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Blood in the Labyrinth Edition.

----- INFERNO (LP5)
OUT NOW FOR STREAMING AND DOWNLOAD.

>YOUTUBE OFFICIAL FULL ALBUM PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm67aHmN2wo&list=OLAK5uy_lljmZxsklD_9bkwH1M08MpA5SqAFuMJI8

----- REVIEWS
Positive:
>musicOMH
5/5
>The Herald
5/5
>Beats Per Minute
9/10
>Clash
9/10
>Still Listening
9/10
>Uncut
9/10
>Pitchfork
8.6/10
>AllMusic
8/10
>Exclaim
8/10
>Mojo
4/5
>The Skinny
4/5
>Paste
7.5/10
>Far Out Magazine
7/10
>Resident Advisor
Recommends
>DJ Mag
Recommends

Negative:
>The Guardian
2/5
>Financial Times
2/5
>The Arts Desk
2/5

Share more reviews when they come out.

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Previous thread: >>130460382
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Is this the last general?

I am gonna miss all of you
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Ahem, erm... Yes. So I got rid of the bullshit.
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The party never stops
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>>130464998
This zoomer Christian revivalism is so cringe
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>>130465535
No, if Emily Armstrong linkin park has a general, if k pop does, BoC can. The album literally just came out, I only listened to it a few hours ago. This is the start of something beautiful.
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>>130465508
I'm not a fan of your vertical webms, man.
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>>130465550
Fucking Allie Beth’s the lot of them

My wife sadly went down the crunchy mom to Christian evangelical rabid hole. If we didn’t have kids I would divorce her ass and find someone who is more chill.
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Don't forget the christcuck rant
we winning krishna bros
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>>130465537
>removed literally the best song
lol, lmao even
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>>130465574
You can tell the dude is on some trashy-ass ghetto drugs besides having 80 IQ literacy.
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THIS WILL ALWAYS COME TO BE
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>>130465566
Your wife is literally aligning herself to Christ and you are lusting after satan. Shame on you
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I AM TRUMP
THE ULTIMATE
PRESIDENT
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>>130465609
here comes the fabled christly love
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After a couple listens, really happy at how inventive this album is with its instrumentation (sitar, harp, real guitars etc.) I liked Tomorrow's Harvest a lot, but that album was really kinda samey (and the shorter interludes like Uritual felt kinda filler).
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>>130465537
I know everyone will be upset about Naraka but how can you remove The Word Becomes Flesh?
Mods, return this man to the EMBRYO.
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I. THINK. THATS. WONDERFUL
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>>130465659
>>130465604
>>130465574
>>130465566
>>130465550

Hope you get well.
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>>130465724
zoomie tourist really rushing to /mu/ to post facebook-tier trash, despicable subhuman
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everyone is saying best album 10/10 blah blah but like is there legit something wrong with me i think this is their weakest album. its lacking so much nuance and identity. ive listened to it probably 20 times since the leak and it is so disappointing
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Who here jorking they resonance rn
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>>130465739
Repent.
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>>130465748
I think Tomorrow's Harvest and Campfire Headphase are weaker.
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>>130465663
Name a single good track on Tomorrow’s Harvest that isn’t Palace Posy.

Hard mode: really think about it and realise that Tomorrow’s Harvest is complete and utter dogshit
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>>130465748
Maybe you’ve conditioned yourself to think new is bad and old is good. I’ve never treated BoC as an album band until Inferno. Their old releases are like sampler packs.
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>>130465663
TH was too cohesive for its own good, and too samey. It's one idea spread across an entire album, one sound. I'm glad Inferno isn't that. There's a crazy contrast between a track like Father and Son and Memory Death, or Naraka and Deep Time, etc.

