LGK's Hard & Heavy

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jerseydevil said:
See, therein lies the problem. Rock Radio is virtually nonexistent. And yeah, Avenged is about as good as you will hear when you can find one. And I don't hate As's music per se...I am tired of the formula of what I call OCTANE bands with the ridiculously unnecessary double bass drum thrash style and the pretty/ugly vocals, but I will say they probably do it better than most. At least they have one or two songs that won't make me immediately turn the channel. It's just that I think rock has suffered due to the intangibles. Avenged is one of the most calculated(and it's smart because it makes them a lot of $$$$$) bands but others like Nickelback, and any band that has a name like _ _ _ _ _the _ _ _ _ _ _ just take all the danger out of the whole thing. It's like new country(which is twanged out pop with Vegas like style) vs. old school country where you believed the songs because you could almost smell the whiskey and cigarettes. Everything is just so damned homogenized.
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Ever since the late 90s, whatever hard rock makes it on the radio in the US consists of bands whose singers all sound exactly the same. Every five years or so, the preferred vocal tone changes, and then everything sounds exactly like the new style.

I tend to enjoy bands that are far more popular in Euro than here. But it works for me - I pay $25 and stand 10 feet from the stage at the Grove.
 
Fellow prog-metal fans, REJOICE!!! NEW DEVIN TOWNSEND DROPS SOOOOOON!!!

 
I love Primus and am a huge fan, and I totally get what they're trying to do by reimagining the soundtrack to the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I can't say I feel a need to run out and buy this one.
 
JD have you seen any of Devin Townsend's stuff from Ziltoid The Omniscient? It's a crackup...kind of like Mars Attacks and Metal had an ugly baby. Ziltoid is an interdimensional overlord who comes to earth to harvest our coffee (the fuel with which he powers his time-bending hyperdrive). The full album can be found on YouTube for a listen: http://youtu.be/RUcmBI1D4lg

His new double album is half Ziltoid Part 2 and half serious Project stuff.

Get a load of Deathray from Z2!!

 
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FBJ said:
I love Primus and am a huge fan, and I totally get what they're trying to do by reimagining the soundtrack to the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I can't say I feel a need to run out and buy this one.
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Not only do you need to run out and buy it...you need to do it like this.



As for DT, they really love him in my Classic Rock mag, I know he is pretty prolific. Is that what you would recommend as far as starter material?
 
jerseydevil said:
As for DT, they really love him in my Classic Rock mag, I know he is pretty prolific. Is that what you would recommend as far as starter material?
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Starter material? Nah. I'd say begin with his Strapping Young Lad days, work up to his solo album Physicist (originally a collaboration with Jason Newsted of Metallica...they got pissed when they found out and put the kaibosh on it). Then check out Ziltoid. Step into his Devin Townsend Project material by picking up Awake! Pass on his albums Ki and Ghost...neither are much more than ambient sounds mostly, and definitely do not have a HevyDevy edge to them at all. Nor does the second disc of Epicloud (Epiclouder). I like those albums a lot, personally, but they're not metal.

Or just PM me your address and I'll burn it all on an MP3 DVD for you.

It isn't for everyone. If you're a real metal purist, you may not appreciate Townsend's knack for weaving threads of other genres into his music (while keeping it mostly heavy), but I think that's part of what makes his stuff so unique. He's a musician with very wide talent.

And besides, how can you not want to listen to an artists that takes himself as seriously as Townsend does??

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