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Music I've listened to – Daniel Pietzsch
The tracks and albums that have been in regular rotation for a while.
Daniel Pietzsch
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2023-09-26T10:20:42+02:00
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/nightmare-logic
🎧 Nightmare Logic – Power Trip
2023-09-26T10:20:42+02:00
2023-09-26T10:20:42+02:00
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<p>Great riffs, powerful vocals, raw sound, and all killers no fillers. Thrash!!!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/axe-to-fall
🎧 Axe To Fall – Converge
2023-09-26T10:01:39+02:00
2023-09-26T10:01:39+02:00
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<p>For some reason, this is the album from their discography that I had been drawn to first. And I absolutely love it!</p><p>Converge were so impressive live a few weeks back, I had to get more into them. And it’s absolutly rewarding once you do. So many interesting ideas and songs on this album. Plus the musicianship is top notch. And that sound!</p><p>The whole thing is so damn heavy! And in a different way than I’m used to from - say - Death Metal. A ferocious steamroller.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/mutants
🎧 Mutants – Mutoid Man
2023-08-04T22:29:57+02:00
2023-08-04T22:29:57+02:00
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<p>Their new album. This band really became a favourite during the last year or so. This output again immediately puts a smile on my face. So much fun playing and singing going on. An authentic sound. So good. Need to see them live!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/for-victory
🎧 For Victory – Bolt Thrower
2023-08-04T22:20:01+02:00
2023-08-04T22:20:01+02:00
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<p>For some reason I wanted to listen to this classic a while back. Still regularly putting this on.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/bloodmoon-i
🎧 Bloodmoon: I – Converge
2023-08-04T16:59:09+02:00
2023-08-04T16:59:09+02:00
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<p>It’s not far from Mutoid Man to Converge. And then their latest album is a collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe!? Sign me up! This seems to be atypical, but I like this a lot. A great album front to back!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/hail-destroyer
🎧 Hail Destroyer – Cancer Bats
2023-08-04T16:38:20+02:00
2023-08-04T16:38:20+02:00
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<p>Saw them a few weeks back here at the small <a href="https://www.pitcher29.com">Pitcher</a>. And they absolutely ruled. Now bullshit, just four dudes playing their asses off. Have been listening to this album ever since.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/as-the-kingdom-drowns
🎧 As the Kingdom Drowns – Psycroptic
2023-05-22T14:47:00+02:00
2023-05-22T14:47:00+02:00
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<p><a href="https://blog.danielpietzsch.com/post/184600363143/psycroptics-as-the-kingdom-drowns-is-on-heavy">As I noted once before</a>, I really like this album, and especially Joe Haley’s guitar playing. But this also has great drumming, bass playing and vocals. All delivered with a heavy and clear sound. Also, look at that cover!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/white-light-generator
🎧 White Light Generator – Crippled Black Phoenix
2023-04-12T10:20:35+02:00
2023-04-12T10:20:35+02:00
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<p>Liking this album right now.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/war-moans
🎧 War Moans – Mutoid Man
2023-03-21T22:51:43+01:00
2023-03-21T22:51:43+01:00
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<p>Mutoid Man are wild: wild drumming, wild bass playing, wild guitar, wild vocals. All very skillfully played in these short and entertaining arrangements.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/10000-days
🎧 10,000 Days – TOOL
2023-03-12T11:00:00+01:00
2023-03-12T11:00:00+01:00
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<p>Weekend-album.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/ravishing-grimness
🎧 Ravishing Grimness – Darkthrone
2023-02-25T08:47:00+01:00
2023-02-25T08:47:00+01:00
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<p>I simply picked one Darkthrone album, as I‘m not very familiar with their discography. And this one has been virtually rotating here for a couple of spins. „The Claws of Time“ is so classic Black Metal: starts with this evil tremolo-picking melody, then the vocals come in… ahhh….pure black gold!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/purple
🎧 Purple – Baroness
2023-02-25T08:39:00+01:00
2023-02-25T08:39:00+01:00
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<p>When listening to Baroness, I tend to pick this album. Love the drumming and odd rhythms on it. Great guitar work, too, of course. „Chlorine & Wine“ is probably my favourite song of them.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/sky-void-of-stars
