Played a couple of games of Assassinorum: Execution Force today, and in the 2nd one, my Vindicare Assasin got left behind on the 1st board while the rest had teleported to stop the bad guy. Almost all the Cultists and Chaos Marines on the 1st board were Alerted and chasing after the Vindicare as he was running for the teleporter, they were after him in a big line and I regret now not listening to this as he led them on a merry chase so I'm listening to it right now lol
At least he is still playing metal, unlike that other band he was in.
I'm always baffled when people recommend Tornado Of Souls to new listeners as a window to Megadeth when Lucretia not only exists, but is on the same album.
While Fire Emblem Fates, left a lot to be desired its OST was excellent (which I think the franchise is great at overall) This is one of my favourite battlefield themes in the entire series!
Well since we are in the Ms you know it had to happen eventually....
The former metal band and once kings of thrash...oh how the mighty have fallen. as the old saying goes the brighter the candle burns the quicker it goes out.
MetallicA 1983-1991 R.I.P.
Addendum-
I do own death magnetic, i was hoping it was a return to form after the horrible run of albums starting with load. it has some decent songs on it so i kept it which is far more than i can say for what i did with load after my first listen.
I'm sure I've posted this here before but oh well. I'm just in the midst of writing an action scene in my NaNoWriMo story Secret War: The Annihilation Plague and put this on repeat. I think it's really helping, writing this story is proving a ton of frigging fun for me, in all honesty.
Now we come to one of the few local Seattle area bands i really like, that was a contemporary of metallica and even toured with them, but never made it to that level of notoriety-
The powerhouse that is Nightwish. started listening to them back in 2000 when i heard the wishmaster album.
As an old school fan i think the height of the band was really the "century child" and "once" albums. The combination of Tarja and Marco is just something that they have never been able to recreate.
JoshInJapan wrote: Rock and roll is not dead, but rather has relocated to Italy:
Bruh, how can you say that when you're in Japan and Japan has an amazing hard rock scene.
Yeah, there are indeed a lot of great rock bands here, but these guys just popped up in my YouTube suggestions, and something about them just struck home. At the risk of dating myself, I had much the same reaction when I saw Ministry at Lollapalooza-- they came out of nowhere and just blew everything else away.
Some time ago I started building a Beavis and Butthead 90's play list that I play on shuffle. anything that was featured on the show or music from those years and a few more that would have fit. It's turned into a fantastic playlist with 444 tracks. I even went so far as to pull clips from the show of line and turn them into mp3 format to stick in the playlist. I am actually amazed at how good it is. I've added monster truck commercials and old pro wrestling promos, macho man and rick flair so far. I'm considering adding clips from MTV news and short psa's.
I work out side most of the year and this has kept me laughing and rocking out for the better part of a year.
A little shout out to the thrash band that almost nobody remembers is still around-contemporaries of Metallica, Megadeth, anthrax, testament and the like-
Last up for this installment is a band i wish had made it big. back in the early 90s many bands were getting album deals, unfortunately it was 1993 and the music industry had switched over to grunge when this fantastic album was released-built to perform.
RIP guitarist and founding member Michelle Meldrum-Norum (September 28, 1968 – May 21, 2008)
I lock myself out of my room at 2 am a couple of nights ago and had to sleep that night in the lounge/kitchen on a couch. One of the fridges seemed to make beautiful music. It's hard to explain like a repeating tune with a rising and falling voice. It was haunting, almost made me being stupid and locking myself out of my room worth it lol
Daoko is probably best known for being the singer of Me!Me!Me!, the MV of which featured the basis for the Zero 2 hip swing dance over 2 Phut Hon that became a TikTok meme.
I completely forgot after decades how 80s metal this intro was. As a kid, I definitely didn't appreciate the guitar in it at the time; I think I was too traumatized by a certain on screen death. I'd heard the Touch many times over the past 30 years but not this one that I can recall.
Fantastic soundtrack, i have owned it for decades, i also have the double CD botcon special that includes a new version of the touch and the actual full background music.
Uhh, yeah, I don't like wrestling in all honesty, but what brought me to this song is quite a convoluted story so sit there child and I will tell you this epic, awesome tale! Ahem! Here we go. I just watched the latest Rich Evans Show...I mean Best of the Worst Christmas edition and they talked about the terrible as all frig Santa With Muscles movie, which I've watched from start to finish a couple of times, because...I don't know why...Because it's so insane? Which reminded me of this song, which I actually associate with Always Sunny in Philadelphia more than Hulk Hogan or wrestling actually lol. Also, in my cousin's last P&P RPG session one of the players kept saying 'I'm blasting' now if my PC dies I want to RP as Frank Reynolds using dual flintlocks and yelling 'So anyway, I started blastin'! Every time we begin a fight lol
'Pleased to meet you! Hope you guess my name!' Wish I had Nyarlathotep quote this when he first introduced himself to the PCs in my Pulp Cthulhu campaign lol
aphyon wrote: What do you get when you mix high fantasy, movie soundtracks and heavy metal?
Rhapsody-hard to believe i have been listening to these guys for more than 20 years. i was hooked after hearing their first album.
Even with the singer's terrible accent? How he pronounced certain English words ("sword" and "emerald" in particular) became a meme in Italy. I can't stand their music, but I'm glad someone outside the country appreciates them.
I listen to metal from all over the world. the accent didn't bother me as much as the early narrator duties that Luca did. it was a great relief when they hired Chirstopher Lee and some other voice actors.
