Topic: Music you've been digging lately

[Abnormal Freak]

good stuff! Love Carpenter! Him and Dance with The Dead are 2 of my favs

I'm not familiar with the other band. I came across Brut almost by accident, but I instantly became attached to his mixture of industrial, synth pop, Italo-disco, video game music, John Carpenter, and Italian horror movie soundtracks. It's a unique blend that even dudes like Perturbator don't do as well, IMO, and is pretty unusual for the whole "synthwave" thing.

Got to see him and his band live a few months ago and it was awesome. Lots of total geeks in the crowd, from rivetheads to metalheads (it's cool Brut has managed to draw both crowds), it was great, and the Fist of the North Star anime movie was playing at the bar and in the bathroom.

Carpenter Brut kind of reminds me of another band I sorta dig but haven't looked into much, called Gatekeeper. They sound sorta like mid '80s era Skinny Puppy fused with Italo-disco, lots of movie samples and everything.



Brut is like 5x more awesome with better production values, but I still like these guys.

[KaZudra]

This legitimately brought me to tears, all these years of ignoring and say the Beatles were "overrated", little did I know...

[Belmontoya]

This legitimately brought me to tears, all these years of ignoring and say the Beatles were "overrated", little did I know...

Yeah man luckily it happened to me when I was a teenager but this song is what won me over too.

I saw Paul play this live like 5 years ago at the target field in MN. It was spectacular.

I've been digging the new Smashing Pumpkins album. Just came out today. Saw them live on the current tour and it was insanely good

https://youtu.be/O80Kwt4zcxs

[Abnormal Freak]

I've never been able to get over the disappointment that none of The Beatles' other songs are as good as "I Am the Walrus". The whole of that album is pretty good, in fact; it was the mixture of their experimental side while also having the sing-songy backbone of their earlier work.

[Abnormal Freak]

Sigh released their new album and it's sounding pretty good so far. I like that they got Maor Appelbaum to master the CD. Sigh's albums have sounded pretty bad in the US ever since Gallows Gallery shat into our ears, so it's nice to see them get it right the first time so that I don't gotta spend more money on importing. BTW, Japan's Graveward sounds best (mastered by the guitarist, You Oshima), Maor's remastering on the Chinese Scenes from Hell kicks the shit out of the original, and Blood Music's remastering of Gallows Gallery completely rips apart the Candlelight and The End masters. Now if only someone would redo Hangman's Hymn, then we can finally say goodbye to James Murphy's legacy of terror mastering.

[Abnormal Freak]

Yup, this new album is definitely a return to what made them so great during the Hail Horror Hail/Scenario IV/Imaginary Soniscape days (just without Shinichi's awesome riffing), and makes up for how mediocre In Somniphobia is. Graveward from a few years back is fun but doesn't have a terrible lot of staying power, I find. Hopefully Heir to Despair will hold up, because this is some damn good stuff.

Even that cover art is better than anything they've done in a long time.

[zangetsu468]

Been getting into City Pop recently. I find it helps lift my mood slightly and takes me back to a time when things were simpler.

[Belmontoya]

I'm loving this new Grimes song!

And the Samus zero suit is bad ass!

https://youtu.be/gYG_4vJ4qNA

[Abnormal Freak]

Listening to the new Download album that just came out today, called Unknown Room. The band started out in the mid '90s as a side-project by cEvin Key and Dwayne Goettel of Skinny Puppy with Mark Spybey and Phil Western; for the past 20 years, however, it (along with its more mellow companion, platEAU) has been a duo between cEvin and Philth. They've been one of my favorite bands for a long time.

Phil Western passed away a month ago from an accidental fentanyl overdose (something that's become all too common) and it's super damn tragic. This song from the album was written as a tribute to Goettel who died in 1995, but now it's also been released in remembrance of Western. Barring any unreleased material, I'm sad we'll never get any new Download or platEAU music, or any of Western's excellent solo work.

[JR]

I've never really been very much into power metal, but I'm really digging Powerwolf right now:

[Belmontoya]

It's so wonderful finally having Tool's full library on streaming services.

Just wanted to say that in case there are other Tool fans here who didn't know.

Oh yeah. And the new album Fear Inoculum comes out August 30th!

Planning on seeing them for the 5th time as soon as a I get a chance!

[Belmontoya]

Yes!

https://youtu.be/q7DfQMPmJRI

[Aridale]

Sweet! I didn't know they had everything on streaming now. That new song is pretty damn good too. Not really my kinda music these days but I can, for sure, appreciate the new stuff and added lots of old stuff to my spotify playlist

[Super Waffle]

[Abnormal Freak]

Rediscovering my teenage love of Type O Negative. Holy shizzlenit, October Rust is such a perfect album. Heavy nostalgia with this one, glad I never got rid of it during The Great CD Purge of 2013.

https://youtu.be/3e1gkynGXXM