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Devouring Star - Through Lung and Heart Finnish black metal in the vein of Svartidaudi and Deathspell Omega. As Svartidaudi this isn't as unaccessible as DsO, but it's way better IMO. I guess you could say that this is a lot more riffier and meatier than DsO. Checked out the new Anal Vomit as well. Their first album is a classic, their second is amazing and their third is very good. They've gone downhill sicne the debut, but always kept releasing high quality albums.For the new album they've got themself a new drummer, and that's easy to hear because he fucks up the album on his own. Awful drum sound. I didn't manage more than 2-3 songs. What a huge disappointment, and it's such a shame because the music itself is great. Just the same happened with fellow Peruvian black/death act Hadez last year. Geat band, and especially their debut, Aquelarre, is a massive album. Classic! Their new album however was ruined by awful drum sound, which again is a shame because the music itself is great. How the hell can bands keep releasing albums with drums like this? Are they deaf or what? They gotta hear the same as us right? Jesus.

Tourist Trap - A great, underrated and forgotten horror gem from 1979. Creepy as fuck and atmospheric film with great acting, a cool plot and an amazing soundtrack. The soundtrack is made by Pino Donaggio, known for his soundtracks for films such as Piranha, The Howling, Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Body Double, and it is phenomenal. Odd, interesting and great. Very underrated film, and it's really odd at times. The humour is so out of place, yet it works perfectly in the mix. Good shit.

The Interview - There's been lots of talk about this and I've read lots of shit about it, but I'm a fan of Seth Rogen and laugh just by seeing his face, so I was looking forward to this and got exactly what I expected. Good, childish, dumb and straight forward fun for almost two hours. Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen gets together again but the production values in this is nothing like their duo-debut This is the End. This is the End suffered from awful CGI which ruined a lot of the experience for me, but here they seriously nail it. The violence looks good and it's very, very well-done. No cheap-as-fuck CGI or anything. The story? Silly as fuck. So yeah, not all the jokes are funny, but a lot of them are and every now and then I was left in tears. A tad too long, but nothing serious. A good, silly comedy - nothing more, nothing less. Diana Bang is sexy as fuck and James Franco is surprisingly likeable and funny, despite his very punchable face. He's just weird. I should hate him, but I don't. I really like him. And Randall Park is great in the film.

Check it out here: http://weshalllive.bandcamp.com/album/uncreation A 37 minute long EP released in 2014, an another extremely solid addition to the Mansion discography. Both darker and heavier than previous Mansion releases, but it still sound like 100% Mansion. Fantastic release by a fantastic band. Gotta love the band's lyrical themes as well, focusing on Kartanoism, a small Christian sect in Finland from the 20's to the 50's. Very interesting and very, very cool. I really can't believe this band hasn't gotten bigger by now. Should be among the most taked about doom metal bands out there to be honest. They're that good. If you're into bands psychedelic rock/doom bands like Jex Thoth/Totem, Mount Salem, Blood Ceremony and so on you should check this out asap. Especially if you're into Jex Thoth. But Mansion have more than enough character to stand on their own legs. They've found their own thing. Brilliant band.

Triumvir Foul - An Oath of Blood and Fire I discovered this demo not too many days ago and I have to say that this has ended up being one of my favourites of 2014. Dark, filthy, putrid, morbid and disgusting death metal by two of the four membes of Ash Borer. I hear plenty of of Autopsy, Incantation and Nihilist in the sound, but they've got something of their own going on here. Brilliant stuff. http://triumvirfoul.bandcamp.com/

Sample from the upcoming Dødheimsgard (DHG) album: https://soundcloud.com/peaceville/dhg-aphelion-void-audio-sample-from-a-umbra-omega THey announced it would sound like a mix between Satanic Art and 666 International, and that's what we get with a hint of Ved Buens Ende. The seond part of the song sounds like Ved Buens Enda. Sounds crazy good. Aldrahn is a fantastic vocalist. He sounds just great.