The music is what really got me, i love epic orchestration. rather it is john williams, yoko kanno, holst, wager, etc... when you can join it with metal i like it even more.
Just like when dimmu Borgir did progenies of the great apocalypse and then continued to do it even more with the following albums.
First half of the audio Sandman Act 2, quite a step up from act 1, then again Seasons of Mist is most likely my favourite arc, the voice work feels more settled, Mr Sheen introducing the wuzza wuzza Bowie twang to Lucifer is pure gold (90's comic book Lucifer resembles Bowie, fingers crossed our Gwen takes note)), Ms Dennings being less her distinctive accent and more chipper suits Death, good stuff all round, be interesting if Game of You gets changed
Interestingly enough this is a great metal band loved by metalheads and an entire audience who probably do not even know they are a metal band thanks to their hugely successful side project (more on that later)
SAVATAGE.
From the classic 80s-
Into the 90s with a new singer, sadly with the loss of the founding member and guitarist in a traffic accident- RIP chris oliva
His brother Jon kept the band together and produced a legendary album about the bosnian war -dead winter dead
that would eventually lead to the creation of the "trans siberian orchestra" project
Shonen Knife was instrumental to my learning Japanese. I can clearly remember the first time I actually understood what they were singing, which kept me taking Japanese classes in university.
I stumbled onto them from a song they did for the Powerpuff Girs back in the day. What stood out was how much their song reminded me of the Ramones. Almost like they did it on purpose. I did a little research and found out they were big fans of the Ramones and the song was in fact inspired by the Ramones. More so they had put out a tribute album under the title of Osaka Ramones which I immediately hunted down. I loved their Ramones covers so I checked out some of their own songs and while not bad, it wasn't what I was looking for in my music at the time. I gave it another go a few years later and I found more songs I enjoyed and at least wasn't bothered by the rest. They have a few songs that are in my playlist, but the rest require a certain mood for me to listen to.
that is a bit of nostalgia. as more of a metal head i was never a fan of shonen knife.
There was some cross pollination between bands showing up on anime soundtracks. as far as regular bands go i really started with a pop rock group called pink sapphire then found out about legends like show-ya, anthem and X-japan. remembering at the time in the late 80's finding out about anything going on in Japanese entertainment media was non-existent where i live aside from what i could translate out of my new-type magazine issues.
@Peterhausenn: Honestly, Shonen Knife have two, maybe three albums (Let's Knife, Rock Animals, and possibly 712) that I enjoy from start to finish. I played them to death when I first got into them, and now they live in the same space as They Might Be Giants-- bands I revisit periodically but don't want to listen to everyday.
@aphyon: The bands you mention are seminal, but by the time I got here they were essentially Classic Rock, like Lynyrd Skynyrd or the Doors. That's not a knock on any of them, but they're not getting a lot of airplay right now. Heck, Yoshiki is playing piano at Carnegie Hall these days!
SEIKIMA II just announced another black mass special event. and show-ya just came out with an album, but yeah i have been listening to Japanese bands for a very long time.
X-japan really only had 4 great albums (well one was an epic 30 minute single) before they self destructed. kind of the candle that burns too bright scenario.
I started listening to Aikawa Nanase when she was new in the mid 90s, after the foxtrot album i kind of lost interest, here material after she went on hiatus to start a family just wasn't the same.
Hard to believe now that onmyo-za was an indie band when i first got hooked on them 20 years ago.
Hotei, sex machineguns, the brilliant green/tommy are also on my short list of favorite bands along with a few lesser known groups like fatima hill, manipulated slaves, go!go!7188, and galmet.
In more recent years i have picked up newer stuff from groups like bridear (just got their into the dark forever 2021 tour shirt in the mail) and yousei teikoku.
I also like to try and catch the special naon no yaon events Show-ya puts on for female rock musicians.
Spinal Tap, Def Leopard, Black Sabbath and all those...I've never been there. Y'know I'd recognise one of their songs but not have a scooby that its actually one of theirs.
Funny you should mention Saxon. they just released their 24th studio album. as contemporaries of judas priest and iron maiden during the boom of the NWOBHM (new wave of british heavy metal) they are just as good but never had the same level of commercial success. One has but to listen to songs like-"great white buffalo, iron wheel, requiem" and a host of other songs that prove their skill as musicians. They have been consistently good for the last 40 years. and seem to never stop putting out great music.
SamusDrake wrote: Spinal Tap, Def Leopard, Black Sabbath and all those...I've never been there. Y'know I'd recognise one of their songs but not have a scooby that its actually one of theirs.
My education is lacking in the school of rock!
Spinal Tap came from a parody film, which out heavymetalled many heavy metal bands
The film has direct parallels from a Saxon tour film. It’s awesome. Go watch it, and then watch the commentary track where the cast do a 20 year retrospective in character. It’s bloody brilliant!
aphyon wrote: Funny you should mention Saxon. they just released their 24th studio album. as contemporaries of judas priest and iron maiden during the boom of the NWOBHM (new wave of british heavy metal) they are just as good but never had the same level of commercial success. One has but to listen to songs like-"great white buffalo, iron wheel, requiem" and a host of other songs that prove their skill as musicians. They have been consistently good for the last 40 years. and seem to never stop putting out great music.
