Wow...ok so i am mostly a metalhead with a huge collection of rock/metal (literally over 1K physical albums) that run the gambit from power metal to gothic to folk and even come black metal from around the world, plus my rather sizable soundtrack collection (mostly anime). as such i rotate through the CDs in alphabetical order by type so i don't miss anything.
These are most of my favorite bands in my collection-
Currently i am in the G/H section of japanese bands so i just finished off gogo 7188! and hard gear. working on a band i saw live in tokyo called headphones president.
aphyon wrote: Wow...ok so i am mostly a metalhead with a huge collection of rock/metal (literally over 1K physical albums) that run the gambit from power metal to gothic to folk and even come black metal from around the world, plus my rather sizable soundtrack collection (mostly anime). as such i rotate through the CDs in alphabetical order by type so i don't miss anything.
These are most of my favorite bands in my collection-
Currently i am in the G/H section of japanese bands so i just finished off gogo 7188! and hard gear. working on a band i saw live in tokyo called headphones president.
Shucks, good to see the Hu are getting more attention these days. Bridear too! I saw their numbers on Spotify not too long ago, and thought they were having some difficulty getting off the ground.
Seeing Freedom Call there surprised me. I love their stuff too, but couldn’t figure out what the appeal would be to others.
Thanks for sharing the list too! May check some of these out sometime today.
Don’t suppose you’ve heard of Lovebites, have you? It’s another Japanese power metal band that does their songs in glorious Engrish.
Nope not love bites but i have heard metal lucifer IIRC they do their songs in english. both seikima II and show-ya have done some songs/mini albums in english . most of the brillaint greens first album is in english. this is the final track live-
this is one of my favorites from tommys solo work away from the brilliant green over a decade later-
there are so many japanese metal bands i have heard over the years that were good but not favorites vigilante, anthem, loudness (of course), fate gear etc...with the size of my collection i need to be pretty picky. i have a smattering of other bands that i never really got into where i picked up an album to try out, some quite popular-stratovarius, falconer, jagdpanzer, leaves eyes, wizard, gamma ray, imagika, torture, lullacry, ashland, tvangeste, nevermore, vision divine etc.... when i do find something that clicks i usually end up buying the entire back catalog like i did with powerwolf, sabaton, van canto, celtica and testament.
Then there are a few one shot wonders that were fantastic but nothing ever came of them like hellmasters, phantom blue (built to perform album was amazing), and victimizer
freedom call is often called the happiest band in metal. something about the vibe is very positive and the musicianship is top notch.
I forgot to add fatima hill to my list...need to fix that.
I have moved on into the Os i will be with the fantastic
ONMYO-ZA for a while since i have 10+ albums
Hard to believe i started listening to them back in 2000 or so when they were still on an indie label and hard to find outside japan(indie labels used to not ship outside japan). i found them by accident and i am glad i did. got most of their early stuff from an indie store in shinjuku when i went to japan some 20 years ago.....man how time flies
This is on their official channel. lots of great videos
Well i am finally through all the Onmyo-za albums, so now i am in to the Ps
starting off i picked up a solo album from the X-japan guitarist pata "raised on rock"
Its a very blues rock album. also pata reminds me of a Japanese slash...its the hair, minus the top hat.
Next in line is a guilty pleasure and some nostalgia. one of the first non-anime related bands i started listening to in the early 90s an all female Jrock group known for TV commercial songs
Been listening to a lot to Danheim in these past few weeks. Danheim is a Danish artist who makes music inspired by Norse myths and such. He is also quite the history buff. The music has suited my current position in life, makes the days go by faster.
Still on the folk metal, Tengger Cavalry have been taking up a lot of my playlist the last few days. Theyre an oriental metal band with heavy mongolian/tuvan influences, with the twangy instruments and throat singing.
Tobias Sammets avantasia is always a good choice. i remember when i got hooked on his original band with the funny name "edguy" back in the late 90s when they were fresh out of high school and were told "nobody wanted to listen to that kind of music".
Good thing they didn't listen. vain glory opera was the first album i picked up and i have been a fan ever since. they also have a great sense of humor (the life and times of a bonus track comes to mind).
Over the years before youtube and many internet assets to check out new bands i picked up a smattering of japanese bands from the well known like anthem, to the less well known like fatima hill.
One of these that i am now listening to is sheena ringo. i only got her first 3 "solo" albums and kind of lost interest after that as i am primarily a rock/metal guy and she started working on other music styles.
We are talking 1999 here and still she always struck me as akin to Haruka from FuriCuri(maybe it was the nurse outfit for that music video).. a bit strange with an edge of crazy.
This is the big block with some of my favorite bands.
To start off with it will be Seikima II (holy devouring demon/the end of the century). i have been a fan for over 2 decades myself.
formed in 1982 they have sold more than 10 million albums in japan alone.
I like to think of them as a cross between judas priest and king diamond a mix of skilled heavy metal music combined with dark themes as the theme behind the band is that they are all demons or akuma-with a heavy reference to kabuki theater
Still listening to eastern music. I discovered this a few wekks ago,unfortunatly this guy died from his desease roughly 3 years ago. Mayhe rest in peace...
Been a while since my last update. grinding through all the seikima II albums and then demon kogure's (seikima IIs singer) solo album collection took some time, very enjoyable time
Now i have moved onto the SEX MACHINEGUNS
They are a fantastic band with a solid basis in classic bay area mid-late 80s thrash/speed metal in the vane of testament, exodus, overkill, old metallica etc.. with the added benefit of a bit of humor akin to steel panther in the lyrics department.
So of all fething things, Alestorm decided to do a cover of some song from a terrible obscure French Donkey Kong cartoon. Nearly fell out of my chair after making the connection. You know that feeling when a show you used to watch comes back to haunt you somehow? It’s that kind of feeling.
They don’t have a music video for this one, but it hasn’t stopped someone from trying.
Not surprised....it is alestorm afterall. they have a great sense of humor along with bands like Edguy (the life and times of a bonus track is epic) . there are some other great covers i would rank up there as better than the originals-
.Jagdpanzer-wreck of the edmonds fitzgerald
.lacuna coil-careless wisper (yeah a depech mode song)
.frog leap studio-rains of africa
10 masked men-stayin alive (well any of their covers are great)
Moving on to the next big section. another of my favorite japanese bands i have been listening to since the 90s
SHOW-YA
One of the biggest and most well known all female hard rock/heavy metal groups in japan. their early influences were inspired by deep purple, the doors, the beatles and the like.
They got their start in the early 80s as almost a pop rock band and competed directly with another all female group called princess princess. the latter being more pop. show-ya's earlier works did have a jem here and there that foreshadowed the heavier sound they would adopt. with songs like fairy. they really hit their stride on the 5th album immigration. keep in mind this is the japanese music market forcing them to churn out high rates of albums. the debut album was 1985, they hit that 5th album a mere 2 years later in 1987.
The lead singer decided to go on a solo career stint in the early 90s but reformed with the band in the early 2000s and they are still putting out new albums since the reunion. still rocking into their 50s they are also well known for promoting female rock acts with a nearly yearly event concert called naon no yaon.
I rate them right up there with classic judas priest and similar groups.
Felt like a glutton for punishment, so was playing the Resident Evil soundtrack today. Wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but “dying clown farts” was not up there on the list. Had to stop for a few minutes because I was laughing too hard.
Mr Morden wrote:Pretty Reckless - Death by Rock and Roll
Great art on the video but NSFW
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Man, found that on Spotify a while back. Certainly a nice surprise! Got any recommendations for someone getting into that band?
Captain Joystick wrote:Right now I'm listening to Shadow Fall (Alphabet Squadron 2!)
But just prior to that I was listening to ridiculous medieval covers:
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Ha! Bardcore is awesome! Had a friend dump a bardcore Smash Mouth cover one day. Still feels more lively than nightcore.
good call there on pretty reckless, a good blues rock sound, my wife likes them alot.
I appreciate you and your "associates" could arrange that for us.
I won't even "look up into your lifeless eyes and wave...just like this"
Back in the late 90s i was watching quite a bit of Japanese entertainment shows like HEY!HEY!HEY! music champ.
That got me listening to many great bands including some of the more mainstream rock acts including Aikawa Nanase and this guy-
T.M.R. or T.M. revolution (Takanori Makes Revolution) with is blending of rock and electronica/techno, he also likes to wear some impressive stage costumes.
i am currently listening through his catalog in my collection now.
slight sidestep it is the 4th of july- as an american, here my playlist for the USAs birthday includes the following soundtracks-
.patton
.the great escape
.band of brothers
.glory
the marches for
.when johnny comes marching home
.dixie's land
.battle hymn of the republic
.star spangled banner
.anthems of the 5 military branches
and not to be forgotten the fantastic iced earth album -the glorious burden
including the 30+ minute epic of the 3 day battle of Gettysburg (july 1-3 1863)
in the late 80s and early 90s THE band that dominated was X-japan
which is next on my play list.
X-japan is the band that is best known for really kicking off the visual kei scene. with the band leader/drummer looking like the iconic pretty boy that could have walked off the pages of a girls comic.
They had an incredible run with their first 3 albums, from that point on the bass player left the band citing musical differences, they then released an epic 30 minute EP and finally a 4th full album that consisted of mostly ballads and studio tracks that were cut from the previous album. after this point things went south for the band. the singer left, one of the guitar players committed suicide, and even though they were still hugely popular the band ceased to exist for a time. they later re-united with the singer and started releasing new material, but by this point i had stopped listening to them. so my collection is limited to the first 5 releases.
