Darkest Desires PART THREE

[DarkAngel]

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Originally posted by KJ869 New "Tiamat - Prey" Is damn good CD. Listen it If you can.

Should arrive any day.............ordered this on friday, limited edition digpak. I have all TIAMAT from Clouds-Prey, really love Wild Honey/Gaia CD.

Scott
Nothing on current Holiday Sale list for me yet.........but I own almost anything good already

I will look over and post top 3-4 CDs if starting with nothing.

 

[scottder]

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Originally posted by DarkAngel Scott Nothing on current Holiday Sale list for me yet.........but I own almost anything good already I will look over and post top 3-4 CDs if starting with nothing.

Gracias sir

 

[Mr.PD]

Hey DA, at least you got the tracking number email. I haven't even gotten that for my purchase from the sale. I just checked my card statement and the only charge from Century is the Dimmu box.

I went to Boise yesterday. While there I stopped in at The Record Exchange and picked up My Ruin - The Horror of Beauty, and The Crown - Possessed 13 deluxe ed. and I got Darkthrone- Preparing For War.
I have been listening to Possessed13 and I am impressed. This is not a big change for The Crown, but there is more focus and better production value. I think it shows a bit of maturing by the band. There are more variations in tempo than previous albums, and more complications. It is still a thrash album, just not as simple as, say Deathrace King. They did play around with special effects on this album, just little. When I first played it at home I thought I was losing a connection on the speakers. The beginning was some static and noise effects that jump from side to side. Freaked me out.
I haven't listened to the bonus material 2nd disc yet. Bonus tracks are a couple demos, their very first studio recording, their first official release, and a cover of Burning Leather.

My Ruin- The Horror of Beauty. These girls say they are the answer to the nu-metal plague. (something to that effect). This is metal. It's pretty good, doesn't really belong to the same group as all this dark metal we have been talking about. This version has the video we saw at Century's website and a video of making that video.

I need to give this another listen, but off hand I would say the song they used for the video, Made To Measure, may be the lightest sounding song on the album. They do have some hip hop influences showing through. Diffenately an american band. More like Kittie than Betty Blowtorch, but better than Kittie. Not like Godsmack or that crap. I'm not familiar enough with this new metal music to make any other comparisons. I like this album, it does have some familiar sounds. Tairrie B does a good job on the growly vocals.

 

[DarkAngel]

Holiday Sale List Picks
Here is what I like best on list currently:

ENSLAVED - below the Lights
MARDUK - World Funeral
MY DYING BRIDE - Angel & Gods CDs
SEPTIC FLESH - Sumerian Daemons

EDGE OF SANITY - Crimson II (was on list yesterday but not now)


PD
I also like entire new MY RUIN CD...........don't make the mistake of buying previous albums though, he he.

 

[KR...]

Here are my picks for the Big Sale at the End, note that many of these CDs I already have or am planing to get :

ANATHEMA - Serenades RE-ISSUE DIGIPAK
ANTIMATTER - Lights Out
DARKTHRONE - A Blaze In The Northern Sky RE-ISSUE DIGIPAK
DARKTHRONE - Hate Them
DARKTHRONE - Transilvanian Hunger DIGIPAK RE-ISSUE
DARKTHRONE - Under A Funeral Moon DIGIPAK RE-ISSUE
ELEND - Winds Devouring Men
FINNTROLL - Visor Om Slutet
MY DYING BRIDE - Like Gods Of The Sun DIGIPAK RE-ISSUE
MY DYING BRIDE - The Angel And The Dark River DIGIPAK + 4 Bonus Tracks!
THE GATHERING - Souvenirs
ULVER - A Quick Fix Of Melancholy EP
WHILE HEAVEN WEPT - Of Empires Forlorn JEWEL CASE

If you don't own any of these, here is your chance!

 

[Mr.PD]

I'm so excited!!!!!!!
I just got the email from UPS on behalf of Century Media that I have a package due for delivery on 11/21.

I had given up on Century.

Oh, My Ruin is really starting to grow on me. I like it very much. Thanks for the advice DA, I will stick with this album.

 

[Mr.PD]

Hey, I thought I saw a reference to Grimfest here. I have looked and looked and then tried the search button. No Grimfest.

Have any of you heard these guys? Metal Judgement gave a good review (like that means alot

), I went to Metalblade and listened to a song, it was pretty good.

I need input!

 

[scottder]

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Originally posted by Mr.PD Hey, I thought I saw a reference to Grimfest here. I have looked and looked and then tried the search button. No Grimfest. Have any of you heard these guys? Metal Judgement gave a good review (like that means alot ), I went to Metalblade and listened to a song, it was pretty good. I need input!

Just wait, If DA hasn't heard it yet, he'll buy it and let us know

Scott

 

[DarkAngel]

I have no plans on getting GRIMFEST........too many other fish to fry right now.

