gun to my head I think I pick Amber but it is very close. Their first 6 albums is an insanely good run.

Today's Pile:

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake - I'm kinda stuck on this right now. My fave Metal Commute selection. People really clear a path for you when you're listening to LoG at top volume:
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John Zorn - Valentine's Day - Zorno in noise mode again. For the life of me, this sounds like Massacre...
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-150-6161...4314-9060.jpeg

V8Wankers - Got Beer? - What do you call this? Oktoberfest Metal? I'm sure it would sound better if I was drunk...
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-150-4683...3264-1921.jpeg

William Onyeabor - Atomic Bomb - I love love love this album! I may have to buy that damn box set after all!!!
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-150-1378...1116-7889.jpeg

Demon Fuzz - Afreaka! - torn from the very pages of this forum. At first I thought it was going to be Luchador sing-along but instead it's some very tasty, incantatory African jazz. Definitely going on the want list...
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-150-410122-1264444342.jpeg

Hijokaidan - Hatsune-Kaidan - The Japanese are just insane in the coolest way possible and that's why we love them. This reminds me of the time the porn star Miki Sawaguchi did an album with Merzbow called 'Big Boobs'. Same kinda pop warbling and shredding dissonance. Me, I love it, but then I'm a little crazy too. Album of the day!!!
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-150-4207...6388-3002.jpeg

Speak for yourself. I find the Japanese to be terminally meh. So ****ing lame.

Wreck & Reference's No Youth.

A lot of slow, heavy guitars, a lot of screeches and noise, a lot of darkness and static, and a lot of screaming.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e7Zer_2IKF...(2012)_sml.png

I'm just not in the right place for this. I couldn't connect with it.

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Beautiful, mellow indie rock. Whew.

I love that album.

EDIT: read your whole post haha. Too bad you don't feel the same way, it's a great visceral experience.

You can pretty much guarantee whenever I post something on these particular pages, I'm speaking for myself.

I don't know that I am the right person to defend the Japanese, especially because I just referred to them as 'Insane', but it was said with much love and respect. Modern Japanese culture has an eternal fan in me, but to each their own, certainly. :wavey:

I just didn't connect with it, which is fine. One thing I don't want to do is dis someone else's tastes, which is why, even though I didn't like it, I didn't say it sucked. I hate when people do that. :)

Of course. All it takes is living here for a few years...I'd say the same thing about Australians, most likely, if I lived in Australia. :)

Listening to Helmet's Strap It On for the first time, another from the tape mountain. Really digging it so far.

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The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (2000)


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Blitzen Trapper - Furr (2008)


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Wilderness - (k)no(w)here (2008)


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Clark - Clark (2014)


http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/73a054ce825...ab/2149847.jpg

Why? - Alopecia (2008)


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TV on the Radio - Dear Science (2008)


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Women - Women (2008)


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Dillinger Four - C I V I L W A R (2008)