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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7605120 - 11/06/07 10:34 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have another Growing album and another Colour Haze album. I will upload them in the next lot. Couldn't find anymore Growing albums online, but I found most of Colour Haze's discography. Will upload these will I can.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7605297 - 11/06/07 11:35 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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here is Om their first two albums plus two split singles, one with Six Organs of Admittance and the other with Current 93 plus a live track from Om
And their new one, Pilgrimage. This is the most well engineered of all their releases...
review: (not by me)
"Pilgrimage", the newest album from doomy duo Om, is truly an example of how sometimes, less really is more. Armed with only bass, drums, and vocal chords, the group never the less manage to craft music of incredible depth and originality.
This album truly is as it's title suggests, an epic voyage to unknown lands of massive sub-sonic proportions. Al Cisneros leads the way on this journey, effortlessly weaving hypnotic bass lines that go from beautiful and meditative one minute, to Earth shaking heaviness the next, all the while his eerie, chanting vocals conjuring tales of spiritual planes that many have yet to expierience. His partner, Chris Hakius is no less important, keeping the music running perfectly smooth with a good balance of shamanistic, and marching, cadence like rhythms.
It's amazing that the sum of so few parts could add up to something so monumental in scope. This album truly defines what the DRONE is all about, music so trance inducing that at times you are not sure if you are listening to it, or are really expieriencing a deep, meditative state. The only real problem with this album is it's short running time, as it's 32 minutes literally melt away.
However, this album definetly isn't for everyone. People looking for brutality of any kind, or even metal for that matter, probably won't find it here, and will dismiss the album as boring (I can also imagine many dismissing the band for thier complete lack of guitarists). Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of heavy riffs, but they are not heavy in a traditionally metallic way, they are heavy in a deeper sense of the word, especially when weighed against the albums lighter, more mystic moments. However, more open minded listeners will find the album to be a genuinely awe inspiring musical expierience. "Pilgrimage" is a testament to the fact that Om truly are the masters of "drone mantra purity."
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Clean]
#7609247 - 11/07/07 10:48 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Cheers for the new OM. Didn't realise they had a new album coming out.
Here's some new ones from me:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mjfpg1 Melvins + Lustmord - 2004 - Pigs Of The Roman Empire
Nuff said. No review needed here.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jpz703 maudlin of the Well - 2005 - Leaving Your Body Map
maudlin are the pre Kayo Dot band, so their style/sound is similar (but not identical). This was where the band were at that particular time.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gztg9d Colour Haze - 2004 - Colour Haze
The other Colour Haze album I had. Others have been downloaded and will upload after everything else. Please be patient
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7610387 - 11/08/07 09:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7610394 - 11/08/07 10:00 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/16w48e Caïna - Mourner
This is the kind record that I enjoy from time to time, a big surprise; it is not what I expected in any way, shape, or form and caught me completely off guard. Mourner is the second full-length, first on Profound Lore, from Caïna, the solo project of Andrew Curtis-Brignell - a twenty-year-old who already has a strong grasp on his musical vision. The album plants it feet firmly in several different musical forms, and Mourner encompasses some of the best elements of them. Steeped in the stripped down aesthetic of black metal while still traversing the sonic waters similar to (and I hate trying to fit things into genres but that is a point of reference for people) folk, post-rock, and shoegaze, Caïna drops a fully enthralling album that touches on several styles while still maintaining its own voice.
Caïna utilize a plethora of interesting noise passages and ambient droning to create an equally palpable and strange mood that affect the listener with songs such as "Waves Engulf a Pier" while at other times toy with the listeners' ears by switching to sparse piano pieces or soft guitar and vocal songs like "Morgawr." Sometimes these drastic changes occur within songs like in "Hideous Gnosis" (which on its own has a rather haunting sound), "I Reeled in Heaven" (the Gregorian chant-like portion is frankly bizarre), and "Requiem for Shattered Timbers." "Waves Engulf a Pier" contains a barely audible spoken word section that is sampled from the movie Kwaidan, which lends another ghostly element to Mourner. Curtis-Brignell's vocals alternate between having a folk like clean quality to displays of some truly emotionally pained scream or yelp. One of my favorite songs on the album is definitely "The Sleep of Reason." It strikes a chord with me with its layered guitars that still maintain a raw feel and the lengthy ambience that allows the song to breathe and explore the arrangements that Curtis-Brignell composed, and the sparse vocals serve to heighten the whole mood.
