What are you listening to at the moment?

[Angolmois]

I fell in love to this song last fall when hearing it first time. Instant classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UMwLxFNKS0

[Wyrmfang]

Deathspell Omega: Paracletus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_QHcXeYbf8

It took a decade for me to understand the brilliance of this album (and post Si Monvmentvm period in general). In addition to musical accomplishments, this stuff embodies the ambivalence and dialectics between Satanism and atheism. It is at the same time highly spiritual and secular (in the sense of loss of existential meaning).

Of course, if the band is foreign to you, you should definitely begin from this album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUnS93C5U_4
An absolutely essential classic of modern "religious" black metal (the older stuff such as Inquisitors of Satan is not bad either!).

[obnoxion]

DANZIG: Long Way Back From Hell
TYPE O NEGATIVE: Black no 1.
DIO: Rainbow in the Dark

Once again, trying to find some magical pain relief from rock 'n roll. And when I search for magic from rock music, I search for the idea of the crossroads at night, and the rythmic transmission of that raw power. The bigest handicap of extreme metal is the in the quest for extremity, it begins to cut ties to this Devil's legacy. (When rock musicians were crosses - inverted or not - I see in them the old crossdroads).

[Mars]

Deathspell Omega: Paracletus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_QHcXeYbf8

It took a decade for me to understand the brilliance of this album (and post Si Monvmentvm period in general). In addition to musical accomplishments, this stuff embodies the ambivalence and dialectics between Satanism and atheism. It is at the same time highly spiritual and secular (in the sense of loss of existential meaning).

Of course, if the band is foreign to you, you should definitely begin from this album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUnS93C5U_4
An absolutely essential classic of modern "religious" black metal (the older stuff such as Inquisitors of Satan is not bad either!).

I've also listened to Deathspell Omega recently. Personally I prefer the second album of the trilogy, Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum. Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice is somewhat uneven in my opinion, although some of the riffs are simply glorious.

I'm somewhat unsure of DsO's theological aspects. The lyrics are most likely intentionally obscure and would require familiarity with their influences to be understood fully (Bataille, Nietzsche, Hegel, Catholicism etc.). Obviously there's a fair amount of nihilism, misanthropy and antihumanism at play, but as to their theological stance I remain a bit confused.

[Benemal]

Looking for something else I accidentally found something interesting. A sonic wizard named Ruth White, who did two strange records in 1969. One of those "where did she come from & where did she go" artists (haven't googled). First 7 Trumps From The Tarot Cards And Pinions is cacophonous avant-garde synth noises. It's pretty dark, and listening to it I'm imagining it would've made a great soundtrack to a cult sci-fi horror movie. The record does sound like it's from 1969, but it's different from anything I've heard, from 1969. The second record Flowers Of Evil is a little more atmospheris, because she's reciting Baudelaire, wth similar synth noises.

More 1969.

This reminded me of Bruce Haack's Electric Lucifer, which is pop music compared to White. He did children's music, with self-made synths, then he did acid, and the glorious results are to be heard on this record.

British band Arzachel, (I'm guessing a member of the same angel family, as Azazel) existed for some months only and managed to create a cult classic album. Absolutely sounds like 1969, but this is a wild, crazy record, that has the sixties energy in every second of it's cthulhu LSD trip.

Also my favorite vocalist of all time, Catherine Ribeiro, did her first album in 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZB42zO ... ZmtwNvOr55

Lot's of great music from that year, but these might not be well known. Catherine Ribeiro records, for example, have just a handful of votes on Rate Your Music. That's crazy, but works for me, because if she became "discovered" by hipsters, they'd rape her legacy politically.

[Nefastos]

Thanks for the tips Benemal! I'll go through the ones I'm able to find.

Sham Mirrors

&

DIO: Rainbow in the Dark

Eccellenza!!

Deathspell Omega

My personal cycles just turned strangely off from this band. For some time I had desperately wanted that someone would make this kind of music, but when they did, it was just at the time when it no longer interested me.

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Now I'm listening two Noirs, Hail Spirit Noir recommended by fra Amantes, and Serpent Noir. Pretty soon I'll also have the pleasure of receiving the new Bythos.

[Polyhymnia]

Looking for something else I accidentally found something interesting. A sonic wizard named Ruth White, who did two strange records in 1969. One of those "where did she come from & where did she go" artists (haven't googled). First 7 Trumps From The Tarot Cards And Pinions is cacophonous avant-garde synth noises. It's pretty dark, and listening to it I'm imagining it would've made a great soundtrack to a cult sci-fi horror movie. The record does sound like it's from 1969, but it's different from anything I've heard, from 1969. The second record Flowers Of Evil is a little more atmospheris, because she's reciting Baudelaire, wth similar synth noises.

I came across these a couple of years back to my immense pleasure. It's wild to me that she created these pieces at that time. Pioneer, indeed!

[Mars]

Deathspell Omega

My personal cycles just turned strangely off from this band. For some time I had desperately wanted that someone would make this kind of music, but when they did, it was just at the time when it no longer interested me.

Do you mean just now or earlier? Their current era is somewhat different, at least thematically, than their earlier "orthodox" satanist themes.

[Nefastos]

Do you mean just now or earlier?

By "them" I actually meant the powerful rise of religious black metal as a whole back in 2003-2004. Not just Deathspell Omega but Funeral Mist, Watain &c, the phenomenon that blossomed fully back then. I remember the discussions in the black metal circles, when people who had hated Christian church started to argument that it was actually good, because it had done so much evil. It was those times when I started taking some distance to the scene.

[obnoxion]

Has anyone here listened to Phurba much. I suppose the main artist behind the changing collective that operates under that name wouldn't call it music. I've seen a few interviews and some samples of their performances, and so far I am more interested in the concept and the mentality behind Phurba, than in the actual soundscape. But then again, I've never really given it a fair chance.