even official snow mobile roads are 99% safe, but we ride over all and be in ice its always at your own risk, and mid april is my border when I go on the ice
We have one ice road for cars, in Luleå you can drive car to small islands . To get to the town I need cross 6 lakes, by snow mobile and almost all roads cross some water way. I gass as crazy when I cross rivers or big big lakes
Pretty self explanatory. A general forum for everything non-metal that you dug in 2012, be it EBM, punk, noise, jazz, hip-hop et cetera. Youtube clips definitely a good idea when possible, if not a brief description at the very least. Haven't concentrated much on non-metal stuff this year but some interesting stuff that has come my way:
Apparently I've been living under a rock as I've never heard of this group before, but I'm really enjoying "Godspeed You! Black Emperor's" latest (their most recent output in a while it seems):
Good stuff. You should check out the rest of their albums, especially "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" and "F♯ A♯ ∞"
Both are my favorite of theirs.
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In the name of forests; In the name of stars; In the name of all the seas; In the name of storms... Proud sons of ancient nation; Proud sons of sacred song in the wind; Proud sons behind a mirror of ice who told... Fathers of the icy age!!
Not sure if this should be in here or the Metal thread, but this guy is a friend of mine. Released his stuff last night. Ambient/Experimental/Electronic metal? No idea what this is, but worth checking out both these records.
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In the name of forests; In the name of stars; In the name of all the seas; In the name of storms... Proud sons of ancient nation; Proud sons of sacred song in the wind; Proud sons behind a mirror of ice who told... Fathers of the icy age!!
A band where a friend of mine plays just released their first EP as well, some sort of alternative/progressive band with a heavy touch. You can hear some Mars Volta, Deftones, Mastodon (maybe just in the riffing) and Jane's Addiction. I really dig it, not just recommending because my friend plays there
Band is called Verticalia, EP called "Utopía". It's steaming here: http://verticalia.bandcamp.com/
Awesome stuff, but damn, I don't understand why "composers" charge so much for their albums, I can't afford $10 Euro's plus shipping, that's insane. It's the same for Library tapes.
This is pretty good stuff. It's advertised by the label on Bandcamp as "metal", and it certainly sounds like there's metal in there however after watching this video it's pretty evident there aren't any guitars so I figured it should probably go in the non-metal recs...
Holy fuck that Igorrr song is amazing. Gotta remember to check out Jodis later, hadn't heard of them before.
New Jessica Bailiff is sweet, if pretty tame.
Also fell in love with Anna von Hausswolff. Art Pop with some ambient sections. At times she sounds so much like Kate Bush it's uncanny. (Not too much on this track, though.)
I checked this out and sounds really promising! I have been looking for some new prog/experimental/alternative rock bands now and this is really good stuff.
---- You think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was a man. But it was nothing to me but blinding.
I checked this out and sounds really promising! I have been looking for some new prog/experimental/alternative rock bands now and this is really good stuff.
Then you absolutly have to check out Mono. Pretty unique Post Rock.
New Austrasian Goat! The Goat has completely strayed from all metal roots, this time sticking with a martial industrial/neo-folk sound. Admittedly a few tracks are a tad on the subpar side of the spectrum, and the album isn't as strong as his doom-metal offerings have been, but there are some truly engrossing tracks, like this one.
Well, this sounds like it might be a bit fantastic. Occult/hard rock, female fronted. Only listened to couple of songs but I'm defo going to like this.
Surprised by how much I liked this when I finally got around to listening to it, by the way. As I said on RYM (in one of my worse reviews, but nobody else had written anything about it):
Quote: I'm not a huge fan of Aaron Turner. I'm generally skeptical when a project is advertised with his name: another slice of boring man's metal, no doubt. Maybe it's some unfounded prejudice in the back of my mind, but Mamiffer, Greymachine and Old Man Gloom all sound extremely derivative within the framework of their genres. I'm lukewarm even about most of Isis's discography, despite their undeniable high points.
Imagine my surprise when I actually liked this album. And not just "yeah it's okay" liked, I mean really liked. Minimalistic guitar motifs repeated ad nauseam, some hushed drones humming in the background, and fairly bland but sonically fitting clean vocals. The album sounds cold and detached, but not so much so that you couldn't enjoy the experience. It sways along lazily, the sharp distortion of the guitar echoing in the silence.
I'm of the school that thinks comparisons are usually central to a good review. In some ways it's lazy, but the real basis of our talking about music or comprehending it internally is in relation to what we know. Behind flowery words and pseudo-intellectual posturing, reviews really boil down to two things: "I like/dislike this" and "Sounds like X". I'm going on this tangent because I have very little more to write about Black Curtain. But to stay somewhat on topic: the album sounds something like a cross between Codeine and 21st century Earth.
I can't say any particular tracks stand out as my personal favorites. Overall, it's a solid and (given one of the creative minds behind it) surprisingly original album. I probably won't return to it often in the long run, but I'm sure at some point I'm happy to rediscover it.