Metal Reviews

Cryptopsy - The Pestilence That Walketh In Darkness (Psalm 91: 5-8)

Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies


love this shit.

A great album. Piecemaker owns all.

Yup that song is ownsome. Most of them are actually.

I think it's easiest to do a bit of every style, here's a little list of postrock to start with:
1. Godspeed You Black Emperor, you already know this, so it's not necessary to check out the bands that sound like them: Red Sparowes, A Silver Mount Zion, and A LOT more. This band covers a large part of the genre.
2. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw, this is what you get with a little bit of doom/drone added to the mix, again, there are more bands in this genre that you can check out afterwards, I think it's best to taste a little of everything first though.
3. 65DaysOfStatic - One Time For All Time, electronica is often used in post-rock, and some times, like in this and some other bands, in a manner you are unlikely to have encountered before. Highly twisted rythms with sick time signatures and beats that fly everywhere, normal drums played through them, recorded per sampling and added in different layers in explosive mixes again. Highly interesting, this was my favorite 2005 album. Against what you would expect, this album contains a huge lot of emotion, it reminded me of Draugar in a way, for that too created a sense of beauty in complete uglyness. The effect is much stronger in 65DoS anyways.
4. Aereogramme - Sleep And Release, this is a more conventional take on rock, but still with the weird intervention of post elements. Some parts will remind you of bands like Coldplay, while still remaining postrock. There is a lot of post-rock out there with more conventional songs and vocals, this being one of the many bands playing it.
5. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja, the more ambient take on post-rock, needs no further explaination I think.
6. Rumah Sakit - Obscured By Clowns, like Stefan said, the jazzy face of the genre
7. As The Poets Affirm - I Want To Tell My Heart To You. But I Cannot Say English, this here, because it's a more laid back and lounge style, with elements from lots of different genres. A lot of postrock borrows heavily from all kinds of different genres and I think I hadn't included something alike in the list.

Now there is a lot of music inbetween those, which contains some brilliant bands, but these are some of the extremes to make you understand the width and length of the genre.

Now here is some Hungarian stuff that I want you to hear:
8. Kátai Tamás - Erika Szobája, because it's simply beautiful and warm in a rare way. Don't be scared off by some of the songs, I assure you that the others are able to envoke the feeling of flying over widely streched mountains in the body of a bird.
9. Vágtázó Halottkémek, anything by them, I own all their albums and you can't go wrong with them. They are a rarity, sounds like a more experimental Hawkwind, and just posses the hypnotizing trancelike power of a raindance. Crazy howls are only one thing weird about the band, there is always more, such as the songstructures. A lot of the music is played directly from the heart and the live album shows a 17 minute long masterpiece of post-folk that is completely improvised. This band formed in 1977, and split up in 2000. Their lead singer, a famous astronomer, formed a new project though, and I'm anxiously awaiting their first output. When listening to The Galloping Coroners, also mind how some songs seem to collapse under their own speed, everything is building up like a huge crescendo to fall into chaos, and rise again, like it used more often in music from those countries. To illustrate their quallity, here's a pic that I think says enough of their artistic value:

I think it's easiest to do a bit of every style, here's a little list of postrock to start with:
1. Godspeed You Black Emperor, you already know this, so it's not necessary to check out the bands that sound like them: Red Sparowes, A Silver Mount Zion, and A LOT more. This band covers a large part of the genre.
2. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw, this is what you get with a little bit of doom/drone added to the mix, again, there are more bands in this genre that you can check out afterwards, I think it's best to taste a little of everything first though.
3. 65DaysOfStatic - One Time For All Time, electronica is often used in post-rock, and some times, like in this and some other bands, in a manner you are unlikely to have encountered before. Highly twisted rythms with sick time signatures and beats that fly everywhere, normal drums played through them, recorded per sampling and added in different layers in explosive mixes again. Highly interesting, this was my favorite 2005 album. Against what you would expect, this album contains a huge lot of emotion, it reminded me of Draugar in a way, for that too created a sense of beauty in complete uglyness. The effect is much stronger in 65DoS anyways.
4. Aereogramme - Sleep And Release, this is a more conventional take on rock, but still with the weird intervention of post elements. Some parts will remind you of bands like Coldplay, while still remaining postrock. There is a lot of post-rock out there with more conventional songs and vocals, this being one of the many bands playing it.
5. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja, the more ambient take on post-rock, needs no further explaination I think.
6. Rumah Sakit - Obscured By Clowns, like Stefan said, the jazzy face of the genre
7. As The Poets Affirm - I Want To Tell My Heart To You. But I Cannot Say English, this here, because it's a more laid back and lounge style, with elements from lots of different genres. A lot of postrock borrows heavily from all kinds of different genres and I think I hadn't included something alike in the list.

