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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ToK9VLJcxU

Speaking of Voivod, they just released the single for their upcoming album!
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Obscura wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ToK9VLJcxU

Speaking of Voivod, they just released the single for their upcoming album!
Oh shit! excellent moody number. I really like :P In retrospect, they really couldn't have picked a better replacement for Piggy, than the guy they have now (ex-Martyr guitarist). Perfect fit

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Spinning the side B of Black Sabbath's Paranoid right now (been spinning that record side a ton lately)

I don't care much about side A to be honest(however great it is). 2 of it's songs are played-out for me. But side B is so fucking fantastic. it has jumped at me how much I prefer it to side A

prime sludge rock telling the tale of pagan rituals of black magic. so smooth and groovy and classicaly evil/occult, feels every bit as classic as Universal Monster movies with Lugosi, Karloff, etc
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Amidst all the goodness on that record, particularly the lesser-feted side B (Electric Funeral blasts a scorched hole in the ground, Hand of Doom kicks you into it!), something that leaps out at me is Fairies Wear Boots' first few seconds with that delay effect. Shit sounds futuristic, makes me think of Kyle Reese going full shump vs Hunter-Killers. :o

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Lately I've rediscovered Vol 4, on the strictest condition that Changes and Laguna Sunrise must GTFO. I don't even mind the latter that much, its sentiment is just hopelessly outgunned by the LP's signature mournfully burning mecha-blues. Mercy killing.

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FinalBaton wrote:
Obscura wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ToK9VLJcxU

Speaking of Voivod, they just released the single for their upcoming album!
Oh shit! excellent moody number. I really like :P In retrospect, they really couldn't have picked a better replacement for Piggy, than the guy they have now (ex-Martyr guitarist). Perfect fit
Yeah, reminds me a lot of what they were doing on Post Society. While I didn't like that EP quite as much as Target Earth (which is a Dimension Hatross caliber blending of both their aggressive metal and spacey prog influences; Post Society lost a bit too much of the former, IMO), it was still a really solid listen, and the material was completely mesmerizing live.

Dunno if you've ever seen Voivod live, but if you haven't, make sure you don't miss them next time they're in your area (looks like they're playing a fest in your neck of the woods in just over a week). They're unbelievably good live. So good that I saw them in my home-town on a Thursday and was so blown away that I immediately started making plans to drive to a city three hours over on Saturday afternoon to catch them again on Saturday night!

Also, Mongrain wasn't just in Martyr; he was also in Capharnaum and in Gorguts for their last good album!

(13 year old Obscura is very angry that you don't care about side A of Paranoid. 32 year old Obscura is entirely understanding of why [for one thing, side A doesn't have Electric Funeral, Black Sabbath's single best song...], but still! Paranoid is a fucking classic, and easily the most consistent Black Sabbath album of the Ozzy years.)
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Obscura wrote:snip
Yep, I saw Voivod live last summer in my small hometown. :mrgreen: up close and personal too : they played in a church basement. max capacity of 300 maybe? Twas fucking incredible. It went straight into my top 5 shows ever! they so damn tight and have so much energy... truly unbelievable. I have like, no words to describe that experience. Seeing them blaze through their songs in my lil' hometown was surreal.

Re: Mongrain. Funny thing is that I actually saw both of Capharnaum and Martyr at my hometown's now defunct punk/metal fest, when I was a teenager. Martyr were hella tight... it struck me even back then. Funny thing again : I played same fest with both my punk and hardcore bands :mrgreen: I played for 3 years, so I gave 5 gigs there across those 2 bands

As for Sabbath : I'd argue that Master of Reality is probs just as consistent as Paranoid! it also wins the top spot as my fave Sabbath record, by a hair. The demi album of Paranoid side-B would take the crown though, if demi-albums were allowed :wink:

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I call the intro to Fairies Wear Boots cosmic rock. Truly transcendantal stuff :mrgreen:


Oh shit, I haven't heard Vol. 4 in years. Gotta give it a go today
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I... actually don't like Master of Reality aside from "Into the Void" and "Children of the Grave". It's the album where they lost their purpose, where the slow riffs went from "Satan comes around the bend" lurking horror to "grooves to relax to while toking up", and aside from a few isolated tracks (particularly Vol. 4's "Wheels of Confusion", "Snowblind", and "Under the Sun"), it's an edge they wouldn't get back until the Dio years.
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I like stoner Sabbath :mrgreen:
Masters Of Reality is perfect album to smoke a bowl and ascend
But I agree with that, they lost an edge there
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Oh god, I totally forgot woodshed wanking delayfest "FX." That can fuck off too! Along with mawkish "Changes" and dishwater "Laguna Sunrise."

