Metal
I love metal. Boy I really lost it for a while when I wasn't listening to much metal.
I mean I was a pretty serious metallica fan in high school. Master of Puppets was one of my favorites for a long time and I liked the thrash stuff from Kill 'em All because I could compare it easily to alot of the punk stuff I was into at the time...
Then this whole indie thing happened, but I think it turned out for the best as far as my interest in metal is concerned cus it helped me approach the genre from a ton of new angles.
This whole Sunn O))) thing may have been the cause of it. I kept reading all sorts of great stuff people were sayin and I checked it out. This is not your grandma's metal, lemme tell you. There was surprisingly little for me to connect to when I thought about the aesthetics I used to love in the old Metallica stuff. However, connecting the noise aspects of it to other things I had heard, namely electronic, shoegaze, and even some "folk" (see Six Organs of Admittance...), I really got into it.
Then there's this band Boris. These Japanese cats are metal veterans. They've released crazy awesome drone albums like mad and they really know what they're doing. Then they release this incredible album "Pink". Perfectly executed 'stoner rock'. Don't let this label put you off, cus it's some amazing shit. They know the entire genre so well that they can traverse it whenever they want.
Metal is taking music in general in some interesting places. This band Jesu, headed by metal vet Justin K. Broadrick (who has pretty much been playing metal since he was fucking born) has practically created this whole new genre of metal/shoegaze. Incredibly slow, beautifully textured stuff that makes me cry (see: every track on the EP "Silver"). This is something that I've even tricked non-metal peeps into enjoying. Ambient metal? it's possible and it's awesome.
Then you've got the norse-metal stuff that's been around for ever. Bands like Opeth have made their own little world of progressive metal, but now this goddamn American west coast band Agalloch is doing it just as well and even better. There are moments in their latest album "Ashes Against the Grain" during which I totally forget that I'm listening to a metal album. Great riffing and pacing with these crazy little acoustic passages that make it uhhhhh folk-metal. Awesome. Death metal vocals that probably turn people off to them but that I've learned to love.
Gar I love metal right now. I don't suppose this is what you people had in mind when you said I should post regularly, but this is what you're gonna get.
I mean I was a pretty serious metallica fan in high school. Master of Puppets was one of my favorites for a long time and I liked the thrash stuff from Kill 'em All because I could compare it easily to alot of the punk stuff I was into at the time...
Then this whole indie thing happened, but I think it turned out for the best as far as my interest in metal is concerned cus it helped me approach the genre from a ton of new angles.
This whole Sunn O))) thing may have been the cause of it. I kept reading all sorts of great stuff people were sayin and I checked it out. This is not your grandma's metal, lemme tell you. There was surprisingly little for me to connect to when I thought about the aesthetics I used to love in the old Metallica stuff. However, connecting the noise aspects of it to other things I had heard, namely electronic, shoegaze, and even some "folk" (see Six Organs of Admittance...), I really got into it.
Then there's this band Boris. These Japanese cats are metal veterans. They've released crazy awesome drone albums like mad and they really know what they're doing. Then they release this incredible album "Pink". Perfectly executed 'stoner rock'. Don't let this label put you off, cus it's some amazing shit. They know the entire genre so well that they can traverse it whenever they want.
Metal is taking music in general in some interesting places. This band Jesu, headed by metal vet Justin K. Broadrick (who has pretty much been playing metal since he was fucking born) has practically created this whole new genre of metal/shoegaze. Incredibly slow, beautifully textured stuff that makes me cry (see: every track on the EP "Silver"). This is something that I've even tricked non-metal peeps into enjoying. Ambient metal? it's possible and it's awesome.
Then you've got the norse-metal stuff that's been around for ever. Bands like Opeth have made their own little world of progressive metal, but now this goddamn American west coast band Agalloch is doing it just as well and even better. There are moments in their latest album "Ashes Against the Grain" during which I totally forget that I'm listening to a metal album. Great riffing and pacing with these crazy little acoustic passages that make it uhhhhh folk-metal. Awesome. Death metal vocals that probably turn people off to them but that I've learned to love.
Gar I love metal right now. I don't suppose this is what you people had in mind when you said I should post regularly, but this is what you're gonna get.