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Sunn O))) & Boris (some of the Altar Album art, there's even more incriminating photos, but i can't find them online. i'll take pics of my LP and up them when i get home)
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to me this is fucking sweet, scary, and sexy. the fact that robots are creating the heaviest, most neurologically affecting, genre-defying, altered-state-of-consciousness-inducing music blows my mind and elates me on so many different levels.
the robots are here... and they make the best music.
the end is nigh, my friends. we've been bested by our two best creations: robots and metal.
so an old friend of mine hooked me up with a what.cd invite the other day and i haven't been this genuinely happy since i bought my bong a couple years ago. the day Oink's Pink Palace (the ONLY place i have EVER felt at home) got shut down was the day i was baptized a nihilist, and for the first time since that day, i've found myself able to smile when i'm sober.
so yeah, once i build up my ratio, i will be able to re-ascend to my thrown as the musical god of death, and will, ofcourse, rain down beautiful, deadly, sexy, illegal music upon your mortal souls.
I fucking love Boris, but they're the kinda band you have to be in a certain mood to listen to. They somehow blend drone metal with stoner-pop-j-rock beautifuly. I'm not sure how it comes together so well, but I don't question Japanese art, I just accept its brilliance and enjoy it.
I'm just going to post my favorite three albums for now, I don't feel like upping all of my stuff right now.
"The band plays an intense yet thoughtful crossblend of tech metal and post rock, often burgeoning on shifting time signatures and contradictory mellow guitar phrases. Completely instrumental, the band's focal point is in its unique crossbreed of frantic time signature evolution and mellifluous guitar passages."
All I have is Barriers and Passages, but I'm trying to get my hands on more of their material.
King Crimson was one of the first prog bands ever, and they're still one of the greatest band of all time.
I'm just gonna up my favorite albums for now. I'll prob put up my disco later (but it's like fucking 40 albums, and I don't feel like doing it all right now).
1981 Discipline I first discovered this album when I was 14 and reading a list of Danny Carey's favorite albums of all time. This album has never and will never get old. I recently picked this up on vinyl for $6 at a used record shop. DEEEcent.
This album is seriously some next level prog-tech stuff. The first track (The Power to Believe I: A Cappella) is one of the most beautiful and soothing intros ever, which is good because the next song, Level Five (the most fitting song name of all time) will literally boil your brain. Electrik is one of the trippiest songs I've ever heard and I'm pretty sure it's what self-transforming machine elves listen to when they dance.
This was King Crimson's first real studio album. It's widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential albums in the history of rock. I have been dying to learn the sexy sax part in 21st Century Schizoid Man. Epitaph is a beautiful marching ballad, and the title track is as epic as any song could possibly ever be.
Lateralus is one of my top 5 albums of all time. A lot of people say that it sounds better when the songs are rearranged in the Fibonacci Sequence order, but I'm not sure if I do. People say it flows better. I just think it's flow is more consistent, but I am a Tool snob and i have come to appreciate the way Tool creates art. They make it on their own terms, without any regard for the consumer (listener) whatsoever. Tool makes you work for it. You have to contemplate their music to a certain degree before you can fully appreciate it. I've come to love and respect that, and I think Lateralus is perfect just the way it is.
That being said, I still very much enjoy listening to the rearrangement. It's like listening to a whole different album.
pack a bong and enjoy the beauty of math in motion:
i'm pretty broke and i'm trying to get some money together so i can hang out with Lucy and hit the bars on my 21st in a couple weeks.
so i decided to try and sell some of my t-shirt collection. i don't have enough dresser space left (6 of my 8 drawers are full of band shirts)anyway, so i thought i would get rid of some of the shirts that i feel i can actually part with.
all of these shirts have been worn, but are in good condition and will be washed before they're sent to you. i'm not really looking to make mad bank on this. i'm honestly just trying to get $5 + shipping per shirt, so shoot me an e-mail if you're interested in any of them.
fashionisadeathmachine@gmail.com
BLOGSPOT FUCKING CLIPS THE SIDES OF PICTURES, BUT JUST CLICK ON THEM AND YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE THING.
He Is Legend - Small
Poison the Well - You Come Before You - Medium Brand New - Medium
Reel Big Fish - Small
Cursive - The Ugly Organ - Medium Brain Failure - Medium
Whole Wheat Bread - Small
Thursday - Full Collapse - Medium
Leftover Crack - Against U.S. Terrorism (World Trade is a Death Machine) - Large
The Good Life - Small
Poison the Well - RARE You Come Before You promo shirt - Youth Large Operation Ivy - Small
Into the Moat - (the swords look like they're in your belt. it's bamf) - Small
The Fall of Troy - (the logo is set to the right. 1/2 on front 1/2 on side) - Small
Leftover Crack - Kill Cops (i got this the last tour they had them) - Small
ALL 3 of these Threadless.com shirts are SIZE SMALL:
I have a really sweet small Streetlight Manifesto shirt but it has a black sharpie dot on the front (i was burning/writing on cds while i was drunk) that i'm gonna try and get off. If i do, I'll post it.
i know it's taken me almost two weeks to actually post this (i got too drunk to do it on saint patty's day, and i haven't been in a ska mood since), but here's my top 5 ska records.
so, today, saint patrick's day, is the first day in around 2 years that i am listening to ska of my own free will. i'm not really sure if it's because i started off the morning with irish coffee, the tossers, and flogging molly, or if it's because i'm actually happy. we'll see what tomorrow brings...
but yeah, i'm gonna post my favorite ska albums because if i don't do it now, i might not ever bee in the mood to do it again.
i'm working on this post at work, and i'll upload/complete it when i get home and start pounding the guinness at 3.
also, get ready to have your mind blown by the Fibonacci sequence in Tool's Lateralus.
and if i'm not too drunk i'm gonna upload my favorite boris records.
