Mastodontfilmsmäts
11-29-2002, 05:30 AM
…About my thoughts and worries concerning Simon Phillips and his work on “MoonBabies”!
MY WORRIES CAME TRUE!!!
The snare is too slick and flat, like the whole drum kit for that matter (except perhaps the cymbals). And why so many different sounding snares, I can at least hear four (some of ‘em with this horrible ring noise afterwards, like in the beginning of the song “Ground Zero”)? And why this strange hard sounding snare in “Ignotum Per Ignotius”?
The best snare you can find on this album, in my opinion, is when the verse (?) begins on this wonderful song “Ataraxia”, and on some of the songs you could barely hear his (wonderful) double footwork (pity) no dynamics drum wise except for Virgil’s technique.
Slick and flat like any hair-metal album of the 80:s or like some of the horrible (eunuch) double-kick German-metal bands that (oddly enough) DO exist!?!
I think that the guitars and keyboards sounding really good though!
But I think the crunchy parts should be crunchier, guitar wise (less fuzzy).
I mean there is nothing wrong with beautiful sounding music. But we all wanna have some real heaviness and separated double-kick, not that blurry stuff you may hear on this album.
Am I right or am I right???
The best double-kick sound I’ve ever listen to is probably found on some recent Fear Factory CD…
Metallica’s double-kick sounds really good too…
And the double-kick sounds ok on Meshuggah's “None” and ”Destroy Erase Improve”, really good polyrhythms there (despite the vocals, buy ‘em)… You tell me!
I really love “MoonBabies” (don’t get me wrong).
I really love every minute of all the songs, the complexity on each song is SICK.
I think it’s one of the top-10 (maybe top-5) prog albums of all time except for this production shit…
I also think the album’s set list is a bit out of order.
The set list should be looking like this:
1. Ataraxia.
2. Midnight Bell.
3. Moonbabies.
4. 70 VIR.
5. Digital Vertigo.
6. The Noble Savage.
7. Interlude in Milan.
8. Micronesia.
9. Ground Zero.
10. Ignotum Per Ignotius.
Love the stereo work (cymbal wise) that Virgil is doing, like in “Ataraxia”.
Virg’s the king of the universe!
Check out these cool demo links:
www.spasticink.com/pepper (http://www.spasticink.com/pepper)
www.spasticink.com/school (http://www.spasticink.com/school)
www.spasticink.com (http://www.spasticink.com)
Them Jarzombek guys are really good too!
Then you have one of the greatest string benders ever (if not the one):
Mattias IA Eklundh of Freak Kitchen (gonna see them in concert tonight at “club monster”).
Check out his website:
www.freakkitchen.com (http://www.freakkitchen.com)
And his string bending friend Johan Randén, who’s just released his first solo effort
“Johan: Lead Guitar” (IA wrote the whole album and played everything except the melody lead guitars). And man, the guy was just THIRTEEN years of ages when they recorded that album.
www.johanranden.com (http://www.johanranden.com)
Well, that’s all I have to say for now…
Stay proggy!
MY WORRIES CAME TRUE!!!
The snare is too slick and flat, like the whole drum kit for that matter (except perhaps the cymbals). And why so many different sounding snares, I can at least hear four (some of ‘em with this horrible ring noise afterwards, like in the beginning of the song “Ground Zero”)? And why this strange hard sounding snare in “Ignotum Per Ignotius”?
The best snare you can find on this album, in my opinion, is when the verse (?) begins on this wonderful song “Ataraxia”, and on some of the songs you could barely hear his (wonderful) double footwork (pity) no dynamics drum wise except for Virgil’s technique.
Slick and flat like any hair-metal album of the 80:s or like some of the horrible (eunuch) double-kick German-metal bands that (oddly enough) DO exist!?!
I think that the guitars and keyboards sounding really good though!
But I think the crunchy parts should be crunchier, guitar wise (less fuzzy).
I mean there is nothing wrong with beautiful sounding music. But we all wanna have some real heaviness and separated double-kick, not that blurry stuff you may hear on this album.
Am I right or am I right???
The best double-kick sound I’ve ever listen to is probably found on some recent Fear Factory CD…
Metallica’s double-kick sounds really good too…
And the double-kick sounds ok on Meshuggah's “None” and ”Destroy Erase Improve”, really good polyrhythms there (despite the vocals, buy ‘em)… You tell me!
I really love “MoonBabies” (don’t get me wrong).
I really love every minute of all the songs, the complexity on each song is SICK.
I think it’s one of the top-10 (maybe top-5) prog albums of all time except for this production shit…
I also think the album’s set list is a bit out of order.
The set list should be looking like this:
1. Ataraxia.
2. Midnight Bell.
3. Moonbabies.
4. 70 VIR.
5. Digital Vertigo.
6. The Noble Savage.
7. Interlude in Milan.
8. Micronesia.
9. Ground Zero.
10. Ignotum Per Ignotius.
Love the stereo work (cymbal wise) that Virgil is doing, like in “Ataraxia”.
Virg’s the king of the universe!
Check out these cool demo links:
www.spasticink.com/pepper (http://www.spasticink.com/pepper)
www.spasticink.com/school (http://www.spasticink.com/school)
www.spasticink.com (http://www.spasticink.com)
Them Jarzombek guys are really good too!
Then you have one of the greatest string benders ever (if not the one):
Mattias IA Eklundh of Freak Kitchen (gonna see them in concert tonight at “club monster”).
Check out his website:
www.freakkitchen.com (http://www.freakkitchen.com)
And his string bending friend Johan Randén, who’s just released his first solo effort
“Johan: Lead Guitar” (IA wrote the whole album and played everything except the melody lead guitars). And man, the guy was just THIRTEEN years of ages when they recorded that album.
www.johanranden.com (http://www.johanranden.com)
Well, that’s all I have to say for now…
Stay proggy!