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We are! I hope!

I'm strange with sludge, I guess. I like Ved Buens Ende quite a bit, as well as old Shining (Sweden, deffo not Norway), Ulver's sludgier stuff, and obviously Julie's output.

That said, I have bookmarked the list to revisit on different days. You know how music can be. I feel like Thou is a band I *should* enjoy.

I try to never judge by a single track, or a first listen.

For me Thou is simple, I just don't like sludge that much.

Thou transcend genres even as they redefine them.

Surely he's just trying to commit career suicide at this point, right? Or trolling everyone?
I'd say he can't actually believe this, but given his recent output I fear he might.
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r013nt0 wrote:

Surely he's just trying to commit career suicide at this point, right? Or trolling everyone?
I'd say he can't actually believe this, but given his recent output I fear he might.

No, it’s serious. In an interview Devin said they got to know each other at some gig and get on really well. I get the impression Devy respects his skills, at least.

I’m trying to find some metal that I can listen to at work. Besides not being offensive to the general public, I also need it to have some energy. When my ass is dragging I like to listen to something that puts fuel in my tank.

Suggestions?

RawkGWJ wrote:

I’m trying to find some metal that I can listen to at work. Besides not being offensive to the general public, I also need it to have some energy. When my ass is dragging I like to listen to something that puts fuel in my tank.

Suggestions?

I've got plenty of melodic stuff, though I'll have to sort through some whose lyrics won't get you strange looks. I'll see if I can sort through some tomorrow.

MikeSands wrote:
r013nt0 wrote:

Surely he's just trying to commit career suicide at this point, right? Or trolling everyone?
I'd say he can't actually believe this, but given his recent output I fear he might.

No, it’s serious. In an interview Devin said they got to know each other at some gig and get on really well. I get the impression Devy respects his skills, at least.

I think is his ability to analyse the public and musical structures, and the ways that people react emotionally on a commercial level is such that he is almost more like a scientist than he is a rock musician.

Makes sense. He's not saying he's a technical marvel, but a commercial wizard.

Also, they're both Canadian, so he has to say something nice about him.

garion333 wrote:
MikeSands wrote:
r013nt0 wrote:

Surely he's just trying to commit career suicide at this point, right? Or trolling everyone?
I'd say he can't actually believe this, but given his recent output I fear he might.

No, it’s serious. In an interview Devin said they got to know each other at some gig and get on really well. I get the impression Devy respects his skills, at least.

I think is his ability to analyse the public and musical structures, and the ways that people react emotionally on a commercial level is such that he is almost more like a scientist than he is a rock musician.

Makes sense. He's not saying he's a technical marvel, but a commercial wizard.

Also, they're both Canadian, so he has to say something nice about him.

Exactly. The way I imagine it went down (without listening to all of Devy’s behind-the-Empath commentary):

Devin obviously had an artistic crisis that caused him to not just bite but OBLITERATE the hand (DTP) that fed him - more than anything else that ever fed him in his entire career.

So he’s sitting there in his emotional fallout, more successful than ever, with a bigger war chest than ever, wondering what the hell he just did and where the hell to go next. How do I move on? I know, maybe I’ll just be done with it all and use the momentum to sell out, go commercial with my wall of sound, and put the cherry on top of this whole shebang. I’ll make myself for life and move on.

So, more introspection, maybe talks to friends and family, but is ultimately still wandering, completely lost. As his desperation reaches climax he calls out to the guy who (aside from being Canadian too) did commercial better than anyone in history - and has as many scars as piles of money to prove it - to adapt his unique production to become a commercial Jedi and fulfill his destiny.

But instead, Chad f*cking “50 million albums sold” Kroeger convinces Devin Townsend to not sell himself out, screw the bags of money, and just be Hevy Devy. I’m not sure how any lover of weird-ass heavy music and a healthy dose of irony doesn’t LOVE how this played out, regardless of how much you like or dislike his albums.

RawkGWJ wrote:

I’m trying to find some metal that I can listen to at work. Besides not being offensive to the general public, I also need it to have some energy. When my ass is dragging I like to listen to something that puts fuel in my tank.

Suggestions?

may i recommend the band Castle. Castle i recently found via "from the underground " playlist via google. They are easy to listen to with some tastey doom riffs and grooves. Castle released a new album "deal thy fate" a month or so ago.

I looked for Castle on Apple Music and it seems they don’t have them. They have another act called Castle which is cheesy pop hip hop.

The new Arch/Matheos album is coming out soon and I'm super hyped. The first one is amazing and this one looks to be just as good if not better.

