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Goat · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:14 pm

The Mars Volta have split up.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:45 pm

A 12 min Jacob Bannon documentary/interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... eLgGw5BGqA

A little melodramatic, but kinda pretty. I just love his art.

noodles · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:29 pm

Goat wrote:

The Mars Volta have split up.

I heard :-(

traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:40 am

Leviathan covering Black Flag's My War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... j-wE0Mg0GA

traptunderice · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:24 am

Dio + Malmsteem covering Aerosmith's Dream On: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaycOK66 ... r_embedded

Dio literally is God.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:32 am

Mike Patton solo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsXRiV6yo4

traptunderice · **Posted:** Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:02 pm

Sebastian Bach on Ricki Lake defending weed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT2R08sump8

Sebastian Bach cracks me up no matter what he is doing, whether it is Trailer Park Boys or Gilmore Girls or talking shit about weed.

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:01 am

That hair!

traptunderice · **Posted:** Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:00 pm

TUI's Justice Tripp on the value of the squat rack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLtwoYmtjJw

Around the three minute mark or so he was killing me with the jokes.

falconpaawnch · **Posted:** Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:00 pm

Slough Feg fucking rules. I feel like this statement hasn't been said in verbatim on this site enough.

North From Here · **Posted:** Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:21 am

falconpaawnch wrote:

Slough Feg fucking rules. I feel like this statement hasn't been said in verbatim on this site enough.

Really? Oh you haven't been here very long.

noodles · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:38 am

http://nyulocal.com/entertainment/2013/ ... can-metal/

Quote:

That’s where KEN Mode comes in. Last month, their new album’s first single received a “Best New Track” tag from Pitchfork, and like most albums whose first single gets named “Best New Track,” Entrench will most likely break the 8.0 mark when they get around to reviewing it. Even though the band has been releasing albums for seven years, 2013 is this first time they’ve showed up on Pitchfork.

people have odd ways of using their time

traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:24 am

noodles wrote:

http://nyulocal.com/entertainment/2013/03/14/ken-mode-and-the-brooklynization-of-north-american-metal/

Quote:

That’s where KEN Mode comes in. Last month, their new album’s first single received a “Best New Track” tag from Pitchfork, and like most albums whose first single gets named “Best New Track,” Entrench will most likely break the 8.0 mark when they get around to reviewing it. Even though the band has been releasing albums for seven years, 2013 is this first time they’ve showed up on Pitchfork.

people have odd ways of using their time

My eyes hurt from rolling them so much.

North From Here · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:31 am

The article annoyed me in about seven different ways.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:59 am

In terms of a more substantive critique, the article, which seems to be critical of hipsters, pulls a hipster move when it points to "OMFG! KEN Mode is being discussed in a more 'mainstream' news source". And USBM doesn't have shitty production; Panopticon is being produced by Colin Marston these days and sounds clean compared to his early stuff but black metal in general. The equation of lo-fi hipsters loving black metal in its original form was rather awkward. And basically all drone metal ever was made for hipsters in case you didn't know.

North From Here · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 5:48 am

traptunderice wrote:

In terms of a more substantive critique, the article, which seems to be critical of hipsters, pulls a hipster move when it points to "OMFG! KEN Mode is being discussed in a more 'mainstream' news source". And USBM doesn't have shitty production; Panopticon is being produced by Colin Marston these days and sounds clean compared to his early stuff but black metal in general. The equation of lo-fi hipsters loving black metal in its original form was rather awkward. And basically all drone metal ever was made for hipsters in case you didn't know.

That is four different ways, good job. That cartoon: does anyone really buy that Europe versus NA stereotype? Surely not anyone that bothers to really delve into the sounds on both sides of the pond.
And Thomas Kovach seems like a total blowhard, but he is also a cherrypicked misrepresentation of a viewpoint.
Oh I needed one other annoying thing: the metal elitist's facebook link's front banner. Though to be fair, the guy running that site actually recommends Cobalt, something I wouldn't have expected.

Edit: Also I assume the guy referencing USBM's shitty production was pointing to older stuff like Von, Xasthur, early Leviathan, and Judas Iscariot. However, I agree with you that it seems really odd to identify with that American black metal now.

"Any fan of lo-fi recording (a hallmark of a great deal of indie rock) will love black metal."

This quote just merits special mention again. I can't wrap my head around it. Trying too hard to be inclusive with music, I guess.

noodles · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:07 am

I do kind of think the non-indie bands that catch on in the indie scene is an interesting phenomenon. Why Arvo Part rather than Prokofiev? Why Wolves in the Throne Room rather than Enslaved? Why Ornette Coleman rather than Jackie McClean? There's something more "Neutral Milk Hotel" about all three of the former musics, but I can't put my finger on it.

WHY.

anyways yeah that article seemed to be making a point that's at least 5 years old in the most awkward way possible by hiding behind other peoples' words, singling out KEN Mode, and analyzing Pitchfork's ratings.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:27 pm

North From Here wrote:

Edit: Also I assume the guy referencing USBM's shitty production was pointing to older stuff like Von, Xasthur, early Leviathan, and Judas Iscariot. However, I agree with you that it seems really odd to identify with that American black metal now.

Oh, that would make sense. But definitely not bands that are hipster-friendly, I'd imagine.

Quote:

"Any fan of lo-fi recording (a hallmark of a great deal of indie rock) will love black metal."

This quote just merits special mention again. I can't wrap my head around it.

Indeed. I can't imagine a hipster liking a band solely for their lo-fi production. I imagine these consumers looking for something catchy and digestible, albeit they want that surplus extra that makes it hip and hence the lo-fi production. Because without that it would just be on the radio. Am I operating with too stereotypical of a definition.

@noodles: I only know WITTR out of that lot, but if I had to put forth some kind of analysis. WITTR over Enslaved makes sense due to its specific story, but also its themes. Enslaved is a good comparison insofar as they are digestible in a way that Xasthur obv isn't especially for NPR or Pitchfork readers. WITTR is pretty in a way and Enslaved is catchy in a way. WITTR have that goofy story of living on a commune while also being environmentalist hippies, which for better or worse is a good selling point to random folks on NPR I'd think. I really don't think it is anything "Neutral Milk Hotel" about them, as much as they make pretty music about culturally relevant things.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:03 pm

Not a horrible list of thrash albums on what seems like an awful site: http://whatculture.com/music/10-greates ... time.php/2

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:17 pm

It has Alice in Hell, it's a win.

Slayers Reign in Blood at #1 was a surprise. Not.

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