Curious! I never heard it before. I guess, to me dark metal is something much heavier, like forementioned Opeth
or Isis
or some of Chelsea Wolfe works
(there’s Aaron Turner from Isis here too!)
So yeah! Never expected Myrkur calling her music like that. Well, it’s her music. So she can call it however she likes, especially considering the fact that sometimes she goes very heavy
Myrkur reminds me of Nightwish which is symphonic metal but with a “dark” twist.
Well, it is, I guess. The whole idea of Black Sabbath was about doing something dark and heavy as I understand. So I guess that’s the core definition of dark metal… Or pre- or proto-metal. Or whatever people call it. I could go with calling them just “metal”, easily.
Let’s kill the mood :
I saw gentle giant open for sabbath in 1973!
Yellow Fang coming in from Thailand with…Selfish:
found here:
who knew there was an early video from this awesome Brisbane band?
That vid has the rage program id. Rage started in the 80s and is still going.
About their “16 Lovers Lane” (also has clips of Cattle and Cane):
Yeah, Go-Betweens are up there with Triffids for my favourite Aussie band. As usual their Peel Sessions are worth a listen
I know I am basic maybe, but my favorite Aussie band is INXS, hahaha
On the unrelated note, I remember an australian movie with Miles Davis, he was playing himself basically. And I remember he was playing synthesizer there with the sampled trumpet. I was watching this movie in the late 90s or early 00s and I was thinking that it can’t be true, it’s probably an overdub of a real trumpet playing, hahaha. Well, it was probably a real sampler, maybe he was using the Synclavier or something. Anyway! Imagine playing with Charlie Parker at the start of your career and using samplers at the end… Wild
Two of the rules I live by are love what you love and don’t yuk someone else’s yum.
To go along on this Australian branch, I’ve been revisiting some of Shinjuku Thief’s albums lately. Darren’s later work is more abrasive (such as the Devolution album below) but there are some real neoclassical gems if you venture into his Witch trilogy.
“Zombie Harem” by Daikaiju
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From their Bandcamp site: Music | Daikaiju.
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Great stuff there. I still have the original vinyl albums of “The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys” and “John Barleycorn Must Die”. Part of what I call the “Post-Woodstock Tragedy” period in music. A lot of it is rather melancholy.
Sorry not sorry
Bloody loved the first two Television albums, back in the day as a kid where I could only buy one or two LPs a month everything good got played to death.
RIP Tom Verlaine
and a great tribute the Family Cat paid a long time ago
I used to know richard lloyd a bit - he played in my friend’s band. television was pretty darned good.
Kinda funny what was once considered heavy, evil, 𝔰𝔞𝔱𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔠 
metal music. Or how my parents gave me concernced looks over Helloween’s Dr. Stein.
