What Are U Listening To Right Now: Home Surgery Instructions
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Snaxocaster
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I wrote these guys off years ago as just some derivative metalcore stuff I had no interest in. People change, bands change, and I confess I dig the hell out of this. The solo is particularly fine.
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I almost dug that. Something didn't stick though, kenna quite place it.
The dissonant guitars at the beginning gave me hope that it might go gorgutsy/ulcertateish but it didn't get there.
Anyhow, it put me in the mood for this instead as a palate cleanser:
I haven't listened to it in a long-ish while. It is still strikingly good to me.
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Ah man, Job. Funny seeing that name pop up around here without it being me on a nostalgia trip but hell yeah, those dudes are old school DM nerds. First release was big time death/metalcore that defined the Myspace scene kid generation. Everything after that is really fucking solid DM.
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I almost dug that. Something didn't stick though, kenna quite place it.
The dissonant guitars at the beginning gave me hope that it might go gorgutsy/ulcertateish but it didn't get there.
Anyhow, it put me in the mood for this instead as a palate cleanser:
I haven't listened to it in a long-ish while. It is still strikingly good to me.
Too tonal/melodic? It doesn't go completely off into weirdness, though it lingers there enough for me to like it for the same reasons I enjoy Decapitated and the metal bits of old Opeth.
That being said, I've never spent much time with Deathspell Omega. I like what you've posted, though, so I probably should.
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Maybe it is too tonal? I guess in general though, my patience for metal has really dropped off over time.
It is kind of at the point i guess where i only like it if i can not figure out exactly how they are playing it or something.
For sure that is why i like the weirder Deathspell Omega stuff so much. It is like space music to me.
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I love the production styles this band consistently goes for. Brilliant.
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It helps to have a badass producer/engineer as your bassist. I note also that his bass seems to be tuned appropriately, an octave below the guitars. If you're going there, go the whole way, dammit, and rock that 20hz sub-octave E.
They tend to use a lot less gain than the usual fer uber-metal, as well. And on first (and second) listen, the drums sounded more natural to me here than they do on Colored Sands. Fuckin' great band- though nothing at all like one would expect from the name, save for the fact they fall into the vague general category of metal.
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I do really enjoy his current/recent lineup choices. Nice weird rock sounds.
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Mr. Deakin from Animal Collective's solo album finally came out:
And it's pretty fucking sick, between half of the songs on this and half of the songs on the full length the band themself recently released I got the one strong album I wanted and didn't really get.
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Saw these guys last night, they really are this intense in person. It was the most insane thing I've seen in a while. The drummer is like a bomb going off, like Mick Harris, only he plays like THIS.
I saw a bunch of other bands but this one stood above the rest to me.
Also it's kind of weird how Danny Lilker just happens to be at this gig full of underground bands because he happens to be in a trillion bands. His band kind of sucked sadly, it was just a bunch of white noise.
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Also it's kind of weird how Danny Lilker just happens to be at this gig full of underground bands because he happens to be in a trillion bands. His band kind of sucked sadly, it was just a bunch of white noise.
I saw them open for Carcass. The mix was so terrible I couldn't tell whether they sucked or not. So much compression on the snare you couldn't hear the snare... And his bass was the loudest thing in the mix. Yeah, a metal show with loud-ass bass guitar and no snare drum.
Carcass sounded damnfine, but they brought their own d00d.
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Unstrung wrote:
Also it's kind of weird how Danny Lilker just happens to be at this gig full of underground bands because he happens to be in a trillion bands. His band kind of sucked sadly, it was just a bunch of white noise.
I saw them open for Carcass. The mix was so terrible I couldn't tell whether they sucked or not. So much compression on the snare you couldn't hear the snare... And his bass was the loudest thing in the mix. Yeah, a metal show with loud-ass bass guitar and no snare drum.
Carcass sounded damnfine, but they brought their own d00d.
If it was Blurring playing, yeah that snare was inaudible during blasts. I think he had a very low snare tuning which did him no favours. He also has a rather wimpy looking floppy finger technique to his blast...
For the performance I saw it was the guitars that were loudest, and completely unintelligible.
They sound great on recording though! And from the description on their bandcamp, I'd say they hit a bullseye with me, regarding how I reacted to their set:
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You think it’s going to be okay, but you’re not totally sure. The room is dim, the walls a dirty white, half-ripped horror movie posters and water stains. It smells like cat piss and stale beer. You hope it passes you think it will pass it was just some super strong shit. You melt into a decrepit Barcalounger and clench your toes. The anxiety, the itch, the filth, the unwanted thoughts. Maybe you need to make some changes. Across the room a bunch of scruffy metal dudes chop up hash into bottle-toke sized turds and headbang congenially to a wicked miasma of blast-beats, raw, tortured vocals and angular, fast-as-fuck grind riffs.
This is Blurring.
Straight out of Rochester, NY: America’s answer to Newcastle, England. With some grindcore royalty to boot. Featuring Danny Lilker on bass (Anthrax, Brutal Truth, Nuclear Assault et al), and Erik Burke on drums (Lethargy, Sulaco, Nuclear Assault, Napalm Death et al) Blurring play a poisoned brand of USA grindcore for player haters. Chaotic, filthy, evil. This is some trve underground noise that transcends scenes, styles and fascist youth haircuts. It’s ugly music that perfectly encapsulates the ethos of underground metal: fast, vile and unrelenting.
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I note also that his bass seems to be tuned appropriately, an octave below the guitars. If you're going there, go the whole way, dammit, and rock that 20hz sub-octave E.
