the emperor...of sand

Ninny · Post by **Ninny** » 31 Mar 2017, 22:56

I bought it today

rhino · Post by **rhino** » 01 Apr 2017, 02:49

shit, i forgot to pick this up

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 01 Apr 2017, 02:54

never give up

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 01 Apr 2017, 12:18

cts
leviathan
blood mountain
emperor of sand
the hunter
omrts
remission

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 01 Apr 2017, 15:27

also ryan is a gay jew

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 01 Apr 2017, 16:08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Hf3VK42KY

thats...quite the difference

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 01 Apr 2017, 20:22

who is that beardless man playing bass and what did he do with troy

Methuselah Honeysuckle · Post by **Methuselah Honeysuckle** » 01 Apr 2017, 23:26

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 02 Apr 2017, 03:05

Opinions besides ninny and I? I know dustys listened to it but for some reason he has to listen to a record 77 times before he gives an opinion. Weird beard.

User · Post by **User** » 02 Apr 2017, 17:25

file sharing

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 02 Apr 2017, 23:18

i listened to it once through on friday while doing dishes and entertaining my son with his kitchen toys

my first impression is that it sounded like a heavy metal aerobics soundtrack from 1987

and that jaguar god was really underwhelming

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 02 Apr 2017, 23:20

User wrote:file sharing

i am uploading it

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 02 Apr 2017, 23:32

i uploaded it

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 03 Apr 2017, 01:46

aerobics soundtrack

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 03 Apr 2017, 03:16

horse dealies wrote:aerobics soundtrack

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 03 Apr 2017, 04:23

yeah jaguar god is really pretty dull i think, it sounds like last baron lite

and one of brent's solos in another song (i think it's roots remain?) sounds almost identical to a stretch of the solo in the sparrow & really close to the last solo in the czar as well. i am picking up a definite "phoning it in" vibe from his contributions

all of the other songs i like; this is a good & cohesive album. even the dreaded show yourself makes sense in concert

i am excited to jam this with the lyric sheet when the album finally arrives in the mail three days late

warner brothers slacking off thanks to digital downloads

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 03 Apr 2017, 04:26

Wait you haven't gotten your physical copy yet?

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 03 Apr 2017, 05:14

nope!

ordered it whenever i bought the ticket, so like two months early or some such

they mailed it off on the 28th

currently it is scheduled to arrive on april 3rd

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 03 Apr 2017, 14:30

i never preorder because of that stupid bullshit

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 03 Apr 2017, 15:03

never had this happen before

the eeectile dysfunction of music

rhino · Post by **rhino** » 03 Apr 2017, 16:58

cts
leviathan
blood mountain
the hunter
once more
emperor
remission

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 03 Apr 2017, 19:41

interesting to see everyone put remission in its proper place

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 03 Apr 2017, 21:45

rhino wrote:cts
leviathan
blood mountain
the hunter
once more
emperor
remission

It'll overtake hunter and omrts give it a bit

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 04 Apr 2017, 09:39

roots remain and word to the wise is one of the best one-two punches of any mastodon album

and ancient kingdom is fucking

as well

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 04 Apr 2017, 09:45

aye steambreather/roots/wise is my fav part of the album

how about that end riff in scorpion breath m8?

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 04 Apr 2017, 09:46

i dont remember it offhand, i am 1.5 songs away and then i will tell you

this tweedly bit in the middle of the unfortunately named clandestiny is really fun

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 04 Apr 2017, 09:57

jorsh wrote:aye steambreather/roots/wise is my fav part of the album

how about that end riff in scorpion breath m8?

just another crushing riff on this album, no big deal really

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 05 Apr 2017, 22:12

i got my copy in the mail yesterday

and then i got another copy

i think maybe you got a copy when you ordered tickets; that is the only thing that makes sense

in which case i paid for an album unnecessarily, which annoys me

anyway i now have two copies of emperor of sand

so if anyone wants one, i could send it to you via the post

but only one

Methuselah Honeysuckle · Post by **Methuselah Honeysuckle** » 05 Apr 2017, 22:44

Send it my way

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 06 Apr 2017, 00:06

i will do this thing

Ninny · Post by **Ninny** » 06 Apr 2017, 00:29

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 06 Apr 2017, 01:09

Word to the wise
Roots Remain
Steambreather
Jaguar God
Sultans Curse
Scorpion Breath
Ancient Kingdom
Clandestine (refuse to call it by its stupid ass name)
Precious Stones
Andromeda
Show Yourself

The only stinker is poo yourself. Otherwise it's solid ass fuck. Troys repetition of "it never ends" is mildly annoying that's why andromeda is so low

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 06 Apr 2017, 01:16

show yourself is kind of bleh, but at least it has the decency to be concise. jaguar god is just this big blob to me, i'm still waiting for it to come together

Ninny · Post by **Ninny** » 06 Apr 2017, 01:58

Potential album of the year

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 07 Apr 2017, 11:43

the new immolation is a contender as well. stellar.

