Music Banter - Albums You're Digging II

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Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur (2004)

If you haven't heard this album then you have no right to judge black metal. It's an incredibly blend of folk melodies, black metal and clean vocals, progressive rock styled songs, and inclusion of samples.

Well, this piqued my interest. I've been needing a really good black metal album recently. Checking them out now...

LoathsomePete

10-07-2010 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by duga (Post 940220)

Well, this piqued my interest. I've been needing a really good black metal album recently. Checking them out now...

To call Vintersorg a black metal band is kind of a misnomer. They definitely started out that way, but they have really evolved their sound over the last 10 years or so. Think of this album more like Sigh's Imaginary Sonicscape, familiar with black metal, but never outright sounding like it.

Dayvan Cowboy

10-07-2010 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by duga (Post 940218)

The band was the Depreciation Guild and the album was In Her Gentle Jaws. The guitarist is also in The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, if you have heard of them. I can get you a link if you don't mind waiting until tomorrow.

please do get me a link! I don't mind waiting, and thank you for considering getting a link :)

RVCA	10-07-2010 08:13 PM

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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For some reason, I like this album better than any Metallica album I've heard. I think it's a combination of relatively shorter songs (I feel like Metallica just drones on and on, and it eventually all mushes together), a more appealing vocalist, and the overall sense that the music is more melodic than what Metallica churns out. If that makes sense

ThePhanastasio

10-07-2010 09:05 PM

I've been re-listening to CocoRosie's Noah's Ark album. I'm pretty darn into freak folk as of late, and CocoRosie is absolutely intriguing to me.

LoathsomePete

10-07-2010 09:08 PM

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Kekel - 1000 Thoughts of Violence

Going back through some of my more ignored avant-garde metal bands and not listening to this album more often should be criminal. It's all over the place in its sound and instrumentation, truly impossible to define and impossible to say sounds like anything else. Now if this album were to ever come up in a random playlist I would know it instantaneously.

sidewinder

10-07-2010 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by RVCA (Post 940271)

This has stood the test of time for me a bit better than the classic Metallica albums. Part of it, as you said, is probably track lengths even though I had never thought of that. I really love the production of this album. It's so awesome. I remember the anticipation surrounding this album release, and the epic long Hanger 18 video getting hyped on MTV.