tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8232010566678763432023-11-15T11:04:41.073-05:00Loud NoisesTheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.comBlogger1342125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-71951893875563318462018-10-02T17:13:00.003-04:002018-10-02T17:13:50.198-04:00Something Stirs... Well hey there gang, long time no type! How've you been? Me, I've been good -- busy, but good. And that's kinda why I'm here. Now, before you go getting your hopes hoisted high or anything, no, I'm not back in the proverbial blogging saddle, or at least not yet anyways. As I've said before, I'd love to get back to writing about music on a regular basis, but that's all TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-84720570921469534252016-06-08T15:03:00.002-04:002016-06-08T15:03:34.132-04:00Loud Noises Indefinite Hiatus (Frowny Face) Oh hey there. Haven't seen you in a while -- through no fault of yours, of course. That's actually what I'm here to talk about today. It is with a proverbial heavy heart (and a literal heavy beard) that I follow in the footsteps of some of our favourite bands and announce that Loud Noises is going (or has already gone) on indefinite hiatus.
Any ofTheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-88435923869432770582016-03-29T18:32:00.003-04:002016-03-29T18:32:39.302-04:00Sunday the 21st (of February): Thrice - Blood on the Sand In the vein of new music, I'm very excited to be able to write a post featuring new music from this band. I've been a fan of Thrice for longer than I've know most of my current group of friends; they're one of those bands that's been with me through a lot, so I was disheartened, to say the least, when I read about the band's hiatus back in 2012.
TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-83374001761637967042016-03-29T17:56:00.001-04:002016-03-29T17:56:50.828-04:00Saturday the 20th (of February): Circles - Sand and Wind Just because I'm super far behind doesn't mean I don't still get to feature the latest and greatest from some great bands. Imagine if I limited myself to stuff I'd heard by the supposed date of these posts? I'd be even worse off, no doubt.
I am, however, definitely better off for hearing the newest track from the Australian prog djentlemen in TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-34990808662140928582016-03-27T14:26:00.002-04:002016-03-27T14:26:26.228-04:00Friday the 19th (of February...): Sumac - Rigid Man Time for a big ol' Easter slab of crushingly heavy blackened post metal courtesy of supergroup-of-sorts Sumac (even though, yes, this is supposed to be a post for near the end of February instead of near the end of March...)
Featuring members of Baptists, Russian Circles, and Isis, Sumac might just be the most super supergroup you've never TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-73405152238885004052016-03-23T13:23:00.000-04:002016-03-23T13:23:00.086-04:00Thursday the 18th (of February): The Contortionist - Cortical I'm only going back a couple of years for this Throwback Thursday post, but that doesn't make it any less of a corker. Yes, I just said corker. I'm old. And apparently British inside. Any road, we're headed back to 2012 for a track from The Contortionist's sophomore LP Intrinsic.
"Cortical" is a great example of the kind of progressive metal TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-88744731339381592482016-03-19T17:20:00.001-04:002016-03-19T17:25:52.085-04:00Wednesday the 17th (of February): Wintergatan - Marble Machine There's a decent chance you've already seen my next pick for you, given that it's been making the internet rounds lately, even gracing "mainstream" news sites and Facebook feeds for a couple of days. But this piece of music is the product of such a feat of design and engineering that I can't help but point you at it again. And hey, this is a Wednesday post, so it's TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-81604931665900314412016-03-19T15:09:00.001-04:002016-03-19T15:09:15.008-04:00Tuesday the 16th (of February): Latitudes - Ordalian Any Loud Noises reader who's been doing their homework should know by now that I'm a fan of instrumental metal, which means that I'm always excited to find new instrumental bands who're doing something cool other than just eschewing vocals. And while the Brits in Latitudes aren't necessarily blowing the doors off the instrumental genre (hell, their latest release Old TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-79249840843816537782016-03-14T18:21:00.002-04:002016-03-14T18:21:50.042-04:00Monday the 15th (of February): Valleys - Choices Unsurprisingly, my alliterative attack continues with a little Metalcore Monday for you, featuring a young North Carolina band called Valleys that happen to have picked an ambitious concept for their first LP. Experiment One: Asylum, out last month, is a fictionalized account of the Multiple Personality Disorder of it's main character Asylum. High-brow concept meets tastyTheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-45774384407056050152016-03-13T18:38:00.001-04:002016-03-13T18:38:11.041-04:00Sunday the 14th (of February): Scale the Summit - Balkan I don't have a love song in mind for your much-belated February the 14th post, so I'll default to my typical trope of alliteration for a bit of instrumental romance in the form of some Sunday Scale the Summit.
