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Old 03-20-2015, 01:45 PM   #611 (permalink)
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Give it a listen and then feel great shame for attempting to voting it off.
I set myself up for that comment.
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Old 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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Old 03-20-2015, 02:41 PM   #613 (permalink)
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Deliverance is the best album on that list, Boris is the only one I haven't heard so.

Boris- Heavy Rocks
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Baroness - Red Album
Eyehategod - Dopesick
You're voting off an album you've never even heard before? WTF, man?

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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.
It's stoner based, comes from stoner lineage, and doesn't fit anywhere else. Close enough.
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Old 03-20-2015, 02:55 PM   #614 (permalink)
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You're voting off an album you've never even heard before? WTF, man?
Well I can't vote in something that I've never heard either.
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Old 03-20-2015, 03:48 PM   #615 (permalink)
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Well I can't vote in something that I've never heard either.
Shouldn't you at least listen to the album before you vote for it? Take you all of forty-five minutes or so. There's a Youtube vid embedded right in the OP. And here...


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Old 03-20-2015, 04:26 PM   #616 (permalink)
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It's stoner based, comes from stoner lineage, and doesn't fit anywhere else. Close enough.
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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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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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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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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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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