The cycle begins anew!

 

Hello everyone and happy new year! As per tradition I'm writing my annual overview post, this time really late but hey, it's here! Hopefully everyone/anyone reading this blog had a manageable year with moderate ups and downs! My year was marked by a significant job change which made me a very busy boy but ultimately more happy. I still travel a lot and the job is very demanding so I don't have a lot of energy to spend on writing so the blog will continue with its slow pace.

Musically this year has been more or less the same as the last one when it comes to my own journey through it. I am focusing on clearing out my multiple backlog folders which have grown monstrously over the years. In 2023 I focused mainly on clearing out my backlog of black metal bands and I waded through so many shitty albums that I almost lost the interest in the genre as whole but I found a couple of gems as well which I'll  be sharing in the upcoming months (and years). I still have a ton of black metal to go through but I hope to diversify my genre interests to avoid burn out.

The year wasn't just old stuff tough, I did periodically check for new albums as well. The list is in three categories which are quite self explanatory and there is numeration this year but it should not be taken too seriously. Overall thoughts about the list you can find below it!

BLACK METAL:

1. Korgonthurus - Jumalhaaska
2. Arnaut Pavle - Transylvanian Glare : 
3. Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer II Mahapralaya
4. Clandestine Blaze - Resacralize The Unknown
5. Ŭkcheănsălâwit - Mjijaqamij
6. Kostnatění - Úpal
7. Maȟpíya Lúta - Wowahwala
8. Inherits the Void - The Impending Fall of the Stars
9. Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
10. Bethexuhl Anxalthan - S/T
11. Häxanu - Totenpass
12. Spirit Possession - Of the Sign
13. Ruïm - Black Royal Spiritism - I.O Sino da Igreja
14. Voidsphere - To Infect | to Inflict

15. Sól án varma - S/T

OTHER METAL: 

1. Ulthar - Helionomicon : 

2. VoidCeremony - Threads of Unknowing : 

3. Tetragrammacide - Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur'an

4. Suffocation - Hymns from the Apocrypha

5. Ulthar - Anthronomicon

6. Burial Hordes - Ruins

7. Tentacult - Lacerating Pattern

8. Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions

9. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit

10. Ascended Dead - Evenfall of the Apocalypse

NOT METAL:

1. Black Magick SS - Burning Bridges

2. Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz - Ex Machina

3. Colter Wall - Little Songs

4. Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra - Family

5. Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is A Junkyard 

I will have to pick a somewhat controversial band called Black Magick SS for my overall favorite release of the year. I don't wish to chip in my idea or opinion of what or who the band is, plenty of other people are doing it better than me, I just have to admit that their new album and pretty much the rest of their back catalog is some of the best music I've heard in general. On this album they intensified their direction into more electronic/groovy/disco sounds which I already enjoyed a fair bit on Rainbow Nights. If your personal compass allows it I would warmly recommend to check this band out! Another absolute highlight would be the magnificent album called Ex Machina by Steve Lehman in cooperation with Orchestre National de Jazz. It is the best jazz album from 2024 that I've managed to hear (so far anyway!) and it manages to be surprisingly memorable for an hour long experimental big band jig that it has. Some of the compositions and solos on it are brainbreakingly lovely. Only gripe I have is with the last composition which I found to be a pretty lackluster closer. Colter Wall continues to be my favorite modern country singer overall (not that I'm any authority over the genre) so anything new by him to me is good. If you like raspy country songs you should give it a try.

In the metal world I have to say that most of the black metal 2023 releases I heard were good but nothing truly exceptional or genre elevating to me. Korgonthurus, a band I discovered when their last album came out, put out a fantastic 4 track album with long soaring songs that sound great coupled with very piercing vocals done by Corvus who is best known for his work with Horna. I love his vocal sound so fucking much, thoroughly enjoyed the whole album multiple times. Probably the biggest surprise for me was the Arnaut Pavle album which I didn't think I would like at all (since I found their last and the demo really boring) but it turned out to be so much fucking fun to go through. Sure, it is mostly just Darkthrone worship but it is done so well and their dependency to pronounce those punk elements much more than Darkthrone ever did on their own albums makes it so fresh and energetic. So much soul on that one, absolutely love it. Thirdly I really appreciate the intricate structuring on the new Thy Darkened Shade album, a band that always rewarded repeated listens. Those three albums in my opinion are exceptional, each for a different reason, and the rest of my black metal list is populated with great albums but... you know... you can live without them. I still think they are deserving of a listen even if just for a few songs.

In my category of other metal I have to say the biggest amount of fun I had was with the Helionomicon album from Ulthar. Initially I was reluctant to even try it especially since it's a double-but-not-really-a-double album but I gave it a shot during one of my lengthy drives on the highway and I loved it. Compared to the other one, Anthronomicon, it is more adventurous and more intense in the guitar solo parts. I think they're both great but Helio wins overall. Void Ceremony is another band where I didn't like the first album but enjoyed their second (this one) a lot. Angular, intricate and old school album that does not overstay its welcome. On the third spot is a surprising entry for me that came out of nowhere. I was familiar with them but their previous albums were very unapproachable in terms of production. This time around they gave the sound a different approach and it is indeed pulverizing albeit accessible. Of all the actual old school death metal bands Suffocation really surprised me with how good they sound. It seems like they revitalized themselves after Frank finally decided to leave the band. The last good one (in my opinion at least) album they did was Pinnacle of Bedlam and at long last came another album that I can enjoy from front to back.

That's pretty much it for 2023! As I mentioned before I didn't follow 2023 with much diligence so I'm probably missing a lot of good stuff that came out. The good news is that those undiscovered albums aren't going anywhere and I'll stumble upon them eventually!

Cheers to everyone again and happy new year!

End of one year and start of another one!

Hello everyone and happy new year!

I hope everyone is alright and that the year of 2022 was decent enough for you. For me it was mainly alright and with a lot of traveling as was the case for the last few as well.

Perhaps the biggest thing that marked this year for me was the passing of my grandfather who was a major influence to me in a lot ways especially in music. I don't think I would ever be that much into jazz if it weren't for him. Although someone passing is always a sad affair he was 94 years old at the time so it's not like we didn't have enough time with him and he was getting tired of life anyway. Especially after his wife passed away. "After you hit 80 you should just be taken outside and shot in the back of your head." is what he would say (half jokingly) whenever we would have to drive him to the doctor. While I already did share a lot of artists that I'm listening to specifically due to his influence (Bix Beiderbecke, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong etc.) there are still some artists I haven't reflected on and I hope to in the following years.

The blog, as usual, isn't as active as it was in its heyday of sharing but I hope to pop in and share stuff when I get the time and inspiration.

Unfortunately I recently suffered a ruptured eardrum so listening to music has been particularly hard this past month or so but I should get into surgery to get that fixed hopefully relatively soon. I might actually focus more on some reading in the meantime or something...I don't know. We'll see how it goes!

