RIP.

One of my favorite videos, The Pogues and The Dubliners on one stage together The Irish Rover

Aww, what a teaser. I was getting excited to check them out, until the last 3 words. Vocals are essentially mandatory for me, even if they are only used as an additional instrument (like in Berio’s Sinfonia from 1969), I still require vocals.

Hah, YW. The one album I bought was Sermon of Flames with I Have Seen The Light, And It Was Repulsive (Industrial/Noise Death Metal), and both Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed by Fleshvessel (Death Metal Jazz Fusion?) and Determined To Strike by Sarmat (Technical/Math Death Metal) were under consideration

I mostly don’t care about labels. Though there’s some fun stuff at I, Voidhanger who only take really weird extreme metal bands on ;) Alas, mostly too weird for me.

While I do sometimes pick up older music, there are two issues.

a) I like having a chance to see a live performance. Now, with a ton of indie music I like, that chance tends to be low, but it’s still there.
b) If I like a band, I rarely like only one album. So I want more of that band. With old music, that chance is gone (unless the band still exists, or simply has a big backlog).

In general, besides personal recommendations (or very rarely when I’m out, but they mostly just play the same ~100 songs that they’ve played 10 years ago and everyone but me seems happy with that), I mainly stick to metal review sites, not because I’m not open to listening to other things, but because there aren’t many genres (industrial rock & folk rock are probably notable exceptions, if anyone has website recommendations for new releases in that area, I’m open :D) where I’d enjoy a whole album, and I’m not a singles person. The effort of going through hundreds of albums to find one I might like is just not worth it.

edit: Just in case it wasn’t clear, I don’t use streaming services, I only buy albums, usually on bandcamp.

Mostly not that interesting to me, but damn would I love to see Zeal & Ardor (which I only discovered earlier this year) live. I hope they’ll do a tour in Northern Germany.

I like Merzbow… for one, maybe two songs at a time and then it needs to stop ;) I prefer the faster tracks like Bariken though.

This has been regurgitated over and over again in recent days. But what none of the articles talk about, is that for many, and I’d guess actually the majority of people, the editorial part never mattered. I’ve been using and praising Bandcamp for over a decade (first album bought in February 2010), and last week was the first time I ever opened their blog. It’s not bad, but also very clearly not something I’ll miss.

Now, yes, that sucks for people who always read that blog (though I’ve also never once seen a post of them shared anywhere I am). And yeah, Songtradr might turn out to be bad (I used the collection downloader to redownload everything as FLAC after the announcement, just in case), but for me and others like me, it might simply change nothing. And while the stop of BC Friday would suck, one also has to remember that it was a relatively new thing that the old Bandcamp never did for most of its life.

What maters for me: That they keep paying bands and labels their share, keep free streams of un-bought items, and keep a wide array of download formats. If those things stay, then BC did not lose its soul, but stayed true to its core.

Wow. I listened to one song, and thought it was extremely banal and boring. I guess most people didn’t see it like that.

There’s also Girlschool who released their first album in 1980, with a great cover of Race With The Devil.

They are the ones I usually find, but for me everything there screams “rock, not metal”, but maybe that’s just me (after all I’d also say that about some Black Sabbath stuff, so it’s very clear I have no idea what I’m talking about)

I believe BlackLace

Ohh, nice, I had never heard of them before. That actually sounds kinda cool.

formed around a year or so before Warlock

Yeah, wikipedia agrees. Though there was Snakebite, Doro’s first band which got founded yet another year before BlackLace :D But they never released anything but a demo, so I’d say they don’t count and BlackLace gets the honor indeed :D

Sexism was a pretty big factor in why many female bands never came out from underground.

Boy, do I believe that.

CALL OF THE WIIIIIIIIILD! Damn, now I got that stuck in my ear :D

Someone mentioned Doro

:D

Not actually the biggest traditional metal fan, I’m either folky, or at the extreme metal genres, though. Doro got grandfathered in from my youth ;)

If we are talking fully female, I like Flagitious Idiosyncrasy In The Dilapidation Video, bad sound, No video, good sound

They weren’t the first

Who were the first? Everything else I’ve ever seen was (in my uneducated opinion) very much not metal.

And somehow, she still manages to belt it out without much issue after nearly four decades.

I haven’t seen her in almost 2 decades, but back then was awesome, small concert hall in Northern Germany, no distance from fans to band, just a slightly raised stage (maybe 0.5m) :D

Not quite my music, but a cool voice indeed. If you don’t know her, also check German/American Doro (ex-Warlock, probably the first female-fronted metal band): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7kIxo8-ucf8 This reminded me a bit of her, probably because of the power of her voice even though it does sound different.

I think so. Assuming the number-estimates in the horrible-headline-article are right, they’d stop paying artists for songs played for less than about 17 times a month.

Ditto :) Recently (with the sale to Songtradr) downloaded my whole collection as flac for proper archival :)