System of a Down - Mezmerize

[SponsoredByDuctTape]

FKNA! This album rocks.

Highlights:
"My cock is much bigger than yours..." (Cigaro)
"Tony Danza cuts in line..." (Old School Hollywood)

[HyRUPz]

Wasn't this already covered extensively?!?!

As Pinoir would say - SEARCH FUNCTION, JONG

[SponsoredByDuctTape]

Sorry I didn't have the "advanced copy" that Crinkle did, and the album was just released YESTERDAY, and I missed them on SNL. Other than that JONG away.

[schuss]

It's a violent pornography,
choking chicks and sodomy....

[Luke Warmwater]

I like #2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11.

[Below Zero]

It's a violent pornography,
choking chicks and sodomy....

FUCK YEAH

Sex and Violence, Sex and Violence, Sex and Violence
(sorry wrong group!)

[Crinkle]

hey now, no need to be so jealous.

[Z]

Audioslave, Audioslave, Audioslave!!!!!

One more week? I don't know if I can wait that long.


and no, im not sorry for the hijack

[wookalar]

My buddy Nick engineered their self titled album...said they were some of the most interesting musicians he ever worked with....

[SponsoredByDuctTape]

FUCK YEAH

Sex and Violence, Sex and Violence, Sex and Violence
(sorry wrong group!)

Punk's not dead!

[Crinkle]

Audioslave, Audioslave, Audioslave!!!!!

yessss. that and the new Velvet Revolver.

[Below Zero]

More Hijack....

New Disturbed this coming fall. Supposed to be the darkest album yet! Holy shit, don't know how it can get any darker!

[Z]

new Velvet Revolver.

When does that come out? First album rocked....

for some reason im a little scared, if Audioslave turned all singy and shit like "be yourself" every song, I may have to revolt...they best keep it real

[bcrider]

Welcome to the party SBDT!
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3


Here is a cool article on System too.
Article
Although it's often lumped in with lunkheaded nü-metal bands like Limp Bizkit, System of a Down makes some of the smartest music in mainstream rock. The LA-based quartet's complex instrumentation and innovative production techniques produce a provocative fusion of punk, prog, and indie rock. The driving force behind System's style is guitarist and songwriter Daron Malakian, a gearhound whose hobbies include studying sound design and engineering guitar hacks. After the band sold 5 million copies of the 2001 album Toxicity, Malakian holed up in his house and wrote more than 100 songs - roughly 30 of which are on System's upcoming two-part release, Mezmerize/Hypnotize. Mezmerize is due in May; Hypnotize will follow some six months later. Wired talked with Malakian about his magnum opera.

WIRED: It's been four years since System's last major release. What took you so long
MALAKIAN: I spent a lot of time in pre-production. There were months on end where I was locked up at home, writing and obsessing about how to record the wild sounds I had in my head.

How'd you finally pull off the brain dump?
A lot of experimentation. Like, for one song, I put together a room where I covered the walls and the ceiling with dozens of acoustic guitars. I set it up so that the noise that came out of my amp resonated with the vibration of all the guitar strings in the room and created this really unique tone.

Got any other hacks up your sleeve?
I have one of those crazy double-necked guitars like Jimmy Page played. I turned the pickups off in the bottom neck and left the top neck's pickups on. But I played the strings on the bottom neck and got an awesome drone sound that I used on a few songs. My experiments don't always work out so well, but when they do, there's a huge payoff.

Dude, you truly are a music geek.
I love the fine-tuning of it. When we were recording this album, I'd spend days working on a single snare drum sound. Music's my life. Well, I like hockey, too, but not in the same way.

Why release Mezmerize/Hypnotize in two parts?
Everybody's walking around with 10,000 MP3s in their pocket. If we put out too many songs at once, we'd be inundating people who are already suffering from music overload. This way, we're giving people time to develop a relationship with a smaller batch of songs.

So it's a statement about the experience of listening.
Absolutely. We still put our albums out on vinyl for the same reason. Because when you play a record, you can't just skip around through tracks like you do with CDs or MP3s. You actually have to get out of your chair and turn the record over when the side is done. Physical interaction requires you to focus on the songs in an entirely different way.