🎧 Sky Void of Stars – Katatonia
2023-01-25T19:20:00+01:00
2023-01-25T19:20:00+01:00
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<p>Preparation for tomorrow’s concert.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/myriad
🎧 Myriad – GAUPA
2023-01-07T16:30:00+01:00
2023-01-07T16:30:00+01:00
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<p>Here‘s one more female-fronted band, I‘m currently enjoying. Like these songs, like their sound, like her vocals (which do sound quite a bit like Björk).</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/marked-for-death
🎧 Marked For Death – Emma Ruth Rundle
2023-01-04T22:25:00+01:00
2023-01-04T22:25:00+01:00
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<p>Listening to ERR quite a bit at the moment.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/gnosis
🎧 Gnosis – Russian Circles
2022-12-08T17:53:00+01:00
2022-12-08T17:53:00+01:00
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<p>Russian Circles is <em>the</em> instrumental post-metal band I keep coming back to.</p><p>That middle riff in “Conduit” is just perfect!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/the-formless-graves
🎧 The Formless Graves – The Infernal Deceit
2022-11-04T23:25:58+01:00
2022-11-04T23:25:58+01:00
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<p>Finest melodic death/black metal. Been blasting this all night.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/unison-life
🎧 Unison Life – BRUTUS
2022-10-31T10:08:59+01:00
2022-10-31T10:08:59+01:00
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<p>“This is beautiful music”, said my daughter the other day (I absolutely agree!). It has been difficult for the other people in this household to escape this album, as I have been listening to this all week.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/viscera
🎧 Viscera – Strigoi
2022-10-13T22:00:00+02:00
2022-10-13T22:00:00+02:00
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<p>Dark and heavy. Killer voice. Kaboom!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/kodama
🎧 Kodama – Alcest
2022-09-16T13:00:40+02:00
2022-09-16T13:00:40+02:00
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<p>Friday soundtrack.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/fear-inoculum-again
🎧 Fear Inoculum – TOOL
2022-08-24T22:28:40+02:00
2022-08-24T22:28:40+02:00
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<p>I’m so into this album again – or even <em>still</em>. It’s fascinating to me, how you can do that much with only three instruments (at a time). And then the vocals add another layer. So, I’m really enjoying discovering and analysing all the different parts. It just keeps giving. And <a href="/notes/tool-concert">TOOL’s great live performance</a> certainly played a huge part in making me dive into this again.</p><p>Very well deserved that this is the first album to appear a second time in <a href="/listened_to/music/">this list</a>.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/brutus-nest
🎧 Nest – BRUTUS
2022-07-18T15:25:00+02:00
2022-07-18T15:25:00+02:00
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<p>Today’s soundtrack.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/the-art-of-partying
🎧 The Art of Partying – Municipal Waste
2022-06-27T22:53:00+02:00
2022-06-27T22:53:00+02:00
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<p>“Municipal Waste is gonna FUCK YOU UP! Municipal Waste is gonna FUCK YOU UP!”</p><p>Those guys are always delivering a good mood. You wanna crack one open and then party along. Plus, their bass player – Land Phil – <a href="/listened_to/music/muse-playlist">also</a> has a mean sound.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/muse-playlist
🎧 Muse Bass Tab Collection – Muse
2022-06-27T22:41:00+02:00
2022-06-27T22:41:00+02:00
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<p>I was looking for bass inspiration – both for playing and sound – and decided to check out Muse’s Chris Wolstenhome in more detail. And I ended up listening to that playlist quite a bit recently.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/fear-of-the-dawn
🎧 FEAR OF THE DAWN – Jack White
2022-05-05T21:38:00+02:00
2022-05-05T21:38:00+02:00
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<p>Always checking out Jack’s new outputs. Almost always enjoying his guitar playing, sounds and songs. My favourite Song so far is the closing track “Shedding My Velvet”. A drum beat like this always gets me; and the guitar parts are fantastic, too. Have I written enough “always”-es, yet?</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/the-long-north-road
🎧 The Long Road North – Cult of Luna
2022-05-05T21:30:00+02:00
2022-05-05T21:30:00+02:00
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<p>Atmospheric post-metal. Find that perfect at the moment to wind down in the evening.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/bleeder
🎧 Bleeder – Mutoid Man
2022-04-15T12:24:01+02:00
2022-04-15T12:24:01+02:00
