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You could try bands such as Gallowbraid, Fen, first Ulver, Empyrium, Alcest, Drudkh and even Woods of Ypres and Falloch, even though I think they suck.
 
But especially Gallowbraid are close to Agalloch, and Fen too, but they're a bit more blackish and less folkish. But the bands mentioned should interest you.

Halloween - What other film than Halloween could have been giving the honor of ending my October-horror fest? None. The best slasher of all time, and one of the best horror films ever. It's just too fucking good, this. Everything is perfect here to be honest. Brilliant. A masterpiece beyond words.
 
It's interesting how this was Jamie Lee Curtis' first film, but also her best performance and her best film ever. The Fog is second, and she did well in many years after. But the purity just suited the role so well. It was a perfect match. And she was beyond beautiful back then.
 
And Donald Pleasence. Faaaaaan-fucking-tastic!
 

 
 
 
 
Good night!

I've not seen it myself, but the poster catched my eye when I saw it on Netflix. Looks good judging from the poster.

For the South-American scene I've decided to only include death/black/thrash metal albums from the 80's. A bit easier than to include the early 90's as well. The most extreme "scene" of them all. Way, way ahead of everyone else as far as extreme music goes. Take Parabellum for instance. The two songs on Sacrilegio was pretty extreme when it was released in 87 and grindcoe and brutal crust punk were on the rise, but these songs were released already in 84, and they were performing them live around that time as well. That is absolutely insane. So, so, so many years ahead of its time.
 
1. Sepultura - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devestation
2. Vulcano - Bloody Vengeance
3. Sarcofago - INRI / Rotting
4. Mystifier - Tormenting the Holy Trinity
5. Pentagram - Pentagram
6. Mutilator - Immortal Force
7. Panic - Rotten Church
8. Holocausto - Campo de Extermínio
9.  Sextrash - XXX
10. Parabellum - Sacrilegio
 
 
Fantastic!

Most often it will come down to preference. While I do prefer De Mysteriis..., Live in Leipzig are one of the best live albums out there. Roughly produced that makes it sound as if the band is standing right in front of you when listening to it. Same with Krieg's Kill Yourself or Someone You Love and Iron Maiden's Live After Death. There's no overdubs or anything like that on these albums. These are pure live albums. This is how I prefer my live albums. "Live" albums such as Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous, Kiss' Alive II and Judas Priest's Unleashed In The East are fantastic albums, but they're not exactly live, are they? All have been fixed on in studio, some more than others. I want my live albums pure. I want them to give me an actual live feeling. Sadly, few live albums are capable of that.
 
Joined in Darkness is fantastic. You should check out Faustian Dawn / Within the Sylvan Realms of Frost as well. Just as good as Joined in Darkness IMO.

Definitely agreed there, Hellhammer and Attila both were magnificent. I've had the Leipzig/Mysteriis debate a few times and it always ends up as a agree to disagree on which one is "better". It really comes down to preference in this case, because the albums have very different characters 'spite sharing some of the songs. Attila really is amazing and the drumming is so tight that De Mysteriis comes off as meticulous and ambitious, the overall sound of the album being more "mature" if you will. The cover art is actually a pretty good depiction of what is sounds like. Leipzig on the other hand is very rough, sporadic and full of youthful energy with Dead's off-kilter performance and relentless Euro' riffing.  - But of course according to the general consensus of this forum Dead sucks because he couldn't win American Idol or perform like Pavarotti ( edit: originally wrote cover lolol ). Embarrassing. 
 
Downloaded Demoncy's Joined in Darkness which I surprisingly haven't had on my computer for years. Also going to give a memory refreshing spins to Musta Seremonia and Abhorrence. 
 
Just listened to Spring of Recovery and the Finnish sound is just what you described it. Very much prefer it over the Swedish and North American sound, though some American bands I really enjoy to this day as well on a semi-regular basis.
 
 

But that lineup is pretty awesome.
 
Bands I'd see for sure:
 
Dark Funeral playing Secrets of the Black Arts. Great album, and desite not being known as the best liveband around that must be awesome
Nokturnal Mortum
Melechesh
Sargeist
Cosmic Church
Demilich
Kawir
 
Bands I'd probably take a look at:
 
Asphyx
Temnozor
Ketzer
 
That's pretty awesome IMO.
 
