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What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/14 23:52:56


Post by: Overread


The title says it all really - rock classic pop hiphop orchestral solo whatever it is lets share what we are all listening too





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/15 06:49:24


Post by: xKillGorex


Five Finger Death Punches new album F8. Absolutely loving it.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/15 11:22:18


Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter





through the rusnet I landed on this


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/17 17:52:42


Post by: Overread


I think we need some more metal to get this really going




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/17 21:32:08


Post by: mumsnarf


Listening to some Days and Daze today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0dUnoecoZ0


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/17 21:56:11


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


XTC, Statue of Liberty, hoping my trip to New York will still go ahead,


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/18 22:18:16


Post by: SkavenLord


 Overread wrote:
I think we need some more metal to get this really going




My goodness. I recall hearing “The Story Ain’t Over,” a while ago, and have been meaning to give this band more of a test-run.

I think this should be appropriate for a Warhammer forum.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/28 22:12:24


Post by: Trondheim


Buried a dear friend yesterday, this song somehow feels right, rest easy brother. Il see you on the far side




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/29 05:22:51


Post by: SkavenLord


 Trondheim wrote:
Buried a dear friend yesterday, this song somehow feels right, rest easy brother. Il see you on the far side




Sorry for your loss. Take care over there.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/29 07:52:00


Post by: Trondheim


Thanks, not sure how I am going to deal with not having him around. been too many funerals these past years


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/29 12:26:17


Post by: Inquisitor Gideon


At this very second in fact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZUN89RaP60


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/29 12:51:59


Post by: Duskweaver


Right now? This:



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/30 08:00:51


Post by: queen_annes_revenge


at the minute I've been painting to korpiklaani, the hu, finntroll, alestorm..basically folk metal. its my new favourite thing


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/30 08:08:56


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


Messer Chups.

Anything and everything by them. Because it’s very hard to go wrong with Surf Rock.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftBj2cBS6[/video]


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/30 11:15:35


Post by: aphyon


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-

View post on imgur.com


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/30 15:54:13


Post by: BrookM


Courtesy of Youtube's rando recommendo thingy, got these a few weeks ago but still immensely enjoying them:









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/30 16:22:37


Post by: Easy E


A conference call!

Cheeky, I know!


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/30 16:24:58


Post by: Fifty


Japanese Popstars (They're Irish, obviously)




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/30 16:29:32


Post by: Overread


Beast in Black





With the revelation that its not a duet singing the song!


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/30 18:13:11


Post by: grrrfranky


I do love me some Beast in Black, the singer has a fantastic voice.

Currently listening to Automatic by VNV Nation




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/30 22:46:16


Post by: Mr Morden


Happy times




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/31 09:52:31


Post by: Trondheim


 Mr Morden wrote:
Happy times




Amazing song


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/31 11:06:23


Post by: SkavenLord





 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-

View post on imgur.com


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/31 11:39:04


Post by: aphyon


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'll leave you with something a bit heavier-





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/31 12:18:55


Post by: Crispy78


Loving these guys, hoping their album comes along soon




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/03/31 12:24:29


Post by: Overread






Often wish she'd go back and do some more works like her earlier Celts album.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/04/08 05:51:27


Post by: aphyon


Bump

Into the Ms for my japanese bands

currently playing manipulated slaves-excellent thrash band




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/04/08 23:53:25


Post by: SkavenLord


Almost forgot about this one. Probably seen the video a good 20 times now.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/04/09 05:20:27


Post by: aphyon


LOL thats epic.


Odin the allfurniture lord if IKEA.


A bit of fun it's pure midevil style folk- the great german group FAUN




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/04/10 05:53:56


Post by: aphyon


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





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/04/25 07:22:44


Post by: aphyon


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

Pink Sapphire




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/04/27 18:47:56


Post by: Trondheim


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.











What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/04/30 11:26:52


Post by: queen_annes_revenge


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/04/30 19:46:36


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What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/05/01 06:50:28


Post by: aphyon


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/05/02 05:56:12


Post by: aphyon


Now into the S's

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

A full breakdown can be found here-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikima-II

One of my favorite early songs from them-house of wax

music video





The english version of the same song-






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/05/06 18:23:17


Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter


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...




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/05/28 07:22:21


Post by: aphyon


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/05/30 02:21:31


Post by: SkavenLord


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/05/30 03:37:51


Post by: aphyon


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)

and the like.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/06/10 07:41:58


Post by: aphyon


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.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show-Ya

fairy from the 92' hard way concert before the breakup





And something a bit more recent 2014

doing a cover of X-japan's kurenai




They also do a fantastic metal cover of the beatles "blackbird" (even though i am not a beatles fan)

Enjoy!


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/06/10 08:00:47


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


Shaka Ponk, a French kinda art rock punky type outfit,

Bit left field in terms of my general preferences, but an excellent band all the same.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/06/23 06:42:06


Post by: aphyon


After 11 studio albums, 2 live albums, 2 cover albums and a singles collection i finally worked my way through my show-ya catalog.


