#this album is just brilliant

[blackspellbook]

Within Temptation is not my favorite symphonic metal band, but The Unforgiving is by far my favorite album in this genre. It's the only symphonic metal album I listen to regularly since its release (more than a decade ago!).

I just love everything about it. I love its concept. I love the art cover because it seems so ominous with the color scheme in dark tones of red and green and the many characters in the cover. It tells us that it's not just an album, it's a musical journey in a corrupted world full of complex people and dilemmas.

And musically it's just amazing. I love how every single track in this album explodes in your ears and has an epic tone. But it's not your "typical epic symphonic metal" tone, it is truly epic in every sense. It's an odyssey. The songs are all well crafted soundtracks for a story.

#sorry for my rambling #this album is just brilliant #personal #within temptation #the unforgiving

[melit0n]

GUESS WHAT CAME TODAYYYYY!!!

Ugh I'm absolutely in love with this (and the album art book!!). I originally wanted to try and get a blue viynl, but I got impatient with HMV literally never restocking and Amazon selling out before I even know they're back on sale.

Did I maybe pay a little bit too much and indulge myself? Yes. But is it now among one of my favourite vinyl?? Definitely! Vessel's voice works so well on vinyl as well.

#also listening to Telomeres then High Water then Missing Limbs has absolutely destroyed me #that is an absolutely diabolical line up of songs #I've been listening to them while I write and every now and then I just turn to my record player like 😐 when it plays Fall for Me -> #or Missing Limbs like I didn't just flip the disc myself and knew what was coming up next 😭 #its just #augh #brilliant album #next I'll be aiming for Sundowning (if someone on Ebay wants to sell one for an actually reasonable price lmao) #sleep token #st #mel's rambles #tpwbyt #this place will become your tomb

[axlrosebaby]

no just listen to me. guns n roses. fucking listen close. guns. n. roses.

#ana's shitposts #guns n roses #hard rock #axl rose #slash #duff mckagan #izzy stradlin #steven adler #are you fuckin listening??? #cause i mean it when i say it #guns n roses are one the most brilliant bands ever #i could care less about other people's opinions on them #appetite for destruction... #there isn't another album like it #and some of the fucking songs on the use your illusions are ridiculously good #it's insane #they're insane #i love them. #i hate when people call them a cheap band #or just another la rock band who happened to make it big but weren't actually that good #the original line up has some of the most gifted musicians i think we'll ever see #i'm not biased.

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by the gorgeous and fabulous @cordiallyfuturedwight and @aprylynn for february's roundup:

tagging the usual music favs: @jiminsproof @thvinyl @jimin-gaon @visionsofgideontheninth @spicyclematis @kimchokejin @jihopesjoint @monismochi plus @kimtaegis for the amy macdonald of it all 💜 and also you, dear reader. MWAH

#heads up! here comes the director's commentary: #16 Carriages - now listen. i love texas hold 'em as much as the next daddy lessons supremacist #but holy shit. it doesn't hold so much as a candle to this track. #just unbelievably stunning. i'm begging you to give it another chance if you skipped over it the first time #Don't Forget Me - me and kayla and apryl all having ms rogers in this month's list... i think we might be better than everyone else actuall #End Of Beginning - good GOD we couldn't gatekeep djo any longer but it's worth it if only for all the bear tiktok edits. #and thus i have fallen for this track all over again. yes CHEF #Showtime - now if you've known me long enough you'll know i'm an absolute sucker for british indie rock bands #especially if their frontman looks like they might not make it through another winter #so you can imagine catfish has had an inexplicable hold on me. anyway their comeback single is actually pretty good #This Is The Life - fantastic tune. 2007 if you can believe it? #what a time to be alive and at the school disco and you're singing the songs and thinking this is the life and so on and so forth #Loving You Will Be The Death Of Me - tom odell can do no wrong in my eyes (ears?) anyway. lovely lovely new album #Never Need Me - been loving rachel for a while now and this single is brilliant. highly recommended. #plus the video features florence pugh and if that doesn't sweeten the deal then christ i don't know what will #Baby Now That I've Found You - i didn't even realise this was a cover of the foundations until hearing it again recently #because alison krauss just has an incredible way of making them her own and thus it's been on repeat. #Deeper Well - okay so now i'm seeing the country thread through this month's picks. #this is another lovely new one. hearing it on the radio and the fact that they have to censor “i used to wake and bake” is hilarious to me #shoutout kayla again because great minds.. #Stay For Something - CMAT is phenomenal and if you haven't listened to her yet i can't recommend her entire discography enough. #she had her arsecrack out at the brits last night and well. i would die for her #(speaking of the brits. raye... i literally cried for her. go find the recording of her live at the royal albert hall. #-watch it twice and then come back and thank me) #artists-wise - most of these guys are consistently up there. #katie melua is a new feature this time because all my amy macdonald-ing put me back onto nine million bicycles. #used to get that one mixed up with 99 luftballoons but they're really very different. i'm a fool #so tl;dr: fantastic tunes. do listen #tag #receiptify