Now there is a lot of music inbetween those, which contains some brilliant bands, but these are some of the extremes to make you understand the width and length of the genre.

Now here is some Hungarian stuff that I want you to hear:
8. Kátai Tamás - Erika Szobája, because it's simply beautiful and warm in a rare way. Don't be scared off by some of the songs, I assure you that the others are able to envoke the feeling of flying over widely streched mountains in the body of a bird.
9. Vágtázó Halottkémek, anything by them, I own all their albums and you can't go wrong with them. They are a rarity, sounds like a more experimental Hawkwind, and just posses the hypnotizing trancelike power of a raindance. Crazy howls are only one thing weird about the band, there is always more, such as the songstructures. A lot of the music is played directly from the heart and the live album shows a 17 minute long masterpiece of post-folk that is completely improvised. This band formed in 1977, and split up in 2000. Their lead singer, a famous astronomer, formed a new project though, and I'm anxiously awaiting their first output. When listening to The Galloping Coroners, also mind how some songs seem to collapse under their own speed, everything is building up like a huge crescendo to fall into chaos, and rise again, like it used more often in music from those countries. To illustrate their quallity, here's a pic that I think says enough of their artistic value:

I think it's easiest to do a bit of every style, here's a little list of postrock to start with:
1. Godspeed You Black Emperor, you already know this, so it's not necessary to check out the bands that sound like them: Red Sparowes, A Silver Mount Zion, and A LOT more. This band covers a large part of the genre.
2. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw, this is what you get with a little bit of doom/drone added to the mix, again, there are more bands in this genre that you can check out afterwards, I think it's best to taste a little of everything first though.
3. 65DaysOfStatic - One Time For All Time, electronica is often used in post-rock, and some times, like in this and some other bands, in a manner you are unlikely to have encountered before. Highly twisted rythms with sick time signatures and beats that fly everywhere, normal drums played through them, recorded per sampling and added in different layers in explosive mixes again. Highly interesting, this was my favorite 2005 album. Against what you would expect, this album contains a huge lot of emotion, it reminded me of Draugar in a way, for that too created a sense of beauty in complete uglyness. The effect is much stronger in 65DoS anyways.
4. Aereogramme - Sleep And Release, this is a more conventional take on rock, but still with the weird intervention of post elements. Some parts will remind you of bands like Coldplay, while still remaining postrock. There is a lot of post-rock out there with more conventional songs and vocals, this being one of the many bands playing it.
5. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja, the more ambient take on post-rock, needs no further explaination I think.
6. Rumah Sakit - Obscured By Clowns, like Stefan said, the jazzy face of the genre
7. As The Poets Affirm - I Want To Tell My Heart To You. But I Cannot Say English, this here, because it's a more laid back and lounge style, with elements from lots of different genres. A lot of postrock borrows heavily from all kinds of different genres and I think I hadn't included something alike in the list.

Now there is a lot of music inbetween those, which contains some brilliant bands, but these are some of the extremes to make you understand the width and length of the genre.

Now here is some Hungarian stuff that I want you to hear:
8. Kátai Tamás - Erika Szobája, because it's simply beautiful and warm in a rare way. Don't be scared off by some of the songs, I assure you that the others are able to envoke the feeling of flying over widely streched mountains in the body of a bird.
9. Vágtázó Halottkémek, anything by them, I own all their albums and you can't go wrong with them. They are a rarity, sounds like a more experimental Hawkwind, and just posses the hypnotizing trancelike power of a raindance. Crazy howls are only one thing weird about the band, there is always more, such as the songstructures. A lot of the music is played directly from the heart and the live album shows a 17 minute long masterpiece of post-folk that is completely improvised. This band formed in 1977, and split up in 2000. Their lead singer, a famous astronomer, formed a new project though, and I'm anxiously awaiting their first output. When listening to The Galloping Coroners, also mind how some songs seem to collapse under their own speed, everything is building up like a huge crescendo to fall into chaos, and rise again, like it used more often in music from those countries. To illustrate their quallity, here's a pic that I think says enough of their artistic value:

Cryptopsy - The Pestilence That Walketh In Darkness (Psalm 91: 5-8 )

EDIT- What the crap? Stupid cool smiley.

Whatchoo talkin' bout, Misha?

np: Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses

damn, I'm so behind the curve. this absolutely rules, I love grind/death with these sort of deep bassy vocals.. normally grind puts me off because there's lots going on higher up in the register and the bass doesn't really support it.. but this is solid.

basically I should actually act on Dead Machine's reviews rather than reading them and thinking, "they sound good" and then going back to the doom..