{"id":53828,"date":"2016-08-23T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=53828"},"modified":"2016-08-22T19:58:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T00:58:32","slug":"recommendations-ov-hell-365-days-of-horror-vs-stockhausen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/recommendations-ov-hell-365-days-of-horror-vs-stockhausen\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations Ov Hell: 365 Days Of Horror vs. Stockhausen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead\u2014your next stop, the Youtube Zone!<\/p>\n

Have you ever gone to Youtube to listen to one song and 20 minutes later, you’ve clicked on several recommended videos and discovered some great new bands? Sure you have. We all have. There are many names for this. Some call it “Youtubing” or “Falling down the Youtube hole” or “Shit, what have I been doing for the last hour?” It’s a fairly innocuous way to discover new bands. It certainly worked for me<\/a> in the past and hopefully it will work again with this little experiment.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the great Toilet Ov Hell Record Swap<\/a> series, I bring you “Recommendations Ov Hell”. While Record Swap is the equivalent of wandering through the woods with no map or guidance (listening to albums with no prior knowledge of the band), Recommendations Ov Hell is like a life raft going down a river. Using prior knowledge of preferred bands and genres, you recommend a starting point in Youtube for your partner to listen to and review. From there, they click on Youtube’s recommended songs on the side band and repeat the process four more times. This is all in an effort to discover new bands in your wheelhouse that you may not have discovered on your own.<\/p>\n

Joining me on this maiden voyage is your buddy and mine, Stockhausen. For his first song, Stocky asked for “weird death or weird black”. To get him started, I suggested Gnaw<\/strong> – Vacant<\/a> (of course the Youtube video was taken down between the writing and posting of this article. Sigh.). Let’s see where that led him.<\/p>\n

STOCKHAUSEN:<\/strong> 365 started me off right with NYC noisemakers Gnaw. I love their tense, terrifying album Horrible Chamber, and I was given the track \u201cVacant\u201d from their debut This Face, which I had not heard before. It first struck me as being quite a bit different from both the Gnaw I was familiar and Khanate, Alan Dubin\u2019s well-known band that preceded Gnaw. However, it still showed Dubin\u2019s distinct knack for creating uncomfortable music. The sludgy industrial feel of the instruments trudges along without much variation, but the oddly strained-yet-melodic vocal approach used by Dubin brings out a bizarre sense of discomfort that I really enjoyed. Next!<\/p>\n