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<p>Regularly putting on this enjoyable and chaotic little album. Interesting arrangements and great playing has me coming back. Reminds me of old Mastodon and Protest the Hero. That opener is a banger!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/immutable
🎧 Immutable – Meshuggah
2022-04-06T22:12:01+02:00
2022-04-06T22:12:01+02:00
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<p>It’s their new one that just came out. It’s in constant rotation. Much easier to get into for me compared to the previous “The Violent Sleep of Reason”. The tracks on this one are so evil, which I very much like.</p><p>I’m almost sad now, that they cancelled all their gigs in Germany for the upcoming tour.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/impera
🎧 IMPERA – Ghost
2022-03-24T22:22:01+01:00
2022-03-24T22:22:01+01:00
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<p>Very much enjoying the new Ghost! This one had me with that opening scream in Kaisarion. Much great songwriting and a great flashback to 80s hard rock and metal. This has great songs throughout and some of them keep making me smile. Especially Spillways and Griftwood, whose beginnings are Bon Jovi’s “Runaway” and Van Halen’s “Ain’t talking ‘bout love” respectively. Guitar work is so good and satisfying. And hiring Fredrik Åkesson is a great choice, as the solos are top notch, too.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/micro
🎧 Micro – Jinjer
2022-03-12T12:28:01+01:00
2022-03-12T12:28:01+01:00
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<p>With Ukraine so much in the news, I started listening to Jinjer again more. Hope they are well! Love this EP!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/extreme-conditions
🎧 Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses (Full Dynamic Range Edition) – Brutal Truth
2022-02-01T22:38:01+01:00
2022-02-01T22:38:01+01:00
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<p>Recently I didn’t listen to stuff I haven’t posted before. But now I’m rediscovering this gem. Listened to this quite a bit in the 2000s. It’s still fantastic! Great riffs, great sound, and the occasional absurd beast vocals that makes me happy here.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/legend
🎧 Legend – Witchcraft
2021-12-23T14:54:55+01:00
2021-12-23T14:54:55+01:00
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<p>I did listen to this a lot a few years back. And currently I’m doing so again. All-around great musicianship!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/tropical-sun
🎧 Tropical Sun – Fulci
2021-12-23T14:39:48+01:00
2021-12-23T14:39:48+01:00
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<p>This is giving me some nostalgia of splatter-movie samples and solid death metal. Just like a lot of bands did 20 years ago. How “Palms by the Cemetery” starts for example is exactly my kind of groove.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/noktvrn
🎧 Noktvrn – Der Weg einer Freiheit
2021-11-19T12:58:00+01:00
2021-11-19T12:58:00+01:00
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<p>Their new album came out today. Will surely be listening to this quite a bit the coming weeks.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/the-somberlain
🎧 The Somberlain – Dissection
2021-11-19T11:33:00+01:00
2021-11-19T11:33:00+01:00
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<p>Their debut is also fantastic. Everything’s a bit less refined on this one. But I think this is actually adding character and makes the album more interesting.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/storm-of-the-light-s-bane
🎧 Storm of the Light’s Bane – Dissection
2021-11-19T11:19:00+01:00
2021-11-19T11:19:00+01:00
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<p>I’m listening to Dissection a lot currently. This was an important album in my teenage years. And it still holds up! It’s killer front to back and absolutely deserves its status as “a classic”.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/your-time-to-shine
🎧 Your Time To Shine – Monolord
2021-11-11T23:33:25+01:00
2021-11-11T23:33:25+01:00
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<p>It’s rather <em>Monolord’s</em> time to shine. Because this might be their best output to date. All five songs are winners. There are plenty of great fuzzy riffs again. But the star might be those brilliant melodies.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/an-unexpected-reality
🎧 An Unexpected Reality – Gatecreeper
2021-11-11T23:11:46+01:00
2021-11-11T23:11:46+01:00
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<p>Seven grind songs and one epic in less than 18 minutes. Tippy toppy! <a href="/listened_to/music/deserted">I like this band</a>!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/stellar
🎧 Stellar – Der Weg einer Freiheit
2021-11-11T23:00:50+01:00
2021-11-11T23:00:50+01:00