 
 
Also, I can see you don't waste your time on mediocre music. Good shit. And the peel sessions are great. I think Bolt Thrower's The Peel Sessions 1988-90 are my favourite among all the peel sessions. Thin Lizzy's The Peel Sessions is also fantastic and among the best there is/was. Another bands I've really gotten into as of late. Got some free Thin Lizzy LPs and decided it was about time I actually checked them out properly. Great band! Really, really good.
 
 
And I prefer De Mysteriis... to Live in Leipzig.  Attila is so much better than Dead. I like Dead, but he lacks a bit of character IMO. Attila's ghastly vocals suited the De Mysteriis... songs better and have a lot more character as well, and the drum sound on De Mysteriis, especially the toms, sounds amazing. Best drum sound ever.
 
And Archgoat have released way better albums than Angelcunt.. Both full-lenghts are better IMO. More bestial and savage.

My favorite from the Finnish scene is Demilich by far, everything they released. I'm trying to go to one of their shows next year http://www.steelfest.fi/ I don't really care about anything else on the lineup, but I'll try to catch Nokturnal Mortum if I get the chance and maybe even Anaal spite the horrible drabness of their output as of late. They're great live despite the fact that I don't like their music.
 
There's one list that I can do on a whim and that's the metal I've been playing for the past year.
 
Napalm Death's Peel Sessions album. Easily my favorite Napalm Death release and one of my all time favorite metal releases in general. From Enslavement to Obliteration is obviously genius too but stuff like the Godflesh sounding intro on Multi-National Corporations is hard to top. 
 
Peel sessions releases in general are the shit like the Extreme Noise Terror and Godflesh ones, which I've also been listening to on occasion. 
 
Mayhem's Live in Leipzig. Same as above, favorite Mayhem and one of my all time greats. This is the production I thought fit Mayhem the best and Dead is phenomenal in it. Right now De Mysteriis sounds very sterile and studio to me and the energy of the of the live recordings is sorely missed. 
 
Sarcofago, Profanatica and Beherit. I never get tired of these. Highlights of the genre and very inspirational. 
 
Incantation's Onward To Golgotha and Massacra's Final Holocaust. More long time favorites that have stuck around. I'd actually like to know what you think of Incantation since I don't recall us ever talking about them. 
 
Demigod's Unholy Domain and Archgoat's Angelcunt EP's. Both bands peaked in these and I rarely if ever venture beyond them.

Yeah, that's actually not a bad idea. I'll see what I can dig up. I doubt I'm familiar with anything old school that's not very known, though.
 
You do that, boy. God Macabre are one of my all-time favourite death metal acts. It sounds Swedish as fuck, but still very unique. They make me think of Candlemass a lot.
 
 
This is probably my top 10 from the Finnish death metal scene. And as with the Swedish, I've included compilations with material from the early 90's, even if they were released in 2014.
 
1. Abhorrence - Completely Vulgar
2. Rippikoulu  - Musta seremonia
3. Adramelech - Spring of Recovery
4. Disgrace - 1990
5. Necropsy - Tomb of the Forgotten - The Complete Demo Recordings
6. Convulse - World Without God
7. Depravity - Silence of the Centuries
8. Anguish - Ground Absorbs
9. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
10. Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation 
 
The rating isn't completely right, though. Depravity could be higher, but I am too lazy to fix it. Anyway, Finland had a very strong scene, just like Sweden had and it's a shame they mostly remained underground. It's not really any worse than the Swedish to be honest. The classic Finnish sound to me, with bands such as Abhorrence, Convulse, Depravity, Disgrace, Necropsy, were a lot more putrid and macabre than the Swedish and American. It's simply more graveyard and crypt, if you get what I mean. Lots of brilliant stuff. Demilich and Demigod deserves a place on the list too of course, but with so many good bands it's hard to choose which one to add and which one not to add. Impossible.
 
And, Finland also has a few newer bands that have given us top notch death metal. Krypts released some fantastic stuff. I was let down by the debut album which was less Finnish than the demos and EP, but it wasn't bad. It just lacked the macabre twists of their demo and EP. And Swallowed have released some amazing demos and a quality EP, and they just released their debut album whih is immense. I hear a lot of Beherit, Teitanblood and Cultes des Ghouls in the new album, as well as Autopsy and especially Abhorrence. Sounds like an almost perfect album.
 
 
And you, Disposeable? Any favourites from the different scenes?

I went to my first double feature at the movie theater yesterday, and as already said I watched Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens and Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. What an awesome experience. They both looked, and even more impotantly in enie Symphonie's case, sounded massive.
 
Also, they started off with a "trailer" for Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. I thought they had put on the wrong film at first, but it was just a "trailer". Majestic, haunting music over some well-plased stills from the film. Worked extremely well and sent chills down my spine.
 
