Bear

My man Disposable mentioned norsecore in one of his previous psots. For those who don't know, norsecore is a term aplied to black metal bands that is play constant very fast blastbeats and tremolo riffing with a professional and modern production.  The term norsecore was once used as a derogatory term about Swedish bands, but I don't believe it is anymore.

Some examples of bands and albums:

Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk

Marduk - Nightwing

Marduk - Heaven Shall Burn

The Abyss - Summon the Beast

Dark Funeral - Vobiscum Satanas

Dark Funeral - Diabolis Interium

Setherial - Nord...

Niden Div. 187 - Impergium

In Battle - Rage of the Norsemen

Just a few examples, there's more bands that fits the bill, also from outside of sweden even though it's mainly a term for swedish bands.

This isn't my favourite type of black metal at all, even though I like all the albums mentioned (-Panzer Division Marduk) quite well. But there's two albums that sticks out from all the bands considered norsecore, and that is Setherial's "Nord..." and Dark Funeral's "Vobiscum Satanas".

Setherial - Nord...

This album is brutal as fuck, but it's still melodic, epic and rich on fantastic atmosphere. While Setherial is usually considered a third-rate black metal band, this album sticks out and can be mentioned among the first-rated black metal albums out there.

And if you like "Nord...", be sure to check out Japan's Avsolutized... with one of the guys from Arkha Sva and Ahpdegma. The albums is only 31 minutes long, but if you check out the compilation Mot din svarta ångest you'll be in a for a real treat. 50 minutes of Setherial's Nord...-esque black metal. This is a complete and utte homage to Setherial and even feature a cover of Setherial's My Veins Are Open, but Avsolutized... actually does this track better than Setherial themself. Ur Èmdr Oervn of Arkha Sva is known for his unique vocal approach, and he brings that style into Avsolutized... as well.

Dark Funeral - Vobiscum Satanas

I'm not sure if I consider this album better than their selftitled EP or The Secrets of the Black Arts, but it is as good, that is for sure. It's faster and more brutal than their previous albums, but it does maintain the melodic style from The Secrets of the Black Arts and contains great atmosphere throughout. Alzazmon (Tomas Asklund) is probably best known for his simple drumming on Dissection's "Reinkaos" or his godawful drum sound AND production on Gorgoroth'Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt, Under the Sign of Hell 2011 and Instinctus Bestialis. But on Vobiscum Satanas, his only album with Dark Funeral, he nails the drum sound and his drumming is immense. His drumming is a real pleasure on this album, if you don't mind blasting that is.

Nice, sounds neat!

I do think you should fuck with Marduk, tho. I'm not a fan of everything, and especially not Panzer Division Marduk. But Rom 5:12 is a proper masterpiece and the album that got me into Marduk and made me appreciate their older stuff too. The album changed how I saw and heard Marduk. Rom 5:12, Opus Nocturne and Frontschwein are highly recommended.

Just listen to this beast of a song!

Why was my reply deleted?

Anyway, this will be my third "date" in the 6-7 months I've had tinder. Don't see the problem tbh, and I certainly don't see how that's an awful lot.

They're somewhere between singing and harsh vocalc. Sounds awesome!

I know it sucks to go early to festivals, but you'll not be disappointed. I posted some live videos and shit a few pages back. Amazing band and they look and sound fantastic live. They truly offer something different live, and their type of different also happens to be pure magic.

11 hours ago, Bear said:

 

Saudi-Arabian Al-Namrood just dropped a new album too. I've never been into the few albums I've heard, but there's always been something about the band that catches my interest over and over again. Want to like them tbh. Middle-eastern folk/black metal. Should be my cup of tea, so I don't know why it's not working for me. But I'll give them a new chance with this new album, and check out their older stuff while I am at it.

Had to turn this off after 3 songs. The vocals. Jesus christ. Godawful!

Do us all a favor and see Zuriaake. Just do it!

The new Dødsengel leaked. Will give the album some spins later today. Excited!

Saudi-Arabian Al-Namrood just dropped a new album too. I've never been into the few albums I've heard, but there's always been something about the band that catches my interest over and over again. Want to like them tbh. Middle-eastern folk/black metal. Should be my cup of tea, so I don't know why it's not working for me. But I'll give them a new chance with this new album, and check out their older stuff while I am at it.

Got myself a "date" (i fucking hate the word date lol) for tomorrow. If she's just half as fun and nice in real life as she is over discord and snapchat, then this should be real fun. he is incredibly hot as well. Cute as fuck.

Holy fuck, I do not know what to do right now. I own Perturbator's "Dangerous Days" on red/blue splatter limited to 200 ex, and some guy saw I owned it and asked me if I had it for sale. I said that everything I own is for sale if someone offers enough, however I was honest and told him I was a greedy fuck and he'd probably have to pay up quite an amount of money, more than any sane human being would be able to do.

His offer?

All fees would be on me. That means:

100 € Paypal + Fees

Another limited version of Dangerous Days that sells for $60
Shipping Fees for your LP to my home
Shipping Fees for my LP to your home
 

That is quite an offer for a record I paid something like $30-40 for. I am so fucking tempted by this, especially since I've been considering getting rid of the majority of my collection anyway. But at the same time I'm having a hard time parting ways with the release. It's such a fucking sexy release.

On 19.2.2017 at 10:08 AM, Bear said:

Some interesting news form the world of metal:

 

Black thrash metallers Craven Idol have a new album coming out soon called The Shackles of Mammon, their first release since 2013's Towards Eschaton. Black/thrash in the vein of Destroyer 666, Scythian and mid-era Absu. Furious and black, but at the same time epic. Their debut album is great and I am really looking forward to this. Can't find anything off their new album, but this will give you a decent impression of what these guys are all about:

 

 

 

 

This album sounds real neat. Less agressive than the debut, but it sounds really cool. Very epic and Destroyer 666-esque black/thrash metal.

