Quote from: l.b. on November 12, 2019, 06:25:49 AM
that re-formed absurd for asgardsrei was dogshit though
It is slightly curious situation with Absurd, as there are two of them active right now. The JNF line-up performing old songs and more primitive things is one, but the other line-up that made the more "advanced material" with Wolf and Unhold etc has made new promo and played live just recently. I have liked all incarnations of the band.
Quote from: DSOL on November 12, 2019, 10:26:04 PM
NWN doesn't need the forum to bring in business for his label anymore, the forum was great for smaller labels and bands trying to get their stuff out there/updating on new releases/etc
Any forum some label hosts under their own name, will have effect of tainting the label name for what whoever random guy says. Question would be do you want your label name be mentioned every time when drama escalates in underground? heh.. Guilt by association is quite strong these days.
It is unfortunate when decades worth of information just vanishes. It displays the negative side of scene relying too much on one thing. Removing one element may have drastic effects, especially in times when there is often "all eggs in one basket". It is unfortunate for labels who got rid of their own websites to sell stuff via discogs, just to find out all they publish and many things they distributed are being banned from marketplace. Or being kicked out from youtube & facebook without any particular reason. Or getting your bandcamp closed as soon as it felt like good place to host label "website". etc.
There was attempt to have new black metal forum some years ago. It did not gain popularity, due it didn't offer anything what one couldn't do in NWN. So eventually quiet forum was closed down.
I wouldn't be surprised if there would be new attempts to open something like that. Forum that is not under any particular label name and would cover Black Metal
as is, without caring what non-BM crowd may think about some of it. But also hopefully moderators who do not have too specific agenda to push.
For mentioned reason, it would be good to have some sort of information spot, that is not connected to multinational corporations and such. For example, I have absolutely zero interests to follow countless bands and labels in social media. Without forum(s) it, hard to say where one could find announcements and recommendations these days if not willing to wade through endless flow of social media feed.
Talking about Black Metal, TEITANBLOOD new album. Not yet sure what to think. It didn't have same impact as Death. Heavily based on sound, rather than riffs and songs. Of course this was case with previous too, but that hit instantly. KVASIRS BLOOD "Triumph of the will" cd I didn't expect much, but ended up listening several times. I like the rawness of production doesn't mean it would be the non-riff non-idea "raw bm" stuff that has been vastly popular, but actually be pretty good songs in lines of Satanic Warmaster, Goatmoon, Vlad Tepes, etc. While properly composed BM of today often have too soft sound, this doesn't. Entire catalogue of INQUISITION was listened and had to even re-evaluate order of greatness of those albums. It remains to see when band is back in "public" so to say. Good case displaying the lameness of "metal scene" might be repeating itself when they do. GRAND BELIAL'S KEY "a witness to the regiside" finally on good CD! Include more tracks that the original 7". Uniqueness of GBK is so
beyond, that it does have special position in underground.
For live music, it was rather great surprise to have GOAT SEMEN play live in Lahti. Just around the corner. Great set of brutal savage blasphemic metal. Next weekend VULCANO in same venue is perhaps even more surprising. Last weekend: BLACK BEAST first show, quite traditional BM that worked nicely. BEHEXEN always good, BARATHRUM another good show after decades of miserable drunken joke. Now their gigs are pretty close as good as 20 years ago! And no wonder what MGLA was headlining
after DESTRUCTION. Veteran status might not be enough if your best album came out 35 years ago.. Just like SODOM on next day, of course they can still thrash properly, but...
