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mick needs a thread !

― my name is limitless, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

cool interview with weasel walter here
http://www.blastitude.com/17/ORTHRELM.htm

― my name is limitless, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

heh I know someone who quit Blastitude just because of that.

Anyway, the newish ORTHRELM stuff kicks ass.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

why?

― my name is limitless, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't like the intensely repetitive stuff they were doing the last time I saw them live, but their most recent CD (the one on Three One G) was the best thing they've released. Amazing.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The split with Touchdown is meh. The white album (TMU?>) is crap until the last 4 "songs" or so. Better live than they used to be.

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

OTM (you mean the one with the indecipherable name?)

xpost

― my name is limitless, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Orthrelm is always great and they always rule your ass.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

All their albums have indecipherable names. I'm talking about this one:

http://www.threeoneg.com/love/catalog/images/orthowl.jpg

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Orthrelm OWNZZZ!!!!

― ddb, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

[Lightning Bolt is better except for the m0r0nz @ sh0wz]

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

THE LEAD SINGER LOOKS LIKE THE GUY FROM PHISH.

― ddb, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Lightnng Bolt is Different Dude.

― ddb, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

NO SHIT, BUT OBVIOUS COMAPARISONS HAVE TO BE MADE.

ALSO, LIGHTNING BOLT IS BETTER THAN THE JACKSON 5.

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

no they are not.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

JONATHAN, please stop namedropping LB every time anyone mentions something loud that is made by a duo. THANKS, THE MGMT.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll still take 5 Jacksons over 2 Brians any day.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon theres more to life than the bolt, bra.

There's hella.

― ddb, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, don't get him started on Hella, please.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

orthrelm have been really good live lately, but i've never heard any of their records.

wub.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

HELLA SUXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ha.

― ddb, Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

orthrelm totally ownzzz. they were spectacular last time i saw them, and mick is such a sweet pea.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 27 May 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

If the guitarist were to focus some of his riffing, and consider employing some sick chorus pedals, he could MAYBE be good enough to tune one of Vai's back-up guitars. But until then, he stinks.

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve Vai sucks; you are all gay

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

STEVE VAI USES DIGITAL PLAYBACK BY DEFAULT

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Eat 'Em & Smile is the new No New York

― ddb, Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just saying he needs to reign it in a little bit if he ever wants to truly go surfing with the alien. There are definitely some atomic lixx in there, he just needs to separate the stems and seeds from the KGBs.

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.chimpnet.com/images/yngwie.jpg http://www.chimpnet.com/images/yngwie.jpg

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

MORE YNGWIE PLEASE

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://yngwie.org/gallery/images/Yngwie-Hames.jpg http://yngwie.org/gallery/images/Yngwie-Hames.jpg http://yngwie.org/gallery/images/Yngwie-Hames.jpg

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't be talkin' shit about Yngwie. His new album's great.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

you have UNLEASHED THE FUCKING FURY!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll take your Yngwie and raise you a SATCH!!
http://www.guitarplayer.ru/satriani/img/joe_satriani_03.jpg

― ddb, Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that a clear Danelectro? If so, he wins.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://yngwie.rockmetal.art.pl/img/yngwie2.jpg http://yngwie.rockmetal.art.pl/img/yngwie2.jpg http://yngwie.rockmetal.art.pl/img/yngwie2.jpg http://yngwie.rockmetal.art.pl/img/yngwie2.jpg

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

SATCH wouldn't dirty his fingers with a dan electro.

― ddb, Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ROCK GUITARISTS ARE GAY

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS GUY OWNZ

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.chud.com/graphics5/buckethead.jpg

http://www.downtownpopular.net/Friends%20Page/Bootsy,buckethead.jpg

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

NOT GAY, NUH UH:

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

MICK BARR CIRCA 60 YEARS FROM NOW

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.skippyscage.com/champs/images/tfc01.jpg

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.jumpingmens.com/files/potato1.jpg

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fucking Champs dude is looking pretty White Stripes there. Doesn't Jack White play that same guitar?

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Barr needs to get on the Harp-Guitar ASAP:

http://www.victorwooten.com/basscamp/reunion/gallery/tuesday/P0006115.jpg

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

orthrelm are like muscle-memory came alive and hated you. and they rock. why overcomes how.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

ORTHRELM: HAIL & KILL!

The instrumental duo's output is densely packed with musical information: with little or no structural repetition, discreet cells of notes are often frantically reconfigured into every possible permutation with staggering speed, revealing a fractal-like inner logic that is both chaotically asymmetrical and which makes one itch from head to foot. It is a thing too bad for a bad report.

