Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

Women get horny for Jesus. foreign people want to annihilate the Aryan race, goth girls won't leave their houses without dying their hair black, and type o negative hates everyone. the songs are ruthelessly catchy, adorned with mind blowing sections that will no doubt transmute you into a more intelligent cynical goth metal addict, seething with dry humor.
this is why so many bands suck. they have to live up to stuff like this. if you look at gay ass wuss bands like therion or dream theater, and then you look at type - o - negative, it's pretty clear who is a vagina and who fucks one. by the time peter steele starts singing "jesus christ looks like me" the barb is in. when you hear no more nights of blood and fire, you've been pulled onto the boat and are currently sufficating on the rotting wood amoung heaps of used fishing line. pop musicians dream of writing hooks like what apears on "bloody kisses." thrashmetal bands would kill to have their image, and hugh hefner would eat his smoking jacket if he had a following of hot goth girls the magnitude of those that follow type-o. this is some wicked shit. fucking classic.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mynowmz0ym5/Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses part 1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dmnhlyjnyou/Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses part 2.rar

White Zombie - 1989 - Make Them Die Slowly

Of all the pre-la sexercisto white zombie albums, this is definitely my favorite. probably because it has the most in common with devil music vol. 1. it's definitely rougher arround the edges, but you can really see white zombie's future sound emerging on this release. and i mean, lets face it, what band is cooler than white zombie? if i were a gen-xer in 89' i would have been all over this.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/lz4mvojnomm/White Zombie - 1989 - Make Them Die Slowly.rar

Evildead - Annihilation Of Civilization

this sounds like oldschool slayer mixed with death's scream bloody gore, with a pinch of megadeth in there for good measure, but toned down some. over all, hilarious, and sort of awesome, but totaly lame and genaric at the same time. Some riffs are pretty hardcore, but there's nothing original here. none the less, it's pretty fun to listen to. i got it because the cover art was hilarious, and at least 2 songs are acronyms, one with like 8 letters, which means it's actually from the 80's. and it came with a free membership to club dead...

http://www.mediafire.com/file/vthovddbnjr/Evildead - Annihilation Of Civilization.rar

Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi - Anti-Mosh 008 - 1994

Fans of early ulver and early satyricon will definitely appreciate this DSP release, one of only 9 on the infamous label. http://www.discogs.com/label/Deathlike+Silence+Productions

http://www.mediafire.com/file/iuk2mm42j5m/Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi.rar

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Reflections on "Agalloch - The Mantle"