Wheels of Confusion
Tomorrow's Dream
Supernaut
Snowblind
Cornucopia
St. Vitus' Dance
Under The Sun


^ CANON TRACKLIST. (■`ω´■) Get the novelties outta there and it becomes a worthy fourth slab. Somewhat lighter, less floorboard-stomping yet still unmistakable bluesy proto-doom. Iommi's production and riffs add a certain insistent, mechanistic, metal as fuck drone, soldiering in commiseration with he and Ozzy's respective wails... see the verses of Wheels of Confusion, would-be title track Snowblind, and ranking metal relationship counseling tune St. Vitus' Dance. Supernaut's verse riff sounds like a motherfucking angle grinder in a blast furnace. A funky grinder in a groovy furnace!

That said, even without Snowblind's tormented love letter to cocaine and the famous liner notes, Supernaut makes it beyond obvious they were doing snow angels on the studio floor at this point and losing their doom. Piss-poor Brummies uprooted to LA and besieged by mountains of money, coke and pussy = less doom more vroom. :lol:
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Forgot to find more CDs for my daily car commute, and decided to go with Nick Cave's Murder Ballads which tends to be permanently in the cd folder, since my girlfriend usually prefers music she can sing along to, and that one is pretty much the only CD I own that she knows well enough to sing along to :P

My favourite Cave album is definitely Let Love In, and the guy himself may be a douche, but god damn it if Murder Ballads isn't horribly brilliant.
It might repeat itself a lot, but on the other hand I really dig the consistent theme throughout the entire thing. Every single song is morbidly witty and interesting, and I feel like everyone has their own personal favourite. Of course there's the mainstream hit of Where The Wild Roses Grow, which is deserved considering how chillingly well performed it is, but personally I got enthralled by O'Malley's Bar and stayed for the pure Blixa Bargeld chaos of Stagger Lee.
But yeah, everything here is great, and every time I listen to it I notice more nuances in the stories being told.

Also who can't appreciate brilliant lyrics like "I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get one fat boy's asshole"
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I've been rocking some synth waves mixes off of Youtube (at work).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI4-HUn8dFc

This user has many... and the videos he's come up with for back drops are nice.
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Sumez wrote:Forgot to find more CDs for my daily car commute, and decided to go with Nick Cave's Murder Ballads which tends to be permanently in the cd folder, since my girlfriend usually prefers music she can sing along to, and that one is pretty much the only CD I own that she knows well enough to sing along to :P

My favourite Cave album is definitely Let Love In, and the guy himself may be a douche, but god damn it if Murder Ballads isn't horribly brilliant.
It might repeat itself a lot, but on the other hand I really dig the consistent theme throughout the entire thing. Every single song is morbidly witty and interesting, and I feel like everyone has their own personal favourite. Of course there's the mainstream hit of Where The Wild Roses Grow, which is deserved considering how chillingly well performed it is, but personally I got enthralled by O'Malley's Bar and stayed for the pure Blixa Bargeld chaos of Stagger Lee.
But yeah, everything here is great, and every time I listen to it I notice more nuances in the stories being told.

Also who can't appreciate brilliant lyrics like "I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get one fat boy's asshole"
Yeah, for me it's the Curse of Millhaven. It's long but so fun to sing to, like reading a Wikipedia article about some deranged little girl.