TH has no such contrast between tracks. I think this alone makes Inferno a way more interesting album.
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BRO
LIST
BRO HEAR ME
RN
BRO LISTEN
ARENA
LISTEN
ARENA...
AMERICANADA!
YO HEAR ME
AMERI CANADA
IT'S BOTH AMERICA AND CANADA
YOU FEEL THAT
BRO
LIST
BRO LIKE HOLY SHIT BRO
THESE UNCIES ARE FIRE
FR
YA HEARD NARAKA BRO
KRISHNA BRO HARE NO CAP
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>>130465763
lmfao why are christlarpers always the generic /x/ schizo type, dude even namefags there
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>>130465777
Semena Mertvykh, Sundown, and Nothing is Real are cool, but yeah I go back to very little from that
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>>130465765
ive been a/bing everything against inferno, even with all the intended differences between albums theres still this consistency of subtlety, layering, and inventive refinement/catchiness that it lacks for me, i really hope i change my mind
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>>130465765
Satellite, Peacock, Dayvan are twice as good as anything on Inferno. Inferno is more consistent in that it’s mid throughout, Tomorrow’s Harvest is more consistent in that it’s shit throughout.
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>>130465804
I'm surprised he even is anti-Israel. I thought he was one of those crazed Evangelical Israel dickriders.
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Anybody willing to share the WEB rip? I already have the leak but the leak has slightly off track runtimes which triggers my autism. Leviathan should be 4:44, clearly a very deliberate choice, but the leak is 4:45
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>>130465809
Why is music supposed to be "subtle"? I can't remember shit from TH since it's all samey ambience. I love the harder-hitting stuff.

>>130465818
Just ask them where their holy land is.
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>>130465803
>when ur resonance blown but she keeps performing acts of magic on ur naraka
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>>130465813
Dayvan is overrated, I say that as a massive Campfire fan, it is my favorite album of theirs. Satellite,. Constants are Changing, Slow This Bird Down, Macquarie Ridge are some of their all time greatest songs.

Inferno is fantastic, declaring any of these songs as better than ones I've spent years with seems silly. Time will tell.
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>>130465805
>Semena, Sundown
Ambient interlude nothing burgers, and not even good ones.
>Nothing is real
More like Nothing happens
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>>130465804
you literally searched and found the same image on /x/ lmao how more butthurt you want to get before accepting reality?
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>>130465826
you want flac? i'll upload it for you
also do you not use soulseek lmao
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It's so ass and lacks everything that made BoC's music great in the first place. It sounds like someone far less talented said "let's make an album that sounds like BoC." Derivative slop, I have no idea how you people are enjoying this.
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>>130465912
Of all fun schizo mysticism to learn, you pick jew worship? I had a friend that also went through that entire christmania phase, the idea of being divinely inspired is like a drug to normgroids, then the high faded away and now he gets really embarrassed if you bring it up again lol.
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>>130465934
When new albums from prestige bands drop, this is the kind of ass-pained posting I find the most satisfaction in.
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Anybody that wants me to upload the listening party video they had for "You Retreat in Time and Space"?
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>>130465951
>Of all fun schizo mysticism to learn, you pick jew worship?
No I didn't? Now you're hallucinating. Why should I worship Jesus?
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>>130465922
Flac, thanks man
No, I mostly stick to rutracker but they only have the leak up so far.
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>>130465973
I'm not interested in splitting hairs about your particular blend of abrahamist jew worship, so keep it in the schizo board.
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father and son is straight up ytp with a note of gachi at times

also, about tomorrow's harvest, I remember listening to it at release hoping it'd grow on me, 13 years and it hasn't, this one I liked first listen
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youuu
uhhh
em
ay beyew
ess! :)
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>>130465992
I believe you have serious polarity problems kiddo.
Hope you get well. Again.
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>>130465934
I expected it to be worse than Tomorrow’s Harvest, thankfully it isn’t. Deep Time is good, All Reason Departs first half has great melody work, Naraka ain’t bad apart from the almost self-parodying fanfic-tier Hare Krishna chanting, Blood in the Labyrinth is alrite.

