Post Rock/Post Metal/Math Rock Thread

Oh and hey Dim, how did you become a part of the Post-Rock team? I'd love to join that, Post/Experimental Metal, or Tech/Extreme but I don't know how...

Jake if you wanna be in a team you just gotta help out. Write bio's, help with album additions, have knowledge of the genre's and such things. If your really interested PM me and I could take you for consideration on the post rock team... since I'm really lacking members or help for that matter hehe. 

Edited by burritounit - June 20 2009 at 21:34

Well I wrote a bio for DEATHSPELL OMEGA and for NE OBLIVISCARIS. That said, It's true that I haven't written an extreme amount of reviews. I'd still be very interested! PM to be sent ASAP!

Dim, DSO is a hard band to "get". For example, Fas took me about 20 listens to appreciate. Now I just CRAVE that madness. Perseverance and patience is required for their enjoyment (and not in the way that post-rock requires it...) 

Edit: I just looked at their page and I think that they're receiving the reviews they deserve for the most part. Their first albums are absolutely horrible. It's old school black metal only played with worst musicianship, originality, and production than the classics. I gave all of their old releases either a 1 or a 2.


Edited by Jake Kobrin - June 20 2009 at 22:31

I'm so bad ass!! I'm on both teams... if anyone is interested in helping out with the post-rock team PM me. 

oh damn yes I do I haven't heard a good Post-Rock album for ages((( and I'm a bit too busy last 4-5 months to post/review regulary

Ugh, yeah I feel exactly the same way... And most of the bands that are forward thinking within post-rock aren't actually "post-rock" per say. I'd much rather be on the metal team but I'm just happy to be on what ever PA thing...

Dim wrote: In my opinion the two most creative, and forward thinking genres are Post metal and Black metal.

  I suppose i'm not the only one then     (although, i'd add RIO in there as well)

^They definitely are two of the most forward-thinking genres (although I think there are way fewer progressive/experimental black metal bands than post). However, there's also a lot going on in the indie pop/rock scene as well. Lots of great experimental bands these days. Those so-called "modern prog" bands are doing some neat stuff these days too. And of course there are some great innovative groups/people in the tech metal and electronic scenes.

Dim wrote: I'm interested... I just need to get off my virtual ass and get to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I wouldnt mind a certain title such as Eperimental/post metal expert, rather than prog metal team... but thats just a selfish and conceded desire!   Some times I feel that way about post rock though Harry. While I like traditional post rock as opposed to traitional prog/power metal, I feel a bunch of bands are doing the same thing. So I never know whether it's right to vote on a band that is bringing nothing new to the table and just going through the same build up tremolo + delay + distortion ropes. You feel me?

I get what you're saying, but at the end of the day I could sit through a Mogwai clone band if the music was good enough.
Whereas in general I just despise prog/power metal because I think the music is awful and horribly cheesy, innovative or not

I tend to think too, while we're at it, that "pushing forward" and "innovative" is somewhat subjective.
To one person a band can be really innovative, to another person it might come across as something they've heard before with some new frilly bits and nothing ultimately new, just a little different.

Personally, I don't think a band has to be innovative to make good music. I place creativity and that inspired feel to the proceedings well above innovation.
Sometimes I just like to hear a band improving and refining their style, even if they aren't innovating anymore.
Maybe Long Distance Calling aren't innovative, you may well be right Chris, but to me it sounds like the band do try new things within their own sound if not so much in the post rock sound as a whole and I think that reflected well in their last record, Avoid the Light, which sounds really inspired to me.
I know not everyone will agree, but I think the band really did strive to write and play the best sh*t they possibly could at the time without compromising and deliberately going for the broad audience appeal crap.


Edited by Petrovsk Mizinski - June 23 2009 at 01:51

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