Music post
Oct. 2nd, 2024 04:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lucymonsterNever, Neverland by Unto Others: I am SO UNHINGED over this album, you guys don’t even know. The weird thing is, I was slightly apprehensive while they were releasing singles in the lead-up: I liked each song on its own, but I wasn’t sure about the coherence between them, or about the move away from the very distinctive heavy metal/goth rock fusion of the previous two albums. I think it’s one of those cases where I loved their old work SO MUCH that I wasn’t sure any new release was going to fully live up to my hype. I needn’t have worried. This album hangs together beautifully from start to finish, and feels like a really natural evolution of Unto Others’ style: it’s still hitting those goth and classic metal notes, but folding in a really fun and creative blend of new influences as well, from call-and-response arena rock to horror punk to jarringly radio-friendly ballad pop. I’ve listened the whole way through about a million times in the...week? maybe fortnight? since it was released, and the only shame is that it has completely obliterated any uncertainty over what my album of the year is going to be. 2024 can go home now - no one else is going to release anything I love more than this.
Special shoutout to Suicide Today for being equal parts heartwarming and fucking hilarious, and to Fame for its insanely catchy riffs.
Die Urkatastrophe by Kanonenfieber: blackened death metal about World War I! I like this quite a lot, but I’m unable to give it a truly fair hearing, because the reason I like it (it’s almost like having a new 1914 album) is also the most disappointing thing about it (it’s not actually a new 1914 album). No one (imo) really stands a chance when compared too directly with 1914, but this is still a solid, enjoyable slab of metal about the horrors of trench warfare, and what can I say? I’m weak for that shit. Looking forward to combing through his historical sources on my next, more thorough listen!
Just a heads up: we are very much engaged with WWI from the German perspective here. The guy’s not fash as far as I can tell from this side of the language barrier, but if loud, militaristic songs about stormtroopers defending their glorious fatherland hit wrong for you then this rec might be one to skip.
Special shoutout to Suicide Today for being equal parts heartwarming and fucking hilarious, and to Fame for its insanely catchy riffs.
Die Urkatastrophe by Kanonenfieber: blackened death metal about World War I! I like this quite a lot, but I’m unable to give it a truly fair hearing, because the reason I like it (it’s almost like having a new 1914 album) is also the most disappointing thing about it (it’s not actually a new 1914 album). No one (imo) really stands a chance when compared too directly with 1914, but this is still a solid, enjoyable slab of metal about the horrors of trench warfare, and what can I say? I’m weak for that shit. Looking forward to combing through his historical sources on my next, more thorough listen!
Just a heads up: we are very much engaged with WWI from the German perspective here. The guy’s not fash as far as I can tell from this side of the language barrier, but if loud, militaristic songs about stormtroopers defending their glorious fatherland hit wrong for you then this rec might be one to skip.
