This thread is for discussion on the music you're currently listening to and any new albums you've recently purchased.

Fields of the Nephilim - Mourning Sun


It's certainly been a while since the last FotN release.. yet the sound of Mourning Sun is still recognisably Nephilim - epic soundscapes reminiscent of Psychonaut Lib and Elizium rather than the harsher sounds of the Nefilim's 'Zoon'.

Not sure yet what I think of it. So far nothing on the album grabs me like 'Trees Come Down', 'Moonchild' or even 'Shine', but then I've only listened to the album about once a day since xmas.

As always you're listening to stuff I've never heard of

Kicking back in the middle of the crowd at the moment listening to all the Coheed & Cambria albums then hitting emo head on with the new Hawthorne Heights album and the old 36 Crazy Fists album.

Coheed and Cambria are great, excellent and original (at least, I've not heard stuff like it before) guitar riffs, and a quality lead singer.

I'm currently ploughing through my Winamp playlist. Current most-played are selected tracks from the two latest *D'oh - you know who I mean - curse you Malchik and your vigilance * albums, the whole Richard Cheese collection (absolutely fanastic, get Down with the Sickness and Enter Sandman to hear quality swing/jazz music along with well-know lyrics) and The Strokes, while I wait for their new one to be released.

Oh yes, and the great She Has A Girlfriend by Reel Big Fish to amuse me. More bands should have female lead singers, they ad a great deal of depth to a band.

At the moment, Melissa from a live Allman Brothers show I went to a while ago. This song proves why great music should always be listened to live, and studio versions are at best "almost as good".

Loveme, you have read the forum rules I know because we have talked of them often. But you appear to have forgotten the unmentionables and indeed mentioned them. Next time you are on try a little edit!

Well I am listening to some of the 400 Scottish folksongs arranged by the Austrian Composer Josef Haydn. However I would only recommend acquisition of the 4 CD set (just over 100 songs cost £12 the lot) if you are as insane as I am or have a special yearning for lyrics in 18th century Scots dialect.

Listening to Coheed and Cambria, next up Messhugga or Skindred...

Demons & Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King

Second release of the project, and not worse than the first one. The sound is still more Iced Earth-ish (surprise, what did you think when Jon Schaffer is writing the music?), but Hansi's singing is fitting in nicely. Not a great leap in comparison to the first release, but certainly worth giving it a try. (I'm still rather anticipating the new Blind Guardian release.)

Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar. Man, I love this album. The heavy guitars really get my adrenaline pumping.

Been listening to Waking the Fallen by Avenged Sevenfold quite a bit lately. Not too big a fan of their new stuff.

New acquisitions? Most of the new Depeche Mode CD (iTunes), The Politics of Dancing 2 by Paul Van Dyk, Mutter by Rammstein, The Bravery, and Van Halen's The Best of Both Worlds.

She Wants Revenge is pretty nice too.

Lately I've been listening to TSO (Trans-Siberian Orchestra) They're a rock band that takes classics such as christmas songs and turn them into rock. Pretty cool actually. I recently saw them in New York City at the Garden. They mostly play christmas songs but lately they did an album featuring Beethoven and are curently working on another.

Here's a link to their site.

deathboy - music to crash cars to


Saw them at October's Whitby Goth Weekend (even though they aren't a goth band ), and IMO they were the best band of the weekend. Interesting sound, and intriguing lyrics.

I like just about every song on the album, but if I had to pick a favourite it would probably be 'Crawlout'.

Looking forward to their new album, which I've heard is going to be released soon.

If I'm rediscovering the joys of VNV Nation and Apoptygma Bezerk am I getting old?

If you add to that list Toten Hosen and Rammstein, NIN, Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, Oingo Boingo, Marylin Manson's Beautiful people, Stabbing Westwards, Portishead, Radiohead, Rosetta Stone, Razed in Black,Placebo, Dead can Dance, The Apex Theory and wait for it Gorrillaz, then apart from the last it seems I'm having a retro monent and a half here.

To drive I throw in a bit of Grieg and while I'm moving a bit of sweat and swearing.

A music student friend of mine had some TSO on his Ipod, unfortunately it was a really bad sound on the tiny headphones or something. If I can find some demo stuff I may get it, since I like alternative stuff like that.

is it wierd that I haven't heard of 2/3rds of these bands mentioned? Is it because they are all retro, or is t because I know about the music scene as much as I know about the anatomy of wood-lice?

