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Mad Max: Fury Road - Finally a big budget, mainstream film that lives up to the hype. What a fucking movie, guys. When I first heard they were getting close to shooting a new Mad Max without Gibson I got sceptical, when I started seeing pictures from the film I got super exited and over the last half year or so my expectations had gone sky high. So, there's not much substance here to be honest, but it nails everything aside from that. Fantastic action, stunts, cinematography and badass characters. It's full on action from begining to end, but it's made in such a way that it just gets more and more fun with each god damn scene, one after one more over the top, cheesy, ridiculous and cooler than the previous one.
 
I thought they really managed to capture that good Mad Max-feeling as well. It didn't just feel as another post-apocalyptic film. It felt like Mad Max. Brilliant work.
 
It's damn nice to see a film without too much CGI as well. As far as I could see, the majority of the special effcts, stunts and all that was the real deal. If it wasn't, then it's some of the best CGI ever because I could not tell that it was CGI. That's awesome!
 
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron was great too.
 
Mad Max: Fury Road is simply a film the lives up to the hype. Badass to the core.
 

Mad Max: Fury Road - Finally a big budget, mainstream film that lives up to the hype. What a fucking movie, guys. When I first heard they were getting close to shooting a new Mad Max without Gibson I got sceptical, when I started seeing pictures from the film I got super exited and over the last half year or so my expectations had gone sky high. So, there's not much substance here to be honest, but it nails everything aside from that. Fantastic action, stunts, cinematography and badass characters. It's full on action from begining to end, but it's made in such a way that it just gets more and more fun with each god damn scene, one after one more over the top, cheesy, ridiculous and cooler than the previous one.
 
I thought they really managed to capture that good Mad Max-feeling as well. It didn't just feel as another post-apocalyptic film. It felt like Mad Max. Brilliant work.
 
It's damn nice to see a film without too much CGI as well. As far as I could see, the majority of the special effcts, stunts and all that was the real deal. If it wasn't, then it's some of the best CGI ever because I could not tell that it was CGI. That's awesome!
 
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron was great too.
 
Mad Max: Fury Road is simply a film the lives up to the hype. Badass to the core.
 

Captain America: The First Avenger - From the 7 films I've seen from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this is the best out of them, a horses head ahead of The Avengers. But that doesn't mean this is amazing. But what I liked a lot in this film, which I've missed in the other MCU-films, is the balls to go slow and try to give the hero a bit flesh. Give him a proper personality. Make us like him as a character and a hero. And I did that. I really enjoyed Captain America and Steve Rodgers in this film. I also felt that the plot was a lot better here than in the other films I've seen. It's not brilliant, but it's more than good enough to keep me interested.
 
I also feel they've managed to create a retrofeeling here, despite obviously being a very modern film. I get plenty 60's and 70's James Bond-feeling from this, and for me that is nothing but positive. And the jokes are way more successful here than in the other films.I laughed out loud several times, which is quite unusual for me when it comes to these Marvel films.
 
What it does wrong, though, just like the other MCU-films, is that it doesn't give the villain close to enough screen time and purpose. Once again the villain feel underdeveloped, and a shame it is.
There's also way too much CGI for my liking, because the CGI isn't very good. That's disappointing.
 
And it's got lots of Peggy Carter, and I am currently in love with her. So, heh...
 
So yeah, I proper enjoyed this. 7/10, just like The Avengers. Not a masterpiece, but enjoyable, and a film I'll watch again later sometime. Looking forward to checkig out The Winter Soldier.
 

 
Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo - The first one was an instant classic to me, so I was really looking forward to this one. Sadly for me, this wasn't much but a huge disappointment. It's decent, but the whole girl gang with badass attitude-thing is dropped, and instead you have a retarded gang acting like retards in the leads. And to my big disappointment the film has nothing to do with the first, desite Meiko Kaji, Bunjaku Han and Tatsuya Fuji returning. They all play different roles this time around. And from what I've read now, none of the films are conected other than in names. Shame. The film uses 45 minutes before it starts go somewhere, and by then I had already started getting bored. However, it really picks up after that and gets really good for the last 40 minutes, but it's all too late. By then the damage was already done.
 
I might have had too big expectations considering how much I loved the first, Meiko Kaji and the director Toshiya Fujita who directed Lady Snowblood, one of my all-time favourite films, but even if I hadn't known that I wouldn't have been very pleased. 5/10
 

The artwork by Costin Chioreanu exactly depicts the world of Graveward.
 
