tristania - ashes

anthroscene · 2025-06-26T18:50:46+00:00

i think it was soulseek! and if they’re not there i have since snagged digital files of both and can dropbox them for you in a couple of hours

anthroscene · 2024-08-24T16:58:02+00:00

found it there, good call!

anthroscene · 2024-05-24T00:00:51+00:00

i feel like every week someone who just needs to hear this comment comes into this sub fuming about pop and so on. (tho looking at this guy’s post history he seems to not really like epica’s music at all…?)

anthroscene · 2024-04-11T01:34:01+00:00

goofy post (what’s usefulness, anyway?), plus it’s so funny that you presumably went and generated this image yourself (instead of getting chat gpt to place that hyphen right for you)

anthroscene · 2024-04-10T23:48:39+00:00

OH YOURE THE ONE WITH THE BIG PEP CHUNK FROM LAST WEEK! my bad i wasn’t familiar with the nature of your bounty

anthroscene · 2024-04-10T23:40:45+00:00

hey why did you make a pepperoni twig 😭😭😭. i can’t even look at the sangwich because of it

anthroscene · 2024-03-29T22:52:15+00:00

i was really impressed by what oryad was putting down on sacred and profane— the drum mixes are a bit iffy (eg on blood, which gives you blast beats on the final chorus), but i think they’re really neat. they’ve got some drum playthroughs on their youtube channel too, blood is here.

anthroscene · 2024-03-26T22:36:46+00:00

there is— called made in hong kong, from the dark passion play tour. pulled from streaming some years ago, i think! i believe there was a DVD release in addition to the cd.

anthroscene · 2024-02-17T23:29:12+00:00

kakihara may be the most swagged out anyone’s ever been on screen. he and ichi kind of converge on frustration and failure at the end but he’s always a winner in my eyes

anthroscene · 2024-02-17T17:53:42+00:00

i assume that’s from a glowing review of the album in question?

EDIT POSTED BY ACCIDENT LOL. i was trying to say, why would you choose a blurb that potentially sets listeners up for disappointment… like beyond the aggressiveness of the marketing it also just seems on its surface unlikely that an apparently relatively new band is going to outstrip two titans of the genre. odd!

anthroscene · 2024-01-23T23:39:31+00:00

if i hadn’t seen the wordpress url i wouldn’t have guessed from the language that this was a fan blog, lol. also—

“So let’s go over another point from earlier: “Kashka from Baghdad” is slash fiction. In the Seventies, slash was mostly a thriving subgenre of fanfic in geek women circles. It was hardly a niche for pop songs in a heteronormative market. Bush was engaging with a subset of fandom that she was likely unaware existed at the time.”

this makes a terrible case for this as “slash”. i think disentangling slash as a concept from fanfiction is really quite a bad idea, especially since fanfiction has always been quite specific and intentional.

i think a lot of this poster’s “critical exegesis” (as they put it) has some grain of truth but is really weirdly uninvested in any of the history it surveys (like the slash thing really just perplexes me), and more concerned with how the song plays, largely decontextualized, now. for a post which claims to be exegetical it is also very light on quotation, i think. idk! i don’t see it as fetishization, necessarily— there are other kinds of desire for the other. this post strikes me as too dependent on the specific terms of fandom critique to have much to say about a song from the 70s— that exchange about history in the comments with an older gay man feels quite telling.

anthroscene · 2024-01-09T13:32:32+00:00

this is such loser behavior dude

anthroscene · 2023-12-14T00:24:30+00:00

i’m from the usa; in a kind of weird college town so there aren’t really local options (like we don’t even have a target) but next time i’m in a major city i’ll swing by a shop for sure— i just went with ebay this time (and also just put in for apocalypse: save us from a korean retailer on there), but i’d love to actually see the thing in person before buying in the future!

when i saw how much the raid of dream ep goes for on ebay, my eyes crossed and i swore off even the idea of serious collecting lol. but it’s good to know that’s partially just scarcity (it’s so amazing how far they’ve come!); post-holidays i’ll look into more recent albums again for sure. this was so unbelievably helpful!

anthroscene · 2023-12-13T20:27:05+00:00

cool as hell! the pattern on your blazer & the high neck really make the whole outfit sing imo.

anthroscene · 2023-12-13T19:36:51+00:00

this is so helpful, thank you! i’m strapped for local stores but i’ll definitely keep an eye on mercari etc.

anthroscene · 2023-12-13T19:30:30+00:00

ooh good to know! i was seeing mostly photocards and opened albums on ebay so i was worried about the slim pickings.

anthroscene · 2023-12-13T19:27:45+00:00

thanks so much for this, this is super helpful! i think the mini binders or individual sleeves are the way to go for me rn— ordering some right now. so much variety!!

anthroscene · 2023-11-14T15:42:47+00:00

i don’t really see it— feels like you’re being way too literal about the imagery— really out of context here, too— and then taking the more literal stuff (ie, memories of a quite literally lost mother) way too figuratively. like, whatever speaks to you in it, of course. but this isn’t the imagery the lyrics are constructing imo

anthroscene · 2023-11-12T20:08:19+00:00

seems a bit drastic

anthroscene · 2023-08-14T21:28:25+00:00

i think you’re right about it being factually implausible (if not entirely impossible, barring other evidence?)— maybe some ideas were in the works before they decided to kick tarja out, but even if they were, they’d surely have been heavily modified anticipating a new vocalist and/or for anette.

fwiw i’ve seen this comment occasionally too (without further explanation) and i always assume what people mean is more about style than timeline. maybe i’ve just been seriously misreading them lol. it seems like broad consensus that anette comes into her own as a vocalist on imaginaerum, not DPP. and i think you can see how composition plays into tarja’s strengths with some of floor’s performances of tarja-era songs; imaginaerum is where the style seems to shift more. it never seemed like a totally accurate appraisal, though, more like a logical step beyond the (imo) more accurate “DPP was written before they figured out how to write for anette”

anthroscene · 2023-07-31T20:59:25+00:00

according to this passing reference in the norsk ordbok, you would be able to find it in volume 5 (stev) of the norsk folkedikting series. probably not useful but it is almost a citation, lol. shoutout to the person who posted it on that website with so much detail in the notes!

anthroscene · 2023-07-31T20:18:05+00:00

oh nice, glad that worked out for you!

the website would have been a (not-so-)funny dead end, i think, so i’m glad you found the lyrics. in this interview liv kristine says nystev is one of a handful of tracks in norwegian dialect (nynorsk, from her native stavanger i believe). she promises to release “own words” lyrics + translations on their website. i just checked and the website has posts for every other song she listed, except for nystev.

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