Non Metal Now Listening

[Pentagrimes]

Skimp-Very much so and How
Great melancholic indie/shoegazy stuff, can't get enough of it. Highly recommended. Riyl Duster, Elliot Smith, Pinback

Yowie-Synchromysticism
Two guitars, drums, skingraft records. Madness

[Carnage]

Nitzer Ebb: Ebbhead (Expanded Collectors Edition)

Before that it was Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile (instrumental version) - not the full, Deviations 1 version as there are a number of tracks missing. I have no idea where this came from, unless it's astfgyl's version, though I thought that was longer.

[Ducky]

Coroner do a cool cover of that song

That's on the odds and sods album? Been wracking my brain trying to figure out where I've heard the name before.

[Bürggermeister]

Yeah, that's the one.

[Carnage]

Ruairí O' Baoighill: DVYLL

[astfgyl]

Swans - Cop.

Why am I in non metal with this?

I refuse to believe it

[Pentagrimes]

Swans - Cop.

Why am I in non metal with this?

I refuse to believe it

it's actually so heavy that metal doesn't sum it up.

The live version of the title track on "Body to Body" is even more punishing.  Like if the album had been recorded properly

 Sure for good measure, the heaviest  non-metal song of all time.  You can kinda see where Khanate got it from. Utterly bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExY0CCEqCIk&list=RDExY0CCEqCIk&start_radio=1

[astfgyl]

Swans - Cop.

Why am I in non metal with this?

I refuse to believe it

it's actually so heavy that metal doesn't sum it up.

The live version of the title track on "Body to Body" is even more punishing.  Like if the album had been recorded properly

 Sure for good measure, the heaviest  non-metal song of all time.  You can kinda see where Khanate got it from. Utterly bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExY0CCEqCIk&list=RDExY0CCEqCIk&start_radio=1

Jesus that is bleak. Perfect for the morning Sunshine. Think it's just going to be a day of Swans after this

[astfgyl]

Nitzer Ebb: Ebbhead (Expanded Collectors Edition)

Before that it was Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile (instrumental version) - not the full, Deviations 1 version as there are a number of tracks missing. I have no idea where this came from, unless it's astfgyl's version, though I thought that was longer.

No that's not my 3 and a half hour extravaganza 

That one was some sort of apple music thing. Iirc there's one for With Teeth as well

[Carnage]

Ah right. I didn't stick it too long anyway. I'd always thought The Fragile would make a great instrumental album but hy the time I heard it that way, I'd become so used to the original that it just sounded like a karaoke version of it.

I could never get on with the early Swans stuff, pre-Children Of God say. Too one-note, all about pummelling the listener with nothing to latch on to. That said I haven't tried for years, I might go back and see how it sits now. I have the Filth/Body To Body, Job To Job set somewhere.

[astfgyl]

I actually couldn't stick that instrumental version myself despite thinking the exact same that it would be great it was just sort of boring. Ah well...

I'd highly recommended Cop if you're going checking out old Swans stuff. I'd say Justin Broadrick wore it out before recording Streetcleaner

[Carnage]

Noted.

Yeah, big influence on early Godflesh there. I heard Swans long after I was a Godflesh fan and my initial impression was a stripped-down Godflesh, but a lot more angry.

[astfgyl]

Actually went backwards with Swans myself, started with The Seer and was surprised to find how different the early stuff was. I like both anyway.

I also see they're touring Europe next year

Edit: I find it very annoying the way people on YouTube insist on calling them The Swans as well.

Painful cunts

[Carnage]

Annoying.

With my usual perfect timing, my first encounter with Swans (apart from Mick Harris namechecking them on the Live Corruption video) was a Terrorizer interview to promote Soundtracks For The Blind - and announce that they were splitting after the tour. When I eventually got the album (about a year after the Die Tür Ist Zu EP) I was instantly depressed that a band who could put that out were splitting. Phenomenal album, though I get that it's divisive.

[astfgyl]

I haven't heard that one in so long I can't remember it. I'll rectify that today though I just feel like Swans will be perfect for the longest day of the year. Have Cop on again here and yeah it's great. A bit torn about whether I'd go to them again or not after the last one being so good but I'm tempted. I can only imagine what they were like back in the day but I hear stories of lads losing the hearing for days after