SATURDAY SONG TO GET STONED TO: BEHOLD…THE ARCTOPUS — “YOU ARE NUMBER SIX” (LIVE VIDEO)
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 at 6:50pm by Kip WingerschmidtLove or hate this mega-technical, prog-to-the-nth-degree power trio, you gotsa admit that despite the shredding, this is some stony-ass shit…
-KW
I’ve always loved this band. “Scepters” is such a rad song.
big ole bass.
It’s a Warr guitar. 8 bass strings, 8 guitar strings. You can hit any note you want on it.
no amount of strings could make that remotely listenable…
It wouldn’t take 100 monkeys 100 years pounding away on any stringed instrument to come up with something better than this.
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I’m all for prog-anything, but I agree with Sammy and Gnarl. This is pretty unlistenable and unbearable.
Yo, Orthrelm called and they want their shtick back. This band fucking blows.
Maybe someone should credit Metal Nick for filming this.
That killed my high. I want my 9 minutes back.
What is this? The Warr guitar is a waste of time if the person who is playing it does nothing more than wail away at some “proggy” chord progressions.
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