I really like his album Lesson No. 1. Such a cool window into what was happening in NYC i nthe late 70s/early 80s before alternative music became what we know it as.
This is basically a semi-new form of jazz/fusion and avant playing where the bass works like a piano.
There is a 36 fret guitar at one the guitar stores in town. I really want to play it but there is always people with it playing it poorly while the employee watches.
His delivery is unconventional, but works well, his lyrics are insane, and the beats are dark and trippy. Great stuff, surprised I haven't heard it before now.
Also found a great electronic music album, I'd say a bit Autechre inspired:
Strange hiphop? Dälek comes to mind!
I'm so glad I managed to catch those guys live a bunch of years ago! They were absolutely killer, which was very nice as I had some expectations from listening to them for a couple of years. The wall of sound Oktopus pulled off was absolutely massive... They can be really noisy, like using Silent Hill shit for beats.
The new m83 is pretty good. Different from the last album. Which was different from the album before. And so on. This one has a lot of shorter, more direct and poppy songs, and definitely a different mood from Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. Less urgency.
It's such a shame Vast Aire never really delivered after the Cannibal Ox thing died out.
Not that surprising; even on The Cold Vein Vast was a questionable emcee elevated by El-P production and how he contrasted against Vordul's more abstract and off-kilter style. Without El or Vordul, you just have a dude that likes making comic book references and "rhyming" with the same word.
Hey guys, does Rage Against the Machine count as "Punk Metal"?
Just change one letter- funk metal
Edit: also "punk metal" is not really a thing, there are definitely hybrids of punk and metal but they tend to have more specific names such as metalcore, crossover thrash, or crust punk.
So I've spent a little time with deftones latest album, Gore.
Overall its grabbed me much more then their previous album - Koi No Yokan - ever did and it may be their best album since White Pony. Which is a distinction I previously would have given to the very excellent Diamond Eyes.
The back half of this album in particular is awesome. And the three closing tracks - Gore, Phantom Bride and Rubicon really just elevate the whole thing.
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Hey guys, does Rage Against the Machine count as "Punk Metal"?
Just change one letter- funk metal
Edit: also "punk metal" is not really a thing, there are definitely hybrids of punk and metal but they tend to have more specific names such as metalcore, crossover thrash, or crust punk.
Too many labels.
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Hey guys, does Rage Against the Machine count as "Punk Metal"?
Just change one letter- funk metal
Edit: also "punk metal" is not really a thing, there are definitely hybrids of punk and metal but they tend to have more specific names such as metalcore, crossover thrash, or crust punk.
Too many labels.
No? I mean, they all have pretty distinct sound that come from the same origin. You wouldn't recommend someone listen to Parkway Drive if they were looking for something similar to Amebix. Do you complain about book stores having more specific descriptors than fiction and non-fiction?
I think ultra-specific subgenres can be useful in the sense that they make it easier to recommend similar artists to someone, and metal in particular has thousands of bands who are more than happy to work within a very particular niche, and be identified as such. But I also think that arguing over which ultra-specific subgenre a band falls into is mostly a pointless exercise (unless someone is just way off and wants to claim that RATM is a ska band or something). "Funk metal" is how I think of Rage, but I'd also be happy to call them a heavy rock band with significant hip-hop and funk influence.
On another note, I'm not a fan of Top 40 pop or R&B at all, but Beyonce's new album Lemonade is seriously excellent. She has a way of making all other superstar pop look like child's play.
New Tegan and Sara album on the way, and, of course, fan controversy.
They're basically doubling down on Heartthrob's pop focus by going full-on 80s. Seems to me, the fans most put off by the change are the ones who got into them with The Con--their most directly "rock" record--and just want more of that. My favourite T&S album will likely always be So Jealous, and that was clearly a transition from their folk background toward pop (you can't listen to "Walking with a Ghost" or "Speak Slow" and tell me they weren't always trying to write pure pop). Also, I really do like pop.
Anyway, Heartthrob may not have been the greatest thing ever, but it still had some really good songs. And I'm prepared to be optimistic about the new album, too.
Had a random bout of nostalgia for the stuff I listened to back when I used to go clubbing and ended up listening to a ton of Hocico on Youtube. Then I remembered Lujhboia from Argentina. South America became an interesting hotspot for aggressive industrial a decade ago.
Every now and then I try to find somewhere to buy this album. I think it was either self-published in Argentina or just available for download on MySpace and those links are long since dead.
Speaking of old lost shit...
I think I downloaded this from mp3.com (where I found demo bands like Thursday ) something like 14-15 years ago. They had a few good songs and I shared them with a buddy (whom btw is playing drums in this)
a few months ago and he seems to really have gotten into the handful of tracks I've been saving through generations of comps and harddrives! He's been doing some digging for whomever these guys were and apparently they were swedish too! We have some semi-confirmed info from Discogs that the bassist from Refused was in the band at one point. It's pretty damn good and groovy electro/psych-kraut stuff anyhow!