Not as well known as big hits like silent jealousy, but one i enjoy off the first album-rose of pain. an 11 minute epic with some impressive tempo/time changes.
Today marks the day when one of the best men I ever had the honour of knowing died far too early. So I have been listening to Kaizers Orkestra all day and remembering all the good times we had. ( Lyrics also included in the spoiler tag)
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Relax, I'll soon be returning soon
You know I'll receive sufficient scholarship funding
Now I enlist as a voluntary soldier
When I leave, I'll be a father
It was night, turned into day and night again
I wrote letter after letter but none were ever returned
Half a year with shots and open wounds
Half a year, oh god, time passes so slowly
Thank god for the medical personnel
'Cause they sow together recruit and general
The day came, and I waited for the signal
I got my last order from the highest in command
And he yelled
170, go and see if the coast is clear
No, General, please don't make me
It's easy for you to send a volunteer soldier
But who will take care of my wife and child
I've been watching Beavis and Butthead recently and decided I'd make a playlist covering from 92' through 98's -ish and anything I could find that turned up in one of the videos played on the show. It's been absolute magic. I've added some other stuff here and there and am up to a 400 song playlist that's just lots of fun.
I even added songs that suck so I can change it, or not.
Other than that recently the Pixies, the Breeders, Dead Kennedys, The Melvins and some new retro wave stuff I fell into a few years ago that I enjoy.
Last year was a solid year of Monster Magnet.
Who are amazing.
A little update as i cruise on through my soundtracks
Up this week
.bill and ted's excellent adventure
.braveheart
.crouching tiger hidden dragon
.galaxy quest
.highlander soundtracks 1,3,4 (not the queen album the actual background music)
As a long time anime fan starting back in the early 80s with star blazers/space battleship yamato i have a huge collection of soundtracks, some of which are classics or had to come by or from excellent but now little known series. starting this off alphabetical
.AD police (the original 3 part series) spin off from the original bubblegum crisis. based on the tony takazaki manga
.aldnoah zero
.arpeggio of blue steel-ars nova
the anime and game soundtracks for
.bastard (the explosive wizard) based on the long running manga by hagiwara
Funny side note, hagiwara is a huge metal head and easter eggs heavy metal references throughout his manga. most of the main characters are named after band members (the main character "Dark schiner" is named after the original ACCEPT singer Udo dirkschnider for example), and all of the magic spells (and some locations like the kingdom of metallicana) used are the names or variations of names of bands.
Next up we have another of hagiwaras creations the rare and little known gem of an anime that spoofs anime troupes
Ergo Proxy is a lot of fun, its quirky and its one of those stories where you have to make it all the way to the end to get a portion of the answers. You never quite get them all, but you get enough to create a story behind the tale that unfolds and to get an idea of where it might go in the future.
And another Wolf's Rain track, interesting how diverse the music in it is.
Well it took a while since my last post, this ones going to be a big one.
So back in the late 1980s anime was virtually non-existent in the USA outside of bastardized things like robotech.
as it so happened i found a bootlegger that was selling copies of all sorts of anime from the original laser discs. One of my first loves and addictions was a new series at the time called bubblegum crisis.
Silly name aside it was heavily influenced by blade runner. it was also the first collection of soundtracks that got me into collection anime soundtracks with the iconic opening song konya wa hurricane (there is a hurricane tonight)
At the time i was addicted with all things related to bubblegum crisis(hence my previous entry of the AD police files). the original series soundtracks started out well enough with rock and instrumental tracks, however by the 5th episode in the series-while having one of the best story arcs and great animation for the time-started suffereing from the "image song" craze. basically a bunch of filler pop songs that were never used in the series.
After the 8th episode in a planned 12 the series was canceled, it was later picked up by another studio including 3 of the original main voice actresses who all went on to have huge careers in the industry. the voice actress for the 4th and most loved character of priss Kinuko Ohmori did not desire a career as a seyuu (japanese voice actress) and left after the original series ended to focus on a career as a pop singer.,
We come to bubblegum crash. as i said before i bought the soundtracks straight away before seeing the series and well lets say it was lackluster. the animation quality was poor in many ways and the characters were not acting in their developed roles.
Still the soundtracks did have some gems with more of a musical focus on electronic music. it still suffered from the "image song" problem.
last on the list of the series was the complete re-boot in the form of bubblegum crisis 2040 the TV series. considering it was a completer re-do i was pleased with the result. the soundtracks featured more of a techno/rock/electronic fusion
So that is what i have been listening through lately.
Well it is a little funny now that i think of it, but in a good way. a large portion of my anime soundtracks either were made entirely by or partially by Yoko Kanno, one of the most impressive modern composers in the league of john williams.
My collections spans from her first inroads from the mid 90s with macross plus and vision of excaflowne to her later works in macross frontier, ghost in the shell, wolfs rain and others. Her ability to span the styles across things like techno, classical orchestra, choir chant, funk and jazz as well as western, rock, and Jpop is most impressive.
The current place i am in the listening list
.brainpowered
i was never really a fan of the anime style but the soundtrack was understandably fantastic.
Next up is one just about everybody knows
.cowboy bebop
After that one that i both love and hated at the same time
.legend of crystania
It is the direct follow on story to the record of lodoss war novels more accurately portrayed by the ending of the lodoss war TV series. as far as the story goes it is quite good, with some fine background music. the down side is that the minimalist animation design style, character designs and quality were devastatingly bad especially since this was at the time the only continuation of the record of lodoss war story line after the iconic OVA series of the early 90s.
I wish they'd release the blueray-dvd of the Lodoss War series and co in the EU/UK market. sadly I can only ever see the occasional USA import in region 1 encoding at a very high price.
And now time for some Orden Ogan! Apparently a new CD is out this year too!
A funny thing about major western companies back in the early 90s when they started importing anime, along with really bad dub jobs they seemed to think they needed to change the original japanese soundtracks out for americanized ones.
There were the rare exceptions that actually turned out to be good.
First up is cyber city OEDO 808 from the legendary MADHOUSE studio. (which i was fortunate enough to get to visit when i was in tokyo back in 2000)
I have both the original soundtrack with its long form themes around the 3 main characters and the western re-make with a heavy does of rock and electronic music.
Japanese
UK version
Next up-an iconic and one of my favorite series based on scifi novels from the 1970s james bond in space meets Mr bean-The dirty pair
I have the TV series form the mid 80s
The fantastic follow up movie (don't watch the dub it was terrible)
The early 90s OVA series
And the final flight 005 conspiracy OVA/movie that ended the original run.
The tried to do a re-boot series called flash with cartoonish character re-designs and new voice actresses, but it wasn't the dirty pair to me
And last up for this installment the original dominion tank police
series-
Along with the second series, with quite a good soundtrack
They made a one off ESWAT special that takes place later in the timeline of the manga with updated graphics comparable to ghost in the shell form the mid 2000s but i never got that soundtrack.
the dragon half anime had a soundtrack, but this song wasn't on it
Took my forever to find this gem on CD.
then i hit the ELhazard OVA soundtrack, not a fan of the tenchi muyo series by this artist, but i loved photon(the best thing they ever did IMHO) and ELhazard.
Next up is the very well known neon genesis evangelion series.
One of my favorite version of the opening is a chorus version sung by the original voice actors(right after the heavy metal cover by animetal USA)
The rest is going to take some time as i am going full yoko kanno and listening to all the escaflowne soundtracks for the TV series and the movie.
I'm typically not a fan of modern rock (there are some exceptions), so I somehow completely missed Skillet even existing. I heard the song in the background of a strongman video. It's fairly generic, but I really like the contrast of the male and female vocals throughout the song.
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Also, Band-Maid all the time. Particularly Onset, the only instrumental I've heard from them. There's a sonic depth to their music that I can't really describe because I have next to no musical talent. I can really only describe it as their songs seem to have more texture than most modern rock. Sadly the studio version is never on YouTube.
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Theme song from What We Do In The Shadows. Completely blows my mind that there was a female Filipino-American singer making folk records in the 60's.
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Listening to Norma Tanega led to Fanny popping up in my recommendations. They were all an all-female rock band that predated The Runaways. Never heard of them before.
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For more modern stuff, Ghost! I stumbled on to them a few months ago. Square Hammer is my favorite, but I love Cirice as well. Fascinating group.
.final fantasy VII advent children movie-great soundtrack
Furi kuri probaby one of the strangest animes ever made with some iconic back ground music
Not an actual soundtrack song but i did like this music video version
I followed that up with another classic from the makers of the bubblegum crisis series-gall(ant) force.
the epic space drama part star wars part aliens in the end it all ends badly for those involved.
Next an anime i really didn't care for but the soundtrack is a solid collection of rock/metal in the style that would make Michael Kamen proud.
genesis survivor gaiarth
unfortunately finding anything other than the intro is hard to do online
Finally back to yoko kanno again with the ghost in the shell stand alone complex soundtracks
The original opening featuring the late great Origa RIP
Finally finished all the ghost in the shell soundtracks.
next up-
Golden boy-such a fun messed up series, the manga is just as much fun
Then gainax's earlier work but still a favorite-part super hero robot, part space opera -
GUNBUSTER- much of the soundtrack uses elements used later in evangelion but with a heavy nod to inspirational themes from space battleship yamato's score.
The next big block i have moved into is GUNDAM
By that i mean UC(universal century) the original timeline, none of the spin off alternate universes.
First off is gundam 0080 war in the pocket. made shortly after the chars counter attack movie in 1988. it was the first in the series of Gundam side stories that took place in and around the one year war. it also signaled a change in the overall look and feel of the show using new animation techniques and more detailed styles that have become the standard for all following shows-0083, 08th MS team, thunderbolt, MS igloo, unicorn etc...
