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Recently I've decided that my music collection needs an injection of heaviness. obviously a lot of stuff I like has heavy elements to it but thought I should try some purer stuff :) i want something bludgeoning and intense.
problem is, I really don't like metal. if heaviness was my only criteria obviously that would fit the bill perfectly. but the production often sucks, I hate those growling vocals.. just no.

I do like some of what could be called 'post-metal' types like Isis and Pelican. heavy psych like Bardo Pond or Comets on Fire also obviously fits the bill. I need more stuff like this, heavy but with some element of taste and class.
recently also bought an album by Jesu which is kind of drone metal and really enjoying it

another other ideas? what about these bands who I know have a reputation for heaviness- where to start?

Swans
Les Razilles Denudes
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What about Boris? Are you familiar with them?
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Part Chimp may suit your needs. Possibly Electric Wizard too, although the vocals might be too much for you i dunno.
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You might want to check out the Ancestors album, Of Sound Mind, as well.

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Some of my heavy favourites include:

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Their latest album is probably their most accessible and experimental, but it retains crushing amounts of heaviness. All their albums are worth visiting.

Earth - Earth 2: Extra Low Frequency Version
This is their heaviest effort. Starts with recognisable riffs and degenerates slowly into sonic ooze. The last track is a 30 minute sustained drone monster. Their more recent albums are heavy in terms of atmosphere rather than instrumentation, but are all wonderful.

Brain Donor - Love, Peace and Fuck
Julian Cope, Doggen and Kevlar indulging in their wildest heavy rock fantasies. Doggen runs rampant on guitar here.

Om - Pilgrimage / God is Good
Both are bass-driven and mantra-like in their heaviness.

Boris - Absolutego / Feedbacker
Two long single track albums that build and build and build. Wata plays some seriously mean guitar.

Sleep - Dopesmoker
A 65-minute paean to you-know-what. Bludgeoning riffs, endlessly repeated.
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sunray wrote:Part Chimp may suit your needs. Possibly Electric Wizard too, although the vocals might be too much for you i dunno.
I found Part Chimp to be limited - shouty and cross rather than with real direction. Electric Wizard are exceptionally heavy but the right areas are superb. The 'Supercoven ' EP (particularly track 2 'Burnout') is immense, as is the 'Let Us Prey' album which is particularly monolithic. Quite metallic but too many drugs to be just that.

Acid Mothers Temple 'Live In Japan' is very heavy but has the right direction.

Boris' 'Pink' and 'Smile' are good.

The above are all of their genre - long riffs, power chords, lots of dark... Boris aren't psychedelic but the others are. As indeed are The Heads - obvious candidates and both exceptionally heavy and really psychedelic too. Their 'At Last!' or Tilburg albums supply the necessary.

On the lo-fi front Birds of Maya and Purling Hiss are truly monstrous.

Bardo Pond are the last word for engine-oil hefty power so it's hard to get beyond the insane level of rumble they produce. Is that what you want - throbbing guitar noise? Or lots of distortion, or possibly just mania/aggression? Got loads of most of that stuff in this house if so...
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Definitely The Men. A few members here enjoyed their newest album. I also really love bands like Pissed Jeans (esp King of Jeans) and Fucked Up. These are all punk-based bands, so I don't know if that tickles your fancy or not.
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the last brmc album 'beat the devil's'. even that is a tad too heavy for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMl5DIHqEn4

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TheWarmth wrote:What about Boris? Are you familiar with them?
not familiar with them at all, but I've heard them mentioned before? where to start?
runcible wrote: is that what you want - throbbing guitar noise? Or lots of distortion, or possibly just mania/aggression
hmm it's hard to articulate, but I guess I'm leaning more towards the throbbing guitar noise/ heavy psychedlic side of things rather than aggression. punk-based stuff isn't really my sort of thing either

thanks for all the names so far, I've got a lot to get my teeth into!! I am vaguely familiar with some of them, in the live arena (ATP has it's uses!)- I saw Sunn but found them a bit gimmicky to be honest, and not as loud as I expected (although obviously up to the whims of the sound man), Om I really enjoyed- I could feel the super-deep bass going right through me. also saw The Melvins who were mega heavy.

just had a quick listen to The Men and Purling Hiss who are definitely what I'm after- I like that upfront, throbbing guitar sound. and I like the lo-fi production on the latter, like the tape has been saturated or something

stuff like Sleep and Electric Wizard are good but seem to still have too much metal in their DNA to really float my boat
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Regarding Boris, I'd recommend that you check out Pink and Smile, based on the description of what you're looking for. Smile is a bit more experimental and the Japanese version is quite different from the US/UK version. They have a lot of albums and I haven't heard them all. PM me and I can hook you up with some samples.
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I think you should try the Japanese bands Mainliner and High Rise, might well be what you're after if you want upfront, lo-fi noise. Or maybe LSD March who did an album with Bardo Pond called LSD Pond. Dunno if i'd class them as heavy though. Then again there's other bands mentioned that i wouldn't think were particularly heavy. :?
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Can i just throw Alasehir into the mix... ?

