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[Ibis]

Oh I love Amadeus!! Mozart that is....you can actually hear why and how he went mad in some of his music compositions. Almost as interesting as viewing the painted madness of Vincent Van Gogh in a different way.

But such creative geniuses they were ... I do believe the burning light of creativity inside them at times caused them great pain. Makes for unbelievable art, doesn't it?

[Dantrag]

So the waiting is finally over for me.

I actually hold a copy of Amputechture in my hands. Right now. Not kidding.

Seriously though, I have thoroughly enjoyed my listen so far. The Mars Volta never fails to impress me. They have some more structured songs than normal, such as Viscera Eyes, which has a constant progression going in the background, and then they have some that are even more odd than normal. I love it. Highly recommended.

This post has been edited by Dantrag: Sep 13 2006, 03:57 AM

[Black Hand]

Con Te Partiro - Andrea Bocelli

Not that I'm actually intot this Genre of music, but GD that man can Sing!!

Plus, this may sound macarbre, but it comes from seeing too many Godfather movies, when I am writing an Assassination scene in my fics, for some reason, that song starts flowing through my head. Indeed, if it were allowed, I would add Mp3 Attachments to specific post to exude what I feel the proper feeling would be during certain of these posts.

Eh, I digress.

[Khajiit Overlord Rainer]

Rainer wonders- Has anyone ever heard of Cirque Du Solei?

Well, Rainer has started getting back to listening to their music. Such is amazing work...

Rainer's favourites are "Distorted", "A La Lune", "Urban", "Reve Rouge", "Atmajia", "Zarabanda", "Incantation", and "Ninkou Latora" (that was a mouthful )

[The Metal Mallet]

Ok! Well it's another Saturday so does everyone know what that means? It's time for Mallet's Weekend Work Listening!!! Yay! This weekend features the following albums:

Flyleaf - Flyleaf
One X - Three Days Grace
Ghost Reveries - Opeth
Team Sleep - Team Sleep
Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy - Helloween
Vheissu - Thrice
Mutter - Rammstein
13 Ways to Bleed Onstage - Cold


Hopefully on Sunday I'll have some time to get to the mall and get Mastodon's Blood Mountain. So far, I've heard plenty of good things about it so I'm getting a little giddy . Supposedly they do a bit more singing on this record which is always a plus if it fits the music. If you're into basically "metallized" jazz-drumming, anything by Mastodon would amaze you, they're drummer is crazy on a relatively small kit. Damn I wish it was Sunday!!

[Wolfie]

Right now I'm listening to Dragonforce, more specifically the song Operation Ground and Pound.
I heard various things about theses guys, but never got round to hearing anything by them. Then the other night I saw a video for one of their songs on tv, and liked what I heard, so now I have a bunch of their stuff

[Ibis]

Rainer, Cirque Du Solei is right here near our house in Florida. We have never gone to see them but we see the commercials all the time on TV. I didn't know they have such good music. They look like a very interesting show though.

[The Metal Mallet]

Yay! I got Blood Mountain today and I'm very happy with my choice. So far I'll need to give it a few more listens to figure out which the really good songs but so far Sleeping Giant was the song that amazed me, simply because it sounds like nothing Mastodon has done before. Very atmospheric.

I also bought Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell", Judas Priest's "British Steel" and "Sad Wings of Destiny", and Danko Jones' "We Sweat Blood". I've been looking for that last album for like forever so I'm glad I got that one as well. Listening to new music always rocks!

[Dantrag]

Yay! I got Blood Mountain today and I'm very happy with my choice. So far I'll need to give it a few more listens to figure out which the really good songs but so far Sleeping Giant was the song that amazed me, simply because it sounds like nothing Mastodon has done before. Very atmospheric.

I also bought Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell", Judas Priest's "British Steel" and "Sad Wings of Destiny", and Danko Jones' "We Sweat Blood". I've been looking for that last album for like forever so I'm glad I got that one as well. Listening to new music always rocks!

I was thinking of buying that one myself. Never heard anything by them, but I do know that The Mars Volta guests on the new album.

[The Metal Mallet]

Yea, Cedric has some backing vocals on the track called Siberian Divide. He sounds very creepy in it with very high pitch kinda unintelligable moans. If you don't mind hearing kinda Mudvayne-esque gutteral vocals from time to time, I strongly suggest Blood Mountain.

[Dantrag]

Does the singer always sound like that? It sounds good sometimes, but I think it's a bit overdone at times. (judging from the three samples I heard) Does he sound different in any previous albums?

[The Metal Mallet]

The Blood Mountain album probably has the most varied vocals Mastodon has done. They actually have two vocalists in the band, though I think the bassist handles most of them. On previous albums, there wasn't as much variety in the vocals. I just recently purchased an older album by them called Remission and the basic vocal style was basically hardcore vocals. Leviathan introduced some clean vocals (Seabeast, Naked Burn, Heart's Alive) as well as a different hardcore/gutteral vocals that were actually comprehesible or clear sounding (Blood and Thunder, I am Ahab, Iron Tusk) and then some screechy sounding vocals (Island, Aqua Dementia, parts of Heart's Alive).