Update time-the rest of the gundam soundtrack collections i enjoy
in chronological order in universe of course (well technically 0080 should have been after 08th MS team since it covers a period of several months before the wars end and not the last 2 weeks).
The 08th MS team was good, i didn't like the story as much as 0083 but that was a huge bridge series between the original movie and zeta so it has a bit more weight to me...and i liked the character designs better in 0083, including my favorite gundam character of all time-LT col. Cima garahau.
So with 08th MS team there were 2 hybrid soundtrack/audo drama CDs and then the fantastic orchestra album- "in plaha"
As i mentioned above-gundam 0083 "stardust memory"
Chars counter attack the movie-the end of the original saga of char VS amuro.
And the final installment in the timeline-UC 0096 AKA gundam unicorn.
As a side i did enjoy the gundam thunderbolt one year war side story, but the style of jazz that filled the soundtrack wasn't my thing so i passed on getting those.
I would have liked to get the soundtrack to the MS igloo series as well but by the time i was aware of it it was out of print.
GUNNM(battle angel alita in the US)
i have both the image song album and the "another story" album which has the audio drama for the motorball story arc as well as the actual background music used in the anime.
Next is a fantastic, yet very dark series-
Gunslinger girl.- season 1 was done by madhouse studio so it is top quality and i have all the manga (it ends badly for most of the main characters)
Since it takes place entirely in italy it have a very mediterranean/italian feel.
I also have the game soundtrack
And finally gunsmith cats from the character creator of the bubblegum crisis Keichi Sonoda
Well kind of in the game theme, but anime. i have started in on the .hack soundtracks
there is so much .hack it took me a while to watch it all- my favorites are the original, quantum and the move "beyond the world": that had almost a final fantasy feel to it.
An excellent if little known anime that combines an epic space saga with enormous space battles, mecha, and super monsters that would make ghidorah run home to his mommy- all based on the greek saga of the 12 labors of heracles
A little throwback time.....i've had this soundtrack in my collection since the late 80s when i was in high school...man hard to believe it's been that long-golden age anime time
ICZER 1
The soundtrack was a strange mix of a synthesizer rock with a brass/horn section.
On a real nostalgia binge right now and found this. Don't remember this on the album which I must've listened to many times, especially Song For Clay (Disappear Here) and Hunting For Witches could've been on a rerelease or something? Anyway, I like it! I like the way it escalates.
In some ways I actually preferred that to their original (and more popular) debut album - much more of a slow burner but I found myself coming back to it quite a few times.
A pretty eclectic mix of albums on my playlist that I've been revisiting over the past week
I'm a huge fan of studio madhouse, they are one of those studios that has earned a reputation for quality with their own original works like demon city shinjuku, cyber city oedo 808, wicked city- the black guard as well as work on other well known shows like gokuu midnight eye, gunslinger girl season 1, deathnote, black lagoon and so many others. https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/11/Madhouse
So as one might expect. i have a mix of different soundtracks from them.
currently listening-
One of the more famous of studio madhouses movies-
jubei nimpucho (ninja scroll in the USA)
Another one from a well known manga artist with a stylized kind of 70s flare buichi teresawa's raven tengu kabuto. a one shot ova series based on his manga with a great soundtrack.
Pacific wrote: In some ways I actually preferred that to their original (and more popular) debut album - much more of a slow burner but I found myself coming back to it quite a few times.
Weekend in the City? Yeah, it is a damn good album, although I do prefer Bloc Party by a close margin as well, Helicopter and Banquet are just so good in my eyes, also, Two More Years from the tour version or something. But it was The Prayer which got me into them back in the day, used to play on Juice TV or whatever it was when I went to a Cyber Cafe a lot lol. Although, I think Weekend in the City had more critical acclaim.
Back on topic, and still on the nostalgia binge with this...
My father used to tease me that this was my 'song' when I was a teenager, T_T
Ah Wheatus! Loved the video to Buddy Holly, done by Spike Jonze (who has done some immense videos: Fatboy Slim weapon of choice, Bjork Oh so Quiet, Daft Punk Da Funk
Every part of the building blocks used for the creation of the amazing anime Cowboy Bebop is brimming with genius: The writing, the characters, the worldbuilding, the animation, but most of all the music.
Liking this song the more I listen to it. Also helps it's hugely nostalgic for me after hours of playing Grand Theft Auto Vice City it being on the radio in the game.
Well i have moved on to great little anime
katcho oji/section head chief (black heaven)
A story about a japanese rock god who did the responsible thing in japanese society after his college days-got a salary man job, got married had a kid....and hates his life, all he wants to do is play guitar.
He is approached by a stranger that wants him to play for her. turns out she is an alien soldier fighting some un-named alien force in a galactic war(that parts not really important) and they need his guitar playing to activate their super weapon. hilarity and drama ensues.
The soundtrack was a collaboration with John Sykes of thin lizzy/whitesnake fame.
kind of a different setting with a very victorian steam punk feel. however it is so far into the future that mankind has mastered faster than light space travel(you find that out at the end) and gravity technology. which of course in true Jules Verne style mean flying battleships and planes that look like cars from the 1920s.
The first series has a strong mix of celtic/gaelic/italian sound quality with lots of violin, chello, and flute
The sequel series-last exile-fams silver wings has a bit of a different sound but still fits with the original.
Fell in love with these guys back in 2010 when they released the single 'Spin' from the album Nothing on TV. But boy oh boy that's nowhere near their best song. This and 'You Take It' are my favourites. It was a shame they sorta petered out, as they are very underrated in my eyes. She's amazing in this live performance. But apparently, she's doing well as a songwriter now, which somewhat makes up for it...Maybe they did much better in Aussie? Australians are pretty good at rock and stuff, I think. She's also pretty nice on the eyes, I've gotta say.
Also, You Take It. Freaking love this Bass Line almost as much as Frank Reynolds loves his RUM HYAM!!
This has the best bass line ever, though...Sorry Cassette Kids.
I am on a bit of a marathon right now with all my record of lodoss war soundtracks
the original 3 OVA soundtracks
Along with the inspired album mistrels memory
Along with a symphonic album followed up by the "legend of the heroic knight" TV series soundtracks with the opening done by none other than Yoko Kanno featuring Maya Sakamoto of escaflowne fame.
Damn, this was fun as frig to play on Guitar Hero (Was it 3? I think so) 3's and 7's by Queens of the Stone Age (put it in a spoiler tag as it's quite uhh...mature)
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And my favourite James Bond theme! Although Skyfall by Adele comes in a close second.
Thats right a high school magic club defending the earth from alien invasion...
Well... a bit, I guess.
The alien invasion is almost the least important part of the series.
Its much more standard japanese anime high schooler highjinks plus a with a focus on the 'character that is super incompetent but super powerful, but cute and innocent and etc'
If someone goes in expecting intense magic vs alien battles, they'll be fairly disappointed. Its good for fans of cherry trees, however.
I think the alien invasion side was more prevalent in the OVAs the TV series had more focus on the interpersonal relationships....but still such a great series.
In chronological in universe order
After macross zero we have my first ever exposure to yoko kanno's works on macross plus( i was obviously a fan after that).
Trying her hand at a bit of techno-ish music (sharon apple AI singer) as well as her well established orchestral arrangements among other things.
More Queens of the Stone Age. Maaan the 2000's was an underrated decade for music in my eyes. There was a lot of crap but by the Emperor quite a lot of good stuff too.
Adrassil wrote: More Queens of the Stone Age. Maaan the 2000's was an underrated decade for music in my eyes. There was a lot of crap but by the Emperor quite a lot of good stuff too.
As a heavy metal guy that really isn't my speed, but it was only underrated if you are looking at the mainstream offerings
just off the top of my head albums that were great (that i own) in the 2000's
.Helloween – The Dark Ride
. Iron Maiden – Brave New World
. HammerFall – Renegade, crimson thunder, chapter V, threshold, no sacrifice no victory
.Demons And Wizards – s/t, touch of the crimson king
.alestorm-captain morgans revenge
.nightwish-wishmaster, century child, once, dark passion play
.blind guardian-a night at the opera, twist in the mist, at the edge of time
.edguy-savage poetry, hellfire club, mandrake, rocket ride, tinnitus sanctus
.dark tranquility- haven, damage done, character, fiction, we are void
.arch enemy-wages of sin, anthems of rebellion, doomsday machine, rise of the tyrant
.saxon-killing ground, lion heart, the inner sanctum, into the labyrinth
.immortal-damned in black, sons of northern darkness, all shall fall
.sabaton-primo victoria, attero dominatus, metalizer, the art of war, coat of arms
.power wolf-return in blood red, lupus dei, bible of the beast
.dio-killing the dragon, master of the moon
.judas priest-angel of retribution, nostradamus
.airbourne-running wild
.iced earth-horror show, the glorious burden, framing armageddon, the crucible of man
.king diamond-house of god, the puppet master, give me your soul please
So being the macross fanboy that i am i also have the VFX soundtracks and the M3 soundtrack for the playstation games.
They came out around the time the macross 7 TV series was running so they included original songs from fire bomber (hummingbird-the band that was fire bomber in the anime)
VFX
VFX 2
M3
My favorite of the games...but then it was focused on my favorite characters from the original series- max & millia so no surprise there.
As i noted in my previous post the macross video games came out around the same time that the macross TV series macross 7 and OVA series dynamite 7 were in production. while they used some of the macross plus BGM the main focus was on the fictional band "fire bomber" performed by the band hummingbird in japan.
