[Music Alchemist]

  You don't happen to be their manager or something like this, do you?

 
Naww, I just love them and think other black metal fans would too.

 

[Tom Yum Goong]

Say what you want, I like the new Opeth album more than the Fallujahs The Flesh Prevails. Not only because of the sound!
Heck, I even prefer the new Ceremonial Castings album over it!

Probably their best one yet: http://ceremonialcastings.bandcamp.com/

(I know this song got posted several times now but it's just too damn cool)
 

 

[Music Alchemist]

  Say what you want, I like the new Opeth album more than the Fallujahs The Flesh Prevails. Not only because of the sound!
Heck, I even prefer the new Ceremonial Castings album over it!

Probably their best one yet: http://ceremonialcastings.bandcamp.com/

(I know this song got posted several times now but it's just too damn cool)
 

 
Cthulhu phantoms! (Didn't even read the word "cthulhu" before thinking this.)
 
I have at least three Cthulhu-themed albums. I'll check out the stuff you mentioned soon enough.

 

[sludgeogre]

I just want to know why they're charging 15 bucks for that on Bandcamp. Do they realize how this works?
 
I've always loved their writing, but they couldn't make this album sound any worse if they tried.

 

[BLACKENEDPLAGUE]

  Say what you want, I like the new Opeth album more than the Fallujahs The Flesh Prevails. Not only because of the sound!
Heck, I even prefer the new Ceremonial Castings album over it!

Probably their best one yet: http://ceremonialcastings.bandcamp.com/

(I know this song got posted several times now but it's just too damn cool)
 

 
>$15
>not a Cd
 

 

[Trogdor]

I just want to know why they're charging 15 bucks for that on Bandcamp. Do they realize how this works?

I've always loved their writing, but they couldn't make this album sound any worse if they tried.

Now, now, that's the way the artist intended it to sound.

 

[bassboysam]

My band recently released our 3rd album. You can check it out here.
http://monobrowmanband.bandcamp.com.


Vinyl has a DR of 12

 

[sludgeogre]

Now, now, that's the way the artist intended it to sound.

Haaaaahahaha, I knew that would be coming. I respect tr00 kvlt black metalers wanting to make their **** sound like it was recorded on a tape, and then recorded on another tape, which was then stomped on, and then recorded over the previous tape. I've just never liked it. I mean they even sound like that LIVE. They just like that horrible tone for some reason. I'll never understand it. It'd still sound like crap even if it was DR10.

 

[Trogdor]

Haaaaahahaha, I knew that would be coming. I respect tr00 kvlt black metalers wanting to make their **** sound like it was recorded on a tape, and then recorded on another tape, which was then stomped on, and then recorded over the previous tape. I've just never liked it. I mean they even sound like that LIVE. They just like that horrible tone for some reason. I'll never understand it. It'd still sound like crap even if it was DR10.

Who knows? Maybe if they went into that studio with trying to by a bit more dynamic that attitude would "overflow" to other areas of the mix and master. The Infernal Curse EP is like this as well.

I keep telling ya, it's not about the DR score, it's about attitude. But when the DR score is like 2 or 3, you have a clear idea what that attitude was going in. Just saying bro, just saying...

 

[Blazingsonic]

Now, now, that's the way the artist intended it to sound.

 

 
This actually would be an example for a band compressing their album on purpose to make it sound like it´s coming from the deep ocean (a member of the band posted this on a forum a while ago). It does make sense if you look at it that way, but I still wish I could hear it in just a normal more dynamic version.
 
The song itself really is amazing though. And I love the artwork.

 

[vaed]

Yeah, raw production is definitely an acquired taste when it gets to a certain point, but to me it adds a bit of mystique or magic to the experience, as if I'm dusting off a long-forgotten ancient tome... *goes off the rails*
 
The first kvlt production that I really appreciated was probably Schattenvald:
 
 

 

[Trogdor]

This actually would be an example for a band compressing their album on purpose to make it sound like it´s coming from the deep ocean (a member of the band posted this on a forum a while ago). It does make sense if you look at it that way, but I still wish I could hear it in just a normal more dynamic version.

The song itself really is amazing though. And I love the artwork.

Want to hear high dynamics and a canvernous record, here you go (not saying it's stellar production either but in the same line aesthetically - actually I forgot what I thought of that record....it got a lot praise from the usual outlets).

