Torche

If anyone liked Floor feel free to to chat about them too.

saw torche open for isis last year and isis was a total letdown after these homies. they had energy and looked like they were having FUN, which is more than i can say for isis.

the first record was kinda samey for my tastes, i must admit. new one good, herman?

Very. 1st album was awesome though. Which version did you hear?
The In Return ep was excellent too. New one is like heavier but poppier too.

umm don't remember, hang on

the band prefer the remixed version which is a bit different, but i think the 1st album is perfect and didn't need remixed.

what does the remix sound like?

Firrrrrre!

[REEEE-MIIIIIIIIIIX!!!]

Fi-yeeeeeer!

This.
Is.
A.
Torche.
Exclusive.

The vocals are up a bit and some lead guitar is louder. It works well on a few tracks actually It is worth owning both versions.

yep officially no idea.

i loved the shit out of like half of it ("erase" is my fucking JAM and i totally wish it was longer but it's perfect as it is) and tbh the other half kinda bored me?

new shit on myspace sounds awesome though.

Make Me Alive is a bonus track on the remastered version.

Do you have the album with that on it hoos?

no

Then you have the 1st version. Maybe you would prefer the remixed one then?

I didn't care much for the first album (I only heard the original version), but In Return surprised me and I really like this new one on first listen. Not sure why exactly but it reminds me of early Helmet, only the equation is weighted more towards metal and less towards hardcore.

I'll see what I think after a few spins. Very promising. Have to listen to the new Ufomammut (I'm so excited!) before I give this further time.

New Ufommamut is very good indeed.

Anyone like Floor?

The Sword, Torche and Stinking Lizaveta tour dates for the US.

May 09th Ft Worth TX - Lola's
May 10th Memphis TN - Hi Tone
May 11th Nashville TN - Exit/In
May 12th Covington KY - The Mad Hatter
May 13th Detroit MI - The Magic Stick
May 14th Columbus OH - Ravari Room
May 15th Washington DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
May 16th Philadelphia PA - First Unitarian Church
May 17th Brooklyn NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
May 18th Cambridge MA - Middle East Downstairs
May 20th Raleigh NC - Lincoln Theater
May 21st Savannah GA - The Jinx
May 22nd Tallahassee FL - The Beta Bar
May 23rd St. Petersburg FL - State Theatre
May 24th Orlando FL - The Social
May 25th Gainesville FL - Common Grounds
May 26th Atlanta GA - Lenny's
May 27th Birmingham AL - Bottle Tree
May 28th Baton Rouge LA - Spanish Moon
May 29th Houston TX - Rudyard's

I saw Stinking Lizaveta on Monday and they smashed it. What a great band. I should be able to listen to 'Meanderthal' by tomorrow or maybe tonight, pretty excited

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.

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.

ya this is sweet esp. hideaway

i really like the long jam at the end of "out again." am i wrong, or is this as blissed out and joyful as torche has ever been?

well see i think it does sound a lot like the foo fighters and i've never even really read anything about these guys it just struck me that way.

also the foo fighters are a pretty good band at the end of the day

no & no

foo fighters have some solid singles

i like torche, a lot, but they sucked live last night. like, a whole set of thudding muddy sludge instead of the pop stuff. homeboy has never been great at the straight up thud and anyway this is new orleans and we have more muddy sludge than we know what to do with.

(kylesa were boring/pleasant as usual)

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.

Floor rule (as did Cavity)

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.

there goes my ufo, watch it as it goes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuMF8ssiK0

THIS SONG. THIS. SONG.

just bought my ticket for 10/23 @ mideast--you should come or i'll have no friends there

what's the price yo?

22 after ticketweb raping

dope! I'll buy a ticket tomorrow

:D

Come up to Portland on the 21st! Only $15 and change.

i like that torche song markers posted. it doesn't seem especially "metal," tho. more like just heavy rock.

listen to meanderthal right now

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)

۩

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.