Eyedea & Abilities - By The Throat 2009

like atmosphere and astronautalis (but fucking FAST) mashed, but very bleak, aggressive, and depressed (je pense).

it's flawless and perfectly arranged, fully thought-out and mixed, but it seems so...

throwaway to them. (and i have to stress that that's more lyrical than the actual tone of the album; the lyrics are phenomenal and their talent is undeniable. i love the shit out of this)

im projecting ("he's projecting now, from downtown!") for sure, but it just sounds like a production from people who just can't care about anything anymore. people who have just been weighted down to the point that the act of making music feels inadvertently sarcastic. i dunno, i imagine you can be really good at something and it can still lose its luster. and then he died from opiate toxicity.

i guess i attribute a lot of that sense to how prolific and guttural the bass guitar sounds throughout the album. he raps like christ, and the beats are great, and then it just sounds like a whacked out early-nirvana is sitting in the background fuzzing their way into oblivion.


Empathy is the poor man's cocaine
And love is just a chemical by any other name
I like the way your pheromones make me sleepy
This far away I still smell you inside me

01. Hay Fever 2:20
02. Spin Cycle 3:39
03. Time Flies When You Have A Gun 1:44
04. Burn Fetish 2:55
05. Sky Diver 4:16
06. Junk 2:46
07. Forgive Me For My Synapses 1:02
08. This Story 2:33
09. Factory 1:55
10. Smile 4:02
11. By The Throat 2:41

http://www.mediafire.com/?ywttmybn24e

Nyktalgia - S/T 2004

Because I just remembered I've never put it up, and I'm pretty much done with Black Metal November, this is first from the impending list to be posted. This is one of the best black metal albums ever. The songwriting is amazing and very melodic, the songs are long which allow them to actually go places and progress and change tempo and riff like a billion times, the vocals are something I cannot imagine ever coming out of a human being, the levels of each instrument are perfect, the drumming is flawless, and it makes you want to die.

4 minutes44seconds into Exitus Letalis is the most depressing and/or horrifying part of any song I have ever heard. The drums stop and he just starts fucking shrieking. I have had many, many strange moments in my life with that playing in the background.

1.	Misere Nobis	11:06
2.	Lamento Larmoyant	09:56
3.	Cold Void	07:33
4.	Exitus Letalis	11:51

http://www.mediafire.com/?m2etdnm2jjq

Xasthur/Leviathan - Split 2004

Not enough evil on this blog lately, and it's almost winter/currently is fall, so this is unacceptable.

This is one of the best splits ever, in my opinion. You've got two of the founders of the USBM depressive, one man Black Metal genre on one album making some of the most sorrowful, sad, and beautiful music ever to be put out. Xasthur's side has a couple of repeat songs (which is the norm for him) that make the other versions seem unnecessary. Leviathan's 3 tracks are all new to the album and are equally as great as Xasthur's side. Sounds a lot different from Wrest's other tunes, but it's different in a very good way.

All together, you've got about an hour of the most bleak Black Metal the US has to offer right below. I suggest you get to listenin' and sitting alone in the dark feeling awful about everything, forever.

http://www.mediafire.com/?m2gdt1uyyvz