Treeboy

Sorry, but the longest song is 639 years long and still being played in Halberstadt, Germany, on an automated organ. The performance ends in 2640. http://www.aslsp.org/de/home.html

Taking a break from my top 10 series to plug a bro and review some black metal. This review is gonna be short, because this release is only 11 minutes long and there's not a lot to talk about with music in this genre to begin with, since a lot of it tends to be simple (that's not a bad thing at all; simple music is good). Life Has No Meaning is a solo black metal project started by Djenty here on the forums in the vein of DSBM (that stands for "depressive suicidal black metal," in case you didn't know). As the name would imply, this demo has a very atmospheric, raw, and bleak approach. The guitar distortion is extremely brittle and hazy in the fashion of Burzum's "Filosofem" or any other very underproduced and raw black metal you can think of. The basslines are very ostinato and seem to loop endlessly into oblivion. There's not much to say about the instrumentation other than that it's simple and effective. That being said, the drum machine sounds rather amateur and preset. The kick drum and snare are especially lacking in presence, which I wouldn't mind if they didn't have much presence to begin with, but they start off very exposed, which throws the listener for a loop when they get buried a bit underneath the distortion of the guitars. Djenty has said he's working to get them to sound better, so the next time we hear anything from LHNM, it should be improved. This release shows a lot of potential for the Life Has No Meaning name, and if you're looking for some to-the-point, no-bullshit, and very dark black metal, this demo is available on Bandcamp for free. 1. Faced With My Own Demise 7/10 2. Without Reason 8/10 Overall: 7.5/10

So Palms let me down a bit. It started off great, but just got boring after a while. I liked it, but I had higher hopes for it. This screamo album from Barrow is the high point for the genre this year's, and it sounds great on vinyl too.

I always found stuff like this flashy and slightly irritating. 6/10. by the way nice shuggah quote ya got there

9.5/10. Botch rules so hard.

I had a very productive week of music recently. Listened to "Music Has the Right to Children," "Mezzanine," and the entire Death Grips discography AGAIN (among a whole lot of other stuff). While I thought "...Right to Children" and "Mezzanine" were great, I don't see them as the 5-star, ten-out-of-ten gems that everyone seems to claim they are. I'm probably hearing them out of context or just need to listen to them more. Both versions of "Exchange" are 10/10 though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sBPNGAt2tQ Horace Andy has one of the best vocals I've heard in a while. Oh and I listened to Autechre for the first time too

Well I'm back from northern California and ready to get back into the posting flow. I tend to get my prog on whenever I'm in planes. That being said, I had to sleep on the plane on the way back, so I put on the first three ISIS albums back to back. This one is still my favorite of theirs. WAIT SHIT I STILL HAVEN'T LISTENED TO PALMS YET *runs to TPB*

That's a really good one too; I just wish the acoustic guitars they featured on that one had a little more presence beyond hearing the strings being picked.

"Remission" is still their best work. Brann Dailor's drumming on this album is some of the best I've heard in my life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFtBjI03v4c Especially on "Ol'e Nessie" and "March of the Fire Ants."

"The Silent Circus" is better than those two albums combined, in my opinion. I prefer progressive BTBAM over straight-up metalcore BTBAM, but it's all good.

Don't underestimate the power of "The Silent Circus" though. There's something so raw and powerful about every song on here (even in its softer moments towards the middle) that I dig. If you're alienated by Lost Perfection, skip halfway through "Mordecai" and listen all the way up to "Ad a Dglgmut." It's amazing.

Haven't heard this album in a long time. It honestly doesn't get old, much like this band's entire discography (except "The Anatomy Of" because that was just pointless). I need to reassess which BTBAM album is my favorite because I honestly don't know anymore. Listened to "The Silent Circus" yesterday and that might take the cake, simply because it was the first BTBAM album I was exposed to and it's the reason I listen to metal.