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 07 Apr 2017, 11:50

horse dealies wrote:show yourself is kind of bleh, but at least it has the decency to be concise. jaguar god is just this big blob to me, i'm still waiting for it to come together

jaguar god is fucking mint. i got it on listen one. its a curious one for sure. at first, it was the album highlight for me on first listen. with subsequent listens it dipped to the middle of the pack. now like 2 weeks later its back at the top again. listening to the solo right now as i type this. fuck. so good.

User · Post by **User** » 08 Apr 2017, 11:48

new immolation

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 08 Apr 2017, 13:53

User · Post by **User** » 09 Apr 2017, 10:24

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 09 Apr 2017, 23:56

is the new immolation called emperor of sand?

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 09 Apr 2017, 23:57

jorsh wrote:
horse dealies wrote:show yourself is kind of bleh, but at least it has the decency to be concise. jaguar god is just this big blob to me, i'm still waiting for it to come together

jaguar god is fucking mint. i got it on listen one. its a curious one for sure. at first, it was the album highlight for me on first listen. with subsequent listens it dipped to the middle of the pack. now like 2 weeks later its back at the top again. listening to the solo right now as i type this. fuck. so good.

oh, well in that case

i keep finding new things to like and admire about literally every other song on the album except this one

the bridge into the solo and then the riff / solo combination in ancient kingdom is currently my favorite moment on the album, it makes me feel so warm and fuzzy

rhino · Post by **rhino** » 10 Apr 2017, 02:03

Ima jam this

Ninny · Post by **Ninny** » 10 Apr 2017, 02:46

droidspawn · Post by **droidspawn** » 10 Apr 2017, 14:53

I'm a suspect now
I'm a vagabond tramp
Living out on a limb

dirty b. hinds vocals :squarsh:

Ninny · Post by **Ninny** » 11 Apr 2017, 01:13

Excellent song

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 20 Apr 2017, 00:09

well that show was fucking incredible

missed russian circles because the line to get in went allll the way down the street, around the block and back the other way to the rear of the venue. this was because they had metal detectors out front, which the hard-on bearer behind me said he had never seen in 50 shows at the warfield. we speculated that it was something edom requested

also while we were in line jesse hughes came by and started to go into the strip club next door before someone told him he had to be onstage in 20 minutes

anyway russian circles is a great band so missing them left me with the taste of poo in my mouth

edom were a little shticky for my taste but really fun; several times i found myself just laughing at jesse's ridiculous antics. (after four or so songs he told a story of how he was once a stripper in san francisco. so he is kind of like phil anselmo in the storytelling regard

)

they opened with i only want you, which brent came out and played on. and they closed with speaking in tongues and did it sort of how queens does regular john, with a really long dueling guitar solo in the middle, except jesse broke a guitar string so they followed that with a combination bass-and-drum solo and then picked the song back up to finish. it was a

rendition

oh and dave catching is on tour with them as the second guitarist, which was also

mastodon played the best of the six times i've seen them. they were super duper tight and very high energy. troy was his usual beastly self. bill was way more animated than usual. sobriety serves him well, it would seem. the crowd was the most excited and roughest i have ever seen at a mastodon show. and since i hadn't been on the floor for any show since meshuggah in 2013 it actually felt good to push people around and get pushed around some

as an aside from the other thread, feast your eyes was a horse race live. jorsh you need to go to minneapolis or something and check them out, you will change your opinion of that song

all of the new songs were massive, with the exception of show yourself which was fine. it was the only song of the entire set that people didn't go 100% apeshit for

and they added steambreather to the set

mastodon played:

sultan's curse
divinations
the wolf is loose
crystal skull
ancient kingdom
bladecatcher
black tongue
colony of birchmen
ember city
megalodon
andromeda
oblivion
feast your eyes
show yourself
precious stones
roots remain
chimes at midnight
steambreather
clandestiny
mother puncher
cycle of cysquatch
march of the fire ants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlUaAMhCU3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHaLx5PWl3E

Methuselah Honeysuckle · Post by **Methuselah Honeysuckle** » 20 Apr 2017, 01:21

Dave catching

happiness and harmony · Post by **happiness and harmony** » 20 Apr 2017, 02:24

his beard has only gotten more zz toppian

rhino · Post by **rhino** » 20 Apr 2017, 06:59

the mastodons