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Zyklon B Zombie posted:Worst was seeing Kompressor live. He a CD player and a distortion pedal and a mic. And the distortion pedal broke. And it was daylight saving time, so the bar was closing early and he had to skip a bunch of tracks on his CD player. Then he got winded and sat down while he sand the rest of the songs. This is exactly what I would expect from a Kompressor performance.
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Omi-Polari posted:^ Yup. I know its wrong, but despite having eventually realized Douglas Pierce's politics I still like some of Death in June's music. That being said I'll never feel the need to own more than the compilation album that I currently have. Oddly enough as a leftist I can in some strange way relate to the extreme pessimism expressed in his music. *edit I still feel far worse for ever bothering with anything Boyd Rice ever did. Well aside from easy listening for the hard of hearing, because Frank Tovey is awesome. copshootcop fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Feb 21, 2014 |
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# ? Feb 21, 2014 20:02 |
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copshootcop posted:I know its wrong, but despite having eventually realized Douglas Pierce's politics I still like some of Death in June's music. That being said I'll never feel the need to own more than the compilation album that I currently have. Oddly enough as a leftist I can in some strange way relate to the extreme pessimism expressed in his music. One thing I forgot to mention is that there's the added layer of boycotts and pickets at DiJ shows. I'm not sure if these still happen very often. But I find these hard to justify since the whole point behind neo-folk music is that it's "apoliteic" and about deliberately disengaging from politics. They're not organizing for anything.
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# ? Feb 21, 2014 21:06 |
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"Apolitical" is a nonsense word, especially when you're using it as cover to push fascist or crypto-fascist ideas.
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# ? Feb 22, 2014 07:05 |
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Stream LAIBACH - SPECTRE in full Eat Liver! a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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boo_radley posted:The Denver tickets for SP are turning out to be more expensive than I expected. Has the show been crazy awesome so far? Did you make it out last night? A friend had 93.3 tickets and was sick, so I got them FREE. Pretty awesome since I was planning to buy mine at the door. They had the Ogden pretty packed, I assume it was close to a sell out show. I thought it was pretty great. I've never been a huge SP fan, I like Mythmaker, which feels like the least skinny puppy album maybe?
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 21:31 |
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Jesus, but this is great. But hell, what did I expect?
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 21:38 |
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deong posted:I've never been a huge SP fan, I like Mythmaker, which feels like the least skinny puppy album maybe? Actually yeah. I think Mythmaker stands out more than Rabies does.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 11:44 |
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Mythmaker and The Process are definitely the two biggest outliers in SP's history. Rabies has a few odd songs, but most of it fits right in.
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# ? Feb 27, 2014 22:05 |
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Also The Process is the best thing they ever did. Mythmaker the opposite. (I love hanDover and Weapon for what it's worth.)
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# ? Feb 27, 2014 23:29 |
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The Process is definitely one of my favorites. The fact that the band was coming apart at the seams comes across in the music somehow.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 01:56 |
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All this Denver talk reminds me. My buddy got a track on the latest Metropolis Records compilation. It's too bad that 1: Metropolis is loving terrible and 2: No matter what else he does he will always carry the stigmata of being a dude who used to be in Velvet Acid Christ. http://www.metropolis-mailorder.com/product.php?prodnum=MET+936
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Sizone posted:All this Denver talk reminds me. My buddy got a track on the latest Metropolis Records compilation. It's too bad that 1: Metropolis is loving terrible and 2: No matter what else he does he will always carry the stigmata of being a dude who used to be in Velvet Acid Christ. Awesome box set. I hope you meant stigma unless they took the Christ bit too literally.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 02:34 |
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What's with all the Metropolis hate, anyway?
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 04:08 |
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Dunno, they've had some cool bands on their roster. Probably still do at the moment.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 05:14 |
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Been listening to the Spectre stream a lot, here are some incoherent ramblings about it. gently caress this is a good album, loving hell! Couple of weaker tracks there like Walk With Me and No History, and I don't really think the latter half of Resistance Is Futile fits the album all that well, but drat if this isn't a band/entity that can actually TRULY reinvent itself over and over again. I mean, it always sounds like Laibach, because nothing else on the planet sounds like this, but tracks like We Are Millions And Millions Are One are just so far away from what you'd expect from this band that it's just mindblowing. Didn't like The Whistleblowers at first listen, and I still think Fras's vocals are mixed way too loud, but it's really a chillingly rousing song and now I can't stop listening to it. Eat Liver! loving kicks rear end, there's a swing to it that Laibach just never had before. Still love Eurovision to death. Koran is probably one of the most beautiful and haunting songs ever by Laibach. I think the mood here is extremely interesting for Laibach. Laibach has always been mostly threatening, or, occasionally (for example on Volk and some tracks here and there), hopeful or disappointed-sounding, but here Laibach sounds kind of "tired", exhausted. Not at ALL in the musical sense, mind you, but more like exhausted of the world. But there's still a glimmer of hope. I dunno. That's just what it makes me think of. I think what I'm talking about is summed up pretty well in Americana when Fras goes "Do it with a feeling" in his best voice. Also the album is just straight-up synth porn, amazing stuff in the technical sense. I guess it's a very logical continuation of the live sound Laibach has been working with for the last couple of years, especially Bossanova sounds kind of like something they could've worked out from their cover of Warm Leatherette or something. Can't wait to hear the bonus tracks on the limited edition. Monday Laibach good you guys. Laibach good.
