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05-18-2010, 08:29 AM | #33 |
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They're definitely on my list. Which album would you recommend to get me started?
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In between those two, "Deadwing" (2005) and "Fear of a Blank Planet" (2007) put the thumb a little more on the heavy side of the scale. Prior to "In Absentia," their work is more melodic, more progressive (and prior to 1996's "Signify," it's spacey-electronic-psychedelic). I like all of it, but the stuff from "Signify" through "In Absentia" is closest to my heart. Although "The Incident" is right up there, too. |
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Starting with Agalloch Pale Folklore:
Liking the intro of first song, "She Painted Fire Across the Skyline Part 1" with wind noise in the background and a slow steady buildup. Feels like I'm in Siberia or some eastern european mountain range. And yes, there's a sweet transition at about the 4 minute mark where everything slows down. And nice, evil whispery vocals. Ooo, bonus for the operatic chick singing in the background. And we transition out of the slow and into a sort of crunchy section with "fanning" guitar chording and the whispering vocals getting progressively more evil. A second guitar comes in and starts doing a repeated solo lick over the top of the rest. Nice build of layers. Then slows down again at 7:00 and returns to the operatic singer. Oh yes, timpani at 7:30! Gotta love that. Sounds like an outro as the timpani takes over, nice melodic sparse playing of a guitar and the return to the mountain range as the howling wind returns to take us out of this song. Yes indeed, I like the movement of that one. Song 2: "She Painted Fire Across the Skyline Part 2" Wind takes us into some sparse guitar picking that quickly picks up into an... almost upbeat... song. Until the evil ****er singing comes in and rips any upbeat goodness from it with the maliciousness of his voice. He sounds like what Grishnįkh from the Two Towers would sound like if he started a band. Alright, I'm just going to listen to the album now and not type. I have other shit to do. Anyway, I'm liking this quite a lot.
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Okay,
Listening to Angra now... and I've figured out something else about what I "like" in metal. I don't like this type of vocal. I know it's the traditional way of singing metal and shows amazing vocal range... but it's just not for me. I still like the music a lot, and I can tolerate the vocals... but I prefer the vocals of Agalloch. Though Angra did just use a really cool harmonized choir vocal on "The Voice Commanding You" that I liked. I just don't like the way the verses and choruses are sung, overall. It reminds me of watching headbanger's ball in high school.
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Just as I say I don't like the vocals, the song "Breaking Ties" completely changes my mind. Powerful, heartfelt vocal that I really enjoyed.
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I had to check out Sigh because they just sounded so weird. Got Scenes from Hell... and yeah. It's weird. A nonstop blitzkrieg of metal with totally incongruous almost cartoonish anthems layered on top of it. Sounds like taking the soundtrack from a spaghetti western or a bunch of oompa music and synching it up with death metal so that the two hit the same notes and rhythm. Very interesting. I'm not sure I'm going to just be grooving to it all the time, but it's definitely worth a listen.
Agalloch remains my favorite so far.
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Interestingly enough, as I was listening to Agalloch, I kept thinking: "A lot of this guitar work of crescendo/descent is like Explosions in the Sky or something."
Today I start reading up on Agalloch and find out that they're supposedly heavily post-rock influenced. Wow, I do know something about music.
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Can't go wrong with a group that titles an album "Big Fat Box of Shit". lol
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Grabbed "Blue Record" by Baroness tonight. Really, really enjoying this one at this point in time. Good hard stuff without trying to hit you over the head with how hard they're being. Lots of different sounds represented as well. Thumb's up for sure.
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Opeth reminds me of Faith No More with a stomach ache. The music is great, but I'd prefer a front man with the range of Patton over all the growling. Hard not to listen though. The arrangements are fantastic.
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