yep officially no idea.
i loved the shit out of like half of it ("erase" is my fucking JAM and i totally wish it was longer but it's perfect as it is) and tbh the other half kinda bored me?
new shit on myspace sounds awesome though.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Make Me Alive is a bonus track on the remastered version.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Do you have the album with that on it hoos?
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 24 March 2008 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
no
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Then you have the 1st version. Maybe you would prefer the remixed one then?
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't care much for the first album (I only heard the original version), but In Return surprised me and I really like this new one on first listen. Not sure why exactly but it reminds me of early Helmet, only the equation is weighted more towards metal and less towards hardcore.
I'll see what I think after a few spins. Very promising. Have to listen to the new Ufomammut (I'm so excited!) before I give this further time.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
New Ufommamut is very good indeed.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone like Floor?
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
The Sword, Torche and Stinking Lizaveta tour dates for the US.
May 09th Ft Worth TX - Lola's May 10th Memphis TN - Hi Tone May 11th Nashville TN - Exit/In May 12th Covington KY - The Mad Hatter May 13th Detroit MI - The Magic Stick May 14th Columbus OH - Ravari Room May 15th Washington DC - Rock and Roll Hotel May 16th Philadelphia PA - First Unitarian Church May 17th Brooklyn NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg May 18th Cambridge MA - Middle East Downstairs May 20th Raleigh NC - Lincoln Theater May 21st Savannah GA - The Jinx May 22nd Tallahassee FL - The Beta Bar May 23rd St. Petersburg FL - State Theatre May 24th Orlando FL - The Social May 25th Gainesville FL - Common Grounds May 26th Atlanta GA - Lenny's May 27th Birmingham AL - Bottle Tree May 28th Baton Rouge LA - Spanish Moon May 29th Houston TX - Rudyard's
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw Stinking Lizaveta on Monday and they smashed it. What a great band. I should be able to listen to 'Meanderthal' by tomorrow or maybe tonight, pretty excited
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I love these guys, especially that one note on their guitar or bass or whatever that is so low it can't be fully replicated on CD. We would listen to these guys at work sometimes and my coworker would pump his fist whenever they hit that note.
― filthy dylan, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait til you guys here who Torche is touring the US with later in the Summer...
― Nate Carson, Friday, 28 March 2008 07:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"hear" not "here".
Floor were great. Check out the lineup of my friday night back in 2003 when I booked the Stoner Hands of Doom V fest in Portland:
Friday 8/29
DAY OF DOOM
5:00-5:30 God's Iron Tooth (California)
5:50-6:20 The Prophecy (UK)
6:40-7:10 Mourning Beloveth (Ireland)
7:30-8:00 Graves at Sea (Phoenix)
8:20-8:50 Orodruin (New York)
9:10-9:50 Asunder (Oakland, CA)
10:10-10:50 Floor (Florida)
11:10-11:50 Goatsblood (Vancouver B.C.)
12:10-12:50 SUNN 0))) (LA/NYC)
1:10-2:00 YOB (Eugene)
― Nate Carson, Friday, 28 March 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Stinking Lizaveta is the worst band name. I keep getting them confused for some Devotchka gypsy punk bullshit
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 28 March 2008 08:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought this was a thread for the German rapper. Who in hindsight spells it without the "e".
― RabiesAngentleman, Friday, 28 March 2008 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"Who I realized..."
― RabiesAngentleman, Friday, 28 March 2008 09:36 (sixteen years ago) link
-- filthy dylan, Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:05 PM
this guy is awesome
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 March 2008 09:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice line up , Nate.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 28 March 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Why does this new album make me think of Jane's Addiction?
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Because you put the wrong cd on?
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm specifically talking about songs like Grenades & Sandstorm, I guess. It's better than the other album I listened to by them.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I NEED http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/scheme31/record%20pics%202/IMG_0026.jpg
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Three months late: because some of the songs and quite a lot of the guitar parts are like Navarro's. I myself am OK with this
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
saw these guys with Boris a couple nights ago, pretty good live set. need to check out the records.
― stephen, Monday, 30 June 2008 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus, does that sleeve fold out into a yukata?!
