EVERYBODY has one or two.
Each one of you loves some band that somebody hates.
SOME EXAMPLES
Strapping Young Lad
Dream Theater
Opeth
Tool
Fear Factory
The Mars Volta
The thing is, each one of those band has their own little pretentious aura, each one LOVES to wank. Petrucci taking the fucking cake with that one. But everybody likes their particular little band for a million reasons and hates yours for no reason in particular. I'm an Opeth SYL and Tool guy, the latter being my favorite band if I had to choose one.
The problem with these bands for everyday shmucks is that they are all, each memeber of each band, incredible and sometimes obscenely talented in one way or another. The issue with all this is basically that with this sort of talent comes some seriously headstrong nonsense from time to time. Ever listen to Opeth's watershed? It's got some weird stuff going on that a few years back those boys never owuld have pulled. Know why? They're big now. They can pull of whatever the fuck they want. Go listen to the end of bleak, do it! It's creative, and the story behind it is funny...but...
WHAT.
Yeah so, everybody hates your favorite band because they all think they're gods gift to fucking music, and for that fact alone, technical prowess and writing skill may eve be ignored entirely. Fuckin eh.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
What I'll be doing, then
Is reviewing or reflecting on albums of my choice, loosely based around the genre of metal. Yes I'll do deathcore, yes I'll show you things that truly aren't that heavy at all. But fuck you, I love music and I'll do as a I please.
The First album I wanna review is The Acacia Strain's Continent.
Genre:Deathcore, death metal
11 Tracks
The fourth studio album from these behemoths is absolutely, devastatingly hateful. Everything about this record is soeaked through and dripping with misanthropy and I absolutely love it. The atmosphere of the record is consistent, and very telltale of a band's maturing release. My point about that is that when a band first starts off, say..suicide silence-the sound is very scattered and the atmosphere is lost or blurred or simply not there. When a sophomore album rolls around, very often somewhere along the way a band begins to understand much better how to write and produce an album to have a powerful atmosphere without making 10 of the same song. The Acacia strain did this a long time ago, but have truly perfected it with this album. Sure you get lots of 1 0 tritone chuggy bullshit, but it's played and produced well enough that nobody in their right mind whould honestly care. The EMOTION is there, which is all music is really about. Vincent Bennet hates everybody. ANd he hates me, and you, and his mother, and everybody he knows. And he makes DAMN sure you know. The concept of this record has to do with a man finding himself alone on an island, his own continent, devoid of human filth. The whole album sounds more developed and focused than their third release, The Dead Walk. This is definitely something worth your time if you hate everybody as much as I do, or if you just like to bang your fucking head.
MEMORABLE QUOTES" I have found beauty in permanent exile" "I don't sing fucking love songs because there's nothing in this world for me to love. I want the world to have my rape baby so when it's born I can strangle it to death." "If I ruled the world, I'd destroy mankind. If I was king for a day, I'd make sure there was no fucking tomorrow. I'm disgusted by your beauty, I'm unimpressed by your status, this is my continent. This is my world." "and now the world is my fucking toilet" "I am the end of the world"
The First album I wanna review is The Acacia Strain's Continent.
Genre:Deathcore, death metal
11 Tracks
The fourth studio album from these behemoths is absolutely, devastatingly hateful. Everything about this record is soeaked through and dripping with misanthropy and I absolutely love it. The atmosphere of the record is consistent, and very telltale of a band's maturing release. My point about that is that when a band first starts off, say..suicide silence-the sound is very scattered and the atmosphere is lost or blurred or simply not there. When a sophomore album rolls around, very often somewhere along the way a band begins to understand much better how to write and produce an album to have a powerful atmosphere without making 10 of the same song. The Acacia strain did this a long time ago, but have truly perfected it with this album. Sure you get lots of 1 0 tritone chuggy bullshit, but it's played and produced well enough that nobody in their right mind whould honestly care. The EMOTION is there, which is all music is really about. Vincent Bennet hates everybody. ANd he hates me, and you, and his mother, and everybody he knows. And he makes DAMN sure you know. The concept of this record has to do with a man finding himself alone on an island, his own continent, devoid of human filth. The whole album sounds more developed and focused than their third release, The Dead Walk. This is definitely something worth your time if you hate everybody as much as I do, or if you just like to bang your fucking head.
MEMORABLE QUOTES" I have found beauty in permanent exile" "I don't sing fucking love songs because there's nothing in this world for me to love. I want the world to have my rape baby so when it's born I can strangle it to death." "If I ruled the world, I'd destroy mankind. If I was king for a day, I'd make sure there was no fucking tomorrow. I'm disgusted by your beauty, I'm unimpressed by your status, this is my continent. This is my world." "and now the world is my fucking toilet" "I am the end of the world"
HELLO
SO I've decided that I really enjoy reflecting on and reviewing music, albums, and the like. Essentially, instead of just ranting at you or someone you know individually, I'd make a blog and see what happens.
In just a minute I'll throw up my first review.
In just a minute I'll throw up my first review.
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