4. "lol.. if you're concerned the genre will be hard pressed to avoid" In response to Reply # 3
preclusion.. there's a lot of it going on... electric wizard for example... almost every song goes there.
I guess for myself I take it with a grain of salt.. it's usually mostly about the metal image and canon than anything else.. I guess you get the odd group of real sickos... but I do listen to music from a variety of cultures and spiritual roots so in some ways it's not that different than listening to an indian raga or the gregorian chant... and usually I'd say the lack of real satanic sincerity makes it more of a novelty than anything else.
lol let me know what you find though cause if they eat babies I'll stop listening.
5. "Gotcha...it just...maybe its the black chu'uch in me, lol" In response to Reply # 4
I used to work at Best Buy, and back when Rhapsody was king, we used to pull up the craziest Metal groups across all genres we could find and blact it at night after closing.
6. "lol.. but she may have saved your eternal soul so" In response to Reply # 5
you know might've been worth it... I have an easier time of it with all that... growing up a white suburban atheist meant I could safely mess with almost anything.. my folks were hippies though so if anything guns and gi-joes were not that welcome... plus there's the catholic upbringing my folks had so some of that dies hard whether you practice and actively believe or not.. I'll try and keep my eyes out for groups that don't appear to mess with it much if at all... one group to check out would be Wo Fat they are a little more killer blues and a little less extreme metal but very much still stoner doom... this is my favorite album by them here.. I don't think there's anything overtly satanic going on really and if anything reading their lyrics they're on the side of good:
lyrics off the last song would support that claim:
"I see a demon’s got a hold of you, well stick with me and I’ll get you through I know the ways and the paths of the night, I got the vision and the second sight
Unlike the fires below, I create, not destroy Caught a glimpse of the divine, not bound by a gulag mind
I am a dreamwalker Time shiftin’ I am a beyonder I am a dreamwalker I’ll show you worlds of wonder"
8. "I look for that album everytime I dig" In response to Reply # 7
not even sure if it is on vinyl.. I've picked up a couple of their others.. they are one of the very few bands I've ever heard cover hendrix and not been furious at them for it... about once a month I reply to one of their fb poasts telling them to come to town but the haven't bit yet.
You up on this band Harvey Milk? I dont know if theyre even still together. They used to play Charlotte alot back in the day. I copped the cd on word of mouth and saw em a couple of times
Went to the last show I remember them playing in Charlotte, but they never showed up. The lead singers wife went into labor while they were on there way and they cancelled last minute. Like...we were in the venue waiting for them when word came, lol
10. "Haven't ordered anything off discogs yet" In response to Reply # 9
I figure it wouldn't be so much of a slippery slope as it would be a perilous cliff...
my favorite record buying story was hooking up with somebody in your counrty who had a copy of one of the Vanguard Chicago Blues Today series i needed to complete my trilogy... drove down to meet up and make exchange in parking lot at the side of the hwy...
then there was the time I picked up a copy of Richard Pryor's Was it Something I Said in NYC off a guy who just happened to be walking down the street with maybe a dozen records or so under his arm to sell... this after a day of serious digging discouragement spent wandering around Harlem looking for some record store some guy told me about that didn't exist.
Yeah Discogs would be the death of me... i've been sooooooooo tempted to pull the trigger tho.
11. "I've done it a few times." In response to Reply # 10 Wed Oct-03-18 03:43 PM by tully_blanchard
Bought a couple of Prince records that I didn't know existed, and an Outkast that I couldn't find anywhere. But yeah, it will be the death of you for real. I use it for orginizing more than anything though. I got pretty much my whole collection in there, so I can check if I already have something before I buy it for the 4th time. I can also keep up with my daughter has on her "want list" (you can make friends on there) so I know what to look out for for her.
I think I saw that whole blues collection in a store in St. Augustine, FL about a month ago.
Only story I guess I got is meeting a dude in a grocery store parking lot to sell my OG Melvins "Houdini" for 10x more than I paid for it.
a band from Japan who only writes songs about serial killers and has been through a number of different singers... had tickets to see these guys once but they weren't let in the country *sad face*..
heavy riffage... the singer wares on me after a while. but the riffage... but the riffage...
23. "naw man revisit it... it's classic" In response to Reply # 22
I mean ok that first song is what it is... lol.... but it's still kind of awesome for it's pure antagony and aggravation inducing nature
the apocalypse now bites in the 2nd track are cannon in the crew I grew up with
and
Hands First Flower is an amazing masterpiece of doom artistry.. this album was instrumental in carving out a space for the genre imo... at least for me.. I really love slow and dirge so when a band really commits to that I'm usually in.
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