Listening to tonight (Part 2)

for that lazy Sunday

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First time going into this album. About 7/8 through it and damn it’s a winner. Only thing I had heard from it before is the title track. If you like that you owe it to yourself to check out the rest.

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roon → ultraRendu → Spring3 KTE → Oor/Hypsos → Susvara

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Due to the holiday, I get a bonus session this weekend! For this evening, since I am still testing this new connection, I need to see how it handles classical. So, I decided to let a beautiful Woman play to me for the next hour or so. This is Anne-Sophie Mutter and the London Philharmonic performing the Mozart Violin Concertos, 2006.

Local FLAC > Schiit Bifrost 2 > Cavalli Liquid Platinum > HiFIMAN Edition XS

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FLAC > Cambridge Audio CXN V2 > Jnog (OG) > Freya S > Vidar (monoblock) > Klipsch R-620F

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Always as dope as fuck :call_me_hand:

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Just a bunch of Type O Negative on the EA500s. It’s so sad we lost Peter Steele. I don’t get this often at all, but for some reason he just seems like someone I ā€œwould have been friends withā€, or was meant to, or something. Just a feeling of identifying with him even though we’d be very different.
And musically, I wish there was more heavy music with regular vocals / romantic lyrics / a slower pace. I found the German band Ewigheim and I like them, but they’re still different. I guess they have that baritone speak-singing and gothic sound going on.
The use of the bass guitar overall, and where guitar flickers in with a lick at the right moments is uncannily masterful in Type O Negative’s music.

EDIT: Got ā€œWoods of Ypresā€ as a recommendation, and it’s close in some areas. They tragically lost their singer early too! :frowning:

Some ā€œLife of agonyā€ has a similar vibe.

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Maybe check out Lacuna Coil if you haven’t already - Comalies is their album I like best but Unleashed Memories also good gothic vibes (although all of their albums probably fall in to the gothic style).
You could check out The Gathering too - Nighttime Birds album probably the one for gothic-style vibes, although I prefer Mandylion. Love Anneke van Giersbergen’s voice.

I’ll need to check out Woods of Ypres :+1:

LoA’s River Runs Red is such a good album.

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For everybody who needs a little confidence :slight_smile:
I recently did, and this helped :green_heart:

I wanted to go through this one a second time this evening. I had listened to it the other night and I really liked it. This is Big Big Train and ā€œFrom Stone and Steelā€.

Lots to take in here. Really good work throughout. AND the chain is sounding nice tonight. The SH-9 is loving the introduction of the Frost’s Unison USB interface. Much of that dryness that can come with a THX amp of this type has been largely removed. The mids are spectacular. Pair this with the Radiance and it’s fantastic. I could listen to this all night.

AMHD > Schiit Bifrost 2 > SMSL SH-9 > Focal Radiance

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Thanks go out to the Shuffle function for this blast from the past and one-hit wonder: Olive - You’re Not Alone

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Wonderful when it all comes together and we think this!!

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I was going to post this as a simple tune that really connects with me, didn’t expect it to have such an interesting music video too:

Huh the live performance is interesting, 2 drummers!

I love the wandering bass guitar.

Not a fan of the vocal effects in this live version.

Jump in a 2:16 on the second one when things really start syncing and layering.

The bassist’s vocals are quite a surprise at 3:55

EDIT: I like this too:

Imma have to look up their releases.

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Dropped tuning I think…

I’ve been listening to a lot of John Zorn tonight. He has a fairly large and interesting discography. Not for everyone but it suits my tastes…

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Glad it’s Friday!