What are you listening to now - No. 8 🎵🎻🎶🎼🎸

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After twenty-seven years and fourteen albums, Paradise Lost returns with 'The Plague Within', a revisiting of the doom/death sound that launched the band's career.

'The Plague Within' shows the band gloriously return to growled vocals and slow, thick riffs. The group never overlooks the goth rock that persists in latter efforts, though. Unlike some doom bands of today that play the same chords over and over, 'The Plague Within' is quite dynamic, nor does the album contain overly long songs. Four to five minute tracks keep the album from getting boring. Guitar chords often ring slow and permeate sadness or bereavement through the air waves, while other parts reveal up-tempo rock sections and guitar harmonies.

Will be the top death/doom metal album of the year, could also be one of the top albums of the year.
 

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The disturbing experimental metal experience of the year just arrived with Lychgate's 'An Antidote For The Glass Pill'.
From the first track until the last, Lychgate offers up a symphonic take on black metal, but in a much more baroque, gothic, and intensely dark way than you might hear from a band like Dimmu Borgir. 'An Antidote For The Glass Pill' is very much an atmospheric, free-form release with an emphasis on the pipe organ and sound effects over the riffs. There are loads of chilling, ghostly sounds in the background, like clocks ticking or far-away crying or laughter.
Take the creepy, non-metallic parts of Ne Obliviscaris and mesh them with the abrasive, hateful black metal of Dodecahedron and you've essentially got Lychgate. 'Letter XIX (song above)' has a particularly devastating combination of the two styles with forceful, pointed harsh vocals accompanying staccato keyboards, each note sharply distinct from the surrounding sounds.

Much of the album is clearly meant to draw in and mesmerize rather than provide a traditional verse/chorus style of song. The disorienting, gothic organs are an ever-present companion, and the splicing in of more extreme sounds provides a constant feeling of being trapped with an unhallowed church where all who have entered should probably abandon hope and give into the void.

Avant-garde black metal goes seriously gothic with a disturbing sound that is unlikely to be matched by any other band this year. If you want your black metal disturbing, atmospheric, and experimental, then look no further.
 
Perth hip hop artist 'Mathas' is set to release his sophomore album 'Armwrestling Atlas' in October. Apparently being played on the J's these days but I've known his work for a number of years now, he's one of the rare artists these days that actually have something to say. His released singles for the upcoming album cover a number of global and human issues like sugar, mortality, commercialism, pharmaceuticals, law enforcement and racism and the lack of awareness about the aboriginal culture (Nourishment).

The music videos are quite well done too, may as well post them.

The first video is actually a fan made video that has been done so well it would be insane not to have it as the official music clip. Love the irony that I had to pay $2 for 'Free Shit' and will pay for again once the album is out :D
As one of the driving forces in Western Australia's exploding hip-hop scene, Perth MC Mathas has really impressed us with his latest single Free Shit (which features fellow West Australian musicians Ylem and Mei Saraswati) with the laid-back verses complementing the smooth, soulful electronica perfectly. The single has now been joined by an official video, made by our good friend COMBS. Pulling together public advertisements from the 40s and 50s, the video perfectly matches the lyricism and narrative of the song, a feat not easily done. The video comes as Mathas signs to Sydney label Big Village Records, a label that boasts a massive heap of some of the most forward-thinking artists in Australia. Free Shit will feature on the upcoming full-length Armwrestling Atlas, which will be released through Big Village this October.
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Which dead musician for one final performance, assuming I could have a yak with them too...Robert Johnson. A forefather of rock and inspiration to many great rock bands, wouldn't mind knowing the crossroads story from him either. If it was just a performance, Kurt Cobain.
 

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Currently spinning "Love, Fear and the Time Machine" by Poland's finest progressive rock band Riverside. Probably their most mature album to date.



 

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