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| Did I overdress? |
I signed up for a metal radio show, but my true listening habits tend to reflect maybe only 50-60% metal, the rest being a mix of a bit of everything else. Or, not
everything but you know - ambient, experimental, idm, oi!, jazz, prog, art rock, cock rock, butt rock, etc etc. This show doesn't need to be some kind of accurate reflection of my taste, and frankly I find there to be some hubris in expecting that people will want to tune into hear my taste. I'm not Andy Warhol, I don't work for Vogue in the 90s, I'm not a tastemaker.
That said though, there's some kind of theme or greater sensibility I'm trying to tap into. I felt it when I used to shop at Aquarius Records (RIP). Even if there was no explicit cohesion in their selection of music (they had everything from strange low print run black metal, to random world music, to non-music oddball records), it felt like they had created a wavelength for its community to tap into. You didn't always know what you were going to get from them but you knew it would be interesting and catered to niche sensibilities. That's something like what I'd like to achieve here. But for fear of being too fruity about it, I'll stop there.
This week, Tour-de-Garde surprise published the new Runeboy album on their YT channel and it's pretty incredible stuff. Just a rough and sloppy mix of oi!, neofolk, off-key rock, sound collage, and noise. Probably the best thing I've heard this year. I peppered in some outsider black metal in the form of Trörkrvisätänsrökrëh (LLN-esque blown out stuff with goregrind vocals), Gauhaert (one-off folk metal side project from Urfaust), and Nogbold's Palace (completely enveloping and obscure raw gothic black metal). Pásmo from Czechia is a really cool contemporary band merging post-punk Soviet block sounds with heavy metal; their newest is also quickly becoming a favorite this year. Classics from Akercocke, Necromantia, and Deicide rounded things out.
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| Artist | Song | Album | Timecode |
| Necromantia | Pretender to the Throne (Opus I: The Usurper's Spawn) | Scarlet Evil Witching Black | 0:00:00 |
| Voice Break | | | 0:05:25 |
| Runeboy | English Rain Part. III | Call for the Countryside | 0:09:09 |
| Skuggeheim | Andakt | Samlede verker | 0:15:17 |
| Cauterized Torso | Track 1 | Painless Disfigurement | 0:20:21 |
| Akercocke | Marguerite & Gretchen (Live) | Decades of Devil Worship | 0:23:15 |
| Incinerated | Executed | Lobotomise | 0:29:12 |
| Voice Break | | | 0:31:32 |
| Sanitys Dawn | Maggotfarm | Fuck... I'm Dead / Sanitys Dawn | 0:36:36 |
| Trörkrvisätänsrökrëh | Kwäntralh Prarüsatl Laarshreh Söhnk Thrörbre | Khr'iirëëh Zÿsthlkonr Tsavlr Kélsäth Trörkrvisätäns | 0:38:43 |
| Gauhaert | De grote drooglegging | Ygwaet Gwyr Gwynn Novi | 0:41:56 |
| Ildjarn-Nidhogg | Daybreak | Hardangervidda | 0:46:15 |
| Noctuary | The Once Forgotten Past | For Salvation | 0:51:36 |
| Voice Break | | | 0:54:41 |
| Nogbold's Palace | Thou Art Lord | Dark Agony | 1:00:54 |
| English Dogs | Middle Earth | Where Legend Began | 1:06:06 |
| Pásmo | Kolej Kajícníka | Vakace | 1:11:14 |
| Deicide | Revocate the Agitator | Legion | 1:14:48 |
| Sarcastic | Stomach Full of Carrion | Macabre Human Mutilation | 1:17:34 |
| Voice Break | | | 1:20:18 |
| Soulreaper | Life Erazer | Life Erazer | 1:28:17 |
| Hecate Enthroned | Forever in Ebony Drowning | Dark Requiems and Unsilent Massacres | 1:32:25 |
| Death in June | The Honour of Silence | Nada! | 1:38:17 |
| Thoth | From the Abyss of Dungeons of Darkness | From the Abyss of Dungeons of Darkness | 1:41:35 |
| Voice Break | | | 1:46:22 |
| Houre | Suden tunti | Riitti II | 1:51:08 |
| Thomas Ligotti | No One Knows the Big News | The Unholy City | 1:55:10 |
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| Crying that he's on the horrible reissue cover |
