I strongly prefer studio offerings anymore. I use to record live shows in Portland and do a lot of "tape trading", got burned out on it after I amassed about 1,200 bootlegs of live shows.
I've been trying to digest all of the King Crimson albums for some reason. Lark's Tongue in Aspic is weird but pretty cool. Their albums from the 80s are pretty bad so I might skip those.
Be'lakor, although I don't think there is a release date. I also listened to the Pallbearer album from last year fairly recently. It's pretty much straight up doom metal, but somehow it was on NPR, which is where I originally heard it.
I don't even really get down with their legendary shit, to be honest. I respect the path they paved and the riffs they wrote, but they aren't super appealing to me. idk. I love the song 'Dead Skin Mask,' however. Super catchy and evil.
Slayer has never been in my top 5 bands or anything, but they're kind of the quintessential metal band to me.
Band self released this back in 1993, I sold mine on ebay about 10 years ago for $85. Ran into the bassist recently, they re-issued it when it started pushing $200 on ebay, glad to have it back in the collection as it brings back memories.
Haven't posted in this thread in a long time. Always lurking though. Listening to most of what yall post. Just found this video of my friends band at SXSW. It's been cool watching them grow as a band. I grew up with the drummer. And played in a few bands with he and the guitarist. I miss playing music with these dudes though.
I know there are some Kyuss / QOTSA / Vista Chino fans in here. I've been listening to Royal Blood of late, who is clearly influenced by that scene. Joe_Pesci http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Blood_(band)
The New Ghost album comes out on August 21 Papa Emeritus III debuts on June 3. He is three months younger than Papa II Their site is down right now though :(
Have to ask, where is the Devil Driver, Coal Chamber, Chimaira( I Love this group for their technicality above all else)
If the free download from their site is any indication, this album will be mastered way too loudly, just like that last one. It bumps in the car, but sounds like ass through headphones. Maybe the vinyl will be better.
Who the fuck uses headphones? I don't think I've worn headphones or earbuds since I was a kid. Got the stereo so loud right now shit on the wall is shaking.
with hi-fi speakers it will sound loud also the left half of this spectrum isn't supposed to be at or near the max. it doesn't ruin any albums for me, unless it's at Death Magnetic levels, but my ears don't like it
this is from the facebook page of the artist who did the Ghost cover art To accompany the long awaited release of Ghost's 'Meliora' cover art, you are invited to enjoy a few words of recollection from Bishop Necropolitus Cracoviensis II below, where he touches upon origins of current visual propaganda and more. Archival photographs of the artist at work are an additional treat, so share this rare intimate insight into 'Meliora's becoming! Bp. Necropolitus Cracoviensis remembers: "...our relationship goes a long way back to the times before his papacy, that is when he was still a cardinal in my hometown, in Cracovia...(...) Although we had our share of juvenile recklessness - be it indulging his beloved cream pies - allegedly verging on six hundred sixty six portions a year but that must be a rumor I believe, or wild parties at the attic of seminary school (laughs) - even in his formative years, he remained a focused man of vision, looking far into the future, always addressing his people's needs and longings to keep our church together in those turbulent, rapidly changing times (...) there were so many temptations to syndicate among our good people (...) (...) We would sit down to studying exciting Futurist manifestos, sketched the blueprints of utopian metropoles, spiked with shiny skyscrapers stabbing at the heavens belly... Wantonly swollen zeppelins would to carry our gospel of indulgence to the farthest corners of the globe to summon and enslave. (...) Forged in nostalgia of steam and fire, this brave new world of ambition, vice, lust and greed - all so inherent to the enlightened modernity, was always with him through all these years. And it is now - when our church continues to grow stronger and wealthier under wise reign of Papa Emeritus III - that these visions may finally be witnessed and embraced in the preachings of 'Meliora' - his most contemporary and humane Encyclical."
Papa III basically looks the same here's some cell phone footage of a new song of theirs. that guy has 3 others on his account Spoiler