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<p>In preparation for <a href="/notes/dwef-concert">the upcoming concert</a> I have been listening to this album quite a bit. It has atmosphere, melodies, is quiet, is loud, has plenty blast beats, and a great production. Stellar!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/wallflowers
🎧 Wallflowers – Jinjer
2021-10-01T17:15:00+02:00
2021-10-01T17:15:00+02:00
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<p>The new Jinjer has been out for a few weeks now. Given that I enjoyed their latest two outputs “Micro” and “Macro” a lot, I was looking forward to this one. And it’s a good solid Jinjer record. Tatiana got even better at singing. But apart from that now real surprises, I must say.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/rtc
🎧 Resurrection Through Carnage – Bloodbath
2021-08-19T11:45:00+02:00
2021-08-19T11:45:00+02:00
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<p>Of course, I have been listening to this album quite a bit around recording <a href="/videos/buried-by-the-dead">my “Buried by the Dead” guitar cover</a>. Catchy songs, ridiculous (good) guitar sound, and Åkerfeld’s amazing vocals. It’s a bit of a shame he no longer growls like this.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/heavy-breathing
🎧 Heavy Breathing – Black Breath
2021-07-30T10:05:00+02:00
2021-07-30T10:05:00+02:00
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<p>Man! What’s this? Some Blackened Death’n’Roll Hardcore? It’s definitely <em>fun</em>. Very aggressive with a lot of groovy breakdowns. If you dig the first 20 seconds of this album as much as I do, I guarantee you’ll enjoy the rest, too!</p><p>Heavy breathing? Heavy rotation!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/phanerozoic-i-palaeozoic
🎧 Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic – The Ocean
2021-07-24T11:45:00+02:00
2021-07-24T11:45:00+02:00
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<p>I have been listening to this atmospheric and progressive album quite a bit recently. The highlight might be “Devonian: Nascent” just because Katatonia’s Jonas Renkse sings on this one.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/fortitude
🎧 Fortitude – Gojira
2021-06-22T09:11:00+02:00
2021-06-22T09:11:00+02:00
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<p>This is the first Gojira album in a while that keeps getting play after play. They really managed to create a long-player that I enjoy back to front. After “The Way of All Flesh” – which I listened to a lot a decade back – none of their albums were like that for me. So, it’s likely that “real” Gojira fans do not like this one. But I think it’s fantastic!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/witness
🎧 Witness – VOLA
2021-06-19T17:50:00+02:00
2021-06-19T17:50:00+02:00
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<p>Another one of <a href="https://jasper.tandy.is">Jasper</a>’s tips. I knew the band already – and I’ve seen them live twice – but haven’t checked out their latest output.</p><p>Djenty, heavy, proggy stuff, with a great singer. Reminds me of Tesseract and Devin Townsend – which I both like – and probably a bunch of other artists, too. But that’s not to say they don’t have their own sound. They have! And I’m into it. And with proggy stuff like this, there’s often lots to discover after repeated listens. The refrains are sometimes a bit too “nice” for my liking, but apperently this didn’t stop me from putting this on again and again.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/deserted
🎧 Deserted – Gatecreeper
2021-05-28T12:06:00+02:00
2021-05-28T12:06:00+02:00
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<p>To counter the complexity that is <a href="/listened_to/music/hhhr">Blood Incantation</a>, I need some easy listening. In comes this Gatecreeper album.</p><p>They <a href="/listened_to/music/carnage">also</a> have this chainsaw sound going. Great riffs. A great vocalist. Nothing really new. But all I really need.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/hhhr
🎧 Hidden History of the Human Race – Blood Incantation
2021-05-26T21:30:00+02:00
2021-05-26T21:30:00+02:00
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<p><a href="https://jasper.tandy.is">My new friend Jasper</a> recommended this band to me. And so this album has been in rotation ever since.</p><p>It’s technical death metal in a raw old school sound, interspersed with these atmospheric outer space parts. Not quite sure what this reminds of. Maybe Cynic!? Anyway, it’s a great album with (still) lots to discover.</p><p>My current favourite is the 18-minute long closing track “Awakening From the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul)”.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/everflowing
🎧 Like An Ever Flowing Stream – Dismember
2021-05-02T00:00:00+02:00
2021-05-02T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>I’m simply into old school Swedish death metal right now.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/carnage
🎧 Carnage – LIK
2021-04-23T00:00:00+02:00
