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Post by stardustpilgrim on Apr 28, 2023 23:32:33 GMT -5
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Post by lolly on May 26, 2023 7:02:47 GMT -5
I've been fascinated by a British band called Sleep Token.
They just dropped their new album, 'Take Me Back to Eden'. It's been a while since I liked an album all the way through. It's a fusion genres and has a lot of variety - so you remain interested - and I can't properly express how remarkable it is.
On the surface of the first listen to this band, I couldn't really tell what I liked about them. I didn't consciously register what it was, but something nondescript stood out to me, though I couldn't pin it down and say what it was. Since then I've listened more, and listened deeper, and when the album dropped I came to realise that the genius of Sleep Token isn't immediately apparent because it's so sublime. "The Summoning" isn't a simple song, more like an orchestration of movements. I think it is a wonderful introduction to the band. I encourage you to become fan, and Worship.
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Post by lolly on Jun 10, 2023 3:15:15 GMT -5
One artist who impresses me is Kim Dracula, of Tasmania, but everything 'they' do is horrific. Especially gruesome is their latest drop, "Death Before Designer".
I usually enjoy shock rock and the horror genre, but in Kim's case, I can't help but wonder if they're literally deranged. That besides, as a self professed music snob and pure rocker of appalling tastes, I gotta hand it to them: They Rock.
Kim is of the new wave of rockers, unbound by genre lore and blowing up on TikTok. Their catalog fuses rap, jazz, pop, punk and any other style seamlessly together with the drop-tuned screaming insanity of heavy metal. Rock is headed in a direction where there are no genres; and we are witnessing the emergence of the masters of everything.
You might note I'm doing pronouns. I used to call Kim 'she', but one never knows if they're getting it right, so I looked it up online, and they/them/their is apparently preferred.
Kim Dracula's theatrics are utterly bizarre on every dimension. It's Rocky Horror gone wrong. It's Marylin Manson meets Marquis de Sade. It's Alice Cooper's worst nightmare. It's quite beyond compare, and I really don't want to like it, but I feel as if I have no will of my own.
By horror I mean slasher-violent, thrill-kill, gut-churning disgust, so I have to caution you: Please try not to watch the clip. I didn't know what the content was when I clicked on it earlier tonight - I was innocent then - but you have heard tell and been warned that evil, It knows; the promise of a real visceral reaction is the essence of temptation impossible to resist, even though you know the price of admission is your own damn soul.
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Post by lolly on Jun 10, 2023 8:00:05 GMT -5
What I usually do is, when a new song drops, especially something outrageous like Kim Dracula, I listen to it on you tube and get my vizzies on the video, and that marks my psyche with impressions that generate some thoughts of my own. The symbols meld within me and form my interpretation.
The next day I delve a bit deeper and watch a number of reaction videos to see what other people think. Others usually give me more ideas that didn't even occur to me, and I'm like, OMG, I didn't even notice that! This I did with the Kim Dracula video above. I thought the video is outrageous and there would be a plethora of no-talent attention-whore wannabes racing to do reaction videos, because Kim's ultra-violent 3 minute horror-scene is dripping with sensational click-bait, but guess what? Only one (really terrible) reaction video (not worth watching)!
What in blazes? Kim's past releases went off tap and You Tube reactors went ape-shit over them. I find it astounding that Kim's new song went by without reaction because, as the Skyhooks put it all those years ago, "it's shocking me right out of my brains".
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Post by justlikeyou on Jun 12, 2023 6:29:10 GMT -5
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Post by laughter on Jun 19, 2023 4:07:58 GMT -5
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Post by lolly on Jun 19, 2023 20:18:02 GMT -5
It took a little while, but the Kim Dracula Death Before Designer reaction videos came in abundance. My guess is it's so horrific that reactors themselves didn't know how to react within POS, and also, YouTube put a delay on things so it wouldn't get out-of-hand-viral and scare the advertisers. All sorted, and everyone has done a reaction, yawns - Next!
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Post by ouroboros on Jun 20, 2023 14:16:07 GMT -5
I do like a nice marching band!
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Post by andrew on Jun 24, 2023 12:27:07 GMT -5
Lush and otherworldly, particularly at 2 a.m
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Post by laughter on Jun 25, 2023 0:38:16 GMT -5
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Post by lolly on Jun 29, 2023 5:42:24 GMT -5
Falling in Reverse released a brilliant cover of Papa Roach's "Last Resort". They reimagined Papa Roach's year-2000 pop-punk song as an orchestral rock power-ballad.
Lead singer Ronnie Radke vocals are outstanding and perfectly capture the depth of emotional anguish and devastation of the poetry. He expresses himself shyly and softly at first, but it builds up within him as he lets it out, and eventually he is torn apart not by an explosion, but through his inability to contain it and his willingness finally let it all go.
The story telling is sublime, and although the vocals crescendo into insanity with wild screaming, it writhes in desperation to full emotional affect.
The video is desolate and deserted. Ghost-like figures play together in the string ensemble, but Ronnie is isolated and abandoned, as he descends into suicidal ideation and his world crumbles all around him. It's altogether haunting.
The video ends with a nod to their previous release, "Watch the World Burn", which I posted previously. That video ended with global destruction and flames engulfing the entire world. In this video everything is restored. The camera pans skyward to blue skies and sunshine, and the flames that burn the world are extinguished. This imagery shines a bright ray of hope into the dismal coda of this saddest of songs, and leaves us with a sense of victory and overcoming.
"Last Resort" is poetic, evocative and truly moving. It's absolutely masterful, and I never imagined I'd say this about Falling in Reverse, but this is really beautiful.
You're fine.
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Post by sharon on Jun 30, 2023 2:18:20 GMT -5
Protect this Boi..
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Post by sharon on Jun 30, 2023 2:28:34 GMT -5
One of the most heart-warming moments this month, was watching my 1 year old Great Niece walking round with her Mom's phone in her hand and this song blasting out of it  .. she fakkin' loves it!!  |
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Post by lolly on Jun 30, 2023 11:01:35 GMT -5
Kim Dracula is at it again. The new release is the first single on his upcoming album. It showcases range and diversity, and reveals a highly trained musician with jazz roots. One cannot deny that Kim is raw talent, but to my ear, he still seems a bit snotty and self indulgent and hasn't yet matured into a true inspiration. There comes a point in the musician's life when it's less about me and the image I convey and more about heart and empathy and the gift I bring to the world. It was the same with Ronnie Radke from Falling In Reverse. I followed the group for a while and I could tell Ronnie was a next level human being, but he was always somewhat self-concerned and never let us really see him, but with his cover of "Last Resort" he turned the corner, I could tell, because further to appreciating the genius of the man, he opened himself up and I felt every word as if it was the truth. I have followed Kim because he's outstanding. He prefers 'they' as a pronoun, but that's also a part of him still being introverted yet contrived like a clown on TikTok. I follow the journey because there will come a time when Kim gives up the ghost and starts spitting his truth just like Ronnie did with "Last Resort", and I want to see the flower bloom. However, even as a mere performer in a mask, Kim is a star, and I recognise genius when I see it.
No music video, unfortunately
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Post by Reefs on Jul 5, 2023 10:06:41 GMT -5
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.. she fakkin' loves it!! 
