The new songs were super boring live, although that might have more to do with them just not really fitting on metal bills anymore.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
or they were boring songs?
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
Like, they sounded like they might be good sitting in my apartment and chilling out to them, but not sandwiched between Decapitated and Meshuggah.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
Also, I am sure that this new Ulver album consisting of covers of 60s psychedelic rock songs will be of no interest whatsoever to people on ILM…
The new Baroness is crazy good. Sure, maybe a couple toss-offs, but it's a double album, those things happen.
Ulver was absolutely baffling doing the '60s covers at Roadburn. It sounded phenomenal, but it was surreal seeing Garm doing the maraca thing. It was missing that slow-burning mystique that Ulver usually brings, especially on their last three albums.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
I've been asked to book some shows for Sledge Leather. It's Leather Leone (ex-Chastain) and her original Rude Girl partner Sandy Sledge. Accompanying them are Scott Warren and Jimmy Bain from the Dio band.
The question is, will anyone want to see this group? I think the tunes sound good... but I'm always shy about "historical merit."
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
What's interesting to me is that the new Baroness is only 75 minutes long; it could have fit on a single CD, but they seem to have split it in half so the listener would think about the two sets of songs as being separate. I've only listened to it a couple of times so far, but the first single is seriously the best song they've ever done, and even the weird shit on the second disc (where I think they're using a drum machine) works for me. Definite Album of the Year contender.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
I will give anything a chance, but I have yet to hear a single Baroness song that I enjoyed.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
The new Baroness single is the first music of theirs that I enjoyed.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
As for Sledge Leather, as far as trad metal goes, this is really quite amazing.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
Is their a show circuit for legacy metal? I haven't seen many (any?) listings for such shows in Dallas except for the glam guys.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
wrong their there. I need an editor.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Seems like these shows invariably are either big and expensive (ie MSG + Anvil), or sad and under-attended (ie Diamondhead / Iron Butterfly)
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
Helps if you had hits. Helps more if you have all the right members in the band still living/performing.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
sS there any chance of sending them out with a younger/bigger band who cites them as favorites/influence? That would likely be the best chance to succeed.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly, I've never heard of these guys, so I'm not really sure what the potential audience would be. Unless it's a buzz band like Pentagram, I don't know how well these shows are liable to do – the Sanctuary show I went to was pathetically attended, but on the other hand, the Doro show did fairly well at the Whiskey. Of course, Doro has been active this entire time and she's always been more of a name.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
That said, my research into them has given me some ideas for potential new Lazarus Pits, so cheers for that!
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
It's like Baroness made an EP of some of the best stuff they've ever done and decided to stretch it out to album length at the last minute with power ballads and Decemberists cover versions.
wait did they seriously cover the fucking Decemberists
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
98% sure that was a joke, but its that other 2% that is going to keep me up tonight.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
Looking at the tracklist and half of them could be Decembrists song titles:
1 Yellow Theme2 Take My Bones Away3 March to the Sea4 Little Things5 Twinkler6 Cocainium7 Back Where I Belong8 Sea Lungs9 Eula
Disc 2:
1 Green Theme2 Board Up the House3 Mtns. (The Crown & Anchor)4 Foolsong5 Collapse6 Psalms Alive7 Stretchmarker8 The Line Between9 If I Forget Thee, Lowcountry
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, as a recovering fan of the first couple Decemberists albums, really only the last one does.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Look at their more recent work and you'll get a shiver.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
I heard the last one that was like an Americana album that rips off Gin Blossoms and R.E.M. and I still can't shake it.
Anyway, glad to hear some of you are actually liking the Baroness record. Doran had me scared.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
morbid saint reissue is fucking stellar. something about that historical thrash energy for me
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
Is this a new reissue? I mean, after the 2008 one? Love that record.
― booth traums (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:58 (eleven years ago) link
j0hn I particularly think you should track down this Sledge Leather Project record Imagine Me Alive. It's classic 80s trad metal energy and enthusiasm played by total veterans, with heart, chops, and inspiration.
Fans of Judas Priest's Angel of Retribution, the self-titled Candlemass, and Heaven and Hell's The Devil You know should take note.
Chuck, that means you too, right?
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
same record being reissued on vinyl. I'll look out for Sledge Leather Project - anything w/"Project" gets the nod from me, love that
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
did you guys see the cover of the ulver covers album?
http://www.kscopemusic.com/ulver/childhoodsend/
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man! Had not seen that.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
i like the video and their version of this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MUzBJRWB64&feature=youtu.be
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING SCARED! YOU SHOULD BE SHITTING YOUR FUCKING LEMON SCENTED PANTIES! THE DECEMBERISTS COVERS AREN'T THE WORST SONGS ON IT! WAIT TIL YOU HEAR THE TWO 'WINDS OF CHANGE'/I HAD SUCH A GREAT TIME WHEN I WAS A KID AND THINGS WERE SIMPLER POWER BALLADS!
RUN FOR THE HILLS!
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
I should restate at this point, it does also contain some of their best songs to date as well. And there's a song that's going for some kind of OK Computer/Dark Side Of The Moon hybrid which is really cool.
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
But you need to take this shit over to the Rolling Atmospheric Adult Orientated Indie Thread - it ain't metal no more.
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, they need to not be booked on metal tours anymore. Black Mountain would probably be the heaviest band I would send them out with at this point.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
But you need to take this shit over to the Rolling Atmospheric Adult Orientated Indie Thread
ouch
― original bgm, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of heavy bands getting all wussy...
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13621-aurelia/
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Man, new Gojira sounds like Arcade Fire or something, what the hell happened?
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
I gotta say I'm not encouraged in the least about the state of metal in the summer of 2012 when I keep seeing bands like "The Decemberists" and "Arcade Fire" pop up in reference.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
Someone's going to pop up here soon saying that Viking Skull have suddenly discovered Los Campensinos!
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
was initially weirded out by the mellow, fleet foxes inspired interludes on the new gorguts album but I've really come around to them
― original bgm, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
I've often thought that Morrissey and Vikernes would get on like a church on fire.
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
i'm just gonna quietly blame the liturgy manifesto for all of this
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Trolling aside, new Gojira is pretty stunning – they've applied melody to their sound in all the right ways, giving the songs the dynamics they need to really stand out from each other.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
Are there any trumpet solos?
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
No. There are a couple trombone solos, though.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
How many times do they do the Gojira Pick Slide®™?
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
All of the times.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, it still sounds like them, with all their sonic hallmarks, but it's a comfortable evolution.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
lol some of us have been tilting our lance at this windmill for six or seven years and getting called "purists" about it. If you don't demand a certain degree of engagement with the actual genre sooner or later you end up with this weak stuff splooging on in
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link