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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34099 |
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Mammoth Volume is a
Swedish stoner/heavy metal act from Vestra Götaland län, they sight
varied influenced from Deep Purlpe, AC/DC, King Crimson, Gentle Giant,
MIke Oldfield, Rainbow, Yes and Mahavishnu Orchestra (acroding to
allmusic guide), but their sound i more close to the desart rock sound
of Kyuss, and therefore solidly fitted into the doom metal realm or
stoner meta
http://open.spotify.com/artist/6KazgLPtdrHEYaV8Das5vk just check the list of bands sited as infleunce they are all in PA http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mammoth-volume-p374107 exept ac/dc ![]() this band need carefull listening they are more complex then when you look on the surface http://www.last.fm/music/Mammoth+Volume Edited by aginor - February 29 2012 at 14:51 |
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earlyprog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Neo / Heavy Teams Joined: March 05 2006 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 2171 |
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![]() Nevertheless, great music. Those Swedes know their 70's hard rock.
At best, boundary heavy prog, especially the last sample. Edited by earlyprog - February 29 2012 at 15:24 |
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34099 |
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the albums are incredibly eclectic, all from jazz to raga, to folk to unisons from mathy passages, the albums needs to be listen to in whole to get a picture of how to evaluate the bands full progressive sound,
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34099 |
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Mammoth Volume – What Happened In Antioch (Including A Myriad Of Sounds) this song is quite progressive
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34099 |
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Early Prog, you will defenitly hear that the last album from 2001 are what i would call progressive rock album, the first one not quite but the second album oh yes, and the third OH YESS
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I agree that they are definitely worth evaluating based on the third album, 'A Single Book Of Songs'. To my ears 'What Happened in Antioch' is a fine prog song indeed. There's other proggy stuff on this album too - it may sound superficially like Black Sabbath (Prog-Related), but I think this material is sufficently more developed to merit inclusion in one of the 'proper' sub genes (Heavy Prog, I guess).
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34099 |
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for some reason some of the songs sounds familiar like i have heard one or two for a LOONG time ago |
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harmonium.ro ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989 |
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Sounds like hard rock with the odd proggy moment to me.
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34099 |
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if I would
compare this band to other Scandinavian bands of similar sounds I would say
Dungen and Motorpsycho, alternative rock background but the songs have
progressive approach and tendencies of older bands, but have incorporated a new
twist to new or modern progressive rock, i would add this band cause they are
to my something i have not quite heard any who sounds like them and that is
interesting, to have a distinct sound or experimentation is rare in today’s
hard rock /metal world, i think this band pull this off, i think they should be
evaluated in post/experimental metal sub, but also with eclectic rock ears and
heavy rock ears, yes they have songs that are doomish so then exp metal is
closest, but remember that this is that times music, and this band is progressively
moving the boundaries for a doom metal band, but also as a hard rock band, in
more ways than just adding a keyboard, organ and mellotron, they have twists in
the riffs, in the grooves and sections which is not close to doom metal, some
math-rock elements suddenly, folk rock, jazz, prog unisons, even some
counterpoint,, even Gentle Giant albums have straight blues rock songs with
prog twists, and folk ballads with no twist, but it ads to their eclecticism
and that is why Giant is eclectic cause they have all music in one album some
are twisted prog experimentation, but also songs that are close to the
traditional form of genres, I don't say Mammoth is there or quite as daring
(few bands are, will be or is), but they still have that distinctiveness that
makes them not a pure blues/doom rock/metal band, i think they should be viewed
in the same light as exp metal bands that came in the same time as them, Isis,
Pelican, Cult of Luna, Mastodon, are they less or more progressive then Isis or
Mastodon between 99 and 01, do the albums progress more from album 1 to
album/EP 2, towards album 3, is the band’s sound and progressive rock leaning
larger or lesser then those bands mentioned above, i think this band needs to
be looked into, as a whole rather than songs, sorry to sound wordy and stuff i
just tries to make a case Edited by aginor - March 03 2012 at 01:14 |
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