 
That's cool artwork. I wonder if it's for the vinyl release or something. I hope so.
 
 
Here's also a Sigh AMA where Mirai answers questions: http://www.reddit.com/r/progmetal/comments/3647p2/mirai_from_sigh/
 
There's some interesting parts there.
 
 
 
 
 
And my personal favourite:
 
 
Been wanting to hear that Mirai-tape for years, but it's been impossible to find both on MP3 and as a physical release. Hope he gets it out there. Would kill to hear this!

Spoiler for the film The Babadook:
 
 
All in all I just thought the atmosphere were amazing. Brilliant atmosphere!
 
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - I finally got to see this film, a film I've had massive expectations for ever since I first saw the poster. Then, some time after putting it on my watchlist due to the poster, I red it was tagged as "the first Iranian vampire western" and I got even more excited as that sounded really god damn cool. Just watched it and count me impressed. Very impressed.
 
People who wants great narratives won't be too impressied with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, because this is all about atmoshere and emotion. It's dark, gritty, bleak and mystic, yet slightly romantic. The cinematography is top notch and it's visually stunning and shot in such a way that super moviegeeks will get a boner that lasts for 100 minutes. It's slow, it's in black and white, but that just adds to the overall mood of the film.
 
You could say it's style over substance, and that would't be wrong, but I don't mind that and I just loved this film. A western inspired vampire-noir. Beautful film!
 
The only film I can compare it too is Let the Right One In, but even those aren't very similar at all. But it's got the same type of originality in a subgenre that has become very generic over the years. It's something new, something fresh and unique.
 

David Lynch: Dear Twitter Friends, the rumors are not what they seem ..... It is !!! Happening again. #TwinPeaks returns on @SHO_Network
 
"This damn fine cup of coffee from Mark and David tastes more delicious than ever," Showtime president David Nevins said in a statement Friday confirming the news. "Totally worth the extra brewing time and the cup is even bigger than we expected. David will direct the whole thing which will total more than the originally announced nine hours. Preproduction starts now!!”
 


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Lost in Translation - Slow, funny, charming and sad drama that certainly won't please everyone. I've watched it once before and enjoyed it then, but I enjoyed it even more now. Bill Murray's fantastic, but then again, isn't he always fantastic? Good film.
 

Lost in Translation - Slow, funny, charming and sad drama that certainly won't please everyone. I've watched it once before and enjoyed it then, but I enjoyed it even more now. Bill Murray's fantastic, but then again, isn't he always fantastic? Good film.
 

To be quite honest I believe plenty of the bands might have been pushed by their record companies, but it was also something new towards the mid 90's and something that proved to be popular among the people, so I guess someone also went down that lane to get more fans. And of course, plenty of them liked the genre in general. But I hate the genre and wish they had gone down another lane.
 
By the way, I must add that Sodom's Better Off Dead, Tapping the Vein and Get What You Deserve are proper underrated albums. Also by me until recently when I rediscovered the albums.
 
With Better Off Dead the band went in a slightly darker and heavier direction. Still pure thrash metal, but somewhat a new sound for the band.Catchy as fuck.

 
With Tapping the Vein they went in a more death metal-influenced direction. This album is just sheer brutality. Headcrushing thrash/death metal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tetiWfH2tGA
 
With Get What You Deserve the album went in a punkier direction adding plenty of hardcore into the album. Still brutal, but in another way than Tapping the Vein.

A bit of a shot in the dark, but maybe you would like some of these:
Xmal Deutschland / Cinema Strange / Arctic Flowers / Horror Vacui / The Hunt
 
(none of these are like MM tho)
 
@Bear Sopor Aeternus, yessss!!! Totally unique & crazy stuff, gotta love it. Can't get this song/video out of my head for a while now. xD Also, I never knew about that Mirai/Killjoy project, I must listen to it in the future~

Well, if darkwave is included then Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows deserves a mention. Absolute stunning band and probably the darkwave band I am most familiar with. I think al the albums from 1995's Todeswunsch to 2007's Les Fleurs du Mal - Die Blumen des Bösen are fantastic. Some better than others of course, but all are really good.
 
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And Enoch, a side project by Mirai of Sigh and Killjoy of Necrophagia. Released one album and I think it's a great album. It's a very horror film influenced album. A soundtrack to a non-existing horror movie. I really like the album. Great atmosphere and moods.
 

Also, Gaki No Tsukai is so much fun. All hail!