What are you listening to these days?
Anything by Kraftwerk - it's the most precise and perfectly produced music ever. I want to incorporate some of that stuff into our new songs, but the challenge is to do it without coming off like we're on some sort of corny retro trip. A lot of new bands come out sounding exactly like some '70s act. That's not modern rock - it's just classic rock done in modern times.

- Eric Steuer

[Luke Warmwater]

thanks BCR.

[snowsprite]

I am be liking system of a down. And the other day, my sister who is an elementary school principal, asked me what was on my ipod. So I let her have a listen and she told me that she can't believe I would listen to satanic music like that.

So yeah, it's good!

Sprite

[Sphinx]

I'd buy the stupid album off of Itunes, but then I can't use them in Windows Movie Maker. So who's going to burn the CD and send me the MP3s?

Satanic music.....that's a compliment, right?

[skideeppow]

yessss. that and the new Velvet Revolver.

Crinkle, when is the new velvet revolver due out? I have not heard a thing about this? You have a early release?
Love the soad cd u burnt for me, tanxs

[Tippster]

What are you listening to these days?
Anything by Kraftwerk - it's the most precise and perfectly produced music ever...

We are Showroom Dummies! Odd he chose Kraftwerk, but man, they take me back.....

[funkendrenchman]

Thank you for reminding me to go buy this today.

[dipstik]

When does that come out? First album rocked....

for some reason im a little scared, if Audioslave turned all singy and shit like "be yourself" every song, I may have to revolt...they best keep it real

They've been playing a few singles of the new album on the radio this week, and, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but, the new songs sound exactly like the old. Not like "cochise" was a masterpiece or anything, but it's still a little dissapointing.

[Crinkle]

Velvet Revolver Reloading

Supergroup eyes spring tour, fall album

Many doubted that the potentially combustible combination of Scott Weiland and former members of Guns N' Roses could last more than one album, but Velvet Revolver are hoping to have the last laugh. Guitarist Slash says that, after a worldwide tour, the supergroup plans to get cracking on its second record in the fall.
"As soon as we get off the road, we want to start getting the next record done and get it out," he says. "We don't want to lose momentum."

The group already has plenty of material to follow up its 2004 chart-topping debut, Contraband. "We've got tapes and tapes of stuff that we've been writing at soundcheck," Slash says. "There should be more than an album's worth of material. And then there's all the stuff we wrote before we did the first record that we never really touched."

Slash also thinks that, with the orientation phase of the band over, their sophomore effort should ! come together more easily. "When we did this first record, it was like a bunch of kids in a sandbox all thrown in at one time," he says. "Now we've managed to play together as a band, grow as a band and get to know each other as a band."

this is all i can find right now, but i know i recently read recently that they are already writing songs for the new album on their current tour. If i find more i'll post it. But can't wait.

[HyRUPz]

I'm the jong; did not know DuctedTaped ...

Anyhow, would SOTD be considered punk? No. See ZEKE, that's punk rock.

Saw Velvet Revolver in Denver - they rocked - highly recommend seeing those dudes.

Peace - A bigger Jong

[Keoni]

Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?

[Spats]

I like SOAD. Intricate, crazy stuff that makes you say "They play this on radio?"

Velvet Revolver is generic bar-band rock that wouldn't get a fan base or a record contract if there weren't famous people in it. STP were a better band in every way, and GnR -- well, I hated them, but at least they wrote songs you could remember. You could pick any Hellacopters album at random, call it the latest Velvet Revolver, and no one would notice.

Audioslave is decent, but they're much less than the sum of their parts. Listening to them makes you realize how much the percussive splat of Zach's vocals was part of the RATM sound, and how much if the energy and drive is missing when Chris Cornell is mooing "Waaaaooooeeeeayayayayayaaeaaaay" instead of Zach spitting "It's coming back around again, this is for the People of the Sun". It's like they could rock if they wanted, but choose not to because they heard that chicks like slow songs. Chris: Grow your hair out and put "Rusty Cage" on repeat until you remember how to make rock and roll again.