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Cover art for the upcoming Tarot-release. Not sure if it's an EP or an album, but I am hoping for an album. I've mentioned these guys a couple of times on the forum now, and I'm just getting more and more excited about the band with each listen. Retro, semi-progressive and epic heavy rock with obvious Uriah Heep and Rainbow influences, with a touch of Pagan Altar on the side. I love the cover art and it just fits the epic and mystic music these guys are making. Looking forward to this!
Previous EPs can be found here: https://heavychainsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-watchers-dream
Update:
Tarot - The Warrior's Spell CD is now available for pre-order, this includes:- Two brand new tracks: 'The Warrior's Spell' and 'Street Lamps Calling'
- All three EPs released in 2014, including a new remastered version of Dying Daze
- Poster of the killer artwork by Waning Gibbous Art
- Hand made lyric booklet
$10.00 AUD inc. shipping within Australia
$13.00 AUD inc. shipping rest of world
$10.00 AUD inc. shipping rest of world for CD without jewel case (this does not include the poster and lyric booklet)
For information on how to order, please mail [email protected]
It's cool to get everything on one CD, as well as two new songs, but I'm hoping for a vinyl release of this as well. Will probably buy the CD as well, though.
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One Missed Call 2 - My girlfriend wanted to watch this, while I did not because I expected it to be shit, and after half an hour I gave up. The acting was so poor and everything felt to cheap. Had to give up. Awful.
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It's early, but I am sure that Raw Howls will be on my top 5 at the end of the year. Fantastic album! Raw, filthy, fuzzy and disgusting doom metal punk at its very best. The perfect soundtrack to a 70's biker film or some filthy exploitation films in general. Brilliant!
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Yeh, that would've been nice too. But sadly not.
Holy fuck, Effigy is good!!! Just started listening to them. dat guitar sound is making me feel things...
Also: random horror soundtrack samples, I can hear youuu~ ;D
Good boy. Off topic, but you need to check out bands like Sacrilege, Amebix, Hellbastard, Axegrinder and Deviated Instinct too. Uness you've already done it. Neither are japanese, but all are fantastic. Especially Sacrilege (Behind the Realms of Madness) is a must.
The whole Amebix Japan - Tribute To Amebix with Acrostix, Effigy, Raw Gauge, Age, Life and Zoe.
This is a great tribute album, even though the original songs are better. But these covers have more than enough character to stand on their own legs. The only thing that's disappointing with the tribute is that it only include 2 songs from Amebix' "holy trio" - Who's the Enemy, Winter and No Sanctuary, which I consider way better than their full lenghts.
This shit is so good. Dark, apocalyptic crust. It lacks the thrash-influence of later Amebix, though. But it's still their best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wx7S8bMoKs
This is one of the best albums you'll find within thrashy crust world. No debate!
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It's a typo, that's what it is. D-beat is the correct term, but d-bear sounds cool enough though.
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The whole thing can be heard here: http://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/raw-howls
Ridiculously good stuff.
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Some more to look forward to:
Alucarda - Raw HowlsAlucarda plays filthy doom/punk heavily influenced by bands such as Satan's Satyrs and Electric Wizard, with lyrics dealing with exploitation and biker films, horror and occult themes. Their debut demo, D.F.F.L, released back in 2013 was fantastic and this is something to look forward to. This is gonna fuck you up!
Great song! I consider the debut of Satan's Satyrs to be a masterpiece of filthy and sleazy doom metal punk, and Alucard is just up there with it. The demo is just as good, and the new songs are amazing as well.
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Cover art for the upcoming Tarot-release. Not sure if it's an EP or an album, but I am hoping for an album. I've mentioned these guys a couple of times on the forum now, and I'm just getting more and more excited about the band with each listen. Retro, semi-progressive and epic heavy rock with obvious Uriah Heep and Rainbow influences, with a touch of Pagan Altar on the side. I love the cover art and it just fits the epic and mystic music these guys are making. Looking forward to this!
Previous EPs can be found here: https://heavychainsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-watchers-dream
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I use a few foras do discuss music, films, TV-series and football, but I don't use anything like facebook, twitter, instragram and all that, which always come as a big surprise and disappointment to fellow workers. No idea why, though, as we wouldn't have any contact outside of job anyway.
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Fantastic cover art. Thought the debut album was OK, but a bit lacking. It felt very rushed, and some parts came of as hastly thrown together with no thoughts behind it at all. This new song was a lot better. Airly, post-rockish Austere-esque depressive black metal with great drumming. And vocals.
Those hyena cries have grown to become a pretty big part of the genre, so I'm very, very fine with those. Quite a big fan, and I think it's a style that reeks of desperation and pain. Some bands, like Silencer and Down in Solitude, took it way too far though. It just ended up being hilarious. A fine joke it was.
