The Drone Thread
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Posted by Lucas, 31.01.2008 - 17:58
So discuss Drone in all it's forms and shapes here, for it is a great genre. Let me start with some of my fav. bands:
The Angelic Process: Due to their nature of Drone/Doom and their awesomeness, I've included them in here. "Weighing Souls With Sand" was a frikking masterpiece and their "Coma Waering" is great too. Absolutely amazing stuff, in my opinion, though I might have overplayed it a little. Full review here..
Hjarnidaudi: Another amazing band. Their (his) debut album will schorch your balls off, so much heat is present on this album. One of my favourite bands atm and certainly one of my most-played. Full review here..
Hlidolf: The former version of Hjarnidaudi. Same dude, different music. The only album, V01D", is a collosal astral space trip, and a long one too. Seventy minutes of pure void-music, hard to digest, but good.
Furthermore I have ordered two more Drone albums, which I cannot wait to hear: "Fulci - Dead Sky/Red Lights" (more Drone Rock, I believe) and "Hyatari - The Light Carriers". I'll post my opinion on them here, hopefully soon!
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I'd rather take Drone over Noise, although both are perfectly fine with me.
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427  |
@Jups: I will definitely take those out. And about Noise.. never really understood it.  It might be weird coming from a (newcomer) Drone fan, but I don't really like noise. Then again, I've not heard much noise.If anybody can recommend me some "snow white blissed out noise", I'm all ears! 
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what?  "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
Written by [user id=989] on 11.02.2008 at 14:34 I'm going to take your Wolfmangler recommendation.  If you want some recommendations, go a page back. Or just be lazy: Hlidolf, Hjarnidaudi, Hyatari, Earth, Skullflower, Boyd Rice, Asva, Deep Well Of Horrors, Fulci, The Angelic Process. That should be about all that is mentioned.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
Just listened to the new Earth album: The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull. And it blew me away. I never liked their " tumble-weed" drone much, not even on HEX, their most gloried album, but this time it really hit me. I'm going to buy this soon, and I think I'll give HEX another go as well.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by Lucas on 16.02.2008 at 20:31 IMO Hex is just brilliant artwork and music complement each other perfectly evoking images of tumbleweeds. Currently trying to get into Bunkur - Bludgeon, live they bored me to tears but I bought their their 2LP version of Bludgeon anyway. The song Bludgeon with its 65 minutes is spread over the first three sides and side four is a cover of Burzum's Erblicket Die TЖchter Des Firmaments and clocks in at 16 minutes.
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 16.02.2008 at 20:39 Now that I've sat through The Bees.. a couple of times, I think I'll like it better. As for Bludgeon.. heard it three or four times, didn't like it. Don't think I'll ever get back to it, but then again, I can be mightily bored these days, so who knows.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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Account deleted Written by Lucas on 11.02.2008 at 18:41 Listened to some songs from Earth and Hjarnidaudi on their myspaces. Good stuff! Thanks Nervel 
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
Written by [user id=989] on 16.02.2008 at 23:57 No problem man. Glad you appreciate them.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
I'm really digging Earth's "The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull" right now. Really awesome stuff, when listening to this I really feel as if I'm in the middle of "Once Upon A Time In The West". Ordered it, together with "HEX", though i didn't like HEX nearly as much. Should also be buying some NON soon.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Visioneerie Urban Monster Posts: 810  |
I have trouble understanding drone, i guess people will say that it's based on sound ambience. I just don't seem to like it, it's quite boring, even though i'm not familiar with the genre, having listened to Sunno))) and some other stuff, i don't see what's so great about it, maybe sometime i'll think about listening to the genre while i'm high supposing alot of these musicians are under the influence of drugs while composing.
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
Written by Visioneerie on 01.03.2008 at 00:21 It's not necessary to be high to enjoy drone. I'd recommend to start out with some more Drone/Doom bands like The Angelic Process & Nadja and move on from there. (if you like it)
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Visioneerie Urban Monster Posts: 810 |
Written by Lucas on 01.03.2008 at 00:31 Well if there's some Doom mixed with it, it should be interesting, i'll try them out, thanks.
