Torche

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

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

anyway, they arouse the risk of deafness, opening for Boris.

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.

How on earth do you hear Torche as angry?

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?

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

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.

oh and you might hear where Torche are coming from..

http://www.last.fm/music/Floor

http://www.myspace.com/floor

Finally picked this up today, am loving it.

saw these guys with Boris a couple nights ago, pretty good live set. need to check out the records.

-- stephen, Monday, June 30, 2008 11:35 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

so fucking jealous of this guy ^^^^^

I saw them in here Denver last week and finally figured out how they get so heavy. They've got a second guitar and bass with super heavy strings tuned really low and aluminum necks.

I hate to come off like a moron here.. but....

How do you pronounce Torche?

I'm really liking some this stuff the faster ones on Meanderthal sound like a Big Drill Car/Carcass blend.

My brother-in-law got me into this band, and after a couple listens I hear a bit of a David Lee Roth thing with the vocals. This isn't a bad thing, mind you.

I've always just pronounced it as "Torch" with the e silent.

Weird, I've always said "torsh". Like a good Canadian, I suppose.

Pronounced "Torsh" here too.

come to think of it that is probably correct--why add the e if it's silent?

I always thought it was "tor-SHAY". like a pun on "touche". I think I like it better that way.

PS this album rocks, why did I forget to put it on my year-end list?

oh wait nvm I guess I had it at #8 (?!? behind Kanye fucking West what the SHIT was I thinking)

all this is just a long way of saying, the weather got really nice here for a couple of days and I drove around with my windows down headbanging to this

ILX metal thread voters didn't!
It was no 1 on ILX METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2008 POLL

Hoping it places high in the general albums poll.

ILX metal voters didn't forget anything because Pfunkboy reminded us 40 times day.

:)

And Phil still forgot to vote in the poll!

meanderthal reminds me of like if 90s alt rock bands like walt mink or hum were metal bands

lol walt mink.

never heard torche--macho?

lol walt mink.

― ian, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:40 PM (1 minute ago)

:(

i dont think torche are really macho at all

definitely not macho

Haha, no not macho.

meanderthal reminds me of like if 90s alt rock bands like walt mink or hum were metal bands

― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

like if the melvins blew up instead of nirvana

maybe i should listen to torche!

sorry but walt mink are just... some kind of punch line to a lame joke somewhere.

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“At long last, we know what life would be like in a parallel universe where the Melvins became a pop sensation instead of Nirvana,” Revolver magazine added.

u should obviously listen to torche. saw em again last saturday and they killed it of course.

saw em on sunday and they killed it

Torche is probably one of the 10 best bands going right now imo

yeah i really like the album

walt mink was good! their drummer was amazing, he was lenny waronker the record company guy's son
and his sister was the main person of the band That Dog
and he ended up being Beck's drummer for a long time

but sometimes some of torche's riffs on meanderthal remind me of walt mink, like the sorta higher on the neck, cyclical riffs

but yeah meanderthal is great, that's the only one i've heard

they're all good. I like this band a lot, so its a shame they're getting into the whole vinyl-dOO)))d metal fetish 10" shit, so they have all these singles and EPs I'm never really gonna hear.

man i forgot to check their tour schedule and missed them again. i'd love to see them.

i didn't know they had a video for this. this is the one that sounds like big country...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgvqEJstNrw

its a shame they're getting into the whole vinyl-dOO)))d metal fetish 10" shit, so they have all these singles and EPs I'm never really gonna hear.

I don't think they do really? It's just diff't colours of vinyl and crap like that

Torche is probably one of the 10 best bands going right now imo

I really don't understand this. Torche to me sounds like Melvins, Helmet and the Foo Fighters tossed into a blender -- which isn't the worst thing in the world, mind you, but isn't very interesting or original to me.

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http://www.discogs.com/Torche-In-Return/release/1089359
http://www.discogs.com/Torche-Healer-Across-The-Shields/release/1841749

I really don't understand this. Torche to me sounds like Melvins, Helmet and the Foo Fighters tossed into a blender -- which isn't the worst thing in the world, mind you, but isn't very interesting or original to me.

I mean, you have a band who has FooFighters-sized radio-ready hooks but is playing them with the textures of extreme metal and doom. It's not Shoenberg's 12-tone theory or something, but it's pretty unique.

The way I look at it is, if you saw a messageboard ad for a band described that way (which I don't think is too inaccurate wrt Torche) you would probably think 'fuck that noise' - but there's so many clever touches and awesome hooks being employed within that remit that it totally works. Also in a lot of ways it really is pretty original within the confines of heavy rock music

xxp arrgh yeah i really want those releases but am loathe to pay for them.

i bought the EP and listened to it exactly once.

xps I don't have Healer and am unsure how widely available it was but In Return you could get anywhere I thought? Like I say that's just collectorscum nonsense, you don't have to participate

New album, Admission, out on Friday. First impressions are very good so far. Picking up where Restarter left off.