Boris is not interchangeable with Sunn0)). Each Boris record is pretty different. If you want some beautiful noise and you're talking Boris, I heartily recommend Akuma No Uta in particular.

The Torche recommendation is spot fucking on. I love Torche.

Thanks for the help guys. I should likely be singing haikus of love to the Uzeda and Boris records I should have just purchased. However, it turns out that my debit card has been PILFERED by SINISTER MARAUDERS with a penchant for Arby's and Fred Meyer's. So now I'm too skint to buy anything until I hear back from my respective FRAUD BUREAU ASSOCIATES and see if I can get any recompense. I will again DEMAND SATISFACTION. My VENGEANCE DOUBLES.(!)

Anywho, I've been sampling all these bands on MySpace and Amazon pages. It's led me to the conclusion that my appreciation of sludge metal starts and ends with the Melvins. I just listen to this and think, "Not bad, but if I were in the mood for this I'd go for Bullhead first." There's some unnoticed beauty to the Melvins that latter imitators don't have. I can listen to "Hung Bunny" and be completely ENRAPTURED, but when I listen to Sunn O))) try the same thing I want to KICK SOMETHING IN THE THROAT. But keep 'em coming nonetheless--Torche is, as we all know, the one redemption to emerge from Florida.

Oh yeah, the Sunn record I got is Black One. (Do many of their releases have 12 pages of INVERTED TREES/WOODY CHANDELIERS to serve as a pretense of liner notes?) I mean, it isn't terrible, but being a drone 'metal' band without a drummer seems so entirely half-assed and insulting that I can't really stomach it. And the vocals, though graciously rare, really RUIN THE MOMENT of spacey stoned haze.

Salut, kind elders!

sphincter wrote:
Whitehouse, DNA, Khanate?

Just kidding, don't buy any music by these bands.

Ouch.

H-GM wrote:

matthias beebe wrote:If you want something shoegazey like the last MBV record try Lenola's The Swerving Corpse, which is more on the Polvo end of the spectrum...

Thanks for the heads-up.

kickerofelves, I recently picked up a CD by Microwaves called Contagion Heuristic on Crucial Blast. I'm not quite sure how to describe it. Metal meets noise-rock by way of Ralph Records? Quite good.

Just wanted to add that if you pick up any album by Lenola, make sure it's The Swerving Corpse. Their later stuff is much different and might not be up your alley (although their follow-up to this album is pretty awesome)

kickerofelves wrote:Thanks for the help guys. I should likely be singing haikus of love to the Uzeda and Boris records I should have just purchased. However, it turns out that my debit card has been PILFERED by SINISTER MARAUDERS with a penchant for Arby's and Fred Meyer's. So now I'm too skint to buy anything until I hear back from my respective FRAUD BUREAU ASSOCIATES and see if I can get any recompense. I will again DEMAND SATISFACTION. My VENGEANCE DOUBLES.(!)

Anywho, I've been sampling all these bands on MySpace and Amazon pages. It's led me to the conclusion that my appreciation of sludge metal starts and ends with the Melvins. I just listen to this and think, "Not bad, but if I were in the mood for this I'd go for Bullhead first." There's some unnoticed beauty to the Melvins that latter imitators don't have. I can listen to "Hung Bunny" and be completely ENRAPTURED, but when I listen to Sunn O))) try the same thing I want to KICK SOMETHING IN THE THROAT. But keep 'em coming nonetheless--Torche is, as we all know, the one redemption to emerge from Florida.

Oh yeah, the Sunn record I got is Black One. (Do many of their releases have 12 pages of INVERTED TREES/WOODY CHANDELIERS to serve as a pretense of liner notes?) I mean, it isn't terrible, but being a drone 'metal' band without a drummer seems so entirely half-assed and insulting that I can't really stomach it. And the vocals, though graciously rare, really RUIN THE MOMENT of spacey stoned haze.

Salut, kind elders!

You're missing the point of this music if you're listening to it on your PC monitors. A lot of it is based in the physics of music, it's tangible form- you need to see this live or have a decent sound system with good capabilities to...well enjoy it, and you need it on a decent format, vinyl or CD, both are equally brilliant dispite what people over 40 say, but an MP3 through some shitty computer speakers (I'm basing this bullshit paragraph on the assumption that you don't have your computer connected to some beautiful speakers) is never really going to let you feel it.

The Melvins have made some great records, Bullhead, in my opinion is their best, but they're certainly not the be-all of everything sludge/doom/whatever, and they certainly don't get the treat of writing everything off after them, even though I think they might like to. Still I agree, I'd rather put on Bullhead than any Sunn record. But Sunn are all about Earth, and Earth may be a little bit about the Melvins, but they did something truly amazing.

kickerofelves wrote:It's led me to the conclusion that my appreciation of sludge metal starts and ends with the Melvins.

Dude, Sleep's Holy Mountain and Weedeater Sixteen Tons. Sits right up there with Buzz and Dale.

kickerofelves wrote:I'd go for Bullhead first.

Eggnog

do not forget Eggnog.

i strongly suggest:

Nels Cline Singer. The Giant Pin

it is both jazz, and rock, heavy, smart, yes.

Neu! 2


will change your life.

If Loveless really gets you going you will probably really like this relatively new record by Darker My Love. I just picked it up myself not too long ago. The name kind of put me off but the guitars on this album give me the goosebumps.