Negator's new album is out... called "Die Eisernen Verse". Getting it from Emule. I can't wait to hear this black metal band's second release. Their first was great, plain BM fans will love it.
I've been listening to more modern Morbid Angel recently than ever before. "Formulas Fatal to the Flesh" is a complete mindfuck. The sounds on that album are so surreal, the music from that CD I think is the most spirtual shit Morbid have ever made, apart from "Gateways to Annhialation". I've also been listening to the songs on Heretic too, don't care much for the instrumentals though, but the real songs are brilliant. I think the reason why they got booted off Earache Records was because they took too many liberties and made a CD that was 60% instrumental/experimental, not a whole lot of solid music on it.
The "FFtF" CD is hallucinogenic... I'm buying the real thing just because I'd feel too guilty about putting such brilliant art on a crummy CD-R.The album has a lot of groovy twists and some melody, but it's also heavy as fuck at times, and lyric-wise... let's just sum it up with this:
The Ways of the Underworld are Perfect
Not to be questioned by that of the brute
Clearly beyond the understanding
Of that which is ruled by the drives of the flesh
For whom shall then oppose
The Lights of Asag, Purifying Flames
Come child, the Anunnaki wait
Truth is the Weapon no pity it holds
The ways of the flesh
Barbaric behavior patterns
Flesh over Spirit, the motivator of the worthless
The ways of the flesh
The evolution is minimal
I watch as your kingdoms rise and fall
Causing no effective change
Your military
Command structure of impotence
A gross misuse of force
By leaders who lack in vision
Your gods
Evidence of your weakness
Your focus is one with delusion
You worship that which means your end
That's only a very small part from "Heaving Earth"! The lyrics are long but have some really cool points in them. However half the time I don't know what the fuck it's about, especially when they whip out some weird ancient language and start doing chants or some other weird trancy shit. Still, it adds to the vibe and mystery of the CD. Oh yeah... did I mention that it's br00t3l?
I'm also really getting to appreciate Death's later work like "Symbolic" and "The Sound of Perserverance", at first I hated those two albums but they're growing on me. So much that I'm already learning the whole 3 guitar parts "Voice of the Soul".Really like most of the songs on "Symbolic" too.
Edit: See, even if I've downloaded 100Gb+ of music, I still have a heart for the musicians. After sampling something so much and getting to enjoy it I've decided to step forward and buy the real thing, as I did with Wormed's CD. Why spend $10+ on something you have no idea how it sounds or if you'll even like it? 1 or 2 song samples don't help much either, you need more than that to know if you like a CD. So yeah, downloading definately does not hurt the music industry, the only thing that hurts the industry is the people who download and don't buy CD's because they don't think that the music is good enough to pay for. But if you think further, that's actually the musician's and record label's fault: they produced shitty music that no one in their right mind would buy in the first place!
Other CD's I plan to buy in the future:
Nile - Annihalation of the Wicked.
Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus
Vader - Something... too many to choose from. Probably the next full-length.
Arsis - Next full length and "CoG" eventually.
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten and Souls to Deny, and their upcoming DVD.
Some Bathory stuff... maybe when they release that box set with all the CD's.
Manowar - Their new DVD probably.
Morbid Angel - Just about everything at some point.
Nuclear Assault - Game Over
Sodom - something.
Rigor Mortis - self-titled.
Immortal - something.
I would buy some Pearl Jam shit if my brother didn't already have all of the CD's, EP's, singles and DVD's they've released.![]()