Metal has been a ruin since 1994, but a handful of acts show that there is some life in the corpse, and Solips from Asgrauw shows great promise with its melodic high energy black metal.
Riffs take inspiration from not only early Graveland but early Necrophobic and Sacramentum, showing a talent for writing melody lines that become expansive over time and counterpoint the stirring rage of the rhythmic patterning.
Songs feel more like death metal in composition, in that they rage through a series of alterations to a verse-chorus structure in order to drop the listener back into an early riff so that it feels completely alien and new.
Tags: asgrauw, Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal
There’s surprising musical competence happening here that goes beyond merely “decent stuff, but nothing memorable”. Weird that I never heard of this band.
Same. Previous albums were not as compact, but show promise as well. I have sent in an interview request, so let us hope to hear more from this band.
Adding to this: not to be confused with the super generic all-girl bm band “Asagraum” from the same country, who only got famous for that reason alone.
And yet they never send me nudes, or better yet, feet pictures…
I have to reiterate again that most bands have no business existing, it’s mostly an attention/belonging/theatrical whore fest rather than making actual good music. I’m beginning to think that 99% of the metal scene has little to do with musical quality, and more about some social club mentality similar to rock music which is the opposite where I stand.
Lol me too bud
This says it all. It is a social event, not a musical one.
bro…
https://stonetoss.com/boobs-butt-feet-comic/
Besides, ass is the real deal!
Grown men prefer ass
“Only ASS is TRUE!” — Paul Ledney
Is proctology the dream job you never had?
I looked into it. There is actually not as much fisting as I had hoped.
Arguably one of the best releases to roll across this site in the last five years, and people have nothing to say?
Fucking cowards. Metrosexuals. Miscegenated Christians.
Meh, too saccharine. Can’t take this sort of overmelodic wispy black metal beyond what the original bands were doing in the 90s.
assgrab is my new favorite band so fucking good the drums go wabbity babbity boo vocals sound like beer and leftover sushi farts
Shut up, I’m trying to listen to it right now!
Meh, too saccharine. Can’t take this sort of overmelodic wispy black metal beyond what the original bands were doing in the 90s.
PATRICK PEARSE PLEASE KILL YOURSELF
I don’t dress
Black metal death metal speed ECT
BECAUSE IM D boed lone shark fucked over BY NAGGERS SPICS MAGGOTS FAGGOT SLIPKNOT FAGS AND LEFTIST DICKS AND NEWS FLASH DUMB SHITS LIKE YOU…
IM MORE METAL THAN BRETT SOMETIMES…
Black Hawaiian death metal rap can work Right Stevens?
And they trans pretty guys can get it don’t right?
YOU WHITE FAGTURD
ANYWAY
HOW CAN ALL
LEFTIST
RAPPERS
RAP ROCK BANDS BE…
KILLED BRETT?
OR SENT TO BRAZIL IR MEXICO?
SO SAYS
the tanystrophues terrorsaltopus grippiacutioners
Tylosaurus prime raprockzilla
Supersaurus villain metal
Thalassomedon tickgodceratops police
Any way we can clone dead actresses to fuck hard and ride our cocks bottomless on toilets huh?
Why can’t we ai draw actresses taking a shit or sucking cock anymore huh?
Can a black Hawaiian Polish jew adapt to Africa huh?
Can I kill RAPPERS and get away with it?
Or will the government fuck me over? Can I create sluts in secret huh?
DOLLY PARTON IS OVERRATED BY THE WAY….nice rack tho huh brett hahahaha!!!!
I appreciate the work of Dolly Parton, but I do not choose to listen to it! Oddly, this is true of almost all country music, even Hank Sr who is quite good as a songwriter but, aesthetically and on a personal level, not my thing. Except the REM cover of “King of the Road.”
Dolly is WASP America’s aunt and not the box wine, barren womb kind who croaks alone with a dozen cats that eat her glassy eyes.
She had an inspiring life story and seemed to give away a lot of money. I think we all prefer her to the crasser and more self-centered types which followed. Who needs another narcissistic gender-bender rock star? The model itself is old and tired, staggering out of the late 1960s with Boomer pretense and vitriol.
Wattie’s vocals is what spoils it as well as any reverence for punk, which is overrated. Like intrusion of any other genre, which otherwise we also tend to like besides metal (the other good example being prog rock), it always reinjects this sort of ambiguity, which drags metal down. And Asgrauw reaches its heights especially when it is in full black metal mode, so it feels that it would be for the best if they would conduct in that manner all the time.
It’s not that there’s punk in there – e.g. Ildjarn – it’s just executed with too much grandiosity for the riffing style.
Riffs are grandiose, alright. It’s just that punk always fucks with the rigour, the ramification, the intent, the spirit of the music. Ildjarn had punkish riffs, but I feel that we are saying that only because it’s hard to compare it to anything else, that level of simplicity. I simply don’t…hmm…feel, I guess, punk in Ildjarn at all.
Punk is still too invested in the 1960s ideology of making ugliness; metal makes beauty out of ugliness.
That and, almost by nature, less humane perspective, whereas with punk, no matter how unimaginably extreme it might be, it’s more performative. All that abrasiveness is but a paradoxical mean to express dehumanisation or injustice from a very moralistic standpoint (be it proletarian or bourgeoisie).
