Highlighted Releases - Master Post:
Highlighted Releases - 1/10/2020:
vvilderness - Dark Waters
Some good and emotive black metal. Most of my new releases this week were black metal but this was definitely the one that worked best for me. Randomly has bagpipes on the last two songs too which, sure
Some good and emotive black metal. Most of my new releases this week were black metal but this was definitely the one that worked best for me. Randomly has bagpipes on the last two songs too which, sure
Following up/circling back on a few of these - still liked this one on second listen. it's got the kind of aesthetic i like in my black metal that incidentally just has some folky elements mixed in rather than being a full-on folk metal album and i appreciate that
Highlighted Releases - 1/24/2020:
Olhava - Olhava
ding ding ding we have our winner for "first insta-buy of the decade", this is EXACTLY the kind of black metal i enjoy. it's like 90% texture and very consistently atmospheric and intense i love it. hell yeah
ding ding ding we have our winner for "first insta-buy of the decade", this is EXACTLY the kind of black metal i enjoy. it's like 90% texture and very consistently atmospheric and intense i love it. hell yeah
Highlighted Releases - 2/7/2020:
Rope and Ladder - S/T
hmm yeah there's definitely a lot of TDH influence here and appropriately it's a concept album, the concept itself seems... a bit hard to follow from first listen but I get the general gist of it. I don't think anything here feels as hard-hitting as the
hmm yeah there's definitely a lot of TDH influence here and appropriately it's a concept album, the concept itself seems... a bit hard to follow from first listen but I get the general gist of it. I don't think anything here feels as hard-hitting as the
Highlighted Releases - 2/21/2020:
Yurodivy - Tell Me When the Party's Over
the album title of this one also amuses me a lot https://twitter.com/Panda_Tunes/status/1231025571594792960
the album title of this one also amuses me a lot https://twitter.com/Panda_Tunes/status/1231025571594792960
Highlighted Releases - 2/14/2020:
hmm i still like this one but the notion that "it gets better as it goes on" is definitely true, too. i might still follow up on this but i haven't made up my mind