Treeboy

I think the majority of black metal sounds like shit... big deal... everyone has opinions. 

This album seems to be getting people into black metal.

And rightfully so. It feels like My Bloody Valentine with more distortion and blast beats, as well as influences from post-rock that are incorporated nicely.

I was never too big on this band, but this song I like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXcc765GYY

They're like a more technical, less djenty version of Periphery, another band I never fell head over heels for.

Oh, and Monuments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGV1GVPmTwo

Rap ended in 2002 

no

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll9rB0jUbFc

2004's "Madvillainy" by the eponymous Madvillain duo of Madlib on production and MF DOOM rapping is my favorite hip hop album of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAoPBY_D4E

"good kid, m.A.A.d. city" is Kendrick Lamar's heartfelt testament to his hometown of Compton, and was released last year.

There's plenty of reasons to keep coming back to hip hop once you realize there are more rappers today than your Lil Waynes and Tygas and MGKs.

With that out of the way, two minor gripes that came to mind.

Why do people call hip hop "rap?" "Rap" is a verb. "To rap." That would be like calling rock music "strum."

And also, genres never die, despite the fact that they may not be prominent. There's still plenty of influence in today's music from disco and punk rock, two genres people love to say are dead. Just look at "Random Access Memories" and any hardcore band to ever exist.

I think metal where all the lyrics are screamed is terrible.

Harsh vocals can carry more emotion than clean vocals much of the time, which is why I come back to them so often. Also, when you know what's being said, you can find a lot of great lyrical bits and pieces from a lot of great songs, and even learn to decipher the vocals without reading the lyrics along with them.

Here's a lyric video to demonstrate my point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5wt2OOLOCg

The instrumentation can still be inaccessible, but at least you know some of what you're hearing.

Hmm... true. That logic would also make bands like Unleashed and Emperor viking metal as well. Actually, Quorthon started singing about vikings on Blood Fire Death.

Blood Fire Death's a black metal album predominantly. Much different from Hammerheart, but they're still called viking metal. If they were viking metal, wouldn't you want them to sound similar?

Have you listened to Bathory's album Hammerheart? It's considered to be the first Viking metal album and sounds much differnet than their previous albums.

It's a folk metal album, plain and simple. Quorthon sings about vikings, but that doesn't make it viking metal. By that logic, you could call Atilla "party metal" oh wait people do that already god dammit.

I'm not one for genre subdivision, but I don't think the "core" debate is where it gets craziest. To me, the most absurd genre name is "viking metal." It's a genre based on a lyrical theme rather than a musical one, which makes the entire "genre" fall flat.

Any genre that ends in "core" is terrible by virtue of its name alone. What the bloody hell is "mathcore" anyway? You don't need a new genre, just be a math nerd who plays music.

I think there are too many "core" "genres" that make them all look like shit, but they're not. Who the fuck cares what it's called anyway? It's all fucking music. At the end of the day, it should be the music that you look at, not what it's called.

Bro, AC/DC is extremely overrated. I never even liked them. 

My feelings on AC/DC in one convenient image.

While I'm here, I may as well say that Chuck Schuldiner gets too much praise. This ties back into the "worshiping the dead" thing I touched on a while ago, but people credit him with inventing death metal, which is insane; Possessed were around for a while before Death came into the picture, and Chuck credited Possessed with the creation of death metal.

THEY EVEN GAVE IT THE NAME, FOR GOD'S SAKE:

 

True art right there^

That's only my favorite album of all time. It speaks to me on such a deep level that I hadn't known about before I found Godspeed.

Anyway, I'm jamming on my favorite album of 2012 now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xTEsKaqmz4

And keep in mind this is only disc one. The second disc is another 55 minutes.

You can't tell me this track doesn't fuck your face off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDa7RwU0IFM

But anyways, the VoM song you posted was decent. The guitars were okay but the vocals were above average. Although, it's no where near as jazzy as Cynic. (That last part was just for giggles but I kind of was expecting something jazzy from a band named after a Cynic song.)

Don't hold a band like VoM up to the status of prog gods. You won't get what you're looking for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsBu-Ffjr9M

These two early Baroness EPs are some of their best material. "First" and "Second" are a little more aggressive than their later output, and I like That. Two great sludge releases.

Deathcore is really hit or miss for me. So far the best I've heard is Within the Ruins, Rings of Saturn was also pretty good but I prefer WtR. Other than that, I don't have much to say about it, other than that I prefer metalcore and grindcore. But that's just my two cents.

My favorite deathcore band for a long time was The Red Chord, after hearing PsyOpus humorously cover a song of theirs in a hidden track on "Our Puzzling Encounters Considered."

(this isn't the song they covered, because there's no HD uploads of it)

Now I'd have to say it's Veil of Maya. They do the technical thing way better than WtR (who I forgot to mention in the list of good tech-deathcore bands a few posts ago:

You know deep down that the only good technical deathcore band is Within the Ruins.

Yeah, add VoM to that too.

"[id]" may be my favorite deathcore album.