Just one more day to get my mother lode from CM Halloween sale,
I am not at all happy with service and have no plans to place any future orders here..............too bad since they do carry some otherwise hard to find titles. (Lux Occulta, Abyssos etc)

 

[DarkAngel]

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Originally posted by DarkAngel Holiday Sale List Picks Here is what I like best on list currently: ENSLAVED - below the Lights MARDUK - World Funeral MY DYING BRIDE - Angel & Gods CDs SEPTIC FLESH - Sumerian Daemons EDGE OF SANITY - Crimson II (was on list yesterday but not now)

More arrived for my pick list (I just purchased these also):

DARKANE - Rusted Angel
NAGLFAR - Diabolical (Vittra in my top 15 list)
EUCHARIST - Velvet Creation & Mirrorworlds (IN FLAMES members early band)

 

[Mr.PD]

I'm gonna stick my neck out and get Grimfest.
I just ordered from The End:

NOKTURNAL MORTUM - Goat Horns
IMMORTAL - Damned In Black
ARCH ENEMY - Wages Of Sin THE SUPREME ED
GRIMFIST - Ghouls Of Grandeur
DARKANE - Rusted Angel
EUCHARIST - Mirrorworlds
NAGLFAR - Diabolical

A couple here from bands I know but most of these are totally unknown to me. I am guessing from what has been said here, that I may like them.

edit seeing this post it dawned on me why I may not have found Grimfist in my search, ................ I misspelled it as Grimfest.

[size=xx-small]thank god for copy & paste[/size]

 

[DarkAngel]

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Originally posted by Mr.PD I'm gonna stick my neck out and get Grimfest. I just ordered from The End: NOKTURNAL MORTUM - Goat Horns IMMORTAL - Damned In Black ARCH ENEMY - Wages Of Sin THE SUPREME ED GRIMFIST - Ghouls Of Grandeur DARKANE - Rusted Angel EUCHARIST - Mirrorworlds NAGLFAR - Diabolical

Looks like a good bunch, I also bought the last three but have not actally heard them............hope we made a smart move.
(about time you got that great AE album!)

NOKTURNAL MORTUM - Goat Horns
I love the 1st two NM albums, "lunar poetry" was ranked 3 in my top 30 list and "goat horns" is nearly as good.

 

[Mr.PD]

I got my Halloween sale order from Century today.

They had all the CDs I wanted but only one of the two shirts.
I got
Zyklon- Aeon
Darkthrone- Goatlord
Dimmu Borgir- For All Tid
Dimmu Borgir- Stormblast
Dimmu Borgir- Godless Savage Garden
I am listening to Zyklon- Aeon. This is pretty good. 9 tracks totaling 41 min 56 seconds. Very heavy stuff here. You can hear influences from Slayer and one song has an old Ozzy feel to it. Lot of variation in this CD. Some songs are slow and very very heavy and others are nice and fast. A little bit of sampling and techno pieces here and there, but not much. Great growly vocals and some clean (deep guttural clean) passages.
I like that it has a familiar feel to it. It fits in well with Immortal and Decapitated. Yet it doesn't sound like either one. There is a different vocalist on the last track, and a second vocalist on one of the other songs.
Production value is superb, adding to the depth of the heaviness of this album. This is not an orchestral piece like the latest offerings from Dimmu and Cradle. Just simple and heavy, with a few synth industrial effects thrown in where appropriate.
The only song I didn't like the sound of was track 2 titled Two Thousand Years. The lyrics are great (even if they are over my head) and the melody is good, it's just that this has a way different vocal style that I am not too sure about. I need a dictionary to understand the lyrics. KR... is the only person I know that will surely understand this song right from the start. Let me quote part of the lyrics.
"Two thousand years or unrealised eschatology
No hold for devine dispensation
Obey through my external service
Value my redemptive power"
That Faust can write some heady stuff can't he?

Overall, I give it

(4 out of 5)
Now I gotta go and listen to some older Dimmu

edit I went to open Stormblast, and noticed that the sticky sealer tape label thingy says the CD is Luther Vandross- The Night I Fell In Love.

I was happy that the CD itself was correct. I may leave this sticker on, just for laughs.

 

[KR...]

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Originally posted by Mr.PD The only song I didn't like the sound of was track 2 titled Two Thousand Years. The lyrics are great (even if they are over my head) and the melody is good, it's just that this has a way different vocal style that I am not too sure about. I need a dictionary to understand the lyrics. KR... is the only person I know that will surely understand this song right from the start. Let me quote part of the lyrics. "Two thousand years or unrealised eschatology No hold for devine dispensation Obey through my external service Value my redemptive power" That Faust can write some heady stuff can't he?

Faust was in jail for many years.

eschatology = Apocalyptic writtings like Revelations. There are about 13 of these texts around or 14 if you count Revelations.


Edit :

Do you want to know where they got the name Zyklon?
http://www.nizkor.org/faqs/auschwitz...tz-faq-06.html

 

[Mr.PD]

Thanks for the link KR...
I did not know where the name Zyklon came from, or that it was even a name before the band adopted it.
Deadly isn't it?

This old Dimmu Borgir is pretty good stuff. I listened to Stormblast and liked it, now I am listening to For All Tid. I noticed the CD is gold like a DVD. The piano peices have a very nice sound to them.