Of course as a whole, it is nowhere near their stuff up to and including TCH.
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>>130465995
>father and son is straight up ytp with a note of gachi at times
>gachi
lmao check this out:
>>130463910
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uncs were bussin it down on father and son
yall wildin
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>>130466036
how do you not have a strong opinion (positive) on The Word Becomes Flesh?
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It's not very good is it?
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Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan O________O;;;;
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>>130466054
you're right it's not, it's great.
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>>130466054
fuck you anime sperg it's great.
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>>130466054
first half is great, second half might be an acquired taste
they still got it/10
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>>130466054
It’s not good; it’s superb
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>>130466054
no it's not. but you can start with the bullshit removed list anon has at the top of the thread and make your way up to full album in time
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>>130466036
TH mogs this shit and it's not close.
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>>130466080
yeah tomorrow's harvest got such memorable bangers like uuuuuuuuuuuuh.........
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being filtered by TH is like being filtered by the breakfast hypothetical

how would you feel if you didnt have GOD THE ULTIMATE RESONANCE today?
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>>130466109
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This should win a Grammy or some other meaningless award. It’s AOTY. I wasn’t even expecting it to be this good desu.
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Father and Son is the new BoC filter
best song on the album
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>>130466118
i'm not the one getting folded by a trip hop album
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>that funky groove in You Retreat
I suppose this is the sensual machine music that was promised in the blurb
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this is not worse than TH because at least it has some memorable tracks
this is not better than TH because TH at least had a discernible identity, the "it" factor that all of their albums have. inferno doesn't really have it, it appears to be a compilation of random scraps they had accumulated over time which they then polished to sound like finished tracks.
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>>130465655
U S A
MARVELOUS
MARVELOUS !
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Baffling that they can literally call the album Inferno and people still can't figure out what the theme could possible be.
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>>130466133
the bass in HHLL too surely.
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>>130466136
It appears as though you are assraped, bottomed, gaped wide
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>>130466052
It’s not bad. The vocals just don’t need to be that high in the mix. We get the fuckin point pretty early on.

>>130466080
I mean neither are outstanding but I am a huge BoC fan and I have listened to TH maybe 5 times and it gets worse and more disappointing the more I listen to it. I was posting in a thread like this 13 years ago hoping TH would grow on me. It is total shit dude. Inferno is much better

Pre TH BoC >>> Inferno >>>>>>> TH
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hey once fagtano puts his opinion out you'll all fall in line
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Naraka is one of those songs I'll listen 100 times in a row straight and end up being disgusted by it
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>>130466137
D O N DOUBLE A L D
DONALD
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>>130466158
I hadn't been on this board for like 10 years before this album and I'm shocked that that guy is still going.
Tyler the Creator is still fucking going as well, what the fuck.
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>>130466199
no surprise for an anime zoomer
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>>130466206
Fantano is a lolcow now for what it's worth.
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https://bleep.com/format/1982221-inferno
insane price
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the classic hauntology style tracks are literally on life support, and eventually just a literal heart beat that goes out, while the new style production songs are beaming with life

Anybody notice that?
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>>130465882
in no way is semena a nothing burger lol, fucking based and actually better than a lot of dark ambient I got into as a result
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Entire discography in V0 LAME 3.100 mp3 from FLAC absolutely everything no repeats hyper-concise crazy organized including Inferno and the new Vinyl bonus track.

sources are immaculate including a digital version of the aquarius vinyl only single

https://mega.nz/folder/N0FnjAQR#-vxP-eyFCbT9XXWY_zETmA


ALSO IN FLAC:
https://mega.nz/folder/AtlBhTaa#zIidaJuVSolVr5CBDqiHNA

ALL THE AVAILABLE SOCIETAS X TAPE SOURCE ALBUMS AND MATERIAL
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>>130466233
Syro vinyl costed as much when it was released
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>>130466233
The album art looks way better on that to be fair.
Though the girl looks like she's doing her best Aphex Twin impression.
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>>130466242
you might enjoy the bonus track anon. hauntology asf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dj0XDkPNMg&t=14s
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Does anyone know where i can find high quality scans of all the artwork they made for Inferno? Like the cover art, vinyl sleeves, posters, promo material, etc?
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>>130466158
Too late Pitchfork already told me it's an 8.6 in terms of quality
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>>130466279
Kinda weird this wasn’t just included on the album
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>>130466246
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>>130466333
yeah probs just a curio, but the way it is presented it feels like its an attempt to get reddit and twoism to speculate for the next two hundred years
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>>130466233
call it the inferior medium tax

