Humanity's Last Breath has been in rotation for a good couple of months. Completely blown-out, over the top production:

Music also very derivative somehow.


One the one hand - Yes, absolutely. On the other, the obvious influences are pretty good: Motorik-Drumming, 2000s Crescendo/Looper Rock, 24TET with plenty of nods to Saharan Guitar music, a few sprinklings of the spacier 70s prog - I have a feeling these ...

What if Doom were made with a techno template
https://ternesc.bandcamp.com/track/993

Similary, stupid simple riffage for head banging
https://perctrax.bandcamp.com/album/kepslok

House can riff just as good:
https://metroarea.bandcamp.com/track/atmosphrique

Less a Riff, more a melody, but this one ...

Slayers atonality is completely intentional. Doesn't mean one has to enjoy it but it's definitely missing the point.

The Walkmen - The Rat, I can still dig quite a bit of their discography but that song is the highest peak by a fair amount.

Paint it Black is the archetype of this phenomenon to me.

Stevie is s one of the peak musical talents of the 20th century, without a doubt. But my personal preference is always Curtis, his music just resonates with me, a groove so deep and wide that just sucks me in. Totally timeless while the individual elements are very much of its time: The wah-wah ...

Hot Take: Autechre are the Grateful Dead of electronic music.

RDJ is the Brian Eno.

Has anybody ever seen anybody actually play one of these fugly things in a band?

So many times. Bands ranging from indie-prog to prog-hardcore to prog-metal to prog-prog-prog-clownly-clown-clown-spam-spam-sausage and spam


Has the Tosin Abasi been posted yet? Because it really deserves to be ...

In a metal-riff context they can be fun. Let there be squeelies:


That 80s hard-rock thing where every free space is filled with them is not cool.

Diamanda Galas outspooks them both by a good bit: