current favorite albums

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:24 pm

I will check out an earlier AC/DC album. Back in Black was pretty mediocre.

Jon wrote:
Rob wrote: Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Impressions please!!!

I thought the album was due for a mid-September release?

Yes indeed, it's a crappy leak I've listened to 4-5 times without paying complete attention. Anyways, I'm done with that and I can't wait for the CD release. I don't think it will blow many people away on first listen. They've kind of softened up in areas, like vocally (harsh vocals were never the draw there) and perhaps in guitar sound (maybe a bit more big label sheen)? I'm not quite sure about the pacing, either. It seems like it could get monotonous. But it's Mastodon, still good enough to buy/quality.

The Wolf album also isn't out until September. My two most anticipated albums, had to sneak a peak.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:41 pm

Maybe after getting their songs in a number of racing videogames, Mastodon saw the possibility of real commerical success and went for it. That would be a shame; I was hoping for something as good as Leviathan.

It's funny to think of people listening to Back in Black and the first Van Halen album for the first time now. Those were a couple of my very first albums back in 5th or 6th grade. They sounded new and fresh at the time they were released; probably hard to get that now.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:54 pm

professor ganson wrote:Maybe after getting their songs in a number of racing videogames, Mastodon saw the possibility of real commerical success and went for it. That would be a shame; I was hoping for something as good as Leviathan.

I think they have the possibility to blend into mainstream rock without sacrificing too much. This album kind of makes me think of Lateralus in a way. I think I could end up liking this a lot.

It's funny to think of people listening to Back in Black and the first Van Halen album for the first time now. Those were a couple of my very first albums back in 5th or 6th grade. They sounded new and fresh at the time they were released; probably hard to get that now.

I think the Van Halen album sounds pretty fresh considering. I really liked "Jump" as a kid, which is pretty awful now.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:37 pm

As long as they don't go down the same road Cave In decided to travel I will be O.K. Mastadon is coming to my town (along with Converge) in September as well. Definitely a show I am going to try and catch.

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:50 am

professor ganson wrote:Maybe after getting their songs in a number of racing videogames, Mastodon saw the possibility of real commerical success and went for it. That would be a shame; I was hoping for something as good as Leviathan.

It's funny to think of people listening to Back in Black and the first Van Halen album for the first time now. Those were a couple of my very first albums back in 5th or 6th grade. They sounded new and fresh at the time they were released; probably hard to get that now.

I need to check this band out. The band I was ranting about above, Planes, have a new LP due out, and apparently the producer (Matt Bayliss I think from the top of my head?)has worked with Mastadoon and Isis, so my curiosity is aroused.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:51 pm

whoopsies! double post

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:58 pm

People who like guitarists that are totally awesome should check out The Eric McFadden Trio: http://www.emtmusic.com/joy.htm Eric's day job is playing guitar for George Clinton. The Trio is more of a rock band. Anyone listening should bear in mind that he plays only an acoustic with nylon strings.

Thanks for the tip on the record player Pa, anyway about the quote...how does he get distortion on the nylon string without feedback? I guess I could see in the studio but surely he uses something else live.

I want to play for George Clinton when I grow up.

Listened to the Mastodon Leviathan album and it's pretty good, how do you get that 2 guitars sound like on Iron Tusk? Without using 2 guitars.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:05 pm

Neon wrote:...how does he get distortion on the nylon string without feedback? I guess I could see in the studio but surely he uses something else live.

Surely not. I know he uses a ProCo Rat and I think it was a Crybaby for wah but I can't remember the others. His pedal board isn't over the top or anything. More than three but less than a half a dozen. But yeah, he has some recent Washburn beater, his old school fave '50s Gibson and a Washburn mandolin. That's all he plays except for when Washburn sent him some stupid banjitar and he felt guilty for not using it.

The sad thing about that band is that 99.9999% of their recordings are arse and make them sound all foofoo from Brownie Troop 302. They rock way harder live.

Pa

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:23 am

professor ganson wrote:Maybe after getting their songs in a number of racing videogames, Mastodon saw the possibility of real commerical success and went for it. That would be a shame; I was hoping for something as good as Leviathan.

My first experience with Mastodon was actually on GuitarFreaks V2...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:23 am

Geoff Mullen - The Air in Pieces
Birchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph

Thanks, CMoon. Great stuff.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:05 am

Loop - The World in Your Eyes and Heaven's End
John Coltrane - Ole Coltrane
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Cherubs - Icing
The Bulemics - Old Enough to Know Better...
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Pirates of Darkwater - s/t (side (past?) project of Bryan Richie (The Sword). Sample song titles: "Circa 1902, The Meat Packing Industry" and " Happiness is a +12 Broadsword". Pure madness.)
Red Snapper - Prince Blimey

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:13 am

MadSteelDarkness wrote: Pirates of Darkwater

Like the cartoon?

