Archive for October 21st, 2008
Last night’s concert was pretty rad
October 21st, 2008 • chatter
Tags: metal
We got there really early, which we meant to. It was a fun night overall. We hung out in line with two people from my Evolution and Creationism class before the doors opened. I was disappointed however because High on Fire did not play or show up. I couldn’t find anything on their site, Myspace or Opeth’s site or Myspace. They simply didn’t show up which I thought was very weird. Neither Baroness nor Opeth made any allusion to why they weren’t there either. That put a bit of a damper on the evening but at least Baroness got to play an hour long set, displaying all of their awesomeness. Opeth played for an hour and a half, ending the show (as always) on Demon of the Fall and got the pit really going. It was a great night overall. We managed to snap some photos for once because it seems security didn’t care.
I should be getting my SYNT CD/t-shirt soon, I can’t wait. The stuff I’ve heard is definitely a different direction than their previous two albums. I also picked up Baroness’s first two CDs last night and they’re fantastic. All that sludgy southern metal really shines through on their first two CDs.
Meh, I’ve got to go figure out why my VPN connection to work is screwing up.
Intervals
October 21st, 2008 • metal, music
Tags: music
Today, See You Next Tuesday‘s newest album Intervals is released. I’m waiting on my preorder+t-shirt to arrive but what I heard on their site and on Myspace is blistering. From their first demo that I received through Parasite, SYNT has really changed musically. The demo, Summer Sampler, was blistering in pace, must closer to slow powerviolence than it is the deathcore on their newest album. Parasite was something of a mixed bag for me. I enjoyed the remixed songs from the 2005 EP but some of the other tracks I didn’t find enjoyable but I did like the direction the band was going in, although I wish they would’ve stayed in that powerviolence/grind genre as it really worked for their insane speed and Bear’s insane vocals.
That said, Intervals should be an interesting mix of deathcore. I’m usually not a fan of deathcore (which is death metal and elements of grindcore, mixed) because I always feel the songs are far too long. After all, most of deathcore bands start out as grind bands, with songs that are extremely fast and extremely short. So when I’m listening to a 4 minute song that should be at least less than half that long, it gets really boring. I know most people will find something like that difficult to understand but once you listen to a lot of grind and powerviolence, song length is very important to the feel of the track and album. Summer Sampler, for example, was less than 5 minutes long and it was three tracks. I can’t even listen to it and smoke a cigarette without it repeating at least two songs. I’ve got albums with 20 or 30 tracks and they’re still under 30 minutes, some are less than 20. As you can imagine, it’s fast.
I want my preorder shipment to get here so I can start blasting this thing! And I’m eager to see the new t-shirt, which is a colored imprint of the album art — which is black and white.