+1 for this, Saxon is a great band. Never been disapointed with anything they have out out
Spinal Tap came from a parody film, which out heavymetalled many heavy metal bands
The film has direct parallels from a Saxon tour film. It’s awesome. Go watch it, and then watch the commentary track where the cast do a 20 year retrospective in character. It’s bloody brilliant!
On that recommendation then, it looks like I've got some homework!
In a bit of irony when this came up i was in the middle of listening to the entire saxon catalog. after 20+ studio albums, re-recordings and live albums i have finally finished it (until the new album gets here).
Now the hard part-choosing an older and newer song to represent the band.
I chose a well known one and a lesser known one i like.
in an unexpected turn of events Youtube recommended this band o me the other morning. I never know what youtube will recommend but I've enjoyed a fair bit over the last few years.
This is , The Cambodian Space Project.
My first thoughts were way back to blood sport. The feds eating and the local officer coming to talk to them. "wont you join us? " - "No thank you, I never eat here."
Yes I realize it's not the same country, it just popped into my head.
It's way better than you might expect. They do at least one song you may have heard over these last few years in a Tarantino movie.
(Chick Habit, I think,)
aphyon wrote: While i am not as big a fan i do enjoy some SCORPIONS and have several of their albums.
a classic
And something a little newer
I do enjoy Scorpions. I saw them when they were touring for Love At First Sting, and they put on a great show. Also, I remain proud that my fellow Arizonans were such enthusiastic fans that they wrote a song about us!
This was a little side project/supergroup put together by the late Alexi Laiho (children of bodom) and his wife at the time. it was only a 3 album run, but i enjoyed it.
Lovely bit of Bob Vylan. This time, a PSA of sorts. I mean absolutely zero disrespect when I say this kind of reminds me of the sort of public information songs you might see on Sesame Street.
Clocked Cyberpunk 2077 a few days ago, both the Reaper and The Sun endings really getting more into the music Samurai especially. Tried to tell my dad's Alexa to play this and much to my surprise it worked.
Drove into work for the first time today, rather than shell out of the coach.
Journey in was listening to The Ramones. Sadly this song isn’t on the compilation I have, but as the spring brings me out of my season fug, this song strikes a chord in me.
A little sub genre of metal i rather enjoy-gothic metal of the European variety. they usually mix harsh male vocals with operatic female vocals. sometimes there are orchestral or other classical elements
This is from Morten Veland's second metal band of the same style-sirenia
Listening to the recently released audiobook of my favourite Gaunt's Ghosts book Traitor General. Really loving it. Toby Longworth is a damned great voice actor.
Just listened to more of Traitor General while I was having a shower and a shave and sacred feth I got up to one of my favourite scenes in the series.
Spoiler:
where Gaunt, Rawne and the others take on the Chaos Marines and it was awesome. Toby Longworth just seemed to get more and more into the scene as he read it. It was even better than when I read it myself. He's an amazing narrator.
Posting this as I am technically listening to the music as well lol Captain Fordo, what a damned badass. I don't like the prequels but the 2003 cartoon was awesome, running on unadulterated Rule of Cool in the best possible way. I'm hoping the Arch-Militant who's a copy of the Mandalorian/Jango Fett PC in my Rogue Trader campaign can be this badass one day.
I nearly went to see Ghost earlier this week. But sold my tickets.
I love their overall sound, but not that keen on the sound of the singer’s voice. Don’t get me wrong, the dude is absolutely talented. His style is just a bit, well, “boy band” to my ears.
I love their overall sound, but not that keen on the sound of the singer’s voice. Don’t get me wrong, the dude is absolutely talented. His style is just a bit, well, “boy band” to my ears.
Yeah, I wasn't to fond of the rest of the album, but this one track seems to be a different singer?
Never been a fan of ghost myself, if i want that level of stage show and style with the heavy metal edge i want, i point back to king diamond, power wolf, dimmu borgir and the like.
I mentioned Morten Veland in my post about sirenia. his previous band is in the spotlight this time
Pretty sure I’ve shared this before. But sod it. We all live in increasingly Choppy Waters, and some power hair metal from my childhood will never go astray.
May you find the same strength from this track as I do.
Have an exult Doc, back when Transformers films didn't bear the taint of Bay
(insert baddie) must be stopped, no matter the cost became a silly meme in my WoW days, and if the raid had dragged till late some very beery singing of said tune
Been listening to the second half of Sandman audio, most excellent, if Emperor of America makes it to telly they'll have to get John Lithgow
Postmodern Jukebox. I stumbled on this group by accident on Youtube, and I just can't get enough. My musical tastes run to the older styles, and so these old school arrangements of more modern pop tunes are right up my alley. Mr. Scott Bradlee is an incredible arranger to do all these rewrites in so many different musical genres!
Spice Girls "Wannabe" in the 40s style of the Andrew Sisters
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The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" Freddie Mercury/Queen style
A most triumphant cover of a most triumphant original.
Just absolutely everything about this works. It is flawless.
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It’s from Iron Maiden’s objectively worst album. Yet for my money? One of their best songs ever. Also, if I may get philosophical for a moment? Sums up all my objections to modern Christianity.
That being said, you believe and worship as you please or don’t please. Your business is your business and respect to that.
Ancestral Hamster wrote: Postmodern Jukebox. I stumbled on this group by accident on Youtube, and I just can't get enough. My musical tastes run to the older styles, and so these old school arrangements of more modern pop tunes are right up my alley. Mr. Scott Bradlee is an incredible arranger to do all these rewrites in so many different musical genres!