Samhain
Fans of Misfits and Danzing will be very familiar with these guys as this was one of Glenn Danzig's bands. There's some Misfits punk left in the sound, and Danzig's characteristic vocals are present, but musically Samhain was darker, more sombre, macabre and eerie than Misfits.
Listen
Listen
 
Christian Death
Christian Death' debut album, Only Theatre of Pain, is often considered THE deathrock album, and with good reason. I prefer Samhain to Christian Death myself, but this album, as well as the EP Deathwish, are must-haves for any fans of deathrock/gothic rock. Simple as that.
Listen
 
45 Grave
Cult band that should be familiar to anyone into the genre, or horror films actually. Best known for Partytime which was included on the cult classic The Return of the Living Dead.
Listen
 
The Damned
I can't say I am too familiar with this band, but Phantasmagoria is a total classic. Dark and eerie goth rock. Those vocals, man.
Listen
 
Beastmilk
A newer post-punk band who changed their name from Beastmilk to Grave Pleasures following the departure of their guitarist. Features Kvhost previously of Dødheimsgard, Code, Hexvessel and more. Superb band!
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Someone finally did it. I already thought a long time about making this thread, but I never pulled it through, because I didn't expected so much interest here. But good to see that some people are into the genre. Also glad to see many nice newcomers mentioned. Most people know or will stumble upon the classics (Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Banshees) and I think it is more important to give the more unknown bands a spotlight.
 
Also glad that so far no one has mentioned anything like Blutengel, Rammstein, Motionless in White or Within Temptation. Because they are just not goth.
 
She Past Away are amazing, I just bought their second album. I do not agree with the Sisters of Mercy comparisons, that people often mention. Yeah, the singer has a very low and dark voice, but their music is still very different from the Sisters Hardrock influenced Post-Punk. She Past Away are, to me, colder, mysterious and distanced sounding.
 
Some recommendations of mine:
 
 
 
Sixth June
Since Linea Aspera have mentioned, this band also falls into a similiar genre, a mix of electro-, minimal- and dark wave. Also feautures a female vocalist.
 


 
Winter Severity Index
An all female band with a very nice, 80s sound. They are associated with the current coldwave revival thing (not sure how much this ties in with the original french coldwave of the 80s, but I guess so, since they have that sound). Really nice, athmospheric and melancholic music with lots of ambience. Their music is really soothing and calming, The Brightest Days is however hella catchy.
 


 
Catholic Spit
They are a Southern California based Death Rock group with a very distinctive sound. At least I haven‘t heard so many bands sounding like them. Which makes me glad, since many deathrock groups have the problem of trying to imitate Christian Death and end up being lame copies. Very punky sound and their style reminds me of old horror movie or tv show soundtracks.
 


 
Pink Turns Blue
German Post-Punk band with a really melancholic mood, for which they are associated with the goth and darkwave scene. I really enjoy their earlier albums. They were active  from the late 80s to 90s and reunited in 2003.
 


 
Soror Dolorosa
Now a band where the Sisters comparisons may fit. Though sometimes they remind me more of Bauhaus. Like many other coldwave groups they are hailing from France and impress with their wonderful angsty post-punk tunes.
 
 
(I hope my video links are working, Firefox does not show me any videos >_>)

great fucking selection of bands yo
 
this is dope! for a great amount of time of my life I listened post punk non stop! still do!
 
The Sound
ho ho I just changed my icon to the album Jeopardy, what a coincidence
Anyways 1979 post punk band with great sounds and feeling to their music. A lot of comparison to Joy Division, but personally for first listeners, you'll might say that. I listen to them a lot and by now I can barely relate but say they're both post punk bands.
I can totally relate to the motivation that they were putting out to. I am totally sucked in to their music.
note: very overlooked band and never hit high popularity
 
This Heat
One of the most greatest bands I've ever listened to. Very relatable to me and MIND BLOWING!
They started in the late 70's post punk era creating the most horrific sounding music you'll hear. Though they arent really categorized any genre or type of music, but still hold some post punk into them. Experimental and industrial I see more as.
What I found interesting is that their motivation of music if from fear! During the time of the missile crisis, it was a horrifying impact to peoples minds. Which I can clearly hear from their music.
 
The Pop Group
Lets put some funk into punk haha Mark Stewart -lead singer- knows how to project this unkindly scary voice, which made it so amazing! one ofa kind haha the same fear and paranoia inspired to make this music. fuckin end of the world
oh boy such aggression to his voice and all the instruments combined. it was something I always wanted to project out and so this grabbed me very instantly.
 
got more bands to share

Oh damn, so many cool bands you guys mentioned!
 
