gonna really look into that Fanfarlo album....it sounds fantastic
fell like getting a few classics out....i'll do two per post so sorry for the double posting
63. Quicksand - Slip (1993)
1993 was a huge year for music....with the release of Nirvana's classic In Utero....Wu Tang's and Bjork's amazing debuts....as well as the album that made Smashing Pumpkins a household name....even with all of these great albums somehow Quicksand gets very little attention
coming out of one of the greatest hardcore scenes and playing guitar for one of the greatest hardcore bands Walter Schreifels is a true innovator in genre and nothing is more of a testament to this than Quicksand debut album Slip
opening with Fazer you know exactly what your in for....this is thought out, well played and very melodic hardcore music that is as crushing and angry as any Agnostic Front or Sick Of It All album
Sergio Vega's bass lines a incredible from track one to the ending track....a cover of The Smiths classic How Soon Is Now...the dueling guitar work between Schreifels and Tom Capone is hard hitting and yet offers a fluid sense of harmony and the drums are exactly what they should be for a hardcore band....let's just say you feel bad for the kit as there is little soft hitting
....this leads into the lyrics....all self reflective and often anger at the people around you....but intelligent and often written with double meaning
this album is an absolute must for anybody interested in the progression of punk music and or the roots of emo
64. Rome - Masse Mensch Material (2008)
i would say that off all the genres i really like Martial Industrial is one of the more difficult to route the good stuff out of all the crap that is out there.....obviously there is a strong sense of military in the music and most often there is some form of crypto-fascism....and even a strong sense of nationalism
Jérôme Reuter is no exception to most of these but at the same time he writes incredibly beautiful music that often concentrates on the depression that involves watching the traditions of your past disintegrate into western culture but he also leads a strong concentration on the fact that hate itself is a virus that will rot your mind
Masse Mensch Material opens with ambient track of what feels like the gathering storm then almost immediately bombards you with drums that feel like WW1 artillery shellings with the opening of Der Brandtaucher and this is generally the entire sense of this album....it's as calming as it is bombastic and angry....it's as rooted in Nietzschean existentialism as it is in Spanish anarchism and revolt against this modern world as well as looking at the people around you and wondering what their true motives are
the music is fairly simplistic acoustic guitar but filled with wonderful percussion and some great samples that really add to general feeling of this album
in my opinion this is where you should start if you have any interest in both Neofolk and Martial Industrial