Thanks for the Hollenthon recomendation!

[dolphz]

I don't recall who suggested this amazing band on this board, I know a few of you did, but thanks!! I just picked up "Vilest of Worms..." a week or so ago and I can't stop listening to it. Each time I hear something new, there is so much going on and so many layers. The musicianship is extraordinary, the songwriting is fantastic, and the production is flawless ( a GREAT headphone cd!). Anyways, just wanted to voice my appreciation of another great cd discovered on this board!

 

[Demonspell]

Let me second that! Conspirator and Woe To The Defeated are incredible! Yet another pleasant discovery owed mainly to this most enlightening of forums...

 

[Useful Idiot]

agreed, i'm really enjoying their newest cd right now thanks to people such as foxdvd and several others on this board

 

[benny]

Thank you to all who told me about Hollenthon and In The Woods. I am really liking these two bands!

 

[Demonspell]

I just heard my first In The Woods song today, Yearning The Seeds Of A New Dimension (huh?), and I thought it was great. I got it from www.filosofem.com

 

[Jo]

WOW! Hollenthon are the business! http://www.hollenthon.com/ Prrrr Demonspell cheers for that link! I advise you have a listen to Alchemist if you get the chance, very nice! (they just signed to Relapse I think, so best of luck to them).

 

[Useful Idiot]

I have a question about Hollenthon. How is their music actually made? Do people play the instruments or is all samples or something? I remember reading somewhere that there was some mastermind behind the whole thing. I'm a little boggled by it...

 

[Demonspell]

Jo...be sure to check out the Sigh song there (Scarlet Dream from the incredible Imaginary Sonicscape) if you haven't already.

 

[Jo]

Demonspell, very tidy indeed! I found the CM bio quite an amusing read! Century Media Sigh Bio
Sigh Official Website
As Hoserhellspawn once wrote...Turn up the metal!

 

[Obyeybyeogone]

Can someone tell me of a band with no vocalist (all instruments) other than liquid tension experiment?

 

[Anacrusis]

Gordian Knot and Spastic Ink come to mind first.. Some great stuff in there but also a lot of musical masturbation... Also worth checking out are Sunblaze ( http://www.sunblaze.de/ ). They are more classical than technical orientated though.. they also have a vocalist..

For fans of Hollenthon I would recommend Betray My Secrets, not that they sound anything like Hollenthon but I've found that people who dig Hollenthon also like BMS.

 

[Slynt]

Hollenthon has a "mastermind" yes, isn't it one of the guys who started either Pungent Stench or Disharmonic Orchestra???

Check out the debut album too, it's great.

 

[Lee_B]

It's Martin from Pungent Stench (now reformed with a new CD on Nuclear Blast in a couple of months). Hollenthon is just him at his home studio with a session drummer, so it's a solo project really.

 

[benighted]

I bought 4 in the woods... cd's from the end records; they were having a special...and i think they are terrible. please don't flame me, just my opinion

kevin

 

[benny]

give them to me!

 

[Orchid]

Originally posted by Useful Idiot
I have a question about Hollenthon. How is their music actually made? Do people play the instruments or is all samples or something? I remember reading somewhere that there was some mastermind behind the whole thing. I'm a little boggled by it...

Yeah, my words exactly. Could someone shed some light on this? As far as I've understood he gets a sample and builds a song around that; is this correct?

 

[Lee_B]

Yeah, my words exactly. Could someone shed some light on this? As far as I've understood he gets a sample and builds a song around that; is this correct?

Yeah, that's pretty much how it works. He finds the samples and with some clever editing and programming stitches 'em together, with the riffs working around it all. The third track on the latest album shows a great example of this, utilising Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" score and turning it into a Metal song.

The man is a genius, and I don't say that sort of thing every day..

Lee B

 

[Orchid]

Originally posted by Lee_B
He finds the samples and with some clever editing and programming stitches 'em together, with the riffs working around it all.

Must be bitchy listing all the credits!
What about copyrights? Does he just pay the wankers for letting him use the sample or are that sort of short samples free to use?

 

[Demonspell]

The fact that their music is sample-based doesn't necessarily cause me to lose or gain any respect for them...

 

[Orchid]

Originally posted by Demonspell
The fact that their music is sample-based doesn't necessarily cause me to lose or gain any respect for them...

Well, no, for me it's quite the opposite. You try making a five minutes long metal song based on a five second clip from something like the "ER" theme music, for instance.

Exactly.