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Here's your opportunity to go death:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtnG6EHh1N4

This band is amazing.

Edit:

Since there is now a doom metal thread, I thought it would be wise to revive the old Sunn O))) thread to give doom a companion. In fact, this can be about drone music in general, not just drone metal.
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I like them. They seem like a slowed down instrumental version of early Black Sabbath, and their imagery also reminds me of Black Sabbath.
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Indeed. Their usually formless music also - fundamentally, even if not in sound - reminds me of Brian Eno and his concept of ambient music. They can use percussion/drum machines effectively, but I prefer their music without any drums.

I got an album by Gravetemple, one of the many Sunn O))) spin-offs, yesterday. The first fifteen or so minutes are extremely quiet ambience, then they go through 45 minutes of doomy noise, with Attila Csihar providing very odd vocals (probably in Hungarian).

Their collaboration with Boris is worth hearing because it is very different to any of their other albums.
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They sound like our petrol lawnmower as it passes over grass of varying thickness! How anyone can sit there listening to shit like that I will never know. You ought to be ashamed Mr PublicImage. Shame on you.
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Should I also be ashamed?
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Keith Jordan wrote:They sound like our petrol lawnmower as it passes over grass of varying thickness! How anyone can sit there listening to shit like that I will never know. You ought to be ashamed Mr PublicImage. Shame on you.
Quit handling the young man with kid gloves and coddling him so much. Just let loose and be blunt. :lol:

On topic: Didn't care for it.
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Hudini wrote:Should I also be ashamed?
Yes Hudini. You ought to be ashamed! :lol:

I am just downloading some of their stuff now from Napster so I will give them a chance before I dismiss them completely! One called BP//Simple. :)
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I like their costumes
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Keith Jordan wrote:They sound like our petrol lawnmower as it passes over grass of varying thickness! How anyone can sit there listening to shit like that I will never know. You ought to be ashamed Mr PublicImage. Shame on you.
So says the laddie who listens to The Subways!
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I only listened to one song, laddy!! :lol:
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Sound like shit to me. I prefer Eyehategod and Crowbar in the whole sludge genre, as they actually have songs, not just tediously drawn out chords and stupid monks cowels.
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Sludge metal, haha. I always thought this was called 'doom metal'.

Anyway, I prefer their albums to that video, but the instrumental stuff is far better than their songs.
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2 minutes of that crap was enough for me. I hope I never hear that again.

Some people that are deaf do have an advantage sometimes, this being one of them.
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PublicImage wrote:Sludge metal, haha. I always thought this was called 'doom metal'.
Sunn O))) is neither sludge nor doom metal. The genre is called "drone metal".
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Axe's would look better on these lads than gibsons.