New Alcest album was definitely an Alcest album.
That is, it felt quite workmanlike, uninspired and overly slick, but had a nice sound and a proliferation of pretty guitar tones so it ended up pretty okay.
edited 5th Jan '12 10:05:25 AM by sca_punk
They're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail. http://www.last.fm/user/sca_punkfates warning
edited 5th Jan '12 7:32:42 PM by iamathousandapples
"I could eat a knob at night" - Karl PilkingtonApparently Depeche Mode are already planning a new album. I missed Sounds of the Universe, but apparently it was lackluster. Here's hoping they don't botch it this time; I wouldn't even mind if they took their time until 2013.
Oh, and hopefully they'll come over for a second time so that I could catch them live.
edited 7th Jan '12 10:04:37 AM by Litis
According to his Reddit, we can expect a new album from Aesop Rock this year. El-P's also coming out with a new one.
From a different clique entirely. There'll be a slew of new OFWGKTA releases.
And I'd be shocked if we didn't get at least one mixtape each from Mr Muthafuckin Exquire and Danny Brown.
good year to be a hip-hop head.
go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagineThat reminds me, was Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 any good? I remember seeing it in Best Buy and didn't know if I should have gotten it...
edited 7th Jan '12 8:02:37 PM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!It was almost entirely instrumental. Make of that what you will.
Mr Muthafuckin Exquire used some of it for Lost In Translation though.
go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagineNew album by Converge confirmed.
New of Montreal album leaked. It's fantastic. Their best since Hissing Fauna (which, honestly, they aren't going to top)
They're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail. http://www.last.fm/user/sca_punkOh hey, now it looks like the Amenta are coming out with a new one too. I didn't hear their second one yet, and they're now apparently on their third vocalist (who sounds wimpy on the Occasus material), but whatever.
- Shinedown's Amaryllis
- Axel Rudi Pell's Circle of the Oath
- Hardline's new album
Can't think of anything else, but I'm sure there's something.
edited 10th Jan '12 8:37:13 PM by Sabertooth1000000000
3DS FC: 1719-3694-1541Apparently the reunited Arcturus confirmed a new album being in the works back in September.
Man, I really need to get around to listening to them.
edited 16th Jan '12 8:38:42 AM by Litis
As do I. Anything with the tag 'avant-garde' must surely have some elements I find appealing.
- Lots of djent tings this year. Periphery, Veil Of Maya, Tesseract, Meshuggah themselves, and (with any luck) Friend For A Foe.
- New Epica album! Fuck yes.
- New Coheed and Cambria.
- New Busta Rhymes, apparently. On the flipside, new Waka Flocka Flame. Oh dear.
- New To-Mera. Should make up for Circus Maximus apparently disappearing into outer space.
BRICK SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD HERE COME DAT BUUULLSHIIT BEET A NIG-GUH AAAASS TIL DA DJ STOP DA MUUSIIIC
more of that, huh?
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!The Cruxshadows are slated to release a new album this year. "Dark Halo"
Post-metal mini-orchestra Cult of Luna are recording an album and writing updates about it in Swenglish. I've been listening to Somewhere Along the Highway recently and loving it, so I'm excited.
edited 19th Jan '12 11:45:38 AM by Litis
Oooh, I have Salvation, definitely gonna check this out.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.First and foremost, I'm really looking forward to the new Swans album. Apart from this, I haven't been keeping a close eye on upcoming releases, but I'm interested in Deltron Event II and Sigur Rós' unnamed new record.
Swans? I think Imma like you.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.Yeah, I love me some Swans. White Light From the Mouth of Infinity and Soundtracks for the Blind (especially Helpless Child, that song is just...hnnnnngg) are pretty much perfect albums. And on the subject of Michael Gira in general, I'm a also a big fan of The Angels of Light's How I Loved You.
Now all we need is for JHM to show up and we can have a Swans fanboy fest.
Oooh, speaking of kinda industrial Genre Roulette bands, The new DJ Food album released today has a track with JG Thirlwell. DO WANT SO MUCH SQUEE. 0w0
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.
Why yes, so you did.
There are snakes in the grass, so we'd better go hunting!