Once again, I want to note that Profound Lore is putting out some really nice looking CDs. This one looks like a mini gatefold LP, much like the previous Profound Lore release that I recently reviewed. It is sharp looking. The artwork itself is an image from a nightmare; with the gray and black image of a woman that looks as though her eyes have been burnt out of their sockets, it is unnerving. The lettering of the text is a bit difficult to read at times, but it looks great and ties the whole package together very well.
Mourner is another fine release by Profound Lore (I am coming to admire their stable of artists and the aesthetic that their records project), and it is a great introduction to the work of Andrew Curtis-Brignell and his outfit, Caïna. I am pleased that this record came into my possession; its soft, ambient passages combined with the accents of raw power (mostly black metal style) draw the listener into the whole album. I recommend this highly to anyone that enjoys any of the "genres" that Caïna straddles, as there is enough of all of them to keep it interesting.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/c95bjm Monolithe - II
A while ago I was talking with a fellow Metalhead and came up with what I thought was a really great idea for a project. I love both single-song and concept albums, so I decided that once I stumbled upon some musical talent, I was going to start a band that recorded only single-song albums that each had a continuing lyrical theme. Each album would be like another chapter in the same story. I was quite enthusiastic about this idea, and then I find out that France’s MONOLITHE thought of it first. Bastards.
So, what does the second instalment in the MONOLITHE saga sound like? Well, I liken it to the following scenario. Imagine that you are an astronaut working on the exterior of a space station, held down only by a small cable. You’ve spent your last few days reading lots and lots of H.P. Lovecraft, so your mind is littered with images of Cthulu and Unknown Kadath and whatnot. Suddenly, the cable snaps and you are slowly set adrift in the vast infinities of deep, black space. Floating and floating around, nothing but blackness and desolation outside and nothing but images of creepy, macabre horrors inside. Yep, that’s the atmosphere you can expect from “Monolithe II.”
This is Doom Metal of the new wave variety, with painfully slow riffage and deeply growled/grunted vocals. There are lots and lots of keyboards, used almost as much as the guitars, though the whole makes for music that can best be described as “passive.” Nothing really reaches out and grabs you – there are riffs, but none that scream “Listen to me because I’m an awesome riff!” MONOLITHE are content with drifting along, not really boring but also not intense; an appropriate word used by both the fans and the band is “meditative.” Lyrically, “Monolithe II” is a continuation of “Monolithe I,” telling the tale of the creation of life in the universe.
Fans of exceptionally dark Avantgarde or atypical Death Metal might also want to look into this, but the main audience will definitely be those Metalheads that find enjoyment in bands such as DEINONYCHUS, ESOTERIC, and MY DYING BRIDE. If those bands frequently make their rounds in your player, take note, as MONOLITHE will be right up your alley.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/535v8v Transmission0 - Memory of a Dream
After two years Dutch five piece Transmission0 brings us the follow up of '0' entitled 'Memory of a Dream'. The atmospheric metal and hardcore band returns with a much lighter and more melodic album than the dark and heavy debut. Just like Isis or Cult of Luna it seems it is a natural path for this band. On the other hand you’ll get better structured songs but also a little bit a lack of heaviness and darkness, a tiny downside of this album.
'Memory of a Dream' is coloured up by the insane screams from Steve Austin from Today is the Day in "Damn Machines" and the warm vocals from Roel Donckers in "Token". Especially this last song is one of the outstanding tracks of this coherent Dutch masterpiece. Unfortunately the deforming effects on the guitars are a little bit gone now. These effects were a huge substantial of the sound on '0' and created that sick and miserable atmosphere. On 'Memory of a Dream' it looks like these guys look at the positive side of life.
Another highlight on this record is “Paracas”, listen to the repeating guitar riffs and drums on the end. It slowly enters your body and without notice you can’t get ride of the typical Transmission0 vibe. Same goes for “Dying Light”, it starts really quiet and minimal but it quickly turns into a combination of heavy riffs and lighter riffs. After four minutes only keyboards transfer the song forth to an epic end with screams of Michiel van der Avoird.
Awesome are also the creations made by bass player Dave van Beek. The front of the artwork is a drawing of an ocean full in movement. If you fold open the booklet a computer animated vague picture is visible in symmetry and also the rest of the artwork is made in this style. It perfectly visualizes the direction of the music of the only collective that makes post-core/metal in The Netherlands. If we look a little bit wider, they follow Cult of Luna and Callisto close as one of the best European bands in this genre.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7610755 - 11/08/07 11:34 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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om is the shit. i can sing "at giza" in full.
aperture on door the wave form school <-- love this line
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: FleaAccela]
#7615683 - 11/09/07 03:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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found Growing's 2005 album, His Return
megaupload is a pretty decent site. 500mb size limit and the link is good for months.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Clean]
#7616053 - 11/09/07 04:44 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've never compared anyone to Hendrix, but Colour Haze has his vibe down.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7618513 - 11/10/07 12:13 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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falkor187 said: ok, in trying to think of a faster way of posting all my music up here, i think ima make a torrent...post it on demonoid, and have it here for download, as of now i have 2 gigs of music zipped, thats just too much time through sendspace...
so hopefully you all have utorrent or something..
any updates?