2021-04-23T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Their previous album is <a href="/listened_to/music/misanthropic-breed">also</a> fantastic. Same Swedish chainsaw guitar sound. And even better songs!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/misanthropic-breed
🎧 Misanthropic Breed – LIK
2021-04-15T00:00:00+02:00
2021-04-15T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>I’m mainly in love with the <em>sound</em> of this album. But it’s also an easy album to like musically: well-done good old old-school Swedish death metal à la Dismember and Entombed. Just listen to “Funeral Anthem” to get a rotten taste!</p><p>Also: how can one not love that cover artwork?</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/serpents-of-the-light
🎧 Serpents of the Light – Deicide
2021-04-03T00:00:00+02:00
2021-04-03T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>For some reason, I was <a href="/notes/sonntags-death-metal">listening to this last Sunday</a>. I haven’t listened to Deicide in years. But it remained in rotation.</p><p>It’s Easter after all.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/only-ghosts
🎧 Only Ghosts – Red Fang
2021-04-01T00:00:00+02:00
2021-04-01T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>I recently came across <a href="https://www.redfang.net/videos.html">their remarkable videos</a> again. While a while back I mostly listened to their debut and “Murder the Mountains”, this time I’m givin’ their latest output a few spins. And I am not disappointed!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/wolverine-blues
🎧 Wolverine Blues – Entombed
2021-03-11T00:00:00+01:00
2021-03-11T00:00:00+01:00
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<p><a href="https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/lars-goeran-petrov-frontmann-von-entombed-a-d-ist-tot-a-4c308728-e4e2-4b6c-8282-42deb3d7d98e">The recent death of singer LG Petrov</a> prompted me to listen to this marvel again.</p><p>It’s <em>the</em> Entombed album I listen(ed) to. It’s so damn heavy and the drumming immediately brings me in a good mood. Just listen to the title track. Banger!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/tsop
🎧 The Sound Of Perseverance (Reissue) – Death
2021-03-07T00:00:00+01:00
2021-03-07T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Death! Just too good! So, this one’s also in rotation now.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/symbolic
🎧 Symbolic – Death
2021-02-27T00:00:00+01:00
2021-02-27T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Learning Crystal Mountain on guitar. Death is always much fun to play. And this is such a great album!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/look-back
🎧 Look Back – Spiritual Beggars
2021-02-24T00:00:00+01:00
2021-02-24T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Been listening to this track a lot, because I was learning that middle section on guitar.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/hdwgsd
🎧 How Did We Get So Dark? – Royal Blood
2021-02-04T00:00:00+01:00
2021-02-04T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Royal Blood are <a href="/notes/202001201613">back</a> in rotation!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/imperial
🎧 Imperial – Soen
2021-01-31T00:00:00+01:00
2021-01-31T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>The new Soen album came out and it’s in heavy rotation.</p><p>[UPDATE:] This seems to not be for me this time around. I find myself regularly skipping songs, because either melody, guitar solo or vocals are unbearably cheesy. A shame, because some songs are actually quite good.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/paranoid
🎧 Paranoid – Black Sabbath
2021-01-19T00:00:00+01:00
2021-01-19T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>I never listened to this album. But because it’s such a classic, I know pretty much every song on here. And I’m enjoying it!</p><p>And if the end lead riff of “Fairies Wear Boots” was not a major influence for Metallica’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls” I’ll eat my hat!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/esoteric-malacology
🎧 Esoteric Malacology – Slugdge
2021-01-09T00:00:00+01:00
2021-01-09T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Does this bring anything new to the table? I don’t think so. But it’s very well done. It has some fantastic guitar work, blast beats, and great vocals. Winner!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/sagor
🎧 Sagor – Skraeckoedlan
2021-01-06T00:00:00+01:00
2021-01-06T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Enjoying some good Swedish riff-rock. Can’t stop listening to that “El Monstro”-riff.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/conjurer-i
🎧 I – Conjurer
2020-12-30T00:00:00+01:00
2020-12-30T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Currently listening to this EP quite a bit. Some great tremolo-picking melodies. And a great vocalist duo. Much heavy! Much good!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/solace
🎧 Solace – Jakob
2020-12-27T00:00:00+01:00
