Charlie Parr - 1922 2008 - a couple of really good tracks, but not as raw or emotional as King Earl.
Charlie Parr - Jubiliee 2007 - a couple of really good tracks, but not as raw or emotional as King Earl - "Jubilee" and "Jesus on the Mainline" are really good tracks, and the former is a great duet with his wife - "Last Freight Out of Asheville" is slow and beautifully twangy and somewhat rusty like I want from him.
Charlie Parr - Rooster 2007 - do not care for the Sampson & Delilah cover at all - nothing stood out for me on this one.
Charlie Parr - Roustabout 2008 - more mellow or even melancholy in feel - like this almost as much as King Earl - some nice instrumental work in the songs - seems more complex and a developing style more so than borrowing from traditions - "Midnight has Come & Gone" and "Adrift in Lake Superior at Sunrise" are good examples of this - more Emily accompaniment, too - "Farmer" is another great track - nice version of "God Moves On The Water (trad.)".
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Bestial Raids - Order of Doom 2004 - Polish black death mess - be sure to be in a noise-coreish mood when played - good stuff; a grower.
Bestial Raids/Hellish 2007 - Polish black death mess from BR; 1st track is slower and gritty and had me thinking about Celtic Frost, though it wasn't obvious; 2nd track made me think of Columbia's Confusion for some reason; messy, raw music - Hellish is decent, mostly straight-forward black thrash; 2nd track kind of made me think of Sodom on speed; 3rd track the same, but with some changes and tricks that were cheesy or "up beat" in a bad way.
Stargazer/Invocation - Harbringer/Horrific Ancient Sumerian Traditional Ursurpurs Remembered 1999/2009 - Invocation has some moments, but I don't care for the chug-like guitars; one of the quick-picking parts reminded me of the Lethal Aggression demo (a good thing), but it was a distant association; has an interesting snare sound -- Stargazer has a thrashy, almost technical sound like Sadus; the drums are rawly recorded, so the snare has a good sound, and he is a very busy drummer; I guess they call this progressive or avant-garde because it is difficult to define (and it is technical and complex in every way); it's thrashy, melodic, black, deathy, technical, and black metal; I've listened to this side a few times now, and I'm at a point where I enjoy it; if it was any longer, I think I'd feel differently; unique, challenging, and undeniably well done.
Vulpecula - In Dusk Apparition 2006 - I've listened to this several times, and I still cannot connect with it at all - it's complete songs, but it has a demo or edits feel to it something like Victor Griffin's Late for an Early Grave - maybe it is because I don't get it all that I feel like these songs are unworked ideas.
Merzbow - Oersted 1996 - so many great sounds on this album, many of which are deep and rich - plenty of movement, but until a few points in track 4, it isn't annoyingly squibbly or erratic - keenly aware of flow and warmth - 3rd track, the shortest, is so subdued and powerful.
Deviated Instinct - Guttural Breath 1990 - why didn't I buy these things when I ran into them on the regular and for cheap??? - want Nailed, too.
Bestial Raids - Prime Evil Damnation 2011 - more controlled and less noise-coreish than the 7"s above - reminds me of Beherit and the first time I heard Sodom - Obsessed by Cruelty and thought everyone in the band was playing a different song - the result here is that it sounds like a war zone and not like a cluster of incompetence - ANOTHER really good album on Nuclear War Now.