>>130466279
this is better than at least three or four of the tracks on the album itself
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>>130466333
The only copyright credit for it is the Moody Bible Institute so it might not even be a BoC song.
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>>130466246
I think you fucked up that flac link
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i like this more than geogaddi
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>Naraka is the indian hell and the lyrics are basically just surrendering yourself to the jeet cult
>jeets love it saar thanks for noticing us

>Father and Son is about the subversion of love and the family unit in favor of the jew cult
>jews get mad

What causes this discrepancy?
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>>130466410
Wtf where'd he go?
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>>130466279
wtf this is great
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RANK THE SHORT SONGS

Memory Death > Somewhere Right Now in the Future > Acts of Magic > I Saw Through Platonia > Introit
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>>130465537
>removing Naraka
Shit taste and pleb confirmed.
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>>130466384
i just double-checked? it still works fine? just make sure you copy the whole thing
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>>130466511
your flac link is the societas x sources, not the inferno flac
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>>130466423
into my screen
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Father And Son is peak right now. I wasn’t sure at first, but it’s incredibly catchy and dark.
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>>130466675
I was sure immediately. Reminds me of walls fall out: https://youtu.be/JdCcooChM3I
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I mean, Inferno is ok. 6.5/10. Still like their first three albums and their EPs pre-TH way more.
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9.5/10
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why is it so polarizing
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I feel like every BOC album has a subtle overarching narrative, how do you guys interpret this one?

I think the listener is being shown a prophecy of a dark apocalyptic future. it's some kind of A.I. god-like figure (implied by Prophecy at 1420m MHZ) showing us this grim vision of the future if humans continue this path.

The key is that it's not inevitable, but could be course corrected, which I think is what gives us to some of the more hopeful sounding moments on the album.

Once we're at "The Process", we are at the total destruction of civilization as prophesized. The atmospheric samples sound so dreadful and hell-ish. In "You Retreat In Time And Space" I think is when this grim vision of the future ends and we realize how much past, present, and future are all intertwined and non-linear. This future could exist, as prophesied by the A.I., but we have the present moment still to change our fate.
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>>130466770
Love of the game
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All Reason Departs is so cool, it starts out so focused and and sharp but then it loses shape and turns into robotic bleeps aimlessly droning on until it just kind of fades out

title is very fitting, the song is literally losing its reasoning
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>>130466770
Because conservatives can’t make art
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>>130466770
most people are in some sort of apocalyptic cult or juggling between cults instead of realizing the truth
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Arena Americanada could literally have been made in the 80s to my ears.

It sounds so much like Tangerine Dream
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>>130466246
You never actually linked the flacs, I'm assuming your post was meant to have 3 links, but the flac link is the societas x tape source albums one.
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>>130465803
/thread
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>>130466816
/thread
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>>130466865
drums have punchy modern sounding compression on them though the comparison is apt otherwise
it also reminds me of this absolute banger or some other tune from that album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDxsFC0oIOA
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>>130466804
i think while TH present a world on the brink of total collapse, Inferno presents a world ecstatic for such said collapse, a world that cherishes auto-destruction. it feels like you're going through every step of initiation into an apocalyptic cult. naming "hell" the ecstatic hare krishna song is almost mocking the listener for feeling any elation from the cheesy chant

seeing how auto-destructive and anti-life society is getting, i think this album fits quite well in these modern times
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After the first listen I was thinking 6,5/10, but now after the second listen it's definitely an 8/10. I'd say it was worth the 13 year wait.
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>>130466423
Memory Death > Acts of Magic > I See Through Platonia > Somewhere Right Now... > Introit

All are good and seamlessly integrated into the album though. They elevate it. Short ambient interludes were already the best thing from Tomorrow's Harvest and I've wished for a BoC ambient-only release ever since.
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WHAT A WEEK FOR SCOTTISH GOTH GUITAR
https://youtu.be/Sd9fyGkd1Zg
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bit off topic but I don't really get all this "the world is uniquely bad currently" talk in all the hermeneutics surrounding this album. Is it really worse today than during the whole fucking cold war, are the wars now worse or more unjust than the gulf war or israel wars in the 70s or yugoslavia collapse etc..? Is orange man significantly worse than reagan or margaret thatcher (the cum catcher)? Sorry for diffuse rant.
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>>130465609
Uh huh

It would be different if it resulted in her being a nicer person, you know, if people who followed Christ followed the example that he set with his conduct and behaviour, but it has only yielded malice, the fruit of the evangelist spirit is rotten.

