Oh yeah I suppose you can just use a DAW, I have experience with audacity but I suppose Audition or Reaper will work too. I'll give it a shot this weekend. Being that it is winter in MN, it's awfully dry and static is a real problem this time of year but I'll give the stylus a good clean and I'll vacuum clean the record.
So about a year or so ago I decided to dabble in black metal for the first time. I'd generally avoided it as a genre because of its frequent association with National Socialism and satanism—neither of which I care to be indoctrinated with. As it turns out, there is a metric ton of phenomenal black metal, particularly of the ambient/drone/folk varieties, that feature nothing of the sort. I think I'd have to unequivocally call black metal my favorite musical genre today.
This week alone I purchased the following albums:
Is - Songs from the Northernlands
Shade Empire - Omega Arcane
Sky Burial - Where Four Rivers Flow
An Autumn for Crippled Children - Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love
Myrkur - Myrkur
Arx Atrata - Oblivion
Aquilus - Griseus
Darkspace - Darkspace III I
Xothist - Simulacrum
Alda - Tahoma
It feels like I've easily added five times this many albums in the past three months or so, as well. So yeah, um . . . black metal pretty much owns everything. \m/ The three most important words in any language just might be Blut Aus Nord.
Well, I didn't realize it was the 2008 release. I thought, wow, they are making all their covers very similar?
If you have read about their history it is a great album to all of a sudden come out with. I have thousands of Black Metal CDs and many have the word black in the title. I got confused?
Always appreciate the recommendations from you guys. Finally listening to Bongripper (Miserable). Sometimes the name of a band can make you prejudge. I had an image of Bongzilla from a few years ago which had limited appeal from me. But, this is pretty interesting. I love doom...the instrumental aspect is cool-can listen and work at the same time. For me, I'd say almost a hodgepodge of Uffomammut (an Italian psychedelic doom/sludge band I'm a huge fan of), sleep and maybe some Electric Wizard. Honestly, never heard of them before some of you guys started posting!
Just ordered a bunch of stuff I'm looking forward to ripping and putting in my 2014 playlist: Indian, Krieg, Old Man Doom, Thou, Eyehategod, Orange Goblin, Panopticon, Blut Aus Nord, Machine Head which I think is quite solid for a mainstream band....should keep my ears buys for a little while...and some indy/alternative rock stuff.
My ongoing new music list has a surprising number of stoner albums which is a genre I'd all but left for dead. For anyone that likes dark rock, I've been listening to a band called Wovenhand which is one of the better rock/metal influenced bands I've heard-has a rock/post rock, punk, folk sound-almost like The Cult with an Americana/folk influence but a really good record with strong spiritual religious themes......a standout in 2014 for me.
In addition to bone crunching metal, I'm always on the look out for interesting non metal but good rock. Pleasantly surprised to come across few albums by new and older artists that are a lot more interesting than say the Foo Fighters release (which I don't actually hate). For me, I'd say Solstafir, Wovenhand, War on Drugs, Giant Squid, Soused, Sun Kil Moon, Earth, Zeppelin I remaster, Trukfighters and Melvins were some of this year's pleasant surprises in addition to a schiit ton of good metal. And, of course some of those bands cross into the metal category.....
I'm looking to put together a sort of "chill" playlist full of music that I can easily sleep to, but that still has metal influences and tonal characteristics. Examples of the kind of stuff I'm looking for include An Autumn for Crippled Children; Deep Mountains; Isole; Om; Omit; Tenhi; Theatre of Tragedy. I'm sure I have others in my collection but I'm curious—what bands you guys would recommend for this kind of thing?
I'm looking to put together a sort of "chill" playlist full of music that I can easily sleep to, but that still has metal influences and tonal characteristics. Examples of the kind of stuff I'm looking for include An Autumn for Crippled Children; Deep Mountains; Isole; Om; Omit; Tenhi; Theatre of Tragedy. I'm sure I have others in my collection but I'm curious—what bands you guys would recommend for this kind of thing?
I love OM.....Maybe not quite mellow enough for sleep, but some of my recent mellow additions (last year or so) music with a metal influence would include Horseback, Storm Corrosion, Russian Circles and Intronaut. The new Earth-Primitive and Deadly and Giant Squids album-The Minoans. Mark Lanegan-Blues Funeeral (formerly of Screaming Trees).
Not metal-but some beautiful experimental music this year-Grouper-Ruins -One woman murmuring barely audible sounds and piano-on a lot of year end lists-almost new age sound-great on headphones. Luluc (folk album) is another nice 2014 mellow release-but not metal at all. Luluc is just a female vocalist/male acoustic guitarist modern folk rock album from Australia. Mogwai is nice
Thanks Ferday. I liked The Blackening. Into The Locust was decent but I thought I was done....nothing really new-but good albums. Finally decided OK-let me listen to Machine Head-I need to support bands that are mainstream and have some credibility. gotta say-I'm in big time with Bloodstone and Diamonds. Kind of like all the great reviews I dismissed about Revocation. Two bands I thought I was in been there done that mode. Wrong on both counts-two fine examples of modern metal IMO. All the strings and experimentation totally work for me for MH....it's a good mainstream metal album....there are not that many. I'm cranking it in my van right now. Just an easy listen and still legit trad metal
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