As such the soundtracks were effectively fire bomber albums.
Rather lovely song. This is coming from someone who normally doesn’t like rap music. This guy’s stuff stuff doesn’t seem to get a lot of traffic (by which I mean the views for this song are in the single-digits) so thought I’d throw it up here.
Attended a wedding this summer in Russia, where both bride and groom were from the Caucasus, and got to see a performance of the Cossak saber dance. I got a FB memory pop up today, and thus I needed to find myself some Cossak & Sabre music.
Hmm, this Thread asks "What Are You Listening To Right Now!?" And so it does not require that it HAS to be music. So right now I'm listening to the audiobook of Hereticus the 3rd novel of the excellent Eisenhorn Trilogy. This might be the...fifth time I've listened to it? I'm not old, but it seems like a series which seems to get better and better as I age. Eisenhorn is one of my favourite characters in 40k and Dan Abnett's subtle character development of his is weaved so well and subtly throughout the novels. To say the Eisenhorn Trilogy and the Ravenor Trilogy are influential on me as a writer is a huge understatement, perhaps even more than the Gaunt's Ghosts series. I've just finished with Malleus, which is great too. And realised that the daemonic artefact The Lith introduced in what could be seen almost as a "filler arc" halfway through the novel is VERY similar to the Marker from Dead Space. The Wyrm it creates with the bodies of its worshippers reminds me of the Hive Mind from the end of the 1st Dead Space. In fact, the whole scenario is somewhat similar, could the production staff of Dead Space taken some inspiration from Malleus? It is a huge mishmash of many Sci fi horror works, so it isn't without the realms of reality. Messaged Dan on Facebook about it and he agreed lol
Now, I'm listening to the Audio Drama version of Thorn and Talon by Dan Abnett which contains Master Imus's Transgression, Regia Occulta and Thorn Wishes Talon. Helping inspire my writing during NaNoWriMo!
Now i return once again to Yoko Kanno and her masterful work on macross frontier (TV series and movies)
There is of course the iconic singer aspect that is present in all of macross with Sheryl Nome (and Ranka)
And true to form kanno delivers another iconic piece to rival voices from macross plus with the song aimo along with all the Sheryl pieces
Then she goes on to do stuff that rivals the work the likes of what john williams did for star wars.
The problem with work this good is that it spoils you for other shows. i liked the story in macross delta for example, but i was sad to find out that kanno didn't come back for the soundtrack so i wasn't motivated to get it.
Now we go back to the past for some of my older titles (i've been collecting for a long time like i said)
Back before macross plus revitalized the saga the only thing new macross related was the alternate universe macross II OVAs.
As a macross fanboy i was buying everything macross related so this soundtrack ended up in my collection although it pales in comparison to everything that came after it.
Another blast from the 80s in my rotation is MOSPEADA (as some may recognize as robotech-the next generation) i liked the original show enough to pick up the soundtrack.
The music might have a recognizable sound because it was done by none other than Joe Hisaishi of studio ghibli fame.
More Queens of the Stone Age. Maaan the 2000's was an underrated decade for music in my eyes. There was a lot of crap but by the Emperor quite a lot of good stuff too.
That was a cracking album.]
But remember! We do tend to cherry pick older music.
For instance, I absolutely adore any rock’n’roll from the periods of Glam to Britpop. Glam, Shoegaze, DarkWave, Punk, Post Punk. All of it. To me it seems like such a period (25 or so years?) of unbridled creativity, in the public eye. This is probably down to then emerging technology rather than some nebulous, lost human drive. They created new sounds because they had new toys to play with.
Yet, for every X-Ray Spex (a band which for me best encapsulates the punk ethos)
Flashing screen warning, just in case
There was utter, objective drivel such as Agadoo....
And in terms of personal favourites of frankly dubious taste?
For every Sigue Sigue Sputnik (who really were only, and unabashedly In It For The Money, but really introduced sampling to the wider world)
There was 5star (a bargain basement knock off Jackson 5, and victims of a now truly legendary kids show call in)
TL/DR - only the classics tend to be remembered years later (so I’d wager Taylor Swift will still be remembered fondly, but stuff like Call Me Maybe will be largely forgotten.
I listen to way more Radiohead than is healthy. i can't help it though, always find something new to like, no matter how many times I've heard the albums before.
Into the Ns takes us back to the 90s and the show within a show
martian successor nadesico
the space adventure built around a fictional super hero robot show-gekiganger
of course it has it's own soundtrack aside from that
I am not a huge fan of Goto's art syle (the animation art director) and it annoyed me somewhat when one of my favorite manga artists kia asamiya (silent mobius, dark angel, steam detective etc..) started copying it when he did the official manga for the series..... but it also had a soundtrack that was even better than the TV series.
Finished The Sandman audio dramatization, pretty good some of the voices didn't quite work for me, but overall a decent cast mostly nailing it, fingers crossed for some more
It was in the martial arts high school genre with the main characters being in karate and wrestling.
The music was very much a sort of "carry on my wayward son" kind of rock
This is one of my favorite tracks, starts out slow but adds in some time changes that really pick up.
Listening to The Guns of Tanith audiobook after just finishing Hereticus. Enjoying it a lot, but I know what's going to happen which makes me go nyoooo.
Before that, been listening to a bit of Flight of the Concords most particularly.
And...
Also...
Bowie's in Space is great, it's also neat being a Kiwi and knowing how well these guys did in the day. I've even seen Bret Mckenzie a couple of times in my home city of Wellington, too.
Been a while since my last update..holiday break and all
in the play list
nausicaa of the valley of the wind (kaze no tani no nausicaa) soundtrack and symphony collections from studio ghibli/myazaki's first original movie circa 1984
Plastic little- the one shot anime based on the manga from from the master of nipple topography Satoshi Urushihara
it actually had a decent soundtrack.
and another 80's visitor-the one shot OVA based on the outlanders manga
Just Tony wrote: Accidentally came across Ace of Spades on the radio. I sincerely forgot how utterly garbage Motorhead really was...
Well music much like art is a matter of preference. as somebody who grew up in the seattle area i would rather listen to motorhead than many of the acclaimed bands from my locality that i despise like pearl jam and nirvana or other bands i never thought were any good like tool.
But then again my metal head addicition runs the gambit of styles from operatic power metal that run the likes of blind guardian, and nightwish, growly melodic death metal like arch enemy and dark tranquility, classic heavy metal such as manOwar, maiden and priest to the ocassional dark pro's of black metal in the form of immortal or dimmu borgir
Then again my anime soundtrack collections also have a large dose of classical and other forms of folk and instrumentals
Just Tony wrote: Accidentally came across Ace of Spades on the radio. I sincerely forgot how utterly garbage Motorhead really was...
This is sorta my thoughts when I played Kiss's Rock and Roll All Nite on Guitar Hero 3 as about halfway through the song I'm like "People actually like this crap?" And swore I'd never play it ever again.
Automatically Appended Next Post: This literally right now.
Say what you will about Advent Children (and there's a lot to say) This version is pretty epic. That guitar solo. As a foolish teenager, I bought Advent Children before ever playing 7 and I liked it, mostly for the insane spectacle of the fight scenes, but by the Emperor, it took me like...I don't know how many watches to somewhat decipher what the frig was going on. Then I borrowed FF7 off a friend and I really liked it. Although, the discs were scratched to hell and back got to the end of the first disc and it'd just die on me in the middle of "that" cut scene, so couldn't progress. Bought on PS3 network, but haven't gotten past Midgar. I'm looking forward to if/when they release the remake on PC. Still got a video game backlog as long as Mount Everest is tall, though.
Found this Indian metal band some time ago called Bloodywood. I used to listen to them for their covers of pop songs, but it seems as though they've been using their music in recent years as a platform for positive messages. It's kind of nice though. They keep the kick metal vibe while still promoting stuff like forgiveness and diversity.
Seems a bit to much NU"metal" to my ears. i have about as much tolerance for rap as i do getting kicked in the balls repeatedly
Something amazing i found was this guy
Denis Pauna
he looks like lemmy plays all the instruments and does covers of well known metal songs as if they were done by other bands.......My mind was blown when he started doing these covers of good metallica songs (read everything prior to load) by various artists specifically type O negative. he absolutely nails the sound and is a dead ringer for Peter Steele's vocals.
Now for my normal update-back to the soundtracks
I am almost embarrassed i have this gem, but considering how hard it was to find actual anime soundtrack in the mid 1980s when i bought it....
I won't torment your ears with it this time.
Then we get into my game soundtracks. back in the late 90s i had a friend who was big into console fighting games and he turned me onto these fantastic samurai showdown image albums called samurai spirits there were 2 albums this is the first. it is a mix of traditional instruments and some tracks include modern guitar/heavy metal fusion similar to the wagakki band.
Next up is an album i bought on a whim at the local japanese bookstore because i loved the cover art..turns out it was a fantastic purchase it is an earlier work of the famous game music composer Hiroki Kikuta
Soukaigi
this is one of my favorite tracks (the entire album is there from this channel if you want more)
Denis just put up a type O negative tribute medley.....
Back to my soundtracks
This is one of those more obscure titles but still a fantastic high quality show
Shamanic princess. it has a very victorian era feel to the setting and all the hallmarks of a "magical girl" show, but with a far darker and much more serious atmosphere.
The next bit of the catalog will be working through the many silent mobius soundtracks i have. i have long been a fan of Kia Asamya's manga and back in the early 90s kodokawa publishing started funding animation projects related to it.
