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I was pleasantly surprised to discover the following essay in the latest issue of 'Faunus' (The Journal of the 'Friends of Arthur Machen').

"Spectre vs. Rector: The Fall and Arthur Machen" by Mark Goodall

Despite countless years of listening to The Fall I had no idea that Mark E. Smith was a Machen fan (no doubt in part due to my inability to decipher some of his more impenetrable lyrics!).

I wonder what he thinks of Ligotti?

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Blut Aus Nord, awesome band.

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Check out the thread Off the radar metal album recommendations

http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.ph...ighlight=metal

for similar bands

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Recent Favorites:
Bird from the Abyss Crawling Monuments | Bird From The Abyss
Burzum The Dresden Dolls

All time favorites for 10+years now:
Joy Division, This Mortal Coil, Blue Oyster Cult.

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I'm a little eclectic, but do like the dark melanomic nature of these two groups:

Cult of Luna

Cult_of_Luna

When this post-metal band moved into a converted mental institution, they stumbled upon an unexpected diary from an inmate: "Tales of the Eternal Kingdom," and its contents (dealing with an imaginary dimension of being from which monstrous entities streamed into our world commiting abysmal crimes, one of them being the murder of his wife...) provided them the potencies of their lyrical and dark invective albumn.

Erdenstern: At the Mountains of Madness - Music inspired by H.P. Lovecraft
Along with Nox Arcana and Midnight Sinicate they provide contemplative and melancholic music for those of us who enjoy RPG...

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Dave Kerman/5uu's

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Xymox:

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Lately, it has been Cluster, Popol Vuh, Coil, and Richard Pinhas.

For something new, it has been Motion Sickness of Time Travel
and Black Mountain.


But it changes all the time....

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He's a big Lovecraft fan too. Here's a video of him reading 'The Colour out of Space':

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Too many to list, really. I go through periods of mostly listening to electronic, folk, classical, postpunk, jazz, etc...

The ones I always come back to include Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Shirley Collins, Thomas Tallis...

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This is the music I hear in my dreams.

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I've been a post rock nut for about a decade now. My favorites are: Signal Hill, Mogwai, This Will Destroy You, Six Parts Seven, Explosions in the Sky, Red Sparowes, & Godspeed You Black Emperor

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Demdike Stare. (Arguably a little too knowing, but still eternally listenable.)

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Pram.
Wonderful.

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Spiritual Front - 'Nihilist suicide pop'. I think they played a gig with Death In June (another favourite) recently. I also love Current 93, Morrissey, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Stephin Merritt's bands (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies) , original line-up The Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, to name a few others.

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Since I've seen no mention of the Australian band Portal herein, I'll recommend them to the black/death metal fans of the forum. Although some may find their song titles to be trying too hard, I think they are very evocative and fit the music well: Abysmills, Awryeon, The Back Wards...

To me they sound like all matter grinding itself to oblivion in a cataclysmic rush for the end.

I also recommend Impetuous Ritual (also from Australia) and Antediluvian and Mitochondrion (both from Canada).

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Wumpscut, Big Black, Skinny Puppy, Darkthrone, Lustmord, Bastard Noise, Subhumans, M.B., Whitehouse, Current 93, Mobb Deep, Nas, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dissecting Table...

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You should look through Off the radar metal album recommendations - THE NIGHTMARE NETWORK

Portal gets mentioned.

They've become one of my favorite bands. I love Outre' and their last album Vexovoid blew me away.

No one has posted here for a while. Maybe you could post some of your favorite videos.:D

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The Residents anyone? It ought to be sufficiently nihilistic, misanthropic, and horrific.

CONSTANTINOPLE

SINISTER EXAGGERATOR

BLUE ROSEBUDS
"Your words are empty hollow bleatings
Of a mental crutch
They're open-festered indigestion
With a velvet touch
An ether-eating Eskimo
Would gag upon your sight
Convulsed into oblivion
From laughter or from fright
A coma with a sweet aroma
Is your only dream
Malignant with the misconception
That a grunt can gleam
Your lichen-covered corpuscles
Are filthy to my fist
Infection is your finest flower
Mildewed in the mist."

LOVE LEAKS OUT - Creepy video.

FINGERTIPS - Decadent images of roses and death. Depressing.

ALMOST PERFECT - Late Residents song, as they had become fully accomplished musicians. Easier listen for the uninitiated.

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That's a nice eclectic mix. Especially love Bastard Noise and M.B.. Do you listen to New Blockaders?

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I could list bands all night so I'll try to stick to five. First that come to mind are:

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Killing Joke
Joy Division
King Crimson
Morphine

And that's bands only, because artists there's quite a few folk I admire. Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Jacques Brel, Scott Walker... and, for my money, the two solo albums by Rowland S. Howard are far better than many bands' entire discography.

I really like Tweedles, Freakshow, Commercial Album, and I absolutely love River of Crime and Demons Dance Alone. But me they're kinda like Coil in that their catalog is ridiculously big so I have no hopes of ever hearing it all, and even then I really don't know what to make out of half the stuff I listen to. Sometimes I love it on first listen. Sometimes it grows on me. Sometimes it never does. :(

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Let's see. . .