2022 IN MUSIC

Musically I'd say this year was pretty good. I can't really say I was amazed by a lot of albums but the output was pretty good overall. Obviously I was looking forward to new Deathspell Omega but in the end it left a fairly lukewarm impression on me. I am looking forward to studying the lyrics a bit more in depth as I hear from others they're a good read. A lot of good jazz came out this year, most notably for me the Sun Ra Arkestra put out a fantastic album that I revisited a lot this year.

My list is in alphabetical order but the bolded albums are my favorites. Hope you will find something you like!

BLACK METAL

Acherontas - Malocchio - The Seven Tongues Of Ahmon [bandcamp, youtube]
Aerdryk - Met De Drietand Op Mijn Huid [bandcamp, youtube]

Bekëth Nexëhmü - De Evigas Gravrit [bandcamp, youtube]

Bhleg - Fäghring [bandcamp, youtube]

Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium [bandcamp, youtube]

Coscradh - Nahanagan Stadial [bandcamp, youtube]

Dark Funeral - We Are The Apocalypse [spotify, youtube]

Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat [spotify, youtube]

Doldrum - The Knocking, Or The Story Of The Sound That Preceded Their Disappearance [bandcamp, youtube]

Drudkh - All Belong to the Night [bandcamp, youtube]

Falls Of Rauros - Key to a Vanishing Future [bandcamp, youtube]

Gevurah - Gehinnom [bandcamp, youtube]

Gnipahålan - I Nordisk Vredeslusta [bandcamp, youtube]

Hate Forest - Innermost [youtube]

Häxenzijrkell - Urgrund [bandcamp, youtube]

Kathaaria - To be Shunned by All... as Centres of Pestilence [bandcamp, youtube]

Krallice - Psychagogue [bandcamp, youtube]

Medieval Demon - Black Coven [bandcamp, youtube]

Misþyrming - Með hamri [bandcamp, youtube]

Mortuus - Diablerie [bandcamp, youtube]

Nokturnal Mortum - To Lunar Poetry [youtube]

Nocturnal Triumph - Nocturnal Triumph [bandcamp, youtube]

Swampborn - Beyond Ratio [bandcamp, youtube]

Ultha - All that has Never been True [bandcamp, youtube]

Vehemence - Ordalies [bandcamp, youtube]

White Ward - False Light [bandcamp, youtube]

Ymir - Aeons of Sorrow [bandcamp, youtube]

OTHER METAL

Altars - Ascetic Reflection [bandcamp, youtube]

Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain [bandcamp, youtube]

Brii - Corpos Transparentes [bandcamp, youtube]

Conan - Evidence Of Immortality [bandcamp, youtube]

Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World [bandcamp, youtube]

Elder - Innate Passage [bandcamp, youtube]

Faceless Burial - At The Foothills Of Deliration [bandcamp, youtube]

Hissing - Hypervirulence Architecture [bandcamp, youtube]

Immolation - Acts Of God [bandcamp, youtube]

Luminous Vault - Animate The Emptiness [bandcamp, youtube]

Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity [bandcamp, youtube]

Ripped to Shreds - Jubian [bandcamp, youtube]

Scumslaught - Knives and Amphetamines [bandcamp, youtube]

Sedimentum - Suppuration Morphogénésiaque [bandcamp, youtube]

Sumerlands - Dreamkiller [bandcamp, youtube]

Triumvir Foul - Onslaught To Seraphim [bandcamp, youtube]

UIV - Frigus [bandcamp, youtube]

Wormrot - Hiss [bandcamp, youtube]

NOT METAL

Akira Sakata & Takeo Moriyama - Mitochondria [bandcamp]

Alvvays - Blue Rev [bandcamp, spotify]

Cecil Taylor - Respiration (1968) [bandcamp]

Chip Wickham - Astral Traveling [bandcamp, youtube]

Connie Han - Secrets Of Inanna [bandcamp, youtube]

Gard Nilssen - Elastic Wave [spotify]

Horace Tapscott - The Quintet (1969) [bandcamp]

Jasmine Myra - Horizons [bandcamp, youtube]

Keith Jarrett - Bordeaux Concert (2016) [spotify]

Mark Guiliana - The Sound Of Listening [bandcamp]

Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky [bandcamp]

Tigran Hamasyan - StandArt [bandcamp]

2022 albums so far!

I thought I'd make a half-year mark round up or something for all 2 of you who are still reading this blog!

Boris - W & Heavy Rocks 2022 

To be honest my love for Boris has died out quite significantly over the years. When they released the second Heavy Rocks (a long ass time ago) things kinda went downhill for me. They never really released anything interesting (to me) for a good while - Heavy Rocks II included. There were some releases I've liked since then like Love/Evol (most of it anyways), Live Dear album (the studio one was fucking atrocious to me) and maybe a few other things I can't remember off the top of my head but the year 2022 has brought us two albums from Boris so far and I've been enjoying both!

W is apparently a continuation of NO that came out in 2020 but it bears little resemblance to it. It's experimental, it's weird and it's very Wata in nature. Feedback, noise and so on. The album as a whole I liked it a lot but some songs (like the single with the music video) weren't that interesting and went nowhere. More recently they also released another Heavy Rocks iteration (sequel?) or whatever they consider it to be. This time around the band is more in their rock out mode but I'm happy to report that it's also experimental and weird at times. I was afraid it'll just be some generic uninspired stoner rock garbage but it has a lot stuff going for it. The riffs are good, there's also saxophones every now and again which bring the fury and intensity of the songs to a new level. All in all good stuff. Now that they did an experimental album and a solid rock album, I really wish they'd do a single song album. They haven't done something like that in a really long time and I think they can still do it imaginatively (assuming we ignore those three "single noise track" garbage albums they put out).

White Ward - False Light

These guys have been around for a while now and I was aware of them since the time they released their first full length but I never really cared much for them. This year they released their third full length and I've been enjoying it quite a bit. If I had to describe it in a convoluted and old&jaded perspective I would say it is a mix of Bohren & Der Club of Gore ambient passages with your good old hipster-ish black metal. There are some other influences here as well, so much so that they don't really sound as your standard black metal fare with just some gimmick attached to it. It's a cohesive work with all parts having some meaning but no all the time as some of the ambient passages don't really fit well in my opinion making the pacing of the album not really that great. A good chunk of it is great tho!

Vio-Lence - Let The World Burn

Hell yeah man! Vio-lence is back for some strange reason. While not as good as they were back in their prime years these dudes still can play and with this release they don't mess around. To their credit the album is not bogged down with a bunch of filler stuff. It is 24 glorious minutes of thrash that hits you right in the face!

Luminous Vault - Animate the Emptiness

Sadly I didn't enjoy the new Artificial Brain as much as I wanted to or anticipated to but this one was pretty fucking great. It's different, it's strange and it's obviously not Artificial Brain (not even close) but it does contain their bassist in this along with one more dude that's just in this. So this duo I guess is more of a passion project it seems. Vocals feel a bit out of place but everything else is pretty great.  Some kind of industrial death metal hybrid or whatever. I don't really know where to place this in my head.