Next up is a bit of a change.

Minami takayama is a famous and prolific voice actress who also has her own music group TWO-MIX

She has done many famous characters like conan from the long running detective boy conan series, or dilandau from vision of escaflowne.

Some of her music has been used for the animes she does voice work for. including the themes for detective boy conan and gundam wing

they also did a very cool cover of the lupin the 3rd theme.


The music is techno fusion with elements of rock, jazz, Jpop, and even orchestra.






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/06/24 11:51:54


Post by: aphyon


skavenlord

While going through random youtube playlists i finally heard lovebites. they were pretty solid but i found some other gems i liked better

Rie AKA suzaka

she is a guitar virtuoso who gets guest singers when she needs vocals on her albums (when she isn't doing instrumentals).





the other one is one that has surprisingly been around since 97' and are famous for doing anime themes.

yousei teikoku-fairy kingdom.

its a mix of gothic/metal/electronic and classical.




I already ordered a couple suzaku albums and i put yousei teikoku into my shopping cart on cd japan,so i will have to do another order.





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/06/24 12:25:03


Post by: Mr Morden


Pretty Reckless - Death by Rock and Roll

Great art on the video but NSFW

Spoiler:




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/06/24 20:54:24


Post by: Captain Joystick


Right now I'm listening to Shadow Fall (Alphabet Squadron 2!)

But just prior to that I was listening to ridiculous medieval covers:






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/06/25 00:54:35


Post by: SkavenLord


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

Spoiler:




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:

Spoiler:







Ha! Bardcore is awesome! Had a friend dump a bardcore Smash Mouth cover one day. Still feels more lively than nightcore.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/06/25 06:42:42


Post by: aphyon


Mr Morden

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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/03 10:23:06


Post by: aphyon


So next up is a newer band from japan that is a fusion of classic Japanese traditional instruments and modern rock instruments.

With almost an anime flare to their look and costumes- the wagakki band.

the singing style like with onmyoza is traditional shigin (adding pitch to traditional poems)

Their most well known song is senbonzakura or 10,000 cherry blossoms, but i thought i would share something different this time.







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/05 09:49:45


Post by: aphyon


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)





P.S. and some sabaton songs as well


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/06 20:00:13


Post by: aphyon


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.






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/08 21:32:33


Post by: Trondheim


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)




Spoiler:
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

170, is the coast clear, is the coast clear
170, I'm waiting for an answer
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/170-170.html


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/09 05:39:12


Post by: aphyon


Trondheim


this ones for you




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/09 15:04:05


Post by: Trondheim


 aphyon wrote:
Trondheim


this ones for you




Thanks man, it means a lot


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/10 02:30:15


Post by: Frag The Commissar





Rob Zombie makes music for heretics.

CSM approved.



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/11 22:30:52


Post by: warhead01


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/16 09:51:13


Post by: aphyon


So new arrival just slipped into the play list

The new album from the classic bay area thrash band TESTAMENT

titans of creation.






On my normal playlist i have moved into movie soundtracks in the line now

the fantastic 13th warrior by Jerry Goldsmith





The babylon 5 suite by Christopher Franke





And black rain by Hans Zimmer







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/21 17:05:08


Post by: aphyon


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)


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/25 21:11:59


Post by: aphyon


todays commute playlist update

fisrt we start with some excellent soundtracks to some campy movies

the hunted-soundtrack done by world famous taiko group KODO

Kull the conqueror

metal orchestra fusion that would make micheal kamen smile.




Then we start the list of "the lasts"

.the last action hero
.the last samurai
.the last star fighter

and top it off with season 1 soundtrack to the orville., Seth MacFarlane making better star trek than star trek


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/07/30 05:52:54


Post by: aphyon


todays update

starting off with a little love for mel brooks with

.robin hood men in tights




followed by

.rob roy
.south park the movie
.team america the movie
.the 12 girls band....how that got stuck in with my soundtracks i don't know

like the wagakki band it is a fusion of modern and traditional instruments this time from china.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/04 18:22:03


Post by: aphyon


Quick update-listening to compilations of my 3 favorite classic composers

.greig
.holst
.wagner


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/04 19:24:21


Post by: Dreadwinter


This. What a good time.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/08 07:40:52


Post by: aphyon


Update time, started in on my special edition soundtracks for the hobbit and lord of the rings movies..this could take a few days


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/16 20:43:09


Post by: aphyon


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


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/21 14:40:03


Post by: aphyon


Moving on with anime soundstracks


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

.bakuen(combustable) campus guardress



and then some better known series

.berserk
.black lagoon



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/21 16:11:24


Post by: Overread


If its anime time then its time for Wolf's Rain!





And Ergo Proxy




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/21 16:14:36


Post by: aphyon


Well just about anything yoko kanno was involved in gets my attention

and ergo proxy was a weird anime even by my standards.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/21 17:40:17


Post by: Overread


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/28 05:55:13


Post by: aphyon


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.