Two awesome things I found recently. First, the newest album from Colin Marston (Behold... the Arctopus, Krallice, Gorguts, etc.) solo project Indricothere, simply titled "II." Great tech-death and progressive release. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6yMjAIf8I And another tech-death release, the new Fallujah EP, "Nomadic," which is fighting the new Uneven Structure EP for my top EP of the year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjyCb43f7tc

My dad recommended that I listen to "The Idiot" by Iggy Pop, and god damn was I blown away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM35lajwNww This is some evil music, and some of my favorite post-punk.

DON'T CALL THIS METAL, IT'S POST-BLACKENED INDUSTRIAL-CORE This is something I fall victim to a lot, but keep genres general. Sure, subgenres have their place, but getting into sub-subgenres is a bit ridiculous. Excuse me while I put all my progressive black metal and progressive death metal into one place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfz8EAFD8VM "I never thought I'd ever conquer my weakness 'Cause everybody knows that my weakness is you But the answer came this morning Ad you should be the first to hear What a simple little thing I have to do. I think I've found a way to live without you I think I've found a way I can get by I think I've found a way I can be happy, almost And all I have to do is die. I know everybody wonders Why drinking doesn't kill me And I myself at times have wondered why But drinking never gave me anything near That I needed or the nerve it took For me to say goodbye. I think I've found a way to live without you I think I've found a way I can get by I think I've found a way I can be happy, aw And all I have to do is die. I think I've found a way to live without you And all I have to do is die..." Fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tb74u1Rn-w I was listening to this as I was writing a review of it, but I accidentally pressed "back" and lost EVERYTHING. I don't feel like re-writing it all right now though; I already did one review today anyway.

It's called "As Slow as Possible" and there's a performance going on right now on an automated organ in Germany that started in 2001 and is planned to last until 2640. http://www.aslsp.org/

Incoming classical music. Steve Reich is one of those composers in the minimalist category, whose music may seem repetitive and simply made as a novelty. Pieces like "Piano Phase," "Pendulum Music," or "Four Organs" can get stale for an untrained ear. However, his evolution from this phase (no pun intended) in his career, he began to write works that were more fleshed out and had a lot more depth, like "Eight Lines," "Six Pianos," and what could be considered his best work, "Music for 18 Musicians." What we have here is an hour long piece with some extremely odd instrumentation. It requires multiple marimbas and xylophones, two clarinets, four female voices, various auxiliary instruments, and nine piano players. The piece is also based around an eleven-chord cycle, each chord being given their own section of the piece; this cycle is book-ended by two sections of "Pulses." This is where things get complicated to talk about, because these sections are so similar to each other, and yet they're also so incredibly unique. Just about the entire piece is built around sixteenth notes of varying lengths (mostly short) that provide a chordal background for a few sparse melodies that introduce themselves once in a while. As boring as that sounds, it's actually very engaging, as many of the pulses fade in and out, giving the piece some interesting dynamic qualities. Some of the sounds featured here have some very contrasting timbres; the bass clarinet's very sharp and keen tone together with these wordless and round female vocals, for example, or the marimbas together with the pianos. Reich was very careful in the instruments he chose and how many of each there would be. There's an astounding number of marimbas and pianos on stage, but they're all necessary to bringing out the harmonies and melodies found in every section. It's not quite enough to talk about what's contained in "Music for 18 Musicians;" it's much more interesting to discuss the emotions it brings out of the listener. For me, it's a sense of dreariness and majesty. When done right, this piece sounds alive and bigger than anything one can possibly imagine. It's flowing, it's monolithic, and it's one of the few pieces in instrumental music history that says so much by saying nothing at all. When I hear this, I get lost in it. I shut my eyes and let Reich's magnum opus take me wherever it may. 10/10 My personal favorite performance of this piece:

what the goddamn christ I refer the thread to two videos made by members of the music reviewing community that touch on the same relevant topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBhJZla-nlg If you like music and music-related rants, give these guys your support.

they're the best evr omg rip in peace mitch lucker ;__; Seriously, are people still bitching about Mitch (or Mitching as I've just realized it could be called)? He's dead. Fucking dead. Get over it. This video is crazy.