I was introduced to quell through this board, found them on mp3.com and IUMA and then luckily found a copy of their impossible to get CD at a local Pawn Shop. I then found myself scouring the web looking for whatever I could. This CD has quickly become 1 of my favorites.
"Quell solders together piece by piece each of death, black, grind, math metal, noisecore and hardcore to come with something complex yet engaging on their 7 song CD, Sleep Soundly. Don't let the title fool you, as Quell stitch together a surgically precise three guitar attack to prove their point. not only do you get a well rounded wall of sound, you also get three part harmonies and counter riffs, they either join as one or one guitar will play a different counter riff while the two others are busy plodding away inch by inch into your brain. Close listening reveals some musical treasures that will haunt your mind as you will be re-hearing the intricate melodies when you least expect it. In the middle of the song structures they always cleverly insert a melodic three part riff that breaks the plod and the tech parts to drill further into the brain. and sometimes, all three are cross cutting their way into different paths, chaotic but in one stream, making the mid and high frequencies more interesting to hear again and again. Production is good, well balanced as to not bury the rhythm section, but make it sound solid underneath all that chaos metal tech riffing and math style erupting patterns and the acidic, bile spewing vocals. It is like crossing old At the Gates and DEP soldered to a spazztic, ultra fast but still oddtimed math metal framework but with a lot more aggression. You could also see a more emotional ambient side on two tracks, a 9/11 montage and Piano Song, on the former, a tribute of sorts to the tragedy of 9/11, it's a series of collage noises of media reports and lo-fi noise, while on the latter, it's a slow, trippy piano interlude started by several shards of glass being broken and agonized screaming, some sort of insane noise therapy before it lulls you to sleep."
they can be heard @
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/418/_quell_.html
http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/quell/
and some amatuer video @ (sometimes the host turns off server because of bandwidth so check back if site is down)
http://www.badjon.com/banddetails.php?bid=49
If you have any media links for this band please post them.
Thanks
"Quell solders together piece by piece each of death, black, grind, math metal, noisecore and hardcore to come with something complex yet engaging on their 7 song CD, Sleep Soundly. Don't let the title fool you, as Quell stitch together a surgically precise three guitar attack to prove their point. not only do you get a well rounded wall of sound, you also get three part harmonies and counter riffs, they either join as one or one guitar will play a different counter riff while the two others are busy plodding away inch by inch into your brain. Close listening reveals some musical treasures that will haunt your mind as you will be re-hearing the intricate melodies when you least expect it. In the middle of the song structures they always cleverly insert a melodic three part riff that breaks the plod and the tech parts to drill further into the brain. and sometimes, all three are cross cutting their way into different paths, chaotic but in one stream, making the mid and high frequencies more interesting to hear again and again. Production is good, well balanced as to not bury the rhythm section, but make it sound solid underneath all that chaos metal tech riffing and math style erupting patterns and the acidic, bile spewing vocals. It is like crossing old At the Gates and DEP soldered to a spazztic, ultra fast but still oddtimed math metal framework but with a lot more aggression. You could also see a more emotional ambient side on two tracks, a 9/11 montage and Piano Song, on the former, a tribute of sorts to the tragedy of 9/11, it's a series of collage noises of media reports and lo-fi noise, while on the latter, it's a slow, trippy piano interlude started by several shards of glass being broken and agonized screaming, some sort of insane noise therapy before it lulls you to sleep."
they can be heard @
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/418/_quell_.html
http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/quell/
and some amatuer video @ (sometimes the host turns off server because of bandwidth so check back if site is down)
http://www.badjon.com/banddetails.php?bid=49
If you have any media links for this band please post them.
Thanks