Wormrot - Hiss

Hey! These guys! I played their debut so many times when it came out that I never really cared about their output afterwards. I do remember checking out Voices but apparently I don't remember anything aside from the fact that I listened to it. So I don't really know how different this is from their last but I like this one! A lot of the songs on this album try for something. They try to be different, it's not some amorphous mass of distortion and yelling but every song seems like they wanted to try something out. It's a collage of ideas and approaches and it feels very fresh to me. 

Häxenzijrkell - Urgrund

This is a German black metal band that I've discovered recently by accident. This is their second album and it's more of a continuation or refinement of what they did on the first album. Chances are you'll like both of the albums if you've heard either one. They play a droney, doomy and reverby black metal. It's slow and it's meditative, passages are often broken up with sampled German dialogues from movies (about witches I assume). I wish there would be less of it but I guess the band really wants them in there so I guess we'll just have to deal with it. All of their output is great, this album just being the tip of the iceberg.

Lifvsleda - Sepulkral dedikation

'ey kids ya want some good old fashioned black metal without any pretenses to anything else? If so then check this album out. Solid, traditional stuff that's filled with good riffs and blasts. Keeping the flame and yadda yadda

Ultha - All That Has Never Been True

As with White Ward this band has been on my radar for a long ass while but I never really liked any of their albums so much that I would want to recommend or talk about them. This time they hit the spot for me as the band made a pretty interesting mixture of underlying synths and their brand of (post)black metal. It has this irresistible dreamy quality to it that I just can't stop thinking about. Love it.

Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat

I knew DsO were gonna release something this year but I did not expect it to arrive so early in the year (usually they drop stuff around october). This was supposed to be something different from their previous albums but... eh. Not really? I mean it is different but not by a lot. It's competently done and I really liked that prolonged self indulgent guitar solo but as with Furnaces I just can't seem to care about the album as a whole. At least I can remember listening to this one - unlike Furnaces. I hope next one will be something better and more adventurous.

Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World

I've liked all Desolate Shire albums so far. Massive, heavy and slow death metal from Finland. If you liked their previous albums chances are you will also like this. Don't expect for this album to win you over if you didn't care much for them before tho!

Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero

Ah yes, the kings of pretentiousness released an ambient album with much fanfare and acting like it's some profound open minded album. I... like it a lot. I don't know what the deal with these guys is because they seem to be deliberate assholes in all interviews/blurbs (maybe as a joke?) but the music they make is pretty good. I think, so far, this is my favorite album of the year. Both tracks are amazing, soothing space ambient akin to olden synth ambient albums from the 70s. If you know about this and want more, one of the guys from Blood Incantation has a side project called Hoverkraft which is similar to this album so check that also out!

KeyMage - Tower's Key

I have no idea why I like this but I do. I don't really know what to say about it. It's strange but I can't stop listening to it. It's really jarring and uncomfortable but great. Can't get it out of my head.

Immolation - Acts of God 

Album prior to this one I really could not care less about but this time Immolation made an album that I return to whenever I just want to listen to some quality death metal without any gimmicks attached. It's nothing revolutionary, Immolation sticks to their guns pretty closely on all albums but this album just flows so well and all the songs are pretty good riff-wise.

Conan - Evidence of Immortality

Conan for me was on a lousy streak with previous two albums. I felt like they ran out of ideas and introduced some elements to their songs that didn't much jive with me. This new album is a return to form but with added experience from those last two outings. Massive album and very fun to listen.

That's it for now! I could name a few others but they don't really stick with me that much. We still have plenty of time for more interesting albums this year. Fingers crossed!

End of 2021 and start of 2022!

Holy shit, it's over already. Can someone please stop time? It seems like whoever is driving time has passed the speed limit a long while ago!

The world seems to have stopped at around 2019 tho and history repeats in a sense that I managed to get covid a second time almost exactly a year from the last time! While last time it was't really a joking ordeal (had a 3 month sick leave) this time around I got over it in like a day or two but I'm still in isolation. Isolation is actually pretty nice this time of year since it is too cold to be outside anyway and I was getting tired of my endless treks across Europe. With new year comes new hopes but dressed in old rags. This time it will be different! I doubt it but maybe something changes.

The year 2021 in music to me has been pretty uneventful for the most part. The biggest discovery that I had was Keith Jarrett and his solo piano performances. Yeah I know he's pretty well known but I never got around to his music before and I can honestly say that his solo piano concerts really live up to the hype. That is if you enjoy listening to one lone dude hammering on a piano for an hour. 

Anything else? Let's see... Well metal had a couple of good releases that I liked. Warloghe released an album but can it count as new? It really is just a bunch of songs they wrote 10 years ago but never recorded. Despite that it still is my fabled album of the year. I love how it sounds and the feeling I get when I listen to it is the feeling of helpless decay. Absolutely marvelous. Moving past the metal cavemen I would also like to mention King Gizzards album from the year and that one saw a lot of rotation during my long waits at airports or transports. Another not metal release that I adored is the collaborative effort between Evan Parker and some new-ish kids on the block. A really solid and intense live performance that we are lucky to be able to witness in recording at least.

That's it - pretty much. Brief much like the post number for 2021. This year maybe more maybe less - who knows? I have like a week more of isolation so I hope to drum up some more posts. I do have a couple albums I wanna talk to about with the abyss of the internet. In any case - here's the list:

METAL:

01 - Warloghe - Three Angled Void

02 - Lvcifyre - The Broken Seal

03 - Clandestine Blaze - Secrets of Laceration : 

04 - Korgonthurus - XX

05 - Alda - A Distant Fire : 

06 - ЛЕШИЙ - ПОГАНЫЕ СНЫ

07 - Silvanthrone - Forbidden Pathways to Ancient Wisdom : 

08 - Voidsphere - To Overtake | To Overcome : 

09 - Warmoon Lord - Battlespells

10 - Frozen Flesh Order - Extra Terrestrial Terrorism

NOT-METAL:

01 - Natural Information Society with Evan Parker - descension(Out Of Our Constrictions)

02 - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

03 - DJ PoolBoi - Rarities EP

04 - A Victory For The Sullen - Invisible Cities

05 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!

06 - Chris Potter - Sunrise Reprise

07 - Toumani Diabaté & London Symphony Orchestra - Kôrôlén

08 - Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

09 - Serena Gabriel Featuring Steve Roach - Seeing Inside

10 - Menagerie - Many Worlds

TOP DISAPPOINTMENTS (THAT I MIGHT ENJOY IN A FEW YEARS/DECADES):

01 - Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

02 - Paysage d'Hiver - Geister

03 - Funeral Mist - Deiform

04 - Phrenelith - Chimaera

05 - Hyperdontia - Hideous Entity

TOP EARWORMS:

01 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Shanghai

02 - dj poolboi - i don't really mind (feat. Su Lee)

03 - Only Fire - SEKTAŠICA (REMIX) [BRAK NA NEVIĐENO]

04 - placeboing - DOOR STUCK remix

05 - Target Demographic - Start Again

Be safe out there and happy late new year everyone!

