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Post by Barrow-wight aka MELLON on Dec 27, 2004 23:23:28 GMT
If your guess is that this thread is designed for PAULO, then you are RIGHT ! ;D
If you only look at this posted elsewhere :
Jana, I knew I was good for something! Also check out Testament, Overkill, Metal Church and SOD. Wow, I need to check my CD collection for further bands!!! Among the Living is a great album... also check out Spreading the Disease, State of Euphoria and Penikufesin. Good albums! Enjoy! Paulo 
... you know of what I speak. PAULO, you are eternally doomed to develop here a full list of Only Killers No Fillers recommendations.
I will follow your recom RE Spreading the Disease ... that I also already consulted with MAC (I hope he will show up here at some point ;D) and as for the others, well gimme little time, I will storm the Bontonland and occupy the "play posts" till I drop (and ruin my card accordingly). 
Paulo, the floor is yours ! ;D
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Post by Paulo on Dec 28, 2004 8:29:56 GMT
I look absolutely delicious in green!Thank you so much! Check soon for updates you reprobates!  Dr. Blast Highly |
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Post by Barrow-wight aka MELLON on Dec 30, 2004 18:22:21 GMT
Now, see Paulo ... this is exactly what shall go into your Expert' booth @ Dr. Blast .... ;D Btw... I have checked the net - the reviews are quite impressive, LMAO ... I will repost them at the Dr. Blast sction. In my CD player at this very moment is Sepultura - Nation
Today is the Day / Kiss the Pig reviews
From: www.metal-observer.com/TODAY IS THE DAY has released seven albums (including this one), but this is the first time I have been exposed to their violent assault on the senses. To be honest, this is one of those albums I dislike reviewing. It’s far from what I usually listen to, it consists of elements that are hard to describe and I have no idea of whether I’ll ever listen to it again or not. Still, there’s something oddly appealing about this release. Roughly said, TODAY IS THE DAY play a violent mix of Hardcore and Metal and by not letting themselves get tied to a single genre, they are letting their musical insanity live without boundaries. The first time I listened to this record, I perceived it as stressful and noisy, but after numerous listens I started to enjoy the madness. Steve Austin’s raging and energetic vocals might be a bit hard for some to swallow, but I find them quite fitting for TODAYS IS THE DAY’s musical expression. The album is also quite diverse, varying in intensity and speed. They even throw in some unexpected melody and groove here and there. Many Metalheads lose interest when they hear a band described as “Hardcore”, but I urge you to check this out, as it is innovative and exciting. Fans of DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN should get this without hesitating. A demanding, yet rewarding, listen. (Online September 9, 2004) Audun Selsvold From : www.disagreement.netAlthough I was rather fascinated by TITD's last album Sadness Will Prevail, it somehow proved inaccessible, running for two and a half hours and some of their most experimental material to date. With Kiss The Pig, TITD have released an album which only takes a quarter of the time to listen to, compared to the predecessor, and sincerely I feel relieved at that. Where there was a lot of meandering on the last album, the new one is much more focused, starting already with the hyper-blast-speed opener Why They Hate Us. Yes, this is the angriest I have ever heard the guys around mastermind Steve Austin. Most of songs combine these grind core elements with occasional sludgier parts, all played at a very high technical level. Although TITD use the same progressive angular guitar rhythm that can be found with crowd favourites like Dillinger Escape Plan, TITD add their very own sense of production, which again is sounding different from any other band I can think of. The general sound tends to be rather high-pitched, with Austin's anguished screaming vocals reminding occasional of grind death bands like Macabre. Few songs are longer than three minutes, there are even three atypical one-minute outbursts (Outland, Sympathy Junky, Train Train), although the album ends with the ten minutes plus epic Birthright which features everything TITD is made of and is a real rollercoaster of a song, before ending with soothing acoustic guitars, as if all the anger and venom before had never happened. It is very likely that with Kiss The Pig, TITD will be able to win back a lot of people who were alienated by their last album. This is a great piece of art, from one of the originators of a genre nowadays known by many names (math core, metalcore,...), but which originated with TITD in unruly noisecore combined with crazy metal and hardcore vibes. Not for the faint-hearted! From: shop.relapse.comKISS THE PIG takes the band's punishing, abrasive sound to its far opposite extreme. Easily the most hateful, destructive, and super-fast material TItD has ever composed, KISS THE PIG is a violent depiction of life in today's America. Real and uncensored, KISS THE PIG stares you right in the face, delivering agitated agro-metal filled with feelings and emotions so black, you'll want to die. _______ Btw: what's agro-metal , precioussss ?  ;D |