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:06 am

Rob wrote:
MadSteelDarkness wrote: Pirates of Darkwater
Like the cartoon?

Like the cartoon.

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:00 am

Can someone help me identify a rock band with a female and a male vocalist? I'm about 80% sure it isn't Lacuna Coil because they sounded younger and more rockish (not gothic metalish, so that eliminates other bands like ToT, etc.). I'm sure that isn't much help, but it's been driving me crazy for months.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:39 am

Nemo wrote:Can someone help me identify a rock band with a female and a male vocalist? I'm about 80% sure it isn't Lacuna Coil because they sounded younger and more rockish (not gothic metalish, so that eliminates other bands like ToT, etc.). I'm sure that isn't much help, but it's been driving me crazy for months.

Need more info. Where did you hear them?

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:04 am

Picked up Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage a few days ago.

Quite over the top. Certainly a current favourite, but I don't see it becoming an all-time favourite, I'm just seeing it as a bit of a novelty right now.

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:54 am

Rob wrote:
Nemo wrote:Can someone help me identify a rock band with a female and a male vocalist? I'm about 80% sure it isn't Lacuna Coil because they sounded younger and more rockish (not gothic metalish, so that eliminates other bands like ToT, etc.). I'm sure that isn't much help, but it's been driving me crazy for months.
Need more info. Where did you hear them?

American Eagle of all places, it wasn't "store stock music" though, I'm pretty sure it was an employee's personal CD. I want to say the girl's voice kind of reminded me of the girl in Flyleaf, but if nothing else that was rockish kind of sound the band had. As a side note this particular location must have had someone with good taste in music because I've heard Interpol there before as well.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:48 pm

Nemo, that is the worst avatar ever.

The week's favorite:
!T.O.O.H! - Řád a Trest -- Fantastic technical metal if you like bands such as Atheist.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:48 am

Some CDs came in the mail today, possibly that nobody could have ever guessed would belong in the same collection..
Power metal and Asian pop, hmm..

Really looking forward to the Janice CD; she's not exceptionally beautiful, but it's a very good singing voice!

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:43 pm

Amon Tobin - Supermodified and Out From Out Where (while playing Xyanide)
The Earaches - Get The Revolution Out Of Your Head (thanks for the suggestion, Pa.)
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
Techno Animal (feat. V/A) - Brotherhood of the Bomb
Head of David - Dustbowl
Godflesh - s/t EP
Teen Cool - Adolessons

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:06 am

Not to encourage the metal monopoly on this board, but been enjoying some...

Darkthrone (Transylvanian Hunger, Under a funeral moon)
Gorgoroth (various)
Enslaved (Bloodhemn)
Graveland (OMG they're fucking racists!!!$@%&)
Dissection (Storm of the light's bane)

brand1bil · Post by **brand1bil** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:49 am

CMoon wrote:Not to encourage the metal monopoly on this board, but been enjoying some...

Darkthrone (Transylvanian Hunger, Under a funeral moon)
Gorgoroth (various)
Enslaved (Bloodhemn)
Graveland (OMG they're fucking racists!!!$@%&)
Dissection (Storm of the light's bane)

might be interested in:

Deathspell Omega - "Kénôse" and "Si monumentum requires circumspice" (FRA)
Craft - "Terror Propaganda: Second Black Metal Attack" (SWE)
Watain - "Casus Luciferi" (SWE)

ditch that graveland-bullshit thought...

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:02 am

brand1bil wrote:
ditch that graveland-bullshit thought...

Does this mean ditch graveland, or ditch what I said about graveland (our local metal shop refuses to carry graveland because of their politics, but I can't tell what any of them are singing anyway.) Actually, I don't really see how worshipping satan, eating babies, slaughtering and devouring christians, etc. is OK but if they are racists, then this store can't carry them. I'm not saying any of those things are cool (holy crap!) but rather, I think the hypocracy is funny. Apparently Burzum is racist too, but I kinda assumed his hate for all humans was universal.

