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    Rush left off.
    Whatcha talkin' 'bout, Willis? Rush is still around to this day. They've stood the test of time longer than Led Zeppelin did. They did a new album in 2012 called Clockwork Angels and then toured for it in 2013.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KC View Post
    Yeah but idk technical skill is only half of it.
    I agree!

    Look at the best punk...Johnny Ramone only learned to play guitar at the age of 24 and they put out their first album two years later. He was no guitar genius, but I'd rather listen to him and Tommy's awkward drumming and DeeDee's slovenly bass playing over a ton of the most technically accomplished musicians out there.

    It's rock 'n' roll, man! You only have to be close enough, not perfect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrassrootsConservative View Post
    Whatcha talkin' 'bout, Willis? Rush is still around to this day. They've stood the test of time longer than Led Zeppelin did. They did a new album in 2012 called Clockwork Angels and then toured for it in 2013.
    I mean no disrespect towards Rush, but they don't have the creative energy they had in the 70s and early 80s, and that 80s period when they had a keyboard and sounded New Wave...jeez!!!!

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    I agree with that, but they certainly haven't lost their roots in the same way that lots of other guys have, like Metallica and ACDC and all those bands still trying to make it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GrassrootsConservative View Post
    But, have you listened to some of the other stuff I've been posting? There's a whole new wave of ambient metal popping up that's just as brutal but not nearly as abrasive and invasive on the ears. I highly recommend you go back a few pages to where I posted Abruptum's Gehennae Perpetuae Cruciatus if you haven't yet. The distorted and endlessly layered violins whirling into oblivion just outside the foreground creates such perfect atmosphere when coupled with the thunderous percussion. There's not much going on, but that's kind of the point. It's true anti-music, there's no catchy rhythm to be found or get lodged in your head. Just disturbing. I know you once thanked a Sunn O))) post of mine, if you did that because of the music and not the dumb joke I made then this type of music is for you. It's disturbing minimalist noise and somehow I can't get enough of it.



    Can you expand on this? What's the other half? Or 50%, if it's not just one part you consider to be "the other half"?
    Sunn O))) is fantastic. I think we've talked before about drone. Earth and the Angelic Process are also worth a listen if you get the chance.



    I keep an open mind when it comes to most music, but what I meant by my comment about technical skill only being half of it is that it's simply not enough for an artist or band to wow you with impressive licks if you don't feel any different while you're hearing it. That's how a lot of metal is for me.

    I highly recommend you go back a few pages to where I posted Abruptum's Gehennae Perpetuae Cruciatus
    I'll let you know when I hear it.

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    Speaking of Earth, this is probably my favourite piece by them [can't really call it a 'song']. It reminds me of the American South West and Spaghetti Westerns like 'The Good, the Bad and The Ugly' and 'Once Upon a Time in the West'. You can just see dangerous-looking men in wide-brimmed hats, long dusters and six-guns and bullet belts with tumble-weeds blowing past them:


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    Right, yeah, it's like post-drone or something, I guess.

    BTW The Angelic Process is new to me and I will have to check out some of their other stuff.

    I keep an open mind when it comes to most music, but what I meant by my comment about technical skill only being half of it is that it's simply not enough for an artist or band to wow you with impressive licks if you don't feel any different while you're hearing it. That's how a lot of metal is for me.
    Yeah there's a lot of niche stuff that's only for certain people, but I believe all music has something worth taking away from it, except, as you said in another thread, junk like "Soulja Boy."

    That's only if you truly listen. Too much these days music is used simply as a kind of audible wallpaper for whatever else we happen to be doing at the time. It's rare to see people just enjoying music and doing nothing else unless they're at a show or concert.

    I think that's sad, but music is also very important to me. Maybe some people don't see it the same way. I don't know how I would ever live without music.
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    Can't let the subject of Drone Doom go by without mentioning one of my favourite bands in the genre, but with a Sludge/Stoner edge to it, the magnificent Japanese band 'Boris', a power trio that sounds like a quintet!


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    Have you heard the album Altar with Boris and Sunn O)))?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spectre View Post
    Speaking of Earth, this is probably my favourite piece by them [can't really call it a 'song']. It reminds me of the American South West and Spaghetti Westerns like 'The Good, the Bad and The Ugly' and 'Once Upon a Time in the West'. You can just see dangerous-looking men in wide-brimmed hats, long dusters and six-guns and bullet belts with tumble-weeds blowing past them:


    Reminds me of the stuff they did on The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull.

    Loved that album. The piece you posted above fits better in with that than the kind of stuff they did on Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version

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