The show does a vary obvious nod to blade runner with a sort of monster/alien invasion feel. dealing with a special police unit tasked with stopping beings known as lucifer hawks from a parallel universe from invading our reality.
The first set of soundtracks is from the movies
The music may have a familiar sound to it as the composer (kaoru wada) has worked on other well known titles like ninja scroll.
did you see TYR's performance with their home town's full orchestra live?
Speaking of orchestration
More silent mobius
This is the full orchestra versions of the music Wada used for the movies
They also did a series of image albums for- silent mobius: the return and mobius klein 1&2 they were effectively soundtracks for the manga. so the music was all over the place, vocal tracks and instrumentals
Unfortunately i cannot find the track "first war" it is a blistering instrumental piece that starts out similar to eruption from Eddie Van Halen.
Ravenor Returned audiobook. While it's not my favourite Dan Abnett novel it is a master-class in plotting and pacing. A couple of things I received quite a bit of praise on in my Creative Writing course was my plotting and pacing, which I think is due to Dan Abnett's influence on me. Although, many of his novels have quite rushed endings, in all honesty, Unremembered Empire being the first and foremost. But with all the millions of plotlines in that novel it would've been much, much worse under many other writers. In my novel, The Angaran Chronicles: The Underside I was worried I had a too bloated ending, but I read over Traitor General (which ends in sorta similar ending and is my favourite Gaunt's Ghosts novel and, perhaps, my favourite 40k novel in general Rawne's character arc is just so well done, in my opinion) And that helped me finish it without too many perspectives and such (or at least I hope so) I think Ravenor Rogue might be the strongest of the Ravenor trilogy in my book (hah! Pun intended, sorry)
I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 in all its unoptimized glory for a while now, and I had a heck of a time hunting down this song, the best in the soundtrack:
Just finished the best soundtrack to the best streetfighter II movie made-the 1994 animated one, that is the original japanese soundtrack not that travesty they replaced it with for the US release.
One of my favorite tracks-CRY-the original fight music between chun li and vega in her apartment. it very much reminds me of the gregg/allman brothe band style/vocals. particularly the song i posted previously for the black rain movie soundtrack they did.
I hope I haven't posted this before but listening to this right now. I like it! With the typical Sonic music cheesiness (stereo-EO!) and I really like violins in the beginning.
The BEST transformers movie with the best soundtrack (granted arrival to earth was a great piece from the first live film but...this is the classic that started it all).
TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE 1986
The theme
and of course one cannot go on without the original version of "the touch" by stan bush, a;sop known as optimus primes theme.
If someone doesn't know who is Giorgio Moroder, I simply will tell he is the man who created the OST of Flashdance, Top Gun, Never Ending Story and behind the first successes of Donna Summer.
Trying to learn this on piano, lol, think I went a bit ambitious for learning my first song, but slowly getting through it, luckily it begins pretty simplish before going insane later that makes me wonder if it's even humanly possible to play, but then I see some dude able to play it so, yeah lol
Just listened through both wolfs rain sountracks..i mean it was yoko kanno so i had to get it even if it is overall a bit slower than what i prefer
the ending theme was done by the voice actress/singer Maya Sakamoto (escaflowne tv/movie-music and the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki, record of lodoss wars tv-voice of leaf.. etc..)
A new arival to my metal collection the new grave digger album...because bagpipes are metal!
Next up in the que is the live action 2010 yamato movie. i enjoyed it even as condensed as it was with a little artistic licence taken with the gamilons the soundtrack however was top notch. still retaining the feel of the original but giving it's own twist-
After that i have started through the set of 5 soundtracks for the re-make of the first 2 seasons of the anime (2199 and 2202)
As well as Pandorax for, like, the 20th time (and when the time in the novel came to it The Trials of Azrael which I thoroughly enjoyed, Azrael is pretty damn badass in that story and his fight against Kharn is well written and shows respect to both characters) but right now, or when I began typing this, in all honesty.
One of my favourite songs of the Cowboy Bebop OST up there with Tank! Not sure why exactly, though.
Well i finally have come to the end...300 or so anime soundtracks down
the last is from a lesser known series-(starship girl) Yamamoto Yoko)
i have all the manga and enjoyed the fun little series, especially since the main characters were voiced by some fo the most famous seyuu in japan. sakiko tamagawa, minami tkayama, megumi hayashibara....just to name a few.
The setting is set far into the future where wars are fought in obstacle course laden space battleship races. the 2 main forces are TERRA and one of it's former colonies-NESS
The head of the terran team created a time machine to go back to our current day to find pilots who are more aggressive and more attuned to competitive tactics and game play than the current era of the terran populations.
After all that i start through the collection again with my rock and metal albums...coming soon-the A's
Finished listening to Pandorax, a fun, rip-roaring ride, the best part in it to me is the interplay between Azrael and Draigo. It also, somewhat, feels like a planet-scale war. I think CZ Dunn does have a bad habit of over-explaining things. One thing I think he neglected to do which has a lot of potentials is the character of Epimetheus being a Space Marine from the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy and neglecting to go more into his thoughts and feelings about the regression of the Imperium of Mankind into theocracy, bureaucracy, etc etc. Now listening to The Unremembered Empire.
So starting off on my catalog of metal and rock bands i am going to do something a bit different. think of it like "bookending" i have large catalogs of albums from many artists as such it is impossible to keep track of each album i am listening to through the weeks. so i will try to grab a rare song i liked from both the early and late catalogs of the bands in question.
To start off with is the mighty ACCEPT. the german band that has been rocking since the later 70's and just released a new album this month.
Going back to the early days with the original singer the legendary Udo Dirkschnier a song i really enjoyed
-i'm a rebel
A newer song with the new singer Mark Tornillo(a fine replacement for Udo i must admit )
As an added bonus i also have the tribute album with many well known contributors like hammerfall, primal fear and this little donation from dimmu borgir
A friend of mine sent me a link earlier to a metal cover of "Toss a coin to your Witcher" by Dan Vasc...
I've spent most of today exploring his youtube channel. He has an amazingly powerful, versatile voice and obviously enjoys performing so much it's an absolute joy to watch him.
This entry is a bit of an oddity. i pretty well found this band by accident.
the style is all over the place but i can best describe it as a combination of metal/opera and ambient synth.
Many of the songs remind me heavily of the .hack//sign soundtrack.
I cannot overstate how much I love One Piece, (my Rogue Trader campaign has a lot of OP in it, as well as my writing in general Eiichiro Oda is a damned genius in my eyes, Sanji was my hero as a teenager and made me obsessed with kicking in my martial arts practising my technique to such an extent I kicked flies out of mid-air three times and strengthened my legs I sprinted 10 metres in .86 of a second) finally beginning to try to catch up on the Manga with the 3 in 1 books which are a much cheaper way to collect than buying the individual volumes which are like 25 NZD but the 3 in 1s are only 30 NZD at one place in my home town, Wellington.
Sorry, will stop my blabbering on and get back on topic, uhh began listening to this and it's just too damn catchy, so much so it's kept me awake at night with it echoing inside my skull over and over again.
Well good news for you...there is lots of it, lots and lots...
I took a pass on the formula shows for 8-12 year old japanese boys back in the 80s and 90s with dragon ball, flame of recca, ruroni kenshin TV etc...my preferences were for more serious shows, but then my first anime experience was space battleship yamato and i was watching bubblegum crisis as it was being released in japan in the late 1980s
Getting some cello action in with apocalyptica doing metallica (and other bands)
The two in particular are slightly before my time (I was a Britpop kid. Jarvis Cocker for Pope!), but are excellent examples of the overall sound.
First up, Sit Down by James. Poignant to me due to the various mental health struggles of me and mine, and how we’ve supported each other through some pretty dark days.
Then The Farm’s iconic song Altogether Now, written about the Christmas Truce of 1914. As something of a pacifist, the lyrics have always made me wish that soldiers and fighters just....wouldn’t. As in, what a different world we would live in if those doing the actual fighting just refused. Please don’t take this as an anti-military career type snobbery thing. I do respect those who choose to serve - I just can’t help but wonder what the world would be like if nobody chose to fight.
But as someone who got bored and mucked about too much at school. And as a result, wound up in dead end minimum wage jobs, got lucky once and ran with it?
This. I am by no conventional means particularly well off, but I no longer live hand to mouth, and only live pay cheque to pay cheque because I really, really need to learn financial discipline*
This is for me and people like me. We’ve been wage slaves. Paid the absolute minimum our employers could legally get away with and not a penny more - but pushed past, got lucky, and improved our lot.
For those feeling trapped in the minimum wage slog? I can only heartily recommend chancing your hand. It only takes one yes, and then a fair old amount of work. You can do it. I believe in you.
After watching one of my favourite YouTubers, It's A Gundam, he played this song briefly, which I used to play a lot back in 2017 or something. I think it lends perspective to a lot of small problems in the world; although a few of these are "upper class" problems, but they still qualify. Been a fan of Weird Al since I saw "The Saga Begins" back as a child.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Been on a bit of a Weird Al binge right now and this was the song that made me a fan as a kid, watched this one Saturday morning during Squirt back in the day (and I was young enough to think the prequels were quality movies and to think Jar Jar Binks wasn't annoying as frig) I'd say weird Al tells the story of Episode One better than the movie itself, in all honesty.
That song is actually based off an old british 60s spy TV show
As far as economics go, i think that is the model for most working class people, we all start out at the bottom and work our way up to a decent living condition (unless we become gamers to punish ourselves ) i know i did the same.
Adrassil
Your not alone, parody/comedian musicians are great. been a fan of Al since the 80s, also add steven lynch and bob rivers to that list.