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/31 00:13:11


Post by: Overread


I get a bit annoyed at how many classic and older anime never gets (or gets a very limited) EU/UK region release, but has a USA release!

And now for something totally different

Takes around 1 min to get started though - jump to it




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/08/31 03:14:32


Post by: aphyon


Good choice, picked up that album when it was released.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/02 23:11:37


Post by: Inquisitor Gideon


Just discovered this gent who does some astounding remixes of movie themes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUr0Tq-UgX0


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/04 09:05:30


Post by: aphyon


good stuff Gideon

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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/10 23:35:44


Post by: Overread


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!






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/11 06:01:54


Post by: aphyon


Continuing on where i left off

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.

More to come of course







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/11 17:47:36


Post by: grrrfranky


One of my favourite artists with an interesting cover



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/11 21:50:20


Post by: Overread


And now for a bit of fun




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/15 17:51:06


Post by: aphyon


Ah yes-the beards, such a fun band


Moving ahead

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.









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/16 18:21:44


Post by: Trondheim


So this week has been rough, very rough. So Im digging out the music I listen to when all goes down the drain



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/16 19:49:28


Post by: Overread


A fun one here - hint try just listening to it and not watching and guess how many instruments you can hear - then watch.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/16 20:12:02


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


Delving into a bit of Glam Rock




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/16 21:19:15


Post by: MasterAO


Am currently listening to a mix of Rainbow songs, current one playing is The Temple of the King.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/17 13:20:04


Post by: DalekCheese


Fire- Arthur Brown.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/19 00:10:35


Post by: Overread





It's not spaghetti but its good fun for an action western! From the film "The Quick and the Dead"


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/20 04:15:11


Post by: trexmeyer


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.
Spoiler:




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.

Spoiler:



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.
Spoiler:




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.

Spoiler:



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.
Spoiler:








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/22 05:24:23


Post by: Golem2God


Some songs from Sam Robson. Perhaps my favorite person to listen to.



















What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/23 06:05:49


Post by: aphyon


Where i am currently

.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










What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/09/30 09:06:05


Post by: aphyon


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...






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/06 06:56:48


Post by: aphyon


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.












What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/06 21:57:33


Post by: grrrfranky


Right this instant, there's this


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/07 18:27:55


Post by: Trondheim


Hamradun - Sinklars Vísa



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/07 18:58:01


Post by: Necros


My current favorite song.. love this band




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/10 06:42:26


Post by: aphyon


Finishing off the Gs

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














What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/12 12:37:25


Post by: Adrassil


His World Sanic the Hargharg. Crap game, Sonic '06. Pretty good song, though.




Automatically Appended Next Post:
Right now, I'll never give up! Never give in! Won't stop believin' 'cause I'm gonna win!




And before that.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/15 06:10:56


Post by: aphyon


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.


So of course i bought the soundtracks

the original-



quantum




beyond the world



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/15 12:27:59


Post by: SamusDrake


The Gunsmith Cats opening is the best opening in Anime! Nice pick!

Had this one stuck in my head for the last week and still won't vacate the premises. There is the use of one F-bomb...




...and dammit, who is that fox with the juke box? Didn't like this song as a kid but its grown on me and this mash up is fantastic!






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/17 14:50:39


Post by: aphyon


small update
HEROIC AGE-

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







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/17 18:58:26


Post by: Overread


And now for a little Morricone




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/18 02:20:56


Post by: BuFFo


Final Fantasy 14 OST has been my go to lately.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/18 16:06:34


Post by: Turnip Jedi


About half way into the Sandman audio dramatization, it's mostly ok but Death is a bit off, not bad but not quite what I had in my head


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/19 04:31:17


Post by: Adrassil


Epic as feth!



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/19 04:34:47


Post by: aphyon


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.





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/19 13:08:44


Post by: Adrassil


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/19 14:17:22


Post by: Pacific


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

Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads (live album)

A new Day now - Joe Bonamassa

NEHRUVIANDOOM - MF Doom & Bishop Nehru

Nothing But Thieves (self-titled album)


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/20 00:22:52


Post by: grrrfranky


A new song from an old favourite




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/20 07:31:44


Post by: aphyon


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/20 07:41:24


Post by: Adrassil


 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


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/20 07:48:18


Post by: Pacific


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




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/21 06:55:14


Post by: Adrassil



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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/21 08:01:01


Post by: aphyon


Well yoko kanno.....there is a reason why i own so many anime soundtracks she has worked on.


So a newer edition to the collection -

kabaneri of the iron fortress

opening



sample BGM track







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/24 06:42:47


Post by: Adrassil


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/24 06:47:13


Post by: aphyon


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.








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/24 18:17:59


Post by: Trondheim


Sam Smith: Promises



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/24 21:37:37


Post by: grrrfranky





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/29 05:58:25


Post by: aphyon


Another fantastic series with a great soundtrack

-Last exile

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.