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: beneath]
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falkor187 said: ok, in trying to think of a faster way of posting all my music up here, i think ima make a torrent...post it on demonoid, and have it here for download, as of now i have 2 gigs of music zipped, thats just too much time through sendspace...
so hopefully you all have utorrent or something..
any updates?
ami bump the shit out of this thread in a few days... you just wait.. this will be the new demonoid!
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7620472 - 11/10/07 10:22 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sorry for the lack of new updates; I've just moved house. Everything is finally sorted. Anyways, here's 2 new ones:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2869v0 Naked City - 1989 - Naked City
This is the first Naked City album. I'd say it's the best one, but then I'm biased — this is the first Zorn album I bought, back in 1996.
If They Might Be Giants hired the best jazz players in New York to make a heavy metal album, it would sound like this. (The major difference is the sense of humor. Zorn's sense of humor is more subtle than TMBGs.) From The Wire:
Zorn debuted Naked City on Nonesuch in 1989. He denied that it was a supergroup, citing The Golden Palominos as an example of why supergroups never really work. But as ad hoc groupings of musicians go this pretty much brought together the cream of the 80s NYC downtown set. Naked City marks out the group's territory: jump-cutting micro-collages of hardcore, Country, sleazy jazz, covers of John Barry and Ornette Coleman, brief abstract tussles — a whole city crammed into two or three minute bursts.
The album's poles are its finest moments and somehow sum up all that the group seemed to do best: a 'suite' of ultra-brief thrashes which still manage to jump genres two or three times in the space of a couple of bars, and a gorgeous rendering of Jerry Goldsmith's untouched theme from Chinatown, which emerges magically from a haze of free improvisation.
The cover is a famous photograph by Weegee. Some record stores carry the album with the back of the CD booklet as the cover: an illustration of a Japanese girl with a snake slithering through her face. Apparently, this is considered less disturbing than the photo of a man laying on the sidewalk with a bullet wound in his face.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0i4rqh Mr. Bungle - 1995 - Disco Volante
(This is one of my absolute favourites)
Disco Volante is, simply put, one of the best albums of the 90s. A friend of mine from college, who was much more into the "hard rock" scene than I was, came to visit me sometime in the mid-90s and played a tape of this album while we were driving somewhere, knowing that it would be right up my alley. It wasn't long before I had my own copy on CD.
Fortunately, when he "previewed" the album to me, he skipped the first track - a moronic heavy metal song about high school friends dying off. If that was the first track that I had heard, this review probably wouldn't exist. Fortunately, the rest of the album is nothing like that.
I have to take exception to Nick's statement that there are no catchy tunes or danceable rhythms. "Chemical Marriage", the back half of "Carry Stress in the Jaw", "Desert Search For Techno Allah" and "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" are all very catchy, as are other parts of the album. Overall the music is a strange blend of speed metal, jazz, electronica, goofy and usually incomprehensible vocals, klezmer, hockey rink organ and a ton of other elements. The blend works much better than one would imagine, creating something entirely new, energetic and enticing. You'll rarely see Mr. Bungle compared to other bands, but it seems like every new "hard-rock avant" band that comes along is described as Mr. Bungle mixed with some other band.
If prog fans need something to identify with, there's a lengthy, multi-part track called "The Bends" that attempts to musically depict someone falling out of a boat, having various underwater adventures and then returning to the surface with the bends (headphone listeners may want to turn down that ending). The band also has a sense of humor - be sure to read the lyrics to "Platypus" in the liner notes. And an occasional tendency to be disturbing - the lyrics to "After School Special" seem like another goof at first, but it's actually about an abused child.
