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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 18:19:47 GMT -6
Came here by way of Hymns of the Blackest Light, Vol. 1. I don't need to tell you all that this sort of CD is the underground of the underground.
And if you understand my screen name, you may surmise that there aren't many of us in Middle Tennessee, or the entire middle south for that matter.
But I also come here with a few questions.
The first track from Ohen. I looked them up on metal-archives.com and the track seems to be from a CD called Mortal Man. I can find no source for this CD. Anyone know how I might go about purchasing this?
Is there a Volume 2 in the works? I'd definitely like to know.
A little about me: I work as a journalist, but am also a musician. I have a background in electronics with several industry certifications and also have worked in IT.
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Post by exo on Oct 3, 2017 18:32:58 GMT -6
Welcome, glad to see you here! Ohen has a bandcamp page listing the album for sale as both digital and CD formats, plus some other merch..... ohen.bandcamp.com/merch
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Post by Kaiheijinshu on Oct 3, 2017 18:34:25 GMT -6
Welcome! I believe there are tentative plans to release another one in some form or another. Regarding the Ohen album, it is available for purchase on Bandcamp: ohen.bandcamp.com
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 18:35:49 GMT -6
Thank you very much! Glad to see such a quick reply too!
I will be sure to check out that page. I favor hard copies and it's my preference for CDs as I believe the argument can be made that CDs are a superior format if mastered correctly. Which granted, doesn't always happen, but I still prefer CDs as mentioned.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Oct 3, 2017 19:05:55 GMT -6
Welcome! We're not actively working on a volume 2 right now, but as Kaiheijinshu said, there are plans to, as we get closer to the next anniversary of the forum. Which if I remember correctly, is in February. Edit: And I agree - you certainly won't hear any complaints from me about CDs!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 21:04:26 GMT -6
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Oct 4, 2017 11:28:01 GMT -6
Welcome bro! Glad you're here!
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Post by Borndead on Oct 4, 2017 16:50:39 GMT -6
Welcome ^_^
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Post by Deepfriar on Oct 4, 2017 17:28:39 GMT -6
Hey there! A fellow Tennesseean, huh? Great to have you here and welcome. I'm a few minutes away from you... near Knoxville. ;P Consider myself a huge black metal fan and prefer faith-inspired lyrics. Glad you dig the Hymns release. I need to pick up a copy as well, always meant to but never got around to it and I took a break from buying music for a while. Hopefully, next time I get paid I can snag a couple new CD's.
Anyway, don't be a stranger.
~DF (A.K.A. Mike)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 16:46:11 GMT -6
Thanks again for the kind words and welcomes! Much appreciated.
The Hymns of the Blackest Light is well worth having. I've investigated a few bands further on the basis of that CD.
Love the Black, Death, etc. extreme metal, but lyrically, some of it troubles me. I'm out of town right now and was at a used CD store. Great prices on CDs. Examined some from bands with which I am not familiar. Took a look at a Belphegor CD but there was a title or two on the CD that indicated that wasn't for me.
The remarkable and regrettable thing is that there are so many great underground Christian bands that are every bit as good, if not better. So I'll gravitate toward that. I have found metalhelm.com to be a great resource for finding new bands and CDs.
Lately been listening to Vials of Wrath, Cerimonial Sacred (the new EP is especially good), Dagon, Darkness Before Dawn, A Hill To Die Upon, Frost Like Ashes.
Secular bands lately include Amaranthe (my grade school age son and daughter beg for me to play their newest CD when driving anywhere), along with Beyond The Black (they love that too) and the Punky Meadows Fallen Angel CD which came out over a year ago. Speaking of, it's fantastic. All killer songs, no filler. Great guitar playing, everything firing on all cylinders.
As mentioned, I do prefer CDs. With my background in electronics, I do tend to tinker. I recently ordered a Yaqin CD2 tube buffer which will go in between my Sony CDP-C725 changer and the receiver. I also ordered many different equivalent tubes such as NOS GE, Voshkod, Sylvania equivalents. A lot of them can be had very cheaply as compared to say, old Mullard 12AX7s, which are very expensive (I have a good stash of these too).