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/30 10:33:39


Post by: Adrassil


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.








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/10/30 13:03:51


Post by: grrrfranky


A bit of a cover version today


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/04 08:39:39


Post by: aphyon


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/04 13:32:52


Post by: Adrassil


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)

Spoiler:



And my favourite James Bond theme! Although Skyfall by Adele comes in a close second.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/05 17:58:09


Post by: aphyon


Todays update

Probably one of the funniest anime series in my collection

Magic users club (maho tskai tai)

Think of it as -independence day-the comedy

Thats right a high school magic club defending the earth from alien invasion...








The we are back to yoko kanno as i start the macross series with the back story-
macross zero-









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/05 20:18:03


Post by: Voss


Think of it as -independence day-the comedy

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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/06 07:20:40


Post by: aphyon


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.











What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/06 21:52:23


Post by: Adrassil



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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/07 06:57:54


Post by: aphyon


 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

I could go on for a while but i will stop there.



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/10 07:11:52


Post by: aphyon


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.





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/12 06:49:16


Post by: aphyon


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.

a couple of my favorite tracks










What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/12 23:05:22


Post by: SkavenLord


Came across this on Spotify a few days ago.




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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/13 22:21:06


Post by: Trondheim


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/14 00:11:44


Post by: Adrassil


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


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/17 06:27:06


Post by: Adrassil


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!


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/17 07:33:03


Post by: aphyon


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/18 06:58:58


Post by: aphyon


Today's update

The last of the "M"s
mononoke hime (princess mononoke)




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/18 09:11:10


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


 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.


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.

Oh, and bonus video because it’s great?




Whoa-oh!


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/20 03:01:23


Post by: bullyboy


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/20 07:12:54


Post by: aphyon


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.









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/21 00:47:34


Post by: Turnip Jedi


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


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/21 06:46:12


Post by: aphyon


Another 90s series a buddy of mine got me into

Natsuki crisis

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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/23 06:04:53


Post by: Adrassil


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/25 11:41:24


Post by: Adrassil


Oh my frigging Emperor this is amayzaaang. Just stumbled over this on the YouTubes!




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/29 07:36:41


Post by: aphyon


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

The outlanders anime








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/30 10:15:50


Post by: Just Tony


Accidentally came across Ace of Spades on the radio. I sincerely forgot how utterly garbage Motorhead really was...


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/11/30 10:53:26


Post by: aphyon


 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


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/02 07:12:51


Post by: aphyon


Todays update include another of my favorite myazaki films-

kurenai no buta (porco rosso)




Then we jump back to the 80s soundtracks with project Ako and all the parodies there in.

This track starts out slow but it ends with a bang





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/02 22:11:27


Post by: Adrassil


 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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/04 08:50:56


Post by: aphyon


The advent children soundtrack is fantastic. had to add it to my collection after i saw the movie.

although the wife is more the final fantasy fan than i am.



Next up is the fantasy offering from the famous female manga group CLAMP

in anime form-magic knights rayearth

Where being the hero that saves the princess requires killing her...the "normal" kind of twists that CLAMP likes to put into their stories.





they also have a song collection that i have as well as the soundtrack.



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/09 23:53:59


Post by: SkavenLord


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/10 06:58:28


Post by: aphyon


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)






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/11 14:14:40


Post by: Overread


Time for something, festive




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/12 07:36:10


Post by: aphyon


WOW!

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.






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/13 12:19:37


Post by: Trondheim


Has been played a lot these past days here in the household



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/13 14:09:02


Post by: Mr Morden


just enjoyed the film - like the tune.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/13 16:58:39


Post by: Agrabasz


Just some music to keep energy up- Offspring, Divide by zero/Slim Pickens does the right thing and rides the bomb to hell


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/13 22:17:31


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What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/15 14:05:51


Post by: Overread






Orchestral and studio merged for double the metal


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/16 07:00:15


Post by: aphyon


Powerwolf i approve


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/17 07:35:08


Post by: aphyon


Finishing off my silent mobius we come to the TV series.

Loved the music, happy they could flesh out the manga story in anime but i was really let down by the low budget.

from the first soundtrack a bit of orchestration/chant






from the second soundtrack/vocal collection a little rocker (the album also includes an english language track version of the opening theme)





I just found the 3rd soundtrack, going to give it a listen later.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/19 05:12:57


Post by: Adrassil


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)


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/19 09:11:59


Post by: aphyon


Well now that silent mobius is done i got through
Slayers the movie




then i started in on the taihoschouzo(your under arrest) OVAs and TV show soundtracks

An example form the OVA




The voice actress Sakiko Tamagawa does a fantastic enka song on the seond ^V show soundtrack but i cannot seem to find it online...


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/19 10:16:15


Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter





a friend of mine made me discover this strange old french band, they sound quite unique though!


