Memory keeper. Mostly music and movies, plus some series and video games. Obscure darkness meets pop culture glow.
Ladies and gentlemen, the new Fear Factory album has landed. Does what it has to do. I love that it has both the drilling industrial metal speed and the singed verses at the same time. I’m not saying that it’s good that it’s like the old times. It is new times it’s just still fucking great. See you guys in Vienna in november!
OMG, this. Slow to mid tempo, deep basslines, and Chai is so beautiful. Something to re-listen many times.
Just one post ago I wrote about Karyn Crisis creating the metal album of 2015 and now after quite some days of listening to the new Cradle of Filth ablum on repeat I am seriously thinking: may 2015 be an year of metal? There is also a Fear Factory record in the works, Disturbed seems promising, and strange to say but Bullet for My Valentine released three very much okay singles so far.
So, as for Cradle of Filth. This album truly resembles the greatest days when I listened to a lot of speedy metal like this, and this was around the gloriuos times of Cruelty & The Beast. Actually I wonder what the whole ablum would be withouth the track “Deflowering the Maidenhead, Displeasuring the Goddess”, because this one is like poison infecting my mind and the chorus hooks come back to me throughout the day always wanting a re-listen.
I least expected to be totally addicted to a CoF album this year but this one deserves some replays. Would be great to catch a live show this year with this lineup and some of the new tracks.
It’s hard to find words if there are any. Karyn Crisis created the best metal album of 2015 and I have few doubts it will be successfully challenged in second half of the year. Will try to add some more articulated thoughts later when I will have listened to it ten more times and carefully digested the lyrics as well.
Electronic music but sounds much live, although the Bandcamp page clearly says what tools were used. Hiphop tempo mostly, soft edges, cool atmosphere, some lounge, some dancefloor, definitely music for the summer.
I have developed some hook on this album, been listening to it for the past few days and it is really pleasant for work, home entertainment and chilling out, too. Don’t get me wrong this is not just background music, there’s a lot detail if you pay attention. Great compositions all over, good choice of instruments, pleasant on the level of !K7 quality, resembles some Kruder & Dorfmeister, Tosca stuff et al.
I just noticed one thing, worth noting: “All original works have been released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.” Wow.
And now back to some thrilling new techno hailing from Ukraine published by the good ol’ Soma Records and backed up with a beautifully illustrated cover. This is job well done all around. The music is minimalist, pumping, pulsing, space travelling, subway riding, night-time driving for the piece of your mind and the nodding of your head.
This is pop music from Britain and on top of its game. Awesome quality music production and nice hooks without the usual annoyances of mainstream pop. And this one’s a debut album so double the surprise.
You can identify Future by being the other band of Christian Bland from The Black Angels. Some say it’s cold and dark and shoegaze noise pop. I say it is another great goth meets no-wave revival thing. Great atmosphere all over. I usually don’t provide links but this one is not easy to search so here’s the album on Bandcamp.
Good atmosphere, the Twin Peaks comparison holds some truths. It is great how it keeps me in the dark whether what is reality and what is just imagined or craziness. Then there’s Matt Dillon, whose character as an actor I cannot unlove since Factotum, plays well in this one, too. And Juliette Lewis, come on, who saw her coming, and I am pretty much fond of that mad woman as well.
So, all good so far, up until the end of the pilot. The cheap CGI and the not-so-mystic solution of the setting let me down somewhat. However will give it a shot with one or two more episodes because there are still some unresolved mysteries to deal with which can prove exciting. Will see.
Oh. My. God. Seriously. This pilot was just such an insanely powerful piece that I haven’t seen anything like for years on television. In all aspects there is. Cast, acting, story, non-cliché, characters, music, narrative, sounds, editing. Everything. This is a 10/10 start, and I just can’t wait for the second episode.
Edit: about 15 minutes passed since I watched the show and dug up all content about it online. It blows my mind with thoughts and inspiration. I love this feeling so much.