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 Post subject: Skagos - Ást (#6645)
PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:35 pm 
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Skagos - Ást
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Love is black metal. This album is really, really good. After not being too initially impressed, I warmed up to it and really dig it now. Learning each song is really the best way to describe beginning to like this album.


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Love is black metal. This album is really, really good. After not being too initially impressed, I warmed up to it and really dig it now. Learning each song is really the best way to describe beginning to like this album.


It takes a lot of time and patience of the listener but the result is absolutely worth it.
Some great choices this week, rio. Great review.


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Black metal is going in strange directions I don't really understand. I still like listening to this stuff though... just gives me weird vibes. It's black metal but somehow not....


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Rhys wrote:
Black metal is going in strange directions I don't really understand. I still like listening to this stuff though... just gives me weird vibes. It's black metal but somehow not....


It is GREEN metal!! :dio:

Help spread the term!!

I do need to give this one a proper listen, along with more Panopticon...they are both on the list.


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Blossoms will sprout from the carcass is awesome! I really like this Green Metal stuff, or Cascadian BM.


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Meh, if I can listen to naziblack, I might as well give this one a change...


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Meh, if I can listen to naziblack, I might as well give this one a change...


Fair enough, you'll always still have your underground dungeon of despair to retreat to!


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Rhys wrote:
Black metal is going in strange directions I don't really understand. I still like listening to this stuff though... just gives me weird vibes. It's black metal but somehow not....


Yes, absolutely. Quite a few bands taround the Cascadian scene have the same kind of effect.

The strange thing is this band takes the musical elements of BM, as well as a lot of the lyrical themes (e.g. nature) but somehow comes up with something that is very different in atmosphere to what we would call BM. A lot more chilled out and happy, in many ways. I could have made this point more clearly in the review, I think, but tis done now. Petrychor is another band I got that feeling really strongly off.


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Petrychor is another band I got that feeling really strongly off.
Definitely. Petrychor makes you want to be a hippy for world peace while Burzum/Mayhem makes you want to be a hippy to be like husker.


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rio wrote:
Rhys wrote:
Black metal is going in strange directions I don't really understand. I still like listening to this stuff though... just gives me weird vibes. It's black metal but somehow not....


Yes, absolutely. Quite a few bands taround the Cascadian scene have the same kind of effect.

The strange thing is this band takes the musical elements of BM, as well as a lot of the lyrical themes (e.g. nature) but somehow comes up with something that is very different in atmosphere to what we would call BM. A lot more chilled out and happy, in many ways. I could have made this point more clearly in the review, I think, but tis done now. Petrychor is another band I got that feeling really strongly off.


Older black metal bands often used nature as a theme, but in a much more negative way. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss is all about nature and the past, but when I listen to it I get a melancholic and hateful vibe, like "shit sucks cause the christians took away all that and the modern world I'll never get back to my pagan roots etc"

The vibe I get from Skagos is something like "Oh hey nature is so wonderful lets just bask in it's epic glory." I don't get the vibe of hate or malice that 99% of black metal presents.

Anyway at the end of the day it's enjoyable to listen to even if it has a strangely peaceful vibe/


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Rhys wrote:
rio wrote:
Rhys wrote:
Black metal is going in strange directions I don't really understand. I still like listening to this stuff though... just gives me weird vibes. It's black metal but somehow not....


Yes, absolutely. Quite a few bands taround the Cascadian scene have the same kind of effect.

The strange thing is this band takes the musical elements of BM, as well as a lot of the lyrical themes (e.g. nature) but somehow comes up with something that is very different in atmosphere to what we would call BM. A lot more chilled out and happy, in many ways. I could have made this point more clearly in the review, I think, but tis done now. Petrychor is another band I got that feeling really strongly off.


Older black metal bands often used nature as a theme, but in a much more negative way. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss is all about nature and the past, but when I listen to it I get a melancholic and hateful vibe, like "shit sucks cause the christians took away all that and the modern world I'll never get back to my pagan roots etc"

The vibe I get from Skagos is something like "Oh hey nature is so wonderful lets just bask in it's epic glory." I don't get the vibe of hate or malice that 99% of black metal presents.

Anyway at the end of the day it's enjoyable to listen to even if it has a strangely peaceful vibe/


Yeah, that sums it up pretty well.


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And my need-to-check-out list just gets even more ridiculously long...


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traptunderice wrote:
rio wrote:
Petrychor is another band I got that feeling really strongly off.
Definitely. Petrychor makes you want to be a hippy for world peace while Burzum/Mayhem makes you want to be a hippy to be like husker.


people want to be like husker?


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Rhys wrote:
traptunderice wrote:
rio wrote:
Petrychor is another band I got that feeling really strongly off.
Definitely. Petrychor makes you want to be a hippy for world peace while Burzum/Mayhem makes you want to be a hippy to be like husker.


people want to be like husker?
That's the only reason to listen to Mayhem or Burzum, no?


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