Spice Girls "Wannabe" in the 40s style of the Andrew Sisters
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The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" Freddie Mercury/Queen style
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In a similar vein - try a swing version of Enter Sandman...
Began listening to Assassinorum: Kingmaker, despite my scepticism of modern Black Library books. It's pretty good, with some nicely woven descriptions. Thought it started weak, with a whole bunch of exposition of Imperial Knights and a scene which happens just after a sparring scene between two Knights which could've been a better start, and that could've been shown rather than told earlier. Otherwise, not bad so far.
We have come at last to the end... i started the rotation of my non-Japanese rock and metal bands on jan 31 2021, 1 year and about 4 months later listening to metal about 2 hours a day 6 days a week and we are at the end of the Zs
ZZ top
I used to have a subscription to a Canadian metal mag called "brave words & bloody knuckles" that came out every other month. it had a compilation sampler CD with every issue. many of the bands i added to my collection appeared there. so as i listen through them i will highlight a few that i never found an album for or didn't collect but will still quite good.
Not my favourite song of Bloc Party, but it is most certainly the one that got me into them. I distinctly remember playing video games at a cyber cafe in Wellington way back in 07 where they always had Juice TV playing and it'd come on from time to time. Was pretty...interested...in the video, but I liked the song quite quick. Then got Weekend in the City later. But then on C4 I saw Helicopter from their first album and bam. Love that song a lot and play it plenty of times on Guitar Hero 3.
We had a fun and weird twist during last session of our DnD game and my wizard may or may not have held a rave in his magic mansion apparently it was a real banger.
This threw me back into my old techno collection and I have to say I didn't realize it was as good as it is. But I couldn't find one cd set but found it on youtube.
I got into techno while I was in Kosovo in 01' and a signal soldier in the unit we were replacing hooked me up with a few cd.
My tastes had ben more limited before that and at most I'd been a little into the lords of acid, mostly just a guilty pleasure while playing doom in the mid to late 90's.
I hadn't realized audio books would be included in this thread. Dur' - Duh'.
Not long ago I fished all three books in the Three Body Problem, audio book format.
It was a heck of a ride. I wasn't thrilled with the very end but it was definitely an ending.
Over all it felt like a take on a lot of other sci-fi anima I have enjoyed for years. I know it's in the works as a series for maybe Netflix.
One from before my time, but as a snivellin’ lirrul Grot (possibly Snot) I was friends with one of the Rollers’ nephews.
And as much as they were kind of a Boyband, this is still a stone cold banger of a tune.
And check this out as the inspiration for a movie about over the hill, fairly clapped out, would really rather not, superheroes coming out of retirement because there’s no-one else can get the job done.
One for the triumphant scene where they overcome personal differences to kick infinite shades of ass out of whatever is menacing the planet.
Especially if one of them was Bill Murraying a much clamoured for reunion.
Watching a Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo game and one of the players was using Phobos Marines and kept saying "Sabotage" which reminded me of this song.
Used to play it on Guitar Hero 3 was damned awesome, like the heavy use of instruments with rapping. Too bad my Wiimote seems to be on the fritz so can't play Guitar Hero 3 which is pretty much the whole reason I still have that little console.
Been trying to find this and listened to it because it's in one of my favorite episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia The Gang Buys a Boat which has my favorite scene the 'because of the implication' scene with Dennis Reynolds my favorite character lol
Ezo Sakamoto of Anthem fame did this side project for a number of years called ANIMETAL doing metal covers of classic anime and action hero shows in Japan.
A couple iconic ones-
And incredibly good sounding in metal is this one-
Back in the 90s i was really just starting to get into japanese rock and metal bands. at the time i was watching variety shows (bootlegs of course on VHS) like HEY! HEY! HEY! music champ.
One singer that was huge and new at the time that i got hooked on was AIKAWA NANASE and this was the song that did it,
She is still around and still producing music, however i stopped following her after her 7th album as she kind of dropped out of the music scene for a few years to get married and start a family, i was also getting into more heavy metal groups at the time as well.
Still have all those old albums and still enjoy them, i will end this post with this one she used to play as a final song for her live concerts.
This one was a bit emotional for her since it was the final show of her first tour IIRC.
Got into Darling Violetta while playing Vampire: The Masquerade; Bloodlines due to the song 'A Smaller God' being played in one part of the game. I accidentally had Alexa "shuffle" their music instead of just playing 'A Smaller God' and I instantly recognised this from the intro to Angel. Damn, did I like Angel, especially season 5. That was one damned good season of television.
Tomoko Kawase the singer from the brilliant green got the gig from auditioning in a local amateur singling competition. then went on to become a huge sensation not only as a rock singer but a model and actress.
The next bit is her solo stuff she did under the name tommy heavenly. the character she created was very Jpop-rock which led her to create an alter ego for the character for her harder and darker music under the moniker tommy February. as you know by now i like the heavier stuff-
This Doomer music.
For some reason, and I find it hilarious, this feels like almost the perfect background music for Tim cast videos.
This next one I have no idea what it's all about but it's used by dancing girls on tictok? Some new subculture group I don't know anything about because I'm too old.
However, I kinda feel like this is a soundtrack to the current war and the slow collapse of our moderns society.
My feed has been throwing all manner of strangeness at me for a while. I think it could be related to having change satellite service. While the above is funny, it's much less funny on the FB which is not been serving me anything nearly as fun. Groan.
