padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
it's the obvious immediate predecessorI think Battles might be a precursor to the trend were discussing here
it's the obvious immediate predecessorI think Battles might be a precursor to the trend were discussing here
it's all prog one way or another - the mindset, techniques, execution - the prog continuumYeah, just adding more and more notes. Steve Vai, Malmsteen, Satriani etc leading into stuff like Dragonforce and now this.
which is the fruitless part of fruitless intensification herevirtuosity != interesting art
I was talking about the band but tbh it works either wayI was on about the genre where they have literally millions of notes playing at once being a zone of fruitless intensification, not the band.
paradaig and I were talking about the band. They dont really 'add more notes' but they are conspicuous with how traditionally talented they are at musicI was on about the genre where they have literally millions of notes playing at once being a zone of fruitless intensification, not the band.
conspicuous virtuosity != shredding thoThe zeitgeist is against shredding
the sense I get listening to them is that they're deeply uncool muso dorksthere is a sense where everything is calculated to immediately register as cool and semi advanced
yeah that sounds right, what they think of as coolthey know exactly how to reproduce the traditional dynamics ascribed to 'cool' music