Album Rating: 5.0

It isn’t the thing I mostly pursue, but it’s a huge bonus in a world full of brickwalled, sterile metal recordings. It’s the cherry on top of a brilliantly written album.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, I agree there with you. The production is top notch and as an audiophile I really appreciate outstanding non-brickwalled production works such as this, but I'm not judging that when I review the music and I stand by every single thing I stated in my first post. We disagree about the music and that is fine haha

i gotta check this eventually

Too much squoobling imo

Album Rating: 5.0

Rules ahrd yea

Exactly the right amount of squoobling, skronking and squelching

I wish I could share this fetish with you

Don't let your dreams be memes

Album Rating: 4.0

the bandcamp description of this album is borderline copypasta

Music is not intended as a mere sequence of riffs that sounds well one after the other, but is now a naturally ordered structure where almost every musical event refers to the past and/or predicts the future, generating very layered and complex patterns dominated by polyphony and polyrhythms and where each instrument has its own role and is essential in the whole.
The music represents a merging of many different styles, the most prominent ones being extreme death/black metal, avantgarde, jazz, post-core, doom/sludge and ambient.
The composition process of Imperative Imperceptible Impulse has been heavily influenced by 20th century classical composers like Stravinsky, Šostakóvič, Xenakis, Scelsi, Penderecki and Ligeti, to name a few.
Both theconcepts of harmony and melody have been put into discussion to get a music where harmony is obtained by means of disharmony and melody by dissonances.
To push this method even further, a unique tuning system has been conceived, to allow a new harmonic vocabulary and to eradicate the players from the comfort zone of the usual melodic patterns everyguitar/bass player is used to.
The quartet is known to adopt a DIY approach in its most authentic meaning.
To be able to keep every single step of the recording process under control and meet the band's high expectations, not only all Ad Nauseam records are self-produced, but each band member also contributes researching, designing and building most of the equipment used for the recordings (drums parts, cabinets, bass/guitar/studio related
electronics) and collecting mainly vintage, odd and uncommon gears.
Ad Nauseam takes a step back from the synthetic, flat and fake sound of modern production trends, going in the opposite direction, again adopting the same principles that are used to record classical music: less is more.
An extreme effort has been put to find a way to record the most natural, dynamic and tridimensional sound possible.
For this reason, instead of focusing on the mixing and post-production phase, an insane amount of attention has been paid studying how to capture the best sound since the very beginning.
The maniacal assembly and calibration of the audio chainallowed to nearly eliminate the use of equalizers and dynamiccompressors.
Saying it with Steve Albini: "I want to hear the sound of theinstrument, not the sound of the processor".

Always: "Sayin it with Steve" (2)

Album Rating: 5.0

"I want to hear the sound of the instrument, not the sound of the processor"



This is me with bass tones. Unsurprisingly the bass tone on this album is really good

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Good one senetrix&park. That s what I ve been shouting about on this thread.

Album Rating: 4.0

i know. i checked their bandcamp after seeing your comment and almost spit out my drink

thank you for your service

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

No. Tk u for pasta boldness.

Today on "Sayin' It With Steve":

>The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.

I think this is the least motivating quote collection i have ever read: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/steve_albini_556011

"New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets."

come get bagels w/ me

If I didn't just hop the pond from JFK to the UK like 2 weeks ago - u know I would