Way out on the edge.
I bring you two bands that deserve mention for being pioneers in the realm of the bizarre:
The Mars Volta is comprised of former members of At the Drive-in, a band I've only just been introduced to ( thanks Rob ). Mars Volta is a group with some serious delusions of grandeur. Delusion it may be, but they'll easily drag you right into their dreamscape. Their first full length album, 'De-loused in the Comatorium', contains mammoth eighteen minute tracks that seem closer to classical composition than blues based rock. Each track sounds as if it were composed of a thousand guitar layers, each vying for your attention.
Mr. Bungle is comprised of former members of Faith No More. Equally ambitious, but more for the variety of their sounds and influences than for the length of their tracks. Again I must use the metaphor of dream to describe this band, but the dream of Mr. Bungle isn't the long, coherent dream you love to enjoy. Mr. Bungle brings you the constantly changing landscape of nightmare in which you might be a god in one moment and a cartoon cat in the next.
Both bands have production values that are completely off the scale. Both bands scoff at traditional composition methods. Both bands deserve your immediate attention.
The Mars Volta is comprised of former members of At the Drive-in, a band I've only just been introduced to ( thanks Rob ). Mars Volta is a group with some serious delusions of grandeur. Delusion it may be, but they'll easily drag you right into their dreamscape. Their first full length album, 'De-loused in the Comatorium', contains mammoth eighteen minute tracks that seem closer to classical composition than blues based rock. Each track sounds as if it were composed of a thousand guitar layers, each vying for your attention.
Mr. Bungle is comprised of former members of Faith No More. Equally ambitious, but more for the variety of their sounds and influences than for the length of their tracks. Again I must use the metaphor of dream to describe this band, but the dream of Mr. Bungle isn't the long, coherent dream you love to enjoy. Mr. Bungle brings you the constantly changing landscape of nightmare in which you might be a god in one moment and a cartoon cat in the next.
Both bands have production values that are completely off the scale. Both bands scoff at traditional composition methods. Both bands deserve your immediate attention.
posted by Q. at 10:06:00 AM
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And to think, I was this close to seeing the Mars Volta, too!! They were opening for A Perfect Circle when they came to spokane... before Maynard got sick and the show got cancelled. It would have been awesome... seeing Maynard, James Iha, and Flea all in one night.
Lol... Quinton introduced me to Mr. Bungle a couple of years ago, and I just laughed. I couldn't take it for too long.
You need to listen to Panic! At the Disco.
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