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Metal / Re: Anu, and refusing to evolve Black Metal beyond its capability.
« on: July 28, 2012, 07:11:38 AM »Every "new" Black Metal act seems to be scrambling to try and reinvent the genre and breathe new life into it, whereas I think Anu realized that there's no need for this. Anu's biggest criticism from people seems to be "Oh well there's nothing really innovative about it" - well, that's exactly what entranced me about their live set. There was nothing innovative about it, at all.
I tend to disagree with this. There's a veritable legion of Black Metal bands who do nothing new and pride themselves for it, they're even marketed for it. I have no idea as to the band in questions quality, but being "nothing new" is nothing new. I for one WOULD like to see Black Metal expand, no not by adding in a fuckton of various incompatible genres or the destruction and dissection of its spirit, but by bringing its complexity and evocative power even closer to classical music while keeping its spirit and warlike assertion intact.
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Chasm / Re: Love songs
« on: July 28, 2012, 06:55:14 AM »
And you require it in a few months, here is a creepy ode to desertion and obsession: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH7HjHUaNog
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Chasm / Re: Is there a bit of this degenerate in all of us?
« on: July 28, 2012, 06:52:50 AM »Finally. A bit of gratuitous culture.
I like you. If you are a sham I shall be eternally disappointed.
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Chasm / Re: Is there a bit of this degenerate in all of us?
« on: July 28, 2012, 06:51:03 AM »
Interesting. I know someone who displays some of these tendencies, so its nice to get some more of an insight into this mode of behaviour.
My synopsis; she understands that things around her are degenerate, or more accurately, of a false and corrupt nature, but she responds to them by dropping out of society and reveling in the basest levels of this degeneracy, instead of attempting to actually try opposing/surviving it. She recognizes that "growing up" is the destruction of values and your assimilation into a mindless world of endless consummation, but it seems her only antidote to this is meaningless sex, and again, total indulgence in the basest pleasures. Even though she's obviously of some intelligence her worldview seems quite binary; "I prefer to talk to smart guys, but like all girls, I prefer to be fucked by STUPID ones. It's because they fuck better than you dorky, timid, question-asking, hesitant, apologetic nerds", we are not applicable to this kind of worldview, we are pragmatists, we strive to be as Ulysses. Therefore, when Anus comes up at her blog it seems she doesn't quite know what to make of it, of course someone like that would consider Metal crappy, it is music that recalls victory and glorious, violent, self-assertion.
I feel she tries too hard to be the enlightening perverted saviour to her pet demographic, the so called "geeks". To anyone that already realizes that society is going to hell, the value to be taken away from this is non-existent, save the sadness that comes with the realization that were this a different kind of society she might have done great things. This is the result of a world that values corruption over strength of character or intelligence, those who may carry them in the beginning are either assimailated into form or drop out of society. Maybe we can change that.
My synopsis; she understands that things around her are degenerate, or more accurately, of a false and corrupt nature, but she responds to them by dropping out of society and reveling in the basest levels of this degeneracy, instead of attempting to actually try opposing/surviving it. She recognizes that "growing up" is the destruction of values and your assimilation into a mindless world of endless consummation, but it seems her only antidote to this is meaningless sex, and again, total indulgence in the basest pleasures. Even though she's obviously of some intelligence her worldview seems quite binary; "I prefer to talk to smart guys, but like all girls, I prefer to be fucked by STUPID ones. It's because they fuck better than you dorky, timid, question-asking, hesitant, apologetic nerds", we are not applicable to this kind of worldview, we are pragmatists, we strive to be as Ulysses. Therefore, when Anus comes up at her blog it seems she doesn't quite know what to make of it, of course someone like that would consider Metal crappy, it is music that recalls victory and glorious, violent, self-assertion.
I feel she tries too hard to be the enlightening perverted saviour to her pet demographic, the so called "geeks". To anyone that already realizes that society is going to hell, the value to be taken away from this is non-existent, save the sadness that comes with the realization that were this a different kind of society she might have done great things. This is the result of a world that values corruption over strength of character or intelligence, those who may carry them in the beginning are either assimailated into form or drop out of society. Maybe we can change that.
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Chasm / Re: International Day of Slayer -- June 6, 2011
« on: June 05, 2012, 08:04:43 PM »
TOMORROW, DON'T FORGET
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Audiofile / Re: Requests
« on: May 13, 2012, 07:21:10 PM »
Needs to be re-uploaded:
Bathory
Johann Sebastian Bach- The Art of the Fugue(Die Kunst Der Fuge)
Requests:
Crucifixion- Desert of Shattered Hopes
Jordi Savall- The Medieval Fiddle
Modest Mussorgsky- Night on Bare Mountain
Mystifier- Wicca and Goetia
Bathory
Johann Sebastian Bach- The Art of the Fugue(Die Kunst Der Fuge)
Requests:
Crucifixion- Desert of Shattered Hopes
Jordi Savall- The Medieval Fiddle
Modest Mussorgsky- Night on Bare Mountain
Mystifier- Wicca and Goetia
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Metal / Re: Old Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Satyricon, and Kvist.