Edit: You could also hear this type of painful and desperate creams as early as 93-94 with bands such as Forgotten Woods, Burzum, Nidhoggr, all bands who are considered the fathers of depressive black metal along with Strid, Bethlehem and Abyssic Hate. All these bands had a massive impact on the genre, but Forgotten Woods, Burzum and Nidhoggr started the crazy vocal-thing. Bethlehem took it all a massive step further with their fantastic Dictius Te Necare. Over the top and crazy vocals. A bit too much for many, but perfect to me. One of the best vocal performances of all time.
So it's something that has a part of the music, even if a lot dislike it.
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Oh fuck! Awesome!
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One Missed Call - Rewatched this ilm with my girlfriend last night, and I have to say it did let me down a bit. It was good, but not as good as I remembered. A bit too long, and some of the special effects are rather poor. Especially the slime-woman who looks like she comes straight outta a 60's z-horror/sci-fi flick. Just doesn't fit the whole mood of the film. I think it actually ruins part od the atmosphere which is a shame. But all in all I like this film, but it is not on par with the best films of the new wave of japanese horror films. Not even close.
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Goat Semen's debut album leaked yesterday too. Black/death metal band from Brazil that formed in 2000. It only took them 15 years to get their debut album out. Got massive expectations for it. Both Goat Semen and Holocausto are fantastic demos. Holocausto was a promo for the album, which was very promising.
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The album leaked yesterday.
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Thrash metal isn't exactly where I'd look to find my sinister-sounding music either. Sure, you'll find sinister thrash metal albums and both Hell Awaits and Hobbs' Angel of Death are among the most sinister and evil albums I've eve heard, but they are more the exception to the "rules" than the standard for the genre. And thrash metal bands don't really utilize melodies the same way as it's more or less all about the riffing. But hey yo, that's just me.
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Not VK or modern jrock, but The 5.6.7.8’s deserves a mention in this thread just for being a japanese rock band and for being some of the coolest girls in music. The band have been active since 1986, but didn't get their "breakthrough" before they were included in Tarantino's 2003 masterpiece Kill Bill. Awesome surf/garage rock with lots of attitude and badassness. I get some Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!-vibes from the whole band, which to me is a huge plus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtuZeddLy-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8qG4BiS6fI
I'd kill to see these girls live around 92-94.
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Why don't you just listen to black metal.... maybe thrash metal? problem solved.
Why should somebody listen to thrash metal if they want sinister melodies? And maybe that person doesn't enjoy black metal? Black metal and pop/rock/heavy metal is quite different you see.
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Yeah, it does. Nothing new, but it sounds awesome.
Also, any other fans of Bal-Sagoth here? Since I mentioned them regarding the post up here I just had to re-discover them and got a massive kick. One of those odd bands that I really enjoy, yet isn't getting enough playtime. It's very, because I always enjoy all their albums a lot when I play them. Also, odd band musically. Their debut is a bit more death metal inspired and less power metal inspired, though it still does contain their trademark symphonic/epic black metal. With their second album, "Starfire Burning upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule", the band got a whole lot more cheesy and they went away from the death metal-inspired sound and towards a more cheesy power metal-inspired symphonic/epic black metal sound. Bal-Sagoth is basically blackened Disney metal. No kidding.
Great lyrics too.
Highly recommended band.
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A couple of songs can be heard here: http://gruesomedeathmetal.bandcamp.com/releases
Basically an old school Death tribute band with Matt Harvey (Exhumed, Dekapitator) among others. Really loooking forward to this album. Just pure Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy worship - nothing more, nothing less. Awesome!
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Also, this looks fucking awesome:
On February 21st, 2015, DMR Books will release their first publication entitled Swords of Steel, an anthology of fantasy/horror adventure stories in the tradition of Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, George R.R. Martin, and H.P. Lovecraft.
The book will be “mass market” size (6.5” x 4.25”), 250 pages, in the tradition of the classic paperbacks from the ‘60s and ‘70s. The stories in this collection are written by members of such underground heavy metal bands as Manilla Road, Bal-Sagoth, Solstice, Cauldron Born, Twisted Tower Dire, and others.
“I got the idea while listening to Manowar's "Dark Avenger." I thought the lyrics would make a great story that could have been in an anthology from the '70s like Swords Against Darkness. Then I wondered if any bands had ever written stories, and the idea took off from there.” - Dave Ritzlin (DMR Books editor and publisher)
"Dave agreed to let me do a Lovecraft-style story instead of heroic fantasy as that's where my heart is right now with writing. I agonized over this story, poured my heart into it, and went temporarily insane during its creation. Many aspects of it were derived from my life. I'm interested to see how the other lyricists approached this project and how it's received in-general by the public." – Scott Waldrop (TTD)
Swords of Steel also includes interior illustrations and maps, poems by Sean Weingartner (Eternal Champion) and Howie Bentley (Cauldron Born), a non-fiction essay by historical novelist M Harold Page, and an introduction by David C. Smith, author of such sword and sorcery novels as Oron, The Sorcerer’s Shadow, and the Red Sonja series. Cover art is provided by Martin Hanford who has illustrated Warhammer novels for Games Workshop as well as covers for a number of bands including Twisted Tower Dire, Bal-Sagoth, and Slough Feg.“I'm so honored to be a part of this book. I approached Dave about adding some poetry and he graciously accepted. This is my first writing in 20 years.” - Sean Weingartner (Eternal Champion)
Swords of Steel is planned to be followed annually by more anthologies of fictional stories from bands of the music genre.