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
torche/boris tour dates
7/1 Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon 7/2 Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds 7/3 Orlando, FL @ The Social 7/5 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl 7/6 Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle 7/8 Washington, DC @ Black Cat 7/9 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church 7/10 New York, NY @ Webster Hall 7/11 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East 7/12 Montreal, Quebec @ La Sala Rosa 7/13 Ottawa, Ontario @ Barrymore 7/14 Toronto, Ontario @ Lee's Palace 7/15 Buffalo, NY @ Tralf 7/16 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop 7/17 Pittsburgh, PA @ Diesel 7/18 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall 7/19 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall 7/22 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room 7/23 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre 7/25 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater 7/26 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge 7/29 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
these guys seem to be studiously avoiding providence recently
― Edward III, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
They are also set to appear in Chicago at the Empty Bottle with Boris and Nachtmystium on 7/20.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 02:26 (fifteen years ago) link
As I said on the Boris thread I'm going to the Webster Hall show! Meanderthal is one of my favorite albums of the year so far. And yes, that packaging is amazing. It's similar on the CD, except, you know, small.
I think "Fat Waves" is my favorite song of theirs. But that could change once I get some of their older albums. Are they just as good?
― jonathan - stl, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
will also play at ZXZW www.zxzw.nl
― joost666, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
after listening to them in myspace - dont they sound like million other bands around?
― Zeno, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think so, I think they've found a largely unoccupied niche. What bands are you thinking of?
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah seriously? If there are other bands like this let me know because I would like them all. I'm thinking specifically of power pop harmonies over Sleep dirges.
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
for example: http://www.myspace.com/thelovedones
(a general 1st impression, though. i might not recognize the uniqueness after 1st listen)
― Zeno, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
for those that don't know they're playing the melvins/mike patton nightmare before christmas in minehead (UK) too.
is it me or is there a distinct whiff of foo fighters about torche, only a bit fuzzier? are they the arena rock band it's OK for the southern lord tribe to like?
― m the g, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I reviewed the new Torche album and mentioned something about a couple of the songs having this skatepunk edge to them which I guess would link up with those guys, but no-one else seems to have spotted this, and it's also pretty atypical of their sound
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"those guys" = The Loved Ones. Have seen Foo Fighters bandied about as well but it's not something I specifically get from them
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Is is possible for a band to sound like MELVINS and ABBA???
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
are you kidding me with that link to The Loved Ones?! I hear nothing in common at all. I thought you were going to link to some sludge band or something
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
it's too melodic to be sludge - sort of a poppy sludge, you might say:melvins,Queens of the stone age and foo fighters in a brain storm meeting. it sounds nice and they play well, but it's not something i havent heard before. but thats ok too i guess
― Zeno, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway, they arouse the risk of deafness, opening for Boris.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I hear some queens of the stone age, a lot of melvins, and maybe foo fighters circa colour and the shape vaguely very very vaguely. a lot angrier though.
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
How on earth do you hear Torche as angry?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't hear the "angry" in their sound either. "Aggressive," certainly. Sort of a mix of joy and frustration. They don't sound a thing like that myspace band Zeno linked to, but I understand the point he's trying to make; there IS a definite skate-punky element in the vocal style and the melodies. "Healer" sounds like it could almost be a Bad Religion song. Which is funny, because I love that song and I can't stand BR. I think that goes to show how much instrumental timbre/production style can sway opinions so easily. If it wasn't for their sludgy sonics, would the same people still like this band?
― telepathy_rock!, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I hear the anger in that bomb note they use that sounds like an explosion and can't fully be replicated on CD
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Have any of you guys heard his previous band Floor? They were an awesome band. I have both their lps but there should be a cd or vinyl set of unreleased stuff coming at some point which I am excited about.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
oh and you might hear where Torche are coming from..
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/music/Floor
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/floor
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Finally picked this up today, am loving it.
-- stephen, Monday, June 30, 2008 11:35 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link
so fucking jealous of this guy ^^^^^
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, Torche ruled live when I saw them open for Boris. Very fun set.
