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:cool:Nile is my personal epitome of Lovecraftian death metal with Egyptological themes

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Browsing through this thread, all I can say is alot of you have very good taste in music. I got into Ligotti via Current 93, and it's weird that not only is Ligotti in the style of other authors I like - but apparently people who like him have the same taste in music. Strange how it all works out. Anyway, a few of my favoutie bands:

Opeth
Empyrium
Negura Bunget
Nick Drake
Swans
Tenhi
Dead can Dance
Tim Buckley
16 Horsepower
Isis
Drudkh

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Yes! Negura Bunget and Drudkh are two of my favorite black metal bands. Negura Bunget's Om was such a ####ing amazing album it's ridiculous. I only wish there was a translation available for the lyrics. Drudkh are great...though I fear they may be stagnating a bit lately. Blood In Our Wells was great, but I haven't checked out Estrangement yet.

You can probably guess what I think of Tenhi by my avatar.

yay I'm glad the number of metalheads is growing

also, Nile are not the best representative of H.P. Lovecraft in metal. Catacombs or The Axis of Perdition maybe...there are a ton of metal bands that write lyrics steeped in Lovecraftian mythology

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I agree, Negura's "OM" is just an incredible piece of art. They played in London earlier in the year & I didn't find out about it until it was too late :(

If we're on the subject of metal.. another of my favourite bands is Neurosis. Anyone heard their new album yet?

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I checked out Negura Bunget, and what I've so far heard is impressive.

On a different note, anyone ever had a combined love-hate effect with an album or band? I can safely say that Xiu Xiu gives me exactly that...

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Salutations!
I am mainly into Doom Metal and dark acoustic music.
If you like slow but powerful crushing tunes I can recommend you the music of WARNING (UK), REVEREND BIZARRE (FINLAND) or THE GATES OF SLUMBER (USA).

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And what about Bonnie "Prince" Billy...I haven't seen him mentioned. I personally think he's such a good songwriter, and he has a pretty scary face...
He's been performing with David Tibet as well.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y9d5j-QJIGU

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On another note, I've been listening to a great deal of Talking Heads lately, primarily from their Eno period.

Although it's far from my favourite song of theirs, the concept behind "The Overload" is a great one: Playing a song in the style of Joy Division without having heard them. And they're startlingly close to the mark...

Also, Nocturnal Emissions and Thee Majesty. Very nice, very weird.

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Hey - Silent One - that's a really good question - related to the LoveHate

If you've ever experienced early Tangerine Dream albums I frequently have that ZAP of WOW this is awesome followed by DAMN this is so annoying! The endless electronic bleeps and bloops can get tiresome over 20 minute songs but there are those moments of wonder and to think that this was from the early seventies!

Early Velvet Underground - so daring and yet Nico's vocals on the first album make me want to claw open my ears and puncture my eardrums so nothing so awful can ever make their way in again. That clash between Reed and Cale for Pop versus Art rock often took terrible tolls.

Maybe this needs to be a separate thread....

alec...

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I really don't mind Nico. But frankly, "European Son" is boring. Yes, I said it.

In the case of Xiu Xiu it's also the vocalist. When you hear an interview with the man, he's surprisingly balanced and - dare I say it - normal, with a few quirks. But my god, on record he sounds like he's about to commit seppuku. Or worse... And even when he doesn't, the lyrics persistently drift into skin-crawl territory.

Also, very early Residents (Baby Sex, The Warner Bros. Album) confuses me to no end. Not in the sense of whether they take themselves seriously (not by any means), but whether I should take it seriously. I know I probably shouldn't, but there's something so alien about it...

Some music used to elicit the same effects in me but no longer does. House-era PTV, for instance, which I now tolerate and even like (although one should monitor one's P-Orridge intake).

Finally, regardless of rave reviews, I am still perplexed by Homotopy to Marie. I love Nurse with Wound, but I simply so far have been unable to grasp this album. The volume inconsistencies and general "emptiness" are my two key gripes. Perhaps a full listen will sort things out...