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defsteve

Mastodon and Converge are to tour the UK together before the end of the year. Dates TBC
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bright lights, big city

Quote from: Paint Your Lips on Oct 06, 2009, 06:34 PM
Quote from: Alvar on Oct 06, 2009, 05:29 PM
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Quote from: penguin in the desert on Oct 06, 2009, 02:52 PM
I think the solos are the best thing about this album.
Solos are a waste of album space. It doesn't add anything to the songs, it's just unnessesary playtime. Just horrible. Death to solos.

i guess you're not a big mastodon fan, huh
You guessed it.

And Theis, I can't listen to any of those bands. I get so bored.
that's a shame. what about Between the Buried and Me? some bands' solos absolutely make them great in my opinion.

Quote from: defsteve on Oct 07, 2009, 02:06 AM
Mastodon and Converge are to tour the UK together before the end of the year. Dates TBC
seeing them with Dethklok on Oct 17. cannot wait!
DERP

Quote from: rock_n_frost
Bright Lights !..Why the fuck are you so damn awesome? Cant you be a piece of shit sometimes?

Paint Your Lips

Quote from: bright lights, big city on Oct 07, 2009, 03:40 AM
that's a shame. what about Between the Buried and Me? some bands' solos absolutely make them great in my opinion.
I enjoy Colors a lot. Thank god they didn't drown that album in solos as they did with Alaska. Solos doesn't add emotion, feeling, energy, not a goddamn thing, it's just a poor excuse for a guitar player to have fun.

And Converge is a selfproclaimed punk rock band, why on earth would they include solos, that's got nothing to do with punk ! They'll never top Jane Doe if they don't push themselves.

Alvar

Quote from: Paint Your Lips on Oct 07, 2009, 01:54 PM
And Converge is a selfproclaimed punk rock band, why on earth would they include solos, that's got nothing to do with punk ! They'll never top Jane Doe if they don't push themselves.

they DID push themselves, you just dont like the direction its going ;)

in some interview kurt stated that they recently were influenced alot by progressive metal, and that they wanted to implement this on the new record.
i can understand that the "energy" of their earlier punkish records doesnt come across this way, i think thats what you`re missing.
axe to fall is like their "easy listening" album :D

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Paint Your Lips

Spot on, Alvar. I miss the fury and the chaos. Progressive metal my ass. :-)

nicklav

First 4 tracks are killer. The rest is forgettable. Should have stuck with that energy.

ben

#46
If anything, the album is a throwback to the Converge of the 1990s.  Pretty cool record, but I definitely prefer the last three albums because each one is so brutal.  You guys will probably laugh at me, but my second favorite track is Cruel Bloom.  fuckin Neurosis, yeaaaaaa

I also prefer the new Doomriders to this, but that album is exceptional and it's not because Axe to Fall is inadequate. 

Paint Your Lips

Quote from: ben on Oct 07, 2009, 10:31 PM
If anything, the album is a throwback to the Converge of the 1990s.  Pretty cool record, but I definitely prefer the last three albums because each one is so brutal.  You guys will probably laugh at me, but my second favorite track is Cruel Bloom.  fuckin Neurosis, yeaaaaaa

I also prefer the new Doomriders to this, but that album is exceptional and it's not because Axe to Fall is inadequate. 
Phoenix in Flight > Cruel Bloom. Even the slower songs were better in the "old days". Way more feeling to it, you can really sense his broken heart and anger / sadness.

Alvar

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love this

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_Fireal_

Quote from: Paint Your Lips on Oct 07, 2009, 01:54 PM
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Oct 07, 2009, 03:40 AM
that's a shame. what about Between the Buried and Me? some bands' solos absolutely make them great in my opinion.
I enjoy Colors a lot. Thank god they didn't drown that album in solos as they did with Alaska. Solos doesn't add emotion, feeling, energy, not a goddamn thing, it's just a poor excuse for a guitar player to have fun.

And Converge is a selfproclaimed punk rock band, why on earth would they include solos, that's got nothing to do with punk ! They'll never top Jane Doe if they don't push themselves.

Because being punk means you can do whatever the fuck you want, and that includes doing solos.

I haven't found anything to complain about on Axe to Fall.  I'm liking it all.  Maybe my opinion will change after more listens, maybe not.
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your a much better fireal than i am

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Deft_16_Ones

Great new CD I've been listening to it since it came out

tarkil

I LOVE their last album. Sure, it sounds easier to listen to compared to their previous work, but I don't see that as a bad thing at all, and I still really enjoy what I'm hearing....



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Eros TBA

Just began recording for their upcoming eighth studio album 'All We Love We Leave Behind'


Oldnewtype

Listening to No Heroes for the first time in a while, good shit.

skinnypuppy


Atomic

Quote from: Eros TBA on Feb 03, 2012, 06:24 AM
Just began recording for their upcoming eighth studio album 'All We Love We Leave Behind'
was so excited when i heard about this :D and they never disappoint
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theis


black coffee

#57
That tour with Touché Amoré, A Storm Of Light and The Secret is gonna be crazy good.

Honestly I can't remember a concert I've been to which had a better line-up. Fuck me

bright lights, big city

Whoa didn't know about that tour lineup. I love The Secret. But yeah bitchin' tour, bitchin' new song. Can't wait for this to drop.
DERP

Quote from: rock_n_frost
Bright Lights !..Why the fuck are you so damn awesome? Cant you be a piece of shit sometimes?

theis

Quote from: black coffee on Aug 28, 2012, 09:38 PM
That tour with Touché Amoré, A Storm Of Light and The Secret is gonna be crazy good.

Honestly I can't remember a concert I've been to which had a better line-up. Fuck me

I'd prefer the US line-up with Kvelertak, Torche and Nails.

I don't really know any of the bands on the EU line-up...but yeah, I'll probably go to the show.