@Des I remember you playing Linea Aspera on plug (this same song), I must check out more from them!
I haven't listened to Kokushoku Elegy before, but they sound nice. A bit like G-Schmitt maybe (also fantastic band).
 
@Bear Now I'm reminded how few of the classics I truly know, haha. xD Always wanted to check out early Christian Death and Damned tho. So glad you mentioned Beastmilk btw, absolutely amazing band! Can't wait for their new album as Grave Pleasures, I'm sure it will deliver.
 
@Ikna You're right I guess, SPA doesn't resemble the Sisters to a T of course, I just wrote it for lack of a better comparison (SPA sounds a bit more airy and electronic maybe?). Winter Severity Index sounds pretty fine, I must look into that later. Also, Catholic Spit are just excellent! Love them so much. Reminds me a lil' bit of my country's Rats Kill Bats (tho RKB aren't nearly as good).

Whaaaaaat, I can't believe I never listened to this album before. Thanks a bunch.

Samhain
Fans of Misfits and Danzing will be very familiar with these guys as this was one of Glenn Danzig's bands. There's some Misfits punk left in the sound, and Danzig's characteristic vocals are present, but musically Samhain was darker, more sombre, macabre and eerie than Misfits.
Listen
Listen
 
Christian Death
Christian Death' debut album, Only Theatre of Pain, is often considered THE deathrock album, and with good reason. I prefer Samhain to Christian Death myself, but this album, as well as the EP Deathwish, are must-haves for any fans of deathrock/gothic rock. Simple as that.
Listen
 
45 Grave
Cult band that should be familiar to anyone into the genre, or horror films actually. Best known for Partytime which was included on the cult classic The Return of the Living Dead.
Listen
 
The Damned
I can't say I am too familiar with this band, but Phantasmagoria is a total classic. Dark and eerie goth rock. Those vocals, man.
Listen
 
Beastmilk
A newer post-punk band who changed their name from Beastmilk to Grave Pleasures following the departure of their guitarist. Features Kvhost previously of Dødheimsgard, Code, Hexvessel and more. Superb band!
Listen

Samhain
Fans of Misfits and Danzing will be very familiar with these guys as this was one of Glenn Danzig's bands. There's some Misfits punk left in the sound, and Danzig's characteristic vocals are present, but musically Samhain was darker, more sombre, macabre and eerie than Misfits.
Listen
Listen
 
Christian Death
Christian Death' debut album, Only Theatre of Pain, is often considered THE deathrock album, and with good reason. I prefer Samhain to Christian Death myself, but this album, as well as the EP Deathwish, are must-haves for any fans of deathrock/gothic rock. Simple as that.
Listen
 
45 Grave
Cult band that should be familiar to anyone into the genre, or horror films actually. Best known for Partytime which was included on the cult classic The Return of the Living Dead.
Listen
 
The Damned
I can't say I am too familiar with this band, but Phantasmagoria is a total classic. Dark and eerie goth rock. Those vocals, man.
Listen
 
Beastmilk
A newer post-punk band who changed their name from Beastmilk to Grave Pleasures following the departure of their guitarist. Features Kvhost previously of Dødheimsgard, Code, Hexvessel and more. Superb band!
Listen

Samhain
Fans of Misfits and Danzing will be very familiar with these guys as this was one of Glenn Danzig's bands. There's some Misfits punk left in the sound, and Danzig's characteristic vocals are present, but musically Samhain was darker, more sombre, macabre and eerie than Misfits.
Listen
Listen
 
Christian Death
Christian Death' debut album, Only Theatre of Pain, is often considered THE deathrock album, and with good reason. I prefer Samhain to Christian Death myself, but this album, as well as the EP Deathwish, are must-haves for any fans of deathrock/gothic rock. Simple as that.
Listen
 
45 Grave
Cult band that should be familiar to anyone into the genre, or horror films actually. Best known for Partytime which was included on the cult classic The Return of the Living Dead.
Listen
 
The Damned
I can't say I am too familiar with this band, but Phantasmagoria is a total classic. Dark and eerie goth rock. Those vocals, man.
Listen
 
Beastmilk
A newer post-punk band who changed their name from Beastmilk to Grave Pleasures following the departure of their guitarist. Features Kvhost previously of Dødheimsgard, Code, Hexvessel and more. Superb band!
Listen

I'm surprised there isn't already a thread for this, but here it goes I guess! Let's use this wonderful space to share our love of post-punk, new wave, goth and deathrock bands (and any relevant subgenre like darkwave etc).   Be it old classics or newer recommendations, reminiscences or news/new releases, all is welcome!
 
