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03-20-2015, 01:45 PM | #611 (permalink) | |
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I set myself up for that comment.
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03-20-2015, 01:52 PM | #612 (permalink) | |
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Every one of these albums are appealing in one way or another. Right now the dilemma for me is between Eyehategod and High on Fire, but I've got a soft spot for Eyehategod's brand of filth. I like my sludge loose and disgusting, I've always had a hard time thinking of Death Is This Communion as a sludge / stoner album. It's tight as hell, has a ton of movement, and is usually pretty mid-tempo.
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03-20-2015, 02:55 PM | #614 (permalink) | |
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Well I can't vote in something that I've never heard either.
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03-20-2015, 03:48 PM | #615 (permalink) | ||
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03-20-2015, 04:26 PM | #616 (permalink) |
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I've always thought of it as being neo thrash. I agree with epoch that threre's really nothing particularly stoner-ish about that album. But it's still the best album on this list regardless.
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03-20-2015, 07:58 PM | #617 (permalink) | |
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I'm not really complaining that Death Is This Communion doesn't belong on the list, there are definitely stonery / sludgy elements throughout the album, it's just got a lot of other **** going for it too, a lot of styles in there. And a lot of those other styles don't really click with me. It's a fantastic album, great songwriting, great production, and great musicianship, I'm just having a hard time settling on a suitable way to judge these lists. We're voting for best Sludge / Stoner album, so I'm trying to base my votes on which albums make the best use of Sludgy / Stonery styles, how the album performs within its genre. I don't think I'd have any problem placing High On Fire above several of these bands if it were simply a "Best Overall Musicianship" poll.
**** man I don't know, maybe it'll grow on me by the end of the division.
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03-20-2015, 08:53 PM | #618 (permalink) | |
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I wouldn't worry about how it fits with the genre. Once the battle's up, the best album should win, regardless of genre Nazism. Leave The Man -- that's me -- to worry about genres.
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03-21-2015, 05:18 PM | #619 (permalink) | |
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Alright, so what Meshuggah album would you say deserves a spot in this thread? Still new to the band, so I don't have much of an opinion, but I see Destroy, Erase, Improve get probably the most nods. Then again, I get the feeling that a lot of these people dig that album cause it's closer to thrash than Nothing or Catch Thirtythree, which equals better in the eyes of many metalheads without imagination -- and I don't trust the thrash zombies.
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03-21-2015, 06:46 PM | #620 (permalink) | |
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Well, Baroness have been forced to abdicate. Next round...
8. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley 7. Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance 6. Eyehategod - Dopesick 5. Melvins - Houdini 4. Boris - Heavy Rocks 3. Mastodon - Leviathan 2. High On Fire - Death is This Communion 1. Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops Vote 4 off. Polls end on March 23. Oh, and not to be a dick, but I didn't count Unknown Soldier's vote against Boris, since he admitted that he never listened to the album. Consider it now a rule that you have to actually listen to an album to vote for it. I don't think that's unreasonable.
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