So, has anyone heard Hypermagic Mountain (Lightning Bolt) yet?

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...I thought everybody has already heard all the other fall albums releasing this year?

― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

indy biz got wise to u faggits

― The King's English (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

...or Load just hasn't sent out promos.

― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

It's fucking great

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

They've been playing the songs live forever. In your heart of hearts, you know how it is.

― as;lkdjg, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!

I thought the new album was going to be called FRENZY.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Then you are two Load Recs website updates behind.

― as;lkdjg, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Frenzy = (to be released) improv album

This was going to be Scribblemania 2, then changed to Hypermagic Mountain.

― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

not being a Lightning Bolt fanatic, you can take this with as many grains of salt as you wish, but to my ears, it doesn't sound worlds different than Wonderful Rainbow. There are parts that seem a little more metal to me, a little more pyrotechnical for stretches, but the songs are still charging ahead in a vein as before.

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Sweet!

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Dominique, what do you mean exactly by pyrotechnical? Furious?

Either way, this will (should) be amazing!

― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I guess I mean that some of the riffs sound very close to Meshuggah-type metal, more movement than in past LB songs, but it doesn't continue for such long stretches that it ever really becomes "metal". And some of the stuff the bass does in the high register sounds like the climax of a guitar solo - short, repetitive riffs that are a little more wankish than I normally associate with this band. It is furious, but in a way I already knew LB to be furious. (Again, not being a fan colors the way I describe this stuff.)

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

but Meshuggah is the wrong comparison. there's a riff in "Captain Caveman" that sounds like it could have come from St. Anger

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

whereas "Dead Cowboy" sounds like what Vision Creation Newsun would be if LB had made it - major chord riffing and a steady, stomping tribal beat all the way through

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I so don't want anything diff, I just want more

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Does this bring the MORE?

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

it brings the "we know you liked us before, so we're gonna try out a couple of new tricks to see if you like it better". but they didn't fuck too much w/a good thing

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Let's start the commotion

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Boredoms comparisons! That's more like it...

― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Everyones a LB fanatic.

― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I hope that's the real cover because I love it. I want a huge poster of it.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

pretty sure that is the actual cover. definitely looks like BC stylee.

i'll buy it. i'll listen to it

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

ooops.. "i'll listen to it LESSTHANSIGN ten times per year, but i'll still go see them at least three times per year."

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

What are you talking about?

― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that, I'ma listen the shit out of this all day long!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

When I saw them in upstate NY they were fucking amazing, using layers of shimmering blissful digital delay

When I saw them in RI they were "ok"

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Are you sure it wasn't the other way around?

SOUNDS BACKWARDZZZZZ

― sam g (seahorsegeniurs), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

whoa, another rock critic compares them to metallica!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

IN RI the sound sucked and they couldn't play for long enough. The crowd was huge so they didn't riff as much. I couldn't hear any of the new textured sound.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

x-post

and they've already got a DVD!!

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

uhhh it's great, as per usual

― j. rosenberg (pukeandburn), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

haha!

what is dat lego guy doin in the middle of there?

― eggo, Thursday, 1 September 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

if anyone has this on soulseek could they let me know so i can d/l it?

― Grapejuice, Thursday, 1 September 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

This and some java will WAKE YOU RIGHT UP on the drive to work. Fabulous.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

has it actually leaked?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

I wanna hear it!

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

seriously, this needs to leak now

― gary, Friday, 2 September 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

I need this. Can't see it on slsk.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

this

incredible.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

any indietorrents ppl want to share?! preferably by rapidshare or something that won't disappear in 2 mins...

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

its on oink too

i dont know how to zip up an album and YSI or rapidshare or else i would do it

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

eg http://www.rarlab.com/ or http://winzip.com/ ...

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure it'll be on slsk tomorrow morning anyway, and i won't be able to hear it until then, so it's not really a big worry.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

i have it on slsk

username: moeop

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

wow! all the great psych/noise acts are releasing new albums this autumn. Just need the Boredoms to come out of the woodwork and blow everyone away and that's the full set!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

good luck with that

― President Busch (dr g), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=03DI5D1QSFAHV1SUDFN5MD4VN4

― sux2bu (Adrian Langston), Friday, 9 September 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

thanks adrian!

― willem (willem), Friday, 9 September 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

it's so well recorded! really does capture the feel of their live show surprisingly well.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

urgh, missed it. they deserve my ten bucks, anyway.

― Garrett Martin (Garrett Martin), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

The middle section of "Dead Cowboy" is more or less the most creative and out there thing they've done. This band is outdoing itself constantly... though I've not heard that particular song in concert.

― the third brian, Saturday, 10 September 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Hypermagic Mountain is full intelligently designed sonic catastrophes. Speed-metal improv as spontaneous combustion. Something for Slayer and Magma fans.

― original plagiarist (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

"is full of intelligently designed sonic catastrophes." Oy.

― original plagiarist (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

repost??

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

"This band is outdoing itself constantly"

First album in three years or so = constantly?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I liked it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

may be old news, but you can pre order the 2xlp from load.

etched 4th side, nice large cover art!

― david reinhardt, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

The album is like a boot to the face from Hulk Hogan when he's dressed up in full glam.

― James M. Kilmury, Saturday, 17 September 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

its up on
http://regnyouth.blogspot.com/

― shutyourface, Monday, 19 September 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Wait, what the fuck is that blog? That guy has like hundreds of major releases posted as .rar files? I'm all for MP3 blogs and shit, but that seems to lean on the side of wrong... and is possibly a little ill-advised, no?

― is bean cobian jojo (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 19 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Dude, for real. How has that site not been shut down?

― ng-unit, Monday, 19 September 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

This is such an incredible recording!!!!!

― dog latin, Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

The riff in 2 morro morro land isn't really a riff at all but like a sketch of a riff, I think the reason I can't stop listening to it is because it forces you to fill in all the gaps.

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 14 February 2009 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

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