I’m familiar with Archgoat. Ain’t my thing.
I do like Goatwhore, though, if we’re still talking about all the 5 million goatrockers.
Agreed.
Yeah, the vocals are what kill the deal for me with a lot of those bands even when they have decent instrumentation.
I think Amon Amarth are the closest i can get to growling lyrics anything below that i cant do. At least i can understand the amon amarth guy. When the vocals become unintelligable thats when im done. Those types of vocals ruin any redeemable quilities the song may have had.
Yeah, it always cracked me up too.
Like with Carcass or Cannibal Corpse or whatever.
I’ll listen and it’s like, “Gurgulgurlgulgul grrrunnnt grumbgrumble blaahhhh!!!” And I look at the lyrics sheet and there’s all these intricate diatribes about esophagus bleeding and rectal decay and post-mortem fornication with a 5-speed 5 horsepower Makita drill through the aereola . . . . .
Really? He said all that? I always wondered if those guys sometimes would just sit up there and grumble nonsense. It’s not like anyone would ever know. And then I think . . . Well, OF COURSE THEY DO!!!
It’s not like these guys would ever get penalized or even discovered if they forgot any lyrics and just shouted out their list of daily chores or soemthing.
Yeah, it always cracked me up too.
Like with Carcass or Cannibal Corpse or whatever.
I’ll listen and it’s like, “Gurgulgurlgulgul grrrunnnt grumbgrumble blaahhhh!!!” And I look at the lyrics sheet and there’s all these intricate diatribes about esophagus bleeding and rectal decay and post-mortem fornication with a 5-speed 5 horsepower Makita drill through the aereola . . . . .
Really? He said all that? I always wondered if those guys sometimes would just sit up there and grumble nonsense. It’s not like anyone would ever know. And then I think . . . Well, OF COURSE THEY DO!!!
It’s not like these guys would ever get penalized or even discovered if they forgot any lyrics and just shouted out their list of daily chores or soemthing.
I think death metal follows the same basic ratio of goodness to crap as any other music genre (i.e. 5% genius, 95% derivative crap), though a lot of the derivative stuff is amusing simply because bands seem to know they don’t sound any different from 100,000 other bands and know they need to gloss this over with all kinds of lyrical and conceptual gimmicks.
Hence the goofy lyrical stabs at things like chaos theory, and convoluted song titles like “Peripatetic Entities Encircle The Macrocosm (At A Crepuscular Hour)”. Actually there is [url http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/L.I.G.O./29351]one band whose artistic pseudonyms were actually the names of famous physicists lol…Jocelyn Bell on bass, and Stephen Hawking on vocals!!!
Oh well - I still prefer it all to whatever sadly predicatable skank-ery is being peddled by Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus and the rest.
convoluted song titles like “Peripatetic Entities Encircle The Macrocosm (At A Crepuscular Hour)”
The beauty in it is that I honestly don’t know if you made up that title or not.
Here is a track listing for THE CHTHONIC CHRONICLES
(another fun game is to count how many times and ways CHTHONIC is misspelled in various listings for this album)
- “The Sixth Adulation of His Chthonic Majesty”
- “Invocations Beyond the Outer-World Night”
- “Six Score and Ten Oblations to a Malefic Avatar”
- “The Obsidian Crown Unbound”
- “The Fallen Kingdoms of the Abyssal Plain”
- “Shackled to the Trilithon of Kutulu”
- “The Hammer of the Emperor”
- “Unfettering the Hoary Sentinels of Karnak”
- “To Storm the Cyclopean Gates of Byzantium”
- “Arcana Antediluvia”
- “Beneath the Crimson Vaults of Cydonia”
- “Return to Hatheg-Kla”
Nerds.
The beauty in it is that I honestly don’t know if you made up that title or not.
I take great pleasure in claiming that as one of my own. I think it may have been some overflow from the old “band names for bands” thread…
looking at those “Chthonic…” titles again; what the hell is the overall extreme metal fixation with track titles that are like “gerund + (sometimes) preposition + creepy adjective / noun combo + possessive + creepy noun?”
I swear, follow that basic formula and you’ve got a just-add-water readymade set of song titles for your next black / death release (actual ‘meaning’ optional):
“Feasting upon Gnarled Roots with Nidhogg”
“Blaspheming unto the Sepulchral Remants of a Dismal Katechon”
“Imbibing a Spectral Mead in the Anachronistic Halls of Lord Yama”
“Invoking Trans-Dimensional Goat Masters within the Spiral Arms of Nebulae Long Forgotten”
…my ladyfriend, seeing me wasting time on this nerdy game, had perhaps the best suggestion of all:
“Arguing with the Local High School’s ‘Game of Thrones Fan Fiction Club’ Members about Whether Jamie Lannister or Rob Snow is Cuter”
Yeah, it is retarded.