Scale the Summit have released a couple of albums since 2011's The Collective, and they've been pretty good, but if I had to pick I think TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-39987015879492560632016-03-12T10:19:00.002-05:002016-03-12T10:19:47.599-05:00Saturday the 13th (of February): Visions - Delete the Sky The vagaries of fate, combined with my own procrastinatory predilections, make my catching up on Songs of the Day for you guys seem next to impossible. But am I going to let that stop me from fighting the good fight, from raging against the dying of the proverbial light? Fuck no. The struggle to overcome impossible odds is what makes any hero's journey compelling in the TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-13091206802041485012016-02-29T18:04:00.001-05:002016-02-29T18:04:51.754-05:00Friday the 12th: Fallujah - The Void Alone As with your Wednesday post a couple of days ago, lucky me doesn't have to stretch to hard to get all alliterative on you for your Friday post today. Somebody or something somewhere must be smiling down on and/or up at me, because we've all recently been treated to some brand new Fallujah.
In case you need it spelled out: this is cause for TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-79639238835361751892016-02-28T13:40:00.001-05:002016-02-28T13:40:18.652-05:00Thursday the 11th: The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats If, like me, you need a bit of a 'pick-me-up' on this Sunday afternoon in late February, then why not pretend it's a Thursday in mid-February so that we can rock the block together with your Throwback Thursday post for today.
Now, before you die-hard metalheads get your leathers in a twist about my choice of decidedly un-metal song today, I referTheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-1338200302563857282016-02-27T16:30:00.002-05:002016-02-27T16:30:21.609-05:00Wednesday the 10th: Walls of Jericho - Relentless It's not always the easiest thing to find something suitably alliterative for a Wednesday post (assuming of course I don't want to just take my usual easy way out and call it Weird). But a blast from my musical past is back with some new jams to save me from my usual ruts. It's Walls of Jericho Wednesday, kids!
It's apparently been nearly a TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-19505966839359748792016-02-27T15:35:00.001-05:002016-02-27T15:35:04.107-05:00Tuesday the 9th: Wormed - Pseudo-Horizon It's time again for a Tech Tuesday post, so I hope you're ready for a short, sharp burst of blasty fury courtesy of Spanish space metallers Wormed.
Wormed's latest record Krighsu is due out in a couple of weeks, and they've been gracious (read: badass) enough to provide us with a number of appetite-whetting tracks so far. The meatiest of these TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-26605206655786962982016-02-25T17:17:00.002-05:002016-02-25T17:17:56.605-05:00Monday the 8th: Spires of the Lunar Sphere - Pangaea Ultima Today's horribly out-of-date Metal Monday post for February the 8th should almost be titled a "Metal" Monday post; while your slice of madness from Daytona's Spires of the Lunar Sphere has got plenty of heavy, it's also got plenty of a whole slew of other shit too.
Experimental metal, or something similarly broad, might be the best way to try andTheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-38021555667064742572016-02-24T22:03:00.005-05:002016-02-24T22:03:53.896-05:00Sunday the 7th: Killswitch Engage - Cut Me Loose Last month we got our first taste of the upcoming new record from metalcore veterans Killswitch Engage. Now we've got sample number two of Incarnate, and it's a bit of a shift of gears for the guys. Will it be your cup of tea? Read on to find out.
