for milliondead and the dissonant lads

https://open.spotify.com/album/4bg542SxCTMoBlDiITpdpu
https://open.spotify.com/album/3TE5qR9sbJ01hAS35UYHeC
https://open.spotify.com/album/13agtu4Iibw8M2OhtghJU4

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there's still music that isn't metal?

Album Rating: 4.0

to be fair I do listen to a lot of non-metal, but the vast majority of it isn’t particularly dissonant. I’d say my ratio is definitely higher within metal.

noise music exists and is waiting for you

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I like some noise rock (as I believe you know), but yeah dissonant fuzz/drone or highly experimental atonal weirdness is a big ??? - sure as hell doesn’t sound very appealing.

Can I just check Zorn instead? - surely he has some material in that wheelhouse, no? I’ve only heard his Painkiller project.

noise =/= noise rock
but yes, The Dream Membrane boi
or that sax solo from hell off Taboo and Exile

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The noise I’m imagining (perhaps unfairly) goes into much greater, almost incomprehensible depths, way beyond my rather limited repertoire.

I’ll have to do some digging.

The shitter the better

attaboi

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Your dig looks weird Johnny.

Lol my dig is p weird, tons of fun, some big riffs and some beautiful gaze. Not q noise though :[

Album Rating: 5.0

You guys should check out Glenn Branca's early work like Ascension and Lesson No.1. He also has a post punk band Theoretical Girls. Noise rock, no wave, and even post-hardcore are pretty good about being dissonant. A lot of Sonic Youth's discog is insane. The album run from Bad Moon Rising through Dirty are full of disso-rock hits. Also--Lydia Lunch. This Heat. Early Swans. Big Black. Mclusky. DNA. Cherubs. The Birthday Party. Drive Like Jehu. Polvo.



There's tons of modernist classical music that's insanely dissonant: Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Gyorgy Ligeti, Charles Ives, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, etc. Then insane jazz, Last Exit, Peter Brotzmann, John Coltrane, Otomo Yoshide, Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Sonny Sharrock. Harsh noise and power electronics are awesome genres too. I'm honestly a hound for harsh sounds. It's as beautiful as consonance to me now.



Edit: @Jacquibim: I'm literally going to listen to all of those. I love orchestral.

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Your first paragraph is of no use to me, pretty much all good stuff though. No offence, just showing you where I stand...

Regardless of that your second paragraph certainly makes up for it.

I might have to make some notes. Thanks.

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I didn't take any offense! Happier that you already enjoy and have a relationship with the stuff as opposed to me just putting you onto it now. I forgot to mention Flipper for really dissonant, slow punk. Have you heard Pussy Galore and Harry Pussy? The first is like noisy af punk blues and the second is basically the harshest, best noise rock band I've ever heard.



And I'm so glad if I could mention anything you might find cool!



Edit: I ALMOST FORGOT. Kengo Iuichi has some very twisted shit on the "folk" side of the spectrum. Tons of harsh chords and even screams.

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jeeeez...are you a walking music encyclopedia Million?

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Not yet, but I do hope I can get that way one day. lol I just try to keep listening to new stuff steadily and also retain/understand it. And, like us all, I've just been listening to my preferred weirdness for a lot of years now.

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"and also retain/understand it"

^word

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checking back in to say that this is perfect

Album Rating: 5.0

Subsequent listens are rewarding for this one - I barely paid attention to this band for years; but a friend rec'd me this a couple months ago... and nigh-*insisted* that I gave this one a 'whirl'... and goddammit - if it's a reflection of where I'm at in appraising music as compared to when the last one was out, then fine... but I also ascertained that this is arguably the best one,from opinions I've gathered... either way, I'm not sure if it falls into the unofficial sub-genre "cosmic death metal", but I've been on a cosmic metal kick ever since Monstrosity's 2018 album - Blood Incantation last year further reinforced it... and Ulcerate basically cemented it into scribe-tablets adorned/amended with Hastur the Unspeakable's rules (first of which, would be "don't take my name in vain - in fact don't ever say it or Yogsothoth will kill you in 8 diff time periods simultaneously") - o_O anyway, yeah, I'm kickin myself for having slept on this band... this one is a banger cuz it's bangin, son - look forward to delving into the back-catalogue for sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8piO5m6LCxU

Footage of the new material played live.