 
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens - A most people know I consider this to be the best horror film ever made. It's the most haunting film ever made, and to me, the most scary film ever made. It doesn't surprise you with jump scares or anything, but Max Schreck is absolutely terrifying, intimidating and threatening as Count Orlok, and F.W. Murnau knew exactly how to create a creepy, mystic and thick atmosphere, and together these two elements (Max Schreck and the atmosphere), together with the nightmarish, cold and wicked visuals creates something extremely scary, at least to me. As with many horror films during the late silent era (last 15 yeas of it) it's very nightmarish and wicked becaue of how it is shot, and this is something of a lost art. I don't really know what to say. Majestic, mystic, dark, cold, creepy, evil, scary. That's the words I'll use to describe this film.
 
Th soundtrack, which is extremely important for the film, isn't the best soundtrack out there. But they've got one which manage to tell the story by itself, and together with the film it just strenghtens every single image throughout its 94 runtime.
 
Every single shot with Count Orlok in it is absolutely fantastic and could be used as the coolest oster ever. Most memorable and scary scenes ever. Being a silent film you'll have to talk alot with your body language, and I think Max Screck did this perfectly. Best thing ever!
 
This film is is the prime example of what a symphony of horror is. This film IS horror. Grim, eerie, dark, cold and terrifying.
 

 
 
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht - Based on the same story as Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, and it pays obvious homage to the mentioned film, but it's still a very different film. Unlike in Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, Dracula here feels less terrifying, intimidating and threatening, and comes off as a hurt, lonely and haunted creature with a lot of sadness buried on the inside. Doomed to immortality with no such thing as love in his life. That's what I'd say the main differene is. This isn't so much a symphony of horror as Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, despite its very grim, cold and dark atmosphere. Klaus Kinski is amazing as Dracula, the soundtrack is MASSIVE and everything is great to be honest.
 
It's simply a more beautiful film than Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, but it lacks the pure horror and terror from it, and despite Klaus Kinski's brilliant performance and look, he isn't quite as good as Max Schreck, nor does he look as good. Or move around as good, but he didn't need to either. But I love his body language. The way he talks, the way he moves his arms, the way he runs. It's amazing.
 

Similar in what way? As in horror-comedy ala this, or meta-horror ala this? If you're looking for meta-horror, then Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Peeping Tom, Scream, Zombieland, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Shaun of the Dead and Resolution.
 
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and Shaun of the Dead are probably the closest, as they're horror-comedies, much in the vein of The Cabin in the Woods. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon are the closest-closest. Fantastic film. Sadly underrated and overlooked by most.
 
 
Good to see some mroe activity on here today.

Grave Encounters - The Blair Witch Project meets Paranormal Activity. This film is doomed to become a cultfilm just like The Blair Witch Project. It's got everything to take that status. I thought it was an enjoyable film, but not a masterpiee or anything. Great atmoshere, but never scary or anything to me, but my girlfriend jumped a couple of times, though. The thing I really liked is the amount of humour it's got, much because of how real the character feel. And it's not the type of funny moments that are just thrown in, it's funny moments because of the reactions by the characters, and if you've ever been scared at night when walking over/past a graveyard or visiting an old, abandoned house, you'll know what I talk about. They come off as really genuine, and that adds to how real everything feels.
 
So yea, I really liked this film.
 

A Field in England - Black & white film from 2013. Most who see this will probably think "huh? How is this horror? This is just 90 minutes of pretentious bullshit". Understandable, but it's folk horror and to me it's about the atmosphere. Occult, haunting and devilish atmosphere that's thicker than meself, and the surrealism adds to the fun here. Some proper weird moments in the film. This is what you get if you blend the more psychedelic films of the 60's with the folk horrorof the 70's. I get some serious Onibaba-vibe from this film. A drama film with very few minutes of horror to it, yet when it ends it feels as if you've watched a proper horror film.
 
The acting is brilliant and the cinematography even better. Outstanding!
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By the way. My plans for today:
 
12:30-16:15 - work
16:15-19:00 - Get some food and fuck around to get the time to go faster
19:00 - cinema 1: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
21:00 - cinema 2: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
 
 
Oh yes! Gonna be good.
 
Oh, and this weekend I am gonna watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the cinema. Ooooooh yeah!