Yah Im getting old.

>takes a tweezer and starts hunting for grey hair<

Must be from the 80/90 as thats when I hit my clubbing peak. After I could legally drink.Of course. What ?

>subtracts two decades from 31<

Oh

I've danced to most of the bands you mentioned at some point during the last year, I'm sure, and been to a NIN gig last summer.


But then I'm really old.

Mercbird's got me remembering - Die Toten Hosen are one of my absolute favorites and NIN is incredible (I say is because the only permanent member of the band is Trent.) Aphex Twin, Kruder and Dorfmeister, and DJ Kristoff are quality electronica - check 'em out.

Can't say I know what all the fuss over NIN is about. OMG they're back after being away for 9 years? Big whoop, Motley Crew are supposedly coming back too, are we going to have to rave about them as well? NIN's new album sounds mediocre at best and there's nothing innoventive about it at all.

Agreed on Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Saw them live a couple months ago (and with amazing seats, 10th row at farthest) and it was well worth the ticket price. The CDs are good, but not even close to a replacement for their live show... so much better overall, and the covers were all fun. And of course the electric violin is major style points!

Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly..

Now there is a band I'd truely love to see reunite... On the 21st of this month I'm going to see Comfortably Numb, Canada's Pink Floyd Tribute Band... they are supposed to be note for note... so we'll see how that goes... and on April 10th, I'm going to see David Gilmour in toronto...I have a feeling that will be the closest I'll ever be to seeing pink floyd

Edit: I take it that no one on this forum browses and listens to music? Yeesh! whats wrong with you people?!?!

Eric Clapton & BB King - Key To The Highway

just downloaded the cd of Eminem, Curtain Calls.

I downloaded it LEGAL. Planet internet got this nice thingy, you get 1000 pts every month for using planet internet you can spend on downloading songs or cds. Every month your 1000 points are restored, and downloading a full cd costs 1000 points. And i can do 1 month with a cd, so i can get any cd i want for free, with only a 1 month waiting time which i spend listening the newest cd.

The cd of February i chose was: The trinity, of Sean Paul.

I'm in the pop music/rap music thingy.

Music forever

Right now im hooked on primus. bein a bass player, i really apreciate funky powerful bass.
Ive been on the ol audioslave and carcass too lately.

I am lost in the world of Symphonic-Gothic-Metal... Nightwish... Nightwish... Nightwish...

Just got the new Darkthrone ... hell, yeah, The Cult is Alive!
The fact that Fenriz and Nocturno Culto have actually released a digipack is not the only surprise of this new release. The press releases announcing the single (gasp!) and album were already fun to read and every song of this album is groovy, memorable and ... different (quote: "Probably sounds like Motörhead meeting Hellhammer on a Crust Punk/Necrothrash trip." - I wouldn't know a better way to characterize it ). Darkthrone have consequently developed the style they already employed on Hate Them and Sardonic Wrath (and this release contains even solos!) - if you like some not-so-everyday Black Metal, you'll love this release.

Besides Classic Heavy Metal ... I still love all the music of Jeremy Soule, the composer of the Morrowind Theme Music. He has done music for other video games too...I wish I could remember which ones, might be Lineage, but I wouldn't want to say so definitely when I'm not sure.
I'll google it & then come back and add the information..


Composer Jeremy Soule = Morrowind, Guild Wars, Ice/Wind/Dale & *yes* Oblivion ! probably others too..The Secret of Evermore, Lysan's Lair, Kresselak's Tomb, Total Annialation, Giants, Beauty and the Beast, Final Hour, Socom, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

I am currently listening to Sirenia's album, An Elixer for Existance.

One of my mates told me the chick from this band may have been taken Tarja Turunen's place in Nightwish, so i gave them a listen. They're friggin awesome, so it was a pleasant suprise to find out the male vocals were done by teh same guy from Tristiania.

Current song is 'Save Me From Myself'.

Huh, know where he got the rumor from? If it's true, good to hear that... I've had my doubts about replacing her easily, maybe for no reason?