But on Blood Mountain, they use a lot more stoner rock/metal vocals (Colony of Birchman, Hand of Stone, This Mortal Soil, Sleeping Giant), some Mudvayne-esque aggressive vocals (The Wolf is Loose, Capilliarian Crest, parts of Circle of Cysquatch). You get two different sounds from each vocallist, in previous albums I could tell which one was singing but the new vocals sound different enough that I can't distinguish who is singing what.

I would have to say that in each song there's basically at least of couple of moments where they use aggressive vocals. Even the one instrumental, Bladecatcher, has this schizophrenic gargling noise for vocals in it. Pendolous Skin, the other instrumental, is the only exception as the vocals sound like the singer is moaning unintellible words.

For me personally, I listen to Mastodon for the musicianship rather than the vocals, but I really enjoy the vocals on Blood Mountain. So that easily makes this my favourite album by Mastodon, but I'll have to give Remission a few more listens just to make sure.

Wow, that was quite a mouthful...

[Dantrag]

I'm weird when it comes to singers. Usually the ones I hate on the first listen end up being my favorites. People such as James LaBris and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. MAybe this one will be no different.

I think I'll pick up Blood Mountain at work on Saturday.

[mplantinga]

Mendelssohn: Concerto for violin and string orchestra in D major

[The Metal Mallet]

It's everyone's favourite weekend day, Saturday. So I bet everyone is interested in my weekend listening. So without further ado:

Remission - Mastodon
Amputecture - The Mars Volta (I decided to give them another chance since I liked the musical parts of Frances the Mute)
Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
We Sweat Blood - Danko Jones
Sad Wings of Destiny - Judas Priest
British Steel - Judas Priest
Master of the Moon - Dio
rEVOLVEr - The Haunted
A Predator's Portrait - Soilwork
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Soundtrack - Various Artists (probably won't get to this one due to time)

Basically my theme for this weekend was "CDs I recently bought" which only excludes that last CD (though it is still a fairly recent purchase). I all ready have a feeling what I'm going to be listening to next weekend seeing as my order for two Agalloch CDs, The Mantle, and Ashes Against the Grain have come in. If you want a vague description of that band, the closest I can say is that they're Folk Metal.

So yea, some of the music I listen to can be considered "odd" at the least. I also saw a new music video from a good Canadian Hip Hop artist named K-Os (pronounced chaos), so that makes me think there's a new CD coming out by him soon. I'll need to get my hands on that, "Joyful Rebellion" was an awesome CD.

[Dantrag]

Amputecture - The Mars Volta (I decided to give them another chance since I liked the musical parts of Frances the Mute)

I love this album. While all of it is awesome, Asilos Magdalena and Tetragrammaton really stood out to me.

Let me know what you thought of it.

Side note: Picked up Blood Mountain todoay, and I am enjoying it quite a bit. Haven't got to Cedric's part yet, though.

[The Metal Mallet]

My first impressions of Amputechture is that it is much more frantic and off-kilter when compared to Frances. Makes for a good listen since you don't know where it's going. Sometimes the horns bother me, but for the most part they add to the music nicely.

So far the tracks that have stood out are Viscera Eyes, Day of the Baphomets, and the beginning of Vicarious Atonement.

I'm definitely going to have to give it some more listens though. I'd say I enjoy it more than Frances simply because of the lack of "progressive filler" I'll call it.

[Dantrag]

My first impressions of Amputechture is that it is much more frantic and off-kilter when compared to Frances. Makes for a good listen since you don't know where it's going. Sometimes the horns bother me, but for the most part they add to the music nicely.

So far the tracks that have stood out are Viscera Eyes, Day of the Baphomets, and the beginning of Vicarious Atonement.

I'm definitely going to have to give it some more listens though. I'd say I enjoy it more than Frances simply because of the lack of "progressive filler" I'll call it.

While it's more frantic overall, is has the most structured songs they've ever written on the album. Asilos Magdalena and Viscera Eyes.

I forgot day of the Baphomets. One tiny part of that song was stuck in my head all day, the part where he repeats, "Poachers in your home, Poachers in your home," over and over in a dissonant note.

This post has been edited by Dantrag: Sep 25 2006, 12:28 AM

[Saffas Missionary]

Wow, you have gotta be kiddin me... not one person whose listening to classical music ^^. Well, get used to it, thats all I listen to and I listen to it a lot. ATM, I have my computer rotating between 3 outto the 5 beethoven cello sonates, some of which Im playing.

[Dantrag]

Ha, Cedric's part in the Siberian Divide could easily be replaced by a guitar. As a matter pf fact, his exact part is played by a guitar earlier in the song. I was kinda disappointed in that, but oh well.