Pyramids are a metal band whose sound is based on droning guitars and shoegaze textures. They are from Denton, Texas. Last year, they put out an acclaimed self-titled record (TMT Review) on Hydra Head. That particular album also possessed last year's best album art, according to us. Nadja are a metal duo (Aiden Baker and Leah Buckareff) whose sound is based on droning guitars and shoegaze textu...
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According to :: Equation Records :: who is releasing Nadja's Bodycage this month Nadja is :: Aidan Baker :: guitars/vocals/drum programming Leah Buckareff :: bass/vocalsOriginally formed in 2003 as an Aidan Baker solo project, the now-duo creates ambient-drone-metal, combining ambient electronics & fragmentary vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs & dirge-like percuss...
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It's normally a horribly overdone gimmick, but the Toronto duo manages to put their own unique twist on the covers album.
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If you happened to like the previous post, then check out also this one by the same band Nadja. This is from a recent release, just last year, but I'm not sure if it's the most recent as Aidan Baker puts out so much stuff on so many different labels, it's really hard to keep of track of what they put out.Clocking in at almost half an hour, this is almost a symphony rather than a song and the al...
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If you're into the hard stuff, then check this out. Nadja loosely fall under the banner doom or sludge metal, but despite the negative connotations many people associate with the metal genre, this is no B-grade stuff.For one thing, Aidan Baker, whose project this primarily is, happens to be a classically trained flautist and also composes ambient guitar soundscapes.It's heavy stuff, but harmoni...
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Leaving work a few hours before Nadja's recent performance at Camden's Underworld, someone asked me about the gig I was planning to see that night. "Nadja...? I haven't heard of them, what do they sound like?" Generally I can answer a question like this with a few highly awkward genre compounds such as "shoegazer metal" or "experimental blackened drone", and if that fails I can approximate th...
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In compressing this track to post here tonight, I noticed that the waveform for this track, despite its blown-out sound and ultra-loud fuzz bass, never clips or flattens out. This is an apt description of Nadja's sound. Granted this is ripped from vinyl, but whatever. I'm trying to make a point here.Their sound has always been one of poetic contradiction - brutal, thrashing, pounding, almost ob...
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Avant-metal outfit Nadja typical track length is 19 minutes. Surprisingly, though, this was quite the nicest, fluffiest, loveliest evening I've spent at a gig in a long time.
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According to :: Equation Records :: who is releasing Nadja's Bodycage this month Nadja is :: Aidan Baker :: guitars/vocals/drum programming Leah Buckareff :: bass/vocalsOriginally formed in 2003 as an Aidan Baker solo project, the now-duo creates ambient-drone-metal, combining ambient electronics & fragmentary vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs & dirge-like percuss...
More >
In compressing this track to post here tonight, I noticed that the waveform for this track, despite its blown-out sound and ultra-loud fuzz bass, never clips or flattens out. This is an apt description of Nadja's sound. Granted this is ripped from vinyl, but whatever. I'm trying to make a point here.Their sound has always been one of poetic contradiction - brutal, thrashing, pounding, almost ob...
More >
If you happened to like the previous post, then check out also this one by the same band Nadja. This is from a recent release, just last year, but I'm not sure if it's the most recent as Aidan Baker puts out so much stuff on so many different labels, it's really hard to keep of track of what they put out.Clocking in at almost half an hour, this is almost a symphony rather than a song and the al...
More >
If you're into the hard stuff, then check this out. Nadja loosely fall under the banner doom or sludge metal, but despite the negative connotations many people associate with the metal genre, this is no B-grade stuff.For one thing, Aidan Baker, whose project this primarily is, happens to be a classically trained flautist and also composes ambient guitar soundscapes.It's heavy stuff, but harmoni...
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