It reminds me of when my buddy and I would just shout out random “sciencey” words on nerdy Internet discussions to piss off people . . . .
“Yeah, the photosynthesis is indeed a catalytic conversion of prolapsed magnitude, but if we mitigate the outer reactive mutation through a centrefuge one can adequately coalesce the extremity of such residual crystallization!”
Anyway, making up douchey nerd-metal song titles isn’t hard either . . .
“Transmutation of the Primordial Supulchre Upon The Pentangle of Agamemnon” now on a split 7". limited pressing of 666 copies . . . . as always.
“Yeah, the photosynthesis is indeed a catalytic conversion of prolapsed magnitude, but if we mitigate the outer reactive mutation through a centrefuge one can adequately coalesce the extremity of such residual crystallization!”
It’s no wonder that there are now bona fide academic conferences / symposia on black and death metal. Some of the lyric sheets and concepts are as unintelligible and garbled as hardcore French Theory a la Jacques Derrida; I think the tenured ivory tower crowd sense some kindred spirits in the game of “using tangled verbiage to fake being in possession of actual useful knowledge.”
Anyway, making up douchey nerd-metal song titles isn’t hard either . . .
“Transmutation of the Primordial Supulchre Upon The Pentangle of Agamemnon” now on a split 7". limited pressing of 666 copies . . . . as always.
A 7"?!!! Gunnar are you a fuckin POSER?!!! Either you get the cassette in the limited edition package with the rotting dead raven and the noose, or you get nothing at all.
HAHAHA!! Right.
Cassette.
How could I be so lame.
My buddy in Sweden actually sent me one of his albums/demos or whatever packaged in a nice cassette. I wrote him back and said, “Thanks! Now if you could send me a Flux Capacitor so I can drive back to 1985 and listen to this thing it would be really appreciated.”
Really? He said all that? I always wondered if those guys sometimes would just sit up there and grumble nonsense. It’s not like anyone would ever know. And then I think . . . Well, OF COURSE THEY DO!!!
It’s not like these guys would ever get penalized or even discovered if they forgot any lyrics and just shouted out their list of daily chores or soemthing.
A few years ago, a few buddies of mine and I ended up a Zao show. A friend of mine jumped up on stage (by jumping up, I mean got on the 2 foot riser), and wanted to jump off into the crowd, but the singer grabbed him in a headlock and threw the mic in his face to start singing along.
My friend had NO IDEA as to any of the lyrics, so he just started doing exactly as you mentioned : “BLAAGH GRA PALAJSDASD” into the mic.
Was classic.
Item! Looks like the fellow who inspired this thread is, by way of apology to people he ‘burned’, offering up a free album of remixes on his bandcamp page.
(I’ll just post the relevant part here, and not link to the MetalSucks.net post - I don’t feel like giving any additional traffic today to them owing to some very crap recent articles):
“Nachtmystium remixes by metal luminary Sanford Parker (once a member of Nachtmystium himself), as well as current and former members of Nine Inch Nails, Revolting Cocks, KMFDM, and Salvo”
There you have it - for all you guys and gals experiencing differences of opinion with significant others, remember that nothing says “I wanna make things right again” like a REMIXXX.
The remix album isn’t even on Bandcamp yet, he just says it will be available “sometime soon.”
Looks like Chris Vrenna is the ex-NIN member and the ex-KMFDM member. The Revco member is Luc Van Acker.
The remix album isn’t even on Bandcamp yet, he just says it will be available “sometime soon.”
Looks like Chris Vrenna is the ex-NIN member and the ex-KMFDM member. The Revco member is Luc Van Acker.
I stopped listening to KMFDM a few years back, when did Chris Vrenna join? I hadn’t even heard about that, wow.
I have most KMFDM albums, and I can’t recall that either.
I just realised Tohuvabohu was their last album that i bought, and that was almost 10 years ago! Things were getting a little bit… samey.
I stopped listening to KMFDM a few years back, when did Chris Vrenna join? I hadn’t even heard about that, wow.
He was their live drummer in 1992. Never contributed to any of the studio albums.
Ah right, i’d never heard about that before. I used to absolutely love NIN and KMFDM too, that connection would have blown my mind a few years ago, hahaha.
Don’t know (aside from hearing his name here) who Chris Vrenna is and don’t care. But I do remember that when PRIMITIVE RACE had their retarded fundraiser thing, they were trying to get some dum-dums to pay $250 a piece or something to go to a baseball game with the guy.
Yeah, stupid morons can’t even figure out how to mail a damn paper bag puppet, but I’m sure organizing a vanpool to the Rockies game would go off without a hitch.
Don’t know (aside from hearing his name here) who Chris Vrenna is and don’t care.
He was the drummer and programmer for NIN for a long time, during their best years in my opinion.