Torche

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.

ILX metal voters didn't forget anything because Pfunkboy reminded us 40 times day.

:)

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

lol walt mink.

never heard torche--macho?

lol walt mink.

― ian, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:40 PM (1 minute ago)

:(

i dont think torche are really macho at all

definitely not macho

Haha, no not macho.

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, July 30, 2009 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

like if the melvins blew up instead of nirvana

maybe i should listen to torche!

sorry but walt mink are just... some kind of punch line to a lame joke somewhere.

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“At long last, we know what life would be like in a parallel universe where the Melvins became a pop sensation instead of Nirvana,” Revolver magazine added.

u should obviously listen to torche. saw em again last saturday and they killed it of course.

saw em on sunday and they killed it

Torche is probably one of the 10 best bands going right now imo

yeah i really like the album

walt mink was good! their drummer was amazing, he was lenny waronker the record company guy's son
and his sister was the main person of the band That Dog
and 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

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.

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

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

Torche is probably one of the 10 best bands going right now imo

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.

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http://www.discogs.com/Torche-In-Return/release/1089359
http://www.discogs.com/Torche-Healer-Across-The-Shields/release/1841749

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 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.

The way I look at it is, if you saw a messageboard ad for a band described that way (which I don't think is too inaccurate wrt Torche) you would probably think 'fuck that noise' - but there's so many clever touches and awesome hooks being employed within that remit that it totally works. Also in a lot of ways it really is pretty original within the confines of heavy rock music

xxp arrgh yeah i really want those releases but am loathe to pay for them.

i bought the EP and listened to it exactly once.

xps I don't have Healer and am unsure how widely available it was but In Return you could get anywhere I thought? Like I say that's just collectorscum nonsense, you don't have to participate

why whiney? was it not as good as the two lps?

They were so good when I saw them play between Nachtmystium and Boris last year. Kinda sad that Juan Montoya is no longer with them, he was just such a thrill to watch at that show. Having tons of fun and always smiling.

“At long last, we know what life would be like in a parallel universe where the Melvins became a pop sensation instead of Nirvana,” Revolver magazine added.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, July 31, 2009 4:21 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark

knew i couldn't have come up with that

A friend recommended Floor many years back. I finally checked out their 2002 album and it's tremendous. It, ahem, floored me on first listen. It took me quite a while to warm up to Torche, who incorporate a wider variety of influences. For pure, gorgeous, single-minded throbbing sound, you can't beat Floor. I only have MP3s and was almost tempted to pay a ridiculous price for the CD. But I look forward to hearing more from Torche. I hope the loss of the guitar player doesn't handicap them too much. They should only get more popular . . . and then reissue all the Floor stuff!

They are. It's a 10xLP set.

To say the very least, it's been a long time coming. The long-rumored FLOOR box set is not only actually happening... it's nearly upon us. Years in the making, everything this seminal Florida outfit ever recorded is contained within this massive release, including hours of material never previously heard by the public. This insane 10xLP (and one 7") box set should include CDs of the same material as well as an extensive booklet of some lyrics, original artwork, band writings and tons more.

Awesome! Looks like it'll be around November maybe. I can split it with a friend who prefers vinyl.

The new Torche/Boris split is kinda not good. Real throwaways from them both.

Torche song is fine, Boris ... no

i love boris but it is quite possible that they are out of things to do. what kind of boris song is it anyway?

the recent boris kind