Kinda of a Bardo Pond offshoot/sideproject/whatever you want to call it but immensely heavy. Couple of cool videos up on Youtube for them including this first one which i just adore (nothing to do with the semi-naked belly dancer... honest!)

Sharing The Sacred (live footage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFcKzWi8jhs

Malta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz6bAC5rGuU&hd=1

Bone Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VYioE-Ubs

Again, if you want a sample of them, let me know...
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Sticking with Bardo Pond, if you don't have the two 'Hash Jar Tempo' albums they are essential. It is a Bardo Pond side project featuring the Kiwi, Roy Montgomery of Flying Saucer Attack. Serious guitar psych as heavy as the bong smoke it was conceived out of.

Pond also have another side project called 'Prairie Dog Flesh', which is worth investigating.
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redcloud wrote:Sticking with Bardo Pond, if you don't have the two 'Hash Jar Tempo' albums they are essential. It is a Bardo Pond side project featuring the Kiwi, Roy Montgomery of Flying Saucer Attack. Serious guitar psych as heavy as the bong smoke it was conceived out of.

Pond also have another side project called 'Prairie Dog Flesh', which is worth investigating.
Prairie Dog Flesh have a couple of really awesome tracks but I found the album disappointing on the whole. This one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmG0Hp7WYwk
..is pretty superb. That guitar sound is quite glorious - so controlled...

I didn't know Roy M was connected with FSA...? Those Hash Jar Temple albums are indeed excellent - ludicrously heavy at times.
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runcible wrote:
I didn't know Roy M was connected with FSA...? Those Hash Jar Temple albums are indeed excellent - ludicrously heavy at times.
Yes, he did an EP with them...not sure how much more he did but he was definitely jamming and experimenting with FSA as he eventually did with Bardo.

I agree about the Prairie Dog Flesh. Not played as much around here as Bardo or Hash Jar but there are some tracks such as 'Galactus', which are superb slabs of noise.
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Another notable late 90's New Zealand band worth checking out are Datura. I have their album 'Visions of the Celestial', which isn't too shabby. Ganja heavy, riff based, wah-wah drenched stoner grooves. Not sure if they released anything else but the dude behind this heavy stoner band also released a couple hippy sitar based trip out albums under the name of 'Lamp of the Universe', which are also quite good.

Datura: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr7TDJdb ... re=related

Lamp of the Universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPU552oZ ... re=related
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You might want to take a punt on the following
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Irresistibly crude and massively fucked-up authorised ‘bootleg’ release of this sociopathic garage/metal redux Swedish group live at Sonic Protest in full-on Hawkwind/Spacemen 3 worship mode. Released in a hand-numbered edition of only 300 copies with nada in terms of info, this is the most all-out raggedy and rocking document of this group, with rips through material like “Burning Hell” that combine alternately manic and deadpan vocals describing all sorts of psychotic internal scenarios while that amazing/wilting post-Cosey brass section just weep all over the tracks. Some of the more sludge-focussed material almost has a late-80s Japan underground/Minor feel to it – think early Kousokuya – but it’s the school of three chords = infinity that these guys hew closest to here, albeit with the kinda sonic presentation that lends them the break-out freedom that their studio albums only hint at, being comparatively monomaniacal exercises in single-braincell precision. Either way, yeah, this is pretty phenomenal. Highly recommended
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8sJjJ3b ... ata_player
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If you haven't already got it, and if you can find it, I highly recommend Scenes From The Second Storey by The God Machine.

Their second album, One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying, is also brilliant but I'd say start with SFTSS as it is slightly more accessible.