I've read so many good things about it and the CD3 that I thought it would be worth trying. Will let you all know how it turns out.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Oct 10, 2017 18:57:01 GMT -6
The remarkable and regrettable thing is that there are so many great underground Christian bands that are every bit as good, if not better. EXACTLY. There's tons of great stuff in this scene, but very, very few bother to investigate far enough to find it. Off the top of my head, you may also like: Bellor, Dying Blaze, Hazeroth, Hawthorn, Neohadth, and Nephesh I know a couple songs by this band and like them. "Call Out My Name" and "Nexus" Though I saw their newest album artwork and find the illuminati symbolism to be ... strange/suspicious.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2017 19:31:21 GMT -6
Hmmm... Interesting. I have both the Japanese audiophile Amaranthe CD and the standard release. The Japanese CD has a slightly different cover. I have it with me, so I will take a look at it. They've had that "A" symbol for a while now, but again, I'll take a closer look at it.
Regarding the differences in sound quality, I'll be darned if I can tell a difference. Maybe when I get the CD2 and do some mods to a vintage Pioneer integrated amplifier, I'll be able to hear it? The Sony changer was a top of the line changer for its time.
I was kind of wondering about their song "Burn With Me" for instance. The lyrics seem cryptic although the mention of another sun may reference the occult Black Sun as one example. Or, does it reference the Hollow Earth theory interior sun as per The Smoky God? Or something else? I have little idea.
But some bands are rife with symbolism, some more overt, such as Huntress. I met Jill Janus after a gig and she said some, let's say, incredible things. She picked up her CD to point out a few things, and I then immediately pointed out the various occult symbols, one after another. Not in an impolite way, but I do know these things. Seemed like then, she couldn't get away from me fast enough. :-)
Crazy thing at that gig several years ago, just about everyone had black shirts, shirts of bands like Enslaved, even people wearing shirts with the inverted pentagram ala Eliphas Levi's depiction of the late 19th Century. I was wearing a tiger-stripe camo T-shirt. Actually felt kind of out of place!
But I don't listen to lyrics much, truth be told, except in some cases. In the Christian metal realm, I am more likely to listen to lyrics, particularly those of Orthodox bands such as Crimson Moonlight, Golgota (who seem to be Orthodox converts) and Dying Blaze.
Crimson Moonlight is another band I listen to a lot. Quite brutal and in a brilliant way. I remember seeing a review on metal-archives.com, I believe it was, in which the reviewer mentioned that while not a Christian, he'd tired of the satanic lyrics of other bands. Crimson Moonlight offered a viable alternative.
Returning to lyrics, I do sometimes catch some lyrics that do seem to reference esoteric topics such as Robin Trower's classic "Day of the Eagle."
About Amaranthe again, I think their The Nexus album is brilliant. I wasn't too crazy about the new CD, but the kids took to it right away. Kind of a funny thing: my daughter seemed to think that other fourth-graders would know who Amaranthe and Beyond The Black are. I had to explain to her that they are European bands with a very small niche following here and that there probably isn't another kid in her entire school, aside from her brother, who would know who these bands are.
And since I've mentioned the hollow earth business, there's a band called Hollow Earth. CD is titled Dead Planet. Really good CD.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Oct 10, 2017 20:10:27 GMT -6
They've had that "A" symbol for a while now, but again, I'll take a closer look at it. Ah, I should have specified just the "cover art", not the overall artwork. I've just seen the cover, which has an eye symbol at the top of the "A". I highly recommend Hesychast (For the record, their old name was Vikarbyrgi, if that rings a bell. Vikarbyrgi's music was Christian, but I can't remember if it was distinctly Orthodox or not)
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Post by Kaiheijinshu on Oct 10, 2017 20:49:40 GMT -6
Righteous Wrath is Orthodox, I believe.
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Post by pravoslavac on Sept 17, 2018 19:40:56 GMT -6
Well, it's been a while and looks like I was deleted. So I re-registered and am back. It's been a crazy year for me, that much I can say briefly.
