the knowledge of sound: July 2010

Tuesday 27 July 2010

ramble - so, things are starting to take off a bit...

...I'm happy to say, The Knowledge Of Sound's hit counter can prove that too, starting to get a few hundred a week looking in, so cheers to everyone who has a look, posts it on their blog, spreads it on their facebook.. there'll be some more special things coming during August.

iniquity - five across the eyes

this, for me anyway, is the best one, absolutely jammed full of awesome riffs and songs.

iniquity - hidden lore

EP well worth a look for a totally different members line up of iniquity since they did serenadium.

iniquity - grime

more top class deathliness here..

iniquity - serenadium

iniquity are massively overlooked, superb quality danish death metal with catchiness that creeps up on you unexpectedly.

get a load of these.. i'll finish with my favourite, and start with the one i discovered most recently, which is also awesome.

book - day one promise by paul priest

i did a book.
it hasn't got a story.
it's got a lot of words and sentences in it.

'The subject matter will probably dance around in front of you. One minute directed towards things in my own life, my thoughts, my head, the next to something completely made up, train of thought works, psychological, intense. One moment introspective, one moment solitary, one moment surreal, one moment prophetic. I speak in metaphors at most, the rest I just speak in words that I like the sound of. It's kind of up to you to make your own sense of what this all means, put it all into some kind of context within your own life, and maybe try and solve the puzzles of how it all fits in with my life as well.'

shikari - discography 1999-2003

i saw shikari whilst touring europe with narcosis a couple of times, they were blinding. get this discography if you like things discordant, fast, harsh, weird, screamy, shrieky.

drainland - swine

dark irish hardcore with some doom and sludge to boot. can't argue with that. there is a fine tradition of bands from ireland that play the nasty very well, and drainland are one worth watching. if you like dystopia and the usual his hero is gone / cursed / from ashes rise ensembles then give this your attention.

salome - salome

so, you've probably all read the interviews with agoraphobic nosebleed now they have a girl singer and sound more like a metal band than grind (although i still like their latest stuff, i can see why a lot don't), well, here is the doom sludge band she originated in, and if you like anything slow, then you NEED this. absolutely HUGE!

schattenheer - schattenheer

so, there's loads of depressing black metal, it makes me smile, and this one makes me smile almost as much as make a change kill yourself. it's brilliant!

quicksand - manic compression

i forgot about this album for years. i am a fool! if you like things along the lines of helmet, fugazi, shellac and all that, then you should check these out.

philip glass - koyaanisqatsi

koyaanisqatsi, the film was a bit of a revelation in visuals, the music that goes along with it is just inspired. if you've never seen this film / imagery collection, get it watched. it changed my brain when i was a youngster!

polygon window - surfing on sine waves

alter ego of aphex twin, this album is quality ambient electro beaty gubbins you need to get.

nasum - inhale exhale

loads of people love nasum. it's all very much a shame what happened to the guy from these, and they are all sound folk (i played a gig with them in leeds a few years back whilst in narcosis), but, i think this is far and away their best album. ultra catchy crusting, grinding, riffing metal.

perth express - harrow and wealdstone

so, his hero is gone pretty much set the benchmark for this dark crustcore style, and perth express are better than many of the followers. if you've not heard them before, but like this stuff, then, you'll soon see...

philip glass - glassworks (extended)

immense classical film score style noodlings.

isole - throne of void

and here is the fourth installment of mighty Isole releases.
tell me you love this!

kylesa - tensions

out of the current bands doing this sort of thing, i, now, think that kylesa are about the best. took me a while to fully get into them, but, especially now that mastodon have turned pretty poor, this album makes up for it.

lykathea aflame - elvenfris

technical, melodic, blasting czech death metal that you have to get! quite simply one of the most underrated / unknown masterpieces of the last ten years in this genre. closest comparison at times is cryptopsy, but there's bits of absolutely everything kicking about in this monstrous album.

isole - silent ruins

and yet more... stop it you're spoiling us!

isole - bliss of solitude

so, if you like doom metal, and haven't heard isole, then, stop what you're doing, download these four albums. some absolutely immense riffs, bleak but somehow uplifting moods. they know how to rock out (a bit) but mostly it's on the slow side, not utterly slow like esoteric or catacombs, but get your ears on these!

isole - forevermore

more lovely isole tunes.

Wednesday 21 July 2010

daughters - daughters

so, is this REALLY the daughters or the jesus lizard? well. okay, so it's not the jesus lizard, but it's probably the closest thing you will find! amazingly. compare their first album thing, 'canada songs' to this and you'll remain in disbelief that it's the same band, but, give this one a chance if you love the other one, because this is a grower, addictive, and utterly immense.