Apart from all the typical timeless stuff (Floyd, Stones etc) I've recently gone all retro and started listening agsin to KLF, Messiah, The Mission, NWA, Judas Priest (Ram It Down), Motorhead, 90s house, and plenty of others that have marked epoques in my life.

I've also just bought "Hours" by David Bowie, which was used as the soundtrack to Omikron - The Nomad Soul, a corkin' videogame by Quantic Dream!!!

I switch styles all the time, from rap/pop music i'm now into rock and the like. The offspring, kaiser chiefs, etc. Always try to give every music type a chance, and I like this one

My boss swearing down the hall.

Sick Twisted Individual (no, not you Stampede - it really is the name of the CD ) Vol. I


Got an absolute bargain on this fantastic compilation featuring tracks by, among others, Killing Miranda, Libitina, Uninvited Guest and Arkam Asylum. Favourite tracks have to be Zeitgeist Zero's 'Tombstone Tourist' and 'Love Like Broken Glass' by Cauda Pavonis (which works surprisingly well as a soundtrack for EVE Online combat missions... )

Theta - would you mind explaining what kind of music that is? Cyberpunk Vampire Rock or something? Is there anything slightly more mainstream you could compare it to, to help a poor ignorant soul like me decide whether he'd like it or not?

I'm always up for new sensations in music, and would be glad of your assistance!

That's alright. I would have assumed you were talking about my boss anyway, as that's her title at the company.

I too am interested in knowing more about this music.

I'm absolutely hopeless when it comes to categorising music... don't really know what you'd call it... dark alternative? Modern goth?

Best thing to do would probably be visiting the bands' websites/myspace sites and listening to audio samples. Most of the tracks on the CD I'd heard on internet radio before, but unfortunately the stations I used to listen to all the time (Funeral Nation, Deathrock Radio) have been offline for ages.

Having great trouble trying to find listen-to-able samples of the groups Theta mentioned, but I have a feeling it could be something like Fields of the Nephilim. Just recently I've been recompiling my collection from years ago (Sisters of Mercy, The Mission etc) and experimenting with newer stuff. The Nephilim's album Mourning Sun is a perfect evolution of their older music, and a must if you like Gothic.

On a much 'lighter' note, I'm also currently trying to find as much rare KLF as I can. If anybody's got any ideas or sources, please let me know!

I recently tumbled across an Enya album (Paint the sky with stars) and though it's not my usual taste, I still really liked it.

And also, "The Theme" by Jurgen Vries (AKA Darren Tate) is damn hot too.

Right, so I've just found some Killing Miranda, and personally I would say it was "ElectroGoth" - I don't know if it exists, but I'm sure Theta would agree it is quite fitting! Kind of ElectroPunk, but a bit darker, if only in the lyrics. One track, "Embrace" is not bad, but I must say my gothic tastes are a little more purist than that, as for me the electro side of it somewhat detracts from the overall Gothic feeling. SoM were always quite upbeat, and I'm a great fan of Electronic music and house, but KM doesn't quite do it for me, I'm afraid.

Currently looking for Jurgen Vries..................

I love electronic music. Vangelis is one of my all time favourite artists. I also really dig Depeche Mode and Sheep on Drugs.

Right now I am listening to....trance! There I said it! I am not a fan of house, or rave culture at all, but I just find good trance to be a lot moodier than most boop-bop-beep music. Has a nice sci-fi feel to it too.

Yeah, I love Vangelis too!

Stampede: What do you mean "There, I said it " !?! What's wrong with trance music? There is (or was) loads of decent trance around. Take the king himself Paul Oakenfold (check out his Goa Mix for a beautiful journey through several moods and acoustic sensations.) My dad will never admit to liking it, but even he says that it is "very well orchestrated." I like some Vangelis, although there are only a few selected pieces of classical music that I really like. Carmina Burana, Beethovens MoonlightSonata, and The Concerto de Orange Juice ( ) or rather the Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo is beautiful.



Currently listening to the Utah Saints from years ago - nice upbeat melodic semi-trancey electronic stuff from early 90s. For harder kicks I like Messiah's 21st Century Jesus. (Stampede don't have a go at me for mentioning religion so often! )

Also just listened to Yögen Fruz - I mean Jurgen Vries , which is not bad at all - kinda happy dream house with a trancey twist. Let nobody say I'm not a dab-hand at music classification!!!



