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Saw a bunch of Dutch black metal bands yesterday. Was mostly unfamiliar with them and decided to wing it. Standouts for me were Suttungr and Schavot though they were all pretty good. Although I skipped the last act, Bloedmaan as all their songtitles were video game references and it made me cringe and no, I'm not joking.
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GemstoneEddie88 said:
God damn nigger, use words. Also listen to Consuming Impulse by Pestilence.
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Thank you for the Pestilence recommendation am listening to it now and its exactly what I'm looking for. I did enjoy Cryptopsy too, and I've made up a playlist of that, just need to find some MP3 downloads which I need for the music player I swim with

This whole thread is a wealth of awesome new findings actually

This is what I was swimming to today
 
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Since I wasn't feeling like trudging through new releases in the hope of find something I like I decided to listen to some older stuff that I either never heard before or listened to years ago. Somehow I landed on Nevermore. I've listened to "Enemies of Reality" and "Godless Endeavor" and the odd song here and there before. Interestingly when I was getting into Metal as a teenager and was trying to branch out to genres and bands unfamiliar to me, I stumbled upon Nevermore but had a hard time getting into the band. Anyway I went through the discography and thought that I could write a bit about it.


Nevermore: At some point I also listened to the "predecessor" band Sanctuary but didn't really care about, I was never into US (Power) Metal to being with. But having listened to the debut and knowing how Nevermore would actually develop their signature sound, this strikes me as a transitionary record. Which is its biggest problem since I don't care about the previous band and everything that came after is just so much better and actually sounds like Nevermore. Neither bad nor good.

The Politics of Ecstasy: For me the actual first record and such a massive improvement compared to the self-titled. Love the production and how the albums sounds. But godawful cover, seems to be some unwritten rule that every band has to have at least one LP with a shitty cover artwork.

Dreaming Neon Black: Great record, closer to its predecessor than its follow up in terms of songwriting and overall sound.

Dead Heart in a Dead World: Probably their best album due to how consistent it is throughout the runtime.

Enemies of Reality: I didn't know about the issues behind the scenes but despite that and its short runtime I do like it.

The Godless Endeavor: Often the most popular album of a band doesn't equal the best quality but in this case this actually applies. Though I think it's a bit less catchy than previous albums everything else is just the bands creative and artistic peak.

The Obsidian Conspiracy: I got that one around its release and at that time haven't heard the entire discography, but I thought it was okay even though it faded out of my listening rotation pretty quickly. Having listened through it again it's either the worst or only slightly better than the debut. Quite uneven in terms of instrumentation and the lyrics also got worse.

Ranking:
  1. Godless Endeavor
  2. Dead Heart in a Dead World
  3. Dreaming Neon Black
  4. Politics of Ecstasy
  5. Enemies of Reality
  6. Obsidian Conspiracy
  7. Nevermore
 
Token Faggot said:
just need to find some MP3 downloads which I need for the music player I swim with
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Theres a Spotify downloader website I use when I need to get local files. It’s the first result on google if you look for it. I think they have unlimited downloads. I use to keep a well maintained library of local files that I meticulously tagged with mp3tag. That was a number of years ago though, I’m a buckbroken mindraped faggot that now just streams for the convenience factor.

If you want more old school sounding stuff like Consuming Impulse, I also recommend that first Necrophobic album (I believe the name is Nocturnal Silence) and Considered Dead by Gorguts. If you want more slammy stuff that slightly veers into brutal territory, I’ve been playing the shit out of Prophecies Foretold by Dehumanized. Fade Into Obscurity has been on repeat these past few weeks.

EDIT: disregard everything I’ve ever said and listen to The Dead Shall Inherit by Baphomet
 
GemstoneEddie88 said:
well maintained library of local files that I meticulously tagged with mp3tag.
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I use this and good old Tag&Rename in tandem. T&R first, then mp3tag to remove all the unncessary fields and tags that aren't ID3v2.3.
Sometimes I use foobar with foo_discogs component to connect to Discogs' API and tag albums with missing tags.
 
GemstoneEddie88 said:
Theres a Spotify downloader website I use when I need to get local files. It’s the first result on google if you look for it. I think they have unlimited downloads. I use to keep a well maintained library of local files that I meticulously tagged with mp3tag. That was a number of years ago though, I’m a buckbroken mindraped faggot that now just streams for the convenience factor.