Your not alone, parody/comedian musicians are great. been a fan of Al since the 80s, also add steven lynch and bob rivers to that list.
Hey, man, thanks for introducing me to these!
More Weird Al. Ironically and hypocritically, when this first came out, I was so smug about a lot of this stuff. However, I still used "it's" instead of when "its" was necessary for years after listening to this until I did my 2nd year in my creative writing course...I still type my posts in bad grammar and blah blah blah still, but that's mostly out of laziness, though lol.
Finished listening to the audiobook of Thousand Sons. I think Graham Mcneill can be a bit hit and miss with his novels, but he hit it out of the park in that one as far as I'm concerned. Now listening to Prospero Burns. Enjoying it a lot.
Had pretty high hopes for this band when they first came out. some young guys with some heavy bay area thrash influences, unfortunately they had some lineup changes and a huge change in musical direction away from metal so i only have the first album.
Still listening to Prospero Burns got past one of my favourite chapters where Kasper Houser tells his story about Malifecarum to the Rune Priest, and it's seriously one of my favourite scenes in that book. So atmospheric and full of mystery, I know many people didn't like it when it came out, but I think Prospero Burns is great.
Just re-watched Neon Genesis Evangelion on Netflix for the first time in almost twenty years a few weeks back, can't believe it'd been that long ago now, back when I'd rent the videos from United Video watching it three episodes at a time, teenage me absolutely loved Evangelion and I'm glad to say I still enjoyed now I'm older. Then years later buying DVDs of Fullmetal Alchemist as they were released here in New Zealand years and years after everywhere else (like, 07, maybe?) Sorry, meandering. This song really stuck out to me, it's a true contradiction in its lyrics and music. Really like it.
When GMing the last session of my Rogue Trader campaign, the PCs are taking part in a large Void Battle, and they'd been boarded by numerous boarding parties. They managed to kill one, which was a horde of Pilgrims of Hayte accompanied by a smaller horde of Dybuk Killers (basically weaker daemon hosts) and two of my homebrew daemonic abominations, The Daemons of the Murder Room, which I made the mistake of not adjusting their strength since the last time the PCs fought them WAY back in the third session of the campaign, so both Daemons of the Murder Room died anticlimactically. The first sliced apart by the PC's Chimera's Multi-Las turret. The 2nd sliced apart by two PCs in melee, but when I described the daemon being slaughtered to death by a power sword, it kinda reminded me of Doom Guy ripping and tearing through demons in the new Doom, so I thought when they next fight daemons I'll play these...
I have also been listening to them when I read over this scene I wrote from the latest Secret War, and it fits too well lol (well, when the action begins, anyway...)
It was raining, the sound of it clashing and ringing off the rusty metal roofing all around so strongly the sound seemed to engulf everything, including every inch of Attelus’ pained throbbing skull. It silenced any potential sound of his footfalls, but it also silence those of any enemy trying to sneak up on him; ironically, it made it worse for him due to his enhanced hearing. Slipping from shadow to shadow, the cameleoline cloak wrapped around him, Attelus paused and knelt, watching the street. About twenty metres away, the street opened up into a large courtyard where the Counting House's black walls and the building itself beyond. He slipped his scope from its pouch and zoomed in on the place. Guards patrolled the wall and the building's balconies; they seemed bored but still alert and quite disciplined distinct improvement over the local militia of the locals on the outside walls. Impressive, they were a testament to Imperial soldiery.
Attelus lowered his scope and glanced around himself. He’d a paranoia of streets and alleyways, especially after his misadventures on Omnartus, but he knew he had to reveal himself for the guards. So he slipped off his cameleoline cloak and began for the gates.
Two guards took shelter in the small guardhouse on the right, both poor bastards looked frigging miserable, but even still, one of them walked out, shimmering beneath his wet weather overcoat.
‘Are you the Throne Agent?’ the guard yelled over the downpour.
Attelus wanted to just nod, but the guard probably wouldn’t be able to see, so he just showed him his sigil.
The guard stared at it for a good few seconds before beckoning Attelus to follow as the large steel gates began to open. They only had to wait a few seconds before there was enough room for them to walk through, and they began onwards. By frig, Attelus wanted a smoke, but the rain would disintegrate it in seconds. Anyway, the main entrance wasn’t too far and-
Attelus attention snapped up to a roof about seven metres above without moving his head, covering a balcony on his left by the slightest of movement. Attelus didn’t slow, though or even take his hands from their pockets, he just hoped like hell it was Kalakor, but he doubted that roof could hold the Space Marine’s weight.
Even bigger than the gates, the huge Gothic doors into the building began to roll ominously open. It amused Attelus that even in a backwater, but important nonetheless, gak hole, the Imperium still had to flaunt their over the top architecture. The Counting House almost reminded Attelus of many an Inquisition office throughout the Calixis Sector.
Then he and the guard finally stepped inside.
Like last time, Adept Kolmoroff was waiting for him in the foyer; ten guards accompanied her. The old woman’s piercing augmented gaze seemed glued to Attelus. Her face so lined, it was hard to believe she wasn’t born a short, wizened, hunched old hag in worn Administratum robes. Attelus frowned; hag? That was too harsher a word; so far, he found he liked the old woman.
Unless she’d sold them out, of course.
‘Greetings, Agent of the Throne,’ she said. ‘How fairs your stay in the Refectory?’
Attelus shrugged. ‘Alright, I guess, mamzel Kolmoroff. How fairs you doing Administratum....things?’
There was a pause. ‘Alright...young man. Come, I will take you to the Astropath’s quarters.’
With a nod, Attelus raised a hand in acquiescence, and Kolmoroff nodded and turned and led him onwards.
Attelus still wanted a smoke, but Kolmoroff didn’t seem the type who’d be happy about it. In silence, they walked through the corridor, Attelus trying to keep his constant glancing into every inch and corner of the barely lit, wide stone hallway secret and even in here, the sound of the downpour outside wouldn’t go away. He was frigging glad of the silence; he hated and was terrible at small talk. He would've liked to question Kolmoroff, but he didn’t want to risk tipping her off he was-
‘Here we are,’ said Kolmoroff as she stopped in front of one of the doors; about halfway down the hallway, there was a good twenty stretching to turn in the north and south. There was no cover, an excellent place for an ambush. Kolmoroff tapped her finger on the iron door.
But it didn’t open.
The Adept’s mouth dropped, then she slapped the iron with her palm. ‘Daniss?’
Still no reply.
‘Daniss?’ she repeated and began slamming in quick succession, but Attelus stopped her.
‘Get back,’ Attelus said as he slowly drew his sword, and Kolmoroff almost threw herself away.
‘Wh-what are you doing?’
Attelus’ sword exploded into life in a blaze of blue and, with one downward slice, cut through the door hinges.
‘By the Emperor!’ Kolmoroff cried, then Attelus kicked in the door, sword at the ready.
The walls of the small hab unit were coated in blood and brain matter. A man in the robes of an astropath sat in a chair at a wooden desk down a small hallway on the other side of the room; it was clear that everything from the jaw upward had been reduced into a ragged mess. Attelus flinched, but what really disturbed him were the tiny holes coating the rock wall and the desk, indicating the skull had exploded from the inside out with so much velocity the bone shards had become shrapnel. The stink of blood, gore and excrement were somehow overtaken by the stench of psychic discharge. This wasn’t good; this meant their enemy was a powerful psyker skilled enough to kill an astropath or had a psyker in their employ powerful enough.
‘gak!’ snarled Attelus.
‘Wh-’
‘When did you last talk to him?’
Kolmoroff just gaped at Attelus.
‘When did you talk to your astropath last!’
‘When-when he called me just before I called you, why?’
Before Attelus could answer, the lights around flickered, then they died out.
Fifty-eight men patrolled the Counting Building's walls and balconies, and all fifty-eight were taken out simultaneously and in complete silence. Throats sliced open in ragged explosions of jetting red.
A black figure on the Counting House’s roof flickered into view and waved a hand at the sky, a black ship floating about one hundred metres above appeared, dropped a good fifty metres and from its belly zip-lines lowered, then black-figure after black-figure began sliding down, as the guards’ assassins began to close in.
Attelus tried the micro-bead yet again and yet again, got nothing but static.
‘What is happening?’ whined Kolmoroff.
Ignoring her, Attelus turned on one of the nearest guards. ‘You! Get to the barracks and get the off duty men woken up! Tell them we’re under attack! Now!’
‘Y-yes, ma- I mean, sir!’ said the guard, and he ran off like he was on fire.
‘W-we are under attack?’ cried Kolmoroff.
Hoping the attackers weren’t somehow wearing syn skin bodygloves, Attelus blink-clicked his photo contacts to heat vision and drew his autopistol as the guards finally began to spread out lasguns raised.
‘What do we do?’ said Kolmoroff.
Attelus racked the slide, hoping that’d make her shut up as he listened. Was that hissing? A Lascutter? Sounds like it's on the main door and...
He listened, it must’ve only taken half a second, but it seemed like hours, and slowly more and more pairs, dozens of pairs and...
‘gak!’ he snapped and blink-clicked heat-vision off. ‘They’re already inside, and they’re cutting through the main doors with las-cutters. Many, perhaps too many, are converging on us on both sides, all nine of you, face south and ready your guns. I’ll take the north.’
The guards glanced at each other in bemusement. ‘Now! Frig it. And open fire when I give the command, semi-auto, pinning fire, and conserve ammo. Mamzel Kolmoroff take cover.’
‘Yes, sir,’ the guards chorused.