The latest jazz I was digging was "The Inflated Tear" by Roland Kirk. This guy could play multiple saxophones at the same time AND circular breathe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7rpJXAs1us

I think we can both agree that both bands have pretty awful lyrics though, right?

Oh dear god yes. WtR is like Five Finger Death Punch if - instead of being overly tough and insanely American - they were neckbeards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqGnBP3W5B8

I don't think that the band is the greatest thing to have ever happened to music ever, but I do think that they're among the best technical deathcore bands out there.

You know deep down that the only good technical deathcore band is Within the Ruins.

They fall victim to writing chugging breakdowns too, however, but at least it's 100% confirmed that they can actually play their music at full speed.

Just as I thought, this album is doing nothing for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzor-rGOkA

Having already heard "Embryonic Anomaly," I had low expectations for "Dingir." And once again, they were met. Why is this band writing br00tal breakdowns into their songs when their leads are so fast? Also the drums are triggered to shit again (though they sound better (really, the whole album has a better production quality)) and the new vocalist sounds like a Mitch Lucker ripoff.

3-4/10 would not recommend

Me and @@Twiliscael listened to Marillion's "Brave" album last night at the same time, and we were both thoroughly impressed with it.

It's got the sound of classic rock radio but on steroids or acid or something. I'd say this is for fans of Rush, the Eagles, and Pink Floyd just before Roger Waters left the group ("The Wall," etc.).

I like this song! :3

 

I think what I meant is that I don't really like screamo that much, but I mean I guess it really depends on how it's put. But love the song! 

KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Screamo is a very misused term, and I can't stand it. Bands like I Hate Myself (who you just heard), Envy, Circle Takes the Square, and Orchid are all seminal acts in the genre, and a good way to familiarize one's self with the genre.

Just remember, kids, if it has screaming in it, it's not always screamo.

-I like Punk Rock (not really Screamo though)

-I think screamo is pretty stupid (where's the actual song?)

Punk rock ≠ Screamo. Screamo came out of hardcore, and happens to be a genre I'm particularly fond of for it's emotion. As for the "where's the actual song" jab, don't try and tell me that this isn't a song.

Plugging one last band before bed. Their debut's listed as "name your price" on their Bandcamp...

 

Behold Maybe That's Why Humans Drink The Darkness That is Coffee. They're a super-experimental black/ambidjent band.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP12Y18RW7s

 

Also, how's that for a band logo?

Really nice find, man. I stray away from bands with unreadable logos a lot but this is a notable exception. It's great stuff.

Anyway, I'm going to attempt to finally listen to "RIITIIR" by Enslaved later today.

I'll nominate Roland Kirk's opus, "The Inflated Tear." This album demonstrates the ability that Kirk had in a really fun and enjoyable way. He makes me want to learn how to circular breathe and play multiple saxophones at once.

UR MOSHING

I delayed listening to this for six months and I have absolutely no goddamn clue why I didn't just put it on immediately after I found out about it.

Because a lot of popular bands are either lame or overshadow other bands that are much better. It's not that I hate anything that's popular, I like Pantera and Slayer but sometimes I feel like listening to stuff that is in the same genre but not as popular.

Pantera and Slayer are two of the most popular bands on the planet what are you on about

Anyway, in further defense of "Sunbather," the lyrics are what sold me.

I held my breath and drove through a maze of wealthy homes. I watched how green the trees were. I watched the steep walkways and the white fences. I gripped the wheel. I sweated against the leather. I watched the dogs twist through the wealthy garden. I watched you lay on a towel in grass that exceeded the height of your legs. I gazed into reflective eyes. I cried against an ocean of light.

Crippled by the cushion, I sank into sheets frozen by rose pedal toes. My back shivered for your pressed granite nails. Dishonest and ugly through the space in my teeth. Break bones down to yellow and crush gums into blood. The hardest part for the weak was stroking your fingers with rings full of teeth..

It's 5 A.M...and my heart flourishes at each passing moment.

Always and forever.

I damn near cried.

So they are conceited for having an opinion that's different from yours? Seems legit.

They're conceited for thinking popularity equals talent.

I direct you to this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_lP6RZ2Mg

Anyway, did I mention I listened to Morbid Angel for the first time recently?

Pretty solid early death metal.

Yeah but you guys act like anyone who listens to bands that are popular at all have inferior music taste.

I act like anyone listens to bands that are BAD have inferior music taste. The problem is, so many of them happen to be popular. I only take issue with people that listen to popular bands in any genre (good or otherwise) and claim to know everything about it.

Plus, there's probably a lot of people who think a lot of popular bands are better than a lot of unpopular bands.

Because they're conceited.

Plus everyone has different opinions on what's mediocre.

I'd say there's a general consensus on that issue.

So do you guys like base how superior your music tastes are by how underground what you listen to is? you guys act like you have to listen to the most underground music ever that hardly anyone knows so you can feel superior to everyone lol

It's not a superiority complex, it's the fact that so much popular music is so mediocre. The underground bands are where all the really good stuff comes out. There's a superior equivalent in the underground to every mediocre major label act.