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# ? Feb 28, 2014 14:34 |
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Obscure band time! If you like EBM, you should listen to Groupe T because they're not very well known, but sound amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kt-HjH3qaE
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Obscure band time! If you like EBM, you should listen to Groupe T because they're not very well known, but sound amazing. That was lovely <3
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# ? Mar 1, 2014 22:23 |
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Ted Phelps says Imperative Reaction is done and he's leaving music behind after one more album + tour. He's been saying it since November, I just finally happened to notice a Facebook status about it.
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# ? Mar 2, 2014 03:39 |
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teethgrinder posted:Ted Phelps says Imperative Reaction is done and he's leaving music behind after one more album + tour. He's been saying it since November, I just finally happened to notice a Facebook status about it.
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# ? Mar 2, 2014 04:25 |
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Bunch of musings on the band Facebook page, but he at one point says he's changing his focus to family and his other career. I have no idea what his other career is.
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# ? Mar 2, 2014 06:03 |
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Information Technology, one assumes.
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# ? Mar 2, 2014 09:47 |
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It's always interesting when you realize these drug addled insane industrial frontmen often have families and day jobs. From what I'm told: - Al Jorgensen and Raymond Watts both have daughters. - Cevin Key was the first male cashier at a Safeway. - Trent Reznor used to scrub toilets at a recording studio. I can only imagine what some current lesser-known bands do in their Mon - Fri life.
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# ? Mar 2, 2014 21:35 |
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The Cleaner posted:I can only imagine what some current lesser-known bands do in their Mon - Fri life. The guy who left Covenant (Clas?) was a teacher, wasn't he?
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# ? Mar 3, 2014 13:40 |
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The Seabound lyricist is a professor of Psychology and the composer is an entertainment lawyer in LA (same firm as where he previously worked in Germany). His moving to California is the main reason the last album took so long.
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The Cleaner posted:I can only imagine what some current lesser-known bands do in their Mon - Fri life. Well, spill the beans Nowadays this stuff always just makes me think of Trent Reznor changing diapers. I can't get the image out of my head. Help edit: also I know for a fact that the Ad·ver·sary guy does nothing but sit on his rear end all day and tweet a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Mar 3, 2014 |
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teethgrinder posted:The Seabound lyricist is a professor of Psychology
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# ? Mar 3, 2014 15:29 |
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CAT rear end now!!! posted:Well, spill the beans
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# ? Mar 3, 2014 17:36 |
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The limited edition Spectre bonus track Just Say No! is essentially a Laibach hip hop song with Milan Fras rapping and it's exactly as amazing as you'd think Also The Parade sounds like an old, OLD school KMFDM track (actually I dunno, why did that make me think of KMFDM? More like Alle gegen alle redux)? Love on The Beat is great too, and the See That My Grave Is Kept Clean cover will probably make WAT fans really happy. It owns, it all owns a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Mar 3, 2014 |
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The Whistleblowers has a video now. A great video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
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The Singing Chav posted:Dunno, they've had some cool bands on their roster. Probably still do at the moment. I'm having a hard time believing that even at their worst, Metropolis has done anything bad enough to snatch the Burger King crowns from TVT era Wax Trax, Cleopatra or Invisible.
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# ? Mar 5, 2014 07:41 |
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Metropolis has Army of the Universe and Aesthetic Perfection signed, so I guess you could hate them just for that, Idunno. Outside of that, they've always been generous with promotional material, so I don't see much of a reason to hate them unless you dislike Dave Heckman specifically or you just want to hate on the most mainstream label within a niche. My only criticism of Metropolis is that at times they've made their umbrella too wide and signed bands that I just thought were just kinda neither-here-nor-there synthpop/rock. Dope Stars Inc. is one that sticks out in my mind.
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# ? Mar 5, 2014 15:16 |
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I find it odd that Birthday Massacre is crowd-sourcing funding for a new album "in concert with Metropolis".
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# ? Mar 5, 2014 15:20 |
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I don't know all the ins and outs, but a lot of individuals and companies are doing Kickstarters even though they have no problem with the capital. It's a promotional tactic as much as anything.
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# ? Mar 5, 2014 15:30 |
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Yeah, once you've given to a Kickstarter, you're committed and involved in a way that, however shallow, encourages you to identify with the project. It's a great promotional tool to keep devoted fans involved.
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# ? Mar 5, 2014 15:33 |
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Yeah I was over-thinking it. Also as a massive fan as Birthday Massacre from their early days ... I just couldn't be any more ambivalent now.
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# ? Mar 5, 2014 15:44 |
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teethgrinder posted:Yeah I was over-thinking it. Any particular reason why? I think it's pretty neat that they're basically auctioning off promo stuff.
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# ? Mar 5, 2014 15:55 |
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Nothing and Nowhere was new and exciting to me. And then Violet was generally better in every way. Even the songs that were reissued were mixed better. By Walking With Strangers, it was OKAY, but not exceptional. And they've just gotten samey-sounding to me since. I don't really care to support a new album.
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# ? Mar 5, 2014 16:21 |
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teethgrinder posted:I find it odd that Birthday Massacre is crowd-sourcing funding for a new album "in concert with Metropolis". If you're not an A-List artist then Metropolis probably isn't going to fund the record of your dreams. If you want anything fancy you've got to pony up.
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Twiin posted:If you're not an A-List artist then Metropolis probably isn't going to fund the record of your dreams. If you want anything fancy you've got to pony up.
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