Friday 5: What Five Bands You’d Order To Release A Double Album?
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Here’s how it works: A list of best/worst/weirdest/whatever five somethings is posted by one of your beloved MetalSucks contributors or by one of our buds (like you!). Then you, our cherished reader, checks it out, has a chuckle, then chimes in with a list of the same. No sweat, just whatever springs to mind, k? (Just like that movie about those losers working at a Chicago record store!) After all, it’s Friday — the day dedicated by the gods to mindless, fun time-wasting.
Here we go!
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THE FIVE
What five bands are the next to release an awesome double album?
THE LISTER
Anso DF, MetalSucks Senior Editor
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Steel Panther
Most recent album: 2014
On the horizon are new double-albums from a prog headliner (Dream Theater) and a revered underground duo (Cobalt). It gets you thinking: What other bands could stretch a concept across an album that lasts more than 80 minutes, like The Book Of Souls by Iron Maiden? Or, is there a crew so flush with excellent songs that a collection of them could fill two discs, like Soilwork’s The Living Infinite? Who do you trust with that large a piece of your time? Well, if you ask me, every Steel Panther album ends too soon.
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Inquisition
Most recent album: 2013
A band may opt to stuff their albums to capacity with interludes, goofing off, and soundscapes. It’s a good policy for acts like Tool, whose songs are demanding and intense; listeners are granted a break in the same way that theme park-goers get to reorient themselves between rollercoaster rides. But a listener’s interest in “transition tracks” expires fast, so maybe this philosophy is designed to aid only the first few listens. But what if this approach was adopted by a prolific, indefatigable, awesome psychedelic black metal duo from Mars?
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https://youtu.be/kaYnoOLMMk4
Coroner
Most recent album: 1993
Coroner songs are not needy. They vibe heedlessness to your interest; though pivoting on explosive guitar solos and undulating tempos, they don’t exactly sprint down the path to your attention. As such, a Coroner album is muted and monochromatic. For its listener, the result is hypnosis and a willingness to be seduced, the posture of a theatergoer leaning subtly forward to discern a whispered joke. Imagine 90 minutes of that!!
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Katatonia
Most recent album: 2012
The double-album serves another type of band: one split between two of its own aesthetics. Take Katatonia, who released two versions of the same album — a heavy version, an airy acoustic redux. Every great album would benefit from a re-imagining — see also this awesome band — but we might propose a two-disc set of songs of each type, instead of the same songs two ways. No new Katatonia songs since 2012, might they have 20 great songs for us in 2016?
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Lacuna Coil
Most recent album: 2014
A surprise to me is the popularity among my friends of my “all-killer/no-filler playlist” of Dangerous Toys jams. It’s requested at parties and hang-outs, dinners and car rides by my loved ones who dig country, hip hop, Pitchfork stuff, and of course heavy music. I did not see that coming. Nor did I predict that I’d weekly take down my personal collection of Lacuna Coil favorites in all of its 33-track glory. That’s, say, 150 minutes of music from ten years of LaCoil (starting with 2006’s Karmacode). A simple extrapolation makes it seem manageable for them to concoct an awesome 2LP by 2018.
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