@@buttsbuttsbutts68 in prog metal bands tho?

@@buttsbuttsbutts68 I fucking love Blotted Science

@@buttsbuttsbutts68 how many of them are playing at the level of Garstka, though? With AAL there is constant odd time signatures and polymeters everywhere, obviously his style is built from the area of music he's come from, like jazz fusion as you mentioned, but his parts are relentlessly complex and ever changing.

Gartska is a monster drummer, saw them live at Red Rocks and dude somehow, albeit just barely, outshined his band mates, not by much but his drumming is truly next level musicianship; Buddy Rich would have no shit to talk on Gartska

@@buttsbuttsbutts68 that's... Blatantly false? There are only a handful of drummers I would consider to be on his level or above him, such as Luke Holland, the actual GOAT. Modern jazz drummers are not playing anything like matt, and jazz drummers in general have never reached his level of technicality. I know jazzheads love to claim technical elitism, but they are extremely predictable because they're so shit at composing crazy grooves like matt and luke, which is why they stick to a genre of just improv, while modern prog metal drummers play jazz better than jazz drummers, and move into literally every genre imaginable in their search for greater technique. Ask Matt to play jazz, he will. Ask a jazz drummer to play a jason richardson song or even just a rap song, and he'll fumble over himself.

That whole album is amazing. Monomyth and The Problem of Other Minds (including that opening track to it) are very honorable mentions for me, but, yes, Red Miso is also my stand out this year as well. I can't get enough of this song. Matter of fact, this is one of the only albums I even listen to; and of course their older catalogue. I found the new Polyphia album to be a tad lackluster, but they make the musical rounds for me too.

Def my favorite off the record and probably thé album that inspired me the most in 2022.

Seen them live last year front row in a small venue. My face was literally melted.

Ah I thought that section was the weakest section of this song. I am heavily into thall music but that section sounded a bit derivate or superficial to me? Like it hits the 'thall' spot but at the same time it doesnt at all. Do love their experiments tho and I'm incredibly stoked to see them live at the end of this year!

couldnt agree more, its like parasocial interactions in a positive light

Most people I know wouldn’t find it approachable, pretty sure. I personally love it. Sucks to never have people to share music with.

I feel the same, this song is like a presentation card for "Animals as leaders" 👌🏽

@@yhamez37 I know that feeling, it's rough. Finding a dope new band or track and having no one to share it with because no one you know really cares about that stuff. Most of my friends just aren't really into music so they just really know some youtube rappers or the artists that are super popular at the time.

@@Joseph-R I’m thankful that at least my wife shares some of my musical tastes. It’s frustrating to not be able to share more, but she’s pretty tolerant and doesn’t tell me too often what she thinks when I play a lot of stuff I like lol

honestly through, there could easily be 5x guitarists on this and I'd be none the wiser. Gnarly track, but it busts my tiny mind 🤣

drummer Matt.

I only have their first album, but I remember it fondly. I should dust it off.

@@yhamez37 OH!!!!! where did you obtain it? their other albums are just as good, the same sense of strong songwriting, but with some cleaner production. they have a 12'' vinyl called "3003" with a demo of "Mannekin" (Changed spelling) and "Bones to Dust" (The closer) released shortly before the debut. it has a really cool geometric album cover. i believe they also have a tape of material from their touring, its on discogs as a bootleg but I can't find it anywhere. information on the band is very scarce, even their MySpace is defunct / stripped, and I don't see any old music forum posts or even live shows on KZfaq. It's like they've been erased from the annals of history. It's even worse, because I can't find any information about the members, let alone any of the vocalists they had on rotation on their other albums after Adam Frappoli (Vocals on Ideas of Reference debut) left. At least Chris Arp is somewhat active, I bought his insane guide to tapping and some music theory, called "Exploding Fingers".

@@billy2896 I probably misspoke by saying album. It’s a CD ;D I got it at FYE back in the day when that was their main reason for existence. It’s crazy how some bands just disappear into the ether. It’s a shame because I really like that album. I want to say I even saw them at a small roller rink, but that was at a very tumultuous time for me. I wasn’t in a place to be present at the show then, so I might misremember that.

Just realized I have their second cd, as well. Good stuff

PS: guys, can anyone put 65daysofstatic - Prisms into the recommendation to decompose? These guys don't get nearly enough attention :(

Perfect!

Maybe they ran out of ideas 😂