http://www.musicbanter.com/album-rev...ml#post1906146

That Mari Samuelsen album sounds beautifully cinematic by the way. I'll go pick it up.

Thanks for posting it, then :yeah:
I bookmark so much music every week that I often can't remember where I found it when I come back to listen to it properly.
I'm still behind on your journal, but I have been checking it out now and then. There's some interesting music in there.

While the album contains pieces by various composers, the mood of the track I posted is very much characteristic of the album as a whole. I really like it.

Some metal, +1 video of very much not metal.

ARKONA - V pogonie za beloj ten'yu
(From the upcoming album, Khram.)

One of my top 3 metal bands of all time are coming out with an album January 19th and it's a pretty promising single!
Curious to see how this album turns out, since they appear to have dropped the folk music and gone for a more black metal aesthetic this time around. The last album was one of the absolute best albums of 2014, so I'm pretty hyped about this one.

Dress The Dead - There Goes The Sun

I haven't actually heard about this group before. I saw a news story on some metal website about how they've just changed singers.
I like this track, so I would like to check out what else they've done.
This reminds me a bit of Kittie, of whom I'm a pretty big fan, believe it or not.
Weird band name by the way...

Helion Prime - Remnants of Stars

A band whose debut album I quite liked got a new singer last year. She's good - probably better, actually.
I hope they intend to record another album within a year or so.

T Square - Make Me A Star (full album)

I was introduced to T-Square's particular brand of cheese through my thread, "MicShazam listens to your recs".
Sadly, their albums are nearly ****ing impossible to find on CD, but Youtube has many of them lying around.
I like this. Sounds like someone put Japanese City Pop, video game music and Roxy Music in a blender.

I've had a lot of interesting albums to listen to lately, but I'm not sure I want to write any full reviews. Maybe I'll just end up posting a few select tracks from them, but for now, here's some more things I've been bumping into online lately. As always, I quite like all of it.

Cornelius - 『あなたがいるなら』"If You're Here"

Japanese pop, but of a very different kind than what usually escapes Japan. They basically seem to be keeping the good stuff under lock and key. I had to pry this from the cold, dead hands of some obscure webiste.

PERFECT BEINGS – Anunnaki - Patterns of Light

I'm not swinging by the record label InsideOut's Youtube channel so often, since progressive rock and metal isn't really my favorite thing ever, but they've got a few interesting things going on now and then. I like how this track sounds like it is influenced by modern prog-metal, without really being metal at all.

Vilde Frang - Etude in D-Flat Major Op. 8 No. 10 (Arr. Szigeti) (from the album Homage, 2017)

I'm slowly getting more into classical. I like the energy of this track and might get the album once a few more important ones are out of the way.


These next couple tracks are songs I've know for a long, long time. I listened to a lot of my old albums recently, digging deep into CD's that's been collecting dust for a while. Here's some of the things I re-connected with (warning: No MB credibility boosters here. On the contrary, in fact).

Kittie - Cut Throat


Grip Inc. - Rusty Nail


A Perfect Circle - Orestes


Guano Apes - This Time

On that very odd day that I feel like listening to Arch Enemy I'll just play a few songs from Rise of the Tyrant and be done with it. They're almost like the most inessential band that has ever been good.

Well, after the intro and first track to Rise of the Tyrant I'm pretty good for the next few years. Peace out, Arch Enemy.

That's fair enough, since most of their songs are a spin on the same idea anyway.

I had no idea Cornelius had a new album out! It's been forever. I love that guy.

I didn't even know he existed until earlier today, so I've got a few things to get familiar with.

His album Point is amazing. One of my favorite albums of the 00s.