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Ahhh, love those twinkley guitars and that smooth clean ambience~~ Finally, something good to look forward to. ;w;

fffffffffffffffffffffinally an album!!!

hell yeahhh, bring it onnnn (...there's not much new stuff here tho, right? ;w; )

^ Actually, only half of these tracks were released before: SWANS on the Ugly Duckling single, and tracks 4 & 6 on the live album. The rest should be totally new.

^ Agreed with everything you said there. Even though I haven't really had time to digest the mini album (only did a quick listen once), I consider it to be their best work so far. Before this, my fave was their debut full-length, but this release easily surpassed that in catchiness and coolness. And yup, liked the re-done single songs a bit better myself too.

The new album "Into the Water" from Ritual Howls is out! Here's a link to their Bandcamp, plus a new-ish music vid! https://ritualhowls.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-water

Okay, totally ready for that new album. Also, lemme just link this earth-shattering awesomeness real quick: (new album coming on Oct. 28 woohoo)

Yesss can't wait for new Darkthrone! Should be good.

He'd prolly live in a . . . Bangyaru-field. ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º)

Sorry for double-posting but... ...also, new Cult Of Fire song, hell yeahhhhhh!! Can't wait for the EP to drop, only a month or so to go.

New Tortorum EP out in October, cool. 1. Iao Al 01:57 2. All Suns Black 05:59 3. Night of the Witch 05:06 4. Life Is the Enemy 03:41 5. Lucifer Victrix 06:19 6. Black Mantra Mysteries 06:57

Friday and Saturday nights were totally killer (if a bit exhausting), since I finally had the pleasure of attending Inner Awakening Festival (8th installment), an underground black metal fest organized by some spirited individuals from my home town, bringing some interesting Hungarian and foreign bands into the two-night mix. This time, however, the event was held at a venue in Budapest, which was totally fine for me, cuz I only had to travel like 45 mins from my front door, yay. First of all, I'd like to say that everything went professionally, kudos for the amazing precision in keeping the pre-announced schedule. Such punctuality is not something I often encounter at gigs these days at least. xD I tried to see every band, even tho I had to leave about 10-15 mins before the end of the first's night show, cuz I was dead tired and tried to catch my bus. Each night's gigs began at 8 PM sharp and ended well after 2 AM, so...yeah. xDDD Anyway, here's what I saw: August 12, Friday - Propast: Serbian black metal band who looked like haggard Santa Clauses in black KKK capes. Despite the kooky visuals, it was pretty boring. - Belliciste: UK-based project that recruited some local musicians to complete the lineup (this was a theme throughout the fest here and there). Cool atmosphere. Sadly, I don't remember much else, but they were good that's for sure, one of the better bands of the night. - Dunkelheit: Local band, killer vibes and guitarwork, especially during the more atmospheric mid-tempo parts. One of the best in the Hungarian underground currently imo. - Niedergang: Another Hungarian act delivering their music with extra ferocity. The actual contents were kinda passable to me tho, not one of my favorites. - Chaos Invocation: Too bad I was tired as hell by the time this German powerhouse came on (around 1 AM), cuz they slayed so hard! Amazing aggressive style and wild showmanship, A+ all around. They reminded me a bit of old Marduk, only a bit more technical and obscure-feeling. Great closer for the night. August 13, Saturday - OS: A completely unknown (and probably young) Hungarian project playing pretty no-nonsense BM. It was okay (better than the first night's opening anyway). - Lepra: Another one of my favorites from the local scene besides Dunkelheit. Vehement ceremonious metal-attack played with conviction. Not much else to say. - Devouring Star: Surprisingly few people were interested in these Finns apparently, which is a total shame, cuz their dissonant off-kilter style delivered with killer precision was one of the high points of the night, for me at least. Only three musicians and so much power! The drummer was especially insane, almost jazzy in some places. Top-notch. - Barshasketh: The main man here is the guy from Belliciste (joined by members of other bands playing at the fest) if I remember correctly. Anyway, just awesome in-your-face stuff with a healthy dose of complexity too. Razor-sharp guitars and drumming too, excellent gig. - Thy Darkened Shade: I was really looking forward to hearing this technical, melodic and highly mystical/philosophical Greek project, and I wasn't let down! They really owned the stage with their dark monk-like outfits and extra ritual props. They really felt like they completely live this whole thing. A bit awkward at times between songs (lots of silence and fumbling around with instruments), but when they played they really brought the house down. Perfect last act for the event, bought one of their T-shirts too (custom-made for this very show!). All in all, lots of wholesome fun at Inner Awakening. Hoping to attend next year too!

^ Not as far as I remember. To me they just sound like boring indie-rock. (sry, I adore aie, but this is the one project I can't get into XD)

^ There's a TenTen sextape of some chick giving him a blowjob iirc.

Good for them!

Sounds pretty realistic to me. xD

So there's this semi-popular Hungarian supernatural/comedy movie called "Liza the Fox-Fairy" that deals with some quirky Japanese ghost stuff in Budapest (idk, haven't seen it), and a Hungarian band called Erik Sumo Band made the soundtrack. Among the songs there are some Japanese-language ones, with lyrics written by the Japanese actor who plays in the movie, but the songs are sung by Ambrus Tövisházi (the lead singer/songwriter of the group) afaik. The tracks are in a kinda retro '60s Japanese 'group sounds' style, pretty catchy. Here's an example (more on the band's YT channel here or here) (it even has obligatory ENGRISH parts :'D)

This is a complete shot in the dark, but I've been driving myself crazy searching on Google and coming up with no results whatsoever. XD I'm looking for the name of an author who I think is Japanese. The only thing I remember is that he or she has been writing books for at least about a decade now (maybe even more), and that they are of the science fiction / cyberpunk variety. The author's trademark style is kinda like if you put random sci-fi words in a blender and arranged them in a random order, i.e. the novels don't really follow any narrative strands, they are more like weird nonsensical impressionistic pictures of a (potentially bleak or dystopian???) futuristic, possibly machine-like / cybernetic existence. The best comparison I can make is William S. Burroughs during his Nova Trilogy phase: cut-up jumble of words flowing together to evoke weird images, only in a futuristic setting. The author may or may not have written the books via some kind of automated system (e.g. feeding words into a computer that then provided the text by arranging the words and expressions in a random order). Thanks in advance if anyone might recognize the author or any of his/her work just by these vague attributes. edit: Success!!! The author's name is Kenji Siratori (coincidentally, he also makes noise music, haha).

Bojack Horseman is like the best thing in animated series recently next to Rick & Morty. It's just amazing (and devastating XD).

pretty good~

Spanish post-punks rejoice! There's a new Belgrado album out: https://belgrado.bandcamp.com/album/obraz ...and also a cool lil' demo from newcomers Satélite: http://satelitepunk.bandcamp.com/releases

Dangggggg, sweet news!

^ cali-gari had condoms packed with the 1st press edition of their mini album "Blue Film" in 2000.

Duuuudes!!! Take Over And Destroy are releasing a new (self-titled) album on October 7!! They've already unleashed the killer opening track: http://takeoveranddestroy.bandcamp.com/track/by-knife Gimme dat proggy '70s hard rawk inspired black metal & roll n fuck me uppp yesssssss edit: Also yay, new Meshuggah and The Dillinger Escape Plan album in October too. Gonna be a killer month. It's a bummer tho that TDEP are disbanding sometime in 2017.

I completely forgot about this being a thing. Yay~ XD