[itspileofgoodthings]

Porfiry telling Raskolnikov that at least he was honest and in one bound took the furthest leap to put his theory to the test of actual action——

#Taylor believing a man who is obviously lying to her #like. it’s fascinating to me how they’ll say anything to her and she’ll be like ‘okay let’s go’ #she’s never read Jane Austen and it shows. but that’s okay because she’s the character in an Austen novel #she has no sense of self-preservation she has no common sense when it comes to love #and the reason I have endless patience for that is because she IS different. she is extraordinary. she is WEIRD. she’s so needy #so angry so fragile so stupid so brilliant so completely helpless #like the bolter———I can’t even LOOK at it right now #because you know she was like this since she was 5 and SHE knows it #just so. Different. so strange. I mean she ruled her family with an iron fist from the age of 11 #and her packaging is so basic and she she had so much access to everything anyone could want #so there are none of the usual marks of someone being so Different #but like. people HATED her from day one. you know her own strength of personality was drawing out many people’s hatred or envy #and she’s so helpless in her own personality because she can never change #like thank you aimee? or whatever? heck yeah there was some girl who bullied her and brutalized her on the playground #and you know it devastated Taylor from day one and still does #and it’s just. I don’t know how people can’t see that someone with that extraordinary set of gifts #wouldn’t also suffer in such an extraordinary way #and ways that elicit so much scorn and non-sympathy because people are unsettled and jealous and annoyed by her #because she WILL find a way to win #but isn’t that proof enough that she is the very OPPOSITE OF NORMAL #it’s why people have to be like ‘oh she sold her soul to the devil for this success.’ or whatever the psy-op spy thing is #because there’s no human way to explain her success if she really were as basic/talentless as people say #ugh this is all so incoherent and irritating and I’m so sorry but I just. I cannot explain how protective my heart is of her #and all the many many mistakes she’s made and the prisons she’s made for herself because she’s LIVING the tragedy #of never having denied herself one time/getting everything she wants #and discovering the poison at the bottom of everything she reached for with desperate hands #like. I love her so much and I am so protective of her because she is so helpless and she is getting shot in the face every time #and she feels every blow! #whew I need to turn off reblogs and will probably delete but I just #this album is all of her spilled out and people DO hate to see it because a lot of people hate her!!!!

[lifelong-roman-holiday]

@austennerdita2533 @any other swifties who see this and want to vote/reblog!

#usually albums take time to grow on me but #i am already OBSESSED and in love with this one #i was kind of meh on midnights overall #but this one is just beyond brilliant imo #i can easily see it being not just my favorite taylor album but one of my 2-3 favorite albums ever #taylor swift #polls #poll #swifties #the tortured poets department #ttpd

[hairtusk]

literally who is doing it like nick cave. he's been making music since the 70s, but his last 4 albums have been absolute world-beaters. imagine making push the sky away -> skeleton tree -> ghosteen -> carnage in a ROW in your 50s and 60s with a near 50yr career behind you. icon.

#push the sky away was the first *proper* album that i discovered completely on my own and truly truly loved #can't believe it's been 10 years already ... #also this doesn't even go into his brilliant books and all the other incredible albums #it's just great to see a great artist getting better and better with age

[blueberry-beanie]

Gonna start climbing walls any second because the new ee material is SO GOOD

#ALBUM NOW PLS #everything everything everything everything is so goooooood #what is that? a religion? #no just four guys making madly brilliant music #run all night all night never get free #can i hear this at a concert? i need to disintegrate #ee announce a goddamn european tour pls i can't go to the uk rn #everything everything #mountainhead

[weedle-testaburger]

i almost apologise

#personal crap #steven universe #su pearl #fun fact that pearl jam logo was insanely big #tbf this isn't just me shitposting i also listened to ten the other day and it's such a brilliant album #not to mention black is absolutely a pearl song #if 'i know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why why can't it be mine' doesn't sum up pearlrose #idek what does

[cosmicdreamgrl]

something i thought about after giffing the my time performance yesterday? the way everyone treats it like a thirst trap (ya'll think i don't see your tags when you reblog the set but i do) plays into the exact commentary it's trying to convey, and that's really sad tbh

#yes i think about this song a lot #i told you no one else loves it to their core as much as i do #i digress the point i'm trying to make is it's tragically interesting to see the subtext being proven right #is he hot af? yes i'm not blind as we all know #but i highkey dislike how people place such an emphasis on it #as if that's the only thing of note about him #the ick indeed #although in the case of this performance? the choreo/outfits play into the idea/persona the public has of him & also what's expected of him #the mots series much like the lys trilogy toys with the idea of perception (be it of yourself or through the eyes of others) #how in order to find peace you must accept how you see yourself and that you'll never be seen by people in the way you want to be seen #and this is such a brilliant addition to the larger narrative of the mots: 7 album #i repeat it's not suggestive at all in fact it's- yeah you get it if you get it #i guess i wish people understood that instead of just looking at it from a surface level #deep sigh #steph.text

