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Hello, all. Here are my ten favorite albums so far:

1. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel
2. Siamese Dream, Smashing Pumpkins
3. The Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground
4. Colored Sands, Gorguts
5. Revolver, The Beatles
6. The Seer, Swans
7. Teens of Denial, Car Seat Headrest
8. Strange Days, The Doors
9. The Stranger, Billy Joel
10. Spiderland, Slint

I try to listen to a lot of genres. Right now I'm in a death metal phase. Some recent listens I enjoyed include Labyrinth Constellation, Artificial Brain, and Urraca, Sunless. I'm tackling some hip hop records next week, among them Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly and Nas's Illmatic.

If you have any recommendations, or would like any, let me know. I look forward to talking.

Welcome aboard! I dig Gorguts and Swans, and to lesser extent The Beatles and Slint. I also have had that Car Seat Headrest album for months but still haven't gotten around to listening to it. Nice to have a little overlap. :)

COLORED ****ING SANDS

You'll fit in here my dude

you've got some fine taste my man

Cool list

Ja Gorguts fans fit in nicely here.

Have you heard Ulcerate? Really unique atmosphere.

What death metal you listening to? I judge newbies by their ability to appreciate the sound of two dogs fighting in a blender, so dish.

A couple interesting notes about Car Seat Headrest, which might help explain why I like them so much. First, Will Toledo grew up in the same town in which I now live, and attended the same college a lot of my friends are attending. For his earlier albums, he often recorded overdriven vocals in his car at 3 a.m., in the parking lot of the Target I pass every day on my way to work. Second, Toledo and I are around the same age, meaning he grew up with a lot of the same mid-2000s pop I with which I grew up, and which my parents would often play in the car. For example, he alludes to "White Flag," by Dido, in one of his songs; while I hadn't heard that song in a while, it played an important role in my childhood.

So while the album is, indeed, great, with its wry lyrics, catchy hooks, and overall message, I have a number of other reasons to be attached to it.

Thank you. :)

I love Ulcerate; so far I've listened to Shrines of Paralysis and The Destroyers of All, and I plan to start Vermis any day now.

I've actually just gotten into death metal. Here are some albums, either death metal or similar, I've heard in the past couple weeks since my discovery:

Labyrinth Constellation, Artificial Brain
Urraca, Sunless
Unquestionable Presence, Atheist
Human, Symbolic, Death
The Jester Race, In Flames
Unortheta, Zhrine
Dasein, First Fragment
A Perfect Absolution, Gorod
Embers of a Dying World, Mors Principium Est
Mind Cemeteries, Coma Cluster Void
Starspawn, Blood Incantation
From Wisdom To Hate, Obscura, Pleiades' Dust, Colored Sands, Gorguts
The Destroyers of All, Shrines of Paralysis, Ulcerate
Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, Opeth
Cosmogenesis, Obscura
Epitaph, Onset of Putrefaction, Necrophagist
The Satanist, Behemoth
Victory Songs, Ensiferium
Jomsviking, Amon Amarth
Slaughter of the Soul, At The Gates
Destroy Erase Improve, Meshuggah

Besides death metal, I also enjoy Isis, as well as blackgaze acts like Sylvaine, Deafheaven, and Alcest. Converge are good, and I plan on giving Dillinger's Calculating Infinity a listen within the week. I've been wanting to listen to more black metal, too.

Good to see a fellow Coma Cluster Void fan.

Check this thread out for some BM
http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-meta...use-rules.html

OMG, so much to dish. First, since you said you're just starting out, I'm going to assume you're checking out **** scattershot and just give you some death metal nuggets for beginners (you're doing mad good already though, and please listen to Death's entire discography cause it's everything).

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Cryptopsy - None so Vile
Obituary - Cause of Death
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenfries
Possessed - Seven Churches
diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral

As far as black metal, this dude runs a black metal thread that you need in your life, but as far as the basics...

Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
Emperor - Into the Nightside Eclipse


And if you're thinking Converge and Dillinger Escape Plan, then I and Mondo Bungle are your source for metalcore and mathcore. We know all the **** that isn't Killswitch Engage. I've got a thread for it in my signature. Just, here...

Deadguy - Fixation on a Coworker
Arkangel - Dead Man Walking
Snapcase - Progression through Unlearning
Poison the Well - The Opposite of December
Unbroken - Life. Love. Regret.

Glad to have found so many people who like extreme, offbeat, or otherwise weird music as much as I do.

I'll definitely get around to as many of these as I can, which is probably all of them, within the next week or so. Thank you!
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I also wanted to ask: since I plan to review a lot of albums, is it possible I can start a journal before accruing 100 posts? I already have two reviews published on a blog I own, and would be happy to post them in my journal.

Reviews of mine generally fall under three categories: new, classic, and—to use metal parlance—exhumed, their rotting flesh on display for all to see. As an example of the latter, one of my reviews concerns a weird dark folk and hardcore punk crossover album from 2007, with fewer than a thousand listens on Spotify.

Others reviews I plan to write include The Underground Youth's Mademoiselle, a 2010 psych-pop album, and some 2017 releases: No Joy's Creep, Mors Principium Est's Embers of a Dying World, and Cloud Nothing's Life Without Sound.

In addition, I might post the occasional article about music—theory, practice, industry, etc. I have this crazy idea brewing in my head about death metal, The Beatles, and Friedrich Nietzsche's writings on Greek tragedy. I also might tear into specific pop songs I dislike, post album rankings—you get the idea.

Yeah, the limit is just for links. Even Youtube links work for you with the right tags. If you're wondering why it told you you had to wait when posting in the journal section, that's for everyone. There's a queue for posts there that must be approved by mods.

Finally, another Billy Joel fan. Welcome.

Oh, I haven't posted yet, but I'll definitely prime my journal in the queue now.

Thanks!

Too bad you're a Billy Joel fan, but it is what it is. We couldn't keep Pet Sounds out, and we certainly did try.

He's got some decent songs.

Pet Sounds? I didn't know he made music.

No I meant Astral Weeks.