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/20 19:06:02


Post by: Captain Joystick


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:




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/25 05:14:16


Post by: aphyon


Christmas playlist editon!

slay ride- torture




No presents for christmas-king diamond




Bastard chirstmas/akuma no merry christmass-seikima II




mistress for christmas-AC/DC




wierd al-the night santa went crazy and christams at ground zero








Bob rivers twisted christmas-I am santas claus-black sabbath cover, jingle hells bells-AC/DC cover












What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/28 15:32:36


Post by: aphyon


playlist update

Short one this time.

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.




An instrumental track from the same soundtrack.






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/29 15:04:25


Post by: aphyon


Another of my game soundtracks

Soul edge(soul caliber US) opening-edge of soul

In the same vain as the wagakki bands fusion of traditional and modern instruments




The we have the fantastic Sol Bianca soundtracks

First the original 2 part OVA from 1990 with a closing theme that is on my top 20 favorite anime vocal songs list-makenaide-never give up




And the remake of the series Sol bianca the legacy a decade later-









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/30 00:33:01


Post by: Adrassil


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/31 11:28:30


Post by: Trondheim


Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/31 15:01:12


Post by: aphyon


Not many new albums in 2020 for obvious reasons (no tour support)

But i did just get this one in-
The only remaining band of the groups still doing the gothenburge sweden style melodic deathmetal.-dark tranquility

the new album MOMENT





Now that is done, back to working through my soundtrack albums

In the Ts while not a huge fan of the show i had to get the soundtrack for trigun




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/31 16:32:40


Post by: Deathklaat


Since Covid started I have been working from home so my Spotify has been working overtime to find me new awesome music to listen to.



The main riff is so filthy and I love it for that reason.



The whole Metal Commando album is pretty great.



I love how blistering fast and heavy this song is.

and now to some of the oddities and obscurities Spotify has suggested for me.












All of the Kryptos albums are amazing.









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2020/12/31 17:42:37


Post by: aphyon


Deathklaat

I have the new primal fear album on the way, waiting on it to come in the mail.

Here is a list of my favorite groups, many i am sure you know, but perhaps you may see something there you have not heard-


https://imgur.com/gallery/b1PTQ4Z

I almost forgot i messed up and didn't post these japanese hard rock/metal goddesses in my list







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/02 19:18:13


Post by: aphyon


Now we come to

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.






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/02 19:26:00


Post by: Overread


I have to correct you there - its not the best transformers film


It's the only transformers film


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/02 20:05:10


Post by: Batty


Acqua Fragile, Mass media Stars.

It's a bit of an old one.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/02 20:31:53


Post by: The_Grim_Angel




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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/06 06:28:05


Post by: Adrassil



One of my favourite video game OSTs, my favourite pieces of music are Undertale and Megalovania, of course. Toby Fox is a damned genius in my eyes.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/06 06:54:15


Post by: aphyon


First a sad note-
R.I.P. Alexi





In happier news i also got in my copy of metal commando from primal fear-solid as always

Now continuing some other greatness-

I managed to score the limited edition bot-con transformers the movie special double CD-




CD 1 is a full stan bush album including remakes of "the touch" and "dare" along with some new stuff-my personal favorite is ground zero




The second CD is the full and complete background music collection (31 tracks)

Like starscreams coronation music.







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/08 00:54:26


Post by: Adrassil





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


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/08 18:40:53


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What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/09 10:26:52


Post by: aphyon


Well i keep moving closer to the end of my anime collection of soundtrack albums but i still have a ways to go even if i am up to the "u"

With (revolutionary girl) Utena.

One of the more strange anime series i got addicted to with a great soundtrack


Here is a bit of the battle music




And a bit of the orchestration




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/10 12:03:14


Post by: aphyon


the next one is a game inspired anime series for dark stalkers under the title-vampire hunters.

I was happy to see how they animated in the attack combos from the video game.





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/10 21:09:29


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What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/13 11:49:09


Post by: aphyon


i have moved into the "W"s now with the weathering continent movie soundtracks for some epic high fantasy style music




And of course witch hunter robin, such a great show with a giant plot twist(and a killer opening theme)




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/16 06:49:21


Post by: aphyon


quick update

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!




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/17 19:17:03


Post by: aphyon


another new arrival-
the scottish pirates are back....

The new ale storm album- curse of the crystal coconut




Keeping with the nautical theme i now dive into the space battleship yamato soundtracks

first up is the symphony performance of the original 1974 tv show soundtrack

this really starts to pick up at the 1:25 mark. after the long intro.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/18 18:49:06


Post by: aphyon


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)




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/22 05:11:33


Post by: Adrassil


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/22 06:34:46


Post by: aphyon


It's yoko kanno do you need any other reason?



