Neurosis - Times of Grace

by Tarbeaux on Mon, Aug 2, 2021

"Behind a burning red fog"

You’re sitting by the doorway, looking at the land surrounding you. All is in decay. The crops are dying under the burning sun, everything is dry and desolate. But you see them coming, dark clouds looming at the horizon. They grow, swelling again and again, darkening the sky. Lightning strikes and rain is released on this desolate wasteland. You welcome the storm, regenerational for the bodies and the soil. Then it slowly stops and everything seems good for a while.

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Nightwish Discog Run

by Dethjesta on Thu, Jul 29, 2021

A trip through their 25 year career

Nightwish are the world’s foremost symphonic metal band. I’ve been a fan since first hearing Once towards the end of the 2000s. This is my take on their 25 year, 9 studio album discography. Angels Fall First: Debut albums always seem to either be one of a band’s best or one of the weakest and rarely middling; for Nightwish it’s on the weak side. The album starts well with Elvenpath which is a good song and is followed by Beauty and the Beast which could be really good but doesn’t quite work, partly as Tuomas performs the male vocals and he’s not much of a singer.

Nightwish discog-run

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Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard

by Scuttlegoat on Wed, Jul 28, 2021

20 years after, Scuttlegoat goes back on a mythic grind album

Roger Ebert, in his review of “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” mentions a divided film festival audience. Some argued that the violence in it is “justified because of its uncompromising honesty in a world where most horror films cheapen death by trivializing it”. Or rather, a divide between “those who felt the film did its job brilliantly, and those who felt its job should not have been done at all”.

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Sparklehorse - It’s a Wonderful Life

by Aker on Mon, Jul 26, 2021

Abstract but grounded.

My perception of Sparklehorse’s third album It’s a Wonderful Life has beautifully warped since my first listen some ten years ago. Picture a skinny, floppy-fringed Aker sitting on a school bus through a nondescript post-industrial British city listening to an awkward mix of Mastodon, Elliott Smith, Deftones, The Smashing Pumpkins, Enslaved, Neil Young, Opeth, Funeral for a Friend and Nick Drake. Not a lot has changed, I still pull away in both directions.

Sparklehorse

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