I have three goals in life at the moment:

1. Travel to Japan and stay there for way too long

2. Get a complete Sigh collection

3. Get my hand on one of those Friday the 13th blood-filled liquid vinyls

Here is a list of what I would trade to get my hands on one of those vinyls:

I would trade all at once.

The prices it's been sold for is crazy as fuck, though:

Lowest: €359.30

Median: €630.35

Highest: €720.40

Jesus fucking christ.

9 hours ago, Disposable said:

ˆ afaik that stormzy song has quite an, uncommon sound for grime. The stuff that I'm familiar with sounds more like a British counterpart for mid 2000's south like young jeezy. 

 

Did you try Skepta's last album? Along with Stormzy he is probably the biggest import atm.  Shutdown is hugely popular here ( i'm not the biggest fan ) 

 

Is it? I'm not too familiar with grime, but isn't Functions on the Low a really classic grime tune/instrumental? Anyway, checked out Stormzy's debut album and it's alright, but it's 10-15 minutes too long and there's no red thread going through the album. At it's best it's phenomenal, but there's some songs that sticks out and just doesn't fit in with the rest of the album.

Not tried Skepta's last album, but I am familiar with him, and I do like what's I've heard.

But I need to dig deeper into the grime scene. I really like this genre.

Not seen the new Fargo yet.

Started and finished Master of None season 2 yesterday. Season 1 was amazing (8/10) but season 2 is a big step up in terms of quality, consistency and about being unique. Top notch!

Mgla is worth the price and trouble alone, and Zuriaake should be worth it as well. Looks like an amazing live band, and it's probably not too often you'll get the chance this brilliant band live.

Pieces is just a brilliant film in so many ways. Raw, sleazy exploitation slasher. Pure magic! On top of that it's got the best tagline ever: You Don't Have To Go To Texas For A Chainsaw Massacre!

I support your call on Better Call Saul season 3. It's just fabolous, and so many great characters appearing. I'm the only one in the whole fucking world who thinks this, but as much as I adore and love Breaking Bad I think Better Call Saul is better. In a different way of course as the series are very different, but Saul and Mike were my favourite characters in Breaking Bad so getting to see this much of them really pleases me, as well as several of the others who reprises their roles. So much fun!

This song is so fucking good. Anyone with a proper knowledge of grime who can throw out some recommendations?

The "poor" quality of the recordings are often what makes the recording great. Black metal is, in 98% of the cases, all about creating a certain kind of atmosphere and if you take away the production you're often left with nothing as the genre isn't based much around the riffs themself or anything like that, as opposide to thrash which is all about riffs.

And I don't see how norwegians take the imagery way too far. They're not worse than other countries at all.

Rae Sremmurd's "SremmLife 2" and Migos' "Culture" are the fucking shit. Can't get enough of either albums.

Yes, he finally hit the nail on the head. That is amazing!

But to a teenager the smallest problem might seem like the biggest, heaviest problem in the world at the moment, and when you feel like shit is going against you all the time the smaller problems just gets bigger.  Even if it's your own fault as with the episode with the money, when you're already down and do something like that you don't excactly get any higher.  There's not any need for big problems when you're a teen. A small one can so easily be more than tough enough on its own. And the problems are typical, I agree, but not everyone can deal with typical. For some people the typical is enough to make you cut yourself, commit suicide, kill someone or whatever bad shit people do.

2017 has been a shit year for metal? What the actual fuck! Makes me wonder what type of godawful metal you like. Been another great year, and that's even before I've started to dig into this year's releases.

Met a girl on tinder and talked a bit. Found out she was a hardcore gamer and even played the same games as me so we've been gaming and talking a lot these last days. Asked her if she was keen on doing something this weekend but she's working, but she was keen on meeting next weekend. 

Lookin' good. Still diggin' tinder.

Maniac

Maniac (1934), or Sex Maniac as it is also known as, is a 1934 exploitation horror film by Dwain Esper who made several exploitation flicks. Maniac is one of those "educational" films and I bet good ol' Dwain Esper thought he was both making a good film and educating young younger people on the subject of insanity.

But Maniac, party based on The Black Cat and Murders in the Rue Morgue, isn't much of an educational film at all. It's a cheap, sleazy and truly abysmal exploitation flick where nothing is good at all. This film is trash, but it's interesting trash. It's like a tranwreck and no matter how awful it is, you just gotta keep lookin'. I also love how every new actor brings something of their own to the table. It seems like they were trying their best to overdo the last actors performance. It's hilarious!

This surly isn't for everone, but I did enjoy it quite a bit. Which means I loved it!

1/10

Let me also say something about the character 1/10. 1/10 is the character I give to the worst of the worst. Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Astro-Zombies, The Nail Gun Massacre, The Beast of Yucca Flats, Things, Microwave Massacre, Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins (dubbed version of course), and now this masterpiece, Maniac. The ultimate shitfets!

I can not believe how this album has gone underneath everyones radar. An absolute masterpiece, and probably one of the very best heavy metal albums I've heard. This album sounds like it was made by a proper heavy metal band that's mainly inspired by the ancient greek black metal scene (old Rotting Christ, Varathron, Necromantia, Agatus(!!!), Kawir and more) as well as 70's progressive rock. There's something familiar about the music, yet it's so unique and fresh, completely different from everything you've ever heard.

The "they come from the skies/they live to die/children became Kings/kings became gods/gods were worshiped and immortalized by man" part is just one of the best things ever. So fucking majestic!