I was reading that the board game version has rules for permadeath, does anyone know if digital will get something similar when it comes out of EA? I'm a fan of roguelikes and love the tension of possibly losing days or weeks of effort through a series of stupid mistakes, or getting greedy/over ambitious.
Things just seem a bit less compelling when a character or team dies that they essentially just start over at the last save point with no consequences.
I'm just starting out in music and I'm really getting into digital hardcore. I'm currently looking for someone to collaborate regularly with and I was wondering if anyone would like to work together and make something music. I'm based in Scotland and the USA at the moment ,but I'm mostly working remotely. Message me if you're interested :)
I first heard of BABYMETAL (always caps, all the time) literally a week ago, when they were on Kerrang!'s International Women's Day - "Women of Rock" program. They started off in 2010 as a trio of J-pop "Idols" - heavily commercially manufactured performance artists - which performed J-pop songs in front of a heavy metal session band. That doesn't sound like "legit" heavy metal, does it? According to veteran heavy metal singer Rob Halford of Judas Priest, they're absolutely legit and absolutely heavy metal - what an accolade!
Their name, in fact everything about them, is a god damned play-on-words (or gestures). "Baby", when spoken in a Japanese accent, sounds like "Bebii" which rhymes with "heavy", so their name - BABYMETAL - sounds almost identical to "heavy metal". The trope of "death" in heavy metal goes against the J-pop theme of the band, but fortunately "death" in a Japanese accent sounds a lot like "des" ("desu", with the "u" dropped), which means "I/we am/are", so when they should "BABYMETAL death!" it legit sounds like "We are heavy metal". Ain't that something? :D Furthermore, as none of the singers had any exposure to heavy metal prior to joining the group, when they were first shown the heavy metal devil horns - 🤘 - they immediately got it "wrong" and instead made a hand gesture akin to a fox - 🦊 - which, by the way, represents a "kitsune", a mythical spirit-like creature which can transform between a human form and that of a fox spirit.
So onto the tracks. I first heard "Gimme Chocolate!!", and that was enough to hook me, but since then i've had a gander at their repertoire and this is the shortlist, in order, which i would recommend to anyone who wants to check them out. I'm also rating them in order of metal (💀) -vs- cuteness (🖤), given that the metal side of the band is metal AF, and the cute side is cute AF.
💀💀💀💀💀 Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!!! is from their debut album from 2012. The neck brace is a nod to an X Japan band member who hurt his neck and had to perform wearing a neck brace.
💀💀💀💀💀 BABYMETAL DEATH Legend 1997 was performed for the first time on stage in 2013. It certainly puts a lot of other metal bands' performances to shame! Ozzy Osbourne was 34 when he bit the head off a bat and it was arguably one of the most metal things to have ever happened. This staged crucifixion occurred a day after BABYMETAL's lead singer
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I hope this kind of post is allowed here. I'm doing a little project where I go to different subreddits of music genres and I ask the members what the best album of that genre is. After this, I listen to the album that got the most upvotes after 24 hours and write my thoughts about it (I will write this as a comment under this post, so if you want to read it, make sure to check back in 2-3 days. This won't be a professional review btw. I don't know anything about music theory so it's just gonna be the thoughts of a random guy). The list I'm following is Wikipedia's list of the most popular music genres in a randomized order. I'm planning to listen to one album per day and this time the genre is Digital Hardcore. So please recommend me an album in the comments. It could be the best one in your opinion, your personal favourite, or the album that best represents this genre according to you, but please, only submit one album. I know nothing about this genre so I'm going in blind.
This is the 5th day of me doing this. If you want to check what the previous days were, check out my post history.
Thanks to anyone who recommends an album.
TL;DR: I listen to a new genre every day, so recommend me one album and I'll listen to the most upvoted one and write my thoughts about it later.
I find that genres that most people listen to while working such as classical and lofi hip hop do nothing for me. Then I discovered Digital Hardcore which is just a loud, messy, distorted mess that somehow blocks all distraction. It simultaneously stimulates and calms, like I’m fired up but able to direct that energy with great efficiency. Maybe it’s just me but it was a great find that I figured was worth a share.
Digital Hardcore. What's its legacy?
