Cuthbert

Belgian beer is great.

The Batlord

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MicShazam

Maybe a bit too on the busy and messy side for my liking, but I find everything else about it really enjoyable. Definitely added to a playlist.

MicShazam

I really dig the 90's sounding metal production. Unlike most metalheads, I think 90's metal albums had generally vastly better sound than 80's and 00's metal albums. Huge generalization, but 90's albums just tended to have various ways of giving you really fat bass and skittering drums that felt way more organic and real than in modern metal. Plus I liked how 90's metal dropped the tinny, reverby habits of 80's metal.

Musically, I like this fairly much. Not hugely into the vocals I'm afraid. Especially not the screechy dude. The keyboards also generally remind me of various forms of goth and symphonic metal that I do my best to avoid. Still, there's enough here that I like that I might check out a bit more from this band.

MicShazam

Smooth, groovy, fun. I like it. The bass playing is very satisfying here. I've always loves bass guitars, so there's no way I wasn't gonna mentally zoom in on it when listening to this. Also, for some reason, this music makes me feel like I'm watching some sort of very old and corny TV show, but in a good way (?).

The Batlord

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MicShazam

Hold your horses! I was already listening to it when you posted that.

Kinda caught between interesting and annoying. Not my favourite thing I've heard by Galas, but oddly mesmerizing later in the track especially. I've got a fair amount of music that would turn heads if I put it on at board game night, since most people have very limited experiences with different kinds of music. But this track would straight up have my guests running for the exits in terror. It deserves respect for that alone.

The only CD I have that might get close to provoking that reaction would be Olga Bell's debut album "Krai", although that's a far less abrasive sort of weird.

The Batlord

If you were a midnight toker then I'd totally recommend Plague Mass. I don't really know what to do with it or much of her earlier work when sober but god damn is Plague Mass the most hypnotic album I've ever heard when good and stoned.

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MicShazam

I might be able to get into it if I simply returned to it enough times. Diamanda Galas is someone I've never gotten into fully, but I always come back eventually.