Disco Volante is definitely better than the band's self-titled first album, which spends too much time trying to be offensive or bizarre and only has a couple decent tracks. Personally, I also like it better than their third release California, which replaces a lot of the avantness of Disco with a mutant blend of metal and Beach Boys. If you're at all into the heavier and more experimental ends of prog, you need Disco Volante.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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cool, thanks
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/fje4pw Nuclear Rabbit - 1993 - Vicuna
This collection of songs may [be similar to] Mr. Bungle, but Bungle pretty much [duplicated] Naked City. Not just in musical approach either - the flemmy guitar sound on "Quote, Unquote" emerged from NYC via John Zorn's Naked City. Bungle crafted themselves a nitch with their expanded, melodized take on John Zorn's chaotic vision. Nuclear Rabbit was unique for their indy ethic, challenging instrumentation (however sloppy, e.g. intro to 1st verse transition on "Subliminal Smurf"), and conventional song structures. My point is that breakthroughs in music (like Naked City and Bungle) do not destroy a band's credibility if they are affected by it, so long as the affected band gives a unique interpretation of the paradigm. NR played the same style as Mr. Bungle in a very different way, which is why I enjoy them so much.
(Not my review)
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7623760 - 11/11/07 09:46 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Does anyone have any Earthless?
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7632354 - 11/13/07 07:42 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm lookin for Earthless...
"What happened to the crunchy teeeeeooons maayaan?"
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7632607 - 11/13/07 08:49 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/uoleb7 Old Man Gloom - 2004 - Christmas
Old Man Gloom. The name alone doesn’t exactly have you predicting lightweight, easy on the ear songs about fluffy bunnies, leprechauns, pots o’ gold and rainbows, or even about how some chick drove you to daytime television, does it? It makes you think metal, which, for some of the time, ‘Christmas’ is. Some of the time…
Y’see, when you’re a band comprised of members of Cave In, Converge and Isis, the last thing you want to play all the time is metal. You’d much rather drone yourself out for a bit, or add a little acoustic guitar to throw listeners off your metal scent. Yeah, you’d do that. Only then you’d kick right back into riffs larger than Giant Haystacks’ weekly shopping budget and shatter your listeners’ teeth with volume so terrifying that your record, this record, should carry an R rating. For Isis frontman Aaron Turner’s gut-trembling vocals alone it deserves some kind of warning. He could scare the Candyman, that freaky clown from It, your mother-in-law and all the aliens from Aliens away with no more than a gentle sigh. No shit… is exactly what you’ll have in your body after 45 minutes in his company.
Turner’s not the only person taking a vocal turn on ‘Christmas’; on ‘Volcano’, Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson adds some words of wisdom that barely register (so, to be fair, they might not be wise at all). But be warned – turn the volume up to hear them and be prepared for pain, as Turner, and his gargantuan riffs, are waiting just a few minutes in, along with drums that sound like a nuclear war between gods. It’s all a far cry from how proceedings were opened: ‘Gift’ is just that, an opening track that breaks you in gently, its acoustic strums blinding you to what lies around the next bend, the appropriately named ‘Skullstorm’. Really, with a name like that do you need me to explain how it goes?
And so it progresses – maximum volume and raging metal is balanced skilfully with drone and ambience to create a record that is so much more than the mere sum of its considerably talented parts. To pigeonhole it as metal would be wrong; likewise to liken it to post-rock releases would be serving ‘Christmas’ an injustice. Basically, if you’ve read this far the chances are that you’re already either won over OR already know all about Old Man Gloom, so me deconstructing it note for note isn’t going to achieve anything, apart from deafness on my part. Last year’s ‘Christmas Eve...’ release – reprised here in an alternate version(s) – served as a mighty, appetite-whetting curtain-raiser; ‘Christmas’ confirms what fans of that release, and the three albums before it, knew all along – there are few bands with the genetic make up and base-level talent in alternative music circles to touch Old Man Gloom. Even when they're obviously dicking about they can wipe the floor with all but a handful of progressive-thinking metellers. So they’ve a stupid name? I don’t see you saying that to their faces.
If Isis’s forthcoming record betters this it’ll be the best metal - to use the term loosely - album of 2004. Do the math…
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7632613 - 11/13/07 08:51 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ok, first off, i have been think how to make this sharing of files easier ...so, ive decided to make my AIM account the new oink...
as of now i have all the good avantgarde stuff, zipped and ready to go. and what i was thinking is i will just zip all my zips, then have you guys IM me, and we transfer the file that way.
so, just PM me if you all are interested and i will respond with my AIM account then i will send you my ziped files, which as of now is 3 gigs..i estimate a time of 3-4 hors to d/l the files.
ok, but for now, enjoy my bands new updated version of the other demo i posted on here...its great for tripping! http://www.sendspace.com/file/w9wehp
download and enjoy!
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7633624 - 11/14/07 01:50 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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lol i hope this thread never ends it should become an offical one
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: thedudenj]
#7633642 - 11/14/07 01:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I hereby declare this thread officially awesome.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7634244 - 11/14/07 09:44 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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do you happen to have Joy Wants Eternity or From The Sky in your library?
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