Monday, December 31, 2007
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Moving Mountains - Pneuma
DownloadReally cool new post-rock band. And they have a vocalist! gasp! sellouts! haha just joking with ya, this stuff is actually really great and interesting post rock, so far I haven't stumbled across a boring moment on the entire album. The fact that they have a vocalist really helps keep the music fresh, and wards off boredom and excessive snobbery. Grab this if ya like explosions in the sky, Isis (to a lesser extent), or Do make say think. highly unique, highly awesome, highly recommended.
Genre: Post-Rock
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Godflesh - Crush My Soul Music vid
only Godflesh could go from a cockfight to a jazz hands dude and still make it look badass.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Coldplay - Parachutes + A Rush of Blood To the Head + X&Y
Parachutes
(2000)
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A Rush of Blood to The Head
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X & Y
(2005)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Buckethead - Population Override + Pepper's Ghost + The Cukoo Clocks of Hell
Population Override
(2004)
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Pepper's Ghost
(2004)
DownloadThis is Buckethead, jazz funk fusion style. Population Override has funky toe-tapping riffs a plenty, soul driven Pink Floydian solo's, extra thick slices of glorious keyboard cheese, and Buckethead's bluesy guitar widdling. Population Stays away from the intimidating shredding as seen on other Buckethead albums, and instead, trades it in for melody, rhythmic riffs and less extravagantly fast/complex solo's.
Pepper's Ghost
(2007)
One of Buckethead's Most accessible and, in my opinion, best albums. These songs actually have versus, choruses, extremely catchy, and vocals could actually fit overtop of them. Pepper's Ghost is also probably Buckethead's most balanced records; its crazy metal riffing(cukoo clocks of Hell), virtuostic soloing(Robots & Monsters), and Mellow passages(Colma, Population Override). Good Place to Start if your new to Buckethead. Oh yeah, and this is album number 14 of 19 albums Buckethead's released in 2007. (yikes, take a vacation or saumthing man!)
The Cukoo Clocks of Hell
(2004)
(2004)
DownloadHEAVY shit here dudes. Buckethead shows just how mind-bendingly Technical he can play a Geetar. Its hard to believe that this is the same Buckethead that made beautifully quiet albums like Colma and Operation Override. He is truly and ace of spades in my book, He puts alot of other metal guitarists to shame with the heavy ass riffing/shredding on this album for sure. I can't think of another artist who can hold my attention equally through such varied albums. Not to mention that this was also released the same year as Population Override and Island of lost souls. Its amazing that one man can release so many albums, so different from each other and of equally good quality.
PS: This post are the Buckethead Albums that are my current personal favorites out of the 16 that I currently have...so yeah, download them and ignore the inumerable other albums by Buckethead that I'm sure will surface on this blog soon enough.
Genre: Metal/Fusion/Virtuoso/Solo
PS: This post are the Buckethead Albums that are my current personal favorites out of the 16 that I currently have...so yeah, download them and ignore the inumerable other albums by Buckethead that I'm sure will surface on this blog soon enough.
Genre: Metal/Fusion/Virtuoso/Solo
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Opeth - Deliverence + Damnation + Ghost Reveries
come back later for a paragraph or two of Opeth blather, too busy now to write it.
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Genre: Prog Death Metal
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Ratatat - Hip-hop Remixes
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Volume IINot As good as a normal Ratatat album, But every song is much better then the original. (thats not excatly hard to do though...*cough* *cough* G-unit)
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
DownloadWow, new album from Anaal already? I was still enjoying Eschaton. Review later as i myself am downloading now.(90% sure this will rule)
Genre: Black Grind
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Happy Halloween!
Well Hope your all feeling halloweeny, because there is a reason I uploaded those 6 gloomy doomy and boomy(?...) albums....Its because tomorrow has something to do with an old pagan tradition of dressing up like the dead to fool the dead into letting you into the afterlife or something similarly gruesomely neat like that.(Think what you want though!!) anyway, I hope you all have fun stealing little kids candy and such. Don't try and hide it, I know some of you have done it before. And while your doing it you can blast freaky music at the same time! joyous days! Just make sure those little tots don't pee on their candy bags, it makes for some unpleasantly bitter sweets.
Boo!
Boo!Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
You just know an album is going to take you all the way across the jelly bean ocean, and over the plains of chocolate coated teddy bears on the back on a magical sea horse named Dorathy who respects you enough to let you ride her, but not enough to engage in an active conversation when it features such warm and fuzzy track names like: Dead in a Boat, Stabbed in the Face, Urine Burn, and Black Vomit.
Shining - V: Halmstad
DownloadActually a good place to start if your new to black metal. Mostly because they have a bit more metal then black if that makes any sense to anyone (they have solo's, catchy passages and such). Shining combine multiple styles and genre's into this album. I love the vocals here, they are pretty unusual for a black metal, and they sound so pissed off. But thats mostly because they're sung in swedish (im assuming), which is pretty close to german, and let me tell you; you could say just about anything in german and sound like your pissed enough to nail your dog to the ceiling.
Genre: Black Metal
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Meshuggah - Catch 33
DownloadI couldn't wait to hear a new album from these guys since I first listened to the EP "I". In my opinion, Catch 33 is Meshuggah's best material to date; Its much more technical and less thrash metal orientated than their first few albums. Which usually would be a bad thing in my book, but its different here because Meshuggah have finally found their own completely unique sound.
Normally I really couldn't care less about technicality, but the musicianship on Catch 33 is jaw dropping. I often found myself wondering just how they produced a guitar tone here, or a bass line there. The drums are pretty amazing, but the guitars are where Meshuggah shines in my eyes. Upon first listen it sounds like they keep ripping out seemingly identical riffs over and over again, but upon closer examination, the riffs seem to be constantly flying all over the place; they sound different almost every time the band spews them out. The entire album is like perfectly contained chaos, never ending, but always changing.
Similar to the "I" EP, This album could be listened to and you'd hardly know that it wasn't one long track.(only difference between the two was that I actually was just one track.)But that being said, its not like they repeat themselves over and over throughout the album, it just sounds very reminiscent of previous tracks. Bringing out memories of just 15 minutes ago when you heard the first couple songs off the record. Catch 33 also has a more laid back aggression to it compared to “I”; which never lets up on pummeling drums and smothering riffs, while 33 is more about a consistent heavy vibe.
The production on Catch 33 is fantastic, In fact I can't see how it could sound any better; The guitars sound much heavier then they did on I, and no longer have the tinny ring that they did on Nothing. They end up sounding like a deeper, clearer, and heavier version of the guitar work on Chaosphere mixed with the varying rhythmic dynamics shown on Nothing .
Genre: Technical/Math Metal
Meshuggah Discography
Well folks, this is the band that started it all for me. This is the band that transformed me from a useless 12 year old video game dork into a useless 18 year old music dork. And I have Aliens versus Predator 2 the game, a user by the name of Meshuggah420, and Much loud(before it turned to shit) to thank. Before Meshuggah I was listening to bands like Uncle Kracker, Econoline Crush, Staind, Static-x, etc. I really didn't care about music at all, I saw it as just something to do on a long road trip, or occupy my time when I had nothing else to do. Today music basically runs my life; all my money goes into it, it occupies nearly all my time, and it is almost always in the background of all my daily activities and events; getting dressed in the morning?....music, having a smoke while trying to convince myself I am awake?...music, sitting in class?...music, Walking somewhere?...music, Working?...music, taking a shit?...well you get the point. I have a disease and I hope they never find a cure for it.
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