Favorite album... mmm, I dunno. I probably prefer the earlier post-punk stuff, but I seem to go back to The Good Son and Let Love In a lot. Haven't really cared for his output in the last 10ish years, though.
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Same - I have a hard time getting into his stuff, so I can't really call myself a fan, but the early/mid 90s trilogy of Henry's Dream, Let Love In, and Murder Ballads is all great stuff. They were on a roll at that point.
I seem to recall Tender Prey being pretty good too, though. And I think I might like the noisy chaos of From Her To Eternity if I sit down and give it a real good chance some day.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p61YjWczwLM
Brian Schmidt, Dan Forden, & Steve Ritchie - Black Knight 2000 soundtrack

This is some really brilliant stuff. BK2000's main theme has some really catchy bass guitar & a slick chorus with some cool voice overs.
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Johnny Cash covering "The Mercy Seat"

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I've just delved into the wonderful world of Japan's Casiopea. Man, thist is pretty fun

I'm not even a jazz fusion guy, but this is too fun to ignore. so damn lively and groovy and fresh.
basically PS1-era racing game menu music... except made in 1979. These guys must have been a HUGE influence on video game music, wow!

Upon further research, looks like one of the members later joined contemporaries T-Square, a band who actually recorded songs for the Gran Turismo games and more. He also played on stage a couple of times with Sega Sound Team Live. Looks like both bands were featured on japanese racing broadcasts, too. so that's the connection right there

From their debut self-titled record, I especially like Midnight Rendez-vous and Black Joke. But the whole thing is great. Couple of legit Outrun vibes on there too. Only listened to this album and Mint Jams so far(also nice). Will listen to some more

Man that shit just makes me want to drive :lol: or fire up Gran Turismo. lol
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FB: Casiopea are a typical Japanese band, so they became mainstream-ish and less interesting from 1986-1987 onwards (I am lukewarm to anything beyond Funky sound Bombers), for a good 15 years or so.
I think that they recovered most of their sound in the noughties onwards.
Given that their discography is fairly vast, you will have plenty of stuff to explore!

Honestly, I think that Kukeiha club and the SST band are, like, their illegitimate children or something.
Them and Oriental Magnetic Yellow are (rightfully) musical icons for many artists, in Japan (in the proper sense of the word), especially within the OST world (there are tons of anime from the 80's/90's with Casiopea-esque OSTs).

My uncle had their early albums via arcane ways, so I would listen to them from time to time while growing up...and noting the SST connection :wink:
Waifu and I had one hell of a road trip (L'Aquila, my hometown - Florence - Budapest - Praha - back in reverse order) while listening to them, Outrun and other driving games' OSTs.
We were completely knackered once we were back, but I would do it again, every single summer.
I am struggling to put into words how fun it was, with the music being simply designed as an accompaniment to summer driving/traveling experiences (summer being the quintessential Japanese trope, or something).

They are notorious for creating dozens of versions of their most famous works: Ayasake must have something like 20 different versions.

No love for Swallow and Swear, though?

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OK, I need to get back to Europe if only to go on road-trips listening to their songs :lol:

OK (x2), one more and I will stop. These guys apparently are absurdly entertaining live, always were, and always be.
A colleague of mine (Japanese) said that she saw them the first time as a child with her parents and grandparents, and everybody was just ecstatic.
...maybe because they were glaring space disco suits in impossibly fluo colours (the style is homaged in Interstella 5555 :mrgreen: ).

OK (x3) (I am not high)

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Randorama wrote:Waifu and I had one hell of a road trip (L'Aquila, my hometown - Florence - Budapest - Praha - back in reverse order) while listening to them, Outrun and other driving games' OSTs.
Now that's the life 8) Awesome. It's on my bucket list of stuff to do as well, for sure. I mean, it can only be a great time. cute little honey by your side, driving the convertible on scenic highways, the summer breeze hitting your face and hair, with that kind of fresh tunes jamming. Perfect complimentary music as you've said.

Hey I've seen people in the comments of Casiopea vids mentionning OMY, now I'm officially curious aboot 'em.

Thanks for providing me with a quick guideline of Casiopea stuff to check out. I'll stick to FSB and earlier for now

Oh and for sure the SST Band owes much to them. You can really hear the influence. pretty obvious


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FB: OMY are the cover/parody band of YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra), the band composed by Ryoichi Sakamoto and the other two guys (I never remember their names, sorry).
OMY features SanoDG, Megaten Hosoe and other Namco musicians homaging YMO's songs, which were *a tad* influential (say, Zuntata, Alph Lyra, Towa Tei, and one million more bands).

Just to be sure: Casiopea had a commercial phase and tried to appeal to the US market during the late '80s and most of the '90s. The albums from that period had this pop/fusion sound that sounds rather generic, but you get 1-2 great songs per album, make no mistake (Doo-loo-Doo is a song you MUST sing aloud while cruising on the highway, like the Daytona OST). They then recover most of their sound around 1999 or so.

