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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Tonight! Torche - Tonight!

Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:48 AM

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BORIS, TORCHE, LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR
(Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th) It's a timeless debate: Ought truly filthy metal bands let the dreaded "hook" into the mix? Doesn't that, by way of some mysterious and storied rock 'n' roll tablature, go against the grain of what metal is supposed to be? I don't have the answer, but Torche doesn't give a hoot what you think anyway. Hydra Head's latest doom-metal wunderkinds are basking in the wake of their second full-length album, Meanderthal-an absolutely punishing breed of crushing rock and surprisingly catchy melodicism-and have taken steps to cobble the dirt road of stoner metal for the sophisticated listener. It's a melding that's in close stead to the fringe-pop meanderings of groups like Cave In, applying just a pinch of mainstream resonance to an otherwise scathing miasma of underground rock noise. Just when you thought every metal band had to sound like Isis (or actually be in Isis) to get things moving... RYAN J. PRADO

LISTEN:







Torche - "Grenades"

Photo: joh m

 

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