[ovrgrwn]

The social commentary woven throughout Glass Onion is impeccably designed and the fact that Janelle Monae is the badass that delivered the heart of their role which in essence is A Black Woman In A White World and all of the baggage that comes with it

Is not lost on them -

They’ve been telling these stories through a prizim of perspectives since they began their music career nearly 19 years ago and is absolutely equipped with the ability to deliver that subtext flawlessly

#Janelle Monae #glass onion #glass onion spoilers #knives out #blm #black lives matter #racism #murica #like #if you only just got into Janelle Monae #and you love their aloofness and poise #please for the love of the goddess look into their earlier albums #Jane 57821 #and the queerness !! #their album dirty computer has an e-Motion picture on YouTube #they are brilliant #and i swear to god they are gonna chabge the world

[merevide]

the music i listen to shouldn’t count whenever i’m on my period or sad or depressed or suicidal btw. like i’ve been listening to lucy dacus’ home video nonstop for the past like 3 days. that shouldn’t count.

#it is literally a brilliant album but i do not wanna listen to anything else im dead serious #i try to put another song on and get turned off immediately like this isn’t lucy dacus:/ EVEN MY FAVE SONGS. #the whole point of this post kinda crumbles when u realize i’m kinda always sad n then i lose myself to the whole depression thing a lot but #in my defense i don’t even know it half the time. like me being miserable is just normal #only when i explained to my therapist how i literally do not want to truly do anything or go outside except like. the things i already do #which are already slipping away from that that i learned it was depression or whatever. anyway #if i listen to triple dog dare 120 times that shit better not appear on my wrapped I NEED A FRESH START PLEASE RECOUNT #my text

[a9saga]

can i get a "fucking finally" on warner music japan putting tommy's work under their label on streaming services a decade after her latest releases with them??

#i noticed they put blackout and the swingin sixties on the brilliant green's page a couple of weeks ago #but when i checked they hadn't put up heavenly's stuff #and it doesn't seem that they have february's last record either yet? #it was the sister album to ice cream heaven. candy shop or whatever it's called its the pink one w smth delicious on it #sony/defstar put her stuff on spotify about 2 and a half years ago now i remember where i was #when diana told me she had lonely in gorgeous suggested to her in her mix #i have been waiting for this ever since im very happy about it #everyone say we love you tomoko kawase we will stream your old old ass albums that just went up #tomoko kawase #the brilliant green #tommy heavenly6 #tommy february6 #tommy #jpop #j rock #shunsaku okuda #ryo matsui #screenshot #youtube music #spotify #shut up kaily

[itspileofgoodthings]

I love Midnights and also she’s struggling so so much and I can hear the pain so clearly.

#I want ts11 #So this can become part of the story and make more sense to me #she is adrift. she’s cut off from her subject. she’s struggling to see through the mists and the lavender haze #and the flashes of clarity are so brilliant and probably among her best #but she’s not grounded in it #and there is a part of me that just hates it #It’s like …. the sickness before it comes #just brewing and lurking and simmering #doesn’t come out into the light until hits different and you’re losing me (my favorite songs) #If Taylor were a different artist I’d say she wrote midnights too soon #before she was ready to face writing about her life again after folklore/evermore #but because it’s Taylor we know there are more albums coming and this will be an important piece of the story #but the lost-ness of it all is just …. SO THERE #and I kind of can’t #I mean I CAN and it’s brilliant #but it’s tough for me to want to listen to it #it’s also an album shrouded in pain for me personally #as in the time it came out was really hard #I feel like it will settle with time but yeah #wrote this ages ago hitting post now

[veilingofthesun]

#laleh #laleh pourkarim #music #artists #swedish music #swedish artists #laleh live från ullevi #i'm so happy we have a live album #i've been listening to this a lot lately #i love this amazing woman #this mashup is just brilliant #no one does mashups like laleh #the way she weaves together so many different types of songs and makes them seem like one is so brilliant #i thought she had outdone herself with the goliat one but this one is equally special #i love the way her mind works #Spotify

[bandsanitizer]

I COULD MAKE YOU MAD I COULD MAKE YOU SCREAM I COULD MAKE YOU CRY I COULD MAKE YOU LEAVE I COULD MAKE YOU HATE ME FOR EVERYTHING BUT

I CANT MAKE YOU COME BACK TO ME

#the rose #ahhh they are brilliant and i’m living for the slight pop rock of this #ALSO PLATNIUM HAIR JAEHYEONG BC I WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT IT #seriously cannot wait for their next album #like YES healing music is fucking fantastic #but i love me some quality just LISTEN TO THIS vibes #alison speaks?