jezz8me:
I was surprised by the Slip as well. Ghosts is by far the best album i have hear though. You think they will be touring in other continents after North America?

No one else pumped for the Cure? I am more excited because it means they will probably come to AUS next year than the fact they have a new album.

Oh i'm pumped for The Cure alright. Saw them the other day (three times already) here in NYC and they just never cease to impress me.

I guess the new Mudvayne album should be worth a look, but the album release that has currently got my camped outside HMV like the musical version of a pre-Episode-3 Star Wars fanboy is The Hold Steady's fourth album, "Stay Positive". If it is anything like their last album, "Boys and Girls in America", I shall be as happy as a sack-wielding Viking in a brothel full of gold bars.

If it manages somehow to be better than that, my jaw will slam through the foundations of my house and get burnt by the core of the planet - and it won't stop me from cumming my barely-adult brains out in an orgy of indie rock, fanboy ambrosia and talk-box guitar solos.

In response to the man who asked why people like metal, I first suggest that people have all sorts of tastes - takes all sorts to make a world, as my dad would say if he wasn't currently listening to Megadeth on his iPhone, the lucky git.

Actually, my first response to the man who asked why people like metal was "Go and clamp your mouth around the hacksawed-open U-bend of a toilet in a hospital specializing in dysentry, you miserable prick." But I digress.

Metal is far more complex than people give it credit for. It is far more than randomly flailing at the strings of a guitar - that's called emo. I implore you to listen to the guitar solos of bands like Metallica, Pantera, and (to an admittedly lesser extent) Ramms+ein, then try to justify views on the "incompetence of metal guitarists" (the title of an article featured on Pitchfork magazine some time ago, since removed after a storm of complaints).

Also, it is energetic and can be done by anyone - quo videt the drummer in Devicate, who looks like a bank manager. But still, it works, it's good, and if everyone was the same then nothing would ever get done.

Here endeth the rant. Goodnight.

laikenf:

Oh i'm pumped for The Cure alright. Saw them the other day (three times already) here in NYC and they just never cease to impress me.

Excuse me while I brutally murder you. They better damn well come to Australia or else i will use Robert Smiths Head as a lampshade.

On the metal discussion i find it good music if you find the right bands but there is a lot of terrible cheesy stuff out there. I am not to much of a fan of the vocals or of "melodic metal" because the harshness conflicts with the melody most of the time. I love negative music but more in the sense of it is sad and/ or depressing; The Cure, Radiohead, Tom Waits. These bands can evoke so much more angst without the need to scream i also love the raw emotion of acoustic folk music.

When it comes to screaming and growls i prefer to listen to them as instruments because that is how they work. Singing just cannot be beat for poetic and effective delivery of lyrics.

Also for energetic music that can be "done by anyone" i choose punk over metal any day.

A new slipknot album you say? hmm... only thing i like about those words is the fact that there will be a tour and i can only stand em by seeing them live.

I wonder what Corey Taylor will look like with the mask on what with the lack of hair. unless theres hair already on the mask....

Cake's new album will be sweet.

Wulf Legend:
Mudvayne has their new one coming out July 16th, Slipknot on August 26th and Trapt on August 5th.

They all need to call it a day. Sorry but they do.

gibboss28:
A new slipknot album you say? hmm... only thing i like about those words is the fact that there will be a tour and i can only stand em by seeing them live.

I wonder what Corey Taylor will look like with the mask on what with the lack of hair. unless theres hair already on the mask....

Yeah i saw the new masks too. I like them alll but I am not too sure about Cory's. I guess will just have to get used to it.

nightfish:

They all need to call it a day. Sorry but they do.

Sorry you don't like them, but believe it or not they have a lot of fans. And Trapt only has 2 albums released (not counting this one) so they still have a long way to go before they call it quits.

Apparantly Alice In Chains are working on a new LP. I read this earlier, and my day has been made.

It's not going to be the same though without Layne...

I'm just gonna wait patiently for the next Ayreon album. 01011001 Came out in January and I would name it album of the year, but that's not really fair considering the inherent fact that Ayreon > everything else these days. Anyway, I am somewhat looking forward to the new Dragonforce album, but it's all been pretty much the same since Valley of the Damned.

On the whole, the popular music scene does nothing for me...well, that's a lie. I am enjoying the latest Green Day project, the Foxboro Hottubs. It's a fun little album, and some good travelling music.

Wulf Legend:
It's not going to be the same though without Layne...

I dunno. The new guy they've got has got quite a pair of lungs for him. And remember, if AC/DC hadn't carried on after Bon Scott died, we wouldn't have Back In Black. Alice are too consistent a band to fuck up at this point, methinks.

Satosuke:
I am enjoying the latest Green Day project, the Foxboro Hottubs.

Now, forgive my snobbishness, but I can't see the attraction of the American pop-punk scene. Green Day basically coined the phrase "saccharine suicidalism". MCR and Bullet for my Valentine are just plain annoying, quo videt Gerard Way's grating whine - it's like a man with a sinus condition who's got his ballsack caught in a sausage-grinder trying to yodel whilst being subjected to electric shocks. And Fall Out Boy are merely incredibly forgettable, like a cardboard cut-out version of a real band - or as we know them, X-Factor winners. Dull as a weekend in Bognor.

The new weezer album was great, but ever since System split up I haven't had anything big to look forward to for a while. The new slipknot album should be good, but I'm not exactly excited about it. Best thing I've heard recently has to be Mindless Self Indulgence. 'If' is a fantastic album. I'm so glad my flatmate introduced me to them.

colourcodedchaos:

Satosuke:
I am enjoying the latest Green Day project, the Foxboro Hottubs.

Now, forgive my snobbishness, but I can't see the attraction of the American pop-punk scene. Green Day basically coined the phrase "saccharine suicidalism". MCR and Bullet for my Valentine are just plain annoying, quo videt Gerard Way's grating whine - it's like a man with a sinus condition who's got his ballsack caught in a sausage-grinder trying to yodel whilst being subjected to electric shocks. And Fall Out Boy are merely incredibly forgettable, like a cardboard cut-out version of a real band - or as we know them, X-Factor winners. Dull as a weekend in Bognor.

Oh don't worry, I agree with you on those points, with the exception of Green Day:
-They're not afraid to try new music styles.
-They've served as great antagonists to other crappy music scenes (Billie Joe Armstrong's side project The Network was basically one giant 'fuck you' to the genre of electronica).
-Hooks. Billie Joe's REALLY good at that.

MUSE. Oh, yes. I think they've started to record it.

I'm looking forward to some new material from Guns 'n' Roses, but I don't want to wait until I have grandkids.

Johnn Johnston:
MUSE. Oh, yes. I think they've started to record it.

Really? Got any links or whatnot? Not that I don't believe you but... actually no, I think it must be because I don't believe you. Sorry.

j-e-f-f-e-r-s:

Wulf Legend:
It's not going to be the same though without Layne...

I dunno. The new guy they've got has got quite a pair of lungs for him. And remember, if AC/DC hadn't carried on after Bon Scott died, we wouldn't have Back In Black. Alice are too consistent a band to fuck up at this point, methinks.

The new singer, William DuVall, is going to have to prove himself like Brian Johnson did, though. The biggest test is going to be singing Staley's lines on their classic songs in concert (again, just like Johnson). I'll call myself cautiously optimistic about this. It could come off well, or the new singer won't be able to hold a candle to Layne.