could some English person post the new WIRE's Kayo Dot review here please?

[lizard]

I'm going to listen to the Turilli CD when I wake up from my nap.

 

[avi]

I'm going to listen to the Turilli CD when I wake up from my nap.

so totally not tr00 metal

 

[lizard]

the nap AND Turilli. I am so not grym.

 

[deadair]

...some guy at wire read IW... it's kinda blowing my mind.

but, great review... WATCH THE SALES BOOM

 

[FuSoYa]

Will it really have an affect?

My experience says no based on the awesome press motW used to get but the zero sales that reflected that awesome press.

 

[avi]

well, at least stores generally stock Tzadik releases or can order them from Caroline. no so easy with DS.

 

[lizard]

but now that you are on "Tszadik" do you find you have better distribution, where people can actually find it?

 

[mindspell]

Distribution is good in Canada too, Koch handles it around here...

 

[FuSoYa]

Wait are you saying DS had no distribution?

 

[mindspell]

DS is considered an import here so it is distributed but requires a special order and the CD most likely will cost in 28$ range

BTW before you ask, yes I did get it

 

[avi]

I guess DS uses Telegraph/IDN and they just went bankrupt, so yeah - no distro.

 

[avi]

to clarify: telegraph went broke, but IDN doesn't list em either. again, no distro.

 

[Baliset]

telegraph is under labels on the site.

 

[avi]

but Telegraph is bankrupt and doesn't list DS

 

[Baliset]

true

 

[rachmiel]

wire is on our NUTZ

 

[Josh Seipp]

holy shit congratulations you guys

 

[Static]

Choirs of the Eye takes the bipolar principle established by the likes of Nirvana to new extremes.

Wait...did I read that bit right...!?

 

[Static]

got me thinking a bit that the bands that are commonly hailed as 'doing the most for the scene' and a la Lord of Chaos touted as being the most influential (implication: good) on metal (Venom et al) are actually bands that have probably done more harm than good in the ways that they've influenced "Metal".

I never understand comments like that because when a band is extremely influential for as much harm they do, they pave way for something good. Venom may have sucked but they have influenced 100s+ of artists that don't suck. For all the Mayhems and Darkthrones you've got your Enslaveds and Emperors, Sighs and Immortals (weird sentence). Venom did more good than bad when it comes to paving the way for better artists, but more bad than good when it comes to the actual music they made. The same can be said for Nirvana (who I actually like). People complain they did more harm than good...howso? There are still complex artists around, they're just underground, it just changed the mainstream and actually helped some good artists to surface (between the utter shit).

I agree Venom definately didn't help the image of metal though, that's for sure. Haha.

 

[Demonspell]

I won't get into whether Nirvana's impact was mostly negative, but claiming that soft-loud dynamics were established by them was ludicrous...if anything, they made a formula out of contrasts that had been common in nearly all forms of music for years.

PS Love the umbilical metaphor.