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Tatsu is back? Hi yes, heard of this one... but it's no substitute for an album ... I miss his old style good fullon with occasional samples from computer games and films at least it shows that the guy's still alive in the scene

I remember I checked that one out and found the music quite dull, nothing outstanding at all. Sort of makes me dislike the cover aswell

so it's September 2009 now? is that definite?

Abasio, try Chilling Matenda ... Mediteran is a very summerish album ... but also his first one, Chilling Matenda. Check 'em

for the german version it was even May 2005... but still, nothing after that. dead?

Matenda - No Return They passed it ... the point of no return. daa-daa-daa...

I say no. Gandalf would be what I call New Age. And apart from this argument the whole thread here is pointless. Some people say Ishq is great, some say it's crap ... nobody shows any signs of wanting to understand the other side or anything. You can as well stop the subject, everything else would be wasted energy. I like Ishq btw ... or what I heard of it. I prefer to discuss what's New Age.

Mittelstandskinder Ohne Strom

Klangstrahler Projekt ... I rather precieved them as hippie style psy music (not "bad" hippie style though), not really dark at all ... but still good, only in a different way... If you like Klangstrahler Projekt, then check out old Feuerhake ... it's very much in that style... Totally different league to Prex though ... I actually recommended Prex because Noma was one of the two members The other member was S-Range ... and his old stuff (pre-2001-album) was pretty dark progressive too ... Serial Overtypes for example... Old Matenda (mostly pre-"Tunnel Vision" stuff ... although the track Pusher on this one is awesomeness!) ... Bonaca/Mission Impossible, Moment/Sophisticated Mind ... definitely awesome. Also check out compilation tracks. Old 12 Moons stuff is dark prog aswell ... track Elak Jävel for example and many more ... and furthermore it's free because 12 Moons decided to put all his own releases online ( http://www.12moons.se/ ... look there!). Also check old Magnetrixx! Tritschall and Phase Shift albums were great ... Tohuwabohu FTW! Mittelstandskinder Ohne Strom were awesome too! And Zerotonine! And Spirallianz! You should check the stuff of the Vibration compilation series from Com.Pact/Medium/Midijum (that series went through three labels!) ... they've got a pretty good style aswell! And actually, Shiva Chandra stuff is pretty much in that vein aswell ... stuff from Auricular album in particular. Also check out the group Auricular. And Prime Time Plastix. Many similarities in the sound ... which is obvious, because Daniel Vernunft is a member of all three... (wow, I never realized I'm such a sucker for dark prog ... but I am ) edit: also check Anakoluth-Dwelling In The Void EP ... available for free from Ektoplazm: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/anakol...in-the-void-ep/ also Etnoscope ... all EPs before their first (and one and only) album ... with tribal elements ... excellent!

Anthony Rother is a genius... Father, Hacker, Nacht der Götter, Little Computer People, Don't Worry, My Name Is Telekraft ... just to name a few songs... Anthony Rother has an air of technology-critisism in his music that I really have begun to like with a passion. And if it's not technology-critical then it's some stuff that makes you think. Or it's just plain good. And it's double good if you understand german. BTW, check out his remix of Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express!

yeah, RIP he made good music... but the news about him in the last years were

heyyy, you know Quantum State! cool right, they should release another one too...

Solar Fields - Sol: It's for obvious reasons though, since I played Mirror's Edge

That's more or less what I would say too. I scored like 3 out of 17 ... I'm not a believer. I listen to the music mainly because I enjoy the sound and because I like to run to it. But I can't deny that I also like the air of mystery in some of the tracks. And I like to think about it and let my mind wander. But really believing I do only a little...

Yes, I was a huge fan of Mortiis back then aswell. Got into it as he released The Smell of Rain and there was an article in a local music magazine and I saw his appearance and got interested. From the image I thought that it was the most brutal music ever, but then I realized it actually was really damn good! The Smell of Rain is his best album IMO. The ambient he did I loved too. I got all his ambient albums he did under the name Mortiis. All of them are good, but Født til å Herske and The Stargate are my favourites... What he did later with The Grudge I didn't like a lot anymore. There's only one song on it that I really like: Way Too Wicked. And I also don't like the image he adopted. He now even ditched the mask! A pity. However, not long ago I discovered the Some Kind of Heroin remix album and I have to admit that there are some really damn good and driving remixes on it, some even done by Mortiis themselves. I'm seriosuly thinking about buying it, it's great... lol, Nocte Obducta is a german band, I understand their lyrics But german lyrics in black metal are actually terrible, to me they always come across in a kind of "I want, but I can't" pseudo-epic way ... nah... And you're right, black metal vocals are always terrible ... grunting, howling, terrible. The only band where I really like it is Finntroll, they're Trolls, they're supposed to grunt ... oh and since I'm a fan of Viking Metal, I can bear the vocals there too, because it adds to the atmosphere of battle and excitement... Although I actually like bands that have the black metal vibe, but have not so terrible vocals. Falkenbach have some good songs in this way, this one for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyy1NlbR7bY ... and Bathory aswell, I'm a big fan of Bathory's later albums. And I'm a huge fan of big choirs, preferrably man-choirs. Therion are my heroes when it comes to that, they've got the best symphonic arrangement. Opera metal, absolutely wonderful! That's some vocals that fit to the music.

