I know I'm late but I listened to this since release but as someone who don't usually listen to metal Gojira is really good entry-level to the genre.

I kind of watched Varg's vlogs on youtube about different kind of topics and yeah he has that stereotypical kvlt völkisch /pol/ opinions but he's very articulate and couple that with the ambient music playing in the background it kind of makes an entertaining watch.

Only got into Filosofem so far because of the dark ambient/ blackgaze sound.

Speaking of blackgaze Deafheaven just released a new one:

Finally checked out the latest Senyawa album Sujud and the first track with its bordering-on-blasphemous chants is too claustrophobic and suffocating to listen to. I guess it just hits too close to home. It's Swans-esque though that's for sure especially like The Seer album.

After that most of the album is what I have been yearning for recently mainly from the aesthetic aspect which is mainly focusing on that drone/doom metal/post-rock
sounds but with that Nusantara twist coming from the use of the traditional folk instruments.

Been digesting it and I have to say from like an hour and a half Kebaikan Tumbuh Dari Tanah is my favourite so far. That distant echoey voices with steady but sparse riffs filling the voids as the song trudges along. Somehow it ends too soon at less than 5 minutes of runtime.

This post has been edited by hakimix: Dec 12 2018, 06:32 AM