2020-12-27T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Instrumental post rock from New Zealand. Very atmospheric. Great to work to (as a lot of instrumental albums). My current favourite from that album is “Everything All of the Time” – that drum beat is exactly my kind of groove.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/capricorn
🎧 Capricorn – Orchid
2020-12-11T00:00:00+01:00
2020-12-11T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>What is this? 70s-style hard rock? Anyway – I like it! Great guitar riffs, catchy – although often long – songs, and – guess what? – very nice drumming.Every song is strong, but “Black Funeral” might be my favourite, if only for those amazing drum fills in the pre-chorus.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/the-dead-eye
🎧 The Dead Eye – The Haunted
2020-12-07T00:00:00+01:00
2020-12-07T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Been listening to a bit of The Haunted lately. Mainly the “The Dead Eye” record. Just some beautiful guitar work on this one. And great vocals (as is normal for Dolving). Plus, I sometimes need a bit of Per Møller Jensen’s drumming.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/moontower
🎧 Moontower – Dan Swanö
2020-10-08T00:00:00+02:00
2020-10-08T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>“The Big Sleep” was on some sampler when I was a teenager. I stumbled across this song again, and have now been listening to the whole “Moontower” album quite a bit. In case you don’t know: Dan Swanö plays all the instruments and does the singing, too. A true one-man-band.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/hiss-spun
🎧 Hiss Spun – CHELSEA WOLFE
2020-10-08T00:00:00+02:00
2020-10-08T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Got into Chelsea Wolfe. Mainly her “Hiss Spun” album. It’s a bit like the heavy, less electronic, even more melancholic version of <a href="/listened_to/music/dummy">Portishead</a>. Also reminds me of the acts that would play Twin Peaks’ Roadhouse. Love it!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/carpenterbrut
🎧 TRILOGY – Carpenter Brut
2020-10-08T00:00:00+02:00
2020-10-08T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Pretty unusual for me since it’s very electronic. But great stuff!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/meliora
🎧 Meliora – Ghost
2020-10-08T00:00:00+02:00
2020-10-08T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Ghost’s “Meliora” album made a return to my rotation. Songwriting par excellence.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/city-burials
🎧 City Burials – Katatonia
2020-05-12T00:00:00+02:00
2020-05-12T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Their new album. What can I say? Of course, it’s great!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/monolord
🎧 No Comfort – Monolord
2020-05-11T00:00:00+02:00
2020-05-11T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Been listening to all their 4 albums actually. It’s low, slow and heavy. And I like it.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/dummy
🎧 Dummy – Portishead
2020-05-10T00:00:00+02:00
2020-05-10T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Just a wonderfully quiet and melancholic album.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/something-wicked
🎧 Something Wicked Marches In – VLTIMAS
2020-05-09T00:00:00+02:00
2020-05-09T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>All-Star Death Metal. David Vincent’s vocals are just superb!</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/craft
🎧 Fuck the Universe – Craft
2020-05-08T00:00:00+02:00
2020-05-08T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>This Swedish black metal act is growing on me.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/soen
🎧 Lotus – Soen
2020-05-07T00:00:00+02:00
2020-05-07T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Still regular listening to both the “Lotus” and “Lykaia” albums.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/in-cauda-venenum
🎧 In Cauda Venenum – Opeth
2020-05-06T00:00:00+02:00
2020-05-06T00:00:00+02:00
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<p><a href="/notes/201911140838">Ever since seeing them live last time</a>, I can’t get “Allting tar slut” out of my head.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/blood-year
🎧 Blood Year – Russian Circles
2020-05-05T00:00:00+02:00
2020-05-05T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Their latest album. Would have loved to see them live last month. But as everything was cancelled, this will need to do – which is not bad at all.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/fear-inoculum
🎧 Fear Inoculum – TOOL
2020-05-04T00:00:00+02:00
2020-05-04T00:00:00+02:00
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<p>Still in rotation.</p>
https://danielpietzsch.com/listened_to/music/over-and-over
🎧 Over and Over and Over – Jack White
2020-01-29T00:00:00+01:00
2020-01-29T00:00:00+01:00
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<p>Listening to this over and over and over again…</p>