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NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Underoath - “Driftwood”
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Profound listening
Sit quietly. Have a dip of coffee and put on a CD. Listen to it, and don’t do anything else. Just let the music flow into every bit of yourself: then you will find traces of instruments you’ve never heard, with chills running down your spine and the whole world revolves around the stereo.
Or, you may turn on your computer; connect to Facebook; have a quick look at your email box; start chatting with 128 people while reading a blog. Oh, and don’t forget to put on some music, just to have something to break the silence.
Don’t try to tell me that you’ve never experienced this kind of difference: listening to music as a priority or as a fast-food-like soundtrack for some other activities. It’s obvious that in 2011 it’s impossible to avoid such a multi-tasking life, but the future of music is in our hands (and ears). Profound listening, which means concentrating your whole self on a piece of music, is a very rare of enjoying music nowadays: and it is possible only when you have a concrete support like a stereo and a CD.
As a matter of fact, profound listening needs commitment and passion: it is an investment of time in something worthy, that actively involves the listener. If art doesn’t provoke your inner self enough to make you spend some more time on it, then it’s just trash.
Rolo Tomassi is the true mathcore revelation of the British scene, and their album Cosmology represents the highest peak of creativity in their career. If you like math metal, but also jazz, Mike Patton and all forms of eclectic metal, don’t miss them!
Sometimes an album strikes you because of an atmosphere, a general attitude, a common air you breathe while listening to it. This is what happens when listening to Solve Et Coagula by the Italian The Secret: you’ll surely feel a hidden “secret” pervading your ears, through the distorted sound of crust and black metal.
Not only power, not only violence, anyway: this Bell of Urgency is one of the examples of how much enigmatic The Secret can be when slowing down the groove. It is a reflection of their complex and profound attitude, always inspired to a constant attention to life.
Producer Kurt Ballou (Converge) contributes in many ways to shape the sound of the Trieste-based band, but perhaps the most fascinating one lies in the universe of reverbs and sound effects around the bass/guitar/drums foundation.
Don’t miss them on stage, by the way: their live performance doesn’t lose a bit of the studio quality. Good job guys!
The British fieve-piece band Heart In Hand is really breaking through the world hardcore/metal scene. Only Memories is one of those albums which send shivers down your spine and arms, when it comes to melodic sections, but never decrease the bone-crushing power of rhythm guitars.
Strongly suggested if you like Misery Signals’s school of hardcore/metal, this is one of the best metal albums of 2011 so far.
