MicShazam will listen to anything.

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-04-2018, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unitron

Sounds fairly much like Testament, and I'm not really into them either. It's not bad by any means. I can always get into that sort of basic chugging, but there wasn't really anything here that would make me want to come back. The songwriting and personality of the performances just didn't really register as anything inspired.

Five minutes well enough spent, but that's it for me.

The Batlord · 10-04-2018, 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

Same. But she's an artist whose core worth I think might be inscrutable if you're just not crazy enough. That's where drugs come in. Plague Mass is where it's at though I think because it has a more organic production that feels like she's actually there and singing like a real person. Makes her impact more visceral than something like Litanies of Satan. And that cover communicates exactly what she is perfectly: an inhuman spirit of vengeance.

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-04-2018, 04:02 PM

I feel like I'm too weird to connect to the musical tastes of people who aren't music nerds, but too restrained in my preferences to really fit in among music geeks either. My favourite type of music these days is something just like this ffs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rq-AHTFxOU

It's a miracle I'm curious about Galas at all - and when sober, no less.

The Batlord · 10-04-2018, 04:05 PM

I'm not a musical freak by any means but sometimes the weird **** just sinks into that sweet spot you didn't even know existed.

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-04-2018, 04:08 PM

I legit think this is the most out there music I like, so not really that much. Although more than the first couple minutes will let on.

I don't know how to convince anyone to listen to it, so I'll just drop it here.

Olga Bell - Krai (full album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsekfYU5l_s

Mondo Bungle · 10-04-2018, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

it's a lady

The Batlord · 10-04-2018, 09:04 PM

80s metal production is great not because it's the most accomplished but because metal in its pure 80s form doesn't need polish and nuance. Metal along with hardcore is the musical realization of the desire to smash faces and eat brains and prettying that up can honestly be reductive.

windsock · 10-04-2018, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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 (?).

Casiopea does have some elements of the Japanese city pop boom of the late 70's, which means they have the capacity to reflect the bounciness and cheesiness of that culture.

The band members are also really talented. Here's Akira Jimbo (drummer) and Tetsuo Sakurai (bassist) doing some duo pieces. I think they're from some old VHS'.

^Jimbo kills it with the double kick on this one.

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-05-2018, 12:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 66Sexy

80s metal production is great not because it's the most accomplished but because metal in its pure 80s form doesn't need polish and nuance. Metal along with hardcore is the musical realization of the desire to smash faces and eat brains and prettying that up can honestly be reductive.

A lot of 80's metal has studio trickery applied, though. Not least added reverb. The sort of 90's metal production that I like so much is the sort where it sounds like they pretty much just plugged everything in, recorded it, then layered it. No filtering or much of anything else. I'm not sure why 90's metal sounds generally so much fatter than 80's metal. Probably some changes in recording technology, plus some changes in what's a trendy sound for metal. The 90's was the decade where groove and bass came back to metal.

windsock · 10-05-2018, 12:57 AM

10-04-2018, 04:02 PM	#33 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	I feel like I'm too weird to connect to the musical tastes of people who aren't music nerds, but too restrained in my preferences to really fit in among music geeks either. My favourite type of music these days is something just like this ffs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rq-AHTFxOU It's a miracle I'm curious about Galas at all - and when sober, no less.

10-04-2018, 04:08 PM	#35 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	I legit think this is the most out there music I like, so not really that much. Although more than the first couple minutes will let on. I don't know how to convince anyone to listen to it, so I'll just drop it here. Olga Bell - Krai (full album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsekfYU5l_s