« on: May 03, 2012, 02:16:51 AM »This is the timeless style and at least for myself it will never get old regardless of updates and revisions. Every time I hear the medieval/romantic/symphonic style done right I'm utterly displaced for that time period. A lot of good bands mentioned here with subtle differences from the ITNSE standard.
Yeah, this is the Black Metal I first got into; mid 90's, quasi-symphonic, sorta complex, sometimes ridiculous and really, the last major development within the genre.
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Metal / Re: My Bloody Valentine compilation of unreleased material
« on: May 03, 2012, 02:03:08 AM »
So what about this band appeals to Hessians? I don't understand, though I do enjoy Loveless.
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Metal / Re: Best death metal
« on: May 03, 2012, 01:59:54 AM »At the Gates- The Red in the Sky Is Ours
Atrocity- Todessehnsucht
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Carcass- Reek of Putrefaction
Carnage - Dark Recollections
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Deicide - Legion
Deicide - Deicide
Demigod - Slumber of the Sullen Eyes
Demilich - Nespithe
Disembowelment - Transcendence into the Peripheral
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Gorguts- Obscura
Gorement- My Ending Quest
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Immolation - Close to a World Below
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Massacra - Final Holocaust
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel- Blessed Are the Sick
Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity
Necrodeath- Into the Macabre
Necrophobic - Satanic Blasphemies
Necrophobic- The Nocturnal SIlence
Nihilist - Nihilist (1987-1989)
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Possessed - Seven Churches
Ripping Corpse- Draming With the Dead
Seance- Fornever Laid to Rest
Septic Flesh- Mystic Places of Dawn
Sepultura- Bestial Devastation
Sinister- Cross the Styx
Sinister - Diabolical Summoning
Sororicide- The Entity
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Timeghoul- Panoramic Twilight and Tumultuous Travelings(it counts godammit)
Removed more than I added, I try.
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Metal / Re: Alternate paths
« on: April 14, 2012, 06:52:18 PM »
On a theoretical level however, it could be said that this statement is almost irrefutably true. Embracing the values upheld by the DLA (quantity > quality, composition just as or even more important than aesthetics, Philosophy in art etc.), would equate with artists being more wary and inclined to go in-depth with their work, most probably eliminating the contemporarily persisting trends of laziness and superficiality. These values would also most likely alienate the masses, thus forcing them to turn elsewhere for their entertainment.
The above could be expanded upon to a great degree, but this is all that I can contribute as of now.
The problem that lies with the theoretical; there is a disconnect between what otherwise intelligent people know they should, or could do, and what they actually do. We are uninspired.
I also find Averse Sefira to be one of the last great bands in Black Metal.
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Chasm / Re: New venture
« on: April 14, 2012, 06:42:59 PM »Why not take what's good in everyone and leave the rest? If there's nothing good in aspergers, why wasting time about them? There is so much more in life. Apparently not for everyone.
Why not take the thread as it is intended and laugh? We should not discourage humour in the most unlikeliest of places.
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Parnassus: Rapidshare, Blogspot, Megaupload
Parnassus
Parnassus - Let the Stars Fall and the Kingdom Come (1997, Mediafire)
Parnassus
Parnassus - Let the Stars Fall and the Kingdom Come (1997, Mediafire)
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Metal / Re: Burzum - Umskiptar
« on: March 31, 2012, 09:17:40 PM »The re-recordings album was embarrassingly terrible...
Is he just trying to generate some revenue at this point? Is it even worth the money? Fenriz has the same notoriety but still works at the post office so it can't be that much income.
If not then what makes a good artist turn to shit? You could argue that his time in prison crushed his spirit but even before that he seemed pretty depressive.
The atmosphere in all these new albums is fucking garbage. Dunno how he went from having such a good sound to this new stuff which comes across like hes just running off some bad stock presets on his gear.
I think this is a major possibility. I don't imagine he can find a job anywhere, given his past, so I suppose this is his job now, tarnishing the memory of his art by dumbing it down for the dumb modern black metal consumer. Rather ironic it seems.
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Metal / Re: Burzum - Umskiptar
« on: March 31, 2012, 09:13:20 PM »
I was hoping that this at least had a possibility of being good. Perhaps i'm a fool for trying to believe otherwise, especially when the truth is right before me.
Is it even worth downloading?
Is it even worth downloading?
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Black Metal destroyed itself pretty horribly though.
What genre didn't? Death Metal devolved into parody and lost all its mystery. Thrash/speed castrated itself in the 90's either by doing nothing new, or becoming alt. rock/metal.