this is great! thanks for sharing the guy's a genious. check out the other vids of him aswell ... especially the galleon and toxic ones!

urg ... that one really is the puke-on-the-floor kind of bad... even Becoming Insane was better ... and I didn't like that one at all either. a shame

yeah, cheers and thanks for the music

Progressive. I'm actually more of a proghead than a psyhead. Although it depends.

For me that's definitely S-RANGE - ANOTHER THEORY I'm waiting hands down five years for that one since the first news of it went out. The last album Space was even six years ago. There was an illegal release ... and an official single, but these two don't count for me. But despite all, Anthony's still on it and making music, I try my best to catch news here and there and ask him every now and then ... he's still producing and playing live and there are plans for some releases this year. Although there have been plans for the last years aswell, so who knows ... but I'm not abandoning hope. On the contrary. This guy's still making good music and one day or another there's definitely going to be a release Ah? Interesting news. Silion Sound was already on my list of dead artists ... good to hear he's still on it, however long it may take for another album, I'll definitely be waiting for it But there's another sorrow child of mine and that's ETNOSCOPE ... they haven't released anything in ages aswell, aside for a few compilation tracks. The last news that I caught were that the computer crashed and they gotta rebuild like half of all the tracks again ... but that news is already two years old now. A pity, for they have some great tracks in petto ... check out the sample of Twilight on their page! Rasmus now has a sideproject though, PUSHERSTREET ... with that one there's more going on. No release yet though ... hope it will come, the music is great!

I'd definitely say yes. Albeit that it's some extraordinarily GOOD dark progressive! btw, check out Prex if you like Noma

very interesting! thanks for the suggestion

A very stunning review there above ... will be hard to come close to that anyway, here's my 2 cents: first and foremost it's the other way round, the artist is called QUANTUM STATE and the album is called Subatomic Travellers. The style is rather dark, with a vibrating bassline. Not very melodic. A guitar can be heard at some point or another ... but it doesn't sound annoying. The sound comes across in a kind of dirty, non-polished way, which is actually very good for the underground atmosphere and a reason why I like this album pretty much. Another big reason is track 6, Natural Born Idiots ... that one is really a fast killer! The rest of the tracks isn't bad either (only filler I can think of is maybe the Dark Trancer ... didn't like that one at all), but none of them is as good as the 6th one IMO, not even Hippies With Credit Cards. Anyway. It's a pretty nice album that I like to listen to every once in a while ... no breathtaking masterpiece though. Still, I can recommend it

whoa, guys, respect ... I've never expected to have some of my favourite metal artists mentioned here! Summoning, yes, that's a totally great band. My favourite when it comes to epic black metal. Absolutely love them, since they're fellas from Austria aswell Dol Guldur is good, but I found Stronghold much better. Also Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame. Can't speak for the last one though, I'm keeping it for a special moment ... but this song should clear out all doubts, very good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhEsuwp6g8 (singing in orc language ). Minas Morgul isn't that special IMO (except for the song Lugburz). They've moved away from their black metal arrangements ... now it's trumpets, choir, marching drums and tuned down guitars. Actually brillant. You know Mortiis? POWNAGE! Congratulations, you're the first person I ever met who uttered this name not on the official band forum. What's your favourite album? Do you know all eras? The past? Sideprojects? Tell me, I wanna know! yes, Sunn O))) is awesome ... very interesting sound, practically dark ambient made with guitars ... interesting good, good... I might add: HOLLENTHON. Absolutely awesome music in the veins of a bit Summoning, but less solitude in the sound and more might and power. Hollenthon's awesome. check this out for his old stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9iYSwkICvQ check this out for his new stuff: (rough, but gets brillant in the later part) and apart from all the good and epic stuff I just gotta mention the finnish humppa metal crazyness I so love ... namely: FINNTROLL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGywo81G6lk&feature=fvst KORPIKLAANI: TROLLFEST: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Puj0u8p5og p0wnage forever! \m/

yea, "the music in the future isn't music", we know