‘Throne Agent Kaltos-’
Attelus shushed Kolmoroff and closed his eyes, willing his night vision to set in and reached out even further with his hearing. He was no psyker, but his enhancement was psychic in nature and gave him, to an extent, the ability to control his senses almost like one.
And...
His eyes snapped open. ‘Open fire, now!’
The familiar chatter of las-fire erupted then Attelus was launching forwards towards the trio of shimmering forms emerging from around the corner and the others just behind.
Switching his autopistol to fully automatic, Attelus opened fire in a wild flurry, he wasn’t the best shot but the sheer amount of rounds more than made up for his inaccuracy as two silhouettes writhed, and hazes of blood exploded from their backs.
Attelus was wearing syn skin, too, so he would’ve been a shimmering haze to the enemy as well. By then, four more had slipped out, and they opened fire, their silenced autoguns showering shots. Despite the dozens of rounds flying for him, Attelus didn’t slow as his sword, a blur even to his eyes, deflected their fire. High yield suppressed autoguns, probably customised Armageddon Patterns, likely using armour penetrating manstopper rounds like in Attelus’ pistol, simple but perfect for wet-work such as this, the Modus Operandi of the elite Sons of Dispater mercenaries. They only had time for a brief blurt before he was in amongst them.
His diagonal cut opened an attacker from right hip to left shoulder; the following slice gutted a second. Then the reverse went through another’s throat. Attelus’ side kick crashed against the autogun of one who tried to raise it; the gun broke from the attacker's hands then into their chest. The attacker flew off his feet, hit the wall headfirst with an ugly crunch, and collapsed limply on their face. Attelus lastly sliced his sword into the chest of a fifth.
One assassin swung out the butt of their rifle, but Attelus weaved beneath it, then unleashed a burst of autopistol fire point-blank into his chest; the attacker convulsed and dropped with a cry of agony. Another enemy managed to bring up their autogun to their hip and rattled off a flurry. Attelus slid aside it then threw out a high front kick. It smashed into the attacker’s chin, and Attelus felt the bone collapse upward beneath his boot, then the attacker fell on his back so hard it seemed to shake the entire building.
All of this only took about two seconds. Attelus glanced around the corner. Many more cloaked figures were moving his way, and he pulled back as their shots spat. So Attelus only felt and heard his three frag grenades explode among them.
Their cries echoing in his ears, Attelus turned back and sprinted towards the guards and Kolmoroff, thanking his luck they were still standing and still alive. Their lasguns spitting. They could be assassins of the Sons of Dispater, but they weren’t Etuarq’s direct agents, which Attelus thanked his luck for. Etuarq’s agents were enhanced too, their reflexes and strength equal to Attelus’ own. But that didn’t mean Etuarq wasn’t their patron.
‘I’m approaching on your six!’ Attelus yelled and stopped just behind the guards, adding his own pistol shots to their barrage. ‘The right side four of you, pinning fire to the north!’
Just as he hoped, four on the right spun simultaneously and began blasting, their discipline yet again impressing him.
His autopistol clicked dry, and he reloaded in a split-second. ‘The rest of you turn north on three.’
‘Sir! Yes, sir!’
‘Three...’ Attelus called as he readied himself to explode in a sprint.
‘Two...One!’
The five guards turned as one and added their salvo to their comrades’.
The enemies finding themselves to no longer pinned Attelus, exploded forwards as they went to lean out and spread out cautiously. Their reactions were fast, damned fast as their autoguns began spitting. Attelus took one down with a flurry of autofire, his shots slicing the assassin across the chest left to right before he was forced into dodging and deflecting through their fire. He managed to lunge at the nearest and send the attacker’s autogun swinging off aim with a roundhouse kick. Then Attelus stabbed him through the chest, the assassin writhed and screamed as Attelus knelt down and forced the attacker to stand between him and the rest of his comrades as they turned their guns Attelus’ way.
The assassin burst and squirmed as he was perforated by round after round. Attelus then stood and sent a sidekick into the assassin, throwing the corpse, wheeling off his sword and crashing into two more of the enemies. Attelus threw off another blurt of shots, one round which winged an attacker then through the knee of another. Attelus darted at the two still recovering assassins and finished them with a shot to the skull each.
Just before the shots from their fellows cut down Attelus, he darted behind the corner. Attelus cursed; dozens of more blurs were approaching from there; they must’ve managed to cut through the main doors. Attelus took out his last frag and tossed it around; he waited for the resulting blast, then leaned out and shot out a desperate barrage. He had the corner and cover now if he could hold them back perhaps-
‘Attelus Xanthis Kaltos!’
The exclamation of his name made Attelus spin back, pistol raised, and he clenched his teeth.
All ten of the guards had stopped shooting and were pointing their lasguns at the terrified Adept Kolomoroff with loose grips, their eyes wide and white as their tongues lolled in their dumb, gaping mouths.
Attelus knew when a psyker was controlling a person.
‘Drop your weapons, now,’ a tall, thin figure emerged from behind the shimmering figures further down the hallway; he wore a long buttoned up black storm coat, his head shaven except for a black, well-trimmed beard and large bushy eyebrows his hands behind his back. ‘You are such a great warrior and all, but you are also overly sentimental, to such an extent it could be a psychological issue called a “hero complex”. Not just that, you must know that you will be soon overwhelmed and killed.’
Attelus took a glance at the wall.
The man saw that and shrugged. ‘You might cut a hole through there and escape, but would you leave this poor, nice lady to die?’
‘Who are you?’ said Attelus but didn’t lower his pistol. ‘Why are you assaulting an Imperial compound with a whole frigging battalion of Sons of Dispater mercenaries?’
‘Ahh, so you managed to figure that out; I should not be surprised you being a former mercenary. Now drop your weapons, or the nice elderly Administratum drone dies.’
Attelus clenched his teeth; how did this man know so much about him? An Inquisitor, this idiot had to be an Inquisitor. Then he looked to Kolmoroff. ‘Screw this frigger,’ she snarled. ‘Just-’
‘Shut it, you old bitch!’ the man snarled as he pulled out a bolt pistol and exploded a guard’s skull with a point-blank round. Kolmoroff to yelp out and flinch as the poor man’s blood and brain matter splattered all over her. Then the man pointed the smoking pistol at Attelus.
‘You know I have a force of dozens of elite Inquisitorial agents staying in the refectory, including a beta-level psyker, right?’ said Attelus.
‘Oh, I know, but I have an ace up my sleeve, just a ship in orbit with its targets on the refectory as we speak. I mean, come on. Just drop your damned weapons already.’
Sighing, Attelus dropped his sword and pistol with clatters.
‘Good,’ said the man. ‘Now your throwing knives, your mono knife and boot knife too.’
Groaning, Attelus began to do as told. ‘Now, are you going to at least tell me who the frig you? are’
The man smiled and held out a rosette showing the sigil of the Ordo Xenos. ‘I am Inquisitor Drevan, and it is so good to finally meet you.’
Attelus’ chest became overtaken by heart-rendering fear.
Back in the 1990s a group of bands from the gothenburg scene in sweden started gaining attention. it was coined the "gothenburg sound" that was a combination of melodic death metal with touches of european gothic influences.
Most of the bands have gone on to change their sound except one that has stayed true to the original style.
dark tranquility.
From the 1993 debut skydance up to the 2020 release of the newest album-"moment"
There were a few bands that were icon of the 1960s rock scene but i was never a fan of some of the big ones like the beatles or the stones, however the one i did brings us to today's entry-
The next band comes by way of the new wave of british heavy metal (NWOBHM) that was hitting the USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s
DEF LEPPARD
They tended to be a bit more melodic and radio friendly than their contemporaries like saxon, judas priest or iron maiden.
The height of their carrier ran from the first major label album "on through through the night" 1980 and effectively came to an end in 1993 with the release of the "retroactive" compilation albums of b sides or songs that didn't make it on to the 2 previous releases(hysteria/adrenalize),
After this point (the first 5 albums) i stopped following them as like many bands they released albums in the 90s that tried to embrace the popular music trends of the times that moved them away from the hard rock/heavy metal scene.
The success of the band was mirrored by the tragedies of loosing the lead guitarist steve clark to an drinking related death and having their drummer loose an arm in an auto accident. ironically making him more famous as the only one armed drummer in a band.
So I never really listened all that much to Alestorm. I knew of them enough to know I needed to go over the discography while I prepped for a Skulls and Shackles game.
TLDR, why has nobody told me about Wooden Leg, parts 1 and 2?
The first album was the best, considering how many songs and how fast they were pushed to make more music sadly by the 3rd album it became pretty generic.
Listening to this again in honour of Kentaro Miura and his untimely death.
I began writing my 40k fanfic Secret War back in 08 or 09. I've only begun really to get in Berserk recently and first watched the amazing anime in 2013. But my main character Attelus Kaltos has so many similarities to Guts it isn't funny. Both being mercenaries with horrific pasts that are heavily traumatised by it and who are searching for a purpose in life while desperately fighting against a darker side from taking over. Realising this made me feel like Miura was kinda a 'kindred spirit' of sorts. His death really emphasises that I must never give up on my pursuit as a writer. To keep fighting on to finish my work as there will be a time I will never be able to. RIP Miura you talented as hell man! May you be remembered for centuries to come!
Last week I spent lots of time listening to Eurovision 2021 entries. Lol, I know. But this year there were bunch of pretty good entries.
Finland sent an energetic nu-metal band....
Ukraine had a folk-techno act with extremely catchy song which might SOUND like the singer is summoning forth a horrible bog demon to devour neighbouring village, but it's actually about the spring. Or so they say:
Must say her stage presence is really something.
France sent a very French chanson ballad, which I usually don't like but this was pretty good:
Italy won, with a glam rock entry which is really rare for them. They became an instant hit:
Then there was United Kingdom, oh well...
Yep, they got zero points from both juries and televote, quite an achievment.
Not listening to right now, but Arrested Development are coming to my town in October.
Quite enjoyed their music when I was younger. I’m keen to get tickets, but given the venue is tiny (yet still amazing), I’m thinking I should hold off, let bigger fans get the chance to see them.
Listening to the new audiobook of Straight Silver, took ages to come out but it's worth it. Just one more audiobook then it's my favourite, Traitor General (which I'm reading) But most of all this masterpiece of a song lol
So this is sort of an add on to the last post. It technically isn't in the "E"s but the lead vocalist from edguy has been doing his side dream project for many years now called avantasia (the metal opera) where he has been teaming up with many of the legendary metal vocalist and musicians from other bands including the likes of Geoff tate(queensryche), klaus meine(scorpions), Tim "ripper" owens (iced earth/judas priest etc..) Byff byford(saxon) Hansi kursch(blind guardian), Marko heitala(nightwish), john oliva(savatage/trans siberian orchestra), Michael Kiske(helloween) among so many others.
Listening to the audiobook of Necropolis again, mostly because it's one of the best books in the Gaunt's Ghosts series, but also because I'd read The Vincula Insurgency which is a prequel set on during Ghostmaker after the Voltemand battle. In it, though, the character Baffels is referred to as a sergeant, but he wasn't promoted until Necropolis, there's even a sub-plot where Gaunt is tempted to promote Milo as he showed a lot of leadership qualties instead of Baffels but promotes Baffels because he can't promote the youngest Ghost who just officially joined the regiment and I was right lol
Some bands come along that a good but not ground breaking enough to really focus on, the next part of my collection starts of with one of these-FALCONER
i only have a couple albums, but they are a good listen.
As a little bonus since this was such a small collection i also hit the "best of" FAUN the german folk band
Been listening to this after it was quoted in the excellent CRPG Disco Elysium, well, a song in their world that has the same lyrics, it was a Communist anthem in Disco Elysium lol
Brain Freeze from Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge not as familiar with this as Grinder or Hell March but this is awesome, too. Makes me want to buy Red Alert 2 again and play it but can't find it on Steam or GOG, where could it be otherwise?
aphyon wrote: Sadly those videos are all region blocked.
Yeah I didn't realize ESC videos are blocked in US (and possibly other non-EBU countries) due to some payment issue. Overseas one needs VPN to see them. Mea culpa!
When I first saw this as a kid, I was like, ooooh cartoons so cool, I like these Gorillaz. Now as I've gotten older I've appreciated their music more and more.
Hmm, whenever I post here I wonder of I've already posted about this song or songs before as I do listen to the same songs repeatedly, but oh well. One of the most underrated Foo Fighters songs in my eyes. This and The Pretender, which everyone seems to have forgotten. Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace was an alright album, but The Pretender was frigging awesome as frig. Epic music video, too.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also began listening through all the Modest Mouse songs on my phone to try to find something different from Dashboard (which helped me through my mother's recent death) and Float On (which helped me through my nana's death who was like a mum to me) Needless to say they're both songs that are near to my heart, I think for me the songs are upbeat, happy but also concede life can be hard, but it's always how you look at life. 'The dashboard melted, but we still have the radio!' and 'I backed my car into a cop car the other day, well, he just drove off some times life's okay!' And found to my delight Florida which I fell in love with on first listening.
In the process of absolutely rinsing my “free gigs for a year” VIP status at my local music venue.
Starting last Tuesday, I’ve seen three local bands, plus
Wake Up Leo
Who were supporting
Space
Solid gig, and an excellent vibe. I’ve always loved live music, and am a solid exponent of no live music being bad music.
On Wednesday? It’s Bob Vylan
Lyrics NSFW, but some solid punk credentials here and I’m looking forward to a most excellent night of pogoing. They kind of remind me of Skunk Anansie, which is never a bad thing.
Next gig after that is 23 June, for Rag’n’Bone Man. Not normally my thing, but I’m taking my friend’s son who is a massive fan, to his first ever live gig - because not only do I get in free, I get priority booking. Seemed rude not to.
And the long weekend is Local & Live. Reckon I might book the Friday off and immerse myself in as much music as possible.
After the great Mike Stoklasa (second only to the almighty Rich Evans, hallowed be His name) sang this in the latest Redletter Media video, well here I am, it's okay, catchy as feth. This is the epitome of badly aged 90's cheesy music videos. I grew up in the 90's and am still bemused by the fact people thought this stuff was cool back then lol. Also reminds me of Reno's hair style from FF7 even with goggles perched on his head.
Listening to HP Lovecraft Historical Society's audio drama version of The Colour Out of Space, it's excellent, yes. Just finished their version of the Call of Cthulhu P&P RPG The Fungi From Yuggoth campaign The Brotherhood of the Beast and it is one of their best, the characters are likeable and interesting. They did a version of The Masks of Nyarlathotep but it was mo where near as good.
God, damn. Nostalgic chills here, makes me remember when I first started up the game. I bought Metroid Prime when it came out when I was a teenager, I knew it was a great game the split second I saw the trailer for it in a Nintendo Magazine Game Cube demo disk. And boy was I right. No other game's atmosphere can live up to Metroid Prime's (Not even the sequels) The controls were tailor-made for a console especially for the GC's which was terrible for FPS's. Retro Studios knocked it out of the frigging park with this game in every aspect. It's made even more amazing after I learned about all the problems they had with the higher-ups at the company and the bad management of money. Samus is awesome!
Iron Maiden’s new album Shenjutsu is out. So I’ll be listening to that.
First track is the title track. Strong opening, and even if I played it blind, you’d know it’s Iron Maiden. Bruce’s voice is a bit different, but that’s age for you, isn’t it.
I'm going down the ESP Guitars list of artists that use their instruments and picking some at random to see what I like. Animals As Leaders, Whitechapel, and Code Orange were the most recent.
I find that quite a few of my favorite maiden sons tend to be under recognized....and usually on the tail end of the album. alexander the great, to tame a land (dune)
And of course the catchy harmony of mother russia.
I remember when I first heard this song. In 2010 I was playing the remake of GoldenEye on the Wii, and in one stage, you go to a nightclub, and a simpler version of it was playing, and I was like. 'I like this.' It wasn't hard to find on Itunes as that version just basically said 'I Remember' over and over again. I got it along with Ghosts 'n' Stuff (which I prefer without lyrics, which is ironic as I'm a lyrics dude). Remember playing this song while playing Minecraft with my friends. It's sort of a melancholic song for me, both in tone and the memories it produces in me; it also reminds me of 2010 so strongly and that it's almost been twelve years! 2010 was a great year; I quit a crappy job, went to a radio school, which got me a qualification I never used, but I had a great time with all the awesome students there. And I really got shaking in writing Secret War!
So yeah, a song called 'I Remember' makes me remember a lot, indeed! lol
From the excellent Cowboy Bebop movie (which I'm watching my Blu Rays of over the past few days), It's funny; as I watch Cowboy Bebop, it dawns on me more and more how influential that series is on me as a writer. Almost all of my Angaran Chronicles short stories/novellas sorta feel like Cowboy Bebop episodes, especially how they jump from genre to genre each time; probably the most influenced by Bebop would be, coincidentally my favourite, the novella Hamar Noir, where Anargrin hunts down a vampire. The premise began as a throwaway side-story he mentions in a memoir short story I wrote for my writing course. Hmm, actually, now I remember it was a part of a backstory of a character in the video game my friend, and I began making together back in 2011, lol.
I listened to this when writing a dog fight scene in Secret War: Upon Blood Sands. It was inspiring as it's played in an awesome dog fight scene in the Cowboy Bebop movie. It was such a fun scene to write, indeed!
From a very well known japanese group that started in the 1980s
SHOW-YA
Breakdown
The surprise with this one is that the entire album is in english, They have done a song or 2 here and there in the past in english but never an entire album before.
From one metal god to another-after maiden it is time for some JUDAS PRIEST
A classic-
And the re-union
Honorable mention to Tim "ripper" Owens, while the 2 albums he did with priest would be more at home with pantera, cathedral spires was a pure priest song.
A quick follow up with jagdpanzer, i only picked up one album to try them out after hearing the cover of this classic american folk song.
Just been watching The Twilight Zone (which is frigging awesome, by the way, wished I watched it years ago) And in the episode, I just watched they mentioned Scranton Pennsylvania which made me laugh my arse off because of this utter classic amongst classic songs.
So, yeah, been listening to this.
Also, this, because of this art...
of Michael Scott Ahriman made me want to write a parody of this about Ahriman.
Which I did and it's terrible lol
Ohhh yeeaah!
Threat level Rubric!
Makes all the Thousand Sons alright
From Daemon Summoner Ctesias to Tolbek
Threat level Rubric
-
It’s a threat
A level
A level level threat
He’s the greatest psyker I ever seen yet
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Threat level, what?
Rubric!
Threat level, who?
Ahzek Ahriman!
Threat Level, why?
Flesh Change!
Gotta fight it!
Free the Rubrics!
Peace I’m out!
These guys along with the guy who made Astartes and the LOTR movies (Not the Hobbit movies!) and Sam Neill's iconic horror scream and his utter incapability to keep up an American accent make me proud to be a Kiwi, also Martin Campbell's awesome James Bond movies (GoldenEye and Casino Royale, not Lee Tamahori's Die Another Day, which was terrible) too.