Hell yes! Olympiakos made it to the Conference League final against Fiorentina. Football got interesting for the first time in forever. Let's bring the title home to Greece!
It's crazy how much nonsense I've heard for people who don't truly understand the offside rule (but then again, it's a pretty complex set of rules on paper).
@ Cynic, if you're talking about the 2nd goal, then you're very, very wrong. They were robbed only on that late offside which actually wasn't, and that's that.
First, new album from Akasha. Fantastic upbeat style, raw black metal with artwork done by Wrest. This is causing quite some hype everywhere, but I don't remember seeing it here.
Next, second part of the Ex Libris trilogy EPs. I insist, this and the previous chapter must be the only good symphonic releases that came out in maybe... 10 years? The genre is so overdone that I didn't expect anything this good would show up nowadays.
Try to ignore the shitty artwork.
First, new album from Akasha. Fantastic upbeat style, raw black metal with artwork done by Wrest. This is causing quite some hype everywhere, but I don't remember seeing it here.
Sorry for reposting this, but I believe Akasha to have enough potential for becoming one of the next bigger things in black metal.
They blend semi-melodic blackness with chaotic dissonance, clean and distorded guitars with audible bass lines, harsh, venoumos vocals with crisp lead themes, bits and pieces of ritual ambient with blackened thrash, galopping riffs with eerie, haunting interludes and short doomy parts with raw, blasting black metal fury and even some sporadic speckles of traditional heavy metal.
The only thing they do not blend, mix or dilute is the filth. The filth is raw but pure and black.
In spite of the many influences and ingrediences, they manage to create a very homogenous atmosphere and the 49 minutes of their debut full-length do sound like a very tight, monolithic and truly unified whole.
Usually, I am not a sucker for dissonant black metal at all, but in this case, the hype is real and rightful.
Immensely sick technical and tightly woven black metal that I would imagine has already been mentioned
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http://www.last.fm/user/templeruins
https://ququmatz.bandcamp.com/releases Progressive/experimental black metal
https://znmusic.bandcamp.com/ Avant-garde drone metal, ambient, noise
https://noosefiller.bandcamp.com/ Experimental raw black metal/noise
New BigIBrave single out since a couple of days. Modern, modern doom. It will probably top that magazines list which name I cant remember anymore - as its hip. It doesnt make it bad, on the contrary its great again.
Instrumental stoner metal from France. It has a bit of a Stonilla and Universal Hippies vibe. Good atmospheric and punchy sound they got on this album.
Psychedelic stoner metal with a touch of doom mixed into it. Really enjoyed this one. Vocals are kind of what you expect from the genre but overall they are solid. Guitars sound nice, I only wish the drums would be a bit more prominent in the mix.
Instrumental psychedelic stoner metal from the UK. One of my favourites so far this year. Really nice bass, great guitar tone and drums that are prominent yet not over-ruling in the mix. I really enjoyed the atmosphere of this record. Gripping from start to finish.
And another stoner metal record. This one is from Switzerland. Very nice vocals, punchy guitars, powerful sounding drums and pounding bass. Again a blast from start to finish imo.
Suspiral are back. This artwork may be even prettier than the last one. Some kind of cavernous, hypnotic black metal, but something about it sounds different from the usual. Good stuff, nice use of repetition.