What albums did you listen to today?...continued

As he sleeps... Snuck a couple in today .

Threshold-- Pyschedelicatessen ( growing on me to be my favourite threshold recording . Recently aquired a 1994 original sound recording from Giant Electric Pea. Much much better than the 2001 remaster special edition. Wow .)

Eric & Jeff Clayton-- Bowie Tribute ( the core of saviour machine honor David Bowie in the best possible way. Amazing covers. 

Recently:

Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden: I'm finding myself drawn to female indie folkers once again, and this one has that last name. 

Madder Mortem - Marrow: Prog meets doom meets groove meets gothic metal. Pretty accessible, and yet they sound so odd. Really good.

Sinistro - Sangue Cassia: Probably my album of the year. Beautiful, soft and emotional female French vocals over some of the darkest monstrous doom riffs ever.

Sea Moss/The Social Stomach - Ugh: Quite a split! Sea Moss sounds like Yoko Ono fronting some wild krautrock grooves, and The Social Stomach is like Lydia Lunch fronting a mathrock band. Very cool.

Trillium - Tectonic: I think the singer here also guests on some prog metal albums. This was kind of boring symphonic metal from what I remember.

Deicide - Overtures of Blasphemy: New release by one of the old-school death metal classic bands. Outside of their debut I was never much of a fan, and this did nothing to change that.

Cheer Accident - Fades: Yeah...about this gang. Some great grooves, with vocals ranging from 'cool' to 'so uncool'. Overall it was nice I guess.

Tribulation - Down Below: The songs are more in line with hard prog rock than metal despite the golblin growl vocals. Interesting, and it works.

Visigoth - Conqueror's Oath: Power metal with tales of yore about the warrior queen and the forging of steel through might and thunder and...yeah, couldn't finish this. Maybe if I got back into D&D.

It's been a heavy week I guess.

Oddly, Dave, I found the album strangely uplifting despite this young singer's horrible fate. Or at least comforting. Apparently she knew she was dying as it was being recorded, and the lyrics are about this journey. Everything about her performance seems so very hopeful, strong, and unflinching. Far from bringing me down, it felt courageous and something I was fortunate to hear.  And it's just excellent music too. Melodic and atmospheric, puts you in a trancey feel after a while.  I'm going to buy this CD, and I don't buy many anymore for finance reasons. You know metal WAY better than I.  Is there any place for Trees on PA?

PS. I like Seger too on occasion, Night Moves my favorite "type" of his songs...the pretty ones.  But like you I don't actually play it much.

Thanks Nicholas. I do like melodic doom metal but moreso without the monster vox. Nothing against it, I just prefer clean vox.

Santa brought me an awesome new mechanical gaming keyboard, so I'm having fun typing with brown switches.  My previous were blue and pretty loud. These are a bit quieter.

Enjoy your boy's first Christmas!

Nice!  What did you think of it?

AEProgman wrote: Nektar's debut I do like better than A Tab in the Ocean for whatever reason, it is a tad raw and has that 70's sound.  Remember the Future has a sentimental place for me as it was what I had back then and played it to death and tend to like it the best of their work.  Although I only have 3 of their albums and should explore the rest of their catalog.

I remember it was more influenced by late 60's psychedelia than Space Rock. Remember the Future is the only one I have so far and it's always a great listen 

I hope you guys had a nice Christmas, Nick certainly had  I only had time for a few albums:

Genesis - Live

Porcupine Tree - Metanoia

Mort Garson - Ataraxia

La Coscienza di Zeno - La Notte Anche di Giorno

There might be a place in the experimental/post metal department. Honestly think it could go either way with the voters, but it's certainly worthy of being screened. I personally would give it a yes vote.

Neat to see how music affects us in different ways. I found ToE quite a melancholy but gorgeous experience. Sinistro gave me a different vibe. The persistently slow yet monstrously down-tuned and heavy tone gave me this impression of sheer monolithic power that ironically energized me. 

The Gathering's Mandylion is classic doom mixed with a bit of Dead Can Dance at times. Don't remember any growling on that one, but I really like their followup Nightime Birds which is less heavy and more atmospheric. Draconian is growl-city, but man does Arcane Rain Fell pack a bleak punch.

Confession: I remember in my early teens getting the D&D A4 module, and inside their was a drawing of a female drow elf that my confused hormones fell madly in love with. Dark, warrior-like and beautiful...yep.