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Haha, Laura fell for my trap.

(Well played, well played...)

The original "IT"?

"Norman Fucking Rockwell!" is out today!

Unfortunately, not a single one of the other tracks I've listened to so far is as good as this one or "Venice Bitch", both of which are absolutely unfuckwithable, but overall it's a good album nonetheless. Maybe even my second favourite of hers, after Ultraviolence? Time will tell!

Midnight?

(Or any hour, for that matter)

Hahaha nice!

Their sound is unmistakable. Yeah that new track is pretty cool. Glad to see Keenan is off his wine tangent. (kidding)

I revisited Aenema a few months back. That's a really terrific album. I've always felt a connection with the title track, its range of emotions, and lyrics, which at one point are laugh out loud funny. If I remember correctly, the song is a full hate-fest on Los Angeles and references an urban legend where the tides rise and swallow all of South California, creating 'Arizona Bay':

"One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied
(whispering-->) Learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim"

So good! I do miss Angry Maynard in this new album though

(Danny Carey is almost 60! WTF! HOW!)

Super excited about the album.  Haven't heard anything aside from that song yet.  Sounds like a Tool song.  May wait to listen to the full album upon release, may not be able to...

My expectations were pretty low because I wasn't too fond of 10,000 Days to start with and I wasn't expecting them to come up with anything super exciting after a 13 year hiatus, but I have to say that I'm impressed! The album is an 80-minute monster with all tracks except for a crappy instrumental clocking in at over 10 minutes (plus some interludes that are missing from the leaked version), so I still have to listen to it a few more times for more things to stick, but I can definitely say I'm hooked. Well worth the wait!

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So the new Tool album finally leaked... Anybody else here who has been waiting 13 years for this?

(Note to mods: the above embed is from the band's official YT channel and is not part of the leak!)

Wish this were a bit longer. Need some background music to study to like this. 

How about something like this?

It's not quite the same style, buuuut it could work!

Happened to hear this today, and was reminded of what a beautiful song it is.

St. Vincent's cover of Nico's "These Days":

<3

I'm not a fan of Nico's "Chelsea Girl" days, but this song always hits me so hard, and gets more devastating the older I get. I didn't know this version, so thanks!

She's now a devoted housewife, lmao, sorry not sorry for the schadenfreude

This one I don't get. She missed out on the opportunity to be a wage slave, and can raise her own children instead. What a loser, right? I think a family where a parent can raise their own children is very fortunate.

lmao she's still a wage slave, except not even to her own wage but somebody else's.

Happy birthday, Khris! Fellow Leo, I see

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People who sit behind you on the bus and cough/sneeze on the back of your head.
And then I sit there and don't move because you don't want to wipe your head and get another person's spittle on your hand, and also don't want to acknowledge that it happened...

Ah! Public transportation pet peeves! I have ALL of those For example, in Germany nobody takes off their backpack in public transportation EVER, no matter how crowded it is. Pretty much anywhere else this would be considered barbaric, but "respect for other people's personal space" is just not a thing here... or at least in Berlin, where people will literally push you just to be the first to get to the cashier line that just opened

(what did we even call them back then? "Pathetic inbred losers"?)

Neo-nazis. They're LARPers. I always wonder about these people who adopt an image that would make them look tough, obviously they themselves feel they are not tough enough, what is everyone else supposed to think? Guess they expect others to put as little thought into their life choices as they did.

The Man Comes Around

Must have missed this one with the page change. Yeah, there's a certain kind of hilarious irony in seeing people like these claiming to be all unique enlightened individuals and totally not a bunch of sheep and then going around all dressed the same (as in, literally in uniform), licking their favourite artists' boots and trying to convince everyone that they had read "Revolt Against the Modern World" back-to-back

I wonder what's become of them... I recently came across a girl online I used to know back in the day who was SO into Aryan rethoric that she actually married a German guy and moved to Munich. She's now a devoted housewife, lmao, sorry not sorry for the schadenfreude

^The interesting thing about this 'music' is it really does stir (at least in me) emotions and and feelings of horror, disorientation and helplessness, which I'm guessing is what the band was going after. Perhaps these are emotions incels and other types experience in day-to-day life when they engage contemporary society? (Not to get into it, but it is kind of an interesting discussion point.)