Reuploading old(er) requests.

Hello everyone! Second post this year and already more than half of the year is gone!

Time certainly flies when one gets older (pushing 31 this year) and busy with traveling around (my work is mostly unaffected by traveling restrictions).

Since a couple of requested mounted over the months I've decided to make it a little special this time around in the sense that since most of these are super old posts I will reflect upon them in chronological order of requests. You can find fresh links in the original posts.

Piana - Ephermal

Original post here.

Oh God I was 17 when I posted this. Naturally I did not have much to say about it because (if memory serves) I was discovering a lot of new musical directions and styles in those days. I got fed up with metal which was my primary diet up until that year or somewhere around it. Synth pop this definitely is not but very relaxing it definitely still is. 

The vocals, today, are a bit too high pitched for me to enjoy them fully. There are several layers of electronic and ambient music going on in the background with Piana's voice kicking in every now and then but never sticking around for too long. Short clean verses and melancholic passages. I probably spent a lot of time listening to this on the bus going home after school.

I never listen to this anymore, last time I gave it a listen it was in 2017 and that was just going through one album. Before that I was listening to it in 2010 on a more frequent basis. My interest in Piana obviously faded away but relistening to it now I can say that I still like it but does not captivate me as much as I it did before. Some of the layering can be a bit too much in certain songs. It definitely is, as mentioned in the original post, music for sunsets in autumn.

Hako Yamazaki - ハコのお箱

Original post here.

I still very much like Yamazakis music. In my pantheon of female Japanese vocalists she firmly holds the third place being behind only Morita Douji and Meiko Kaji.

Yamazakis best period is definitely during the 70s but she continued to be a very productive person throughout her career that went well into the 2000s. This isn't exactly an album of new songs but is rather a collection of her older songs reimagined by herself.

In my original post I was 19 at the time and I was most likely really fucking bummed out about being absolutely terrible in college. So depressing folk music that I can't understand definitely made me feel good. My guesses about the context of this release was on point despite not doing much research about it.

Today I rarely visit this album but I really should. Even though the songs aren't new they have a new approach that I'm liking a lot. Most of them are stripped down and vocals are more cleaner in production. Perhaps a bit too sterile on some tracks but overall really good stuff for the most part.

Ralfi Pagan - The Legend

Original post here.

Ah yes the sensual sound of a latino lover. I discovered this guy while at the age of 28 and I remember that year I was generally discovering latin and salsa music. Something I liked to avoid because my dad was really into it; he still is. Ralfi dude isn't very known or popular or very original but he does have a really good voice that I like a lot. His voice is quite feminine and music accentuates this a lot by being mostly slow love songs. This is great if you're in the mood for it but objectively nothing particular. Make It With You is the song that made me interested in him so you might also start from there (the song is linked in the original post).

Bix Beiderbecke - Anthology

Original post here.

Another post from 2018! The person commenting actually said it best so let me quote:

I find a lot of jazz of this period rather timeless even with the very primitive recording tech.

This pretty much sums up my opinion of Bix and the 20s-30s era in general as well. Jazz went on to evolve into many interesting forms but there is certainly something special and unique in dixieland jazz that will never be replicated again. Not in my lifetime at least.

And that's it! Sorry for not reuploading sooner. I read all of the comments and I do feel bad about not reuploading sooner but it is what it is. Some things never change.

I have a huge multi part post in the making for a while now, I hope to finish it this year. It's going to be a thorough look at one of my favorite (active) bands. But who knows when it will be don. I hope to do some shorter shares in the meantime. No promises!

Stay safe everyone and see you around!

End of 2020!

 Hello friends,

it has definitely been way too long since I made any meaningful posts but despite the silence I still wanna make my annual end of the year post. Even with all of the ruckus with the virus and everything I spent most of my year in travel. My work is now such that I travel all over Europe visiting port cities and doing my thing at shipyards (service of particular electrical systems on vessels of all kinds). I enjoy my job and I enjoy the travel, even the restrictions made the travel more enjoyable as there are less lines at the airports. But with good things also came the bad as I did eventually contract the virus. As luck would have it I got it somewhere during my last return trip of the year so I'm spending the holidays in isolation with relatively mild symptoms.

On a brighter side Spotify came to Croatia finally this year. It's a platform that I never paid much attention to as most of the music I listen is from files on my PC but a friend of mine gifted me a spot on his premium package and I've been enjoying it a lot and I listened to much more music this year than compared to previous two years combined almost (lowest playcounts of all time for me according to lastfm were past two years). Generally I stuck to what I knew but I did discover a couple of albums that I want to share and also a couple of Sun Ra albums as well. I just have to sit down and actually post them. With that in mind and now that I'm more accustomed to my work (ie it's less stressful now) I should be able to write more. But you know how it goes already - no promises. :)

2020 in music

As usual at the end of this post you will find all of the albums I've liked from this year. I didn't go too much in depth for this year, most of this stuff I heard by word of mouth or I already followed these bands from before. If I had to pick a definite favorite then I would pick the new Havukruunu album. For my taste it is maybe too happy but somehow all of it fits together so well. It's grand and it's majestic but I love it, sounds very sincere. It feels like they finally nailed the sound that they wanted to do all along. A couple of more favorites from the list would be the new Korgonthurus (very good traditional black metal with fantastic pained screaming vocals), Nimbifer (only a demo but very concise and promising, all of their stuff so far has been great), Slift (stoner is not a genre I often visit but this one felt super fresh and fun) and Sweven (ex Morbus Chron) made a very melancholic and beautiful album that sounds to me like the whole thing is one long song.

While most of my listening this year was dedicated to metal music I did hear a couple of albums from other genres. Most notably the Sun Ra Arkestra led by Marshall Allen has released their first album after more than two decades of silence. It is much more vocal focus than I would like and most of the songs are interpretations of old material but all of it is quite good. Standout tracks for me are obviously the new ones written by Marshall. I was worried it might be too normal but weirdness starts around the middle and it was a warm reminder that they don't fuck around when free improvisation is concerned. Aside from Ra I also really liked the Black Magick SS album, some folks are avoiding it out of political ideology and I have no problem with that but I like it (sans potential nazi ideology). I think it's a fantastic little album that is pushing the ideas and styles brought on their last two albums. The synths are super strong on it and the pink is more than justified in terms of tones. I didn't like it at all when I first heard it but it crept back on to me one song at a time.

Another notable event for me in music was that I managed to attend the Im Wald "private" premiere of the album in Switzerland. It definitely was an interesting experience even if it "just" was listening to black metal with strangers. This was my first time in Switzerland and I absolutely adore the country, I wanna go back there for some holidays again. The moment I saw the forests and mountains and the small town where he lives - all of his music I've been listening to years and years clicked instantaneously. The albums itself is... alright? Generally it's pretty good but I think it's bloated, a lot of fat could be trimmed and nothing would change. It was nice seeing that the guy behind Paysage d'Hiver genuinely enjoys the music he makes and is generally a very loveable and down to earth guy so in a way I can excuse the self indulged time length purely because of his personality. Attending that event was definitely an experience I will cherish for the rest of my life. I was pretty sad that the album got leaked beforehand as it hurt the guy pretty badly (from what I could tell from his posts) but also surprised it took a lot of time to leak. In the end it all turned out ok, a lot of people bought and loved the album.

