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Aw. Guess you're local to me! I ended up not going due to weather and living in the east end.
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Local-ish – I came in from out of town, so I had some additional non-refundable costs spurring me on through the weather. The Garrison isn't a big venue or anything, and it did sell out, but I was surprised at how packed the place was. It didn't look like that many people could have stayed home. But yeah, the show was good. Sound was loud but still clear, which was nice. Lost was already one of my favorite tracks on the album and it's even better live. I was hoping they'd have some of the shirts from their Bandcamp page at the merch table, but no luck.
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Feb 13, 2019 14:47
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hatelull posted:Per Cevin Key's social media, Phillip Western died. At least the Download record that was slated to drop next month is likely complete, but this probably destroys any chance of a tour.
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Feb 15, 2019 21:29
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So there's a new Thrill Kill Kult album out. Feelings?
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Feb 16, 2019 06:34
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HEALTH is playing in my town. I've got tickets.
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Feb 16, 2019 10:14
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New HEALTH is good. New Boy Harsher is really good. That's all I got.
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Feb 16, 2019 15:21
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SacrificialGoat posted:So there's a new Thrill Kill Kult album out. Feelings? I haven't given a poo poo about them in 25 years. Why start now?
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Feb 16, 2019 18:24
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I used to think I liked TKK but I'm pretty sure I just like A Crime For All Seasons.
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Feb 16, 2019 21:51
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Kooler Than Jesus is good.
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Feb 16, 2019 22:14
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First couple of releases are good... "I See Good Spirits, I See Bad Spirits...," "Kooler Than Jesus," and "Confessions of a Knife," are great. I never liked "Sexplosion" that much. I used to love "13 Above the Night," in the 90s, but that one has not aged well at all. I can't stand listening to it these days. Everything from "Hit and Run Holiday" on forward was crap when it was released, and is crap today.
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Feb 17, 2019 00:20
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A Daisy Chain 4 Satan is so good
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Feb 17, 2019 00:21
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I liked Hit and Run Holiday but it's nothing to do with industrial music. I tried hard to get into the albums before that because I liked that one song on The Crow soundtrack but tbh they were a bit meh at the time and now just sound really dated and not in a cool retro way.
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Feb 17, 2019 14:07
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Danger - Octopus! posted:I tried hard to get into the albums before that because I liked that one song on The Crow soundtrack but tbh they were a bit meh at the time and now just sound really dated and not in a cool retro way. That song on the Crow soundtrack, "After the Flesh," is such a bait-and-switch... literally nothing else in their catalog sounds like it. It's more like a Ministry song. The lyrics are actually from one of TKK's other songs, "Nervous Xians," (I think on "Kooler Than Jesus") which is a slow, creepy dance groove type of thing. Like I said, I'll stand by early, early stuff - "I See Good Spirits, I See Bad Spirits," "Kooler Than Jesus," "Confessions of a Knife", and someone else mentioned "A Daisy Chain 4 Satan," are all worth checking out if you like industrial music. From "Sexplosion!" on, I think they start chasing Dance trends and as a result, got really, really dated sounding.
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Feb 17, 2019 15:58
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side project from encephalon, one of my favorite industrial acts from the past few years: https://headlessnameless.bandcamp.com/track/wild-fire
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:side project from encephalon, one of my favorite industrial acts from the past few years: Definitely interesting, thanks for sharing. 
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Pirate Jet posted:It’s definitely their worst (unless you count s/t, which is so weird I can’t even really rank it) but still a solid entry in the discography and worth a listen, and I can understand why you’d dislike it, but the weird-rear end performative wokeness poo poo combined with suggesting they should have just broke up when Jupiter left (ignoring why Jupiter left, making it more embarrassing) is some bullshit. what's so weird about the self titled health record?
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Just got back from seeing HEALTH live in Oslo. It was really, really good. Three-man band (drums, guitar, bass) with a stripped down backing track of the songs where they've taken out most of the percussion and synths (especially the leads). Since there are no keyboards, this comes across as a much more noise-focused incarnation of the band, with them not really bothering to play any of the lead parts unless they absolutely have to (the chorus of Feel Nothing) and instead opting for effect-pedal and feedback experimentation, using both vocals and instruments for this purpose. The drums were fleshed out quite a bit as well, borrowing a lot from metal, with their mountain-of-a-man drummer doing his very best to destroy his drum-set (and looking at the big chunk taken out of one of his cymbals, apparently succeeding). I hope they put out a live album, because, while FEEL NOTHING is an amazing song, this version of the album appealed to me throughout. I was thrown this souvenir at the end of their encore. 
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Feb 21, 2019 00:03
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They are doing one more round of screenings for the Wax Trax documentary in conjunction with record store day and the twist this time is Ministry and Cold Cave will play sets at the free screenings. Paul Barker will be doing Q&As but not playing with Ministry. Ministry will only be playing "Wax Trax era" songs, but they've looked so bad that I'm not sure it's worth seeing them for free. Dates in Chicago, Brooklyn, Toronto, Austin, SF and LA in April, with tickets available as a record store day thing. Also to prove my brain is completely broken after listening to the new FLA more I actually really like it. Rock Me Amadeus played well on the dance floor too.
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Feb 22, 2019 02:40
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MassRafTer posted:Also to prove my brain is completely broken after listening to the new FLA more I actually really like it. Rock Me Amadeus played well on the dance floor too. 
