i actually agree that completely removing humans from farming is probably not ideal, just saying that people are already trying it. i'm not really a FALC utopianist, i think AI and robots are cool but that people with a huge hard-on for AI are vastly overestimating how "smart" it can be and what it will be able to do in the foreseeable future. i can't predict technological progress hundreds of years into the future, but i'm much more of a climate change pessimist overall and honestly skeptical that the human race will even survive long enough to live in robot paradise.
i remember seeing it on Stuff You Will Hate back in the day, but always thought it was a bit of a joke. i haven't seen bands unironically referring to themselves as easycore until very recently.
definitely check out Time & Space, it's one of the most purely FUN hardcore records in recent memory. there is a lot of late 90s in their sound, i remember people comparing T&S to early 311, but it doesn't sound as much like pastiche to me as, say, Narrow Head.
i had to scroll for wayyyy too long before someone mentioned "Desolation Row"
my favorite that wasn't mentioned is probably Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again. i'm a big sucker for the original Knockin on Heaven's Door too.
mish way became the editor of penthouse and started interviewing people like alan dershowitz and writing fawning profiles of jordan peterson, complaining about 'cancel culture' and 'thought crimes', claiming feminism ruined rock and roll, etc. she just kinda sucks in general. it's a shame because white lung kicked ass.
reminds me of when SOAD had the Mars Volta opening for them. people in the audience were visibly and audibly confused and angry.
come to think of it, the SOAD audience would probably have enjoyed Tomahawk more, and the Tool audience might have been more receptive to MV.
not sure if anyone really noticed but Fucked Up just released a 90-minute prog odyssey that makes The Hazards of Love look like community theater. they shoulda gotten King GIzz in on this, there is literally a lizard wizard in this story.
i'd probably swap Vulnicura and Vespertine, otherwise i'm okay with this. honestly Post and Homogenic are neck and neck for #1, it really just depends which mood i'm in.
"Frosti" is not superfluous! a perfect little comedown after the intensity of "Pagan Poetry". it sounds like the inside of a snow globe.
i love how the first half sounds like classic Burial and then it just transforms into something else, reminds me of the first time i heard "Come Down to Us"
really digging the new Pupil Slicer, somewhere between math, post, and grindcore with some death thrown in, whatever it is it's some of the nastiest metalcore i've heard since Trap Them broke up. if you dig Converge, DEP, or even like Portrayal of Guilt, you should check it out.
also really liked the new album by Crypts of Despair for some grimy, cavernous death metal which wastes no time spewing thick black smoke over everything
i've also been playing a heavy metal ass video game called Blasphemous, which unfortunately doesn't feature any metal on the soundtrack but every single screenshot of this game looks like it could be a black metal album cover
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here's Antemasque (Cedric & Omar from ATDI/Mars Volta) with Travis Barker on drums playing a bunch of songs from their never-released second album Saddle on the Atom Bomb. these tracks are killer so i hope we do get studio versions of them someday, but now they're threatening to bring back the Mars Volta so i doubt we'll hear any more Antemasque any time soon
https://youtu.be/rOHE4UsXzLU
folks just getting on The Armed train now should go back and check out Untitled. "Blessings" in particular is an absolutely feral bruiser, guaranteed blood in the pit.
i definitely prefer when black metal goes for "evil" (fun evil AKA satan, not real evil AKA nazis) but don't consider it a requirement, i feel like not including lyrics about personal angst disqualifies a lot of the depressive stuff like Lifelover, whose lyrics aren't that different from screamo stuff, or guys like Zeal & Ardor who are experimenting with what black metal can be all about.
lol i know it's a point of contention among metal nerds, i'd say they're clearly going for a black metal + post-rock + shoegaze thing, building off of Alcest and whatnot. sure it doesn't sound much like Venom or Mayhem but neither does, say, Harakiri for the Sky, and i'm comfortable calling them "black metal", which admittedly these days seems to encompass anything with raspy or shrieking vocals.
i liked Luciferian Towers more than most people apparently (especially Anthem for No State) but it definitely didn't make me want to spin it over and over again like GPASE
yeah i mean i don't personally see what's offensive about a drawing of purple hands behind bars, but i'm glad that they're being thoughtful about the imagery and symbolism they use. it's better than the alternative.
i don't generally fuck with too much stoner metal, but nyc just legalized so you know i'm blasting "Sweet Leaf" and got Sleep, Bongripper, and High on Fire on deck. open to any and all suggestions for sticky, spaced-out riffs.
yep, i'm not even usually as into atmoblack as a lot of the folks here, but Mare Cognitum is something else.
if anyone is interested in the blackened thrash/black n' roll side of things, the new Miasmata and Demiser albums are both a grimy good time. sounds like riding a motorcycle into battle in hell.
to be fair Familiars didn't click with me at all at first and ended up being one of my favorite albums of the past 10 years so i know that Antlers records reward patience
not a lot has grabbed me yet this year...
R.A.P. Ferreira- Bob's Son
Yoth Iria- As the Flame Withers
For Your Health- In Spite Of
Cassandra Jenkins- An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
Enforced- Kill Grid
Parannoul- To See the Next Part of the Dream
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- G_d's Pee at State's End
got my vinyl yesterday! it's really, really good. easily my favorite of their post-reunion albums. it's probably their most straightforwardly pretty, most guitar-focused album yet. there should be some rips of the livestream floating around youtube still. the visuals really add a lot.
i'm having trouble with it tbh. it's certainly pretty, but it feels a bit too bucolic and pleasant for me, which, i totally understand if that's what people are looking for nowadays, but i dunno, i miss the anguish.
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