I was baptized Lutheran, I went to catholic schools, I am pretty well versed in theology, maybe not on the level of someone who has attended seminary school, but more than a lay person. I do not have a problem with Christianity, but I take issue with religion and cultist behaviour being used for social engineering or to lead those who feel lost to an untimely demise. The Christian momfluencer online realm is incredibly toxic, it’s basically just a means of trying to persuade young mothers into sending their sons off one day to die in future and wars at the behest of foreign governments.

The Schofield Bible and pre-millenial dispensationalism have been a disaster for the human species.

For what it’s worth, I do believe in God, but I believe that God is indifferent to the human experience & beyond the scope of human interpretation.
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>>130467038
You have to be capable of seeing where things are headed to realize where the pain is coming from.
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>>130467038
it's a mix of apocalyptic thinking stemming from religious trauma and the legitimate slow burn of western decay
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Was planning on a more in-depth reaction, but I’m at a loss for words. I feel like this is what it must have been like for people my parent’s age to have heard Dark Side of the Moon for the first time. Has anyone in recent memory made an album that is so firmly committed to a grand aesthetic gesture? A building of a sonic architecture that one feels you exist inside of? I’m 51 years old, a fan since the beginning, and I can’t recall the last time I had an experience with a piece of recorded music.

I know there will be endless permutations of hermeneutical interpretation, but I’ve gotten heavily into Eastern religion in the last few years—Hinduism, Buddhism—and for all the Christian doomsday imagery on this album, it strikes me as a thoroughly Buddhist expression: the death of the ego, the moving past Western nihilism toward an embrace of absolute, timeless nothingness as means of rebirth.

Thematics aside, thus is the most incredibly SPACIOUS and hi-fi sounding record I think I’ve ever heard. A masterful wielding of sonic space, totally 3 dimensional.

My heartbeat locked into sync with “I Saw Through Platonia,” and I felt like I genuinely had a spiritual experience. I can’t remember the last time music did this to me. I must have been a teenager.

Thank you BOC.
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>>130466979
That "cherishes auto-destruction" is a good way to put it and is why I think it may be a prophecy being shown by an A.I. or at least a cult leader being heavily influenced by it. This feels like a response to the nihilist sentiment you can see any time on the Internet where people are so overwhelmed by all the horrific news across the globe that they just become so numb to it, they'd get to a point they just go "just burn it all".

>>130467038
I think while it's true it's a kind of an illusion that our current times are worse than before, the Internet / social media allows for the propagation of horrific images and news so fast that it's overwhelming. Before, all those events like the cold war the information was heavily edited and delivered by a central entity (broadcast television and newspapers).

Now you can literally livestream a missile descending from the sky and blowing up a major city. It's so raw and unfiltered these days, and that's just one example. The human psyche is much more aware of the dread and pain at a collective level than ever before, even if you're living comfortably, you will always be reminded that suffering is never too far from you.
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>>130467038
kind of, yes.
Trump is an institutional and cultural wrecker. he's not the root cause of it but he is the kerosene ans now that will to power is normalised, now the executive is stonger than ever and its become acceptable to blatantly gaslight the public and stuff public offices with syncophants who the executive will isulate from failure through abberations in due process, while in turn thr syncophants see accountability as to the exec, not public, meanwhile the same kleptocrats engage in insider trading and market manipulation (both stock and prediction markets) with erratic policy announcements which weakens the business environment and institutionsl trust

this isnt to say american governance was ever perfect or clean but people will miss the bipartisan figleaf when it's gone because it wont come back
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>>130467038
The Cold War era at least had higher standards of living, the world wasn’t quite fully globalized, people were not closely monitored, there was not a panopticon everywhere, community still existed, food wasn’t as processed, human beings still had hope for the future. I am almost 40, I can say with certainty that things got worse in the last ten years…a decade ago I felt like we were on the verge of a modern Renaissance, today, I feel like we are being dragged back into the dark ages. I even hear the older boomers my family talking about how much freer they were when they were younger, they could buy a house for the equivalent of two years wages, they did not have algorithms deciding so many aspects of their lives.

