I can't believe I missed out on Lords of Saturn for this long, six motherfucking months or so - even more - and I had no clue.
Either way, it's wonderful to hear Lodmalm's voice again. He's just about the only musician ever who can work within (or across) any genres and still give music, lyrics and vocal approach a completely natural flow while staying true to both the music style of choice as well as his own legacy. I have so much to thank him for, creating music that crossed genre-defining lines which made me discover stuff in my…

I'm somewhat surprised to have developed an addiction for Deftones that is so intense it is verging on being ridiculous.
I don't know why it's happening now, they have always been a band I liked but for some reason never quite clicked with. I started listening more closely a few months ago and became hooked. I think it has to do a lot with Chino's performance and the positive energy in his abstract lyrics. There's this tension in the songs between the heavy aggression of the music and the soothing vocals I find really interesting.
I really think Chino deserves…

Sometimes I look at my charts and feel quite perplexed at how misleading they are. They should really be considered mostly as a record of things I have been checking out in the last few years, diligently listening to in order to see if it would catch on.
Thus, many albums I think are so-so at best, are still much higher in the charts than albums I truly love but discovered long before the creation of this profile.
Many things I listen to mainly while taking walks, and since these wind up unscrobbled they also hold a much lower position…

After a fairly long time of musical idling and ambivalence I plunge headfirst into the spiky cold soundscapes of minimal wave.
I had in fact been looking for this type of music for a long time but for some reason never connected the sound of the music with the term wave, which I have always associated with bouncy and preppy 80s stuff, not the dark and moody sound I was after.
One project in particular that has caught my attention so far is Xeno and Oaklander, who manage very well in combining the minimal sound with memorable melodies.

The summer of 2001 was a time of crucial musical development for me.
I had matured enough to leave the strict Metal-conservative agenda behind, which soon led me to discover and embrace things that only a few months earlier had made me scoff. To celebrate this time and the music it concerned I have decided to have a 2001 week, where I will only listen to the stuff that changed my perception of music at the time.
Pinnacles of this era was The Gathering's How To Measure A Planet?, Paradise Lost's Host, Moonspell's late nineties work, and everything…

I think the unit for last.fm charts should not be the amount of times you've listened to a particular artist, but how many minutes. Some artists have albums consisting of twenty tracks that are two minutes each, while others have albums with seven tracks that are all around ten minutes. It becomes misrepresentative.

Been overdosing totally on múm lately. I'd checked them out a long time ago and thought it was good, but for no real reason it didn't lead to anything at the time and I forgot about them. Then last week I happened to listen to it again, and it felt like something that had been missing in my life for a long time, something I had been searching for. A bit funny, since it feels very much like autumn and winter music to me.
I wonder how often it is like that in life too, when you meet people that…

All this Boards of Canada has taken me by surprise. I didn't realize until it was too late that this is an addiction very similar to what you could experience as a kid. It had been like a brooding current all through winter, never dominating but omnipresent, waiting for daylight savings time.

If the stuff I have drifting through my headphones while studying at the library would scrobble, Loscil would be through the fucking roof this week. Especially Submers, Stases and Endless falls.
I love that ambient stuff that manages to be somber and serious without being melodramatic or overly droney. The occasional dub influences are also much appreciated.

Seems like I'm starting to drift into this minimal ambient glitch idm whatever thing. Been checking out a bunch of artists, looking for the ones who have a somber feel to them. Just discovered Proem, seems quite fitting.
When I find someone who has based an entire album around gating and panning white noise I will have struck gold.
I really feel like having another cup of tea.