Some cool stuff I'm spinnin' recently:
 
She Past Away - excellent minimalistic Sisters of Mercy-esque goth-wave-thingie from Turkey (they just released their 2nd full-length a couple of days ago).
 
Metro Cult - Danish band delivering synths and energetic post-punk with a darker shade, what can go wrong? (their debut EP was released today actually!)
 
Ceremony - apparently they began as a shoegaze band but their latest album is nothing but amazing Joy Division worship (okay, it's a bit more varied than that).
 
I wholeheartedly recommend the releases of Mass Media Records btw, awesome artists all around! Cemetery, Rule of Thirds, Shadowhouse and Lost Tribe are brilliant.

Finished Agent Carter today. Thought it was really good and lots of fun. Hayley Atwell is really impressive. Does a great job. Very much looking forward to season 2. 8/10

It's getting closer and closer to summer, and the weather is, at times at least, really nice. This, for me, means thrash metal and crossover. However, why the fuck did "all" the great thrash metal bands turn towards groove metal sooner or later? Some went down the groove lane early on, while some later, but a shitload of these thrash metal bands turned towards groove metal at one point. It's so fucking disgusting. Worst genre in history of music.
 
Sepultura with Chaos A.D. They've already lost me at Arise, but at least Arise is alright if nothing else. Chaos A.D. however is absolute trash. It's so bad.
Anthrax with Sound of White Noise and many of the albums that would come. Everything up until Persistence of Time is good, but then they got groovier and shittier.
Annihilator with King of the Hill. The quality dropped massively with their third album, Set the World on Fire, but it wasn't until The King of the Hill that the band turned really sour. From there on and until now the band has sucked so bad. Ew.
Sodom with Masquerade in Blood. While not proper groove metal, there's more than enough groove metal elements here to make me vomit. Awful album. Everything up till MiB was actually pretty good. But this album. Fucking hell.
Overkill with I Hear Black. The first four albums are amazing, the fifth is cool, then came I Hear Black and the band turned to shit. Shitty groove metal made for pussies, like groove metal in general. Crap.
Testament with Low. I only need Testament's debut album, but everything up until Low are pretty good. Low however, is low. Such a shitty album with plenty of groove metal thrown in. It's so god damn bad.
Slayer with Diabolus in Musica. I lost interest with the release of South of Heaven, and I think South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss and all the following albums are boring. But it was the groove metalinfluenced nu metal shit that is DiM that really turned these guys into a poor joke. Such an awful album.
Destruction with The Least Successful Human Cannonball and All Hell Breaks Loose. I lost interest in this band after Eternal Devastation, but both Release from Agony and Cracked Brain and fairly enjoyable albums. Then they turned groovy, and aside from The Antichrist which i enjoy, everything's been groove metal-influenced shit. Godawful.
Exodus with Force of Habit, but especially with Shovel Headed Kill Machine and the other albums with Rob Dukes. Force of Habit is groove metal influenced as fuck, and bad as well. But with Shovel Headed Kill Machine they took it all to a new level. After a close to perfect comeback (with one awful song, which hapens to be a groove/nu metal song) they turned sour with the groovy shit. Shame really.
Lääz Rockit with Left for Dead. A modern-sounding comeback album released in 2008. Groove metal from A to Å. Can't stand this piece of shit album.
Sacred Reich with Independent. The American Way was bad, but Independent was their low. Godawful album.
 
 
 
See a pattern here? While some bands had already become uninteresting, most of them didn't turn GODFUCKINGAWFUL until they went for a groove metal influenced sound, obviously very inspired by shit like 90's Pantera, Machine Head and the likes. It's seriously the worst genre ever. Ugh.

It's from the short film Shyness Machine Girl which was a featurette in the DVD release of The Machine Girl. It's somewhat a sequel to the film. Great little short it is, and The Machine GIrl is a full blown masterpiece. Highly recommended!
 
The director, Noboru Iguchi, is one of those batshit crazy directors. A mad scientist of films sort of. He know how to entertain, and he loves a weapon out of the ass.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
This song, video and everything is beyond god damn brilliant. The ultimate summer and beer song. The whole album is really good. It gives a great feeling.
 
Word up!