If any of you like ElectroPunk, check out the Weak on the Rocks album by Cycle.

Myself, i was listening to "Ride On" by an awesome Druidic Celtic Metal band called Cruachan. However, i am thinking about blasting my Seelenschmerz album from BlutEngel, or playing Black Roses and The Oxidising Angel (same band) back2back.. I need my Constance Rudert and Ulrike Goldmann fix this day

greenday is my fav

Right now, it's Hot Buttered: Popcorn. That tune was way ahead of its time.

"On an Island" by David Gilmour. Takes a bit of getting into like any good Floyd album, but well worth it.

Gotye's album 'Like Drawing Blood'. It's got plenty of funk - tracks like 'The Only Way' and 'Learnalilgivinanlovin' are great - and a good side order of soul. The vocals on 'Heart's a Mess' are particularly soulful, maybe even emo if you ignore the humming funk beat.

Oh, and I went to see TV Rock do their stuff last Friday. Finally, some dirty electro house playing in my town! Come on and flaunt it, huh, what yo mama gave you...

Something awesome just happened to me. I just came back from buying "new" speakers for my work PC. The local pawnshop down the road from my office always has decent speakers still in the box. I picked up a set and the clerk tested it out with some CD he said was trance/pop. It played for a few seconds and I liked what I heard.

So, I am paying for my speakers and I see that CD lying on the counter with no actual box, going for ten bucks. It says ULTRA on it and nothing else, so I pick it up too.

I play my new CD and it turns out it's an entire Depeche Mode album that I was not aware of! I totally scored a complete bargain on one of my favourite bands.

Well, I'm happy anyway.

I just discovered that I can go to Reading Festival this year, the greatest (probably) rock music festival in the country - well, if you excuse Download, which was a bit harcore for my tastes, and apparently Guns 'n' Roses were awful So right now I'm currently hunting fown as much music of the smaller bands that are playing as I can, for research purposes.

So far, Anti-Flag, Millencolin, The Like, and a couple other ones sound good. There's loads of girl-fronted bands this year, which I'm all for as I like the sound of female voices backed up by hard-core guitars, something you don't hear too much of. Then there's the bigger names - Franz Ferdinand (although headliners? Give me a break), Kaiser Chiefs, Muse (yay!), Coheed and Cambria (oh baby), Jet, Hundred Reasons, Killswitch Engage (under all these other bands :o) Slayer, and so many other. Check out lineup and go green with envy because the tickets are all sold out : http://www.meanfiddler.com/displayPage_rea...58&URLID=67

Damn, this post soudns like an advert. Don't ban me, please!!

You should definitely try and see The Subways at Reading. I saw them at the Big Day Out in Sydney this year and they were awesome. And if you like faux-70s rock Wolfmother are good fun and real crowdpleasers. I saw them at Sydney as well.

My friends are huge fans of The Subways, they saw them last year in Bristol and said they were great, but frankly on their album they sound terrible. I'll probably get dragged to see them unless there's someone else I want to see then. Wolfmother aren't bad, I've listened to about half of their album and it sounds fun.

Then again, the show-stoppers of last year are going to be hard to beat. Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl drumming, hell yeah) Iron Maiden , Marilyn Manson (although for the entire show he had an, erm, itch in his crotch area ), they were all great showmen, and the headliners for this year are a bit naff in comparison. Muse will be good though, as long as they do their old stuff as well as stuff from their new album.

And oh yeah, The Killers last year were terrible. Spot-on musically, but all the charisma of a constipated dog. They said about 5 words to the crowd - it would have been better to stick a stereo on the stage than have them play. Avoid

Yeah I've heard that about the Killers. The techno remix of Mr Brightside gets the crowd going though - I went to an outdoors dance party near Merapi in Indonesia and the entire crowd of around 2000 people just went off. They're definitely a band to be listened to either on-album or remixed.



They've got a really energetic set so they should be good value even if you're not a huge fan of their music. If you can make it they're definitely worth a try at least.

Franz Ferdinand are good live as well, although I'm surprised they're headlining. I thought they were only really big in Oz.



If you don't like the album you probably won't like their live set. They were off their tits when they played the BDO so weren't that exciting. I was there for the music so I was happy, but your results may vary.