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Feb 22, 2019 03:37
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david_a posted:I like it too. I went into it with fairly low expectations it I think it’s a lot of fun unlike the somewhat dreary tedium of Artificial Soldier and IED. The guest vocals help; I’ve had “wake up the coma” (a delightfully Leeb-ian phrase whether he wrote it or not) stuck in my head for a while. I was also not expecting to hear “gently caress an alien and you’ll be free” in an FLA song. Bill heard Blendwerk and decided he could be just as horny as Daniel. It's a really horny album in general.
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Seeing Celldod and Imperial Black Unit as well as some kind of Test Dept DJ set tonight. Hella excited
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the ID:YD write-up of the new blutengel is fun:quote:And that’s the other thing that Blutengel does exceptionally well; for all the cynicism suggested by their insane release schedule, they never come across as less than absolutely dedicated to their schtick. Take the blindingly crass song “Vampire” for example: as funny as hearing the band repeatedly pronounce the title as ‘wam-pire’ is, you can’t discount their absolute conviction in that delivery. The same goes for bizarre club-bid “Praise the Lord” with its attempt at a scathing religious rebuff, and fluffy electro-pop gallop “Am Ende der Zeit”, no matter what they do, Blutengel go in deep and don’t ever betray their commitment to the bit. Is it silly? Sure, but it’s also the kind of silliness so devoid of post-modern irony you can admire it for its lack of self-consciousness. Who wants to listen to the actually-Vampires-are-dumb-and-I’m-just-joking band? gently caress that, I want the vampire band who take it all deadly god drat serious, who never blink no matter how over the top things get. Un:Gott is Blutengel in all their cornball, blood and roses glory, and honestly that’s all they need to be to deliver the goods.
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I just recently listened to their original Great Debate episode again, about whether Blutengel suck or not, and it's entirely unsurprising that it's Alex posting that.
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Feb 22, 2019 21:21
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That vampire, suicide, plague doctors poo poo is so bad, how could anyone listen to any of those corny bands. *listens to some special forces, tank-driving, u-boat music*
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Biomute posted:That vampire, suicide, plague doctors poo poo is so bad, how could anyone listen to any of those corny bands. Only lowbrow philistines can't appreciate songs from the POV of military hardware
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Pope Guilty posted:I just recently listened to their original Great Debate episode again, about whether Blutengel suck or not, and it's entirely unsurprising that it's Alex posting that. oh yes. and what did pohl do? he looked at her and scowled mid-song. like "peh!" and waved his hand. her garlic couldn't harm him. that really happened. anyways the show was wildly entertaining. but yeah the last few blutengel albums have been pretty meh i think, but that morningstar track bangs. it even has church organs and spooky haunted house synths. what more do you want, really? -- incidentally, i met that girl later in the ID:YD chat. she wasn't a blutengel fan. pretty rude move IMO. suffice to say we didn't get along. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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Feb 23, 2019 00:06
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This venue is mental. It's a converted commercial unit in a run down industrial estate and the bar is in a car inspection pit. You crouch down to order. Industrial af
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that's pretty nice. there's a venue here that played host to goth bands, closed down for awhile (messy divorce for the owner) and is re-opening, which is good. the back of the stage is partially open to a railroad yard, and across the street from the main entrance is a concrete plant. also the same owner's severed ear is preserved in a jar behind the bar, which he lost in a bar fight. i should note he lost the ear in a different bar. saw high functioning flesh there
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:that's pretty nice. YOU WIN THIS ROUND
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I've found Blutengel's music too boring to actually really listen to for a long time but their gimmick does make their videos really entertaining. I respect their dedication to the gimmick although it isn't as funny for me as say The Death Stars. Wondering if they were a gimmick or not left me with many sleepless nights.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:00
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:the line about blutengel never blinking "no matter how over the top things get" is actually true. i saw blutengel a few years ago at kinetik and this girl ran up to the balcony and began shaking a braid of garlic at him. This rules a bunch.
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Feb 23, 2019 03:14
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Personally I'd get the ear re-attached rather than use it as a conversation piece.
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Test Dept returns with the new video ‘Landlord’ (a DM premiere) quote:Next week, the London-based activist industrial group Test Dept, forgers of the “Stakhanovite sound,” will release their first new album in over 20 years: a merciless piece of work called Disturbance.
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Feb 25, 2019 23:49
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Saw them play a DJ set on Friday, including some of their new stuff which sounds absolutely awesome. Definitely excited for this.
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And now The Quietus has the complete album, "Disturbance", for streaming.
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For those of you who care, Hatari won the nomination and will go on to Eurovision, their live performance wasn't as good as the recorded song but it was nice enough, I think that on a bigger stage and better sound production it will be much nicer. Live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CU-xnPsSHE This is the music video for those of you who missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVbShUW6QBM
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Kamrat posted:For those of you who care, Hatari won the nomination and will go on to Eurovision, their live performance wasn't as good as the recorded song but it was nice enough, I think that on a bigger stage and better sound production it will be much nicer. This is awesome news
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Maybe next year, Iceland can send Kaelan Mikla. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRgxo8JtTRA
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Waiting for Laibach to come on stage and they're just playing Austrian countryside ambience through the PA for an hour, with cows mooing and birds singing. It is ridiculous and awesome.
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The Downward Spiral is 25 years old this month and still relevant and excellent. Reznor's music expanded my tastes and i fell in love with this genre. It might be the most important album I ever bought.
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