Sleep Token

SG John said:
I always thought Ghost was a store brand version of Merciful Fate. But, 25 years too late.
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If the two sounded anything alike, I would agree more. It just doesn't sound as "evil" as the image would suggest. I guess I wouldn't consider them alike aside from the facepaint/costumes/theatrics of it all.

Speaking of Merciful Fate, I was just at a buddy's place where I found a couple of LaVey's books on a shelf, ignited a fun conversation about King's preferred philosophy vs. say, Nergal from Behemoth, or the guys from Gorgoroth.
 
eclecticsynergy said:
Sleep Token a newer evolution of the band Sleep?
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Mitch Pearrow SJMP said:
Not even close..
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Yeah Sleep Token would be like the nice kid you know down the street who dresses a lil odd but you still invite to BBQs and would even consider letting your daughter hang out with because he's not really a threat.

SLEEP on the other hand is the sweaty, tattoo covered guy you see around town, reeks of dank weed, always working on his beat up 20 year old car and you wont let your children near him
 
mcblink said:
What's the deal with these guys? Anyone listening to them? On the surface, at least to me, this seems a little bit like store brand Ghost. But, they seem to be going viral. I dunno, what do you guys think? Gold or garbage?




They're all anonymous, nobody knows who these people are. I hear that there's some Twatter sleuthing going on, with some interesting theories. I'm sure this is contributing to their rather sudden rapid growing exposure.
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I'm postulating end result of methamphetamine brain damage, or possibly PCP.
 
Clockworkmike said:
Any opinions of Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats?
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I still haven't listened to much of them, surprisingly. Friends keep saying I'd like them. I like what I've heard on WMBR and WZBC. I'm actually streaming them from Rough Trade in NYC right now, and I do like them. I'd like some more hooks, and solos. But, there are plenty of changes and twin guitar harmonies, which are nice.

A few other bands I like lately are Horisont, Mothership, Graveyard (RIP, but still listen to them), and Royal Thunder. Saw Royal Thunder open for Pentagram and Brant Bjork, and they were the surprise of the night. Best band on the bill by far. Granted, Pentagram fired their singer a few days before that show, and the guitar player took control of the band.

Then, I was totally psyched to see a new Hellacopters record this past year, and Gluecifer back on tour. Saw Gluecifer open for Motὂrhead and Nashville Pvssy many years ago. What an amazing night of blistering loud rawk and roll.
 
SG John said:
I still haven't listened to much of them, surprisingly. Friends keep saying I'd like them. I like what I've heard on WMBR and WZBC. I'm actually streaming them from Rough Trade in NYC right now, and I do like them. I'd like some more hooks, and solos. But, there are plenty of changes and twin guitar harmonies, which are nice.

A few other bands I like lately are Horisont, Mothership, Graveyard (RIP, but still listen to them), and Royal Thunder. Saw Royal Thunder open for Pentagram and Brant Bjork, and they were the surprise of the night. Best band on the bill by far. Granted, Pentagram fired their singer a few days before that show, and the guitar player took control of the band.

Then, I was totally psyched to see a new Hellacopters record this past year, and Gluecifer back on tour. Saw Gluecifer open for Motὂrhead and Nashville Pvssy many years ago. What an amazing night of blistering loud rawk and roll.
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You know, if Bobby Libeling would've kept his act together, gotten off the drugs and took some initiative; Pentagram could've been so much bigger than they were. They were basically America's answer back to Black Sabbath in a lot of ways ( but let's be honest, there's only one Sabbath lol). But they had a killer sound and were definitely one of the pioneers and architects of the early doom/stoner metal scene.

I always liked Nashville Pvssy too as sleazy, booze and coke fueled speedy rock act. Pretty cool they were split down the middle with 2 girls and 2 guys in a band like that especially lol.

Of course, Motorhead is one of my favorite bands of all time and one of the finest 3 pieces ever assembled ( even great as 4 piece).

The thing with Uncle Acid that I find funny, is how I first heard them. It was my dad about 12 years ago, who came by my house and had their album Blood Lust. He had just gotten it because he was in a record shop and the guy behind the counter was blasting it in the store. My dad was always into rock but the heaviest bands he would listen to would be like Sabbath or Uriah Heep. So that was a little odd seeing him into something like that and then even odder showing ME that lol
 
Clockworkmike said:
You know, if Bobby Libeling would've kept his act together, gotten off the drugs and took some initiative; Pentagram could've been so much bigger than they were. They were basically America's answer back to Black Sabbath in a lot of ways ( but let's be honest, there's only one Sabbath lol). But they had a killer sound and were definitely one of the pioneers and architects of the early doom/stoner metal scene.

I always liked Nashville Pvssy too as sleazy, booze and coke fueled speedy rock act. Pretty cool they were split down the middle with 2 girls and 2 guys in a band like that especially lol.