Just sharing these for a laugh because I found it funny.
Most people have heard of him from his soundtrack participation in the kill bill movie
It is hard to lock in his style since he is a mix of chuck berry, van halen and a bit of spanish guitar thrown in. No matter what though he is an amazing guitarist.
WOW....Nearly 2 1/2 years later and i have come full circle.
I started posting in this topic on page 1 and the first band in rotation was on 4/7/20 (manipulated slaves)
It took that long to rotate through my entire collection in order.......and now i am back where i started in the Japanese band section specifically the M letter of the alphabet. i have nothing else to post until i get some new albums in. even though i am repeating the rotation like i constantly do. with a 2 year+ interval it is all fresh again by the time i get back to it.
It has been a great romp, thanks to the other posters i have discovered some great bands, and hopefully i have helped the rest of you discover some gems in my collection.
I will check back in to lurk in this topic regularly, but unless i have something to add i have nothing to post sadly.
Up the irons!, Hail and kill!, and stay heavy \m/(*_*)\m/
Yes it’s kinda cheesy, but that was the 80’s. The lyrics are actually pretty sweet! And oh my those lassies? There’s a reason I turned out the way I did!
Found this on my recommended YT feed as I was listening to Rise and Inner Universe both by Origa which are the intro themes for Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd Gig and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex respectively. I didn't know this was the title of this song which is played during SAC's ending credits. I wonder if it's about Motoko "The Major" Kusanagi because if so I agree lol, I'd simp for her like this song, her and VV from Vampire: The Masquerade; Bloodlines lol
I’m certain I’ve shared this before. But this is a song that appeared on a GW In-Store compilation CD at more or less the exact point I started to Right The Ship of my life.
See, at that point I was genuinely, completely, homeless. And working one day a week at my local GW. As fate would have it, that situation of course meant I was hanging around my local, for want of anywhere better to be. Area Manager was in, stressing another store in his area couldn’t open at the weekend as all the staff had quit or been sacked.
As I’m sure you can appreciate, I spotted an opening and absolutely went for it. And everything I now have around 12 years later is a direct result of that precise moment in time.
And so whilst this song isn’t really that descriptive of my experience? It’s the one that sticks in my head.
This last month or two found me rereading GIJOE comics and get a copy of the role playing game. We might give it a go. Hopefully we will.
The comics are so much better than I remembered.
Not sure how I stumbled onto this but "it's that fire. "
Most of the tracks covering characters are dead on. And, if you want a copy it's name your own price. I don't know who this artist is, well hadn't heard of him until yesterday.
aphyon wrote: Well i am not a fan of rap i do appreciate the nostalgia as a child of the 80s.
That's fair. I'm very picky about the rap I listen to. I did love that so many cool plat points were included. One thing I love aboutthe comics is that every character gets a chance to stand out and be cool. Some times it's completely unexpected. This was just fun.
I binge-watched the entirety of Cyberpunk: Edgerunner, and by frig, did I enjoy it. The beginning credits reminded me about the excellent song 'This Fire' by Franz Ferdinand. I always remembered 'Take Me Out', which is a great song in my eyes.
But this song was a surprise to me; it played a lot in the last episode. Usually, this kinda song doesn't appeal to me at all, especially the parts which distort her voice, but I really liked it. I thought it was original to Edgerunners but I see videos of this song on YT over a year old. I had no idea about it as I always listen to the Moro Rock station when driving around. I feel the line especially:
"And I'm awarе that you were lying in the gutter
'Cause I did everything to be there by your side-ide"
Over the last few days I've listened to one song on repeat a few times a day.
The band is call Chromatics The song is "there's a light on the horizon (Instrumental version ) from their album Kill for love.
It has that late 70's Zombie movie sound, almost Dawn of the Dead in a way.
It's helped me stay in focus while working on pictures from my brother book. It's a little bleak start before the characters encounter some zombies on an island so it totally works for me. I only found out about this band because of Twin Peaks, season 3 I think.
Sadly they've broken up.
Remembering some old friends from the motor-pool this morning.
And a band I had never heard of until a Mercenary Monday video popped up.
The video used the lase couple of minuets of the song and again I though this would work really well in an old 70's Zombie movie, where everybody dies kinda movie. it was probably some kind of filter effect on the sound in that video that gave me the thought.
I'll probably nip that for a ringtone at some point.
One of the most beautiful and amazing character themes or leitmotifs in a video game or any media I've ever heard up there with Guts' theme from the 1997 anime.
I've been listening to this all day on repeat. Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm
Been solid for my out doors work today. Just cleaning overgrowth off some fencing, nothing too strenuous. A good track helps.
I love this video, it fit the move really well I think. I did see this video before I ever saw this movie, both are gold.
Looks like I'm hooked on MGMT. All it took was one track in a silly video and I had to hear more.
It's a little funny because of all they years I've been into metal, industrial and who knows what else. But it is col to find music that's musically interesting.
I just finished listening to the audio drama version of HP Lovecraft's story, The Dreams in the Witch House, by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society, and it was excellent. It makes me think of the episode of "The Dreams of the Witch House" from Guillermo Del Toro's Netflix horror anthology Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities and how it butchered the story...badly and completely squandered the great potential the story had for some amazing landscapes and vistas that could've been conveyed visually. Shouldn't be surprised as it was directed by the director of the 1st Twilight movie. Oh well, at least the episode based on Pickman's Model was better and truer to the work. But that really isn't saying much, in all honesty.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Twilight of the Aesir
A 5 hour podcast about the rise and decline of Viking culture from my favorite amateur historian. I've already listened to it once, but I was either playing Warhams3 or painting so didn't give it my full attention.