The Wind Rises - A great, solid story, very nice, likeable and colourful characters, lovely visuals, beautiful animation and a superb soundtrack - that's what genius filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki gives us with his last fictional biographical drama film. There's not really anything negative I can say about the film. It's absolutely brilliant. There's been talk that this is gonna be his last ever film, and while he's said that many times now, this time he seems to be serious about it. If this is his last film, then what a way to end a magnificent career. What a man! I've considered the Oscars to be a joke for many, many, many years now, and it just kees getting worse. How on earth did Frozen win over this? The only thing Frozen does better, is being more available as it's a childs film, while The Wind Rises is a much harder watch and grown up film, but The Wind RIses is better in every other way. There's is absolutely no reason anyone can justify Frozen winning over this. An absolute disgrace! The Tale of Princess Kaguya should obviously win for 2014, but I bet my big fat ass it won't. It'll be just as much of a disgrace if it doesn't win, as both these films are superb and among the best animated films made in the 2000's.

Great song, and way better than the first they released.

Not quite sure about the deepest growls, but other than that it sounds very, very good.

About time, son. Recommended the band earlier in this thread. Fantastic stuff.

Ghoulgotha - The Deathmass Cloak Decided to heck this album out. Death/doom + AMAZING cover art + Elektrokutioner (Encoffination, Scaremaker, Tombstones, etc.) + great logo looks amazing on paper, but god this was disappointing. Such a mess. There's just way too much going on within each song. It's like all three members have written enough riffs for five albums each and neither wanted to leave their riffs out, so they just mashed all the 16541643 riffs into 11 songs. It's a huge mess. A huge fucking mess, and I turned off after 3 songs or so. Shame, because the production is good (drums sounds a bit off, but not bothering), the leads sounds good and there's plenty of good riffs. But it's such as mess. I wish it was good because I'd love to have that cover on a fine vinyl release. I'll give it a few more listens later, but I don't have any high hopes for this album.

I'm not sure how many of these we'll actually get in 2015, but I am hoping these will see the light of day in 2015: Ghostface Killah & BADBADNOTGOOD - Sour Soul Ghostface Killah - Twelve Reasons to Die II DOOMStarks Czarface - Czarface 2 Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 Killer Mike - Pledge Allegiance to the Grind IV Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music II

I like how they look like five guys from five different bands.

Very good. It's not bad all - in fact it's brilliant. Give them even more time and they'll grow on you. Haha, yeah. I'm a huge fan of Warhammer. I can't decide on who's the best Hellhammer-clone: Warhammer or Apokalyptic Raids. I think both are fantastic. It's hilarious how the band disown their early albums for not sounding similar enough to Hellhammer. Talk bout fanatic Hellhammer fans.

Some awesome news for fans of old Behemoth aka the best Behemoth: Thy Winter Kingdom / From the Pagan Vastlands... This will be released on double CD and two single LPs. I'll ty to get my hand on both LPs. Sounds awesome as fuck!

You should go for it. The band disbanded and no one have heard of 'em anyway. Let's heard some music inspired by beautiful, tasty vaginal discharge.

SOme cool updates for anyone into good metal. Here you can hear a 5 min outtake from one of the new songs from the upcoming Negura Bunget album. It sounds like Negura Bunget, an it sounds damn good. Macabre Omen - Gods of War - At War Ten years after their magnificent debut album, The Ancient Returns (6/6!), and 21 years after their formation and first demo, Macabre Omen returns with their second full lenght in 2015, and I am very much looking forward to it. Recommended for fans of Bathory, greek black metal (Rotting Christ, Kawir, Varathron, Nocternity) and Hades.

I would if it wasn't already taken. The band disbanded, but still. It's already used.

I experienced something similar at work not too long ago actually. I work with a bunch of chick, 4 of them are in their mid 40's, and two are in their 30's. I entered as usual, sat down around the table for the meeting and they were talking about their vaginal discharge. It was awful. I left and told them to update me on what to do that day later. Jesus christ. As if I have any interest in hearing about their vaginal discharge.

The reason I post most about extreme metal is because that's what the other people around here seems to care about, as well as folk metal. I could post a lot about other genres too as I am very much into other genres, but I see no reason to post lots of heavy, doom, power or whatever-bands if I am the only one seems to care. And Immolation is a damn big band for being death metal. Yeah, they're not among the biggest bands around, but they're up there with other legendary bands such as Autopsy, Pestilence, Grave, Asphyx, Unleashed, Malevolent Creation, Edge of Sanity, Monstrosity and so on. So yeah, they're actually a very common name in the death metal scene, and they have a status as both a legendary death metal band and a cult band. And I don't get your comment on them being close to black metal in any way at all. Pure dark, putrid and blasphemous death metal with close to no resemblence to black metal at all IMO, just like Incantation whom they share much of their sound with. The band is pure death metal in all departments to my ears..

