ShivaX
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New Architects coming October 21st.
The new album from Blind Guardian has been released. I will write later something about it, for now just listen to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lndG8BiZCmM
TurinTur
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Carpenter Brut in Boston last night. First time I’ve seen a legit mosh pit in years. I’m sure we all got Covid but it was so fun and worth it.
I didn’t get great shots but here’s some
They closed with a cover of Maniac from Flashdance and the crowd went nuts lol. I legit had to help rescue some poor girl who got toppled like a bowling pin, but she was loving it.
That’s what I like about metal heads. They’ll beat each other up for fun but when someone falls they all stop and help. Then get back to the violence.
God I wish I had been there; Leather Terror is so fucking good.
It’s a very good album, better than Beyond the Red Mirror. The songs feel unique and with identity, unlike in BtRM.
Perhaps the best way to describe it is… balanced. While in general the album is a bit of a ‘return to basics’ for the band, dialing back the epicness of orchestrations and over arrangements, it feels very balanced, in between the styles they usually have, between the more aggressive speed/power metal, the slower slightly progressive elements and the chorus and orchestrations, or having a catchy lyrics part or a good guitar solo. No part predominates heavily.
I think they thread the needle of ‘having to do something that sounds BG or fans will kill it and the brand will dilute, but also sounding not exactly like any of the previous albums’ well.
One of the key features imo is that, as part of that back to basics, the album isn’t a 70 minute monstrosity with 13 minutes songs. It’s much more lean at 51 minutes of length, and it works, there is so little fat here and it feels better for it.
How about some Tech/Prog Doom that sounds as fresh today as it did 31 years ago??
https://youtu.be/BpwJ43GLq7w
ShivaX
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This wandered across my feed and I enjoyed it.
Pianos can do some heavy lifting for me.
New Xandria is neat and features Ralf Scheepers!
Next up for me is Vader. It’s one of the very earliest bands I discovered, and they’ve never really been out of my rotation since.
Piotr Wiwczarek might just be my favorite metal vocalist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9sJGJC8aKw
Haha, was anyone doing the dance?
Thanks for the recap, you inspired me to get tickets for the Copenhagen show.
TurinTur
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New Mastodon video (for one of the songs of the last album). They usually have pretty unique and good music videos, let’s see…
https://youtu.be/qJ1dc9BZaW8
edit: interesting theme, given that they have an older music video where they parodied artsy music videos in general and the Metallica Until it Sleeps video in specific
ShivaX
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Not that many probably care, but:
Probably my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDfULT61drM
Where Ryo and the boys use all the features from their 90’s visual studio software:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXXupitKSWo
While watching the Dahmer show on Netflix, I saw some (manufactured) outrage over how a line in one old Katy Perry song disrespects the victims or something, no doubt made by kids who never heard of JD before Netflix.
Obviously they never heard of Macabre either, who put out a pretty great concept album in 2000 chronicling his life and death.
Revisiting it today (Youtube comments indicate I’m not alone in doing this) reminds me how sanitised the show is, for obvious reasons I guess. :)
It holds up well and I had great fun hearing it again for the first time in something like 20 years. 26 songs, mostly in the 1-to-3-minute range. Very varied, from speed to death to grind to punk to nursery rhymes and blues.
I don’t think we put this on the past summer.
https://youtu.be/INi3qP1oWlY
The album is out, btw.
I saw Orbit Culture at the Whisky A Go Go club in West Hollywood last Tuesday. I’m SUPER glad I went. Seeing the lead singer Marcus was really cool - he’s just this thickish guy with long hair and a goatee/mustache combo, wearing a Halloween Kills long-sleeve shirt, and he’s also sort of a metal genius? They played great stuff like The Shadowing, Carvings, and North Star of Nija. Unfortunately the sound mix pretty much sucked—it was just this thick wall of noise with some chugging guitars buried in it.
But the crowd was super into it, the club is tiny, maybe capacity of 200? 250? so I was right up front. Very diverse crowd, which was great to see for this Northern California white boy, and there were lots of women, which was awesome. Marcus kept talking about how cool it was to be there, and seemed to really mean it.
I want to see them again with a better sound setup. Anyone have tips for getting good sound out of metal shows? I was right up front, if that makes a difference…
ShivaX
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Sound is often a matter of venue acoustics in my experience.
Also super jealous. Orbit Culture is amazing.
ShivaX
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New Lorna Shore dropped. It’s Lorna Shore.
Warning: Contains Will Ramos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viX4JfQ3qPs
I really wanna get Trombone Champ, but at the same time part of me is like “Paying, for memes?!”
Very cool! I went there to see Satan back in 2018.
The actual room isn’t that important to me, the sound is pretty important, but the most important thing is the people who show up.
Every scene has its own vibe. I had a fricken WHALE of a time at the Whiskey. People were so nice, and the crowd was absolutely bonkers without being overtly violent. That’s one of the best places I’ve visited.
