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Like a frigid wave of melancholy.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Krallice - Krallice
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Math/Black Metal. The lead guitarist's tendency to over complicate can be obnoxious but some of the riffs are just too fucking beautiful and/or epic.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
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Epic and incredibly original. Occasionally, the experimentation on this record can come across as filler. However, predominantly this album is a work of art with moments of such intensity it borders the religious.
(note: If you are impatient, this record is not for you. You'd be much better off checking out "Swans are Dead" on which many of the songs are reinterpreted in a live format and are more to the point.)
Black Flag - My War
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Black Flag slowed down in speed but intensified in frustration and rage. Though not there yet, highly influential to the sludge genre.
Friday, November 5, 2010
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Penetratingly soft acoustic folk music. For those who think they're too "hardcore" for Elliot Smith: let's see you kill yourself by stabbing yourself with a steak knife in the chest.
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Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
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A rumbling melancholic bass leads over a gray landscape with cold simplistic guitar, simpler drums and tortured baritone vocals. This is one of the most influential albums of all time, not perfect by any means but it doesn't have to be to achieve its beauty. I would recommend this over Closer, even though there are a couple really great songs on that album (24 Hours in particular) this in it's entirety is much stronger.
If you liked this, also check out:
The Gault (Joy Division influenced Goth/Doom)
Friday, October 29, 2010
Big Black - Songs about Fucking
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Steve Albini's guitar sound has been described as the "anti-tone"; a very accurate assertion. "Intelligent" hardcore punk that bends and breaks all the rules of the genre.
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Spectacle - Two Song Seven Inch
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When some of the members went on tour with their other various projects, the remaining members of the Spectacle recorded this seven inch. Much darker and heavier then all the rest of their material, it'll come as a surprise that it's the same band.
The Gault - Even as All Before Us
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From the same guitarist who brought you Weakling, Asunder and now Dispirit. John Gossard's earliest work that mixes Daniel Ash style death rock with Gossard's own styilized doom accompinied by emotional Joy Division-esque vox yeilds a diverse, haunting, unique work of art.
Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
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Fenriz's vox can be challenging but this along with Translyvanian Hunger is one of Darkthrone's best albums (and at least the vox arn't as bad as Attila's on Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas). Also has a lyrical contribution from Varg about slaughtering 5,000,000 christians, killing 10,000 trolls and satisfying 5,000,000 women in one night.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
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Supposedly the album almost bankrupted the record company when guitarist Shields, obsessed with trying to get the perfect sound, fired numerous engineers and spending an obscene amount of time in the studio. Through this unorthodox recording process, Shields yielded the most monumental shoegaze album ever produced; warm, full, riveting, shimmering music, allow the sound to envelop you.
Eyehategod - Dopesick
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That glass breaking during "My Name is God (I Hate You)", the first track, is the result of singer Michael Williams suddenly breaking a bottle on the ground, cutting himself badly while another member of the band smeared "Death to pigs" on the studio floor in William's blood. This sums up the general attitude of this album quite nicely.
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
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This work basically influenced the entire grunge/alternative revolution of the early 90's. Albini's low production value really highlights Black Francis's (and Kim's) incredibly poetic song writing. Better than its undeveloped predecessor (Come on, Pilgrim) and its over produced follow up (Doolittle) though both have their share of moments as well.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Swans - Swans are Dead
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At one time, Swans was notorious for live performances so intense that members of the audience would vomit. Though Swans have changed much since those days, they have only increased the musical intensity of their on stage performance and this live album proves it.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Thou - Tyrant
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Heavy, dark, beautiful doom sludge that defys expectations. The unconventional creative surges is what makes this truly stand out amongst boring contemporary sludge bands.
Bauhaus - Mask
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Lame artwork, but one of the best goth albums. A mix of piercing death rock and soaring pop melodies.
Satanic Warmaster - Carelian Satanist Madness
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Lyrics are unfortunately sketchy as fuck but you'll be hard pressed to find better black metal albums.
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
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Distortion dripping, fuzzed out post-punk pop. Unfortunately subsequent releases get cleaned up and overproduced.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Nux Vomica - Asleep in the Ashes
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Incredibly epic, dark and artistic crust metal. Long, so listen with patience. It will all be worth it.
Dystopia - The Aftermath
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One of if not the greatest sludge band ever. Brooding, eerie guitar effects. Distraught screams of agony criticizing modern society. heavy. as. fuck.
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by Design
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Personal favorite Hip Hop album. Aggressive, dark, with songs that seamlessly flow into one another.
Wake Up on Fire - Wake Up on Fire
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Innovative and very influential sludge. Almost all of the members went on to form Nux Vomica.
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