While I think you're right to a certain degree, you don't have to be an ass about it, and whining about rep gets you at least a day off every time. K?
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I never mentioned perfect production. I mentioned production causing laborious listening. It is the equivalent of reading a short story with horrible, inaccessible syntax and grammar. There is nothing beautiful about guessing what someone is trying to communicate to you when they haven't put in the effort to make it understandable eg horrid production. Every time I listened to St. Anger (which was probably 3 times the week it was released, I really wanted it to be good) whenever I heard the snare it was like someone yelling "cocksucker" in my ear. The same thing when I try and listen to any death metal pre-2000--angry bumble bees all day long.
Your analogy fails; imperfect and/or trying production doesn't equate to issues with the musicians ability to perform on their instrument, the latter of which is IMO far more in line with your grammar and syntax analogy. Even then, those have been manipulated to fit the art since day 1.
Production, like many other avenues, has been used as a tool of expression and/or manipulation to compliment and/or advance the art for quite some time now; some of it done deliberately and some due to other factors (mostly economic).
I'm sorry, arms crossed, nonchalant pose, head tilted backwards and eyebrows slightly raised must be the new br00tz look....where are the pretty boys?
Should have stuck with Erik Rutan. Man knows what he's doing.
FWIW, IMO, basically all H.E. albums disagree with that statement. LOVE them live, but the production of all their albums except I, Monarch and Phoenix was pretty much wet towel over speakers in a mudhole to me.
The older H.E. albums have rather unflattering production values, with Rutan I believing have produced them from the beginning. I, Monarch's isn't bad and their newer stuff is improving on it, but the first 2 are pretty bad. Which is why saying they should've stuck with Rutan as their producer sans TWtGD could go either way. I think Ithyphallic and AotW also had solid production both of which were done by Kernon.
Neil Kernon... has done "pop" but is a well-known name in metal.Isn't this album mixed by some pop producer? I think I read so on Wikipedia but forgot the name later. Sounds disasterous as an idea.
What has the older HE albums got to do with it?I'm talking about sticking with him because of Those Whom The Gods Detest, that album was really well produced.
Isn't this album mixed by some pop producer? I think I read so on Wikipedia but forgot the name later. Sounds disasterous as an idea.