My moms shitty cousin who moved
To the UK to become a barrister in the middle temple said “Margaret thatcher has the biggest dick in all England”
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I am confused by the people who hate the sampling in this? There was so much of in MHTRTC it's honestly a return to form. Is it because it's not little kids anymore?
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I think the deliberately self-parodying and cheeky feel of the album is a genius move on the brothers' part. You can imagine the conundrum they faced in writing a new album when the innovations that originally made them unique (old detuned synths, samples from children's media, etc) are now so mainstream they are used by A-list pop stars. So where do you go when your influence is broad yet you have a cult following who expects something innovative? You fuse the two elements into a sort of pop album that goofs on the fans for looking to BoC as a source of deep wisdom. "Prophecy" is their spin on 80s arena rock with a demonic false god preacher on vocoder. "Father and Son" is the youtubepoopified version of their Music had the Right era vocal sampling. Their willingness to lean into this sort of cheesiness is what really sells it. Combined with the cover art looking like a poster for a no-budget horror flick, you can just feel the brothers grinning at making a BoC grindhouse album. That's not to say all the songs are in this cheeky mode, but I think when they are trying to be more sincere (like "Retreat") they have the room to return to their classic roots without coming off as too self-serious.

I love that the album is a bit all over the place sonically but maintains a distinct cohesion, like taking a tab of acid and going to a midnight screening of a grindhouse triple feature. There's a certain tactile over-whelmingness to it all that really brings it everything together. Even in the sillier aspects of the album, the sound design is so polished you just want to rub your ears against it. The production is just so virtuosic it's like the brothers are saying to us, "You know we can do whatever we want, right?"

What an incredible album.
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>>130467337
I was 12 when MHTRTC was released.

I am all grown up now.
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>>130467038
there's a documentary called the killing of america from the early 80s that's required viewing for anyone who says we're in a uniquely terrible era. the amount of domestic terrorism, assassinations, and serial killings during the 70s was insane. like imagine living during the 50s and two decades later seeing something like jonestown happen.
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I love that the whole Inferno album is dead serious and that their old albums were just them ‘avin a laff. It’s about time they took their work seriously.
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>>130467340
Is this legit or merely a pasta?
Anyway, good take. I find it about the same. Silly blokes, cheeky cunts the both of them and still very gifted.
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>>130467366
the drug "epidemic" of the 80's is a blip in the ocean compared to the shit people are going through now
there is a massive societal rift happening in the US and west as a whole, high profile assassinations are just tv doomslop that have nothing to do with the average citizen
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>>130467340
I second this, I greatly appreciate how fun the record is. TH took itself far too seriously
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>>130467382
/thread
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>>130465655
/thread
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>>130467366
I have seen that doc, it’s actually pretty good.

For the record, I have carried a pistol everywhere I go since moving to America.
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>>130467366
>>130467568
Just pulled this up and clicked around through a few clips, might have to use this in a video for an Inferno track lol. Looks great
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I think this will age best out of all their albums. Might just be the best.
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>>130466219
qrd?
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Does anyone have a dl link to the full listening session video? I saw one on yt but it got pulled
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>>130465934
There's some fakes circulating on soul seek. Straight up fake album, which sounds uncannily like boc, but very bland and generic. Just warning you
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First time listener to BoC. I really enjoyed Inferno and I've also enjoyed MHTRTC, GeoGaddi, and TCH. I'll be starting this one a little bit later in the day but how does it hold up? I'm seeing mixed opinions from here
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The more I listen to and try accepting Naraka the more I hate it.
It's literally an npc/zoomer filter for me at the moment.
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you might like this music video, band pretty much did the Inferno visual style 15 years before BOC, even digitally inserted themselves into footage of the jim jones cult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAM9diyVRiM
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>>130467831
It's the most mainstream techno sounding song but I like it, reminds me of Hell Interface
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>>130467814

