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Sludge Metal
Sludge metal (also known as sludge or sludge doom) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that originated through combining elements of doom metal and hardcore punk. It is typically harsh and abrasive, often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distorted instruments and sharply contrasting tempos. The Melvins from the US state of Washington produced the first sludge metal albums in the mid-late 1980s. Characteristics The key characteristics of both sludge and doom metal are a slow tempo combined with down-tuned, heavily- distorted guitars to deliver the heaviest feel that is possible. The drummer must be able to lead the band through the slow parts of a piece with an accurate time feel, which is much harder to achieve when compared with playing faster pieces. Sludge metal includes sections of the aggression, shouted vocals and occasional fast tempos of hardcore punk. As ''The New York Times'' wrote on The Melvins, "The shorthand term for the kind of rock descending from ea ...
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Meditations In B
''Meditations in B'' is the debut full-length album by Old Man Gloom. A remastered version of the album was released on April 7, 2015, through Hydra Head Records. Production The album was written and recorded in New Mexico in under a week. Critical reception ''Exclaim!'' wrote: "OMG focuses more on quick, jagged, sonic barbs and drawn out ambient experimentation, rather than the brooding, atmospheric destruction Isis is known for." Track listing All tracks written by Perez and Turner. # "Afraid Of" – 1:16 # "Flood I" – 0:50 # "Simian Alien Technology: Message Received" – 3:27 # "Sonic Wave of Bees" – 1:22 # "Sonar Enlightenment Program" – 5:43 # "Rotten Primate" – 1:47 # "The Exploder Whale" – 1:02 # "Poisoner" – 0:42 # "An Evening at the Gentleman's Club for Apes" – 0:55 # "Vipers" – 0:50 # "Test Result: Alien Ape Distress Signal" – 1:55 # "Flood II" – 1:02 # "Resolving the De-Evolution Conflict" – 1:31 # "Scraps Theatre Presents: Confusion in Five Mo ...
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Christmas Eve I And II + 6
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many countries, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season organized around it. The traditional Christmas narrative recounted in the New Testament, known as the Nativity of Jesus, says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in accordance with messianic prophecies. When Joseph and Mary arrived in the city, the inn had no room and so they were offered a stable where the Christ Child was soon born, with angels proclaim ...
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Christmas (Old Man Gloom Album)
''Christmas'' is the fourth studio album by Old Man Gloom, released in August 2004 by Tortuga Recordings. Aaron Turner, owner of Hydra Head Records and former Isis guitarist and vocalist, described this album in September 2010 as “one of the most engaging projects I have been involved with both musically and visually.” Critical reception ''CMJ New Music Report'' wrote that the "carols ... alternate between propulsive, pummeling epic shit-kickers (opener 'Gift') and experimental noise tracks ('Accord-O-Matic')." Track listing # "Gift" – 5:47 # "Skullstorm" – 0:51 # "Something for the Mrs." – 5:44 # "Sleeping With Snakes" – 2:33 # "Lukeness Monster" – 2:54 # "'Tis Better to Receive" – 1:25 # "Accord-O-Matic" – 7:50 # "The Volcano" – 7:32 # "Close Your Eyes, Roll Back into Your Head" – 3:30 # "Girth and Greed" – 1:33 # "Sonic Dust" – 3:06 # "Valhalla" – 2:08 # "Christmas Eve parts I, II & III (alt. version)" – 16:17 Personnel * Nate Newton – gui ...
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Mantrapping For Sport And Profit
''Mantrapping for Sport and Profit'' is the fourth album from the New Hampshire group Scissorfight. Track listing # "Acid for Blood" - 3:22 # "New Hampshire's All Right If You Like Fighting - 3:00 # "Rats U.S.A." - 2:38 # "Deliver The Yankee Coffin" - 2:31 # "The Most Dangerous Animal Is Me" - 3:44 # "Hazard to Navigation" - 5:55 # "Hammerdown" - 3:01 # "Blizzards, Buzzards, Bastards" - 3:55 # "Mantrap" - 2:35 # "Death In The Wilderness" - 2:55 # "Candy Clark" - 2:55 # "Go Cave!" - 3:15 # "Cram It Clown" - 1:41 Personnel *Ironlung – vocals *Geezum H. Crow ''(Jay Fortin)'' – guitar *Kevin J. Strongbow – drums *Paul Jarvis – bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ... 2001 albums Scissorfight albums {{2000s-metal-album-st ...
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Black & White Rainbow
''Black & White Rainbow'' is the companion CD of the CD/EP ''Hello Motherfucker! EP'' (2001 re-issue) by the "heavy stoner rock" band Milligram, released in 2001. It consists of three original tracks, including the demo version (faster) of "My alternate Altamont" (which was re-released in its final version (slower) in the album '' This is class war'') and five covers songs. Also included are two Misfits covers ("She" and "We Are 138"), two of Black Flag ("Fix Me" and "Jealous Again") and one of Fear Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat. Fear ... (" Gimme Some Action"). Track listing References {{DEFAULTSORT:Black and White Rainbow 2001 EPs Milligram (band) albums Hydra Head Records EPs ...