With all that out of the way here are all the albums I've liked in alphabetical order:

Black & Death metal:

Abigor - Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)
Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
Akantha / Hajduk /Nimbifer / Sørgelig - Ruins of Humanity
Arkhtinn - Astrophobia (split w Starless Domain)
Ars Magna Umbrae - Apotheosis
Awenden - Golden Hour
Battle Dagorath - Abyss Horizons
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Bone Awl - An Obelisk Marks The Line
Cemetery Filth - Dominion
Dearth - To Crown All Befoulment
Faidra - Six Voices Inside
Fluisteraars - Bloem
Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
Inquisition - Black Mass for a Mass Grave
Invincible Force - Decomposed Sacramentum
Khors - Where the Word Acquires Eternity
Korgonthurus - Kuolleestasyntynyt
Malicious - Deranged Hexes
Mystras - Castles Conquered And Reclaimed
Nimbifer - Demo II
Obsidian Tongue - Volume III
Omegavortex - Black Abomination Spawn
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
Ossaert - Bedehuis
Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald
Perdition Temple - Sacraments of Descension
Porta Nigra - Schöpfungswut
Precambrian - Tectonics
Putrid - Antichrist Above
Serment - Chante- Ô Flamme de la Liberté
Skáphe - Skáphe 3
Spectral Lore & Mare Cognitum - Wanderers Astrology Of The Nine
Svrm - Занепад
Sweven - The Eternal Resonance
Titaan - Itima
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
Voidsphere - To Sense|To Perceive
Warp Chamber - Implements Of Excruciation
Yaldabaoth - That Which Whets the Saccharine Palate
Ygg - The Last Scald

Everything else:

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Good Luck Everybody
Black Magick SS - Rainbow Nights
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Patchouli Blue
Boris - NO
Botanist - Photosynthesis
DJ Poolboi - it's good to hear your voice
Elder - Omens
Hail Spirit Noir - Eden in Reverse
Haunt - Mind Freeze
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids- Shaman!
Lychgate - Also Sprach Futura
Mamaleek - Come & See
Midnight Odyssey - Ruins of a Celestial Fire
Slift - Ummon
Sun Ra Arkestra - Swirling

That's it for 2020! See you all next time and happy new year!

10 years!

Lay your heart 

Lay your soul 

Upon my magic carpet 

Now we are flying 

To Venus just to kill some time for tea OK

It has been a while in more than one way. This year the blog gets to be ten years old! So far it has been quite a journey. From the popular days when it would get +500 views per day to a much, much quieter days now when a handful of people visit it weekly. From the merry days of rapidshare and megaupload to hard times of file hosting purges and scarcities. We've been through a lot and times have changed, unseen friends, but this blog did not. For better or worse the format stayed the same. I have things I wanna type about so here they are.

THE PAST

I started Flying Teapot in high school when I was 17, back in 2008. Previously I was a part o a few other attempts at blogging mostly with school friends. I had a rant-esque blog that I co-wrote with a friend (it's in Croatian and it was still up last time I checked, it's full of angsty teen rants) and a shareblog called vndrgrvnd, which is still up for some reason, that I ran for a brief time with my then very close friend Zmaj and another friend. And then there's Terror Noise Audio, a blog I still kinda neglect all the time for no apparent reason.

Flying Teapot was all mine though, from beginning to now. I wanted a place where I would give back to the community, I was leech before (a dead term by now I think?) and I wanted to atone for my leeching sins. Endless opposites and experimentation ensued. Most of them half baked or never finished (or even started). I was tempted at times to introduce other authors (back when it was cool to do it and back when people actually asked me if they could join) but now I'm glad this remained solely a one person effort. This I don't mean in a ego kind of way (none of this is intentionally self indulgent) but more in a way that it slowly because of that this became an indirect historical record of my life. A companion piece to another historical archive of my listening habits on last.fm which predates all of my other internet presences. Scrolling through my previous posts memories often come flooding back, remembrance of various phases I had with music, film and art in general. It also allows me in a way to explore how I thought of certain topics even if my opinions were cringy at times or badly written. I can also read through my posts and remember how I felt at particular times; where I was then both mentally and physically. A lot of posts during my college years (which took forever by the way) have a very distinct feeling of melancholy, depression and lethargy. I hated myself during that period (in a not very apparent or original way, I just drank a lot and did stupid shit) mostly for just coming to terms that I'm studying something I'm not really good at or actually talented at all for. Lethargy is still a very detrimental and auto destructive issue that I have which after college started impairing my working abilities. No idea as of yet how to get over it. But that's how it goes for most people and I learned to live with it for now anyway. But not everything here is so somber, plenty of posts ooze with relief and happiness (all Sun Ra posts were obviously made when I was in a great mood). I don't know why I'm writing about this now, I just think it's interesting.

THE PRESENT

I'm not a very active community user but it seems to me that these, more personal, types of blogs have slowly died away. More convenient methods of sharing came about. Youtube, spotify, bandcamp, streaming in general came along and made everything more easier (good thing!). There are hundreds of specialized channels, sites etc. that curate excellent niche or known music. Nothing is obscure anymore, you can go on forever following youtube generated suggestions. There are some downsides though. I'm saddened that blogs pretty much became just a utilitarian cover+short info+tracklist+link affair while before there was always a balance between that kind and this kind of blogs. The community part is either gone or relegated to something faster (discord etc.). I miss when people would write about the music they are sharing. Reading short stories about people's experiences with music, their descriptions of unknown bands, amateur anthropology! Back in the "good old days" there were a lot of interesting people sharing interesting music from their own carefully curated collection. You could talk to them in the comments, you would exchange information and pass on other good blogs that each found. I feel like a good chunk of that is missing now, overtaken by sheer accessibility. Is blogging dead? I don't know but no matter how long my periods of inactivity are I still don't consider shutting this blog down for good. Every once in a while a stream of energy hits me and I feel I could go on for days just talking about and sharing music shooing away my lethargy demon. Maybe one day it will morph into something completely else.

THE FUTURE

So now where does this leave Flying Teapot? I'm not really sure, my tastes have become much more conventional over the years. I'm slowly getting back to where I started. Old post bop and black/death metal, with occasional brief forays into other genres. I now have a sizable physical collection so that I don't even need to turn on the PC to listen to my favorite albums. I often feel like I don't have anything interesting or worthy to share that hasn't been shared before somewhere else. I don't have the pulse on the vein (maybe I never had). I stopped watching movies and I don't read manga anymore. I read books but boring ones. Autobiographies, biographies, history, classics, vapid fantasy and sci-fi. Nothing really captivating or worth talking about for the tenth time. I became a boring, safe person haha. Maybe I ran out of things that I wanna talk about? I don't know, I'll just have to figure it out as time goes. See you at the twentieth anniversary and thanks for being around!