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/22 07:31:18


Post by: Adrassil


Oh, she's a frigging genius, no doubt, but in an OST made of nothing but gems, I'm just not sure why that gem is one of the shiniest for me lol


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/24 14:34:38


Post by: aphyon


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



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/25 15:40:22


Post by: grrrfranky


Had this band recommended to me a couple of days ago, and enjoying them a lot



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/25 22:24:12


Post by: Adrassil


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/01/31 12:13:36


Post by: aphyon


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




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/02/06 11:57:48


Post by: Adrassil





Damn frigging fun to play in Guitar Hero.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/02/07 01:29:13


Post by: Adrassil





Just rediscovered my love for this old song.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/02/07 16:47:40


Post by: aphyon


Well after 14 or so albums i have finished my ACCEPT collection.

No rock collection could be complete without my next entry-

the thunder from down under-AC/DC

It is hard to find a song they have done especially the early work with Bon Scott that isn't well known.







At the other end of the bands career a little Brian Johnson






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/02/10 17:34:39


Post by: Crispy78


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/02/17 07:26:13


Post by: aphyon


Rather fitting that the next band in the list is a great blues hard rock band also from austrailia with a very similar sound to AC/DC

AIRBOURNE











And a special bonus, just got my copy of the new pretty reckless

Death by rock and roll








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/02/21 23:10:16


Post by: aphyon


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.

Aesma Daeva









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/02/25 13:17:51


Post by: aphyon


The next items in my playlist are a bunch of mad scots who sing about all things pirates


That's right-

ALESTORM








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/02 10:51:22


Post by: aphyon


New arrivals


Just got copies of

.sirenia-riddles ruins and revelations





Along with a back catalog boxed set and new album from the german bardic metal band feuerschwanz











What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/04 10:10:02


Post by: Adrassil


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/04 11:30:59


Post by: aphyon


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)








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/04 23:36:06


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What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/07 19:52:14


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


Gone on a bit of classic Indie tip.

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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/07 20:10:11


Post by: aphyon


Well it is off to the cold north for me with some nordic melodic death metal from ARCH ENEMY

First with Angela Gassow on vocals.






And many years later after her departure to be the bands manager the talented replacement

Alissa White-Gluz.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/07 21:33:46


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


May be a repost. Can’t be bothered to check.

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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/08 01:40:10


Post by: Adrassil


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/08 06:42:07


Post by: aphyon


Mad Doc Grotsnik


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.












What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/09 12:48:40


Post by: Adrassil


 aphyon wrote:
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.








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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/13 07:29:18


Post by: aphyon


With a bit more humor in my heavy metal a little side project from the band as i lay dying-

Austrian Death Machine

An entire band that makes songs based on Arnold Swarzeneger movie quotes










What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/16 10:40:51


Post by: aphyon


Another oddity to add to the list.

moved into the Bs

BAL SAGOTH

This is a mix of death metal, power metal, some orchestration and spoken word narrative story telling.

the first album was pretty much a death metal album with the other 5 albums expanding the sound as described above.

I think of it as a cross between arch enemy and rhapsody(of fire) for the easiest comparison.











What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/19 05:49:17


Post by: aphyon


this installment

battlelore- a European gothic metal style band that sings about JRR Tolkien themes











What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/19 09:23:51


Post by: Adrassil


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/20 05:40:38


Post by: aphyon


One hit wonder time.

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.

Black tide




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/27 09:51:19


Post by: StraightSilver


I've been listening to Audiomachine whilst painting this week.

They're a collaboration of artists that do music for trailers and film/video game marketing.



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/27 11:11:51


Post by: Adrassil


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/03/31 11:00:05


Post by: Adrassil


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/04/03 19:00:47


Post by: aphyon


Been a while since i posted..as i have been going through over 30 years worth of blind guardian material.

from their early years of being a more thrash influenced band as they added more folk, classical and orchestral elements.





You can especially hear the queen inspired elements with songs like this




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/04/04 11:26:38


Post by: Adrassil


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...

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 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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/04/04 15:10:45


Post by: Rob Lee


Not right now but recently I have listened to D-Rok Oblivion and some Nighwitsh - yeah Aled Jones you can go smoke one.







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/04/08 14:39:54


Post by: aphyon


Continuing the same theme...even though it isn't in the Bs it is still hansi so i put next in line in the collection

the demons and wizrards trilogy=iced earth/blind guardian project












I end this update with a couple classic best of collections

blue oyster cult




and boston







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/04/15 18:16:43


Post by: aphyon


Because bagpipes are metal!

Into the Cs with celtica (pipes rock)












What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/04/21 11:27:33


Post by: aphyon


Today's addition

The Children of bodom collection






a little humor-




RIP Alexi Laiho 1979-2020


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/04/21 15:44:58


Post by: Clouds


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwSJVZC8eec

I Really like this song, wish it was longer though.

Hank Williams Sr - Why Don't You Love Me


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/04/29 08:21:48


Post by: aphyon


Into the Ds

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"

The song that got me hooked was this one-




And a little something off the new album




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/04 06:09:46


Post by: aphyon


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-

DEEP PURPLE-










What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/07 06:46:08


Post by: aphyon


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.










What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/07 20:23:22


Post by: Captain Joystick


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?







