Post Rock/Post Metal/Math Rock Thread

^ You should put that in the avant thread. Really has nothing to do with post rock or metal in the slightest.

Superb album though, one of my favorites in that genre of jazz metal.

Just got an album from Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia. I've heard great things, getting ready to be blown away!

Zappa88 wrote: Ooh, wow this is really good!

mmmm, yes, good stuff.

I finally picked up Sigur Ros's Heima DVD.

I'm just kind of previewing it now.... and this is easily THE best sounding, best looking concert DVD I have ever seen.

just wow.

keiser willhelm wrote: ^^ that good? ive always wanted to see post rock performed live, but have been kinda tentative to actually go. i cant help but picturing me being lulled to sleep. Im still kicking myself for this but i passed on seeing explosions in the sky in ann arbor a while back, which is only like 15 minutes from my house.

Oooh, bad call! 

I haven't seen EitS live, but I've heard it's pretty intense.  The best post-rock band I've seen live was Mono.  They put more into the music with their own bodies than any other band I've seen.  They could build a song from near silence all the way up until there were kids on the floor holding their ears.  I just closed my eyes and let the music take over at that point.

When I saw Isis in a small club in Richmond, the music was so loud (in a good way) that I was almost convinced it was lifting me off the ground.

Post rock is loud and violent when it wants to be, and usually really great to watch.

Sigur Ros uses a lot of visuals, and often have a projection screen across the front of the stage.

I don't think you'd be in any danger of falling asleep!

I know Russian Circles is on tour, They're playing a club in pittsburgh next weekend, and I'm totally going.  The tour is also going through Marquette and Detroit (I have no idea how close those are to ann arbor )

Yeah, I first saw Isis on the Tool tour and they were awesome, but I don't think the arena is their style.  They were much better in a place where their sound could shake the foundations.

Kayo Dot and Explosions are both coming around soon. I might head over to one or both.

moreitsythanyou wrote: Kayo Dot and Explosions are both coming around soon. I might head over to one or both.

seconded

Marquette almost as far away from me as georgia... tho its in the same state . 10 hours or so, so i think ill try to make it to the Detroit show, hopefully at Harpo's or a smaller venue like it.
But i think i might go to the show in cleaveland, or another Ohio show, as thats where i go to school


Edited by keiser willhelm - February 14 2008 at 00:33

sometimes the bars dont ask... if they do, get a fake! ive had one for about 3 years now and it comes in handy for more than just getting into bars to see concerts 

I heard.