Grave Encounters - The Blair Witch Project meets Paranormal Activity. This film is doomed to become a cultfilm just like The Blair Witch Project. It's got everything to take that status. I thought it was an enjoyable film, but not a masterpiee or anything. Great atmoshere, but never scary or anything to me, but my girlfriend jumped a couple of times, though. The thing I really liked is the amount of humour it's got, much because of how real the character feel. And it's not the type of funny moments that are just thrown in, it's funny moments because of the reactions by the characters, and if you've ever been scared at night when walking over/past a graveyard or visiting an old, abandoned house, you'll know what I talk about. They come off as really genuine, and that adds to how real everything feels.
 
So yea, I really liked this film.
 

You should do Finnish because that's probably the only one where I could maybe come up with a top 10 list myself. 
 
It's been so long since I've gone through a lot of the Swedish "essentials" that I don't really know how they would hold up for me now years later, though I know for sure that I'd vouch for the first AtG, Nihilist, Left Hand Path and Merciless. I've probably heard everything with some profile, but it has been probably close to years now since I did that. My memory isn't all that good either and I probably wouldn't have been able to even name ten bands from the top of my head if I was put to a spot.
 
Tonight I was going to refresh my memory on Nirvana 2002 and God Macabre but I got distracted and opted for Sarcofago, Blasphemy and Beherit instead. Tomorrow I'll try to go through some demos.

Neither. I find both to be equally awful. I don't listen to this band outside of 13's Reborn and their earliest singles and EPs, however I do still give every new release a proper chance. Don't know why I do this, as it's been pretty obvious for some years that they'e not gonna make anything for me again. Everything after the mediocre self-titled album contains close to no good riffs, and if there's any good riffs there they're hidden behind an awful production, boring vocals, borings drumming and dreadful electronic elements. Yeah, not my cup of tea.

Been listening a lot to Swedih death metal lately and thught I'd try to make a top 10 list of best albums released before 1995. Just for fun. I'm sure I could've changed the last five for five other albums with no problem. It's just too many great albums released around that time. Had I made a best swedish death metal albums ever-list I would've included the debut albums of Morbus Chron and Death Breath and demos of Vampire and Beastiality as well.
 
1. Nihilist - (1987-1989)
2. God Macabre - The Winterlong...
3. Merciless - The Awakening
4. Entombed - Left Hand Path
5. Carnage - Dark Recollections
6. Nirvana 2002 - Recordings 89-91
7. Toxaemia - Buried to Rise: 1990-1991 Discography
8. Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
9. At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
10. Therion - Of Darkness....
 
 
When I get home tonight I will try to make a top 10 for the american scene as well, just for fun. Maybe try a top 10 thrash from around the world as well. US/Germany/rest of the world or something.

This man, guys. Beast.

This. Fantastic band, and one of the best "jrock" bands ever. Everything's great.
 
 
The title is dreadful. Or, the use of capital letters is. Ew.

Awesome! I'm always looking forward to a new Merry album.
 
 
And I am still waiting for them to release an album in the vein of the two cover songs on Gekisei. It's about time, though this won't be it.

This man, guys. Beast.

Yeah, no problem. Both EPs are fantastic, but Rays of Darkness are my favourite so far. Stunning release.
 
Mono playing in Oslo in a month. I need to see if I can go there. I have yet to see the band live. Ugh, it'll hurt if I can't go this time either.

Sounds awesome. Great films only. I love The Omen, as long as it's the original one. Fantastic film.
 
 
 
 
Tenebre - One of Dario Argento's best films, which says a lot. I think I prefer both Suspiria and Profondo Rosso over this, but those two are more or less perfect, so that doesn't mean this ain't great. Because it is. It's a truely great film. It's a very standard giallo, stylish as fuck and suspenseful, but it does have a bit of complexity that you don't see too often in these films. The story is damn good, the characters and actors are great, it's visually stunning as always and it's topped off with one of the best soundtracks ever made, a soundtrack that might be Goblin's best ever album, which says a lot considering this is one of the best bands ever.
 
Rarely have murder been as fantastic and stylish as in this film. Great violence.
 
By the way, am I the only one who gets a sci-fi feeling from this film? I can't quite put my finger on it, but I get a very futuristic feel from it. I also gets massive film noir-vibes from it.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Also, on the 30th I'll watch a horror film, or most likely two, at the cinema. I can't wait! I've been waiting for this my whole life.

Had a kind of all-day horror marathon with some friends today (Halloween approaching and whatnot). Lots of pizza and beer and weird candy have been had by all ... and of course some classic horror movies!
 