It's been a long time since I recommended anything here, so I'll throw out a few demo recommendations this time around. All these demos ae rather new, and all have been a part of my top 10 when the year finished. In other words, these are fantastic demos. There's been some hype around all these bands in the underground, so you might have heard about them. Beastiality - Ancient Bell Chimes Beastiality plays dark, morbid and dirty black/thrash/death metal in the vein of Bathory, Nihilist, Hellhammer and Nifelheim. It's not origianl, but there's more than enough character for everyone to recognize them and everything from the songwriting to the vocals and production is top notch. Brilliant demo! Vampire - Vampire Crushing death/thrash from sweden in the vein of Bloodbath (Serbia), old Sepultura and Possessed. It's dark, evil and great. Raw and evil. Brilliant demo!#2 The ban released their debut album last year, but for me it was a huge disappointment. The songs ae great, but the album was way too polished. Possession - His Best Deceit Raw black/death metal in the vein of Bathory, Blasphemy, Sarcofago and old Sepultura (ontains a Sepultura cover too). Grim, agressive and crushing - Possession will possess you! The band released a great 7" last year too, and will release something new this year. Necromancy - Hanged in Hässelby Necromancy plays pure, 80's influenced occult black metal in the vein of Bathory, Mortuary Drape and Mercyful Fate. This is a compilation of the bands first two demos, Rites of Necromancy and Magic Alchemy Occultism, and both are top notch. A must for fans of 80's black metal. https://soundcloud.com/unborn-prod/necromancy-swe-midnight-magic https://soundcloud.com/unborn-prod/necromancy-swe-the-alchemist

The Raid 2: Berandal - I finally got around to watch this, and I am impressed. Everything is turned up a notch... or five. The plot is way better, the character development is better and the violence is just on a whole other level. The action is so well-coreographed and tightly executed by both actors/stuntmen and director that's even though there's a lot of fighting, it's never too much. And I consider myself to be a pretty big fan of martial arts films, and this is one of the best martial arts films I've ever seen and it's both one of the most extreme action flicks I've seen as well as the best coreographed film I've seen. I just can't find anything to put my finger on, because this is such a well-made and entertaining flick. It will certainly be way too brutal and violent to some, and contain way too much fighting for others, but fans of martial arts should not be disappointed with the film. And I fucking loved the film!

It depends abit on what I am reading, but for most part I listen to ambient, neoclassical, post-rock, funeral doom or black metal. Bands like Mortiis, Summoning, Paysage d'Hiver, Mono, Zhaoze, Kinstrife & Blood, The Great Old Ones, Thergothon, Tyanny, Evoken, Worship, Evoken and more are bands that I've been playing a lot when reading. The important thing to me when finding music to read to, is that it in somewhat manage to evoke muh of the same feeling and atmosphere as the subject I am reading. I'll never listen to Summoning when reading Lovecraft or other horror stories, and I'll never listen to Tyranny or Thergothon when reading Tolkien or other fantasy stories. It doesn't match well.

The Raid: Redemption - Brilliant film, and even better now than my first time watching it. This is simply a modern classic. Yes, the character development isn't good at all and the story is lacking, but who eally gives a fuck about that when watching a film like this? It's a badass actionfilm with amazing action, more amazing action and it's all topped with even more amazing action. And Iko Uwais is cool as fuck. He's as cool as Tony Jaa to be honest. Gareth Evans might not be a very good storyteller, and his characters are rather flat, but he nails more or less everything else on the head with this film.

The new retro wave is something compltely different from new wave and darkwave. Listen to some of the songs posted here and you'll get what kind of music this thread is about. It's also known as Outrun electro. Kavinsky, one of the leading artists in the "movement", despite being more on the house-side, named his debut album Outrun, and it's named after a Sega game from 86 which have served as a massive inspiration for the genre. But the genre as a whole is very inspired by film soundtracks from the 80's, as well as 80's pop culture. Action, horror and exploition films, neon lit cities, video games, cool cars and all that. Everything that was cool. One of the coolest music videos ever btw. I'm having a massive man crush on this guy.