It’s family vacation time, so no updates for a bout a week. Gonna catch up on books, sun, beach, and whatever music I feel like listening to. Iggy Pop will be prominent, as will the first Tame Impala album, which I fell in love with the first time I heard. Which was, not so coincidentally, at the beach. Continue reading “At the Beach…”
We’re back with the Good News, because apparently “good news” is a loose translation of the word evangelion, which also happens to be the name of the 2009 album from Behemoth. And it is good news, because after the dulling of Nergal’s schtick with Demigod and The Apostasy (which I never bothered buying but a quick re-listen confirmed I made the right choice) Evangelion is a brutal return to form. Continue reading “Behemoth: Evangelion (2009)”
It’s not that Demigod, the 2004 followup to Zos Kia Cultus by Behemoth is bad…it’s not. It’s just that this is the first album where the songs really begin to blur and I lose interest about halfway through. There’s less distinction through the album, less that jumps out and grabs you. This is blessing and curse of blind buying based on previous albums: sometimes you get gold, sometimes you get, well…meh. Continue reading “Behemoth: Demigod (2004)”
Behemoth is back and surprise: they’re still angry at God. I’m pretty sure I bought both Zos Kia Cultus at the same time as Thelema.6 to try the band out, and listening back there’s a lot I like: things have evolved somewhat, taking a (very) slightly slower approach, more bottom-heavy and menacing, but still ready to riff your head six feet in the ground. Occult and Aleister Crowley reign over the proceedings, but since I can barely understand the words, it has little impact to the punishing hooks contained o the album. Continue reading “Behemoth: Zos Kia Cultus (2002)”
You have to embrace the ridiculous a little bit when it comes to extreme metal. Otherwise the act just falls into pretension. For all of his posturing, Behemoth frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski knows a certain amount of pop and circumstance give life to his musical entity, and he embraces it. Thelema.6 eschews the more blackened elements of the band’s earlier output in favor of a real slick, dare I say catchy death metal that still sounds great, even better than a lot of his later output. It remains one of my favorite releases from the band, and that’s even without the David Bowie cover. Continue reading “Behemoth: Thelema.6 (2000)”
WhatFunLifeWas. Beheaded. Transaction de Novo. I had no idea these albums existed two years ago. I was unaware of Bedhead, the band that created this music, or the slow core scene in general. And yet I’ve always known this music. In a real sense, the music of Bedhead is the music that has always played in the quiet hours inside my head ruminating and reflecting on questions I’ve had my entire life. Bedhead 1992-1998 is a boxset of the band’s collected output, and to say that for me it’s become one fo the essential musical components of my life is not an exaggeration. Continue reading “Bedhead: 1992-1998 (2014)”
Consuming the Tangible 