EDIT: Just checked and both albums have been rer-issued and are available through www.amazon.co.uk
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thanks for all the recommendations on this thread, it's made me investigate more stuff and much of it does sound like the sort of thing i'm looking for (if rather hard to get hold of!)

what is it with the Japanese and really extreme music? I thought they were meant to be quite a conservative people??
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angelsighs wrote:what is it with the Japanese and really extreme music? I thought they were meant to be quite a conservative people??
Man alive have you seen some of their extreme films? Or, God help us, extreme porn?! Scary stuff!
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angelsighs wrote:thanks for all the recommendations on this thread, it's made me investigate more stuff and much of it does sound like the sort of thing i'm looking for (if rather hard to get hold of!)

what is it with the Japanese and really extreme music? I thought they were meant to be quite a conservative people??
Phone VT and buy the latest live Les Rallizes Denudes 6xcd box-set. It's a series of gigs they did early 80's and is slightly less extreme to what they were like through the 70's, but no less effective. It hits the spot and would compliment any collection.
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runcible wrote:
angelsighs wrote:what is it with the Japanese and really extreme music? I thought they were meant to be quite a conservative people??
Man alive have you seen some of their extreme films? Or, God help us, extreme porn?! Scary stuff!
I'll gonna take your word on that!! :shock:
Shaun wrote:the latest live Les Rallizes Denudes 6xcd box-set.
I think 6CDs might be a bit too much to take in but I've put Heavier Than a Death in The Family on my to buy list which is now longer than my arm.

I've bought these two albums since this thread:

Earth- A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction
great stuff, although obviously repetitive by it's very nature. Ouroboros is Broken goes on a bit. I've got some of Earth's later stuff, this is very different, but with some underlying thread to it somewhere. the guitar tones are properly metal-esque but I love how it's so overdriven you can hear tones and sustain almost producing sounds of their own. and its sloowww and grinding. I don't have a problem with the drum machine either which I know some do.

Boris- Pink
this is just superb. it's pretty heavy stuff but they definitely know their psych too. the opening track has properly trippy guitar where the notes are bleeding into each other, love it. it sounds like a star imploding. from there it picks up and gets faster with sharper and more metal/punk tinged guitar tones. I understand they have heavier albums than this too (which is kind of their 'psychedelic' album) so will definitely be investigating further
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runcible wrote:
angelsighs wrote:what is it with the Japanese and really extreme music? I thought they were meant to be quite a conservative people??
Man alive have you seen some of their extreme films? Or, God help us, extreme porn?! Scary stuff!
a freind of mine scored the film for a japanese freind of his. some girl gets raped under a bridge then using transference puts the feelings into her boyfriend, blames him and smashes his head in- and that's decent japanese film level! the manga shit- fuck me...
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bunnyben wrote:
runcible wrote:
angelsighs wrote:what is it with the Japanese and really extreme music? I thought they were meant to be quite a conservative people??
Man alive have you seen some of their extreme films? Or, God help us, extreme porn?! Scary stuff!
a freind of mine scored the film for a japanese freind of his. some girl gets raped under a bridge then using transference puts the feelings into her boyfriend, blames him and smashes his head in- and that's decent japanese film level! the manga shit- fuck me...
Some of the Japanese, Korean and Chinese movies out there are fuckin brilliant!!! No taboos or pansying about... Sympathy For Mr Vengeance being one fav off the top of my head... Battle Royale being another... piss all over the offerings coming from Hollywood...
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Laz69 wrote:
bunnyben wrote:hen using transference puts the feelings into her boyfriend, blames him and smashes his head in- and that's decent japanese film level! the manga shit- fuck me...
Some of the Japanese, Korean and Chinese movies out there are fuckin brilliant!!! No taboos or pansying about... Sympathy For Mr Vengeance being one fav off the top of my head... Battle Royale being another... piss all over the offerings coming from Hollywood...
and the ring trilogy, dark water- the tartan films- not the shitty dullywood remakes
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bunnyben wrote:and the ring trilogy, dark water- the tartan films- not the shitty dullywood remakes
I know what you mean but (wait for it) I preferred the US remake of The Ring. I got bogged down in the original but thought the remake had a scarier edge. I think I am alone in that opinion. One funny thing when I watched that DVD though... There is a bit in the 'bonus material' where you can watch the death film itself, so I stuck it on. The second it finished my phone started ringing! Fuck me I jumped out of my seat! I answered cautiously 'he-llo..?' and it was our own Spzretent who said 'shit - are you OK?'...
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runcible wrote:
bunnyben wrote:and the ring trilogy, dark water- the tartan films- not the shitty dullywood remakes
I know what you mean but (wait for it) I preferred the US remake of The Ring. I got bogged down in the original but thought the remake had a scarier edge. I think I am alone in that opinion. One funny thing when I watched that DVD though... There is a bit in the 'bonus material' where you can watch the death film itself, so I stuck it on. The second it finished my phone started ringing! Fuck me I jumped out of my seat! I answered cautiously 'he-llo..?' and it was our own Spzretent who said 'shit - are you OK?'...