We went in chronological order and started off with The Omen which I hadn't seen before, interestingly enough. It was nice and all, maybe not the most suitable film for a booze-filled day with lots of laughs tho. xD Next up was Re-Animator awww yeahhh, still as great as ever. I wanna marry Jeffrey Combs' character in the non-gayest way imaginable. Then came The Fly (the Cronenberg remake obviously), an excellent exercise in body horror. And to top it all off, Hellraiser. Not much to say, other than it's still one of my top fave horror flicks.
 
All in all, a cool Saturday!

Fuck, what an underrated band. Terror Squad's debut is a semi-technical deathy thrash metal assault with lots of twist and turns, and the second album is a lot more progressive, punky, avant-garde and technical. Both fantastic albums! Crushing stuff. One of the most original bands within the thrash metal genre ever. No idea why they haven't made a bigger name for themself after 22 years. Such a shame, really. Took me a while to get into Chaosdragon Rising, because it is a hard listen for being thrash metal, but it's a great album. Their debut, The Wild Stream of Eternal Sin, is a lot better though. Masterpiece!
 
 

 
Fuckin' poserz are dancin' in out sight
No frillz! Gonna fight tonite!
If ya' wanna dance, say ya' prayer
You'll feel our edge of razor
DISCO BLOODY DISCO !!!
We are experts of Budo
Bang ya' head, no chance to say no!
Draw pentagram on the floor!!!
All you dancerz are ritual sacrifice
Good-bye to ya' life, say ya' prayer
We scream our slogan, "FUCK THE DISCO!!!"
We're iron hotfrd
We're possessed of beerz'n'rock'n'roll!!
We're ya' last dance partnerz, shall we?

Set the wild fire!
Burn down the disco!!! Poser'z grave
We beat the beatz of unholy rock'n'roll!
Metal night fever!
Don't shake ya hip, just bang ya' head!
Draw the 666!
On head of poserz! Yyyeeeaaahhh!!!
 
Bleedin! Screamin! We spit on poser'z face!
Bloody party! Last dance to death
Wear the leater! Girlz! Put on leopard skirt!
Die hard metal!
Burning!! Burning!!

We are poservampire, pleasure is blood of foe
Hear our scream rom black soul
Bloody unholy rrroooaaarrr!!!
Burn the picture of Travolta!!
All disco in this world will end by this final war
All wimpy dancerz! Feel the firrreeeggghh!!!

Solo: Murder Machine
 
Attack the D.J. booth oh yeah!!! Burn the recordz of Bee- Geez
Play the Venom recordz "Welcome To Hell"!
Sodom! Satan! Angel Witch!!!
"Pure Filth"! Mighty Warfare!! Voivod! "Thrashing Rage"!
Hellhammer! Celtic Frost! Kreator!
At War! Zoetrope "Kill The Enemy"!!!
Don't Forget Artillery!! Don't ya' know?! Go fuck ya'self!
"Bestial Invasion" Of Destruction! Sabbat! "Black Fire"! Terror Squad!
Bulldozer! Dark Angel! Exciter! Luli! "Got Killed"!
Play The Raven! "Rock Unil You Drop"!!
Carnivore! Whiplash! "Power & Pain"!
Sacrifice! Possessed! Bathory! Nasty Savage! "No Simpathy"!!
Yeah!! "Evil Invaderz"! Razor!
Cheek time dance with Countess Bathory!!!

Solo: Waltz For Nemesis

WWWOOORRRGGGHHH!!!
DISCO BLOODY DISCO!!!
You're victim of razor!!
Dance ya'last dance and say bye to ya' youth. And Pray!
Adios! Adieu!! Poserz! We squeeze outa tearz oh yeah!!
 
Dancerz! Here comes the night of tragedy!!
Just only danced. But under the guillotine!
Sons of Satan! We're possessed beast
Death leather army! We're eternal heresy!
Deeds of iron command to you. Bang ya' head
If ya' don't obey our rule, ya' must die in this inferno!!!
TOTAL HOLOCAUST IN THE DISCOTHEQUE!

Set the wild fire!!
Burn down the disco!! Poser'z grave
We beat the beatz of unholy rock'n'roll!
Metal night ranger!!
Don't shake yaìhip, just bang your head!
Draw the 666!
On head of poserz yyyeeeaaahhh!!!
 
 
 
 
I love the lyrics to the song. I like disco too, but it's fantastic anyway. Sooooo cheesy, but that's a part of metal, innit? And I love how many bands and albums they put into the lyrics. Always nice with a homage to bands that influenced you.