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).

Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on May 29, 2026, 09:26:03 PMGive 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

Quote from: Jward on May 29, 2026, 09:40:06 AMElectric 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.

Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 29, 2026, 09:53:27 AMI 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.

The wife and kid were heading out the door a few minutes ago and the dude says, "dad, there's something weird on the floor".

I go, " it's grand, I'll clean it up, you head off".

I go over with a tissue and there's a bit of bitumen that must have come in on someone's shoe so I clean it up and fuck it in the bin. But, as often happens in these cases my mind wanders off and I start thinking, imagine this was the start of an episode of The X Files. I'm like, "yeah bud, give 'em hell at the ball game. When you get back we'll pay catch and go for hotdogs, champ!" Then kiss the wife goodbye and pull a Bud Light out of the fridge, oblivious to the fact that I'm about to have my anal cavity reconfigured by a Martian.

Quote from: blessed1 on May 29, 2026, 11:34:41 AMT.Rex - Electric Warrior.
I always found it interesting how Marc Bolan wrote these songs that were generally just one or two riffs repeated and the songs don't get boring. Monolith and Mambo Sun are two of my favorites on this album.

Very underrated influence on hard rock and metal imo.

Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest

Been playing Blind a few times recently, and I can justifiably say that, at 35 years old.... it has aged remarkably well. Love it...

Quote from: Pentagrimes on May 25, 2026, 11:10:28 PMWhy sugar coat anything? I just don't have time for shit music and I dont care about bands who run on"vibes" (apart from bad ones, obviously) . What I think doesn't matter anyway in the grand scheme of things, tis just my experience of them.

Incidentally,  it was them opening for Katie Kim.

Absolutely! I just find it good craic.

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