Fell down a rabbet hole into Infrasound and there some on youtube. Not the dangerous stuff. I was wondering how bad it could get but can't play it back at the right volume to cause nausea and headaches. Was wondering I could find a way to drive off an unwanted neighbor when he tries to talk to me too much. No luck yet.
Maybe I can stick it into a video at some point.
Latest Dom & Roland album gets the thumbs up from me! Dystopic techstep vibes go well together with 40K. I've often wondered why GW doesn't use UK techstep to promote their UK scifi-based miniatures games..
And as the U.K. limps arthritically from Winter to The Time Of Scorching, an ode. An ode (and a sweary one NSFW) to the perils of a lovely day by the coast.
Sepultura - Arise - 1991
I really like most of Max Cavalera's bands.
Something about it is almost Primal and puts me in the right head space when working out or working out side.
Wrex in effect rump shaker came up in my Beavis and Butthead play list the other day I couldn't stop laughing as I remembered the video, which I detested back in the day. Now it's almost adorable.
New Ghost of Vroom as well. Pay the Man.
Mike Doughty from Soul Coughing.
He still really really cool music.
I have that one. I've pulled every music video from the show off youtube and ever clip wit ha video as well, they're all in my play list. There's a complete collection that's over 5 hours you can find if you go digging for it. My play list is 473 tracks right now. it's amazing.
Did you see the Nas X guys video in the new season clips? "Quiet Bevies lets just watch these naked dudes dance in the shower"... Completely desensitized.
As we enter the 73rd Anniversary of The Battle of Britain’s span?
Here’s some Iron Maiden for your lugholes.
And remember folks! Carrots being good for seeing in the dark was a clever bit of propaganda. During rationing, being easily grown carrots were relatively plentiful in Britain. And so to hide the invention of Radar (the key to Britain’s success in the Battle of Britain) the government came up with the associated posters.
Sabaton are world famous for being the band that sings about history, iron maiden interestingly enough were also really big on songs about historical events along with movies, books and TV shows.
Been getting a bit more into Lacuna Coil after finding them by their song "Swamped" being played at the end of Vampire: The Masquerade; Bloodlines (which is actually in my top five favourite games now, up with Resident Evil 4 (2004), Fallout: New Vegas, Metroid Prime, and Blaz Blue). I'm liking this song, but watching the video when she throws the terribly CGI'd shuriken and the other bandmates "dodge" it (meaning they just turn a bit, and it goes around them) made me laugh out loud; it's some epic, cheesy, edginess which epitomised the early 2000's lol.
If I understand correctly this is one of Trevor Somethings side projects. He's a synth wave dude from Miami or something like that.
It cracks me up a little because it use real hotline adults only one on one commercials and we all remember those.
It's amusing. Got me wondering if anyone ever called just to ask dating advice from a woman instead of dirty talk.
You can find the whole album on youtube if you want.
I really wish that in the episode Mac's Big Break, where Charlie is teaching him how to ice skate and hit a hockey puck, they played this instead of the song they chose that would've made me unbelievably happy (even if they thought of it probably couldn't due to copyright or it was too expensive)
Stumbled upon this lovely little band called 'The Warning', which is apparently a trio of tween Mexican sisters. I never would have guessed that they were so young! They've got a very consistent sound, and I like it.
Gitzbitah wrote: Stumbled upon this lovely little band called 'The Warning', which is apparently a trio of tween Mexican sisters. I never would have guessed that they were so young! They've got a very consistent sound, and I like it.
Reminds me a bit of GO!GO! 7188 the Japanese surf punk 3 piece.
@Adrassil
Been a fan of lacuna coil since the first album Christina has an amazing voice. also i have the team Amercia soundtrack
Warren Zevon - Jungle Work -1980 Youtube served me this this morning. Turns out I have the whole album and didn't even know it.
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: Friend just turned me on to Powerglove, a metal band that does covers of 90’s cartoon themes.
This counts because it was also used for the frankly never-even-close-to-equalled Batman the Animated Series.
I got into Powerglove with this album. I was painting a monstrously huge collection of Necrons as a commission at the time. 300 warriors and a lot of everything else.
Because I have no taste, but boy do I have vision?
This….but a super heavy almost death metal cover. Imagine the orders barked out in a deff metal growl. The synth/keyboard bit replaced with proper sick electric twanger widdly-wahs.
And a crowd of massive hairy sweaty metallers having a great time following the barked instructions.
And having had a serious Attack Of The Head Weasels the past few weeks, I’m now well enough to get back to work.
Here’s a song summing up how I feel about getting back to what I’m genuinely good at, fighting the good fight, and frustrating Really Bad Liars. Including some genuine Columbo moments.
Just saw that stupeflip released a new album a month ago. While I'm not necessarely a big fan of the dude himself, I love his work. For some reason, I like the broken, scattered and absurd nature of it, with samples totally out of context somehow hammered together to work, scattered rythme, aggressive texts in lower french.
Wikipedia wrote:A 1970 novelty song he co-wrote with his producer Ronny Light, a B-side single called "The Shortest Song in the World"- which clocked in at a mere eighteen seconds long, enjoyed some airplay in 1970
With all the awful going on, the misinformation, lies and blurring and general “meh”?
