Animals As Leaders MEGATHREAD

[shpence]

Loving the album and especially "Another Year." It's got a Govan-y vibe to it.

 

[Cosmic Junglist]

Sugar Hill Leaders?

 

[InfinityCollision]

Fits perfectly

 

[rifftrauma]

Crescent.........dat groove...............

 

[FretsOnFyre]

As for P.E. it reminds me a lot (the groove) with Primus stuff, I definitely hear a Les Claypool influence on a lot of the grooves on JOM.

My thoughts exactly!

Got to see them on Tuesday, they are freaking TIGHT live. Easily one of my favorite shows. I might recover from the sheer amount of awesome just in time for Dream Theater on April 14th!

 

[TheHandOfStone]

I've been listening to the YT album stream, and I just got the physical copy today. I think I like this one more than the original release, which pretty much cements it as AotY unless another metal band puts out something amazing in the coming months.

 

[Oreo_Death]

Wonder how many copies they'll sell/presold in the first week. Seemed like quite a bit of anticipation.

I tried to buy it last night when I went to their show. All of the copies they brought with them were sold out the night it came out apparently

 

[jimwratt]

It's nice to hear Tosin open up and wail a little. That's something that's generally lacking in this field.

 

[Svava]

Sugar Hill Leaders?

Better than Gangam Wither? xD

 

[Doug N]

The bass playing is sick on this album. Filthy sick.

 

[TheHandOfStone]

Nolly said he only tracked bass on 3 songs. Other than that, it's fake.

 

[liberascientia]

Nolly said he only tracked bass on 3 songs. Other than that, it's fake.

Not fake, programmed.

Jammed this in the car on the way to band practice this morning, definitely the best possible way to christen the drummer's new ride

 

[Alberto7]

Finally got my copy today!

 

[fungwabus117]

I wonder what nolly did to engineer Trilian, it sounds huge. I didn't know bends like the ones around the 5:04 on Kascade, where it's only like a fret up. Nolly, if you read this, could you shed some light on your Trilian process? Which model, what kind of post processing, etc, if you have time!

 

[The Reverend]

I wonder what nolly did to engineer Trilian, it sounds huge. I didn't know bends like the ones around the 5:04 on Kascade, where it's only like a fret up. Nolly, if you read this, could you shed some light on your Trilian process? Which model, what kind of post processing, etc, if you have time!

Hear, hear!

Of course, after doing work that good, I wouldn't be surprised if he holds onto it as a trade secret. Normally songs that have parts where the bass can really shine through and it's Trillian or Zombass or whatever, you can tell, but on my first listen I had no clue that most of the bass tracks on the songs were programmed.

 

[alchemyst]

That main riff in Tooth and Claw just kills it. It sounds so badass.

 

[Doug N]

Nolly said he only tracked bass on 3 songs. Other than that, it's fake.

I really wish I didn't know that. Ruins the album in a major way for me. What else is fake? Are the drums real or programmed?

 

[Jonathan20022]

I really wish I didn't know that. Ruins the album in a major way for me. What else is fake? Are the drums real or programmed?

How would that ruin it for you? They don't even have an actual bassist in the band, bass was programmed on all their previous works for the most part as well. So why is it a surprise now? And it's not fake, it's just programmed.

Drums were programmed in the previous albums, but I'm pretty sure they're real on this entirely.

 

[wankerness]

How would you define fake if not programmed? Doesn't programmed mean it was essentially written in midi and the sound was computer generated, aka no one actually "played" it on an instrument?

 

[liberascientia]

But it was played on an instrument, all the samples of bass that exist in software like Trillian or Zombass were recorded with an actual bass, with real strings, by a real person. It's not 'computer-generated', it's just real sounds being triggered through MIDI.