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Post by Paulo on Jan 3, 2005 10:54:16 GMT
Btw: what's agro-metal , precioussss ? ;D To destroy mankind and all that it stands for. To live my life the way I want to. To do what I believe is right. To devour enemies and celebrate life with friends. To never give up even though it hurts. To fight the blackness inside. To walk alone. To go beyond. To look within. To give yourself. To love and to hate. I do love the music! But the philosophy I can no longer stand by it! |
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Post by Paulo on Jan 3, 2005 10:56:27 GMT
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Post by Paulo on Jan 3, 2005 11:07:07 GMT
Unsane
New York City's Unsane assisted in pioneering a more aggressive, less studied version of noise rock, one that blended the scum/art industrial sturm und drang of Foetus, the Swans, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Sonic Youth with the decidedly more straightforward hardcore idiom favored by acts like Sick of It All. While developing the blueprint for noise-metal bands to follow, Unsane cut a remarkable swath through underground music, inspiring a devoted, cult-like following around the globe. As a power trio, Unsane relied upon a hammering, power-press rhythm section, a searing Telecaster howl, and distorted vocals that resembled nothing if not the sound of a man trapped in the New York Subway system.
Having met at Sarah Lawrence College in the late '80s, the original incarnation of Unsane — Chris Spencer (vocals, guitar), Pete Shore (bass), and Charles Ondras (drums) — crawled larvally out of the practice space in 1989 and began playing New York's seediest haunts. It was these graveyard slots at clubs like CBGB's where the band developed and honed their trademark sound and delivered the goods with due intensity and volume. Unsane piqued the interest of numerous small indie labels and began issuing a series of singles and EPs before recording their self-titled debut with Matador Records. Using the photo of a decapitated man lying across train tracks, Unsane's album cover set the tone for the admixture of seething aggression, naked fear, and barely controlled noise chaos contained within. But the band's devastating maelstrom contained more than enough tunefulness and rock propulsion to quite easily surpass its more affected Lower East Side peers.
During 1992, Unsane's daunting schedule was cut devastatingly short by the untimely drug overdose of drummer Charles Ondras. Former Swans and Foetus drummer Vinny Signorelli climbed aboard the swiftly moving train in the fall of 1992 and the band began composing its next album. In the interim, Matador compiled and issued a collection of Unsane's early singles and compilation tracks, appropriately titled Singles: 89-92. It is perhaps Unsane's defining moment. The following year found the band recording its first for Atlantic Records, Total Destruction, a menacing, dark collection of songs driven by Signorelli's hypnotic drumming and Spencer's man-pushed-to-the-edge vocals. More touring followed and Matador released the Peel Sessions disc almost concurrently with Total Destruction.
After being discharged from Atlantic in 1994, Unsane found both a new bass player in Dave Curran — who joined on tour while doing sound for the band — and a home for their next album, Scattered, Smothered, and Covered, on the independent noise rock label, Amphetamine Reptile Records. While maintaining the band's signature sound and volume, 1995's Scattered... showed the band opening their rhythmic approach, with most songs inhabiting a more rock-oriented 4/4 pattern, granting the album a more spacious and controlled feel. Scattered... also contained the unlikely MTV hit video for "Scrape," featuring a series of skateboard accidents intercut with footage of the band performing live. Created for 200 dollars, it was ironically named one of MTV's Ten Funniest Videos. The band toured relentlessly and managed to secure an opening slot with metal behemoths Slayer on one of their North American headlining tours. Shortly after, the trio made another label switch to Relapse Records and began constructing its final album, the ironically titled Occupational Hazard. While on a press tour in Europe only a month prior to the disc's release, Spencer was brutally attacked by street thugs and left for dead on the streets of Vienna, Austria. After emergency surgery, he returned to the touring arena. Though Unsane disbanded in 2000, for a decade they represented a harsh, aggressive, honest, and intelligent voice of New York's Lower East Side.
Biography by Patrick Kennedy
Dr. Blast recommends...
Unsane, release 1991
Scattered, Smothered & Covered, release 1995
Lambhouse, release 2003 (bonus DVD included) ;D
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