Alembic rulez Metal

[thebass]

Yes, Alembics can even sound evil. Here's the evidence: http://www.myspace.com/panspark. The 1st two songs Kein Schritt zu weit and Tiefenrausch are recorded with my Orion-5 fretless and I am just recording further ones. I hope you like the german lyrics.

[stickk]

I wouldn't really call that metal, I'd call that alternative-rock.

[mike1762]

Das ist gut!!!  I probably screwed that up... my last German class was over 20 yrs ago.

[jazzyvee]

Hi Werner, do you mean to say you subjected my poor Elan bass to heavy rock!!!!!
 
hahaha, I like the first song best.
Forgive my ignorance of that genre of music but the only German rock band I've heard before is Rammstein and their album Mutter and i can hear some similarities in the band sound. I may be wrong but that is my limited knowleged of that genre.
Especally Lass Mich Los
Dien Kaltes Hertz
 
 
Jazzyvee

[blackelan]

I think us Metal guys are starting to scare the other Alembic club members.

[57basstra]

Question?  
 
Is AC/DC Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, Something Else, Strictly AC/DC and nothing else matters?
....I have had bands I played in (back in the day) literally fight over the definition of genre of AC/DC music...
 
                    Discuss..........

[thebass]

@jazzyvee: no, your Elan never had to suffer ;-) That was recorded with the Orion 5 String Fretless I bought from brother Davehouck. And ... beeing compared to Rammstein... that's not the worst.
 
@stickk: you might be right. I am not very good in classifying our music.
 
@mike: That was perfectly right. :-)
 
In case you would like to brush up your german (might work as a good ice breaker meeting ladies at next Oktoberfest ;-) :
 
Dein kaltes Herz - Your cold heart
 
We did this song for a german initiative against sexual child abuse. It tries to give an impression of the feelings of an abused child. This is no easy stuff.
 
Lass mich los - leave me alone
 
After a long lasting love with a bitter end you still have a lot of feelings for your former love which you want to leave behind you ... but you still can't. That's about it.

[goop]

re ac/dc...
 
i believe any great band is truly unclassifiable, as they incorporate a wide array of musical influences. eg beatles, stones, zepplin, etc.
 
i dont believe ac/dc is a great band but generally speaking, i would classify them as hard rock, moreso than heavy metal, although heavy metal would not be inaccurate, just less accurate.
 
i guess this then begs the question, what is the diff between hard rock and heavy metal.  
 
the answer of course is...satan. didn't you guys watch tenacious d?
 
Colin

[goop]

hey, i used to like this band called saga.  they are a toronto band from way back.  they became pretty popular with their 2nd album around 1980.  a few years ago i wondered whatever happened to them and discovered they are huge in germany and still going strong with something like 14 albums.
 
then again, david hasslehoff was a huge musical success in germany. at least they know their cars.
 
colin

[jerryme]

Another Colin.... Just like the Heads... Weir everywhere. Colin

[David Houck]

Jason; this is just a guess, but I suppose it could be the case that we were listening to stuff like Blue Cheer before you were born.  Hee hee !!

[David Houck]

Werner; glad you're putting that beautiful fretless to good use!

[blackelan]

Wow, Dave that video appears to have some sort of primitive analog device for playing music off of what appears to be disks made of vinyl?
 
I have never seen anything like it, you guys must be old.  
 
j/k

[David Houck]

Or as Hendrix might say, we're experienced.

[FC Bass]

Who?