I still miss my old dog. I'll never forget you. You meant much.

It's the end of the year as we know it!

Hey it's that time of the year when there is no more time!

While I realize that I've been slacking around with the blog (for several years by this point) I  did manage to do a few things in the outside world this year. I wrote a scientific paper and did a lecture on it. I have it in PDF so I might share it (it's nothing spectacular and honestly not that interesting) but for now I don't think I will due to it having my actual name and surname on it. Maybe when I get more comfortable with sharing my personal details on the internet. I also got a job in designing electrical systems for industrial projects. It's demanding, nihilistic but ultimately interesting to do (for now at least) so the past year I've been busy improving my knowledge in engineering. And that's pretty much what I've been doing in those post-less months this year.

Aside from personal things I've decided to kickstart Terror Noise Audio again as my interest in noise and experimental music has resurfaced on a large scale recently. I've been slowly accumulating interesting albums which I intend to share as much as I can on there and hopefully expand the blog into areas of free jazz, free improv and musique concrete. For now I only did like five releases but I have at least 20 prepared to upload and post. This also extends to FT; I've been busy writing and discovering interesting jazz and highlife albums which I intend to post as soon as I get a bit more time to just sit down, listen to it and write things out. My upload speeds are still from the stone age so I can't just sit down and upload 20 albums in an hour.

I've been thinking about making posts more frequent and less reliant on my personal thoughts/writings. I intend to make these short, brief posts of recent (several) discoveries. Those posts will be interwoven with my usual more thought out posts.

That's all the news I have.

Happy new year everybody and have a good time celebrating it!

And as usual, here's a list of albums from 2016 that I've liked:

Metal:

Altarage - NIHL
Arkhtinn - II
Ash Borer - The Irrepassable Gate
Battle Dagorath - I - Dark Dragons Of The Cosmos
Behexen - The Poisonous Path
Bekëth Nexëhmü - De Glömdas Ursjälar
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Caveman Cult - Savage War Is Destiny
Celestial Grave - Burial Ground Trance
Cénotaphe - La Larve Exulte
Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule
Circle of Salt & Taggarik - Split
Conan - Revengeance
Cult Of Fire - Life, Sex & Death
Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign
Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
Death Fortress - Deathless March Of The Unyielding
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Deströyer 666 - Wildfire
Drudkh / Grift - Betrayed By The Sun / Hägringar
Ellende - Todbringer
Endlichkeit - Teile I-XIII
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
Gevurah - Hallelujah!
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
Howls Of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows
Irkallian Oracle - Apollyon
Krypts - Remnants of Expansion
Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
Mare Cognitum / Aureole - Resonance: Crimson Void
Martröð - Transmutation of Wounds
Naðra - Allir Vegir Til Glötunar
Red Fang - Only Ghosts
Ritual Death - Ritual Death
Saor - Guardians
Schattenvald - Der Winterkönig
Skáphe - Skáphe²
Sol Sistere - Unfading Incorporeal Vacuum
Sun Worship - Pale Dawn
Throane - Derrière-nous, la lumière
Time Lurker - I
True Black Dawn - Come the Colorless Dawn
UADA - Devoid of Light
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
Urzeit - Anmoksha
Ustalost - The Spoor of Vipers
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Vintrü - Libération
Void Omnia - Dying Light
Waldgeflüster - Ruinen
Zealotry - The Last Witness
Zhrine - Unortheta
Ересь - Жестокосердие

Other:

Airbag - Disconnected
Alcest - Kodama
Aluk Todolo - Voix
American Football - American Football (LP2)
Bat For Lashes - The Bride
Ben Wendel - What We Bring
clipping. - Wriggle EP
Dinosaur Jr. - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
Genocide Organ - Obituary Of The Americas
Henri Texier - Sky Dancers
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - We Be All Afrikans
Jack DeJohnette - In Movement
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Noname - Telefone
Rome - The Hyperion Machine
Shabaka And The Ancestors - Wisdom of Elders
Swans - The Glowing Man
Vangelis - Rosetta
Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music
Weekend Nachos - Apology

End of the year!

Hello and welcome to the end of the world year!

I don't have anything particular to say this year other than it has been interesting, frustrating and I'm always tired. I also have a suspicion that the next one might be the same.

Have fun in the next one everyone!

Oh and here's a list of 2015 albums that I enjoyed. They're not a "best of" list, it's just albums that I liked from 2015 divided into two categories.

Metal:
A Diadem of Dead Stars - The Mist Bearer pt. II
Abhorrent - Intransigence
Acherontas - Ma-IoN (Formulas Of Reptilian Unification)
Acherontas & Horna - Atavistic Resurgence
Acid King - Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere
Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
Akhlys - The Dreaming I
Alda - Passage
Awe - Providentia
Barshasketh - Ophidian Henosis
Batushka - Litourgiya
Blaze of Perdition - Near Death Revelations
Blood Incantation - Interdimensional Extinction
BORIS+ENDON - Eros
Clandestine Blaze - New Golgotha Rising
Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages
Crypt Sermon - Out Of The Garden
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Stellar
Desolate Shrine - Heart of the Netherworld
Devouring Star - Through Lung And Heart
Djevel - Saa Raa og Kald
Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
Drudkh - A Furrow Cut Short
Egypt - Endless Flight
Elder - Lore
Gorod - A Maze of Recycled Creeds
Gruesome - Savage Land
Havukruunu - Havulinnaan
Helrunar - Niederkunfft
High on Fire - Luminiferous
Horna - Hengen Tulet
Horrendous - Anareta
Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods
Irreversible Mechanism - Infinite Fields
Kampfar - Profan
Katavasia - Sacrilegious Testament
Khors - Night Falls Onto The Fronts Of Ours
Krallice - Ygg Huur
Kronos - Arisen New Era
Lord Dying - Poisoned Altars
Lunar Mantra - Genesis
Melechesh - Enki
Mgła - Exercises in futility
Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu
Monolord - Vænir
Nécropole - Ostara
NettleCarrier - Black Coffin Rites
Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed
Outre - Ghost Chants
Prion - Uncertain Process
Revenge - Behold.Total.Rejection
Sanguine Relic - Sanguine Relic
Satan - Atom by Atom
Scythian - Hubris In Excelsis
Serpents Lair - Circumambulating the Stillborn
Skaur - Farvel
Slugdge - Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms
Spectral Lore - Gnosis
Steelwing - Reset, Reboot, Redeem
Sulphur Aeon - Gateway To The Antisphere
Thulcandra - Ascension Lost
Tsjuder - Antiliv
Veiled - Omniscient Veil
VI - De Praestigiis Angelorum
Zaum & Shooting Guns - Himalaya To Mesopotamia
ZQKMGDZ (10.000 km² gegen die Zeit) - Dimension Plasma

Other:
Antigama - The Insolent
Atomic - Lucidity
Avishai Cohen - From Darkness
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba - Ba Power
Beach House - Depression Cherry / Thank You Lucky Stars
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth - Epicenter
Chris Potter - Imaginary Cities
Colin Stetson And Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was
Gnaw Their Tongues / Dragged into Sunlight - NV
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress'
Hop Along - Painted Shut
Jack DeJohnette - Made in Chicago
Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$
John Scofield - Past Present
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Knxwledge - Hud Dreems
Komara - Komara
Marika Hackman - We Slept At Last
Mathias Eick - Midwest
Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat
Otori - I Wanna Be Your Noise
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Bird Calls
Shlohmo - Dark Red
The Breathing Effect - Mars Is a Very Bad Place for Love
Tim Berne's Snakeoil - You've Been Watching Me
Vijay Iyer - Break Stuff
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There

Youtube playlists and some reuploads!

