Escape from boredom

Body Count, ‘Body Count’ (1992)

….no, did not like, found it boring.

Naked City, ‘Torture Garden’ (1990)

From Wikipedia

…Torture Garden is an album by John Zorn’s band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a compilation of the “hardcore miniatures” that were also released on Naked City and Grand Guignol. Unlike other Naked City albums, there are no breaks between the individual tracks, giving the impression that the album features only one long, uninterrupted piece…

The Allmusic review by Bradley Torreano awarded the album 4 stars stating “Songs blur together but never get boring, no lyrics are actually sung, and few songs last longer than a minute. It also never takes itself seriously, a nice relief from Zorn’s heavy-handed ambiient collaborations. This would make a great introduction to the noise/jazz efforts that this group of musicians pioneered in the early 1990s.”[1]…

Genre Jazzcore, Grindcore (whatever that is)

25 minutes of pure pain to listen to, but again, the no-skip-rule always applies.

Eyehategod, ‘Take as Needed for Pain’ (1993)

Heavy matter…again making me regret the “no skip”-rule. Metal yes, but I could not stand the vocal. Not a winner at all. But at least, when the album was done, the next song that Spotify randomly picked was by the band Orange Goblin, and that is really my kind of music. So at least one good thing came out of the 1 hour and 11 minutes of the Eyehategod-listening terror.

White Zombie, ‘La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One’ (1992)

Thumbs up! White Zombie, I like, but I knew that from before.

Deafheaven, ‘Sunbather’ (2013)

This was heavy, and suddenly not heavy, and then heavy again.

…That blend of influences has made Deafheaven one of the most polarizing and controversial metal bands of recent years. As McCoy put it, they claim “this triangle of extreme music, experimental music and very sad indie rock….

Dream Theater, ‘Images and Words’ (1992)

Well, not that bad, but…still, not my cup of tea

Kvelertak, ‘Meir’ (2013)

Simply great!!

Quoting Rolling Stone:

….Metal in the 2010s is almost absurdly balkanized, a sea of disconnected subscenes. Think of Kvelertak as the genre’s loutish, lovable unifiers, smashing through metal’s stylistic barriers, Kool-Aid Man–style, and bringing the fun back. These hard-touring Norwegians – whose name means “Stranglehold” – started strong with their self-titled 2010 debut, but their second LP, Meir (“More”), felt like a benchmark for contemporary metal as a whole, an album that playfully, raucously muddied lingering distinctions between mainstream and underground styles…

Gojira, ‘From Mars to Sirius’ (2005)

Finally something that did not hurt my ears and what I will be playing even more in the future.

Sunn O))), ‘Monoliths & Dimensions’ (2009)

…and I have started to regret the “no skip”-rule. I quote Rolling Stone:

“I would never claim that Sunn O))) is a jazz band, but I think there are elements of jazz, if it’s not the tone, it’s the theories and the openness,” Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson told The Wire. While no one will confuse Dave Brubeck with Sunn O)))’s signature roar – wall-rumbling slabs of drumless, heavily amplified electric-guitar drone – the open-ended platform allows the avant-metal duo to collaborate and experiment with ease.

This album was way out of my league…I now listen to David Bowie’s “Heroes” just to wash my ears…

Evanescence, ‘Fallen’ (2003)

Once upon a time…I bought this album and then I actually gave it away, without replacing it with a new one. Won’t now either.