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Love 1984 but never read BNW even though it is on my shelf for years.  Might give it a shot this week if I finish The Plague.  (Enjoying that as it happens but sort of dropped out of reading from the ongoing go of life and just continued on the manga reads and re-reads instead since that is easier to deal with in short bursts).

Give me recommendations for bad vibes bands though, always want more of that

I know this wasn't aimed at me but these lads are not only lethal but the Bandcamp genre tag is actually "bad vibes"

https://machiavellianart.bandcamp.com/album/population-control

Savage album I have had on a ton lately.  Give it a few songs, it does one particular thing but still doesn't entirely give the game away until you are a bit into the album.

My daughter came into the back yard earlier today while the dog was shitting, he was striking that hunched stance and nearly done, looking over at us with the harrowing eyes, and she goes "Daddy, he looks just like Spiderman".  Not twenty minutes has gone by where I haven't replayed it in my head and I am in stitches every single time

Been on the new Tooms album all day.  Just great, can't get enough of it.  Heavy, dirty, loads to dig into.
https://cursedmonk.bandcamp.com/album/karst

Electric Wizard – Dopethrone

Great stoner doom 

Savage album, a favourite.  Had it on again lately myself.  "I, The Witchfinder" easily one of the best songs going in the genre, the bit where the drums drop back to the toms and everything else just builds on the huge doom crush over them - ridiculous. Love it.

I don't listen to much stoner doom, but Electric Wizard at their best really infused the experience with such negativity and hate it is hard not to like it! Stoner is usually a bit too generic and cartoonish- and EW have albums like that too- but Dopethrone is pure nihilism.

90% of the genre is dogshit, but I am a big fan of the approach done well or the particular flavour of it I enjoy expanded on.  It is a thing that is fairly loose as to what sort of style falls under it but like yourself here I need a bit of bleak in there as a salt on the stoner riffs to get it going, most of the time.  The production has tons to do with it too, another genre that is usually better ragged and blown out, or live takes over anything too polished up.

I've a ticket going spare tonight in Dolans, if anyone here wants it they can just have it, just DM me.  It's a digital ticket so I'll send you a screenshot or a pdf of it.

Sunshine.  Drink.  Backyard.  Simple, perfect.  Fuckin ruined it for my wife when I started into the Laibach on the Bluetooth speaker though

Anyone else notice the sheer amount of slugs that are about? Fuck me I cant leave the house without stepping on one 

Yeah I noticed this last week.  Going to work each morning the path is absolutely beaten with them.  Wonder what is causing it

That Neurosis album still getting regular listens here too.  Well except this week.  Laibach has pushed everything else aside for the minute while I dive wildly through the discography.

^^^ Still a few of these going of anyone is looking.
Doing a short run of surprise dirt builds soon.  Cruel Blooms being reworked and will be up in a month or two too.

Thorns - Thorns

Dont think I'll ever tire of this. The vocals dont do much for me, but the guitars...its just riff after riff!

Whole thing is savage.  I must be on here every time it gets mentioned saying how great it is 

I'd say Assurance is somewhat less improv than some of the earlier stuff, but that's definitely a big part of the Fixity project, the lineup is pretty fluid. This album (The Things In The Room) was done over in Malmö with 3 Swedish musicians and it's pretty much all improv around a few central ideas. It's one of my favourite albums of all time I think.

This is the only other Fixity album I know and yup it is totally class.  Fairly sure it was you who recommended it to me too!  Definitely going to have a lash at a few more albums during the week.

Re.  Wire - I also only know "Pink Flag" but must try out some other albums.  Enjoy it a lot.

Some non-metal highlights lately:

Boards of Canada - "Geogaddi"
Nothing to say here, love it, just rotating this and Tomorrow's Harvest still.

Aphex Twin - "Druqks"
Again nothing to add, love it, know it inside out, just back in rotation lately.  Savage album.

Fixity - "Assurance"
This is class.  Only know one other Fixity album and love it but saw this appear on Bandcamp and chucked it on.  Quick and tidy jazz, surely mostly improv by the sounds of it, plentygoing on but anyway it is great.

Tons of stuff lately but yesterday's run:

Cult of Luna - "The Long Road North"
I liked this when it came out but it never stuck.  Revisited the past week and it clicked, completely class, had it on every day.  Absolutely what you expect from them with a few twists here and there but just a great listen.

Laibach - "Opus Dei"
Revisiting this after not having it on for years.  Was nearly made sick by the new album so put this on last night to cleanse the palate.  Class album.  Does one thing start to finish but does it well.

Human Future - "Spectrum"
Had an EP by these lads a good few years back and enjoyed it but never looked further.  This came up suggested on Bandcamp and I stuck it on on a whim.  Great stuff.  Sort of post-hardcore, hints of other stuff, fairly reserved but well written interesting.  Got tons of listens off me anyway, just got the "time to open the wallet" warning off one Bandcamp login

More in the non-metal I suppose.  The Laibach should probably be in there too.  Fuck it

My Heart, An Inverted Flame - Whispers in a Dead Language

Going to have to give this a spin later based off the few posts in here.