. it will take some more time to bore through to the core

I'm rather interested in this album, probably because of that interview you posted. Neither of my trusty outlets has it in stock so I guess I'll just wait and see if that changes.

 

[spaffe]

I'm rather interested in this album, probably because of that interview you posted. Neither of my trusty outlets has it in stock so I guess I'll just wait and see if that changes.

http://www.theajnaoffensive.com has got it under "arsenal" (using words like "store" etc is totally ungrim), they're norma evangelikum's official distributor in the us so they ought to be reliable

 

[NAD]

Agh, that shit bugs me. Moribund Cult has everything under Tinder Box and Weapons Cache and shit, I hate that. It's like a site with a bad search engine or fat chicks, it's just not right!

 

[spaffe]

haha

 

[influence]

Wide signatures are fucking weak, even if Dali kicks ass. I'm guessing the other one is Alex Grey.

why do you hate wide signatures there's nowt wrong wit 'em.
and it was alex grey try to guess who this one was.

 

[NAD]

Wide signatures make me use the bottom scrollbar, and are therefore teh ghey.

Don't know this one, I like it though.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Anaal Nathrakh- When Fire Reigns down from the sky, Mankind will Reap as it has Sown

 

[NAD]

Finntroll - Nattfödd (this shit rules)
Thee Maldoror Kollective - New Era Viral Order
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Swans - The Great Annihilator

Kayo Dot and Swans have not left regular rotation for over 3 months and Drudkh is likely to do the same, these are works of complete genius.

 

[J.]

I've been listening to:

Megiddo - The Devil and the Whore
Arcane Sun - s/t
Hate Forest - everything I've got from them
and all my 2004 releases


Little Sidenote - the vocalist and guitarist in Megiddo is also the same person that started up LARM Review Site.