[Note: I'll be skipping lightly over discussions of ATR as they are fairly well covered elsewhere and, anyway, they frequently eclipse the discourse on the label's other artists]
In short, the main question is: Why has the genre fallen between the critical cracks? Was the mix of rave and extreme music too polarised?
It boasts one of the most consistently innovative and experimental electronic catalogs of the 90s ranging from ambient to jungle/breakcore via synth-jazz and disturbing yet hypnotic Game Boy chiptune . Why isn't the legacy bigger? I'm aware of D-Trash Records et al and the belated recognition of Christoph De Babalon's masterpiece in atmospheric dancefloor tension 'If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It', but have any of the other artists been given their due critically?
The name of the underground label and effectively sub-genre says it all: the fury of hardcore punk's raw brutality and discipline via the new digital technology that had redefined both the accessibility and possibilities for music production, in particular, samplers. A furious, deliberately scrappy, distorted rush of rave and punk but so much more: noise, cut-up, fiercely militant and with a futuristic paramilitary edge that gave the music a Mega-City One ambiance.
Key artists are obviously Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire himself, Ec8or (and Patric Catani in various guises), Cobra Killer and, of course, Bomb 20. Each produced startlingly gritty music that stands up today, as much a product of the times, scene and technology as any other sub-genre, but without eventually suffering from sounding too ubiquitous or sanitised, as befell techno and drum n' bass.
My personal favourites are Cobra's Killer's 1998 S/T album that strangled 60s soul and leftfield rock n' roll loops into frantic, gnashing compositions over which Annika Trost and Gina V. D'Orio scream, chant and coo surreal squat-land dramas with sometimes oblique, almost dadaistic topics and lyrics. Their live performances were legendary for the provocative chaos many hadn't seen in female artists at the time.
Elsewhere, the catalogue offers lots of gems. Dig beneath the illusion of breakcore (there are more than a few releases in this broad category) and there is the ice-cold experimental jazz of Nic
... keep reading on reddit ➡I first heard of BABYMETAL (always caps, all the time) literally a week ago, when they were on Kerrang!'s International Women's Day - "Women of Rock" program. They started off in 2010 as a trio of J-pop "Idols" - heavily commercially manufactured performance artists - which performed J-pop songs in front of a heavy metal session band. That doesn't sound like "legit" heavy metal, does it? According to veteran heavy metal singer Rob Halford of Judas Priest, they're absolutely legit and absolutely heavy metal - what an accolade!
Their manager might be a genius. He's a huge heavy metal fan, and had always intended to shape a J-pop group into a metal band fusion. He's succeeded - they've been going for ten years already and are the only Japanese-language band to hit the Billboard 200. Yeah, they sing almost exclusively in Japanese, yet have had incredible international success.
Their name, in fact everything about them, is a god damned play-on-words (or gestures). "Baby", when spoken in a Japanese accent, sounds like "Bebii" which rhymes with "heavy", so their name - BABYMETAL - sounds almost identical to "heavy metal". The trope of "death" in heavy metal goes against the J-pop theme of the band, but fortunately "death" in a Japanese accent sounds a lot like "des" ("desu", with the "u" dropped), which means "I/we am/are", so when they should "BABYMETAL death!" it legit sounds like "We are heavy metal". Ain't that something? :D Furthermore, as none of the singers had any exposure to heavy metal prior to joining the group, when they were first shown the heavy metal devil horns - 🤘 - they immediately got it "wrong" and instead made a hand gesture akin to a fox - 🦊 - which, by the way, represents a "kitsune", a mythical spirit-like creature which can transform between a human form and that of a fox spirit.
So onto the tracks. I first heard "Gimme Chocolate!!", and that was enough to hook me, but since then i've had a gander at their repertoire and this is the shortlist, in order, which i would recommend to anyone who wants to check them out. I'm also rating them in order of metal (💀) -vs- cuteness (🖤), given that the metal side of the band is metal AF, and the cute side is cute AF.
💀💀💀💀💀 Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!!! is from their debut album from 2012. The neck brace is a nod to an X Japan band member who hurt his neck and had to perform wearing a neck brace.
💀💀💀💀💀 [BABYMETAL DEATH Legend 1997](http
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