This stuff isn't sonically polite, effete "new music" for chin-scratchers -- no, no, it is a villainous saffron that would
remake all the unbaked and doughy youth of America in its color.
It is a modern chamber music straight from the streets, complete with brass knuckles, pungent outbursts taking form as interjections,
exclamations and sonic expletives. Even as muttered on record to
no one in particular, they sound like insults. The incredible rate of information and detail contained within Orthrelm's music insures that it will last long into the future, like the speech of madmen. As
dry as the remainder biscuit of a long voyage, Orthrelm are rough, tough and hairy.

― Harry Klam, Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

wow you guys have done swell with this thread...

All their albums have indecipherable names. I'm talking about this one:

-- Phil Freeman (newyorkisno...), May 26th, 2004.

yeah, i call that one Owl thing guy. I meant to say, the really LONG indecipherable name. But come on, are you saying you can't decipher Asristir Vieldriox???

― my name is limitless, Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://i22.ebayimg.com/03/i/01/a9/e5/cf_1_b.JPG

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

it looks sweaty.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe it just got played.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

For the love of the sweet bearded baby jesus, somebody lock this thread. I am so traumatized.

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

the krallice album might be the best heavy metal album ever. fuck yeah

― kamerad, Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:29 (seventeen years ago)

"energy chasms" slays everything

― kamerad, Sunday, 3 May 2009 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

"forgiveness in rot"

― kamerad, Sunday, 3 May 2009 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

seriously, fuck yeah

― kamerad, Sunday, 3 May 2009 02:15 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars mmke, July 31, 2004
By Dirty Pant'loon - See all my reviews
A chaotic, über-weird mess with only drums and ugly distorted guitar. "Songs" approximately 5-10 seconds long. Of course it's 5 stars. Duh.
Person nr.1: "hi,nice waether =)"
Person nr.2: "Hahahaha. Hahahahhhah." *pops in Asristir Vieldriox*
Person nr.1: "arghhhhrhrHgh.f" *brain melts and stuff*
*Person nr.2 eats cornflakes*

Greatest Amazon review ever?

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 20 June 2009 06:11 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

Man, I fucking love Mick Barr. I stumbled across Shred Earthship with him and Zack Hill today for super cheap used, am I going to love this too?

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

You either get Mick and like pretty much all of it, or you'll never be a fan of any of it.

― Nate Carson, Thursday, 14 January 2010 11:23 (sixteen years ago)

That's what I've been noticing on comment threads about him. Listening to Shred Earthship now and loving it, I guess I "get" him.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 January 2010 15:25 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--5z_-mMw2j8/UXKmixN7fSI/AAAAAAAAAJM/ow68qQAxHBg/s640/mick_marfa_martha-1.jpg

Mick Barr, Martha Stewart.

― the kind of man who best draws girls' eyeballs (Merdeyeux), Monday, 22 April 2013 01:32 (thirteen years ago)

I have no explanation.

― the kind of man who best draws girls' eyeballs (Merdeyeux), Monday, 22 April 2013 01:32 (thirteen years ago)

jpg name has "marfa" in it - so maybe it's at some art event in marfa?

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 April 2013 02:47 (thirteen years ago)

it's a pitcher ov marfa stewart innit...

― m0stlyClean, Monday, 22 April 2013 20:52 (thirteen years ago)

well the jpg name ALSO has "martha" in it, so that would be redundant if that's what it meant

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

that file doesn't have it, but I saw the same image with a name something like "barrmarfamartha.jpg"

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:58 (thirteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Is there a ideal entry point for this guy?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 10 March 2026 00:30 (three months ago)

Depends what you want:

Orthrelm - insanely compressed shreddy noise-metal guitar-drums duos, except for OV, which is a single riff played for 45 minutes straight
Octis - solo material, also hyper-compressed shreddy noise-metal but using a drum machine instead of another human
Ocrilim - solo material, droney/hypnotic/blissful, RIYL early Liturgy
Krallice - started out shreddy/blissful black metal, got more compositionally ambitious over time but still ultimately just black metal; many people love this band, I am not one of them

For me it's Orthrelm all day.

― wipes chooser (unperson), Tuesday, 10 March 2026 00:49 (three months ago)

prob a weird thing to recommend as an entry point but OV is _the one_ for me

― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 10 March 2026 01:54 (three months ago)

Yeah gotta go with OV, though its def not a single riff

― EsBeeKid (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 10 March 2026 02:53 (three months ago)

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