But I just saw that there is now a Vol. 2 CD, so I am ordering that shortly.
Can't wait to hear it!
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Sept 17, 2018 20:16:50 GMT -6
Welcome back dude! My track on Vol 2 is the Bozkath track. People ........ seem to like it? All I hear is all the mistakes I made though, lol, but there's a LOT of awesome stuff on that compilation, definitely check it out
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Post by pravoslavac on Sept 18, 2018 18:01:39 GMT -6
Will definitely check it out. As I wrote, it's on order. So I should have it in a week or so.
I was kind of surprised I was deleted, by the way. Maybe there are some rules I missed, but I was working a lot until recently.
I'd always had been of the mind that I need to check in here, but with family responsibilities ("Okay, what activity do I need to take the kids to tonight?") and work which sometimes had me working as late as 1 a.m. only to be back at work in the morning, I didn't make it here, or to any other forums for that matter.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Sept 18, 2018 19:35:42 GMT -6
The rule is, an account has to be logged into once every six months. No posts need to be made -- just, a person has to visit the website once in that time. And if the account is inactive for six straight months, the account is deleted. (Though the user isn't banned -- they can always sign up again, as you have!)
Though as I recall Thomas has been more lax with that rule recently.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Sept 19, 2018 8:12:03 GMT -6
I was kind of surprised I was deleted, by the way. Yeah sorry - I went on a cleaning spree not too long ago. Like nocturnaliridescence said, if there's not even a login for 6 months, the account gets removed. I haven't really even considered user names or their posts with this cleaning. There are a few other Christian metal forums that if you look at their member lists, its just pages and pages and pages of accounts that have long been silent. To me, this is an inaccurate portrayal of the forum "roster".
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Post by pravoslavac on Sept 24, 2018 19:43:39 GMT -6
It's not a problem at all. I thought so often of visiting, but something was always grabbing my time and attention. As mentioned, I was visiting no forums.
But, I'm back. Have some extra time now.
Looking forward to the new "Hymns" compilation, the new Vials of Wrath EP CD and the new Hortor.
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Post by pravoslavac on Oct 4, 2018 21:32:26 GMT -6
Got the CD today in the mail. Had a bit of time to listen to the first four tracks and it's off to a very good start. At times I wish this music were more widely appreciated, but this is outsider music even when compared to secular or Satanic extreme metal. We're at the very outer limits of acceptance. Excoriated by the Black Metal crowd to the mainstream Christian artists to others who just don't and won't like it. And then there are those who are completely unaware of it and will never learn of it. On a somewhat related note, one night a few years ago, I was at the church for one of my many-hours long discussions with the priest. When I came in, I had carried in a Hatebreed CD along with a book by Russian Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky. At one point, the priest, quite a brilliant man — fluent in at least six languages as just one example — pointed to the Hatebreed CD and said, "Less of this," and then pointing to the book, "and more of this." I read him part of the lyrics to "Not My Master," and he said, "Hmmm... That's actually quite good."
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Post by pravoslavac on Mar 30, 2019 19:25:40 GMT -6
Got the brand-new Drottnar and was very pleased to see "Funeral of Funerals" on it. Great CD. They're definitely firing on all cylinders on this one.
Just had a tornado roll through here a few miles south. I put the CD on my stereo system in the garage, opened the garage door and turned it up and went outside and watched. Very apropos in a way.
Appears that the tornado touched down about six miles south of here, but cannot be certain. The photos posted by others do seem to indicate that though.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Mar 31, 2019 14:27:43 GMT -6
Just had a tornado roll through here opened the garage door and turned it up and went outside and watched Bro
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Post by pravoslavac on Apr 1, 2019 22:20:28 GMT -6
Yeah, I know.
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Post by pravoslavac on Sept 23, 2020 17:14:07 GMT -6
Been a while, longer than I thought, since I've been here. That said, I finally ordered "Hymns of the Blackest Light, Vol III." Honestly have to say that these compilations are some of the very best artist compilations to be had.
Definitely looking forward to receiving it.
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