I now present to you "from the cornfields to the graveyards of Marshalltown, Iowa" my favorite album of all time: Modern Life Is War's Witness.
"What can we do when the war is all around? The veins are constricting. The pressure is coming down. Everyone knows we're living in a world we just can't trust. Left in the wind to die in the dust. So we spoke up. Crazy, ugly, illegitimate, never again. We are the symptom. We are the thorn in the side. They scream 'til it hurts. They can't sleep. I want to be one of them. We try. We bleed endless broken white lines."
I consider Witness to be the greatest hardcore album ever written. Someone once said in an interview with Jeff Eaton (MLIW's vocalist, and a personal hero of mine) that Witness was the album they had been waiting their whole life to hear. I most definitely echo this sentiment.
The greatest 10 minutes of my life was spent smoking a cigarette with Jeff Eaton, Brooks Strause (an acoustic solo artist, whom i also adore, and good friend of MLIW), and my friend Dave, discussing comic books and literature.
Listening to Witness is (and seeing MLIW live was) the closest thing I have to a religious experience. From the moment I hear the opening chords of "The Outsiders" until the final drum beat of "Hair Raising Accounts of Restless Ghosts" my heart is racing, my brain is burning, and my fists are clenched. When I hear Modern Life Is War it is almost as if I am transformed into something else against my will. Anyone who has seen me/pictures of me at an MLIW show (or who has seen Kevin, Dave, and I drunk enough to dare to summon the demons within us for the heretically sacrad dance of mosh) knows what I'm talking about. This band makes me feel something that no other band (and nothing else in life) can. I have never felt as connected to any person, place, or thing as I do to Witness.
Sadly, since MLIW broke up (2/18/08) I can't even bring myself to listen to this album unless I'm in a borderline-suicidal state of self loathing and despair. Listing to Witness, knowing that I will never hear a single song off it performed live again, brings the blade closer to my wrists than any other cataclysmic life event has or ever could.
MLIW live shows were the highlights of the past 3 years of my life. I would give ANYTHING to be able to see them just one more time. The worst week of my life, and the straw that broke the camel's back of my philosophical world view (solidified my nihilism), occurred in February of 2008. Oink.cd (the greatest file sharing community in history, and my personal fountain of art) was shut down by the U.S./U.K. government. A few days later MLIW broke up, and a few days after that I broke my bong.
Can you honestly tell me that you could believe in a god that would take the only 3 things that provide you with (something close to) happiness away from you over the course of 7 days?
Alright enough of my inhumanly gay worship of this band...
Here's my best attempt at a review of my favorite album of all time: Witness is a somewhat atypical hardcore record. Excluding "John and Jimmy" and "D.E.A.D.R.A.M.O.N.E.S." the album is mid-to-slow-tempo and the guitar work can best be described as dark, dissonant, and tragically haunting.
Jeff Eaton is my favorite vocalist of all time, and Witness is his finest work. Every lyric of this album is dripping with profound anger, anguish, and animosity towards the human condition. Every breath Jeff takes seems to be his last and the songs are so haunting that it might make your brain bleed out through your eyes. Eaton just doesn't bare his soul, he lights it on fire and then abandons it to slowly burn out as a pitiful display of the futility of human life.
To put it simply you will never hear a piece of music as profoundly emotional as Witness. I would bet my life (not that I value it) on it.
Enjoy
Wait... I take that back. Don't enjoy this album. Bleed it.
"...and we don't care anymore. I don't give a fuck 'cause I'm one of them. Our rebel hearts will turn restless ghosts. They can never truly kill us and we will never truly die."
Ascend is really, really, really fucking sweet. It's one of Greg Anderson's newer projects. It's somewhat ambient drone rock with some really nice old school groves.
Giant fucking rules. hard. The only thing that sucks is that they're not that popular (yet) and I haven't been able to get my hands on much of their material. I'm working on it and hopefully I'll be able to update with more stuff soon.
WeedEater pretty much sounds exactly how you'd think they would. Slow, heavy, sludgy, stoner rock. It's one of the guys from Bongzilla (who are also hysterically heavy and awesome, and whom, I will upload some material from asap) and some other dudes. I've only been able to get my hands on their latest album, God Luck and Good Speed, but I'll post more of their stuff once I get it.
Lair of the Minotaur is pretty cool. The vocalist can be a bit much at times, but the music is aggressive trash that brings the 80s back from the dead just to punch it in the face with some brass knuckles. I'll upload more of their disco as i get it.
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