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― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm really not being contrary when I say Asbestos Death is the most solid of the bunch.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Om for sure. Sleep is the most boring shit I've ever heard, and I tried so hard to like HoF (I believe I own all of their full lengths), but they just bore me. My brain doesn't hear any hooks at all, and their singer sounds like he gargles dust to warm up.
― A polar bear you can see in a snowstorm (rockapads), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Love em all. But HoF def kicked it up a notch
― gag meter up, lets looooOOOOOOl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
not om.
gets a lot harder from there tho
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only recently started to warm to Om. I wore the grooves to dust on my copy of Holy Mountain, but Dopesmoker bores me. Most of the songs on HoF albums tend to blur together.
So Sleep I guess? This is weird, I feel like my rationale makes me sound like I don't really like any of these bands when I'm really a fan of all 3 to some degree.
― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
All three bands have slayed me live but Om also bored me once so I guess maybe they are lagging behind. Sleep are definitely the only ones who might have been a game changer in terms of my musical taste
― What are the benefits of Western democracy, better elections? (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
om for sure. i haven't heard that much HoF tho. dopesmoker is 'epic' sure, the cover is simply awesome, the concept and all is great, but i never make it past the 20-minute mark. sleep's 'holy mountain' is good tho.
but i love the first three om albums. i'm working on the fourth.
for people feeling lukewarm wrt om, i'd advise checking out 'unitive knowledge of the godhead' from pilgrimage, i think this is the best thing they've ever done. shows everything great about them, distilled into about 5 minutes
― mark cl, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
High on Fire by a very, very wide margin here. Blessed Black Wings is my favorite record of the decade.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i like jerusalem and the first two om albums. i never listen to high on fire. they kinda bore me. want to love every album. never do. soooo, i guess i vote for sleep? i dunno, whatever.
― scott seward, Monday, September 21, 2009 8:59 PM
^^ every hof song i've heard had chugging mid-tempo tribal drumming. i'll take boring stoner rock over that any day
― am0n, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
High on Fire because their singer sounds like he gargles dust to warm up and every song has chugging mid-tempo tribal drumming. Also, ]Blessed Black Wings is album of the decade, or at least is in contention alongside Blood Visions and A-Frames.
― bendy, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, BBW (unfortunate acronym duders) is an absolutely great album. think i'm voting HoF.
― GOVERNMENT TRASH QUEEN ON A THRONE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Pike and company are Big Beautiful Warlocks.
― bendy, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Sleep live was almost as good as original line-up Sabbath. so they win.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Sleep.
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
too hard
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 26 September 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Love all three of these acts but I'm going with Om, personal favorite.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I always thought HoF were incredibly overrated. Which they are, but apparently not on ILM. Winner = correct.
― Thijs, Monday, 28 September 2009 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
OM-NOM-NOM-NOM-NOM!
― eye, music snob... (Ioannis), Monday, 28 September 2009 08:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i've always found HOF to be kinda unlistenable. (but then again, i may have confused them with Pig Destroyer or some such.)
― eye, music snob... (Ioannis), Monday, 28 September 2009 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I wouldn't say they were ~~extreme~~ in the grand scheme of things... they're just a olde tyme heavy metal band really, with sludgier production I guess
― I told u I was deathcore (DJ Mencap), Monday, 28 September 2009 08:44 (fourteen years ago) link
is Sleep Volume One worth getting???
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, 28 September 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 28 September 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
but dont pay ebay prices
does it go for a lot? i don't see it often IRL but when i do it's usually in the $4-10 range.
― GOVERNMENT TRASH QUEEN ON A THRONE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ok come on guys let's be realistic here. i'm clearly not gonna pay for it
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
well then... just download the fucking thing.
― GOVERNMENT TRASH QUEEN ON A THRONE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
sleep volume 2 with a cover of "lord of this world" is the shit
― kamerad, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link
really needs to be a nice, remastered reissue of vol 1 w/vol 2 as bonus tracks.
― GOVERNMENT TRASH QUEEN ON A THRONE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
^this.
But yeah, Volume 1 is my favorite Sleep album. It's not produced as well as Holy Mountain or as boring as Dopesmoker.
While you're at it, grab that Asbestosdeath ep. It's ace.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
High on Fire. plus they are the best live band I've ever seen. their show last year in O-town was probably the best show I've ever taken in
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
fury whip!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 20 March 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
they opened with that omg
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
some of the heaviest music ever. last time i saw them matt pike was shirtless, wearing a necklace of teeth of some sort, total conan style
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 20 March 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
he always plays shirtless. I met him at the second show and clapped him on the back in congratulatory fashion and it was caked in slimy sweat which led me to purse my lips in a JB Smoove 'ew' face.
and then I realized I just met Matt Pike and all was well again.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
was also the 'loudest' show I've been to which didn't actively hurt my eardrums. Like there's one club in Orlando that gets off on making things so loud to where the band sounds like a mass of indiscernible noise and sans ear plugs, you're going deaf...but it wasn't like that. It was loud with lots of clarity but not too loud to where it hurt. like they achieved optimal decibels.
Pike's guitar sounded like a goddamn chainsaw.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Can't believe I missed this thread the first time around. Would have added one more vote for HoF. Nate C otm way back when:
I would agree that The Art of Self Defense is the best single album any of these folks has made.
Not to slight what came after: "Thraft of Canaan", "Silverback", "Cometh Down Hessian", "Fury Whip", etc. And consistently one of the best live bands I've ever seen. Love Sleep, love at least the first couple Om records (though they're a very different proposition). But the choice is clear, high, and decisively charred.
Also, BBW is an excellent acronym.
― 2-chords, a farfisa organ and peons to the lord (contenderizer), Saturday, 21 March 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/09/16/matt-pikes-top-ten-t-shirts/
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Saturday, 21 March 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
Blessed Black Wings is prob the best album of 2005. The first two are amazing as well
― Jesus will return for global integrity (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 March 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
What I like about Pike is that since he quit drinking, his gut has swelled up like he swallowed a basketball, but he still plays shirtless. (Also, seriously one of the nicest dudes on earth.)
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 21 March 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
of this lot i only have pilgramage by om but damn i love it - proper headphone perfection.
do sleep hit the same level of sonic gorgeousness ?
and why oh why is dopesmoker £25 at fopp !!?
is it rare, or, are they just taking the piss ?
― mark e, Saturday, 21 March 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Dopesmoker on vinyl or cd? cos on cd that shit is def still in print (my local indie carries it for normal prices), but no idea on the vinyl
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 21 March 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
yeah Pike is a nice guy. and my god do his leads sound penetrating live.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 21 March 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
US import maybe? We sell it for $30, I could easily see it going for almost $40 or more as an import.
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 21 March 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
fopp : cd edition
nothing special about it.
― mark e, Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
oh, monsieur fopp, you're really ruining us
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
is there maybe a baggie of weed included
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 21 March 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
who would you vote for now? any change?
Om released Advaitic Songs after this poll, HOF have released five albums since, and Sleep have one
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:47 (three weeks ago) link
This is still so tough. HoF has released more quality albums, but I love Sleep and Om so much.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:48 (three weeks ago) link
all are special but HoF's track record is one of the wonders of the world
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 16:22 (three weeks ago) link
This is tough but I think Om.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 20:01 (three weeks ago) link