 

[Tom Yum Goong]

  I just want to know why they're charging 15 bucks for that on Bandcamp. Do they realize how this works?
 
I've always loved their writing, but they couldn't make this album sound any worse if they tried.

It's a very not bandcamp-ish price, I have to admit.

Their style of Black Metal is so damn cheesy! I love it ♥
Sound-wise it's exactly like their other albums, if you ask me.
 

Now, now, that's the way the artist intended it to sound.

I'm really not into Raw BM but Ceremonial Castings make it sound so damn charming
Not trve or kvlt or whatever. Just like a whole lot of fun. Really could not imagine them with e.g. Behemoth-ish sound.

Oh and look at the DR....it's above average!
 

  foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2014-07-21 23:12:40
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Analyzed: Ceremonial Castings / Cthulhu
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR7        0.00 dB    -7.57 dB      7:04 01-The Great Old Ones
DR7        0.00 dB    -7.52 dB      6:34 02-Return To The Cosmic Infinity
DR7        0.00 dB    -7.70 dB      7:39 03-The Depths Of Dreams & Terror
DR9       -5.72 dB   -17.59 dB      4:04 04-Below A Mirror Of Stars
DR7        0.00 dB    -8.92 dB      8:51 05-Submerged Stones Of R'lyeh
DR7        0.00 dB    -7.38 dB      5:57 06-Crypt Of The Kraken King
DR7        0.00 dB    -7.35 dB      5:55 07-A Throne Below The Black Sea
DR8       -1.21 dB   -11.79 dB      3:46 08-Above A Reflection Of Water
DR7        0.00 dB    -9.01 dB      5:53 09-Storming The Pacific
DR7        0.00 dB    -7.51 dB      9:37 10-Swallowed By The Aeons Of Time
DR7       -0.13 dB    -9.53 dB      5:25 11-Endless Oceans
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Number of tracks:  11
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           596 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
================================================================================
 

 

[BLACKENEDPLAGUE]

This is the log of a DEATH INDUSTRIAL / POWER ELECTRONICS album from 1997
 

  foobar2000 1.3.3 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2014-07-21 17:17:46
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Analyzed: Atrax Morgue / Slush of a Maniac
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR9       -4.07 dB   -14.88 dB      2:48 01-From: The Fifth Cord
DR7       -1.33 dB   -12.22 dB      4:06 02-Necrophile Lust
DR8       -2.33 dB   -12.89 dB      4:37 03-Crazy
DR7       -5.58 dB   -15.04 dB      4:09 04-Blade Penetration
DR7       -4.33 dB   -13.38 dB      4:10 05-Ultrviolence
DR7       -3.03 dB   -11.84 dB      3:57 06-Sexycorpse (New version)
DR14      -2.26 dB   -18.97 dB      3:25 07-Lock the Door
DR8       -3.01 dB   -11.93 dB      2:55 08-Cold Pressure 2
DR8       -2.95 dB   -12.95 dB      4:38 09-Obsessive
DR7       -2.78 dB   -12.95 dB      3:56 10-Control
DR8       -3.45 dB   -14.51 dB      2:50 11-After Murder
DR8       -4.35 dB   -13.29 dB      5:26 12-Corrupted
DR5       -2.57 dB    -8.62 dB      2:45 13-You Asked for More
DR12      -1.85 dB   -16.34 dB      4:37 14-Cry, Baby, Cry
DR10      -3.41 dB   -15.62 dB      5:42 15-It Was a Dangerous Game
DR8       -4.51 dB   -13.99 dB      2:54 16-Nothing to See
DR10      -4.18 dB   -16.80 dB      3:17 17-Torture
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Number of tracks:  17
Official DR value: DR8
Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           880 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
================================================================================

 
 
Any arguments for brickwalling are void, even that DR5 isn't getting anywhere in the vicinity of peaking

 

[Blazingsonic]

Want to hear high dynamics and a canvernous record, here you go (not saying it's stellar production either but in the same line aesthetically - actually I forgot what I thought of that record....it got a lot praise from the usual outlets).

 
Thanks for the recommendation - will check it out !
 
But I´m a bit curious now...what do you think of Swalloed By The Ocean´s Tide musically? I really quite dig some of the songs