I’ve said it before, but punk is basically dance music. If I was given a choice to listen to either only metal or punk for the rest of my life, it would be metal without a doubt. It’s just more advanced music for more advanced minds. And here I mean within the context of the classics (I always do). Not whatever garbage passes for metal or punk to people who have no philosophical nuance under their belt. It would suck to never hear Flipper or The Weirdos ever again. But the things that really matter in punk are contained in metal, and I can dance to metal too.
You know, danceable songs in fully developed death and black metal is something that corsses my mind quite often. It does not denigrate said songs by any means, but gives yet another dimension to them.
Maybe it’s just because I keep listening to World Downfall…even getting it into my head to revisit Utopia Banished (it’s been a while)…
Ildjarn is an unusually pronounced example and that’s why I chose it, but I guess I just disagree, because I hear punk in early Bathory, trilogy Darkthrone, Profanatica. It’s not exactly pervasive but it is there, and it rings different from say DMDS or ITNE where we’ve left that all behind for structures from heavy metal, chamber and ambient music. The former stuff is presented with less of this like heady atmospheric nuance than the latter and it would sound silly otherwise, which is what’s happening with asgrauw in my opinion. Playing melodies and rhythms for body music but adding this astral layer that I can’t take seriously. And none of this touches on the kazoo test which almost everything fails at anyway. You know what doesn’t? First Witchfinder General.
You may be a more sophisticated bot than the “hawaiian negro bitches” bot that Brett the semi-bot almost always seems to respond to in the most hilariously stoic/serious way, but even you can short-circuit.
Last I checked, this is supposed be a haven for humans, but it seems the infection runs deep even until here. It’s understandeable that novice programmers want to test their creations in unmoderated spaces like soulseek or almost freedom of speech platforms like here, as opposed to overly moderated spaces like discord, where nothing is allowed and therefore no room for growth… but nevertheless you’re not feeling me.
And don’t try to overly justify how human you are after this, I’ve seen it before, you’re going to either quit or short-circuit even more.
[That poster] is a hero who went to jail rather than back down on his statement that Korn and nu-metal are in fact total blight that should be redacted.
Pixels jails don’t count, even if Kr0n is your favorite band of all time.
Whatever dumbass, that guy is one of the real ones here, and you’re whining about absolutely nothing the way my girlfriend does when she’s hungry
Come un bottard, you can do better that, let’s scream into the void.
MORE HARDCORE PUNK!
whatever the fuck that means..
Yeah yeah nothing means anything, until youre puking out your ass knee deep in the bay and Sully’s been up for days waiting for an opportune moment to jump you, to assert his masculinity, anything to distract himself from the burning in his loins and butterflies in his stomach when he sees you. Hell, they called me a savage for ordering two patties with Swiss. I would have eaten 6 of them. I already ate 15 eggs. How many men have I shown to be fags? You’d be surprised, if you saw me, heart shaped pool, cum chunks and a nice camping spot down the hill and on the other side of the ravine, this woman was twice my age, and three times as fun, which is saying something. 5 days awake, dont chase the dragon, just put it up your nose, pretty soon the parking lot looks like an entire town, no wonder these guys can put up with it; still, they think I’m gonna steal their girl, steak from the salvation army, nope, I hang out at goodwill and meet chemists wearing nothing but a dirty comforter and claims to be able to make liquid crystals out of anything. We had sugarcubes for weeks. I usually just said if you shit the fuck up I’ll consider that payment. Never had to tell that to the Hatter, now theres a real man, couldn’t tell time, like Gary the 11 acre hoarder couldn’t read. Meanest butch if a mother I ever saw, when the stupid kids sang their songs at the end of the road and made a pile of chicken feathers, she said ‘let them speak’. In that moment I realized that there was a time, long ago, when she must have been beautiful, and intelligent and wild. Weird that, the masters people choose and die for.
Punk aimed for emotions, metal aimed for aesthetics. Lots of good punk from hardcore guys: Cro-Mags, Amebix, Discharge, The Exploited. Then the hybrid in thrash: DRI, COC, Cryptic Slaughter, Suicidal Tendencies. In death metal you had punkish material like Comecon and Cerebral Fix; in black metal, of course, you had punkish bands like Impaled Nazarene and Blasphemy. Nevar forget that Bathory is probably more Motorhead than anything else since both Axel and Lemmy were fond of the Beatles. The Beatles were fond of 1940s big band jazz, which was itself inspired by modernist classical and most importantly, waltz bands, taking on the folk songs of England, Scotland, and Germany. Waltz was the previous big hitter before we got to all that elegant wartime music. Jazz, blues, etc were unschooled musicians taking on waltz and American (English, Scots, German, French) folk songs. The official history is a lie as usual, but that is simply because the lie is convenient and digestible, sort of like how Christianity is the McDonald’s of spirituality.
Good observations. I will add that history does not meaningfully exist for the average human, as truth or lies or anything else.
Society killed me
Mankind
Keeps me out of society
Keeps me frustrated
Keeps me sad
For killing
The worst music ever hahahaha
Cuz I would not allow ghetto shit ghettos nigs spigs animals
Trumps worst nightmare wiggasss spiggggas cypress hill crap fags kill metal
Any of you brave enough to actually
FUCKING KILL RAP ROCK RAP METAL NU MUTT TRASH HUH?
Hey Brett
Jonathan Davis DOES HAVE URISH ANCESTRY HUH?
HAVE FUN SODOMIZING HIS ASS HAHAHA
KORNS ANUSES wetback Irish stinky yuck hahaha
ROSIE’S IRISH PUSSY
Jew cunt
What’s worse hahaha
Satan calls Brett hahaha