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?
― m the g, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"those guys" = The Loved Ones. Have seen Foo Fighters bandied about as well but it's not something I specifically get from them
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Is is possible for a band to sound like MELVINS and ABBA???
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Zeno, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway, they arouse the risk of deafness, opening for Boris.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
How on earth do you hear Torche as angry?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― telepathy_rock!, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
oh and you might hear where Torche are coming from..
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/music/Floor
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/floor
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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 ^^^^^
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Rotgutt, Thursday, 6 November 2008 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― chad, Thursday, 6 November 2008 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― a better command of the mummy language (joygoat), Thursday, 6 November 2008 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I've always just pronounced it as "Torch" with the e silent.
― HOOS HOOS HOOS on the autosteen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 November 2008 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Weird, I've always said "torsh". Like a good Canadian, I suppose.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 6 November 2008 07:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Pronounced "Torsh" here too.
― krakow, Thursday, 6 November 2008 07:52 (fifteen years ago) link
come to think of it that is probably correct--why add the e if it's silent?
― HOOS HOOS HOOS on the autosteen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wait nvm I guess I had it at #8 (?!? behind Kanye fucking West what the SHIT was I thinking)
― if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 02:18 (fifteen years ago) link
ILX metal voters didn't forget anything because Pfunkboy reminded us 40 times day.
― The FMLing Groovies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
:)
― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
And Phil still forgot to vote in the poll!
meanderthal reminds me of like if 90s alt rock bands like walt mink or hum were metal bands
― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 30 July 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
lol walt mink.
― ian, Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard torche--macho?
lol walt mink.β ian, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:40 PM (1 minute ago)
β ian, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:40 PM (1 minute ago)
:(
― MOAR HUMOR THAN A HUMAN(E) (jjjusten), Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont think torche are really macho at all
definitely not macho
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 31 July 2009 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, no not macho.
― 3 mods 1 banhammer (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 31 July 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
β tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
like if the melvins blew up instead of nirvana
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 31 July 2009 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe i should listen to torche!
sorry but walt mink are just... some kind of punch line to a lame joke somewhere.
― ian, Friday, 31 July 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
βAt long last, we know what life would be like in a parallel universe where the Melvins became a pop sensation instead of Nirvana,β Revolver magazine added.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 31 July 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
u should obviously listen to torche. saw em again last saturday and they killed it of course.
― wishes to be referred under the pseudonym of kronos (call all destroyer), Friday, 31 July 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
saw em on sunday and they killed it
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 31 July 2009 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Torche is probably one of the 10 best bands going right now imo
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 31 July 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i really like the album
walt mink was good! their drummer was amazing, he was lenny waronker the record company guy's sonand his sister was the main person of the band That Dogand he ended up being Beck's drummer for a long time
but sometimes some of torche's riffs on meanderthal remind me of walt mink, like the sorta higher on the neck, cyclical riffs
but yeah meanderthal is great, that's the only one i've heard
― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
they're all good. I like this band a lot, so its a shame they're getting into the whole vinyl-dOO)))d metal fetish 10" shit, so they have all these singles and EPs I'm never really gonna hear.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 31 July 2009 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
man i forgot to check their tour schedule and missed them again. i'd love to see them.
i didn't know they had a video for this. this is the one that sounds like big country...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgvqEJstNrw
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, 31 July 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
its a shame they're getting into the whole vinyl-dOO)))d metal fetish 10" shit, so they have all these singles and EPs I'm never really gonna hear.
I don't think they do really? It's just diff't colours of vinyl and crap like that
― splash the praying duck (DJ Mencap), Friday, 31 July 2009 06:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I really don't understand this. Torche to me sounds like Melvins, Helmet and the Foo Fighters tossed into a blender -- which isn't the worst thing in the world, mind you, but isn't very interesting or original to me.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
xposthttp://www.discogs.com/Torche-In-Return/release/1089359http://www.discogs.com/Torche-Healer-Across-The-Shields/release/1841749
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, you have a band who has FooFighters-sized radio-ready hooks but is playing them with the textures of extreme metal and doom. It's not Shoenberg's 12-tone theory or something, but it's pretty unique.
― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:21 (fourteen 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 (six years ago) link
torche is a great live band
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 April 2017 22:18 (six 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 (four years ago) link