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Hi, hi! I created youtube playlists so I can share my musics with people. So like uhh, umm, it’s mostly Depressive Black Metal, but there’s umm Thrash, and uhh, Post-Punk! And errrm, hmmm, some Electronic? Yes, yes.

I’ll try to make appropriate themes, like I probably have some “cute” stuff somewhere. Hmmm. Actually …

I’ll try to make appropriate themes, like I probably have some “cute” stuff somewhere. Hmmm. Actually after compiling the “Favorites” playlist, I realized that 90% of my black metal is DBM. I don’t like to call it “Depressive Suicidal Black Metal” because on the contrary, it makes me feel less suicidal.

An illustration a man carrying planet earth above him. The text on the planet reads "Me Not Killing Myself" and the text on the man reads "Depressive Suicidal Black Metal Songs Telling Me To Kill Myself"

DBM Band: “Kill yourself.”

Me: “Well I’m not doing it anymore!”

picture of penguin crossing it arms with anger

Cool Bands I Found

I have a post on DBM in the works, as the genre has helped me quite a lot, and a lot of great artists and musics have come out of the DBM scene. Lately I’ve been getting into Gris and Pensées Nocturnes, and Pensées Nocturnes’s “Vacuum” is insane.

Gris - Il Était Une Forêt…

Il Était Une Forêt…

The metal archives hates reviews that take the album “track by track” but I don’t care, so I’m doing just that.

Cicatrices

I play these when I go to sleep, the track “Cicatrices” grabbed my attention. We have those screams at 3:30, then get ready for it, that riff at 4:29? I always sway my head and shoulders along it, it sounds like everything is falling apart, and it’s just oh, so beautiful. I swear I’m gonna create a hall of riffs that every time I hear, I need to stop everything I’m doing and vibe to them. You just can’t listen to that 4:29 without paying attention to it. Plus the piano that joins in at that part. F-uck-ing. Just wow.

Veux-Tu Danser

The intro is haunting. Baby sounds, and little baby song chimes. I love it when artists sample stuff about childhood, and when they sample it well, it works amazingly. Like that one time Lifelover sampled “Emil i Lönneberga - Bom sicka bom” at the end of “Nackskott”? Just haunting, to hear a happy innocent song play in such a gut-wrenching album. I’ll make a post about bands sampling cool stuff.

Apparently the track translates to “Do You Want to Dance?” (hah!) after that riff in Cicatrices? I’ll take you up on that offer!

All in all the album is haunting, beautiful, brutal, and of course depressive. I will be looking like this when I read the name “GRIS”

Pensées Nocturnes

Vacuum

Neo-classical. Avant-garde. Black metal? H-ollly. I swear the compositions of “Vacuum” are, just so crazy, I was listening to it, and I couldn’t stop noticing how beautiful this music goes. Hell, I even wished they’d ditch the guitars and just go full classical. Depressive Classical musics would go hard. Something about these beautiful instruments, and the wailing, howling, crying, groaning, moaning, and shrieking of the vocals would go very beautifully. I still have no idea what my favorite tracks are, I guess I’ll update this when I find out :) But there’s this one melody, that is still stuck in my mind, like, just… Explodes

Jericho Vol.44 - Another Day Has Begun

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I mean come on! If you’re into DBM, you gotta know about Jericho, right? They are this person, that makes DBM compilations, full with download links, album covers, metadata, and even a little thingy so you can DIY print your own disc. Fucking wild. Anyway there are many great tracks on that compilation, but I swear that “Another Day (Ita) - Another Day Has Begun” is just the highlight of the whole thing. I couldn’t even find it on youtube, I had to download it straight from Jericho. I luv Jericho, and I already have so much DBM from them <3

Oof there’s also “Apathetical Syndrome - Одиночество” and that one is just terribly sad. The vocalist seems to be tearing through their vocal chords, that can’t be safe at all :(

The Chopping Block

What led me to GRIS was “Sombres Forets - La Nuit” and the screams on that one are just, mmuuah. When the vocalist says “Laa Zuuuureeeeeee” I really feel that. I mean I have looked at the album “Quintessence” but I don’t seem to recall anything interesting about it, although I’m pretty sure I’ll force myself to love it.

Peste Noire 😈

Hehe Peste Noire - L’envol du grabataire (Ode Ã Famine) rules 😈. Although the artist is fucking racist, so there that, i fucking suppose. Still that track goes depressingly hard.