First Incarnate single "Hate By Design" was more in line with your standard Killswitch single -- TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-36169900632635898982016-02-23T17:24:00.003-05:002016-02-23T17:24:56.427-05:00Saturday the 6th: Cyborg Octopus - Data_M1nefield Cast your minds into the before time: remember way back when I posted a tasty little number called "Pukefeast Inc." by proggy California deathcore outfit Cyborg Octopus? Well the boys are finally ready to drop an LP on us, and now we've got our first shot at the sweet new material.
"Data_M1nefield" is a seven-minute epic of genre sampling: TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-89229408139895833242016-02-20T07:29:00.002-05:002016-02-20T07:29:39.777-05:00Friday the 5th: Polyphia - Euphoria It never fails, does it? I'm starting to get close to caught up, then comes the combination of a busy long weekend last week and then a good old dose of Canadian winter this past Tuesday that required some digging out, and suddenly I'm back behind several eight balls again, blog-wise. Oh well. Onward and upward, shall we? Starting with a post for a couple of Fridays ago.
TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-40664333252486038322016-02-11T17:44:00.002-05:002016-02-11T17:44:40.087-05:00Thursday the 4th: Rage Against the Machine - Ashes in the Fall It's Throwback Thursday time once again, and this week ("last week", for all you "time is linear" types) I'm going with another perennial throwback favourite of mine. This year will see At the Drive-In back together, if only for some live shows, so why can't 2016 also see the return of the Rage?
Your Rage Against the Machine song this time aroundTheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-80128536128355693952016-02-10T11:44:00.001-05:002016-02-10T11:44:05.914-05:00Wednesday the 3rd: Sylosis - Kingdom of Solitude It's been a little bit since I've posted a slice of shredding from Reading, so it's probably about time for your latest dose of Sylosis. I swear to Jeebus I'll make converts of all of you yet!
"Kingdom of Solitude", from 2011's Edge of the Earth, demonstrates for like the baziollionth time that Sylosis can defly navigate tempo shifts, stylistic TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-56348406086426318052016-02-09T08:30:00.001-05:002016-02-09T08:30:11.412-05:00Tuesday the 2nd: The Fall of Troy - Problem!? Let's use the theme of brevity for a segue today, or a little dose of theme, as I present you with another track that squeaks in under the two minute mark. You can thank the now-no-longer-defunct The Fall of Troy for today's blast of ragged post-hardcore.
I'm not sure which album I'd pick as my favourite from The Fall of Troy, but I'd be hard TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-36369251382855443602016-02-08T10:45:00.000-05:002016-02-08T10:45:26.540-05:00Monday the 1st: Son of Aurelius - Myocardial Infarction See that in the title of this post? We're actually into February here at Loud Noises, kids, so let's keep the good times rolling along. And since the first of February fell on a Monday this year, I think you can figure out where I'm going with this post. Yup. Metal Monday.
For your only-a-week-old Metal Monday post I'm revisiting the 2010 debut TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-54381287300016037212016-02-07T13:34:00.004-05:002016-02-07T13:34:39.091-05:00Sunday the 31st: Textures - Shaping a Single Grain of Sand It was wasn't all that long ago that I lasted posted about a song from the brand-spanking new Phenotype by Dutch band Textures (the really cool "Illuminate the Trail"). The guys, however, continue their promotional onslaught a new single complete with video, and I'd be remiss if I didn't offer you this fresh slice of groovy, djenty prog to whet your appetite for PhenotypeTheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823201056667876343.post-21852537348763728002016-02-06T12:30:00.000-05:002016-02-06T12:30:06.911-05:00Saturday the 30th: The Gorge - Thousand Year Fire The nature of your Saturday the 30th of January post is a bit of a challenge for me to pin down. At its core (ha, see what I'm doing there?) it's very 'core', but what you throw on the front of that is kind of up for debate. There's some progginess, and enough tech flavour (in the vein of Misery Signals or perhaps Straight Reads the Line) that just saying metalcore isn't TheBeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07295161747177632714noreply@blogger.com0