It is better than TCH, worse than the first 2. If you like it, you will like Inferno.
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>>130467814
It's a concept album about the collapse of society. It's maybe their most atmospheric album.
It's very very heavy and bleak.
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>>130467850
>reminds me of Hell Interface
Hell Interface, especially remixes had background ambience that literally make them feel like hell interface. Where is it in this one? It's just a new age chant from buddha bar compilation cd. Even Juno reactor would shit on it in 5 minutes.
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really liking the unintelligible scrambled samples in between dialogue on Father And Son, almost feels like some higher being trying to participate in conversation they're having
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>>130466279
proper Hell Interface
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>>130465982
are you still around? here's the link

24BIT FLAC, 44.1 KHZ
https://mega.nz/folder/gwUBAaLZ#VEauovapJFIOuUcxxnI6Eg
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>>130467941
>almost feels like some higher being trying to participate in conversation they're having
Even funnier if you pretend they're just nodding along to it and going "I think that's wonderful" in the 2nd part of the song, trying to pretend they understand what its saying
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I don't get the love for Naraka I mean it's all right. The one that does it for me is the Age of Capricorn, the whole progression of the song starts with confusion (am I listening to music?) to the start of the mantra-like background vocals to when the main vocals start and somewhat synchronizes with the background vocals. The more I listen to it the more I love it.
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>>130467965
thanks brother
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>>130467340
Great take
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Naraka is the only bad song on the album. I don't understand why it's so loved either.
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>>130467814
there's a lot of thematic texture in the sound design and signal processing. pay attention to the incidental sounds, they arent just atmosphere, if something sounds like cell phone packets or a geiger counter, it's intentional.

the album can also be listened to as a pallandrome (collapse at centre) or recombinant (1, 17, 2, 16), tying into the aromic theme, it's like a split atom you (can) recombine
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>>130467941
Felt like something trying to replicate human behavior and failing
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Well, I hardly believe that your own father
or mother
or brother
or sister
would be your enemy
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>>130468008
Naraka is sick so figure it out
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>>130468008
as someone who liked tomorrow's harvest i like it because it feels like spiritual cousin to palace posy
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>>130468069
It's the most boring song on the album.
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I can see this album spawning a new genre
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>>130466054
It's good. Kind of a grower. You might be let down if your expectations are really high.
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>>130467889
>Even Juno reactor would shit on it in 5 minutes
hot
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>>130467121
>Before, all those events like the cold war the information was heavily edited and delivered by a central entity (broadcast television and newspapers).
Well yeah. And the fact that it's not anymore like that means things are better, not worse. People need to get a fucking grip.
>>130467310
>I can say with certainty that things got worse in the last ten years
10 years fair enough. But not 50.
>I even hear the older boomers my family talking about how much freer they were when they were younger
"When I was 17 we were really so free" (young and sweet) t. every old person in every generation ever
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Which one?
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>>130467446
>SOON A VIGOROUS
>LY
>BEATING HEART IS PUMPING BLOOD
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>>130468153
Inferno
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>>130468153
Inferno by a million miles
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>>130468153
inferno has higher highs but much lower lows
so i'd go TH

TH is boring but never offensively bad like Prophecy and Father & Son are
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>>130468153
Inferno.
TH unfortunately never grew on me. I was super into the ARG when it was ongoing, then when the album dropped I was vaguely disappointed and that disappointment never really went away.
It was wise not to do that again, even though I think this album could have withstood the hype.
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>>130465748
I agree, Inferno substitues the melodic for aesthetic and nothing was melodically memorable to me other than Prophecy at 1420 Mhz. There are no Roy G Bivs, no Julie and Candys, no Sunshine Recorders. You can strip away the cool factor and aesthetic from Geogaddi entirely, and you still have intense melody underneath that holds its own. Tomorrow's Harvest does a better job there than this one, and I'll argue it is better.
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>>130468153
theyre both shit
twoism is still their best release
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>>130468285
Father and Son and Prophecy are so good. I feel like I’m personally urinating into the mouths of chuds when I listen to these songs
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>>130468153
TH



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