I kinda like the Foo Fighters too, at least many of their singles, but I look for completely different things from each band. I won't hate on anyone for hearing a similarity, but "sounds like a sludgier Foo Fighters" has become sort of a lazy shorthand for Torche at this point.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
there goes my ufo, watch it as it goes
― markers, Thursday, 23 September 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuMF8ssiK0
THIS SONG. THIS. SONG.
― markers, Friday, 8 October 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
just bought my ticket for 10/23 @ mideast--you should come or i'll have no friends there
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 October 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the price yo?
― markers, Friday, 8 October 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
22 after ticketweb raping
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 October 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
dope! I'll buy a ticket tomorrow
― markers, Friday, 8 October 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 October 2010 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Come up to Portland on the 21st! Only $15 and change.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 8 October 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i like that torche song markers posted. it doesn't seem especially "metal," tho. more like just heavy rock.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 8 October 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
listen to meanderthal right now
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 October 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah? what little i recall about the meanderthal samples suggested that it was more "metal" than the new one. i'll check it out now.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 8 October 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
the new one has more straightup melodic stuff but meanderthal has the better songs overall. i guess just listen to both. but the song markers posted is VERY reminiscent of "across the shields" which is one of the best two meanderthal songs.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 October 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
just paid 4 my ticket
― markers, Sunday, 17 October 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
So the Floor box set has been staring down at me from the shelves of my local for the past three months (the $40 8-CD version), is it worth taking the plunge?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
they r kewl live band. big business was good too
― am0n, Monday, 18 July 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Oops.
http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46038-bat-pisses-in-torche-guitarists-eye/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad he's alive and doing fine, but that would've made one of the best rock n roll death stories ever.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa whoa ho hoYou're a rock and roll Batpisscide
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
New album is criminally good and catchy. Would have sold multiple millions in 1994.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
solitary traveler
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Saturday, 12 May 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
Harmonicraft has become my go-to headphone record while working out at the gym. My gym is on the 2nd floor of a building across the street from a beach and has floor-to-ceiling windows that look out at the ocean.
This evening while on the cardio machine, with the sun setting and my heart rate way up, just as the chorus of "Kicking" dropped i saw a Humpback Whale breach and splash down in to the shimmering water. It was awesome.
http://i.imgur.com/blwjFHL.gif
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
Just jogged to this about 2 hours ago. ^5 bro
― skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 07:04 (eleven years ago) link
o/
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 07:05 (eleven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/season-of-mist/floor-war-party
― am0n, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/floor-oblation-600x600.jpg
Vinyl release got put back a month thanks to damn RSD hogging the pressing plants but the label gave us a free download (but not flacs)
― ۩, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
۩
― am0n, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxp77nZcm9k
― gr8080, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
new song on itunes and spotify
― call all destroyer, Friday, 12 December 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
new to Torche. obv into stoner stuff but I had a hard time convincing myself to listen to Torche because of the descriptions given of them; I like my sludge/stoner stuff to be dank and depressing and the idea of poppy melodies and shit didn't appeal to me.
they came by a few weeks ago and I was bored and it was $10 so I figured why not check it out and the opening strains of Meanderthal were like the coolest fucking thing ever and on listening to em this is pretty great stuff. really love the s/t and Meanderthal, still need some more time to determine what I think of Restarter.
also got the Floor box cos it was only $26 on Amazon, have enjoyed listening to each disc at random to see their progression. On Dove right now..
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
Like you, I was late to the party, mostly for the same reasons you mentioned. I've since converted big time and I think the new one is my favorite!
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
Wise decision to grab that Floor box, great stuff in there.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
It took me a while to get into Restarter because I thought it wasn't poppy enough (I usually have the opposite problem) but it's pretty good. It's gonna sound REALLY good if/when the weather gets a lot warmer.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
I think if it was poppier, I might not have given it a chance (I didn't like the previous stuff much, but now I'm going back to all of it). "No Servants" is my JAM.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Also, bought the deluxe edition of the vinyl direct from the label just for "Harmonslaught" - man, what a riff!
These guys have a real cool sound. You can definitely see where it might have come from but the mixing of those sounds is really unique. I'd definitely like to see Torche live to see how it goes over.
― earlnash, Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
torche is a great live band
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 April 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link
New album, Admission, out on Friday. First impressions are very good so far. Picking up where Restarter left off.
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link