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  1. Alec Ferris
    Fuck the slo-mo.
  2. Alec Ferris
    I can think of plenty of bands who could muster a similar level of anger (Sepultura at their peak and Gallows on Grey Britain spring to mind, plus Tool when they decided to really vent). That's not what Muse were about though- it's more the issue that RatM totally committed to what they were doing regardless of how silly it could (and did) sound in other hands.
  3. Alec Ferris
    Remind me what it does to you
  4. Alec Ferris
    He could've just laid on the distortion. I remember us discussing that as a substitute for harsh vox ages ago.
  5. Alec Ferris
    It's more a matter of what they could do if they really committed to those themes and didn't use that "hey, we're just messing!" thing as a crutch.
  6. Alec Ferris
    Presumably he means "went for broke and howled it" rather than that odd high-pitched thing.
  7. Alec Ferris
    I've been thinking this since I first heard the song.
  8. Alec Ferris
    Says the guy who took Guiding Light as a username. Despite my reservations, I like the song.
  9. Alec Ferris
    I do, and dollop, what I want.
  10. Alec Ferris
    You can't dollop on enough degradation for that.
  11. Alec Ferris
    It always seemed to fit the album for me. An early warning that this was going to go to some strange places.
  12. Alec Ferris
    I wish I could go back and hear it again for the first time. I remember the hairs standing up when it reached that first pre-chorus build.
  13. Alec Ferris
    First examples that sprang to mind. I'll try and vary it- I feel I could swap in Neurosis, At the Drive-In (now there's a band who came up with sillier stuff than Muse and got away with it through sheer conviction), Tool, NIN or the old 'shug. You get what I'm driving at here, though?
  14. Alec Ferris
    Seems to me that they're using it as a crutch. I just can't help thinking a lot of their recent output would've been better if they hadn't leant on the Monty Python aspect so much, and gone in with the level of commitment you see in Converge, Deftones and Gojira. I mean, I like Psycho, but I'd rather the tone of the song was meaner, nastier. It'd fit nicely in the general area of Nothing's Funny or Black Bubblegum by The Dillinger Escape Plan. As it is, they've been held back for a while by this "hey, we're just mucking around!" vibe. I think the best work they've done on the last two albums has often been the more sincere stuff (though that's been a mixed bag- you have Exogenesis and Save Me on one side, and then there's Guiding Light).
  15. Alec Ferris
    Gotta love a contrarian, eh?
  16. Alec Ferris
    I can see the sergeant stuff getting old. Don't think it'll put me off the song, but it should've been its own interlude really.
  17. Alec Ferris
    I thought it could groove a little more, personally. I'm hoping we get a bit of Abe Cunningham-style double-kick bounce on the mid tempo tracks. I feel a bit of that might have enhanced Psycho. Yeah, I like the mixing with the drums. The sound's not as heavy as you'd get with Gojira, for example, but then it doesn't have to be.
  18. Alec Ferris
    Maybe I should've just gone with highfalutin, complex and cerebral music. You won't find any of that in my collection.
  19. Alec Ferris
    Yeah, I was hoping he'd go for something more than just a stomp.
  20. Alec Ferris
    And all of us wouldn't know real, heavy rock if it dropped on our heads. Thank you.
  21. Alec Ferris
    I prefer something just a little busier. Have a listen to something like Psycho Holiday (hey hey!) by Pantera, or Royal by Deftones, and I think you'll see what I mean.
  22. Alec Ferris
    I'd have preferred a groovier performance from Dom. Something along the lines of Deftones, though I think the big stomp suits it fine.
  23. Alec Ferris
    I thought similarly. I wanted Dom to push it a bit more. I think I'd have preferred if they'd foregone the silliness and played it darker, but it's still a lot of fun.
  24. Alec Ferris
    This.
  25. Alec Ferris

    Possibly because it comes off a bit like Opeth's Heritage in that you're expecting heavy but it doesn't really arrive.

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