hahaha...
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runcible wrote:
bunnyben wrote:and the ring trilogy, dark water- the tartan films- not the shitty dullywood remakes
I know what you mean but (wait for it) I preferred the US remake of The Ring. I got bogged down in the original but thought the remake had a scarier edge. I think I am alone in that opinion. One funny thing when I watched that DVD though... There is a bit in the 'bonus material' where you can watch the death film itself, so I stuck it on. The second it finished my phone started ringing! Fuck me I jumped out of my seat! I answered cautiously 'he-llo..?' and it was our own Spzretent who said 'shit - are you OK?'...
i saw the us version forst and my mate went 'you liked that? dig this :wink: ' though i did enjoy the blonde girl in the us version. some remakes are better (tries to think of some) but generally if a film comes out i'll watch the original some exceptions (ie true grit) i'll wait to see the new one than the old one- purely cos of my feelings to that racist bastard mr wayne 8)

ps glad you survived :D
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I can't believe I didn't mention Monster Magnet! Forget everything after John McBain was sacked, but absolutely everything with him in the band is not only very heavy but it's all absolutely fucking brilliant.

You need the self-titled album, 'Spine of God' and 'Tab'. The perfect crossover of heavy grunge, acid rock and psych. Later they became formulaic stoner rock but with John McBain on lead guitar they remain one of the greatest heavy bands I can think of.

Spine of God is so packed full of drug references it's almost surprising the cover wasn't soaked in acid. Every song on it is outstanding and it's easily one of the best heavy albums I know. The self-titled has a few of the same songs but earlier and more raw versions from singles. Tab is scary - one 30+ minute epic grinder and 2 other monstrously magnificent tracks. Without Monster Magnet The Heads might not have existed. Seeing them live in the early 90s is one of my all time gig highlights as they were truly extraordinary.

And did anyone mention Acid Mothers Temple 'Live In Japan' album? That's ferocious but fantastic and actually captures the mayhem I witnessed live when I first saw them.
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I have heard the name Monster Magnet mentioned before, I might take a punt on Spine of God as it's only a couple of quid on amazon.

Acid Mothers Temple (great name) must have one of the largest and most confusing discographys ever. I do have one of their records- Chant from the Cosmic Inferno, which is one epic 50 minute track which moves from moments of ambience and bizarre chanting to balls out acid rock and back again. It's really great, the production is just spot on. the live album sounds good but its 25 quid!! so a bit out of my budget

I think I prefer the remake of the Ring as well. at the very least Naomi Watts is rather lovely and very watchable.
if i remember correctly, the DVD is meant to have a pretty cool feature. if you leave it on the menu screen, after a while it will make a phone ring in one of the surround sound channels behind you. the effect obviously hinges on a) you having the full surround sound set up and b) having the same sort of phone as in the film? it is pretty cool to think it may have scared someone shitless at some point though.
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See your PM's angelsighs...
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angelsighs wrote:
Shaun wrote:the latest live Les Rallizes Denudes 6xcd box-set.
I think 6CDs might be a bit too much to take in but I've put Heavier Than a Death in The Family on my to buy list.
While 6 discs might seem too much for anyone not familiar with LRD, this box-set is so good that after the first disc hits you head on you're grateful there is another 5 discs to plough through as loud as you dare, and at ones own leisure of course.

I'm going to have 2 or 3 spare copies of this in London so if anyone bumps in to me and would like the full box-set on cd/r somebody might be in luck.
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estonian Les Rallizes Denudes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bW9Lp_FBEs

but then again, nothing can beat rallizes'.
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thought of another heavy band that I like- The Telescopes. that first album (Taste) is heavy and angry as fuck but brilliant. I believe after that they never returned to that sound though.

any fans of Swans here? here they are pretty intense but hear differing things on where to start. some of what I've heard sounds a bit melodramatic too
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Shaun wrote:
angelsighs wrote:
Shaun wrote:the latest live Les Rallizes Denudes 6xcd box-set.
I think 6CDs might be a bit too much to take in but I've put Heavier Than a Death in The Family on my to buy list.
While 6 discs might seem too much for anyone not familiar with LRD, this box-set is so good that after the first disc hits you head on you're grateful there is another 5 discs to plough through as loud as you dare, and at ones own leisure of course.

I'm going to have 2 or 3 spare copies of this in London so if anyone bumps in to me and would like the full box-set on cd/r somebody might be in luck.
Dear Shaun,
I have been listening to your copy this weekend. And I will just say this is really amazing.
The sound quality might be the best of their stuff. The variety of the songs is very limited but each one of them sounds different, so it doesn’t bother me at all. Not too heavy or dark, and they have even pop aspects like disc2, Night Of The Assassins, FANTASTIQUE (is really fantastic!), The Night Collectors.
For me a stellar is Strong Out Deeper Than The Night Pt.2 on disc3. This reminds me of Can’s Soul Desert, like slowly losing your mind with simple hypnotic riff, but is obviously more chaotic on the guitar part which blows my mind (It’s a shame it fades out at the end).
How lucky I was to get the last one (It was very weird that in London you handed a Japanese a Japanese band album copy). Thank you so much!!!!!


