Tusk's Walrus - Le Reveal

tusk

Obscura will be revealed maybe late next week/weekend.

I'm booked up for the rest of this week so won't get to listen till Monday.

tusk

In my excitement to finish the round off, I forgot to include my notes on the highest scoring song that unfortunately wasn't entered...

Notes:

Oooh i like this from the get go. super tasty. Deep beat. Ephemeral sounds in the BG. oh, we've some xylophone/steel drummage going on now too. Electro **** coming at me from all angles. Wow. Love it. This is going straight into one of my playlists. that mid pitch guitary bit is tiiiiidy. man, i need to invest in some more skullcrushers. reduces the bg music and then glitches into the next set. lovely. This is right up my alley. RIGHT UP IT. phasing bass, beauty. the main melody reminds me of another song, can't put my finger on it. Halfway in and I'm still loving it. Where's the smoke? Where's the strobe lights? Where's the Lazers? GODDAM i need a club right now. This is honestly just so perfectly put together. about 2 thirds through. I would like something before the end that blows it up a bit. oh there's a bit of a kick drum belt. something more, please. Give it to me! starting to need something to mix it up. Going overlong now with the same thing. ok,we've changed up a bit. Thin outro. Aw man I'm so heartbroken by that. It was literally a 10 until about 3/4 of the way in. The song I found was only 5:46 though. Feck sake. Just googled it and it looks like there may be two completely different versions of this. I'll rate both separately and you can tell me which one is yours.

Jurgen The German

tusk wrote: »

Klapauzius

Jurgen

with 3 points for Meshuggah - I

Notes;

heavy. Sweet intro. that kick drum. oooohhhhweeeee. headbanging instantly. is there a soft melody behid the heavy, or am i dreaming that? ok music is dying down. drums become more clear. where do we go. solo maybe? I'm anticipating. Well no. We get a sore throat. wow. why would anyone do this to their body. ok thank **** that is over. the actual vocals are grand. this reminds me a bit of jet pilot by SOAD. your man's throat must be in bits. he's actually damaging the **** out of himself there. Nah it's doing it for me. ok i like the music here nice. sweet bit of guitar. 18 more minutes. please throw in a bit of normal vocals? pls.... the music is very good. ok now we're into something different. almost sounds like a complete differnt song. music is great. Could listen to this music all day. I don't so much mind this screaming bit, but i can actually feel my vocal chords ripping listening to him and its hurting me hahaha. mad bastard. He's screaming, but he's screaming tonally which is grand. just wish he would do it in a bit more of a safe manor. oh wow. facemelter solo. wtf hahaha. that was not expected. and does not fit hahah. lads. jaysus. clearly good musicians. but by jaysus. 6 minutes in liking this vocal bit. vocal chords still shredding. power speed. would love to see a video of these lads playing. around the seven minute mark they do an extended set of one thing on guitar and drums. that's super impressive. blehahaha. the music just ends and then we've a super chill soft note guitar solo thingy haha. mad song. love the effect. this is like 12 songs rolled into one. i know it's gonna start heavy again and scare the **** out of me. oh there it is. ****. haha. like this beat and guitar. music is great in this song. can't help wanting some soft vocals in here to balance it out. Something SOAD a lot, which i love. Halfway through now, nice barrage of guitar and drums here. 12 minutes in now and i'm gettin fairly bored. There's not much differentiation throughout the song, it's mostly just barrage after barrage. which is grand, it just needs something to help with variety in there. otherwise it just feels like a long flat slog. ok we've a solo here, sounds ok, fits in somewhat with the song. nothing special though to be honest. oh wait this song is stil on ....14:40 we get some interesting guitar. expect an abrupt explosion here now........some bass...... something that sounds like a theramin in the bg haha. pretty bored now to be honest. only 4 minutes left. music is decent. just boring now after 17 minutes... it's over. thank jaysus.

BOOOOOOOOOO!

:pac:

It's a bit of a whopper tbf and Meshuggah are certainly an acquired taste, personally I love them. They are for my money the best band currently in the world. What they can do sound wise is jaw dropping. I saw them live a few years ago, about 4 rows from the front and they absolutely blew my mind, their technical ability is staggering, they are absolute machines.

tusk

Jurgen The German wrote: »

BOOOOOOOOOO!

:pac:

It's a bit of a whopper tbf and Meshuggah are certainly an acquired taste, personally I love them. They are for my money the best band currently in the world. What they can do sound wise is jaw dropping. I saw them live a few years ago, about 4 rows from the front and they absolutely blew my mind, their technical ability is staggering, they are absolute machines.

From re-reading my notes, looks like i really liked the music. Just the vocal chord shredding and length that put me off.

What would you recommend as another listen? Obviously not something that's already been entered for the remaining categories :P

Jurgen The German

tusk wrote: »

From re-reading my notes, looks like i really liked the music. Just the vocal chord shredding and length that put me off.

What would you recommend as another listen? Obviously not something that's already been entered for the remaining categories :P

All of Meshuggahs songs have the throat shredding vocals but instrument wise I'd recommend Born in Dissonance (title track of their last album). I've never been assaulted by a silverback gorilla but I would be confident that this song is the aural equivalent of it. Rational Gaze is another one that just assaults the senses, like headbutting molten tar.

Electric Nitwit

Jurgen The German wrote: »

I've never been assaulted by a silverback gorilla but I would be confident that this song is the aural equivalent of it. Rational Gaze is another one that just assaults the senses, like headbutting molten tar.

I love descriptions like this, must check them out

Tusk, great idea on the playlist hub

Not quite the impact as the original but a much more chilled impact

fixXxer

Trigger

fixXxer wrote: »

He can take as long as he needs for this one, I'm still on a high from the previous round and I'll be in the bottom 3 in this one no doubt

fixXxer

fixXxer wrote: »

Are they eggs :mad:

tusk

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Are they eggs :mad:

Spook_ie

Pretzill

tusk

New competition.

Best waiting gif gets bonus points.

Trigger

Kolido

Trigger

Trigger

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

We have a winner, as it's probably a prophecy :pac:

quickbeam

Pretzill

I'm just wondering how obscure the choices are in this round :eek:
I picture Tusk hunting for the very essence of the music, as if lost in the woods...

Electric Nitwit

Pretzill

/bonus points to Electric Nitwit ヽ（´∀｀）ノ

Rikand

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

That was creepy!

Jurgen The German

Pretzill

Spook_ie