{"id":91185,"date":"2019-03-28T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=91185"},"modified":"2019-03-28T05:50:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:50:55","slug":"free-discography-detector-kevin-hufnagel-gorguts-dysrhythmia-vaura-sabbath-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/free-discography-detector-kevin-hufnagel-gorguts-dysrhythmia-vaura-sabbath-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Discography Detector: Kevin Hufnagel<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you like Dysrhythmia<\/a>? Gorguts<\/a>? Vaura<\/a>? Sabbath Assembly<\/a>? You like Kevin Hufnagel<\/strong> then. Now that we’ve sorted that out, you’ve only got 3 days left to grab The Most Innovative Guitarist In Metal Today<\/strong><\/a>‘s entire solo discography @ Name Your Price<\/em> on Bandcamp. <\/p>\n

Whether it was a coincidence or not, after our post on How To Play Bandcamp…And Win!<\/strong><\/a> I noticed a bunch of bands\/artists embrace the Name Your Price<\/em> option over charging set prices for their records. No matter if you consider it a noble gesture or clever selling strategy, it still means you get to choose a price for the album(s).\u00a0As with all of our Free Metal Detector<\/strong><\/a> posts, we encourage you to throw the band\/artist whatever you can afford for their art, or at the very fucken least share their music with your coinless cohort.<\/p>\n

Today we’re not just looking at some obscure death metal demo<\/a> or tripped-out black\/death\/thrash EP<\/a>, we’re scoping an entire discography from Kevin ‘The Huff’ Hufnagel.<\/p>\n

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Just over a year ago I spent 40 dollarydoos (~US$28) to grab all the cuts I didn’t already have at a marginally discounted rate, and that was well worth it anyway. These records contain some of the most exquisite and incredibly textured guitarwork you’re ever going to hear; they hold endless replay value, and I would gladly pay that price again just to have them in my collection. Add to that the fact that his latest opus Messages To The Past<\/em><\/a> wasn’t even released when I grabbed this pack and you’d have to be a fucking clown to pass picking these up for [insert your own price here].<\/p>\n

Never heard his solo stuff?\u00a0 Rather than try to appraise each record anew in any kind of detailed manner (a task I’m utterly unqualified to do), I’ll just include a brief excerpt from a previous piece<\/a> and urge you to experience each album for yourself.<\/p>\n

With over 10 solo releases spanning two decades, you\u2019d think a pattern could be drawn in such a timeline. However, Kevin\u2019s progression has been anything but linear. What I can say though, is that his past three releases have perhaps more in common with each other than the majority of the preceding material. While he\u2019s previously experimented with ethereal minimalism (Transparencies<\/strong>), avant-garde master manipulations (Backwards Through The Maze <\/strong>and Kleines Biest<\/strong>), and esoteric Eastern textures (Ashland<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Songs For The Disappeared<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 my personal fave), the direction he set off on last year for\u00a0The Protected Shards<\/strong>\u00a0seems to have held over to a degree.\u00a0Messages To The Past<\/strong>\u00a0merges those resonant moments with the nostalgic reverence for the soaring 80\u2019s melodic motifs which he adapted on his\u00a0Halloween<\/strong>\u00a0covers\/tribute EP<\/a>\u00a0(His renditions of the\u00a0Unsolved Mysteries<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Phantasm<\/strong>\u00a0themes ruuuule).<\/em><\/p>\n