Torche

Wait til you guys here who Torche is touring the US with later in the Summer...

"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)

Stinking Lizaveta is the worst band name. I keep getting them confused for some Devotchka gypsy punk bullshit

I thought this was a thread for the German rapper. Who in hindsight spells it without the "e".

"Who I realized..."

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, March 27, 2008 5:05 PM

this guy is awesome

Nice line up , Nate.

Why does this new album make me think of Jane's Addiction?

Because you put the wrong cd on?

I'm specifically talking about songs like Grenades & Sandstorm, I guess. It's better than the other album I listened to by them.

I NEED
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/scheme31/record%20pics%202/IMG_0026.jpg

Why does this new album make me think of Jane's Addiction?

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

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

jesus, does that sleeve fold out into a yukata?!

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

They are also set to appear in Chicago at the Empty Bottle with Boris and Nachtmystium on 7/20.

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?

will also play at ZXZW
www.zxzw.nl

after listening to them in myspace - dont they sound like million other bands around?

I don't think so, I think they've found a largely unoccupied niche. What bands are you thinking of?

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.

for example:
http://www.myspace.com/thelovedones

(a general 1st impression, though. i might not recognize the uniqueness after 1st listen)

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?

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

"those guys" = The Loved Ones. Have seen Foo Fighters bandied about as well but it's not something I specifically get from them

Is is possible for a band to sound like MELVINS and ABBA???

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.

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.

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.

just paid 4 my ticket

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?

they r kewl live band. big business was good too

Oops.

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46038-bat-pisses-in-torche-guitarists-eye/

I'm glad he's alive and doing fine, but that would've made one of the best rock n roll death stories ever.

Whoa whoa ho ho
You're a rock and roll
Batpisscide

New album is criminally good and catchy. Would have sold multiple millions in 1994.

solitary traveler

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

Just jogged to this about 2 hours ago. ^5 bro

o/

https://soundcloud.com/season-of-mist/floor-war-party

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)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxp77nZcm9k

new song on itunes and spotify

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..

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!

Wise decision to grab that Floor box, great stuff in there.

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.

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.

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.

torche is a great live band

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