Glassjaw - Material Control (December 1, 2017) Album • Page 66

White Pony for sure. KNY has progressively been creeping up on it, but the reason I don't think it'll ever catch up is because of the crazy amount of memories tied to it. It came out the day after I graduated from high school, was released in a series of limited edition jewel cases (which I still have, including the numbered insert), and completely changed my perception of what I thought heavy music could do. I remember being so pissed that the whole nu metal craze was running wild at the time, and bands that were infinite degrees of trash were gaining so much more fame and attention while Deftones just powered on playing mid-size theaters. I mean, they went on right after Mudvayne but before Linkin Park and LB on the Summer Sanitarium '03 tour, and hardly anyone watched them. That's kind of been a metaphor for their career in a way: quietly killing it.

Deftones and Glassjaw will always be inextricably linked for me because I discovered Glassjaw when they opened for them on the White Pony tour. It's unreal how many of my favorite bands Deftones have brought out with them over the past decade-plus: GJ, Poison the Well, Dillinger, Dredg, Periphery, Baroness, Incubus, Far. If I ever saw them with Hum, my head would explode.

 

I had to look up the meaning of Meta because of this thread



Isn’t that meta?

 

When i have conversations with myself on chorus... is that meta?

 

Yes

 

There hasn't been a word in the history of the English language that's befuddled me more than that one.

 

No, they’d be meta if the conversations were *about* chorus.

 

It’s just short-hand for self-referencing.

 

Meta world peace

 

It sounds like the intro riff in Fault and Fracture by Converge

 

Glassjaw, Converge tour needs to happen

 

You want to talk about a tragically underrated band, even by comparison to Deftones and GJ...

Also nice to see another dredg fan. They were absolutely amazing in the first half or so of their career.

 

it's rare to see a band drop off SO HARD, holy shit. Kinda tainted their entire catalogue for me.

 

I really couldn't agree more. El Cielo was an all time album for me back around the time it came out, but I don't listen to it that much anymore... it's a weird phenomenon I've never experienced with any other band I've loved on that level, where I almost lost respect over time. I don't know what shit they were on to put out Leitmotif/El Cielo, but I want some.

 

I just discovered Hum a couple weeks ago, actually. I knew who they were but I had no idea how fucking stellar an album Downward Is Heavenward is, holy shit

 

dredg was cool but my interest waned by the time Mr. Squishy or whatever the fuck it's called came out

was that album that bad?

 

if you like HUM you might also like the band Failure. they're both space rock pioneers


this is really just an excuse for me to tell you all to listen to Failure

 

I made a post today in the recommendations thread that was something like "is there more stuff like Hum besides Failure bc I already listen to Failure" lol

 

^ SHINER!

Man am I jealous of anyone who gets to discover them for the first time.

Speaking of which, Lula Divinia is one of the few albums I can think of as dissonantly-melodic (?) as Material Control.

 

yes

 

Saw Hum open for Failure last year, shit was loud as hell

 

You’de Prefer an Astronaut is a perfect album.

 

YOU SCORCH THE EARTH BEFORE YOU

 

ok this is v much my shit

 

hot take alert:

deftones post-Chi is nothing

 

I love and miss Chi, but Diamond Eyes and Koi No Yokan are among their very best albums