Edit: Also I don't think this track is on any of the releases listed on the link above? It may be a one of a kind I saved and my friend brought onto the tubes.
Edit2: Anyone have any idea of where the sample towards the end is from? We really can't come up with any results... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wraFLXjNvrk
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edit - But it doesn't hamper my enjoyment of the music
hahahah that dude's list of studio albums
I really like his album Lesson No. 1. Such a cool window into what was happening in NYC i nthe late 70s/early 80s before alternative music became what we know it as.
Explanation? Metal has always been the least interesting genre of music to me, so I know nothing about these guys.
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There is a 36 fret guitar at one the guitar stores in town. I really want to play it but there is always people with it playing it poorly while the employee watches.
Rocksmith 2014 turned me onto La Sera
His delivery is unconventional, but works well, his lyrics are insane, and the beats are dark and trippy. Great stuff, surprised I haven't heard it before now.
Also found a great electronic music album, I'd say a bit Autechre inspired:
I'm so glad I managed to catch those guys live a bunch of years ago! They were absolutely killer, which was very nice as I had some expectations from listening to them for a couple of years. The wall of sound Oktopus pulled off was absolutely massive... They can be really noisy, like using Silent Hill shit for beats.
New track? 2015...? It's quite good tho
This old(!) hit is more gentle drone...
HOLY FUCK THEY'RE DROPPING A NEW RELEASE THIS YEAR!
I like the evil vibe of it
Triviums new one is killer. I couldn't stand their stuff for a while, but Shogun had a few decent ones.
The band that gave us Twigadee is no longer there. It's just a skillfull, well crafted metal album, completely eschewing cookie monster vocals.
It's got all the hallmarks of "heavy", but it's not aggressive. It's more textural than anything.
Anti-Pop Consortium, "We Kill Soap Scum" (Arrhythmia, 2002):
Cannibal Ox w/C-Rayz Walz, "Battle for Asgard" (The Cold Vein, 2000)
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Not that surprising; even on The Cold Vein Vast was a questionable emcee elevated by El-P production and how he contrasted against Vordul's more abstract and off-kilter style. Without El or Vordul, you just have a dude that likes making comic book references and "rhyming" with the same word.
Anyway...
What the fuck world. This year has been awful.
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is kind of the foundation of nu metal
Edit: lol, 01:03...
Eh ID give bands like deftones or Korn a more definitive hand in shaping that one. Rage was kind of its own grab bag of things.
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Just change one letter- funk metal
Edit: also "punk metal" is not really a thing, there are definitely hybrids of punk and metal but they tend to have more specific names such as metalcore, crossover thrash, or crust punk.
I think I speak for all of us when I say that 2016 can go fuck itself.
Overall its grabbed me much more then their previous album - Koi No Yokan - ever did and it may be their best album since White Pony. Which is a distinction I previously would have given to the very excellent Diamond Eyes.
The back half of this album in particular is awesome. And the three closing tracks - Gore, Phantom Bride and Rubicon really just elevate the whole thing.
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Too many labels.
No? I mean, they all have pretty distinct sound that come from the same origin. You wouldn't recommend someone listen to Parkway Drive if they were looking for something similar to Amebix. Do you complain about book stores having more specific descriptors than fiction and non-fiction?
On another note, I'm not a fan of Top 40 pop or R&B at all, but Beyonce's new album Lemonade is seriously excellent. She has a way of making all other superstar pop look like child's play.
Or a tad softer
They're basically doubling down on Heartthrob's pop focus by going full-on 80s. Seems to me, the fans most put off by the change are the ones who got into them with The Con--their most directly "rock" record--and just want more of that. My favourite T&S album will likely always be So Jealous, and that was clearly a transition from their folk background toward pop (you can't listen to "Walking with a Ghost" or "Speak Slow" and tell me they weren't always trying to write pure pop). Also, I really do like pop.
Anyway, Heartthrob may not have been the greatest thing ever, but it still had some really good songs. And I'm prepared to be optimistic about the new album, too.
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Every now and then I try to find somewhere to buy this album. I think it was either self-published in Argentina or just available for download on MySpace and those links are long since dead.
I think I downloaded this from mp3.com (where I found demo bands like Thursday
Download link for the EP the second tube is from.
Edit: Also I don't think this track is on any of the releases listed on the link above? It may be a one of a kind I saved and my friend brought onto the tubes.
Edit2: Anyone have any idea of where the sample towards the end is from? We really can't come up with any results...
Diggin' that string arrangement