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/09 14:58:04


Post by: aphyon


aye capt joystick alestorm is a good bit of fun like getting gaked by an anchor

The next batch wasn't very large if it was iconic...


I have all 3 of the DETHKLOK soundtracks.. Best served as batmetal


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDea7laHD4E

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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/14 07:04:01


Post by: aphyon


I don't like many black metal bands but this is one of the handful that i like, mostly because of their introduction of orchestra and a melodic edge

Dimmu Borgir










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What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/16 10:46:40


Post by: Adrassil





This I found from one of the ending credits of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Like that energetic guitar solo at the beginning and end of the song.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/22 06:25:39


Post by: aphyon


Next one of the metal gods the late great ronnie james DIO

A legendary career with both black sabbath and rainbow as well as his successful solo career





RIP DIO
his last album-with black sabbath re-united (under the moniker of heaven and hell.....because sharon osbourne is a GAK)




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/22 10:09:18


Post by: Adrassil


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!


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/28 05:47:19


Post by: aphyon


I have the original TV show soundtrack, i do love the song "forces" as well as the movie soundtracks.

Now back to metal

The guys suffering from a case of Yngwie malmsteen sysndrome IE play every frett between every note as fast as humanly possible AKA

Dragonforce.

The song that got me hooked




And the last album with the original singer




After that i stopped followng them as i don't care for the new singer.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/05/30 20:28:00


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


If you don’t have time in your day for The Toy Dolls, then I don’t know how else to help.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/06/02 16:28:58


Post by: Backfire


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/06/04 06:04:25


Post by: aphyon


Sadly those videos are all region blocked.


To finish off the Ds we go out with the technical skill that is DREAM THEATER


A favorite from their early career-





And something a bit more recent







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/06/04 06:34:57


Post by: Ancestral Hamster


The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, specifically ...


They've a number of fine orchestral renditions of movie soundtracks, such as ...


Visit their channel: DR Koncerthuset


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/06/04 18:26:13


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/06/16 06:04:02


Post by: aphyon


It's been a while since my last post -

I have moved into the Es with a bang with the little German metal band that could with the funny name and a great sense of humor-

EDGUY

These guys started out in the late 90s when they were still in high school and it has been one hell of a ride.

From the first album




And something a bit newer






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/06/16 23:37:27


Post by: Adrassil


Truly Michael Scott is the genius of all time...







Been binge watching The Office and I love this stuff lol


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/06/21 12:34:12


Post by: Adrassil


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




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/06/23 09:08:10


Post by: aphyon


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.











What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/06/29 06:04:08


Post by: aphyon


A bit newer addition to my collection the Swiss folk/metal band Eluveitie










What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/01 06:41:48


Post by: aphyon


I am leaving the Es with a roar with the legendary thrash sounds of EXODUS









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/01 07:48:57


Post by: Adrassil


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


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/04 18:19:35


Post by: aphyon


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











What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/09 05:52:44


Post by: aphyon


On occasion i come across bands that just sync with me and i am immediately hooked, this is another of those bands with a funny sounding name

Feuerschwanz

A german language parody folk/metal band










What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/11 19:24:25


Post by: aphyon


The band next in line fits in with it's power metal contemporaries the likes of stratovarius and gamma ray


FREEDOM CALL

the band has a very bright, almost positive feel to the their sound








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/12 12:08:51


Post by: Adrassil


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




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/12 12:23:56


Post by: Blackie


Dokken, Dio and Rainbow post Dio have been my soundtrack during Euro 2020. Today there's The Last In Line in my headphones.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/12 12:36:04


Post by: Adrassil


...HELL YEAH! And a whole lot of other curses I can't use right now, feth it! lol




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/13 11:27:42


Post by: Adrassil


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?




Also Grinder, too.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/13 11:43:27


Post by: aphyon


A very cool band idea.....the best way to listen to john williams star wars soundtracks


GALACTIC EMPIRE-










What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/22 06:17:36


Post by: aphyon


Been a bit since my last update...because GRAVE DIGGER churns out a ton of albums.







Added bonus i got through some great KAT beethoven on speed







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/23 08:52:54


Post by: Backfire


 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!


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/23 09:19:41


Post by: aphyon


A little trip down best of collections in the Gs

George Thorogood




and some GREAT WHITE







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/27 06:51:44


Post by: aphyon


Finishing up the Gs with another classic band, but i am going to highlight a couple of the lesser known songs i enjoy.

GUNSnROSES


Pretty tied up




Coma





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/07/29 06:11:06


Post by: aphyon


Jumping into the Hs with HALESTORM









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/01 11:13:18


Post by: Adrassil


One of my favourite bands, they should've done so much better!




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/05 17:27:01


Post by: aphyon


I have been listening to hammerfall since they released their first album, saw them live 2 times.

