Redcarmoose
Headphoneus Supremus
I think it's interesting how some bands get worse over time while others continue to improve.
I just had a fish for dinner called "Nyat-Nyat" so it was both interesting and different, as it was a first for me. New music is the same, but when you hear what Korn did this year, it's even more special because it's like somebody making your old favorite meal, but truly adding excitement and vigor to the experience.
Kreator is going crazy right now and they have been around forever. Their early stuff is punk-rock but they evolved and kept the excitement going. Kreator maybe has a time when they didn't sound so enthuseastic but have been going strong ever since I started liking them around 2000. The songs I have heard from this new album show them not doing anything new but simply bringing aggression and their master skill to the table. Though we do notice many newer bands doing something else. Aluk Todolo are forging ahead and taking things a step farther with experimentation.
It's entertaining to see Metal expanded. And how many first albums or first three albums were an example of a band being inspired and pushing the genre farther into a new direction.
A band like Aluk Todolo are trying to mend a different unorthodox spiritual side of Psycodelic Kraut Rock other than standard esoteric themes. There album before this last record (Occult Rock), they went to a remote Indonesian island and lived with a tribe trying to understand and become inspired by the local spirituality. That in itself is pretty far from our standard black metal recording methodology. What it says to me is there is room for experimenting. The metal community is open enough and fluid enough to become interested in other non-Christian themes besides our genre normals and it's ways.
[VIDEO] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWFwv_WAIn4 [/VIDEO]