If you want more old school sounding stuff like Consuming Impulse, I also recommend that first Necrophobic album (I believe the name is Nocturnal Silence) and Considered Dead by Gorguts. If you want more slammy stuff that slightly veers into brutal territory, I’ve been playing the shit out of Prophecies Foretold by Dehumanized. Fade Into Obscurity has been on repeat these past few weeks.

EDIT: disregard everything I’ve ever said and listen to The Dead Shall Inherit by Baphomet
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Thank you but I've managed to download everything I need via torrents.

Will listen to all your recommendations, I do prefer more slammy, brutal sounds to swim to, extremely sick twisted and violent content is always nice too
 
Looks like MetalSucks and MetalInjection are finally on their way out.

This week Sony (via The Orchard) quietly cut nearly all full-time staff members from Metal Injection and Metal Sucks. Additionally, they also scrapped full-time positions from the heavy metal advertising network, Blast Beat Network.

Metal Injection was launched in 2003 by Frank Godla and Rob Pasbani, while MetalSucks was founded in 2006 by Matt Goldenberg and Ben Umanov.

In 2022, Pasbani, Goldenberg, and Umanov all sold their respective interests in the aforementioned companies to The Orchard, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment.

As mentioned above, all full-time employees but one from the entities have been let go. A source close to the matter has revealed to Lambgoat that Godla is now the sole person left to man the three properties with the assistance of one freelance writer per outlet.
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Good riddance, just unfortunate that Goldenberg and Umanov made a profit from selling it off.
 
Good fucking riddance. Even at a younger age, I remember seeing one of those sites covering some shit ass band like Suicide Silence. I remember thinking to myself, “what the fuck, this isn’t even metal”. They only got worse with time too.
 
BMSS restocked everything and it's all sold out again within hours.

So fucking mad.

I am particularly devastated I cant put this on my vest and watch the people around me at shows impotently seethe when they see it.

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unholysedation777 said:
Metalsucks always had a weird millenial soyboy Reddit sort of feel to it. I feel like they must have contributed at least somewhat to the normification of metal. Can't say I'll miss it.
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It's owned and operated by two of the most stereotypical Jews imaginable. The site was readable in the 2000s but once the woke metal scene started popping off in the mid 2010s, they took to it like flies to shit.
 
unholysedation777 said:
Metalsucks always had a weird millenial soyboy Reddit sort of feel to it. I feel like they must have contributed at least somewhat to the normification of metal. Can't say I'll miss it.
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They were notorious for cheering on the far left push into extreme metal and routinely ran op-eds and calls to action against bands and entities that they saw as "problematic." They were in the same camp as people like Kim Kelly, the only difference being they didn't have vaginas to throw around the entire extreme metal scene in exchange for clout.

Dragged Into Sunlight said:
BMSS restocked everything and it's all sold out again within hours.

So fucking mad.
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Fucking annoying. Been trying to snag a copy of Fast Speed for weeks. They said vinyl edition is scheduled for some time in June, but at this point I'd settle for even a CD.

Also, the white powder patch is a "tribute" to this classic Nachtmystium design. Funny in retrospect considering Blake's politics these days.

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Speaking of Blake, he has apparently been very busy lately, with at least one Nachtmystium record ready to be released, another Hate Meditation record in progress, and he was teasing some sort of collaboration with Scott from Xasthur. He has also, it seems, begun to operate another distro of some type.

I'd really like to be proven wrong, but I think it's just a matter of time before he lights himself on fire again.
 
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Pale Empress said:
They were notorious for cheering on the far left push into extreme metal and routinely ran op-eds and calls to action against bands and entities that they saw as "problematic." They were in the same camp as people like Kim Kelly, the only difference being they didn't have vaginas to throw around the entire extreme metal scene in exchange for clout.
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I stumbled upon their article on Moonsorrow back in the day and to summarize they spend the whole article talking about ANOTHER band (Koits, which is quite great and I would recommend checking out) and then put all of the blame on Moonsorrow for simply being friends with these guys. I think all extremist ideologies should be welcome in metal no matter left or right since metal is an extreme genre in general, to bias against one while advocating for another is not in the spirit of metal at all, and this stupid cancel culture method they try to use is embarrassing. No one remembers this article other than me just because I really like Moonsorrow and that memory stuck with me for some reason.
 
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