Really love this project. Back in 2003 John Arch released an EP that blew me away and he never followed it up until 2011 under the Arch/Matheos moniker.

RawkGWJ wrote:

I’m trying to find some metal that I can listen to at work. Besides not being offensive to the general public, I also need it to have some energy. When my ass is dragging I like to listen to something that puts fuel in my tank.

Suggestions?

My goto "happy metal" is Torche! I've always thought they sounded like a heavy stoner metal group gone pop-punk.

For example, they have a few crushingly heavy songs like the below (though this one is more like their "usual" sound)

But their sound has really evolved into something uniquely theirs, and I love it. I believe this is their most popular album.

However, Healer is my favourite song of theirs. And if we're talking work friendly, a comment on the YouTube video suggests this was used in a Ben 10 film. I don't think you can get much more work-friendly metal than that

Torche is great, I really like Meanderthal and Harmonicraft. If you dig them you should check out Floor (a little more sludge but still with soaring vox). Other bands I’d include in the same playlist would be The Sword, Red Fang, and Earthless.

RawkGWJ wrote:

I looked for Castle on Apple Music and it seems they don’t have them. They have another act called Castle which is cheesy pop hip hop.

Here is a youtube link to their latest album

RawkGWJ wrote:

I’m trying to find some metal that I can listen to at work. Besides not being offensive to the general public, I also need it to have some energy. When my ass is dragging I like to listen to something that puts fuel in my tank.

Suggestions?

Winds, from Norway. (as opposed to probably 10000000 other bands with the same name.)
Symphonic but not boring. Clean vocals. Amazing talents involved. Themes are of astral philosophy, so no worries about inappropriate themes.

I immediately spotted the John Dyer Baizley Art on the Torche album cover for In return. Dude has a distinctive style. I love it so much.

liquid wrote:

The new Arch/Matheos album is coming out soon and I'm super hyped. The first one is amazing and this one looks to be just as good if not better.

Really love this project. Back in 2003 John Arch released an EP that blew me away and he never followed it up until 2011 under the Arch/Matheos moniker.

Arch's vocals, and vocals of singers like him (*cough* Symphony X *cough*) kill the genre for me. It's a shame as I really like the musical aspect of their type of music. Dan Swano needs to front every progressive metal band out there already!

garion333 wrote:

Arch's vocals, and vocals of singers like him (*cough* Symphony X *cough*) kill the genre for me.

That must be really painful. Russel Allan is like the Nolan North of melodic metal.

Russell Allen is a god (and nothing at all like Arch). Or did you mean SX's first singer? I kinda like him too but he's tbh. As for Arch - he is an acquired taste. I hated him initially but I loved his melodies and the music so much that he grew on me and now I love his voice. It's a bit like Ozzy or Geddy Lee from Rush.

And what you mean singers like him? If you know of others like Arch do let me know as the guy is one of a kind.

Obviously to each their own First time I'm seeing someone not liking Allen, though.

I don't like Geddy Lee and he completely ruins Rush for so much I don't listen to them.

I don't like the type of singer he is.

Believe me, I'll take Symphony X over Arch because of the grit he has, sometimes.

Gratuitous.

garion333 wrote:

I don't like Geddy Lee and he completely ruins Rush for so much I don't listen to them.

I don't like the type of singer he is.

Oof.

Is Geddy too...

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>_>

... shrill for you?

I can't listen to Rush and Ozzy for the same reason as you but somehow Arch clicked with me eventually and I love him

Man, the two new Tool songs (well, Descending is partially new) are leaving me quite bummed. They're both drawn out riff jams with similar sounds and feels that then end more or less tread the same path. sh*t, some of the riffs actually sound like other tool songs. Feels like they're out of ideas.

Maynard is probably too busy considering himself a genius to actually create.

Maynard is actually the one who has been doing things through the years. The rest of the guys, not so much.

I mean, I like Puscifer as much as the next guy I guess. APC was ok. Loved Mer de Noms and... well that's kinda it.

I saw APC live and Maynard spent the entire show standing in the shadows with his back to the audience. He has a wonderful voice but the dude himself can f right off.

garion333 wrote:

They're both drawn out riff jams with similar sounds and feels that then end more or less tread the same path

So... it's basically Tool?

I'm not listening to any of the new Tool stuff until the album comes out.

10,000 Days worked for me, but that last A Perfect Circle album doesn't exactly have me excited about MJK's current music making state.

Right now, I am all about the new Inter Arma album.