“Who better to return traditional fantasy to its former glory than the heavy metal bards?” - Dave Ritzlin
www.facebook.com/DMRBooksI'm gonna buy this. Should be awesome as fuck. I am especially looking forward to the writing of Byron, who is a most talented gentleman. Even if you're not a fan of the band I recommend you reading the lyrics. Great stuff.
The "Multiverse" is the alternate reality in which the lyrics of Byron Roberts are set. Based on ideas similar in concept to H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and especially Robert E. Howard, the Multiverse is mostly past tense, wherein Roberts describes ancient events that have already transpired. Worldwide floods, pan-galactic wars, rogue demigods, ancient empires and kingdoms, and sinister artifacts compose this alternate history of the earth. Mythical places such as Atlantis, Hyperborea, Ultima Thule, Ys, Mu and Lemuria feature prominently in the band's Antediluvian World. Additionally, many of the lyrics are set within the framework of recognizable history, with a cast of characters including historical barbarians, gladiators, corsairs and privateers, archaeologists and occult investigators whose exploits take place during recorded history from Roman times through the age of Reason, the late 19th century and early 20th century. Along with Byron's other, more science fiction oriented lyrics detailing a far future era of galactic struggle and interstellar war, the Bal-Sagoth lyrics span countless aeons and are truly epic in scope.
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Many of Byron Roberts's lyrical stories are soon to be expanded into short stories and graphic novels (written by Roberts and illustrated by fantasy artist Martin Hanford), and the forthcoming expanded Glossary, which will be an extended version of the glossary previously posted to the band's website, will be the definitive A-Z of all the characters and events of the vast lyrical universe
I also think Bal-Sagoth is a great band. Unique in so many ways.
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The Shogun's Samurai aka Yagyu Clan Conspiracy - Historical action-drama by Kinji Fukasaku, with people like Kinnosuke Yorozuya, Sonny Chiba, Hiroki Matsukata, Etsuko Shihomi and Toshiro Mifune in some of the roles. How accurate this is I will not say anything about, but this is another phenomenal film by Fukasaku. It's epic and dramatic, well-directed and the action is amazing. It's 2 hours long, but very fast-paced and it never feels long or boring. Some amazing performances as well. Sonny Chiba is as always wonderful, Kinnosuke Yorozuya is stunning and everyone in a big role does amazing. Great cinematography as well.
Makai tenshô: Samurai Reincarnation - This is somewhat a sequel to Shogun's Samurai, but it's something completely different and some of the details don't match. But who gives a fuck? This film isn't really a better film than Shogun's Samurai, but it's superior to it anyway IMO. Action-fantasy with lots of elements of horror. Sonny Chiba reprises his role as Jubei but is even better here, and we've got Tomisaburô Wakayama as well. Amazing. Well-directed and well-acted, amazing action and beautiful cinematography. This film is simply brilliant!
These two films are directed by the same man and Samurai Reincarnation is considered a sequel, but both films stands fine on their own two feets and you do not need to watch one to watch another. But since both are amazing they are both recommended.
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I see. I'd recommend you to try the albums I've come up with now because they're a lot better than newer Venom, but it's you choice brah. I expect the new album to be in the same vein as Metal Black, Hell and Fallen Angels. They sound the same and they all consist of good songs, but as albums they're not much more than a 3+/4- which should come as no surprise as they are all between 55 and 66 minutes long. Way too long with a lot of fillers. The new one has 14 songs and will probably be more of the same both musically and lenght-wise.
Also, a few albums that's simply must-haves for fans of Venom:
Bulldozer - The Day of Wrath
Witchgrave - Witchgrave
Warfare - Metal Anarchy
Warfare - Mayhem, Fuckin' Mayhem
NME - Unholy Death
People need these albums in their life.
Fucking twin leads with just bass and drums on the botton. Beautiful!
Last movie you saw.
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Cool. I am so looking forward to What We Do in the Shadows. I've got massive expectations.
Also, have you seen Roger Corman's "The Haunted Palace"? (search to find my review of this masterpiece) The film was advertised as Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace, but it is not based on Poe's poem of the same name, it is in fact a loose adaption of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., Debra Paget and more. I love this film.