the slowest core! / heavy metal slowcore?

[jan-willem]

* the slowest core!

heard about this on the BBC TV the other day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible
http://www.john-cage.halberstadt.de/new/index.php?seite=dasprojekt&l=e

it's a piece of music originally written by John Cage. It's performed in a church in Germany, started in 2001 (with one and a half year of silence!), it will last until 2640. The last sound change was on February 5, 2009. The next will be on July 5, 2010.

* heavy metal slowcore?

does it exist? If so, I would love to hear it. Closest thing I can think of right now are a couple of Soundgarden songs (such as Gun or Slaves And Bulldozers).

[benjamin adrian]

> * heavy metal slowcore?
>
> does it exist? If so, I would love to hear it. Closest thing I can think
> of right now are a couple of Soundgarden songs (such as Gun or Slaves And
> Bulldozers).

Check out Jesu.

Ben

[Susan Malmrose]

Jesu is lovely. Also check out Isis, Pelican, Mono, etc.


Doom metal can be really slow.

Buried at Sea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThzuHImisY

Ufomammut:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8zCcsFHIHQ

Yob:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaSkJMH3-Pw


Graves at Sea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsY96gBHBu8

[Keith Davis]

If you're talking about doom metal (or heavy metal slowcore, as it were), then pretty much anything on the Southern Lord label would work. Earth, Boris, Sunn0))), Grief Mule...

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[moritz]

you all should definitely check out germany's finest:
http://www.myspace.com/bohrenundderclubofgoreofficial

!!!!!!

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[Derek Hanson]

i vote for nadja!   i know i've mentioned them on this list before. (in fact, i think even i said they were the low of the metal world.)   http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv   derek. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]----------

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you all should definitely check out germany's finest: http://www.myspace.com/bohrenundderclubofgoreofficial !!!!!!

[Phil Salathe]

I second the recommendation for Bohren & der Club of Gore, whom I've
jokingly called "Godspeed You Private Detective!" in the past, and
who play a super-slow blend of doom metal, film noir soundtrack
music, and ambient. Lots of Rhodes, deep bass, foreboding
atmosphere, like a cross between "Born by the Wires" and a
straight-to-video horror movie with an ambitious soundtrack.

[requi...@gmail.com]

These are all great suggestions...I third the Bohren....and if you're
really looking for slow from them, their album Geisterfaust, is their
most sparse.....perfectly sparse, in my opinion, but I don't really
consider it metal, although the band has a metal background.

I always joked to my girlfriend, that some Low songs were only a
distortion pedal away from being Khanate. To prove my point I ran the
song "Landlord" through a distortion effect. She wasn't convinced,
cause she hates Khanate, but deep down I think she knew I was right,
haha. Anyway, check out "Things Viral" by Khanate, or their newest
one, "Clean Hands Go Foul".

[Scott Born]

I'll throw "Black Boned Angel" into that mix.  It is Birchville Cat Motel (Campbell Kneale) doing his thing, but with the amps at 11.

S