What are you listening to right now??
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Have you every needed someone so bad - Def leppard
F''k''g hostile - Pantera
Bring your daughter...to the slaughter - Iron Maiden
F''k''g hostile - Pantera
Bring your daughter...to the slaughter - Iron Maiden
Dethklok - Laser Cannon Deth Sentence
Divine Heresy - Bringer of Plagues
Lamb of God - Reclamation and Devil in Gods country
Protest the Hero - Palms read and Sequoia throne
Amon Amarth - Embrace of the endless ocean
Austrian Death Machine - Screw you benny! and Get to the Chopper and rubber Baby Buggy bumper
Super cool.
Divine Heresy - Bringer of Plagues
Lamb of God - Reclamation and Devil in Gods country
Protest the Hero - Palms read and Sequoia throne
Amon Amarth - Embrace of the endless ocean
Austrian Death Machine - Screw you benny! and Get to the Chopper and rubber Baby Buggy bumper
Super cool.
one of the reasons i like BTA (people don't get it and call it crap)...
[SIZE=-1]Written by BloodIronBeer on October 22nd, 2007
I remember listening to the 2005 EP by Behold ... The Arctopus, and I'm not sure if I ever found it particularly attractive. Though I remember what the band was like - when you hear this band, you don't forget it.
To make as accurate an analogy as possible, it's like Mickey Mouse opened up a music theory book in Fantasia, and dumped out every term, every scale, every phrasing, every time signature, and every style, tossed a dozen of the most technical death and progressive metal albums you've ever heard on top of that, and gave it to Japan's top sushi chef to slice, dice, roll and cut as he see fit. And yes, in the magical world of Fantasia, that makes sense.
However, there is one hole in my analogy, and that is this: there is no doubt that I have a profound adoration of sushi. My feeling for this are a great deal harder to pin down.
In all seriousness, this is the most sporadic music my ears have ever been subject to. And practically speaking, this doesn't really fit many definitions of music in the first place.
I am not a fan of things mathy or technical. But technical death metal is one thing, this is a arctopus of a different color.
There are no vocals, no big deal, right? Right. Until you realize that there aren't riffs, there is zero discernable structure or parts, there is zero repetition of anything played, tempos come and go without even the slightest break between them. Then the absence of vocals contribute to this being an absolutely amorphous mess. Even to say this changes rhythms like the wind, wouldn't be accurate, because to establish a rhythm you have to play a set sequence, so the band can't really change rhythms if they never had one. It's more like a song-length sequence of randomly scattered notes. What's worse is the album actually crosses over into all out avant-garde and ambient at times, which as expected, holds the same lack of direction or form, with even less tonality.
There are some moment that are just awesome sounding, sometimes it's almost like weird doom metal, sometimes it's like free form jazz with heavily distorted electric guitars. But most of the time, it's just not so awesome. And it seldom even achieves something that we take for granted in 99.999% of music, and that is having a set feel, direction or emotion. It's just that random.
Being this unconventional would be great if they managed to make even 20 seconds of the music be memorable to me. Who would listen to this? Other than for novelty's sake, and that's the only reason I even investigated the album at all. That people actually would sit down and listen to this on a remotely regular basis is just as mind boggling and nonsensical as the music itself.
Conclusion: Hugely dynamic, and the zenith of erratic, unpredictable music, these guys show they have more than enough ideas to be a truly exceptional progressive metal band, but instead waste their time producing music to have a seizure to. With their level of sporadic unpredictability comes the complete lack of memorability. Please avoid this unless you are a huge tech head. And if you are - enjoy your sushi.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Written by BloodIronBeer on October 22nd, 2007
I remember listening to the 2005 EP by Behold ... The Arctopus, and I'm not sure if I ever found it particularly attractive. Though I remember what the band was like - when you hear this band, you don't forget it.
To make as accurate an analogy as possible, it's like Mickey Mouse opened up a music theory book in Fantasia, and dumped out every term, every scale, every phrasing, every time signature, and every style, tossed a dozen of the most technical death and progressive metal albums you've ever heard on top of that, and gave it to Japan's top sushi chef to slice, dice, roll and cut as he see fit. And yes, in the magical world of Fantasia, that makes sense.
However, there is one hole in my analogy, and that is this: there is no doubt that I have a profound adoration of sushi. My feeling for this are a great deal harder to pin down.
In all seriousness, this is the most sporadic music my ears have ever been subject to. And practically speaking, this doesn't really fit many definitions of music in the first place.
I am not a fan of things mathy or technical. But technical death metal is one thing, this is a arctopus of a different color.
There are no vocals, no big deal, right? Right. Until you realize that there aren't riffs, there is zero discernable structure or parts, there is zero repetition of anything played, tempos come and go without even the slightest break between them. Then the absence of vocals contribute to this being an absolutely amorphous mess. Even to say this changes rhythms like the wind, wouldn't be accurate, because to establish a rhythm you have to play a set sequence, so the band can't really change rhythms if they never had one. It's more like a song-length sequence of randomly scattered notes. What's worse is the album actually crosses over into all out avant-garde and ambient at times, which as expected, holds the same lack of direction or form, with even less tonality.
There are some moment that are just awesome sounding, sometimes it's almost like weird doom metal, sometimes it's like free form jazz with heavily distorted electric guitars. But most of the time, it's just not so awesome. And it seldom even achieves something that we take for granted in 99.999% of music, and that is having a set feel, direction or emotion. It's just that random.
Being this unconventional would be great if they managed to make even 20 seconds of the music be memorable to me. Who would listen to this? Other than for novelty's sake, and that's the only reason I even investigated the album at all. That people actually would sit down and listen to this on a remotely regular basis is just as mind boggling and nonsensical as the music itself.
Conclusion: Hugely dynamic, and the zenith of erratic, unpredictable music, these guys show they have more than enough ideas to be a truly exceptional progressive metal band, but instead waste their time producing music to have a seizure to. With their level of sporadic unpredictability comes the complete lack of memorability. Please avoid this unless you are a huge tech head. And if you are - enjoy your sushi.[/SIZE]
Rock of mages - Bang Camaro
I won't see you tonight, pt.2 - Avenged Sevenfold
Heaven is - Def Leppard
Vermillion (live) - Slipknot
I won't see you tonight, pt.2 - Avenged Sevenfold
Heaven is - Def Leppard
Vermillion (live) - Slipknot
