SR 18: Come share your stupid, terrible opinions

JJLehto wrote: Epignosis wrote: Best use of growling I've ever heard came from Mastodon and Between the Buried and Me. I do like Mastodon not so familiar with BTB&M I've been on an Opeth binge myself....and I think it works for them very well! I'll mess around, see if: 1- I can do it 2- Can make it fit with the music oh and if I can not ruin my voice

I bought The Great Misdirect on a good price at Best Buy last year...I was just curious if I could stomach them.

Forget stomaching them...I think their album is excellent!  Granted, I don't play it as often because it is not my thing, but I'll be damned if I wasn't impressed.

I have heard one Mastodon track, I really must check out more.

My school newspaper had a "Music Recommendations" thread, and one guy suggested Mastodon, saying Crack the Skye was his favorite album.

Epignosis wrote: JJLehto wrote: Epignosis wrote: Best use of growling I've ever heard came from Mastodon and Between the Buried and Me. I do like Mastodon not so familiar with BTB&M I've been on an Opeth binge myself....and I think it works for them very well! I'll mess around, see if: 1- I can do it 2- Can make it fit with the music oh and if I can not ruin my voice I bought The Great Misdirect on a good price at Best Buy last year...I was just curious if I could stomach them. Forget stomaching them...I think their album is excellent!  Granted, I don't play it as often because it is not my thing, but I'll be damned if I wasn't impressed.

Which is exactly why you need to get Colors eventually. It's my favorite album of all time and even better than TGM.

Their live DVD is quite good too. But as for you, JJ, you absolutely need to hear them. The two Robert and I mentioned are really good, and Alaska is really good too once you give it a few listens.

A Person wrote: I have heard one Mastodon track, I really must check out more.

OK. I pretty much go against ALL opinion of this site..
But I like their older metal stuff.
Their newer "proggy" stuff I just could not get into, despite many tries over time.
Maybe I will again sometime

Epignosis wrote: A Person wrote: I have heard one Mastodon track, I really must check out more. I have Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye.  Both are good, but damn Crack the Skye is a feast! See, I love melody and interesting chord progressions more than anything.  That latter album is loaded with both.

Hate to break it to you, but Leviathan is much better than CtS or Blood Mountain IMO. It's not quite as melodic, but I find 1) the instrumental breaks more interesting, 2) it sounds more original to my ears, and 3) it's a concept about Moby Dick dammit.

Any Colour You Like wrote: My university magazine did a gig review of Meshuggah once, I lol'd hard because the reviewer was obviously an indie-pop-pitchfork poser.

Did they happen to pick Chaosphere for their review?

Any Colour You Like wrote: horsewithteeth11 wrote: Any Colour You Like wrote: My university magazine did a gig review of Meshuggah once, I lol'd hard because the reviewer was obviously an indie-pop-pitchfork poser. Did they happen to pick Chaosphere for their review? It was a live gig, I didn't go unfortunately.

I missed the "gig" part of your first comment.

Speaking of metal, my next album has some "metal-like" excursions.  I'm really stepping out of my comfort zone some here.

Now not the EP...the EP is traditional symphonic rock with a lot of light passages. 

I hope I don't disappoint anyone, but I think I will doing quite a bit of that! 

Epignosis wrote: Speaking of metal, my next album has some "metal-like" excursions.  I'm really stepping out of my comfort zone some here. Now not the EP...the EP is traditional symphonic rock with a lot of light passages.  I hope I don't disappoint anyone, but I think I will doing quite a bit of that!

As long as it's good I don't mind. I do not listen to much symphonic anymore though.