I think it was more just... straight up the aesthetics and the lyrics? Most of these "bands" were just a guy or two in a suit or a uniform bashing a keyboard or a kettle drum while shouting about how everybody was a sheep except THEM and how THEY were the chosen ones and everybody else was barely sentient zombies except THEM. I think all that crap they were being sold about being part of a very special "elite" is what brought a huge majority of them in, reinforced by extremely limited and hand-numbered album editions and the like, which added to the "kult" aspect of it all and is something that a very specific subtype of dudes just LOVES

Anyway, enough darkness and weirdness and noise, I'm going to finish this off with the super relaxing and soothing (for real) stuff I use for scripting/coding/level design/asking stupid technical questions on them here forums 

Hehehe if you looped the first 4 seconds of that last song you posted, you might have something I'd be interested in. I used to be into noise, powerviolence and death industrial when I was a goth who didn't want to be called a goth so I got into the most extreme sub-scene I could find I got out of there because it was so full of nazis, though... kind of like black metal but even more obvious because these dudes would straight up come out on stage dressed in uniform It was super gross (and the "music" wasn't that amazing tbh, most of it was ooooo look at meeee shock valueeee I have a bunch of WWII samples and a distooooortion peeeedal oooooo) and once I realized that it was pretty much a breeding ground for white supremacists and incels (what did we even call them back then? "Pathetic inbred losers"?), I was like I'm sooo outta here.

Sigh... we'll never be young again.

Artificial noise: Midnight Bazaar

I also highly recommend the cat purring machine from the same website author (Stéphane Pigeon, Ph.D.), or for the more musical inclined, the Sleeping Dragon.

The Sleeping Dragon is so cool! I can see myself swapping my white noise for this next time I want something soothing to fall asleep to

I get this feeling you could talk emphatically and at length about the nuances of black metal, which I have to say wins my award for most original skill of 2019. 

I mean... any metalhead WILL give you a three-hour lecture on the nuances and little details of their favourite sub-sub-sub-genre if you give them the chance. It's just the way it is

OK I'm listening to Blut Aus Nord now:

Non non non, erroné! I said "early" Blut Aus Nord. Here:

Like one commenter says, this is so out there that I'm not even sure it qualifies as metal anymore. Or music? But does it have to? ¯\_(ãƒ,,)_/¯

@notarobotyet do you like Emperor?

Not really, no. Those keyboards and the generally "epic" feel of their music never quite clicked with me... In general I prefer my black metal either rougher around the edges, like Darkthrone or Mayhem, or way more experimental and twisted like Dodecahedron or early Blut Aus Nord. Emperor are, like, too mainstream, man

Lol I only ask because I wouldn't be able to focus on anything (i.e. reading) if that were in my headphones, and if I walked around while listening to it I'd probably be in some headspace where death-staring everyone that goes by would seem appropriate. 

Funny, I find it to be great background music, to the point that sometimes I'll even put on something like this when I want to take a nap I guess it's such a pummeling wall of noise that at some point my brain just registers it as a drone!

Haha nice little diversion. Just out of curiosity - what do you do when you're listening to that music?

Snarl at everybody around me? Hahaha I don't know, that's a weird question! Same things I do when listening to other kinds of music, I guess... Browsing / reading stuff on the internet, working at the office, working out sometimes... It's not necessarily "angry music" for me, I just enjoy the sheer intensity of it (and in some cases, of course, also the actual musicianship, production, etc... those are the albums I enjoy listening to the most on my Good Headphones (tm) while taking a walk with no destination in mind or lying on the couch staring at the ceiling )