> Voivod are another great band... I love every album with the exception of "Angel Rat."
Agreed.
> >Think I'll check out Gorguts.
> >NP - Gorguts, "Nostalgia," _Obscura_ (RealAudio soundbite on Amazon.com)
>
> So what did you think of the sample?
Enough to want to hear more, though clearly 30 second mono clips in crappy RA quality are a hard thing to base an opinion upon! Same holds true for the Candiria and Soulfly clips I checked out.
At this point, for the sake of the rest of the Zornlist, we should probably conduct any further posting on this thread privately.
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - the sounds of hammering in an adjacent apartment undergoing renovation... gah!
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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 14:31:00 -0500
From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: Meshuggah
Greg Smith wrote:
> A good place is actually the Downtown Music Gallery. There is a buy who works there along with Bruce (I think his name is Mike) that stocks specialty metal items in the shop and will order most stuff for you.
GAHHH!!! How the hell did I forget Emperor Mike? Must be because he's been pretty quiet on most recent DMG newsletters.
I'll go looking for the new Lethal Zone... it was recommended to me back when it was Lethal Wear but that location closed before I could check it out. Thanks for the other tips.
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - silence for the moment...
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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:14:58 -0800 (PST)
From: a rancid amoeba <rancid@best.com>
Subject: Re: Meshuggah
> While on the subject of metal, has anyone on the list heard Strapping Young Lad?
>
Hell yeah!! I twisted arms galore to get them to play live at the
radio station back when I was an MD (only live performance they've
ever done in the Bay Area!). It was mind blowingly amazing...it
didn't get started until really late and ended up going over into the
next DJs show which was a hip-hop show which of course had a whole
posse along. The hip-hop guys, who were usually pretty indifferent
to non-hip-hop, were blown away and kept giving SYL props on the air.
For those not familiar with them... if you thought of what would really
*be* "heavy metal", this is it. It's not particularly complicated but
it is insanely dense and never lets up. I've listened to their first
album _Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing_ a jillion times and I continue
to pick up on things buried in the mix that I'd missed on previous
listenings. It's the sort of music for when you're really really really
really pissed.
There's a been a ton of line-up changes since the first album and
Devin (who's the brainchild behind SYL) was hospitalized about a year
ago for fairly severe bipolar disorder and is now on medication so
I don't think their live shows/albums will ever compare.
When I interviewed Devin a couple of years ago he told me about
another project he was working on called Hell. He referred to one
part of their previous songs that was a "wall of sound" and said
that Hell is "that wall for 45 minutes, and it's slow and there's
really big distorted loops and techno drums and shit but distorted
to horseshit. And no guitar, four basses and just a wall of shit. ...I
want to make the fuckin' heaviest record that I could possibly ever
make with no melody. If there's a melody it's got to be a horrible
melody and I just want to make a wall of shit."
It was supposed to come out on his label, Hevy Devy Records, but I've