Two short news.

Youtube:

A few posts back one anonymous viewer suggest a some sort of youtube feed where I would shove in all sorts of links. I did something similar like that a few times but nothing on a consistent basis. Now that I have more free time and now that I got reminded about this in the comments I've decided to open two public playlists on youtube where I will shove everything in them. Being public and all you can save them to your playlists and get regular (or check for) updates as I plow through the vile plains of youtube. Tell me if the links are properly...linked because I can't tell if you can save them or not.

There are two playlists:

The Flying Teapot Music & Performances - as the name suggest this playlist is all things musical. This means that I will share here songs and live performances that I like and I won't be sharing stuff that's just super obscure. Basically it will follow the same rules as the blog in terms of scope. The playlist will include noise so be sure to prepare your anus for some occasional violence.

The Flying Teapot bag of interesting or weird things. - everything else goes here. The focus will be on documentaries, informative videos, lectures and short films. On occasion I might share random garbage that I find funny but I'll make sure it's short.


I'll keep in mind not to share things that just waste your time. They are not my personal playlists so everything there is something that I would want to share and think that it's worth sharing.

Reuploads:

The only reason I keep comment moderation on (you can't post a comment until I see and approve it) is to not miss any requests for reuploads. With that said I just wanted to remind everyone that if you want to download something and the link is dead, be sure to leave a comment and I'll see if I still have the content and reupload it. If I don't have it anymore I will either redirect you to somewhere where it might still be alive or just tell you I don't have it anymore. I any case I will respond.

I didn't reupload things for the past month or so because I was doing other things (that were actually important for once) but I did write down the requests that popped up. So to anons that asked for reups here you go:

Ruth Etting.
Shione Yukawa.

End of the year...or actually the beginning of the year!

Hello and welcome to the end of the year post! This was something I used to write every time a year came close to an end but in the fashion of last year I didn't do it because things happened and stuff. This is the first time I broke the tradition and it makes me sad. So yeah, as usual, I broke much more promises than I fulfilled. I don't know, I begin with earnest determination to do something but always get lost along the way in something else. I guess I'm just like that, not a very pleasant trait to be honest. Back in November I started the "black metal November" thing and never finished it because I decided to play a round of Counter Strike and all of a sudden it's the end of January in 2015 and I did absolutely nothing else but Counter Strike. CS really ate all of my productivity this year, the game is just that addicting for me. I started playing it, again, when the latest iteration came out in 2012 (I think) and slowly but steadily it's eating everything else I really love to do. I even got invited into a clan and I might do some local cups and whatnot in 2015. I guess it was foolish of me to buy something out of nostalgia sake. I really loved the 1.6 days, playing it with friends in random internet cafes around town. Good times were had but these new CS times seem to be good as well.

The only thing I'll really remember from 2014 is attending a Herbie Hancock concert. It was my first time seeing a jazz giant in person and I was enjoying it immensely. Not only that but every piece he played I recognized (and loved as album versions) so it felt like a concert tailored just for my taste. Excellent stuff. I also got photobombed by Sean Bonnette (of Andrew Jackson Jihad fame) because I was too shy to get up and meet him after the concert. Anyway, that's pretty much it, most days just kinda went by.

As for plans for 2015 I don't really know. I started uploading all the albums I didn't post during the Nothing But Black Metal November so I'll probably do a batch post with all of them in it. I'm not sure when that will exactly happen because there's a lot of files to upload and I also have a few more things on my mind that I want to post but all in due time. I don't really know how frequent these posts will be but I'll try my best to break old negative habits.

In the meantime I've made a list of albums that made an impression on me from 2014 for you to check out and maybe enjoy them as well. By "made an impression" I mean that I liked them and I don't necessarily mean they're my AOTY or something like that. My AOTY was Death by Teitanblood if anybody is curious, in fact all top 10 places were taken by that one single album. I won't be sharing any of them as download links but I'm sure most of them are super easy to find on youtube or wherever you go for music that's not here.

Here's the list in alphabetical order:

With youtube samples this time that you'll have to copy/paste because I was too lazy to embed them all (hopefully they're not all dead by the time I'm posting this or you reading this)!

A Silver Mt. Zion - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp1aP_CEq44)

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Atomos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FgWIBJTkE)

Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5DEXrwpaUA)

Aenaon - Extance (http://youtu.be/qiN_jWI0-gE)

Ai Aso - Lone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P5ucXgoOWc)

Akrotheism - Behold The Son Of Plagues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhLVopS9nD0)

Alcest - Shelter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADIEAW65H5o)

Alvvays - Alvvays (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV7OVcOHJwg)

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tjqpE_uVvk)

Aphex Twin - Syro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUAJ8KLGqis)

Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation (http://youtu.be/7OMxnngReo4)

Ascension - The Dead Of The World (http://youtu.be/Zhu595QL66k)

Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves (http://youtu.be/NXbeK9Iarm0)

Ava Luna - Electric Balloon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpaela7xrA)

BADBADNOTGOOD - III (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWF2jHFkNpk)

Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Forever (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QLQDK-G7Ws)

Blood Of Kingu - Dark Star On The Right Horn Of The Crescent Moon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd9lUECmrew)

Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNnYZhW9Z28)

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Piano Nights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBsJPEDJeg)

Boris - Noise (http://youtu.be/M6KQRopdyls)

Botanist - VI Flora (http://youtu.be/fCqFqC2Ew9Q)

Camera Shy - Jack-O-Lantern (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFANeyaztbM)

Cannabis Corpse - From Wisdom to Baked (http://youtu.be/82pGrkF5dYE)

Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIX2vISe3M)

clipping. - CLPPNG (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2GozE6XEqg)

Coffin Birth - Necrotic Liquefaction (http://youtu.be/B9o7oY6U8rg)

Conan - Blood Eagle (http://youtu.be/-of5C1OHX_8)

Cormorant - Earth Diver (http://youtu.be/rja4mxwZDxo)

Corpsessed - Abysmal Thresholds (http://youtu.be/sjXeeWHyX9Q)

Darkspace - Dark Space III I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiK3b3Gzm10)

Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall (http://youtu.be/hkE9h1eqcTQ)

Deus Ignotus - Procession Of An Old Religion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We-Ctw6rphs)

Diocletian - Gesundrian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1p6Kwzz0AY)

Drudkh / Winterfylleth - Thousands of Moons Ago / The Gates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHpaU7edIHE)

Dying Out Flame - Shiva Rudrastakam (http://youtu.be/kjl1B-HcvbE)

Earth - Primitive and Deadly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71nROr1yLgI)

Endlichkeit - III–V (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-jUIktU8Y)

Eno • Hyde - High Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnxypgED6s)

Eric Revis - In Memory of Things Yet Seen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyGjvDGkj3A)

Execration - Morbid Dimensions (http://youtu.be/gwf4SkoRMG4)

Falls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOU0Zc4gQwQ)

Fides Inversa - Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o84SIndUJ_4)

Fire! Orchestra - Enter! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpEF1nWCHrM)

Fire! Orchestra - Second Exit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7KgvJVg2Nw)

Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfOndsW0D70)

Free Nelson MandoomJazz - Saxophone Giganticus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mAnX4GyTkU)

Full Of Hell & Merzbow - Full Of Hell & Merzbow (http://youtu.be/M1wGpGU79Ik)

Furia - Nocel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t58A_78E9E)

Gridlink - Longhena (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_wQ10KTTgg)

Grouper - Ruins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i31zFiwBFho)

Heresiarch - Wælwulf (http://youtu.be/DWgOsn7lMMg)

Hod - Book Of The Worm (http://youtu.be/f9tRv8wdKAk)

Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dE3qmNKZl8)

Ifing - Against This Weald (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSsLyrHhVJU)

Impetuous Ritual - Unholy Congregation Of Hypocritical Ambivalence (http://youtu.be/8YCtjX6D7SI)

Incantation - Dirges of Elysium (http://youtu.be/L0616LeCpCg)

Indian - From All Purity (http://youtu.be/2QG5nqf1sZw)

Infestus - The Reflecting Void (http://youtu.be/1QeXCWoqDM4)

Iron Reagan - The Tyranny of Will (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhiBDQF_0HM)

Jar - Po Drugiej Stronie Mgly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzR88t9KHjw)

Jizue - Shiori (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaSIqoEPU3o)

Juçara Marçal - Encarnado (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtzUtNNtzg)

Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls and Windows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOiGKtBBK9I)

Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io (http://youtu.be/YnIu7lp5mxE)

Khthoniik Cerviiks - Heptaedrone (http://youtu.be/Du7GttdP5T8)

Kiša Metaka - Kiša Metaka (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA0UDoOCMeo)

Kishi Bashi - Lighght (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJj0ZEDWcsY)

Kriegsmaschine - Enemy of Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anpevl45iGk)

Lemon's Chair - My Favorite Reverb (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzjBOBB1fA)

Lvcifyre - Svn Eater (http://youtu.be/Hwlir9wUW_o)

Malum In Se - ...of Death ...of Lurid Soul... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=377HWHFUuL8)

Mannveira - Von Er Eitur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmozE9FWgV8)

Manon meurt - Manon meurt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sLoJj7jD_A)

Melvins - Hold It In (http://youtu.be/Chz53eUtjwU)

Merkabah - Moloch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqucbepjzho)

Morgan Delt - Morgan Delt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52JzFsCK_HQ)

Mortuus - Grape of the Vine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa6_Zt52jX0)

Naðra - Eitur (http://youtu.be/ukWnFcKrb5I)

Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus (http://youtu.be/T9DwEPpkOzE)

Ordinance - Relinquishment (http://youtu.be/rhFetr9jbL0)

Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley, Randall Dunn - Shade Themes from Kairos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuypqjZRsU)

Panopticon - Roads to the North (http://youtu.be/df_Fp2xY6lQ)

Perturbator - Dangerous Days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2UKhmH03uc)

Professor Soap - Spacetime Fabric Softener (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3Gf-8lGtI)

Protomartyr - Under Color Of Official Right (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glCHUFGfZ8A)

Pyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues (http://youtu.be/cuBPGlfmP7Y)

Razorheads - Razorheads (http://youtu.be/uJNaByk7o5E)

Rome - A Passage to Rhodesia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdVs6Brenl0)

Rude - Soul Recall (http://youtu.be/aeB0_E6r2YY)

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-S9mtYowPY)

Sacrocurse - Unholier Master (http://youtu.be/NPhbqdssInw)

Saor - Aura (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41bIBvqTP0)

Sargeist - Feeding The Crawling Shadows (http://youtu.be/Oy6weaACAiE)

Sectu - Nefarious (http://youtu.be/IMT-eFrEEfQ)

sick/tired - Dissolution (http://youtu.be/Og1-6leSW7Q)

Sinmara - Aphotic Womb (http://youtu.be/-Fzyh1AvYmc)

Slugdge - Gastronomicon (http://youtu.be/MwPXFCgm6zA)

Sólstafir - Ótta (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8n8Uy5KmvU)

Spectral Lore - III (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5LGi4BQQZs)

St. Vincent - St. Vincent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVAxUMuhz98)

Sunn O))) - LA Reh 012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw44kaxzmwM)

Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ1-QfeE5tw)

Svartidauði - The Synthesis Of Whore And Beast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4GAzJOallA)

Swans - To Be Kind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSdTBGhDSg)

Teitanblood - Inferno (http://youtu.be/ny9Rzz2NFv8)

Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet (http://youtu.be/Q2hhLzUJ0Q8)

Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1llevuLQ4)

Tombs - Savage Gold (http://youtu.be/4ecRGfgk90c)

Tortorum  - Katabasis (http://youtu.be/zlPikahuvfM)

TrenchRot - Necronomic Warfare (http://youtu.be/2SnWYj6mss8)

Tyrants Of Hell - Repulsive Worship (http://youtu.be/6CSB07XPbCw)

Uchuu Konbini - Tsuki no Hansha de Miteta (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR8CwENcgEk)

Ulvegr - The Call Of Glacial Emptiness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nph6-FdBgCk)

Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath (http://youtu.be/2uHLctTTsXw)

Urzeit - Der zweite Drei (http://youtu.be/oXgButVy7k4)

Vermin Womb - Permanence (http://youtu.be/dQJvyDJl1qw)

Void Wraith - Ø (http://youtu.be/gDWTFNtUnjY)

Vuyvr - Incinerated Gods (http://youtu.be/iyzccPNb-gA)

Water Torture - Pillbox (http://youtu.be/itc-Mdi3hP8)

Winter Of Sin - Violent Reigns Supreme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnBWEB-HZAQ)

Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite (http://youtu.be/NG67MoJGmvE)

YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend (http://youtu.be/viatji__YX8)

Zaum - Oracles (http://youtu.be/vOcbEL2CT_w)

ZOM - Flesh Assimilation (http://youtu.be/0qVUEs5RvLU)

Happy new year, try to enjoy it and thank you for coming by the Flying Teapot for all these years!