Funny thing is even though i own all the albums until this run through i never realized how many they released(11)


A little early stuff





Something newer




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/06 18:09:52


Post by: aphyon


Adding some one shots

A bit of an interesting take on prog metal

HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE





The considers what happens when you mix opera with techno

you get harajuku






And lastly a little classic heavy metal from Slovenia

from the all female band HELLCATS




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/06 22:00:55


Post by: Adrassil


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/10 02:23:02


Post by: Adrassil





Just realised I haven't listened to this song in years! Still like it even if it as subtle as smashing someone over the head with a mallet lol


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/10 06:22:50


Post by: aphyon


Another one shot from 2002-an amazing german thrash band that apparently did nothing else.


The sound is like metallica's "kill'em all" style raw thrash with lemmy from motorhead on vocals.



It is pretty obscure so good luck finding a video outside of just buying the album.








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/14 06:37:12


Post by: aphyon


Going back to a classic now, one of the few local bands i still consider good.

HEART

1977





1993




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/15 09:34:57


Post by: Adrassil


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/15 19:50:09


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/17 08:06:25


Post by: Adrassil


Hope I haven't posted this here before,




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/18 14:44:05


Post by: aphyon


Now something from the band often considered to be the beginning of the power metal sub genre

HELLOWEEN









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/18 20:40:40


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


Witch Fever.

Just saw them live. They’re effing ACE!




Shades of L7


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/22 11:53:30


Post by: aphyon


Giving some more love to our Mongolian metal brothers the HU band.








What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/25 02:05:27


Post by: Adrassil


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/08/30 04:48:59


Post by: Adrassil


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/01 02:17:43


Post by: Adrassil


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!




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/03 06:58:19


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/04 20:42:21


Post by: Overread





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/08 05:05:36


Post by: Adrassil


So very awesome live and one of my all-time favourite songs!





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/08 06:22:01


Post by: Just Tony


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.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/08 06:27:42


Post by: aphyon


A little update

got into the "I" s

and one of the other black metal bands i like-
IMMORTAL

and the epic song-at the heart of winter





Followed up by some ICED EARTH







What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/08 21:00:31


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


One of Iron Maiden’s most underrated songs. For me, it’s a standout on its album and should’ve been a single.

Childhood’s End.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/09 06:30:15


Post by: aphyon


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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/09 10:11:11


Post by: Just Tony


Those are some nice unavailable videos...


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/09 10:42:06


Post by: aphyon


i get the same thing when i have my VPN set on certain countries


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/12 10:28:21


Post by: Adrassil





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


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/15 10:56:07


Post by: Adrassil


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!




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/17 18:33:55


Post by: aphyon


A new arrival-

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.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/20 01:33:18


Post by: aphyon


In line with my previous posts i just worked through all the iron maiden studio albums.

A couple of my other favorite gems booth old and new-

-to tame a land(DUNE)






-the nomad




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/21 00:55:04


Post by: haiduk


Iron Maiden - 'Where Eagles Dare' - my fav track from Piece of Mind ^^


New song by Haiduk - 'Swarm' [black metal / death-thrash]






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/23 08:55:19


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


Awwww.

Arrested Development gig rescheduled, and it clashes with Skunk Anansie.

Two tickets being refunded, but still a bummer I can’t see both bands.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/23 09:04:22


Post by: aphyon


Down the rabbit hole with the double iron maiden tribute albums-a call to irons

power slave in death metal




gangland in power metal






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/09/23 09:30:55


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


Off to see Employed to Serve in November. So that’s cheered me up a bit!




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/01 16:22:39


Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik


Also, because some times you just need it?

Lovely bit of Ska.




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/02 06:37:45


Post by: aphyon


A few updates-

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.





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/02 07:42:17


Post by: Blackie


Exodus - Force of Habit. The entire album, probably the most underrated one in the history of thrash metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHj8GUxn8hA

Now I just want to try to make a monkey soup .



What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/02 08:00:39


Post by: Reavsie


The Exploited.

Couple of favourites are Alternative & UK82.

Because I still live in the eighties and it's one of the few things that motivates me to get moving.


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/02 10:37:17


Post by: Adrassil


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
-
Threat level, what?
Rubric!
Threat level, who?
Ahzek Ahriman!
Threat Level, why?
Flesh Change!
Gotta fight it!
Free the Rubrics!
Peace I’m out!


What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/03 15:42:44


Post by: SamusDrake


Gloriously awkward 80s music video ahoy!





What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/11 08:47:12


Post by: aphyon


Hail to the KING baby-KING DIAMOND that is, appropriately during the halloween season the metal god of horror stories









What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/15 11:28:17


Post by: Adrassil


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.






What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/15 11:38:52


Post by: aphyon


Into the Ls for me with LACUNA COIL




And then LEAVES EYES




What are you listening to right now?! @ 2021/10/17 16:13:14


Post by: aphyon


While not a huge fan blasting through the "Ls" would not be complet without some LED ZEPPLIN





Then we have some LITA FORD




And switching gears a bit for LOREENA MCKENNIT