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| Visioneerie Urban Monster Posts: 810 |
Wow, i have to say truthfully that i did'nt expect much from those two bands but after i checked out their myspace pages i was wrong. In a way, very different from Sunno))), there's more feeling and intellect in their songs. I liked alot The Angelic Process, reminds me a bit of some ambient BM but more psychedelic and less reptitive. Maybe this genre isn't so brainless after all. Thanks for those recommendations dude  i'm surely going to dig deeper into this type of music, hoping to find more band like The Angelic Process and less like Sunno))) 
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
No problem at all.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Daniel Posts: 166  |
Iv'e never really heard much Drone... At all. Basically nothing. Don't know what it sounds like  .Is it like a branch from Stoner rock/metal or trance, Or fuzz or .... .Can anyone help? It seems like it'll float my boat.
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
Written by Daniel on 01.03.2008 at 02:36 Drone is basically a wall of sound, depends on the band how that wall of sound sounds like. Most bands have a bassful, droning (lol), "warm" sound to them. In that wall, melodies or vocals are 'buried'. Do yourself a favour and search for the Myspace of The Angelic Process. There's also other drone, stuff like Sunn O))) and Hlidolf, which are less overwhelming and resemble more of the 'void'. I'd suggest Hlidolf - V01D for an album in that style. Basically just slowly shifting eerie keyboards and low, deep and bass tones.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| AntaeusM Elite Posts: 4872  |
Written by Lucas on 10.02.2008 at 21:17 Hm, I can understand why someone enjoys noise, some drone bands come really close to the border what we can call music and well..what we call noise. The fun part about noise is that they are doing completely the opposite of what you are supposed to do when you compose a song. Especially after knowing some music theory, you can just find it highly entertaining to see how they slaughter all the rules of composing a song. Anyway, Melt-Banana is a really good noise rock band, try to get their album "Cell-scape". And for your information, they are coming to the Netherlands in June. In Drone, I could enjoy some Sun 0))) and Boris in the past, but by now I am really tired of it. Too repetitive, slow..and uh slow.
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i don't know who mentioned nadja here, but thanks, i've never heard of 'em before ... truth becomes death and thaumogenesis are amazing
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| Hangar XVIII Posts: 252  |
Is Sun 0))) drone? They get a lot of shit they don't deserve. They aren't really that bad, but a lot of people I know laugh at me when I say so.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Hangar XVIII on 06.03.2008 at 15:36 Yes they are drone, and are a great band. Just ognore those people and enjoy them.
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| Hangar XVIII Posts: 252 |
, yeah. Ignorance is bliss. Bad pun. Ignore-ance xD
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Account deleted Written by [user id=29088] on 05.03.2008 at 11:19 I AM a drone fan, and I think Nadja are boring as fuck
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
I think they're great, though they of course have their better and lesser albums. And about Earth. Fuck yeah. I'm a newborn fan, received The Bees and Hex yesterday and I'm thinking of buying more of that shit. I also didnt really like HEX earlier, but the cd version is much better than crappy mp3's + crappy speakers. I cannot wait for the summer, lighting up a big fat joint and sitting in my rocking chair, listening to this stuff. (have to buy such a chair first, though )
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| FOOCK Nam Posts: 3571  |
Is psychedelic doom and drone same? I knew that Esoteric is labeled as psychedelic and funeral doom, and my question is that: drone doom also has psychedelic element, so is it same as psychedelic doom, e.g Esoteric.. Esoteric is labled as psychedelic doom, do they have any drone element?
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
Not really. Psychedelic DRONE (not Doom) is a very rare genre. I only know one band: Hjarnidaudi. Check some Sunn O))), they sum up the genre better than thousands words can do. Of course, there are drone bands that incorporate different elements in their music, but still.
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