Of course, Motorhead is one of my favorite bands of all time and one of the finest 3 pieces ever assembled ( even great as 4 piece).

The thing with Uncle Acid that I find funny, is how I first heard them. It was my dad about 12 years ago, who came by my house and had their album Blood Lust. He had just gotten it because he was in a record shop and the guy behind the counter was blasting it in the store. My dad was always into rock but the heaviest bands he would listen to would be like Sabbath or Uriah Heep. So that was a little odd seeing him into something like that and then even odder showing ME that lol
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It funny, back in 1970 Columbia Records was looking for an answer to Black Sabbath. Sandy Pearlman had his Stony Brook University friends in Stalk Forrest Group/Soft White Underbelly get a heavier sound, and change their name to Blue Öyster Cult. Just like Motörhead, it’s amazing how many bands and genres were influenced by Sabbath.
 
SG John said:
It funny, back in 1970 Columbia Records was looking for an answer to Black Sabbath. Sandy Pearlman had his Stony Brook University friends in Stalk Forrest Group/Soft White Underbelly get a heavier sound, and change their name to Blue Öyster Cult. Just like Motörhead, it’s amazing how many bands and genres were influenced by Sabbath.
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Sabbath for lack of a better phrase, were game changers. In rock, it was almost a BC/AD situation where everything post 1970 had some stamp on it going back to Sabbath pretty much.

BOC is another band I really love. Living in a rural ass state and growing up in the 90s pre-internet capabilities like today; it was really hard getting to discover a lot of great bands past and present, outside of whatever albums I could scarf off my dad or my whatever my uncle would turn me on to.

I got into BOC from watching this low budget comedy film called The Stoned Age that is heavily centered around the band and namely "Don't Fear The Reaper", when I was 13. I ended up going to a local record store and finding some lone cassette of Career Of Evil: The Best of Blue Oyster Cult and wore it out until I was able to seek some actual albums like Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune and On Your Feet Or On Your Knees ( legendary album cover).
 
Clockworkmike said:
Sabbath for lack of a better phrase, were game changers. In rock, it was almost a BC/AD situation where everything post 1970 had some stamp on it going back to Sabbath pretty much.

BOC is another band I really love. Living in a rural ass state and growing up in the 90s pre-internet capabilities like today; it was really hard getting to discover a lot of great bands past and present, outside of whatever albums I could scarf off my dad or my whatever my uncle would turn me on to.

I got into BOC from watching this low budget comedy film called The Stoned Age that is heavily centered around the band and namely "Don't Fear The Reaper", when I was 13. I ended up going to a local record store and finding some lone cassette of Career Of Evil: The Best of Blue Oyster Cult and wore it out until I was able to seek some actual albums like Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune and On Your Feet Or On Your Knees ( legendary album cover).
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There was a big movement to ban Sabbath from the airwaves in early 1970s, they said it was full of secret occult suicidal messages.
Agents of Fortune was a great album, that's certain. It's one of those benchmark achievements.
Funny in the 70s nobody would play pink floyd on the air and the album outsold the Beatles....just goes to show you. The lack of airplay made them a sensation.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
There was a big movement to ban Sabbath from the airwaves in early 1970s, they said it was full of secret occult suicidal messages.
Agents of Fortune was a great album, that's certain. It's one of those benchmark achievements.
Funny in the 70s nobody would play pink floyd on the air and the album outsold the Beatles....just goes to show you. The lack of airplay made them a sensation.
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Absolutely! Sometimes the censors only do a band a favor when they go after them.

Iron Maiden received little to no major airplay throughout their career, yet went on to collectively sale over 130 million albums.

The PMRC created their "Filthy 15" list of songs they deemed immoral and all it did was make people buy the records, including giving recognition to a few bands that were relatively unknown to the masses such as Venom and Mercyful Fate.

Jerry Lee Lewis ( before the whole cousin marriage thing) was deemed to be poisoning America's youth with his high energy piano rock n roll and it only drove fans to their TV sets. Elvis was shown gyrating his hips and the censors wanted his head. The Rolling Stones sang about "Spending the Night Together" on Ed Sullivan and parents were outraged. The Doors sang about how " They Couldn't Get Much Higher" and the producers banned them.

Everything backfired and made people just want it more lol guess there's no such thing as Bad Publicity
 
Now THIS is a masked band that grabbed my attention.

This dude has some powerful vocals. This guy sounds just as primally angry as Philip used to. Or Corey. Maybe even more, and he probably is, in all reality.

His stage presence is undeniable and I see many early unhinged Philip Anselmo-isms in his performance.

I'm not sure if I love it or not lol
Kinda on the fence. It's badass on the one hand, and almost over the edge for me, on the other. Either way, it definitely has my attention!




Sounds kinda like Barney Greenway at times too
 
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