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Man people shit on that album when it came out but it's fucking solid as hell.

I don't like Black Pyramid's vocals. But like I've said before as my years gone by I've really developed a huge distaste for clean vocals. Only a very few bands that have came out as of recently that I've liked their cleans, meaning that's all they used. the last one I remember is the band Hell from the UK.

But really everything that's stonerrock I just don't even like. I turn it on and I'm like oh I've heard this already I don't care and the vocals def help decide that.

ShaolinLambKiller wrote:I don't like Black Pyramid's vocals. But like I've said before as my years gone by I've really developed a huge distaste for clean vocals. Only a very few bands that have came out as of recently that I've liked their cleans, meaning that's all they used. the last one I remember is the band Hell from the UK.

But really everything that's stonerrock I just don't even like. I turn it on and I'm like oh I've heard this already I don't care and the vocals def help decide that.

I was going to make the same comment, clean vocals in heavy styles just don't really do it for me. The tone/riffs on that album are fucking great though.

pelliott wrote:Man people shit on that album when it came out but it's fucking solid as hell.

It was like the first wave of everyone and their mom starting a super-straightforward/arguably directive stoner band, and they were the first/best version of that. They were like the Platonic Ideal of The Sword.

BoatRich wrote:

ShaolinLambKiller wrote:I don't like Black Pyramid's vocals. But like I've said before as my years gone by I've really developed a huge distaste for clean vocals. Only a very few bands that have came out as of recently that I've liked their cleans, meaning that's all they used. the last one I remember is the band Hell from the UK.

But really everything that's stonerrock I just don't even like. I turn it on and I'm like oh I've heard this already I don't care and the vocals def help decide that.

I was going to make the same comment, clean vocals in heavy styles just don't really do it for me. The tone/riffs on that album are fucking great though.

Yea shame they are wasted basically.

as close as cleans in heavy music I do dig Jesu, that all just works for me but it's like his voice is more of a synthlike property to it.

I like the vocs on that album. But then I get tired of the overly screamy unintelligible monotone that every goddamn band has been doing since Death. I see no reason why vocals cant have melody. If its a guttural sounding growl that actually follows notes and changes, that's cool, but the monotone thing I am very sick of and it turns me off immediately.

Different strokes and all that.

I think one of the best qualities of this little community we have here is the diverse tastes. Variety is a good thing, even if it means sometimes being exposed to something that may not be your thing. If all music being made exactly lined up with my taste and preferences, I'd sell all my gear and never write a song again, as there would be no point.

I basically like my vocals to be utilized more as a percussive instrument. so I don't mind monotone.

and hell if all music was being made exactly to my taste and preferences... well there is tons of it that is... it just inspires me to do my own and I end up listening to it more so than that inspired me.

ouch skip if i gigged id be boring 1svt 1v4 2 810s.

unless it was an outdoor desert party

AxAxSxS wrote:Different strokes and all that.

I think one of the best qualities of this little community we have here is the diverse tastes. Variety is a good thing, even if it means sometimes being exposed to something that may not be your thing. If all music being made exactly lined up with my taste and preferences, I'd sell all my gear and never write a song again, as there would be no point.

Well put.

Spoiler alert.

I mean what is Doom anyways? I'm hardly a genre nazi and kind of view it as an approach or mindset more than anything else. There is so much that falls under the umbrella of stoner/doom/sludge/whateverthefuckyawannacallit.
If the musicians in question are making "heavy" music with an emphasis on riffs and good tones and songwriting as opposed to masturbatory bs that comes off as a competition in who can play fastest or have the most EXTREME brutal vocal or how long a drummer can hit the doublekickers for.
Doom.
Plus the moniker keeps the wankers away.
I normally just say "Sabbath inspired" when folks ask me about our sound. Cuts down on the explanation.

I think you get a pass based on your body of work.

Pssht.
He gets a pass.....




....based on his body.



Actually I was rambling about this the other day.
My contention was that doom is a pretty broad and ridiculous umbrella term for a lot of heavy and sometimes abrasive music that often doesn't sound anything alike....although simultaneously sometimes it sounds all too alike.
I'm a general believer in music that is honest, well written and heavy.
So, everything Ax said.

AxAxSxS wrote::lol:
opposed to masturbatory bs that comes off as a competition ... how long a drummer can hit the doublekickers for.

Hey hey! I love masturbatory bs! And right now the longest I've held a full bomb blast is 30mins straight. Boredum kicked in after that.

But anyway just saying I like gurgles more than a clean melody.

I like vocals that "fit" the music, for lack of a better term. Clean, dirty, growly, shouty, whatever- if they don't sound right, they don't sound right. Black Pyramid, to me, is a prime example of shit not sounding right vocally. And the very public meltdown their guitarist/singer had, via stonerrocklives.com, just forever turned me off of even wanting to try and like the riffs/tones.