Pixies, The Gun Club, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Joy Division, REM ('81-91), The Feelies, Beat Happening, The Smiths, Galaxie 500, The Field Mice, The Monks, The Velvet Underground, The Cramps, The Magnetic Fields, They Might Be Giants, Philip Glass, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Belle and Sebastien, Portishead, DJ Shadow, Electrelane, The Walkmen, The Thermals, Beach Fossils, Surfer Blood, Arcade Fire, Spoon, Stereolab, The Drums, His Name is Alive, Unrest, Pavement, Crystal Stilts, Jay Reatard, The Fall, Josef K, Mazzy Star, Dan Deacon, Crystal Castles, Widowspeak, Wild Nothing, Dirty Beaches, Wire, Mission of Burma, Devo, Swell Maps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Soul Coughing, Real Estate, Shimmering Stars, Girls Names, Secret Cities, Holiday Shores, Seapony, Twerps, Weekend, Wild Beasts, and Young Marble Giants

. . .to name a few!

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I agree there on those albums, except Commercial Album which I never listen to (too short tunes for me to get involved). A few other favorites, Mark of the Mole, Diskomo/Goosebump, God in Three Persons (a bit too dark for me), Cube E: Live in Holland, Live At the Fillmore, Disfigured Night.

Lately they have started producing recordings of all their live performances. The most rabid fans love it. But that's when I gave up. I stick with the old stuff.

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So many, but those I've listened to the most and the longest would be the Legendary Pink Dots and Nine Inch Nails. Death in June, Joy Division/New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, Beth Orton, Mazzy Star, Massive Attack, Fugazi, Talking Heads, Jimi Hendrix, Tool, Portishead, and Roxy Music would be other lifelong favorites, albeit I listen to them more inconsistently. In the last few years, I've been really keen on Haus Arafna, Rome, Can, Adult., and Florence and the Machine.

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The Residents's sarcastic version of the politically correct "We Are the World" ("Just For You").

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Exquisite early black metal.

Other great black metal and viking metal bands are Bathory, Burzum, and Enslaved. HELL TOR!

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Among many others:

Cowboy Junkies

Dire Straits

Mazzy Star

My Bloody Valentine

Radiohead

Soda Stereo

The Doors

The Rolling Stones

The Stone Roses

The Strokes


Favorite solo artists:

Bob Dylan

Lou Reed

Mark Knopfler

Tom Waits

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That's a great track. I always thought that and "Battle Of Epping Forest" were really gutsy in the way they just barely hang together but pull off something really impressive in the unlikely combination.

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This is just a cut and paste from my personal profile. I found it too difficult to narrow down. Some of these bands I just really love a couple of tracks by, others are full blown obsessions.

