Helps if you had hits. Helps more if you have all the right members in the band still living/performing.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
sS there any chance of sending them out with a younger/bigger band who cites them as favorites/influence? That would likely be the best chance to succeed.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly, I've never heard of these guys, so I'm not really sure what the potential audience would be. Unless it's a buzz band like Pentagram, I don't know how well these shows are liable to do – the Sanctuary show I went to was pathetically attended, but on the other hand, the Doro show did fairly well at the Whiskey. Of course, Doro has been active this entire time and she's always been more of a name.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
That said, my research into them has given me some ideas for potential new Lazarus Pits, so cheers for that!
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
It's like Baroness made an EP of some of the best stuff they've ever done and decided to stretch it out to album length at the last minute with power ballads and Decemberists cover versions.
wait did they seriously cover the fucking Decemberists
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
98% sure that was a joke, but its that other 2% that is going to keep me up tonight.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
Looking at the tracklist and half of them could be Decembrists song titles:
1 Yellow Theme2 Take My Bones Away3 March to the Sea4 Little Things5 Twinkler6 Cocainium7 Back Where I Belong8 Sea Lungs9 Eula
Disc 2:
1 Green Theme2 Board Up the House3 Mtns. (The Crown & Anchor)4 Foolsong5 Collapse6 Psalms Alive7 Stretchmarker8 The Line Between9 If I Forget Thee, Lowcountry
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, as a recovering fan of the first couple Decemberists albums, really only the last one does.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Look at their more recent work and you'll get a shiver.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
I heard the last one that was like an Americana album that rips off Gin Blossoms and R.E.M. and I still can't shake it.
Anyway, glad to hear some of you are actually liking the Baroness record. Doran had me scared.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
morbid saint reissue is fucking stellar. something about that historical thrash energy for me
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
Is this a new reissue? I mean, after the 2008 one? Love that record.
― booth traums (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:58 (eleven years ago) link
j0hn I particularly think you should track down this Sledge Leather Project record Imagine Me Alive. It's classic 80s trad metal energy and enthusiasm played by total veterans, with heart, chops, and inspiration.
Fans of Judas Priest's Angel of Retribution, the self-titled Candlemass, and Heaven and Hell's The Devil You know should take note.
Chuck, that means you too, right?
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
same record being reissued on vinyl. I'll look out for Sledge Leather Project - anything w/"Project" gets the nod from me, love that
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
did you guys see the cover of the ulver covers album?
http://www.kscopemusic.com/ulver/childhoodsend/
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man! Had not seen that.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
i like the video and their version of this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MUzBJRWB64&feature=youtu.be
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING SCARED! YOU SHOULD BE SHITTING YOUR FUCKING LEMON SCENTED PANTIES! THE DECEMBERISTS COVERS AREN'T THE WORST SONGS ON IT! WAIT TIL YOU HEAR THE TWO 'WINDS OF CHANGE'/I HAD SUCH A GREAT TIME WHEN I WAS A KID AND THINGS WERE SIMPLER POWER BALLADS!
RUN FOR THE HILLS!
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
I should restate at this point, it does also contain some of their best songs to date as well. And there's a song that's going for some kind of OK Computer/Dark Side Of The Moon hybrid which is really cool.
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
But you need to take this shit over to the Rolling Atmospheric Adult Orientated Indie Thread - it ain't metal no more.
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, they need to not be booked on metal tours anymore. Black Mountain would probably be the heaviest band I would send them out with at this point.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
But you need to take this shit over to the Rolling Atmospheric Adult Orientated Indie Thread
ouch
― original bgm, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of heavy bands getting all wussy...
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13621-aurelia/
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Man, new Gojira sounds like Arcade Fire or something, what the hell happened?
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
I gotta say I'm not encouraged in the least about the state of metal in the summer of 2012 when I keep seeing bands like "The Decemberists" and "Arcade Fire" pop up in reference.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
Someone's going to pop up here soon saying that Viking Skull have suddenly discovered Los Campensinos!
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
was initially weirded out by the mellow, fleet foxes inspired interludes on the new gorguts album but I've really come around to them
― original bgm, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
I've often thought that Morrissey and Vikernes would get on like a church on fire.
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
i'm just gonna quietly blame the liturgy manifesto for all of this
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Trolling aside, new Gojira is pretty stunning – they've applied melody to their sound in all the right ways, giving the songs the dynamics they need to really stand out from each other.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
Are there any trumpet solos?
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
No. There are a couple trombone solos, though.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
How many times do they do the Gojira Pick Slide®™?
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
All of the times.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, it still sounds like them, with all their sonic hallmarks, but it's a comfortable evolution.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
lol some of us have been tilting our lance at this windmill for six or seven years and getting called "purists" about it. If you don't demand a certain degree of engagement with the actual genre sooner or later you end up with this weak stuff splooging on in
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
Rolling Atmospheric Adult Orientated Indie Thread
http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Alcest-Les-Voyages-De-LÂme-2012.jpeg?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
Here's my question: When the fuck were Baroness ever a metal band? They were beloved of metal fans, but as far as I can tell they were doing heavy psych-rock on Red Album; their vocals were always more lumberjack than Cookie Monster. The closer their material got to metal (the early EPs), the more it sucked, frankly. The new album is glorious because it's them admitting who they are, finally. Now it's gonna be up to fans to admit who they've been listening to all this time.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
i like their covers a lot
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
their album covers, that is. not their covers of jackson browne
Well, yeah, but I mean there's kind of a big jump from incorporating some post-rock elements to sounding like the fucking Decemberists.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
When the fuck were Baroness ever a metal band?
Well, that's a fair question but whether you like it or not for a lot of people they simply were. (And I'm not that aware of the 'Lumberjack' style of vocal but it sounds pretty metal to me.) And now they're not. It might not be the way you see it but this is essentially going to end up being the popular narrative of Baroness - especially from the point of view of metalheads who were into them.
Also, I don't think Baroness have finally had the nerve to admit who they really are, they strike me as a band who will keep on evolving.
On top of this, I'm not entirely sure that everyone is going to see Green/Yellow as their defining statement over Red.
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
the eps are still the best stuff they ever made
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
People like you are everything that's wrong with metal.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
Because of his viewpoint or because he repeats that exact statement whenever we talk about Baroness on here?
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
Because I mean, his preference is his preference whether we agree with it or not, but I can certainly understand getting annoyed by a broken (blue) record.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Just sick of the whole "the first album/demo/first show/rehearsal only I was at was their best work" thing.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
I'm being semi-facetious, but it really is something that bugs the shit out of me - the implied refusal to allow bands to evolve or grow.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
their work has really never been as good since i knew the drummer in junior high and he'd bang on the table with spoons and i'd bark out the cafeteria menu. i mean, the new stuff is okay but too mainstream.
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link