Perhaps kind of silly, but not necessarily bad - see Merzbow and Borbetomagus, for instance. What I've heard of Wolf Eyes ("Dead Hills" mostly) is good in much the same way as those bands are - the absurdity inherent in extreme music is one of its virtues.
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― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
(Yes)
― Darkness can't wait, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
No really, Alba - you WON'T like them.
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
EVERYWHERE
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Jason D. how was your sandwich for lunch today?
guess who you borrowed SLICER from? i'll hook you up tomorrow with the real deal.
too funny...
hahahahaha, never noticed this before!
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
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― European Samuel Glickstein (ex machina), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
it was the beginning of something beautiful.
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Pickled Pickslide, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I see that the CCA website is listing the Saturday gig as Tony Conrad's 'first UK Show' - utter bollox, cos I saw Conrad/Faust in London maybe ten years ago now? it was OK, but I'm more excited abt catching Double Leopards on the same bill - I contrived to miss most of their set at the SY ATP last year (I was watching Saccahrine Trust upstairs and they were great too, in their way)
I don't think Alba will like Wolf Eyes either
― Andrew J L, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
that's a bill tighter than a pair of glamrock spandex
― rizzx (rizzx), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― superultramega (superultramarinated), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm most excited about double leopards.
will you go, alba?
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
anyway, sometimes it's nice to be a part of something.
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link
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― fffnnnsss (fffnnnsss), Saturday, 5 August 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link
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― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 August 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link
"Psychogeist," on the other hand, is an extended, ambient drone. Has some clangorous elements but overall, it's very subdued. Wolf Eyes dub. Both songs, actually, are rather relaxed in feel. Kinda nice, even. Definitely lacking the ear-drilling, bowel-clenching panic of Dead Hills & Burned Mind. More hypnotic than terror-inducing, and very much of a piece with the recent River Slaughter dbl LP. Massive trumpet squalls in the foreground, though often mutated almost beyond recognition.
True to form, it's all very cinematic, suggesting a railroad yard in darkness or an abandoned highway overpass. Occasional muted smears of red and green light in the distance. Wind over steel and concrete, hung machinery and patient rust. Cars and engines sweeping through but never stopping. You know: textbook industrial noir, and I'm still surprised haven't been tapped to do more soundtrack work. (Maybe they have and aren't interested. Dunno...)
Are they retreating, or moving forward? Hard to say, but the recent, Dilloway-free material does sound more similar to the Wolf Eyes of Slicer and the early singles and CD-Rs than to the "Slayer-influenced" sounds of 2004-05 (which came off more like a lo-fi, scuzzcore Skinny Puppy, anyway).
Great stuff, but I can't imagine this is gonna widen their fan base much...
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
sooooo 2003?
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― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 6 August 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link