Anyway, how about Eternal Tapestry? I quite like their two albums. The Invisible Landscape, kind of cheerful ("cheerful"? I don’t know if it’s a right word) psych like Magic Lantern, is my favorite. Their last album Beyond The 4th Door is also good. I found this one is kind of a slow burn type.
And recently I’ve been into The Psychic Paramount’s Live 2002 - The Franco-Italian Tour. Their former/temporal Japanese drummer Tatsuya Nakatani brought the unbelievable brutality on this live album. I’m sure that he scares the shit out of you.
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robotoilet wrote:
Shaun wrote:
Shaun wrote:the latest live Les Rallizes Denudes 6xcd box-set.
While 6 discs might seem too much for anyone not familiar with LRD, this box-set is so good that after the first disc hits you head on you're grateful there is another 5 discs to plough through as loud as you dare, and at ones own leisure of course.
I'm going to have 2 or 3 spare copies of this in London so if anyone bumps in to me and would like the full box-set on cd/r somebody might be in luck.
Dear Shaun,
I have been listening to your copy this weekend. And I will just say this is really amazing.
The sound quality might be the best of their stuff. The variety of the songs is very limited but each one of them sounds different, so it doesn’t bother me at all. Not too heavy or dark, and they have even pop aspects like disc2, Night Of The Assassins, FANTASTIQUE (is really fantastic!), The Night Collectors.
For me a stellar is Strong Out Deeper Than The Night Pt.2 on disc3. This reminds me of Can’s Soul Desert, like slowly losing your mind with simple hypnotic riff, but is obviously more chaotic on the guitar part which blows my mind (It’s a shame it fades out at the end)...
I second the above. A fantastic set - only gotten to the third disc but I'm loving every second. Love the wild, Martin Rev-from-hell vocals. And that insane guitar playing. Superb.

Shaun, thank you again.

Also, in mono yesterday spotted a couple of their CDs - Heavier Than A Death In The Family
(awesome title and sleeve! :shock: ) was one of them...
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BzaInSpace wrote:
I second the above. A fantastic set - only gotten to the third disc but I'm loving every second. Love the wild, Martin Rev-from-hell vocals. And that insane guitar playing. Superb.

Shaun, thank you again.

Also, in mono yesterday spotted a couple of their CDs - Heavier Than A Death In The Family
(awesome title and sleeve! :shock: ) was one of them...

Ditto!
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robotoilet wrote: And recently I’ve been into The Psychic Paramount’s Live 2002 - The Franco-Italian Tour. Their former/temporal Japanese drummer Tatsuya Nakatani brought the unbelievable brutality on this live album. I’m sure that he scares the shit out of you.
I may have to get hold of this.
the II album is one of the best discoveries I've made in a looong time. it was almost like it was like music i've always wanted to hear in my head, finally made real!!
and I hear the first album is actually heavier than II... 8)
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angelsighs wrote:
robotoilet wrote: And recently I’ve been into The Psychic Paramount’s Live 2002 - The Franco-Italian Tour. Their former/temporal Japanese drummer Tatsuya Nakatani brought the unbelievable brutality on this live album. I’m sure that he scares the shit out of you.
I may have to get hold of this.
the II album is one of the best discoveries I've made in a looong time. it was almost like it was like music i've always wanted to hear in my head, finally made real!!
and I hear the first album is actually heavier than II... 8)
Ho ho ho! Check your PM.
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I second the Pelican, Sunn O))), Earth and Boris mentions. Later day Isis maybe, Tool, The Locust, Hum...
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Ghost_World wrote:I second the Pelican, Sunn O))), Earth and Boris mentions. Later day Isis maybe, Tool, The Locust, Hum...
I've got one album apiece for Pelican (City of Echoes) and Isis (Oceanic).. I definitely prefer the Isis one so will definitely be investigating them further. there's something not quite right with the production on the Pelican album.. sounds a bit glossy.. whereas the Isis album sounds brilliant, only thing is I'm not that partial to the growling metal vocals..

Tool.. hmm i'm not sure about them..

any pointers about where to go next with these artists would be great

I'm also a big fan of the Mars Volta, the first two albums were stunning bits of heavy prog with definite strains of psych and spacerock too. the second half of Frances The Mute is an epic blow out that has more in common with Can than heavy metal
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