Written by Sang Dalang Abu on 24.02.2017 at 21:15

Written by [user id=160508] on 29.01.2017 at 14:48

Personally I always found drone doom quite easy to get into. Stuff like Hjarnidaudi, Nadja or The Angelic Process were instant hits. They are melodic than others though, so thats probably why.

Those bands in my collections are the most hardest to get into, well Pain-Noise-March by Hjarnidaudi almost take about more than 1 week. Quite easy? Who are you? Veteran?

Dunno, Hjarnidaudi was an instant hit for me. Only in the second song I considered it to be one of my all time favourite albums. It has everything I want from drone or music in general. I'm not really that much of a veteran either.

Hard to say for sure. There may be something off the first listen so I'll revisit the album again and see what it was. Generally, I try something three times before giving completely up on it, but I've given more chances than that in some albums from some of my favorite bands.

Depends on the album itself. When Septic flesh's "The Great mass" came out I got into it immediately however when Watains "Lawless Darkness" came out, it took me few listens before I could really appreciate it.

I usually get an instant feeling about whether i'm gonna like an album or not, and from there it takes a few going throughs of the album.

I usually give a record 3 times before it sinks in but the first listen I get a feel for if im going to like it or not but after 3 spins I have a for sure answer.

^ Agree with the above. I have a 'maybe pile' playlist on Spotify. If I hear a song for the first time I can almost always sense if it has the potential to get better with another spin, and if so I'll put it in that playlist for further listening. I usually never listen to new stuff more than 3 times though, and less than 50% of those maybe pile tracks end up being stuff I like. I'd actually highly recommend this system, works very well for me.

Im fast, only 1 listen but carefully.. I set 3 parameters or cuestions to the songs.

1 Music.. is something id like to follow listeniing to.. i really enjoy it? is it "HeadBangable"?
2 The Singing, lyrical.. the voice its melody, rythm.. its fine to listen to or sing with?
3 The chorus.. essential part of the song sometimes the total enjoyment of the song depends on it.

So, 2.5 of theese 3 parameter have to be completed, then i can say thats a great song from "X" albums..

And yes sometimes i use playlists to preselect the song and listen carefully again for a better decision..

Good question. My answer is that it kinda depends on the genre.

For black, it usually takes me a single spin to like an album (if it is good, that is). A few exceptions have been Skáphe, Blut Aus Nord and Deathspell Omega. Deathspell Omega took the maximum time (maybe 5-6 spins) for me to first understand what's going on, and then like it, and finally really really like it.
For avantgarde and death, it takes me 1-2 spins. Funeral doom can take a little longer, but it's about the same too: 2-3 spins.

I usually do not listen to an album on repeat in a single sitting to get into it. After it ends, I move to the next album. I tend to spread my listening of the same album over the course of a few days. This goes till max one week after which I'm bored and will not listen to the album in the foreseeable future. I might come back to it once in a while soon, but it's out of the phase where I have to listen to it every other day or so.

As far as I'm concerned, I generally need to listen to the album 3 or 4 times before I make up my mind.