Blodulv ‎– III - Burial (2005)

Related:

Blodulv - Kristkrossare (2003)

Deadwood - Ramblack (2008)

Swedish raw black metal. Simple riffs, minimal songwriting, drum machine. Cold.

Track listing:

1. Intro

2. Burial

3. Imperial Sanctum

4. Tank Warfare

5. Saint for Raping

6. My Offering

7. Haubitser

8. Beast Nocturnal

9. Outro

Be these dogdays a curse

Or a sign that we must murder?

You should also listen to:

Torturium - Deathcult's Temple (2005)

Nosvrolok - The Luciferian Doctrine (2006)

Sunshine Fix - A Spiraling World of Pop (1993)

Related:
The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One (1999)

Early Elephant 6 magic courtesy of E6 co-founder Bill Doss. If you're expecting this to be warm, fuzzy, wistful, lo-fi indie rock, just because it's an early E6 cassette: you're absolutely right, that's exactly what it is. "Turtle Song" is particularly great.

Track listing:

1. Listen for the Day

2. Love Athena

3. I'll Be Gone

4. You Won't Be

5. Queen Misery

6. Learn

7. Temptation

8. Turtle Song

9. Superman Suit

10. Leonard upon Entering the Fish Market (Speaks of Apple Butter)

But it's not me

That you see

It's only a feeling

That you believe

Similar listening:

Marbles - Marbles (1993)

Beulah - Handsome Western States (1997)

Marc Barreca - Music Works for Industry (1983)

 

Related:

Savant - The Neo-Realist (At Risk) (1983)

Tape loops, clattering percussion, droning synths, some propaganda-like spoken word, and a number of heavily warped instruments coalesce to form abstract, industrial-adjacent sounds that might be considered 'ambient' if they were at all relaxing.

Track listing:

1. Community Life

2. Shopping

3. Hotcake

4. Glass and Steel No. 1

5. The Urge to Buy Terrorizes You

6. Glass and Steel No. 2

7. Nerve Roots Are Uncontrollable

8. Music Works for Industry

9. Georgetown

10. Organized Labor

11. Vs Chorus

In shopping malls

At the office

And in your home

You'd probably also like:

blackhumour - ... It Was Inappropriate (1987)

Adam Bohman - Last Orders (1997)

Arovane - Atol Scrap (2000)

Beautiful, magnificently rendered IDM from German producer Uwe Zahn. Blogger's forcing me to use a new interface so I'm honestly more focused on trying to figure this shit out than on actually writing this post. (Also, I can't figure out how to get two images to be aligned but not right next to each other, so that's why there are no album covers with the "also listen to" links below.) It's a really, really great album, though, I swear. 

Track listing:

1. Nonlin.R

2. Tascel_7

3. Thaem Nue

4. Ambelio

5. Scapen Te

6. Norvum

7. Revart Amx

8. Failed

9. Amine

10. R-Elet

11. Atol Scrap

Tomorrow morning

You should also listen to:

Reagenz - Reagenz (1994)

Plat - Compulsion (2004)

Twilight Ritual - The Ritual (1982)

Belgian minimal/coldwave. Spooky synths, electronic drums, and intermittent vocals that can only be described as "exactly what you'd expect, in a good way."

Track listing:
1. Splintered Images of Oz
2. Surrounded
3. Webb-Men
4. They Are We
5. Ever Changes
6. Fading Me
7. A Chrome Entrance
8. Elegy
9. Up to Now
10. Filters of Density

I am here // I am not

Also listen to:

Snowy Red -
The Right to Die (1982)

Minimal Man -
Sex with God (1985)

Mark Isham - Vapor Drawings (1983)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Mark Isham - Castalia (1988)
Mark Isham - Tibet (1989)
Mark Isham - Mark Isham (1990)

Easily my favorite Mark Isham record, not to mention one of my all-time favorite new age records. Synths, trumpet, and more meld together into a single warm, shimmering ocean of sound.

Track listing:
1. Many Chinas
2. Sympathy and Acknowledgment
3. On the Threshold of Liberty
4. When Things Dream
5. Raffles in Rio
6. Something Nice for My Dog
7. Men Before the Mirror
8. Mr. Moto's Penguin (Who'd Be an Eskimo's Wife)
9. In the Blue Distance

I demand a better future

Similar sounds:

Harold Budd -
The Pavilion of Dreams (1978)

Rainer Brüninghaus -
Continuum (1983)

Other Colors - Natural Motion (2016)

Sophisticated, hazily anxious Baltimore indie. Been wanting to post this since it first came out, as this band is so fucking slept-on that the fifth search result for "other colors natural motion" is a link to a motion-activated night light for your toilet.

Track listing:
1. Return to Life
2. Natural Motion
3. Livin' the Same
4. Color Me Whatever
5. Awaken the Feeling
6. You Know the One
7. Something Flashy
8. Dream of Mine
9. Is It Over?

Space out and see

You might also enjoy:

Pure X -
Pleasure (2011)

Erik Blood -
Lost in Slow Motion (2016)

Black Math Horseman - Wyllt (2009)

Got a comment on my last post requesting "something post-metal or post-punk with a female at the vocals? that is also not fast paced." These are the kinds of requests I enjoy, so I'm happy to oblige. Post-metal with touches of occult psych rock and dark Americana, featuring vocalist Sera Timms, who'd go on to front Ides of Gemini.

