Phoenix Fury Legdrop Posted January 12, 2005 Report Posted January 12, 2005 Ben Folds on February 12 at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN; 7:30 PM
Special K Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 Oh, holy shit, thank you Myxamatosis! I was going to Interpol anyway, but now I look and it's been announced that Blonde Redhead's opening up for them. Yes! Their last album was probably in my top 3 of last year. Of course, I expect them to focus more on their older stuff unless they plan to bring a clavinet up on stage. Either way, this made a great concert fucking awesome. 2/11 at the Paramount in seattle.
Nevermortal Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 Nile in Feb, Cryptopsy in March. Are you going to stay for King Diamond during the Nile show?
Use Your Illusion Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 I'm seeing Velvet Revolver next month. This will likely be my only chance to ever see Duff & Slash.
SinToxic Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 Kreator, April 3rd in NYC and this time i'll bring more blood.
Henry Spencer Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 Okay, it's official. I'll be at that Interpol show, too. We'll talk Radiohead. Yargh.
Guest Temet Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 The Shins, Feb 10. And The Black Keys sometime after that when they announce their Melbourne dates.
Guest Agent of Oblivion Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 Nile in Feb, Cryptopsy in March. Are you going to stay for King Diamond during the Nile show?
Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye Posted January 13, 2005 Report Posted January 13, 2005 My 25th birthday is going to be spent with Alberta black metal leaders Axis Of Advance and my brother's band in some shitty club in town revelling in the sweet science of mental murder. Agent, you truly must check out Axis, they are like nothing else.
tekcop Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 I'm thinking about seeing High on Fire in February.. I don't know too much about them, but we don't get a lot of metal shows here in Tennessee.
Guest Agent of Oblivion Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 Lately I'm finding Black Metal's a mostly-miss genre as far as my tastes are concerned. There's stuff I like same as anything else. Do they do anything extraordianary or do they just play black metal well?
Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye Posted January 14, 2005 Report Posted January 14, 2005 They ain't black metal in the same vein as Emperor or Immortal or Darkthrone. I'll a post a review of one of their earlier efforts. Basically the stuff that's said in this review comes to fruition in many ways on their new album. Landline 1999 Production: Distant but textured and rich. Review: Muscular power chord riffs weave melody into their powerful thrust cooperating with a characteristic style of percussion that breaks its even drive completely in fills usually in chunks of fractalized smaller size in which the playing is consistent until insufficient space remains and the phrase of percussion explodes in finality. Fast blasting, whispered guttural black metal vocals, and precise grindcore drumming at high speed complement the subtle sense of melody which fits behind otherwise chromatic and dark, entropy-ridden riff and song structure, supplanting its tonal motion with structure by hierarchical similarity. In the casual style of a death metal band Axis of Advance move between tempos varied from the moribund doompace to uptempo threshing with abrupt punctuations, emphasizing the melodic structure of accompanying guitar narrative. The listener is not forgotten with epic weaving of melody into landscapes of time and space agitated by furious technique and motion, using the forward motion of high energy music to allow themes a space to expand enough to be recognized, allowing numerous variants on riffs in structures bridging tonal spaces defined by families of riff motifs and allowing structural changes in tempo, tone location and direction; the resulting narrative orchestrates its events through linear music. Complexity and speed alone would have made this gratifying, but it joins the higher echelon of artists who can make in the postmodern style a stream of esoteric data which combines in a theory of existence expressed in music, with its depth of texture and inexhaustable mood and intensity variation. A furnace against heat death and despite its fairly primitive sound and aesthetic of delivery, this violent offering affirms the power of chaos over systematic processing. For that despite its membership in the more directly assaultive style of black metal, this release encodes a high degree of experience in its shock of sound redoubt. http://anus.com/metal/axisofadvance.html ----- Nowadays Black Metal is a mostly miss genre at the best of times, but there are a few soldiers who are providing worthwhile work that doesn't blindly subscribe to the scene and doesn't fall into the trap of resting on past accomplishments (Axis of Advance, Averse Sefira, Summoning) Modern Black Metal (post 2000) has become an almost all encompassing waste land anyway. Another act you might enjoy while I'm on the subject, that might not seem like your style is Ildjarn ( http://anus.com/metal/ildjarn.html ), particularly Det Frysend Nordariket and Hardangervidda 1
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