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maldoror_chantEveryone's got THAT mix album in their soul. The one I'll be shoving at whoever's on the jury panel on Judgment Day and say, here, take a listen to this, you don't need me to say anything else. Now figure out where to bung me already.
You can have the brightest star, I'm a girl
who wishes on scars
You can have the light of the moon, I prefer
to exit through wounds
I swear I can hear those words wind round and round my psyche whenever I write a 'defiant torn-up hard-bitten bullet-ridden scarred n' bloody ragged grin lifting from teeth biting down on the frag grenade pin' scene, which is, oh, roughly 50% of my written output. At a conservative estimate. 75% if it's The Arrangement (re-read it recently trying to figure out how to handle its archiving, and is there any chapter in there that does not have a gun shot or a punch thrown?)
If you're not familiar, the above is Hannah Fury's Never Look Back (because even the title is something I have tatooed on the inside of my eyelids). Carousel and Where the Wounds Are are also on my life's track list.
Thiefaine's stuff is obviously in line with the above, though that's an entry onto itself, a post for another day.
I love weird hard-to-categorize stuff like the above, but I also like metal and indus and goth-metal and such. Spawnlet has been headbanging since she's been old enough for her neck muscles to hold her noggin' upright. My likes come and go, naturally.
The day I heard Living Dead Girl, I swear it was like there had been a hole carved out in that shape in my head all my life and it had finally been filled.
Thanks, Rob Zombie (for those who didn't know)! Also see Dragula and Superbeast, which pretty much had the same effect. Also The Scorpion Sleeps because sometimes I need to wake up and I can't find any drinkable coffee. This song makes me twitch and chair-dance like I'm on a five-espresso bender.
My latest craze: Satyrian
I have been listening to Satyrian all summer. Not a super known group (as far as I can judge, but I don't bother following trends and magazines and stuff, no time, no interest), and the few reviews I saw were mixed. That's because it falls between two chairs; it's either looked down on by Symphonic Metal fans as being too lightweight, or by emo-goth-metal fans as being too dancy and not dramatic enough. It's got the latter's roll-call of themes - vampires, incest, demons, vampires again - but where emo-goth metal stuff will languish in a bed of dying roses, Satyrian pours on gasoline, flings a match and stalks away from the fireball with a smirk. Try The Dark Gift, or Invictus for an immediate easy grabber. But every single one of their songs has something that just digs a groove in my head, even those I'd dismissed earlier - This Dream and Fall From Grace and others have actually risen above Invictus in my preference list. But really, it's all good, there's only one song I feel slightly Meh about at this point and I've been listening to the damn thing all summer.
A few others...
Ego Likeness (darkwave indus) is cruel with a cold grin. Everything Is Poison starts with "I made the king drink first, I made the king drink first, However Cruel I've been, You know that he's been worse" - Every time I hear this song, it's like a fic that's been stuck in my subconscious for years trying to scrabble and claw its way out. It also reminds me of Vibiana and Leyam...South, Song of Samael (trigger warning on that one, however, rather wish they'd left that out, don't think it's required for the song), Sirens and Satellites - there's actually a lot in there that makes me think of Outlands in a sort of tangential way that only probably makes sense in my head. Which is funny because the album came out almost an entire year after I started Outlands - which, seeing how long an album probably takes to create, means that Outlands germinated in my head at roughly the same time Breedless must have been growing in its tank full of tentacles and black goo. Or however they came up with it...2009/2010 must have had weird star alignments.
In Strict Confidence is a French/German(I think?)/English darkwave indus group. If you're into that kind of music, listen to Snow White and thank me later.
The above are fairly recent discoveries of mine. Half my song list belongs to Nick Cave /Grinderman's weirder output, as well as The Knife/Fever Ray and quite a few others of their ilk.
My sproutlet recently got her first iPhone. First thing I put on there was Judas Priest "Worth Fighting For", because I heard it's good for kids to listen to classical music.
I'm sure she'll be fiiiiiine.
You can have the brightest star, I'm a girl
who wishes on scars
You can have the light of the moon, I prefer
to exit through wounds
I swear I can hear those words wind round and round my psyche whenever I write a 'defiant torn-up hard-bitten bullet-ridden scarred n' bloody ragged grin lifting from teeth biting down on the frag grenade pin' scene, which is, oh, roughly 50% of my written output. At a conservative estimate. 75% if it's The Arrangement (re-read it recently trying to figure out how to handle its archiving, and is there any chapter in there that does not have a gun shot or a punch thrown?)
If you're not familiar, the above is Hannah Fury's Never Look Back (because even the title is something I have tatooed on the inside of my eyelids). Carousel and Where the Wounds Are are also on my life's track list.
Thiefaine's stuff is obviously in line with the above, though that's an entry onto itself, a post for another day.
I love weird hard-to-categorize stuff like the above, but I also like metal and indus and goth-metal and such. Spawnlet has been headbanging since she's been old enough for her neck muscles to hold her noggin' upright. My likes come and go, naturally.
The day I heard Living Dead Girl, I swear it was like there had been a hole carved out in that shape in my head all my life and it had finally been filled.
Thanks, Rob Zombie (for those who didn't know)! Also see Dragula and Superbeast, which pretty much had the same effect. Also The Scorpion Sleeps because sometimes I need to wake up and I can't find any drinkable coffee. This song makes me twitch and chair-dance like I'm on a five-espresso bender.
My latest craze: Satyrian
I have been listening to Satyrian all summer. Not a super known group (as far as I can judge, but I don't bother following trends and magazines and stuff, no time, no interest), and the few reviews I saw were mixed. That's because it falls between two chairs; it's either looked down on by Symphonic Metal fans as being too lightweight, or by emo-goth-metal fans as being too dancy and not dramatic enough. It's got the latter's roll-call of themes - vampires, incest, demons, vampires again - but where emo-goth metal stuff will languish in a bed of dying roses, Satyrian pours on gasoline, flings a match and stalks away from the fireball with a smirk. Try The Dark Gift, or Invictus for an immediate easy grabber. But every single one of their songs has something that just digs a groove in my head, even those I'd dismissed earlier - This Dream and Fall From Grace and others have actually risen above Invictus in my preference list. But really, it's all good, there's only one song I feel slightly Meh about at this point and I've been listening to the damn thing all summer.
A few others...
Ego Likeness (darkwave indus) is cruel with a cold grin. Everything Is Poison starts with "I made the king drink first, I made the king drink first, However Cruel I've been, You know that he's been worse" - Every time I hear this song, it's like a fic that's been stuck in my subconscious for years trying to scrabble and claw its way out. It also reminds me of Vibiana and Leyam...South, Song of Samael (trigger warning on that one, however, rather wish they'd left that out, don't think it's required for the song), Sirens and Satellites - there's actually a lot in there that makes me think of Outlands in a sort of tangential way that only probably makes sense in my head. Which is funny because the album came out almost an entire year after I started Outlands - which, seeing how long an album probably takes to create, means that Outlands germinated in my head at roughly the same time Breedless must have been growing in its tank full of tentacles and black goo. Or however they came up with it...2009/2010 must have had weird star alignments.
In Strict Confidence is a French/German(I think?)/English darkwave indus group. If you're into that kind of music, listen to Snow White and thank me later.
The above are fairly recent discoveries of mine. Half my song list belongs to Nick Cave /Grinderman's weirder output, as well as The Knife/Fever Ray and quite a few others of their ilk.
My sproutlet recently got her first iPhone. First thing I put on there was Judas Priest "Worth Fighting For", because I heard it's good for kids to listen to classical music.
I'm sure she'll be fiiiiiine.
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