What’s in a name?
Posted in Petulance on June 4th, 2009 by Alex
What do you mean track 7 doesn't sound like you expected it to?
I always derive a noodle of amusement when bands announce the title of their forthcoming album. Usually a couple of weeks after announcing the impending glorious advent, which came a few months after they embarked on the booze addled studio sessions. What are we to make of this tantalizing tidbit of information?
For example, Dillinger Escape Plan recently announced that the title of their new studio album to be “Option Paralysis”. Being in the unenviable position of not having heard this audio treat, I can only speculate on what this means. Fanboys out there will cling on to this tiny slither of information using it to derive a sense of what the new album will sound like. It seems clear to me that the clue is in the title; the title of the band that is. This is TDEP – it’ll sound like a troupe of free form jazz musicians being kicked in the face. Although ever obstinate they are, it has a similar probability of being a Justin Timberlake covers album.
Something that will no doubt tantalize the metal community is the announcement that the new Slayer album will contain the word “blood”. Does this mean that it will be a return to form of the seminal Reign in Blood
Next on the new album continuum is the track listing. Now we can speculate on what each and every song sounds like! I think track 3 will be gothic hip-hop, while 7 is clearly a funk-doom-country fusion. It’s slightly less ridiculous than when football fans preciently assert, before the match, that the first goal will half way through the 26th minute. Well obviously! I predict that the ball will be round, there will be very few goals be scored, and that that any given track on the new Slayer album will sound like a runaway tube ride through an abattoir.