Track listing:
1. Tyrant
2. Deerslayer
3. A Barren Cause
4. Origin of Savagery
5. Torment of the Metals
6. Bird of All Faiths and None / Bell from Madrone

She has a secret

You might also like:

Across Tundras -
Western Sky Ride (2008)

Bloodiest -
Descent (2011)

Red Snapper - Prince Blimey (1996)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Red Snapper - Making Bones (1998)

I've been slowly burning through an extensive backlog of unpublished comments and requests, and apparently back in February, someone requested more Red Snapper, AND I just so happened to be listening to Red Snapper when I finally saw said request, so here we are. Honestly, what with everything in the world being so goddamn awful, I've been feeling pretty depressed, and this is one of the first records that's truly lifted my spirits in a while. Prince Blimey is their second and probably best album. A super-tight rhythm section driven by heavy double bass, plus lots of saxophone and spaced-out guitar.

Track listing:
1. Crusoe Takes a Trip
2. 3 Strikes and You're Out
3. Thomas the Fib
4. Get Some Sleep Tiger
5. Fatboy's Dust
6. Moonbuggy
7. The Paranoid
8. Space Sickness
9. The Last One
10. Digging Doctor What What
11. Gridlock
12. Lo-Beam

Our aim is to satisfy

Also of interest:

Luke Vibert -
Big Soup (1997)

DJ Spooky -
Optometry (2002)

lowercase - The Going Away Present (1999)

Third, final, and best album by lowercase. Dark, slow-burning songs that strike a pretty remarkable middle-ground between post-hardcore, slowcore, and screamo.

Track listing:
1. Floodlit
2. Willing to Follow You Down
3. The Going Away Present
4. Glisten to the Pink
5. The Open Sea
6. On a Bender
7. Last Stand
8. Thistrainwillnotstop

The loss keeps bleeding
The milk runs warm and mild upon the pavement

You're also gonna wanna hear:

Chokebore -
Motionless (1994)

U.S. Maple -
Purple on Time (2003)

Michel Herr, Bill Frisell, Vinton Johnson, Kermit Driscoll - Good Buddies (1978)

Related:
Bill Frisell - Rambler (1984)

How 'bout a little fusion to liven up your otherwise oppressively hopeless existence? And how did I only just find out earlier today that Bill Frisell plays on a bunch of The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull? Crazy. Discovering that made me want to hear maybe some more obscure Frisell stuff, which led me to Good Buddies. Features, among others, Frisell on guitar, and gratuitous nudity on the album cover.

Track listing:
1. Acapulco Bells
2. Frog Legs Vampin' in the Moonlight
3. I Think I Know What You Mean
4. Sans Blues Thank You
5. What Do You Mean, What Do You Mean?
6. Good Buddies

Smile on you

You should also listen to:

Paul Horn -
Dream Machine (1978)

Cam Newton -
Welcome Aliens (1980)

Avzhia - Dark Emperors (1996)

An unsung classic of Mexican black metal. Strangely muted guitars, eerie keyboards, and death-rattle rasps make for a uniquely evil, atmospheric sound.

Track listing:
1. Into the War
2. Shadows of the Forest
3. Black Prayer
4. Immortal Spirit
5. Dark Emperors
6. Empire
7. Into the Silence of the Shadows
8. Father of Sinners

I am a sacrilegious priest of hell

You'd also like:

Algaion -
Oimai Algaion (1995)

Near - The Dark Art of the Death
Hidden in the Castle (2003)

Facedowninshit - Shit Bloody Shit (2002)

Crusty sludge/sludgy crust. Riffs for days. Shit Bloody Shit collects everything that the band had recorded up to this point, and it was one of my absolute favorite records as a young weedhead.

Track listing:
1. Cinders
2. Doused Spirits
3. Bleeding in the Street
4. Rigid Limbs
5. Distant Cries
6. Spent Corpse
7. Broken Hands
8. Born in Fucking Chains
9. Left Behind
10. With Seeds
11. Stepping Away
12. Born in Fucking Chains
13. Rigid Limbs
14. Into the Woods
15. Broken Hands

Justice is every pig bleeding in the street

More shit I loved when I was young and stoned:

Grief - ... And Man Will
Become the Hunted (2000)

Brainoil -
Brainoil (2003)

The Tear Garden - To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide (1996)

Related:
The Legendary Pink Dots - Chemical Playschool 1 & 2 (1981)
The Tear Garden - Tired Eyes Slowly Burning (1987)
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Maria Dimension (1991)
Download - Furnace (1995)
Skinny Puppy - Brap (Back & Forth Vol. 3 & 4) (1996)
The Legendary Pink Dots - Plutonium Blonde (2008)
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Gethsemane Option (2013)

My personal favorite Tear Garden record. Written and recorded in the wake of the passing of founding member Dwayne Goettel, To Be an Angel Blind, the Cripple Soul Divide is more subdued and 'organic' than any of the band's previous material, and without a trace of proper industrial to be found.

Track listing:
1. Ascension Day
2. We the People
3. In Search of My Rose
4. Crying from Outside
5. Psycho 9
6. With Wings
7. Judgement Hour
8. New Eden
9. Tasteless
10. Cyberspider
11. Malice Through the Looking Glass
12. Phoenix
13. The Habit

It transforms itself to nothing
I want nothing

Also listen to:

Holy Toy -
Panzer and Rabbits (1984)

Fear of Dolls -
When the Organ Played at Twilight (1999)

Corvus Corax - The Atavistic Triad (2000)

Pacific Northwest symphonic black metal with folk-ish, pagan leanings. Some chintzy-ass keyboards, for sure. Epic, sorrowful, and sadly, the only album this band ever made.

Track listing:
1. Son of the Earth
2. Terminus Est
3. Sojourn
4. Mystagogue
5. Dead Man Walking

I am the one and the many within me

More along these lines:

Necrofeast -
Soulwinds (2000)

Aquilus -
Engraved Souls (2006)