Well, I guess you're kinda right about that one. Same thing about paintings and drawings,
really. Digital, oils, watercolor-- fuckin' crayons-- Doesn't really matter.
Except... well, except when you see it live. Again. I never really got Van Gogh, until I actually went and saw that stuff for realz. Then I was all like "ooooh shit. That is good". I also had it with Slayer, when I first heard it as a kid I thought "what is this noise" (keep in mind that was on twice copied cassette tapes, so it probably was noise), and I kept on not getting it until I saw them live and I went Oh FUCK this is GOOD.
And seriously? You got to see Animals as Leaders live? You got to see Tosin Abasi, the god?
I saw them. And it was divine. And in a pretty small venue, too, so I actually was pretty close to the stage. Then I closed my eyes and the sound washed me away, and cleaned me of my sins.
Meshuggah will be playing with (here it comes) Slayer, Machine Head, Anthrax, Lamb of God, and a few others (Trivium, Nasum) this summer. We've got a large group of people to go with, everyone already booked babysitters (because that's how the modern metalhead rolls), and it's on my fucking birthday. It Will Be Glorious.
Nowadays I don't listen to new music that often anymore, so I don't have much to offer. Animals played as support for a band called "Between the buried and me", they weren't half bad. A friend of mine plays in Obsidian, and he often posts some new stuff on his facebook (I didn't even know there was a genre called "Djent"), I'll scrape some of that to dump here.
Aren't you just the luckiest guy. Envy up to the neck. Wish I was there(though trivium?
I could swear they were with in flames the last time they rolled around Oslo. I think I
thought they were pretty decent).
As for new music, facebook has a couple groups " The league of Extraordinary
Djent-lemen" and "the Djent-lemen's club" (tacky, but awesome) who post videos daily
or so, hold contests and just generally post stuff related to bands that are related to "djent".
Is djent the thing where 95% stuff palm muted or am i wrong?
And i heard Obsididan, nice ones.
Well, palm-muting is very important to the Djent sound, kinda. It isn't required, but
it's an easy way to spot djent from a mile away. Djent as it is defined now? Well, I
wouldn't really call it a genre on its own entirely, but it's basically Meshuggah. So if
someone plays Djent, they are messing around with odd time signatures, Polyrythms,
polymeters and other fun stuff. Most bands end up with sounds that are close, but
still removed from bands such as Meshuggah(duh), the dillinger escape plan and
others, but some tend to mix in a little more jazz-fusion type guitars. Not to say that
they don't use jazz-fusion already, but you know; a little bit more never hurts.
Again, I'm no expert, but I try.
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