A song for you my fellow Dakkanauts. A song of empathy and the promise of reaching some kind of detente. Also a song of tolerance and mutual respect, even if we will never see exactly eye to eye.
Pretty sure I’ve shared this before, and for the same reasons.
This to me is Peak John Williams, and therefor Peak Movie Theme.
Not just nostalgia. But from around 3:10? The central…erm…refrain, I guess? Repeats. Ever more strident. And in the movie, it’s when Supes has reason to push himself, and discover just what he can do.
As someone who has a history of depression? This inspires me. Not to superhuman (I’m not that kind of mental), but to pick myself up, dust myself off and try again. Because some things just require a bit more effort, and we never truly lose you til we stop trying.
Samus, as a huge BGC fan ( i was watching it as it was released in japan) i own all the original first pressings of bubblegum crisis soundtracks. 1-6 are fantastic, 7 and 8 started to include loads of pop "image" songs because of contract issues with some of the voice actors that really took away from the feel of the setting.
I recently picked up a new band in my collection-
seven spires
clean vocals
harsh vocals
A youtube find- Algal the bard...bardic covers of metal songs
Samus, as a huge BGC fan ( i was watching it as it was released in japan) i own all the original first pressings of bubblegum crisis soundtracks. 1-6 are fantastic, 7 and 8 started to include loads of pop "image" songs because of contract issues with some of the voice actors that really took away from the feel of the setting.
Thats pretty cool! I discovered it in...1998, I think , when it got a release here in the UK by MVM and got the Adam Warran book free with a magazine called Manga Max. I fell in love with the series and especially the Moonlight Rambler episode, which was super sad at the end and had that uber-cool red battlemover. My parents were kind enough at the time to order all three RPG books by R.Talsorian. Crikey, I remember writing a text-based command-line game based on that RPG when I was only 20 years old in 2000, and...damn, I miss those days!
I only have the CD for Moonlight Rambler, which I think cost me about £40, which was a substantial amount back then. But you have all of them! Were you living in Japan at the time? I tried learning Japanese when I was 18 and wanted to visit Tokyo, but it really was a dream to be honest.
Blasphemy, I know, but I really like the US-specific songs by Cyndi Wheeler and can only hope the super-rare CD is found and shared one day.
Samus, as a huge BGC fan ( i was watching it as it was released in japan) i own all the original first pressings of bubblegum crisis soundtracks. 1-6 are fantastic, 7 and 8 started to include loads of pop "image" songs because of contract issues with some of the voice actors that really took away from the feel of the setting.
Thats pretty cool! I discovered it in...1998, I think , when it got a release here in the UK by MVM and got the Adam Warran book free with a magazine called Manga Max. I fell in love with the series and especially the Moonlight Rambler episode, which was super sad at the end and had that uber-cool red battlemover. My parents were kind enough at the time to order all three RPG books by R.Talsorian. Crikey, I remember writing a text-based command-line game based on that RPG when I was only 20 years old in 2000, and...damn, I miss those days!
I only have the CD for Moonlight Rambler, which I think cost me about £40, which was a substantial amount back then. But you have all of them! Were you living in Japan at the time? I tried learning Japanese when I was 18 and wanted to visit Tokyo, but it really was a dream to be honest.
Blasphemy, I know, but I really like the US-specific songs by Cyndi Wheeler and can only hope the super-rare CD is found and shared one day.
It was the late 80s/early 90's so i was getting all my anime via purchased bootlegs off of laser disc onto VHS tape. by the time of BGC i was already a hardcore fan with a collection spanning space battleship yamato (my first experience), UC gundam, mospeada, macross, dirty pair, megazone 23, iczer 1 and many others.
CD wise i lived near a US branch of kinokuniya bookstore so i could order direct from Japan. once that opened up to me i got a laser disc player myself and started a collection there i still own. the CDs were about double the US price because of the way the music market works in Japan.
Konya-wa hurricane from BGC episode 1 was one of my first forays in to normal Japanese music that wasn't orchestral. and is still a favorite of mine. my soundtrack collection is quite expansive and has some rare items. BGC wise i own the soundtracks for the original series, crash (terrible in my opinion) 2040 and the ad police files (along with Takazakis manga that goes with it).
When it comes to western versions of soundracks every now and then you find a good one like cyber city oedo 808, the i have both the original and the rock inspired UK version. but on the flip side you end up with things like the 1994 streetfighter II soundtrack. the original is a masterpiece, the American one is garbage.
I also took Japanese classes at college, and even made the holy trek to tokyo in 2000, one of the best 2 weeks in my life.
One of priss's best songs-
This was the song they played in the original streetfighter soundtrack when chun-li fought vega in the hotel room.
The US soundtrack replaced it with some crappy grunge.
Aphyon, its awesome you got to make that pilgrimage. Seriously, some of us never get to leave the Shire and if I take one more step...it'll be the furthest I've ever been from home!
So much to say about anime in the UK during the 90s, but I hated the blood "Brit-pop" scene at the time(Oasis, Blur, Spice Girls) and really wanted to live in a different world altogether. I could stomach Sheryl Crow for some reason, but omg ADVision was a gift from the gods...
Moving on to some game music, I remember getting a shareware cd-rom called Piranha, and the music blew me away!
...and then Tyrian had banging tunes as well...
...and one final mention for X2: No Relief for the original Playstation...