Swans/World Of Skin/Angels of Light, American Music Club/Mark Eitzel/Toiling Midgets, Beach Boys/Dennis Wilson/Brian Wilson, Kristen Hersh, Pixies/Frank Black/Catholics/The Breeders, Diamanda Galas, Sigur Ros, Public Image Limited, Smashing Pumpkins, Durutti Column, The Daysleepers, Mew, The Veldt/Apollo Heights, Todd Rundgren/Utopia, Sianspheric, Idaho, Miranda Sex Garden, Codeine, Decoder Ring, The Young Gods, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Lycia/Bleak/Estraya/Mike Vanpotfleet/Tara Vanflower, Bark Psychosis, Kitchens Of Distinction, Bel Canto, Pale Saints, Field Mice, The Sundays, Galaxie 500/Damon and Naomi, Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Drive By Truckers, David Byrne/Talking Heads, Judee Sill, Current 93, Talk Talk, YES/Jon Anderson/Rick Wakeman/Chris Squire, Ulrich Schnauss, Melt Banana, The Boredoms, The Band, Catherine Wheel, Area/Moon Seven Times/Lanterna, Lilys, AR Kane, Slint, June Tabor, Kramer/Bongwater, Slowdive/Mojave 3, Ween, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon, Scott Walker, The Cure, The Glove, Swell, Cranes, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Kevin Tihista, The Replacements, Knife+Fork, Leonard Cohen, Hex, Virgin Prunes, Auburn Lull, Julee Cruise, Love Spirals Downwards, The Chameleons, Con Dolore/Polar, Cocteau Twins/Robin Guthrie, Low, The Autumns, Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard, Chapterhouse, Pavement/Stephen Malkmus, Radiohead, The Smiths/Morrissey, Joy Division, Portishead, Meat Puppets, PJ Harvey, Neil Young, Field Music, Dinosaur Jr, British Sea Power, John Cale, REM, Captain Beefheart, Nick Cave, Brian Eno, Scritti Politti, Throbbing Gristle, Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, Piano Magic, Christian Death, Death Vessel, Mars, Faith and Disease, Van Der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill, Towering Inferno, Jesu/Godflesh, Battles, Husker Du, Glenn Branca, Ariel Pink, Faith and the Muse, Death, Soul Whirling Somewhere, Rush, Jon And Vangelis, Glee Club, The Knife/Fever Ray, Swallow, Judgement of Paris, King Crimson, Mistle Thrush, Lisa Germano, Trance To The Sun/Submarine Fleet, This Ascension, Jethro Tull, Klima, Bach, Opeth, Focus, Alcest, Teenage Filmstars, Frost(prog), Boris, Carcass, Guapo, Nobuo Uematsu, Bizarre, Akira Yamaoka, Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook, Khanate, Tears For Fears, Rise and Fall of a Decade, Genesis, IQ, Emperor/Peccatum, Mary Margaret O Hara, Angelo Badalamenti, Michiru Yamane, Egg, This Mortal Coil, Hiroki Kikuta, Cairo, Vangelis, Cynic, Devil Doll (Mr Doctor), David Sylvian, Jacula/Antonius Rex, The Residents, Mellonta Tauta, Renaissance, Clan of Xymox, Pulsar, Alisons Halo, Chu Ishikawa, Mortiis, Magma, XTC, Foetus, Kate Bush, Hum, Wolfgang Press, Pylon, Colfax Abbey, Legendary Pink Dots, HTRK, Goblin/Libra, And Also The Trees, P-Model/Susumu Hirasawa, John Grant, Mors Syphilitica/Requiem In White, ELP, Cardiacs, The Enid , Camel, Wishbone Ash, Laura Nyro, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Tindersticks, Grouper, Burzum, Unto Ashes, Aether, Aghast, YMO, Immortal, Shallow, Mayhem, Semiramis, His Name Is Alive, Deathspell Omega, John Martyn, Lowlife, Wolves In The Throne Room, Esben And The Witch, Lush, Neurosis, Andrzej Korzynski, King Diamond/Mercyful Fate, Skinny Puppy, Ruins/Koenjihyakkei, Judas Priest, Twelfth Of Never, Sad Lovers And Giants, Enslaved, Queen Adreena/Daisy Chainsaw/Ruby Throat, The Church, Breathless, Bathory, Animal Collective, Blue Nile, Jeff Buckley, Curve, Comus, Art Zoyd, In The Nursery, Lovesliescrushing, Amon Duul II, Lydia Lunch, Procol Harum, Celtic Frost, God Machine, Gentle Giant, Voivod, Bat For Lashes, Tangerine Dream, Boo Radleys, Moody Blues, The Vyllies, Angel Witch, Rosewater Elizabeth, The Stranglers, Stare, Disco Inferno, Insides, Slapp Happy, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Linda Perhacs, Shirley and Dolly Collins, Havergal Brian, Fleetwood Mac

When I update it Summoning, Supersister and Wire will be added.

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I seem a similarity in a few of our favorite bands: Tom Waits and Joy Division.

For me: Godspeed You Black Emperor, King Crimson, A Perfect Circle, Thrice, Manchester Orchestra, Sparklehorse, Radiohead, The Be Good Tanya, Nine Inch Nails, Matryoshka (My Funeral Rehearsal), Mono, Eyedea.

There are others too, but I only like one or two songs from them.

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See? This is the problem when I make lists: I always forget someone or something; in this case: Godspeed You Black Emperor, Joy Division, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, The Cure and The Velvet Underground. Oh, and Arcade Fire, Crystal Stilts, Current 93, Ivy, Saint Vincent and Warpaint.

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If I had to name my top ten bands at this point in time I would say (in no order):

Siouxsie & the Banshees, Current 93, Nine Inch Nails, Throbbing Gristle, Madonna, Whitehouse, Lady Gaga, Joy Division, Suzanne Vega, Dead Can Dance

(10 to 20 would probably be Sonic Youth, Pink Floyd, The Residents, Nico, The Velvet Underground, Suicide, Depeche Mode, Cut Hands, Ministry, Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

My top ten albums (again, in no order):

The Holy Bible (Manic Street Preachers)
The Marble Index (Nico)
Imperium (Current 93)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Third Reich & Roll (The Residents)
Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth)
Black Celebration (Depeche Mode)
Horse Rotorvator (Coil)
The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails)
Asceticists 2006 (Whitehouse)

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Add this women to my list: Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, P.J. Harvey, Regina Spektor and Tori Amos; I am sure there are more, but these are the ones I remember right now. Oh, and Air, Death in Vegas, Zero 7 and New Order. And two including one of my favorites guitarists of all time, Kevin Shields: My Bloody Valentine and Le Volume Courbe.

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Stereolab, Judee Sill, Ali Farke Toure, Tinariwen, King's X, Wipers, Comet Gain, Capsule, Daft Punk, Astronaut Wife, Call And Response, Grateful Dead, Covenant, Novakill(I made patchbanks for some of Bones' softsynths), Steve Roach, Makyo, Cocteau Twins, Blonde Redhead, Blind Willie Johnson, Earl King, October Project, The Soft Pack, The Nocturnes, Eric Johnson, also various local Kansas City musicians, Trampled Under Foot(my cousins!), Chad Rex, Kasey Rausch, Betse Ellis, Giant's Chair, Panel Donor