Anyway, I'll check those other thigns out. I realize I'm over a decade late on the scene, but all this black metal stuff is rather intriguing to me right now.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:10 am

Speaking of metal,

Death - Individual Thought Patterns

I follow that with:
Melt-Banana - Scratch or Stitch
and then Invisible Pyramid EB disc 1 (my favorite of the 3 I've heard so far)

tiktak · Post by **tiktak** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:47 am

Rob: Why only patterns?;) Everything Death! Hail \m/

brand1bil · Post by **brand1bil** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:56 am

CMoon wrote:
brand1bil wrote:
ditch that graveland-bullshit thought...
Does this mean ditch graveland, or ditch what I said about graveland (our local metal shop refuses to carry graveland because of their politics, but I can't tell what any of them are singing anyway.) Actually, I don't really see how worshipping satan, eating babies, slaughtering and devouring christians, etc. is OK but if they are racists, then this store can't carry them. I'm not saying any of those things are cool (holy crap!) but rather, I think the hypocracy is funny. Apparently Burzum is racist too, but I kinda assumed his hate for all humans was universal.

Anyway, I'll check those other thigns out. I realize I'm over a decade late on the scene, but all this black metal stuff is rather intriguing to me right now.

Oh, well - I recently had this discussion with a friend of mine and I asked myself the same question - Why is it more okey for me to hear "kill the christians" than to hear "kill the jews"? Don't really know what we ended up with as a conclusion but it has something to do with how much trouble and or / pursicusion the selected group of people been thru.

Graveland, and all other artists on No Color Records, have racist, nazi or other rightwing sympathies... - and I can't listen to music knowing that.

Burzum is not a nazi anymore (his own words) - he used to be, now his into ondinism and hedonism stuff (pre-chistianity religions of the scandinavian countries) - of course this doesn't mean that he's A-OK, he's still a racist - he just have other words for it nowadays.

Anyway - if you dig more clean and smoothproduced (read: the total opposite to Trasylvanian Hunger) you prehaps would like the three latest albums with Satyricon.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:44 am

Rob wrote: and then Invisible Pyramid EB disc 1 (my favorite of the 3 I've heard so far)

Ha! Disc 5 is the big sell-out disc!

brand1bil wrote:Oh, well - I recently had this discussion with a friend of mine and I asked myself the same question - Why is it more okey for me to hear "kill the christians" than to hear "kill the jews"? Don't really know what we ended up with as a conclusion but it has something to do with how much trouble and or / pursicusion the selected group of people been thru.

Graveland, and all other artists on No Color Records, have racist, nazi or other rightwing sympathies... - and I can't listen to music knowing that.

I definitely have mixed feelings about the whole thing. I mean, I'm certainly repelled by it, but I'm repelled by the whole genre (and hence, the intrigue). I know this is the same decision that the fellow running our local metal shop came to, and I'm sure it was rather difficult since those albums do sell.

I wonder if by purchasing releases on No Color Records your money is going to directly support nazis???

brand1bil · Post by **brand1bil** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:34 pm

CMoon wrote:
I definitely have mixed feelings about the whole thing. I mean, I'm certainly repelled by it, but I'm repelled by the whole genre (and hence, the intrigue). I know this is the same decision that the fellow running our local metal shop came to, and I'm sure it was rather difficult since those albums do sell.

I wonder if by purchasing releases on No Color Records your money is going to directly support nazis???

Well, that I don't know - but the fact that I can't say it doesn't is enough for me not to do it - and, ofcourse, the fact that I know what they stand for... so in a way you're right - buying records from No Color helps them put out more nazi-bullshit and therefore you support them by buying their stuff. But nazism comes in many different costumes nowadays.

I don't really wanna go deep with this discussion - cos I agree with you totaly on hate = hate, no matter what you hate. It's a diffucult subject and I can this be discussed for a long, long time. But - the way I see it - it's not black & white, there is a grayscale in the idiot-ism(is that a word?

). I don't wanna tell you what to do or what to listen too - I just wish more people into metal could be a little more aware of what they're consuming... You obviously are, and that's good... I mean the fact that we even have this discussion is good.

I, myself, think your local metal-shop did a wise choice not to sell no-color records... But then again - probably because of many different factors - I have stronger feelings against nazis and such (I'm not implying that you're okey with it - you just told me you're not).

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:50 pm

Lots of stuff I haven't listened to in forever:

Midnight Funk Association - Excursions 12" (fave track: "Bomberman"

)
Abstrac - "Abstrac's Groove"/"Stylus" 12"
King Tubby - Psalm of the Time Dub
African Head Charge - Great Vintage Vol. 2
Muslimgauze - Sufiq and Hand of Fatima

Oh, and:

Hasil Adkins - The Wild Man
King Khan and His Shrines - Three Hairs And You're Mine
The Sonics - The Savage Young Sonics

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:30 am

Wormed - Planisphaerium -- best vocals ever?