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So the new Mastodon leaked. I'm halfway through the album and so far it's been really disappointing. The drums are fine and certainly more engaging than in Crack The Skye, but the vocal and guitar melodies seem directionless and unappealing. It's less proggy and slightly heavier than Crack The Skye but almost all the songs lack any attention grabbing hooks or riffs. Overall the songwriting just doesn't sound very thought out, or perhaps even too thought out, as if they tried desperately not to sound like their last couple albums. Many of these guitar riffs are just collections of notes without any real impact on the listener. Edit: and they keep using the same loving sustained-note arpeggiated scales that they've been using since Remission. Sure it helps give them that 'Mastodon sound' but it's become really tired and boring by now. d0grent fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Sep 19, 2011 |
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I'm surprised at the reception this thread is having with the new Mastodon album, considering how much negative feedback I remember reading for Crack The Skye.
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Sep 21, 2011 02:11
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I tried my hardest to just straight up not listen to that collabortion, but I finally gave in to temptation, and Jesus. loving. Christ. You would think that with Lars being as terrible of a drummer as he is, he would at least be able to compensate with getting a decent sound to his drums. But no, his kick drum sounds like it has a sheet of paper stapled over it, and his snare sounds like a machine. He's also still off-time despite this being edited at least a few times already. And that's still the most skin deep criticism I can think of for the entire thing. I can't even be bothered to go further than that.
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Sep 24, 2011 20:52
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My friend saw them recently and told me that their stage act has seriously degraded since the death of their guitarist. He said it looked like they had spent all of their money and didn't have much of a budget for things like blood cannons and dinosaurs... Hopefully I'm wrong though because GWAR put on a great show last time I saw them.
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Oct 26, 2012 01:53
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Apparently Mastodon released a remastered version of Remission today. Has anyone heard it yet by chance?
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These guys just had an album produced by Kurt Ballou of Converge and it rules and I wish more people knew about this band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEZVFUMyiQ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoopkP5eEY
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Dec 12, 2016 06:27
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james hetfield is never worth listening to
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Dec 17, 2016 08:24
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I like how in his analogy he unwittingly admits to not bring able to read. Anyway I like blackened thrash and would like some more. I liked skeletonwitchs' first album but the rest sounded kind of uninspired. Any recommendations?
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Jan 3, 2017 21:25
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Oh dang I thought beyond the permafrost was their first album I forgot they had one before that. And I'm still listening through all your posts, I've never gotten this many recommendations at once, thanks guys.
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Jan 4, 2017 19:11
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Could anyone recommend me some really heavy punk that sits on the border between hard punk and metal? Anything with a great drummer or some rhythmic complexity is a plus.
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Nov 5, 2017 17:26
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hell yeah, more of this please
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Nov 5, 2017 19:52
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spotify has a playlist you can add called "release radar" that updates every week with new releases from all the bands you're following.
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Nov 7, 2017 00:48
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Hot Diggity! posted:The new La Armada album whips rear end and also is lefty thrash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9TM8NdGw6Y That's some tasty drumming. Any similar bands you'd recommend?
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Apr 8, 2018 16:52
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Too bad they couldn't replace the most boring Opeth riff ever written at the beginning.
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Apr 9, 2018 17:37
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for more context, this text was posted by Melissa   bascially proscriptor is a huge piece of poo poo lol
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Jul 21, 2020 04:49
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MrBling posted:here's some cool death metal https://draghkar.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-crossroads-of-infinity this rips, but man those guitars sure are hot in the low-mids
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Jul 27, 2020 21:59
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tote up a bags posted:Has anyone heard the new IGORRR? I don't know how I'd describe it but it's like if the Prince Of Persia soundtrack got some doom metal guitars and maybe a Commadore 64 sound chip added https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osqf4oIK0E8
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Aug 7, 2020 17:48
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sticklefifer posted:Holy fuckballs, Genghis Tron just announced they're recording a new album after a 12 year hiatus. Board Up the House was the poo poo. gently caress yeah and it's being produced by kurt ballou
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that album has an 18 minute song and it's pretty spectacular having bass and guitars trading off on solos for that long edit: I think this is my AOTY d0grent fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Nov 4, 2021 |
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