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SGNL 05
''SGNL'' is a tech and gadget-centric web television show produced by Revision3 and sponsored by Sony Electronics , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional .... The show is in its third season, and is hosted by Anthony Carboni and Samia Khan. In addition to featuring the latest Sony gadgets, SGNL also highlights other Sony related content including music, movies, gaming, and entertainment. The show is available to watch online at Revision3's website, Sony.com/SGNL, and YouTube.com/SGNL. The SGNL app is built into many Sony products, including Blu-ray players and smart TVs, and an app is also available for download on both iPhone and Android devices.{{cite web, title=SGNL Android App, url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.revision3.android.sonysgnl, publisher ...
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Zozobra
The Zozobra (also known as "Old Man Gloom") is a giant marionette effigy constructed of wood, wire and cotton cloth that is built and burned prior to the annual Fiestas de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. It stands high. As its name suggests, it embodies gloom and anxiety; by burning it, people destroy the worries and troubles of the previous year in the flames. Anyone with an excess of gloom is encouraged to write down the nature of their gloom on a slip of paper and leave it in the "gloom box" found in City of Santa Fe Visitors' Centers in the weeks leading up to the burn. Participants can also add documents on the day of the burning, up until 8 pm MT, at a "gloom tent" in the venue where they can add to the marionette's stuffing. Legal papers, divorce documents, mortgage pay-offs, parking tickets and even a wedding dress –– all have found their way into Zozobra to go up in smoke. At the festival, glooms from the gloom box are placed at Zozobra's feet to be ...
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The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ...
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Milligram (band)
Milligram was an American rock band from Boston active from 1996 until 2002. Biography Formed by Jonah Jenkins and Darryl Shepard in 1996, Milligram had no permanent drummer. Shepard continued playing in Roadsaw, while Jenkins formed Miltown. After a predictably "major" label battle between Miltown and Warner Brothers/Giant Records, Jenkins returned to Milligram in 1998. After recruiting Bob Maloney on bass guitar and Zephan Courtney (StompBox, Juliana Hatfield, Chevy Heston) on drums, the ''Hello Motherfucker! EP'' CD/EP was recorded. In late 1999, Milligram parted ways with Bob Maloney and recruited Jeff Turlik (Blue Man Group, StompBox, Roadsaw) on bass guitar. The ''Hello Motherfucker! EP'' CD/EP was released on April 28, 2000, on Tortuga Recordings. On March 20, 2001, the '' Hello Motherfucker!'' CD/EP was re-released with a bonus companion CD : '' Black & White Rainbow''. Their next release, which was originally titled ''Death To America'', was scheduled to be recorded s ...
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Sawblade (Isis EP)
The ''Sawblade'' EP (also called the ''Buzzsaw'' EP) is a handmade CD-R made by Isis for their tour with Neurosis and Candiria, limited to 200 copies (the first 40 with red blade inserts, the remaining 160 with black). It was sold at these shows at a limit of 15 per night, and the leftover copies were given to friends of the band as a year-end "thank you" gift. The vinyl run of this release was limited to 250 copies. As such, Aaron Turner doesn't consider this an 'official' Isis release, describing it as “more like a special artifact for us and the few converts we had at the time”. "Emission of the Signal" and "House of Low Culture" were both constructed by Aaron Turner and Jeff Caxide at home. "Streetcleaner" and "Hand of Doom" are both covers of Godflesh and Black Sabbath, respectively. The former was recorded for Isis' 2000 split release with Pig Destroyer; both were recorded during the ''Red Sea'' sessions in 1999. The CD version of the release was a genuine sawblade wit ...
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Isis (band)
Isis (sometimes stylized ISIS) was an American post-metal band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1997. The band borrowed from and helped to evolve the post-metal sound pioneered by bands such as Neurosis and Godflesh, characterized by lengthy songs focusing on repetition and evolution of structure. Isis's last studio album, ''Wavering Radiant'', was released on May 5, 2009. Isis disbanded in June 2010, just before the release of a split EP with the Melvins. In 2018, the group reformed as Celestial for a one-off show to pay tribute to Caleb Scofield. History Formation, ''Celestial'', and other early releases (1997–2001) In Boston, several sessions of experimentation led friends Aaron Turner (guitar/vocals; also the owner of Hydra Head Records and its subsidiary, HH Noise Industries), Jeff Caxide (bass guitar), Chris Mereschuk (electronics/vocals) and Aaron Harris (drums) to form Isis in autumn of 1997. As Turner stated, "Isis formed as a result of the dissatisfaction with ...
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