Speaking of road trips, the true bucket list for an aficionado of this disappearing tradition must play this timeless classic at least once, while driving to some key destination. I plan at least once to play it while driving my uncle VW Golf convertible ( :lol: ) while driving across the Alps, or maybe while going to Venice via highway (the highway and train line are built on a stretch of land through the lagoon, so you drive while being surrounded by water!).
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Randorama wrote:FB: OMY are the cover/parody band of YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra), the band composed by Ryoichi Sakamoto and the other two guys (I never remember their names, sorry).
OMY features SanoDG, Megaten Hosoe and other Namco musicians homaging YMO's songs, which were *a tad* influential (say, Zuntata, Alph Lyra, Towa Tei, and one million more bands).
Check out Sega's Super Locomotive (ta trap for upload), should sound familiar to any Solid State Survivor listener. :wink: Still my favourite shoutout / blatant YMO ripoff. :mrgreen:
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Anybody listen to Drum and Bass? I've been hooked since my college years being a regular at Fluid's Platinum nights in Philly back in the day. And I'm talking about GOOD DnB like DJ Hype, DJ Hazard, John B (his DnB, not the other stuff he does), Aphrodite, AK1200, )EI3( --Bad Company--, RAM Records and DnB Essentials and Grooverider (he had a show on BBC Radio 1 for a long time) type stuff (there's a LOT of bad out there which goes for any techno...well, any genre really).

Since the 2000's it just doesn't resonate with me anymore (and has lapsed in popularity...still see some good sets at places like Tomorrowland though), especially with it's stepson DubStep (which I absolutely LOVE some DubStep...but so much horrid out there it's not even funny).

Here's a couple DnB tunes I've been listening to lately, and yes, be sure to blast it and turn up your BASS!

DJ Hazard - Bricks Don't Roll
L Plus - Carbon
Bad Company - Mo Fire
John B - Numbers
Onslaught - Mind Vortex
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https://morganwillisofficial.bandcamp.c ... -the-night
Fantastic EP from French artist Morgan Willis.
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Some pretty slick tunes by Morgan Willis, there. Great quality.
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Listened to a bunch of early(up to mid-'80s) Casiopea live vids. Man that was entertaining :)

The guys are TIGHT on stage, holy fuck... real machines. This is god level stuff

Nice DX7 sightings in the 83 and onward performances!



Man, Space Road is excellent too. that tune 100% sounds like video game music. it's amazing. it must have made a big impression on Kawaguchi, because that riff when it kicks in near beggining, has some serious Space Harrier vibes :) dat chord progression...
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...DDP should use some samples from Casiopea. I remember noticing them in the second stage's track.
Also yes, their live performances should be considered the best ever, in Japan. I know that they also play around 3 hours per concert, to these days (two of the founding members are in their '60s).
I don't think that it is a case that they produced literally dozens of live discs :wink:
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After seeing Heresiarch live on Saturday, I've had Death Ordinance blasting pretty much non-stop ever since
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWMRdkNjDS4

BIL, with your love of things doomy and oppressive, parts of this one may be really up your alley. Desert of Ash in particular, holy fuuuuuuuuuuck.....
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That mournful blasted outro Image

And fuck yeah, this is the "To Mega Therion on bath salts" vibe I like from my more extreme metal Image Brutal pummeling horsepower wreathed in doomy chains that occasionally settle before promptly whacking your head off. "The Yoke" is a real funereal bludgeon too, before "Iron Harvest" promptly carpetbombs the procession. High output DEATH AUTOMATION

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A new method of warfare emerged, death automation…


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Glad to hear that the fast blasty parts hit their mark with you as well as the slower parts did! The atmospheric doom parts are crushing, but there's some real gems in explosive violent songs; Harbinger in particular.

Their first album, "Hammer of Intransigence" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i37-mzbDj7c), is even more violent if you can believe it, but I don't think it's quite as strong overall; with only two very short breaks to the utter fury, none of it really starts standing out before long.
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Feeling weeby for a hot second.... always wanted to hear a full version of the opening theme from Dangaioh volume 3. Finally found it after all these years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHp9Daxvfb4
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