I was a fan of the original dirty pair, flash, just felt wrong to me.
The original TV opening-
and something from the movie-
when it comes to game soundtrack they did 2 samurai showdown image albums called samurai spirits that were epic, and i also love sokaigi from the now legendary Hiroki Kikuta
P.S. the trip was even more fun since i was working with sakura con at the time i got to visit sunrise and madhouse studios, even got a private tour of the latter. i also got a private tour of the JAP guild unit shop. they make metal/leather jewelery, costumes and more for various Japanese musicians/groups as well as movie props. as a huge fan of the band seikima II i got to see a bunch of their original costume peices, sadly i never made it to the museum.
aphyon wrote: Demons night......as in seikima II or a soundtrack?
Seikima II. It was a drums & guitar intro before the lead singer walked out onto the stage. Bloody good it was.
Well it is Seikima II, i have been a fan for decades. they are fantastic musicians and still enormous in Japan even 23 years after they "broke up" and went back to hell.
Japan has a host of really great musicians, but like many others from other countries since they only perform in their native language aside from a few rare cases like rammstein they do not get much international attention generally.
Definitely a shame. I think if put under the voight-kampff machine I'd confess to knowing Megumi Hayashibara and X-Japan. I struggle to remember japanese names and always googling to remind myself; Michiru Yamane who composed the tracks for SOTN - but I'll honestly forget her name in a weeks time.
SamusDrake wrote: Definitely a shame. I think if put under the voight-kampff machine I'd confess to knowing Megumi Hayashibara and X-Japan. I struggle to remember japanese names and always googling to remind myself; Michiru Yamane who composed the tracks for SOTN - but I'll honestly forget her name in a weeks time.
Well i got my start quite a while ago so through the 90s i was hitting japanese music pretty hard, even watching copies of music shows like HEY!HEYHEY! music champ-
some of the less heavy metal but still rock stuff i have collected-
hotei-
aikawa nanase-
The brilliant green-
Tommi from the brilliant green side project tommi heavenly/February
TMR
two-mix-
Pink sapphire-
GO!GO! 7188
Wagakki band
As for anime related singers other than megumi- you of course have Masami Okui who has done a ton of popular anime songs and of course maya Sakamoto who got her start playing hitomi in escaflowne when she was still a teenager even doing many of the vocal songs under the tutorship of the legendary composer Yoko Kanno. who went on to become a popular voice actress and singer in here own right.
thats not counting some of the incredible one shots- like
red faction from MELL
witch hunter robin by Bana
or the kabaneri opening done by the the group egoist
Pretty much any Japanese metal fan knows X-japan, show-ya, and seikima II and to a lesser degree loudness, anthem and sex machineguns.
Some of the more obscure ones in my collection are things like
Fatima hill-
bridear-
galmet
Onmyo-za
fairy kingdom(yousei teikoku)
manipulated slaves
Fate gear
there are a few others like hard gear i cannot even find a video for.
Thats not even counting the popular bands i never cared for like-
.Glay
.Malice mizer
.Larc en ceil
.Dir en grey
.laputa
When you are dealing with an entire country you are bound to find some very good talent. even if they primarily cater to the native audience.
I keep hearing about Olivia Rodrigo because I pay half-attention to pop music and finally ended up listening to her.
She's so much better than the pop music I grew up with (Britney, Pink, Christina, etc). gak, Guts and Future Nostalgia are the best mainstream 'pop' albums since the 80's imo.
I'm not much interested in Alan Wake; I did watch my flatmate playing it way back in the day it came out, and the gameplay didn't appeal to me much, in all honesty. But I'm loving this a lot!
Listening to this while re-reading this from Secret War: The Annihilation Plague...
Spoiler:
Like last time, Adept Kolmoroff was waiting for him in the foyer; she was accompanied by ten guards. 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...
Padding footfalls incredibly light, practically silent approaching...
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 Attelus was cut down by the shots from their fellows, 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.
I wrote the action scene while listening to The Only They Fear is You and the song seems to fit. I did this as I wrote a scene in Secret War while Attelus is being chased by weird daemon things in an under hive as it rained blood, so listened to Raining Blood and while writing a fun dogfight/action scene in Secret War: Upon Blood Sands, I listened to What Planet is This? by the Seatbelts which is played during an awesome dogfight scene in the Cowboy Bebop movie. Give it a try my fellow Dakkadakkaites!
Been hearin' this in snatches during hangouts in my V's apartments with Panam in Cyberpunk 2077. I didn't know its title, but on a whim, and due to a remix being played in the background of the newest Northern Exile video, I decided to try to find it while doing dishes, but it wasn't hard to find. Reminds me a bit of those old songs from the '90s and 2000s, lol.
Feth, I was searching for the song the Spoony One used to have in the intros of his old videos but couldn't remember the band's or the song's name. I found this instead, a song I used to like a lot, but by the Emperor. I can't remember when I used to listen to it or where I heard it from.
I like Blondie a lot, too, Mad Doc. My favourite song of theirs is Rapture.
Anyway, I stumbled across this while trawling the YouTubbs. Heard it a few times over the years, but always thought it was called "Knock on Wood" or something. I quite like it.
Also been listening to a lot of Bloodhound Gang lately. Never liked them as a kid, but I might've been too young to "get it", I suppose. This song I'm liking in particular.
I'd heard the Touch many times over the past 30 years but not this one that I can recall.