I would like to begin by saying that this is a great album. The phrases in the music are clearly discernable, the melodies are relatively consonant and the musicians are clearly skilled, both in terms of technical ability, song composition, and in thematic symmetry. I like how the cover art is complementary to the feel of the album. It’s interesting, inspired, and creative, and the melodies are quite catchy. I would put this on over a lot of other modern heavy metal (all sub-genre’s included) albums. But in the same breath, I feel compelled to annihilate the notion that this is a black metal album, in any way shape or form.
Although at first glance it may resemble something analogous to black metal, someone familiar with what it is about the classics that makes them great, their black metal-ness, is not present in “the mantle.” To gain comprehension of this requires a sort of conceptual perspective on just what black metal is, as it is quite unique. The first aspect of its individuality is it’s relation to the backdrop of the culture and events of the time and locality, which of coarse very few have first hand experience of. This sort of makes the genre a closed genre for those willing to hold such a strict view.
Let us set that aside briefly, and entertain the view that we can have a black metal album come from outside the cultural perspective from which the genre derives meaning, and from which it is interpreted. In this case, the essence of the old black metal albums is in what they are lacking. The beauty of something that is not polished, skillful, or easy to listen to, but that isn’t simply rough aggression like one may find in some very guttural German thrash groups: kreator or destruction for example. In the position of being one man, with no band, the cheapest gear, no training, no chance for popularity, and little to no audience, Varg Vickerness was able to still create something of value, and effectively popularize a subgenre (which some deny is even associated with metal at all).
Though it is unfashionable to like burzum when bands like agalloch make something that is palatable to listen to, one cannot deny that the mere fact this album has the name “black metal” associated with it is due to the history that Varg is undeniably the driving force behind (at the very least it’s popularity.) at the same time, it is too easy to mistake the events which popularized the genre (which few at the time would have claimed they wanted, whether that reflects how they felt is a different story) with what it is about burzum, or any of the other great albums at the time that is essentially substantial. The substance lies in the rejection of the polished, the well crafted, the clear, and easy to listen to, and ultimately the popular. Blackmetal is like the appreciation of tattered rags, and what is coming on the scene now is essentially designer rags – made all pretty like. It’s a sort of Zen like appreciation for expression of the untalented to show more clearly the raw creativity behind their music, without technical aspects or songwriting and such to get in the way. Varg can’t write a classical symphony, and probably can’t read music, and is already responsible for the death of one semi-band mate, and helped another to kill himself. And lets not forget who is actually in jail due to the church burnings. But what varg can do, is take something that has musical value, and effectively transmit it in a way that was previously unintelligible, with no band and with the cheapest gear possible.
There’s a very famous story in the east, where an emperor came to a famous tea master and requested that the tea master build him a solid gold tea hut. The tea hut in traditional Japanese culture is representative (at least partially) of the characteristics of wabi and sabi, which I will not explain in this review. Never the less, it remains very close to what is so good about black metal, and the tea master ultimately refused, which may or may not have lead to his death. Kakuzo Okakura has a very famous book called “the book of tea” which is a classic about Japanese aesthetics in relation to religious and ethical philosophy. This album reminds me of the golden tea hut. That, and those kids who want to be gangster, with “ghetto style” but come from the suburbs.
The classics are ominous, expressive with very little, distorted and bitter. They are monotonous, and what’s going on is not clearly defined, but layered and atmospheric. The vocals alone turn away most listeners. Usually in Norwegian, the themes of the albums are usually cultural, dark, mystical, and anti-modernist, and semi-fantasy related. Mozart is spinning in his grave, but john cage is laughing with Jackson Pollock. What is there however is usually a groove, and a heaviness, and usually a killer riff somewhere. But again, it’s all about the placement, and the relation to the unlistenable. Accenting a phrase by setting it apart from a white-wash of monotonous depression, like a thunderbolt from a grey sky. It may not be “good music” but it sure as hell is good art.
I would like assert again, by saying that this is a great album. The phrases in the music are clearly discernable, the melodies are relatively consonant and the musicians are clearly skilled, both in terms of technical ability, song composition, and in thematic symmetry. I like how the cover art is complementary to the feel of the album. It’s interesting, inspired, and creative, and the melodies are quite catchy: which is exactly why is fails to convey the aesthetic of black metal.

http://cheopianfield.blogspot.com/2009/01/agalloch-mantle.html

BURZUM - hvis lyset tar oss

translation:

What Once Was

Between the bushes we stared

At those who reminded us of another age

And told that hope was away

Forever...

We heard elvensong and

Water that trickled

What once was is now

Away

All the blood...

All the longing and pain that

Ruled Are away...

Forever...

We are not dead...

We have never lived

If The Light Takes Us

A glade in the wood

Where the sun shines

Between the trees we are imprisoned

In this God's glade

It burns it scorches

When the light licks our flesh Goes toward the sky a smoke

A cloud of our form Prisoners of the burials

Tormented by God's goodness

No flame no hate

They were right we have come to Hell

In The Castle Of The Dream

Between misty vales

Between gloomy mountains

Under gray clouds

In the black night

On a proud horse

In black clothes

Strong weapons at hand

The infinity with dead trees

An eternity of cold

Over stone and wood

In the shadows...

Out from the mist

Out from darkness

Out from the big shadows of the mountain

The castle of the dream...

So ends the ride

That lasted a lifetime

For the master goes (in the castle of the dream)

Emptiness Instrumental

If you get it, you get it. and it doesn't get any more "it" than this. Inn I Slottet Fra Droemmen alone is worth the price if you want to pick up a hard copy. i couldn't begin to review this. suffice it to say it's the polar opposite of dream theater and they should choke to death on it. black metal owes it all to this. I'm not going to burn a church and kill off my rivals, but i just might buy it on vinyl if i see it for sale. i diddn't realize what this was at first, i just sort of glazed over it. but eventually i read the lyrics, and caught some nuances in the songs, and really listened to the killer groove in Inn I Slottet Fra Droemmen, and slowely i gained more and more appreciation for this. now it's at the pinnicle of my black metal collection. well worth a dl if you don't already have it, or dispise varg vickerness or "classic" black metal for some reason.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/icoommtodij/hvis lyset tar oss.rar