i know people are big on floor or cavity or whatever but the best floor song is "downed star" which is basically a downtuned hum song.
new ep is really good though, wish they'd played some of that stuff.
― adam, Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Floor rule (as did Cavity)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 21:06 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
they r kewl live band. big business was good too
― am0n, Monday, 18 July 2011 18:09 (thirteen 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 (twelve 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 (five years ago) link