Nog geen topic over kunnen vinden en al zal niet iedereen hier het even goed kunnen waarderen verdienen ze er toch 1, tegekke band!!
Sowiso meest getergde vocals die ik in tijden heb gehoord.


http://www.myspace.com/battleofmice
http://battleofmice.com/


Bandleden:

Julie Christmas - Vocals
(Made Out of Babies)

Josh Graham - Guitars/Keyboards/Vocals
(Neurosis/Red Sparowes)

Joel Hamilton - Drums
(Book of Knots)

Tony Maimone - Bass
(Book of Knots, Pere Ubu)

Joe Tomino - Drums
(The Fugees, Dub Trio, Peeping Tom)

BATTLE OF MICE
A Day of Nights
Neurot Recordings

Looking back, I can see that [the songs] were written in a timeline that mirrors what was happening in our growing, and then rapidly decaying, relationship, says Battle of Mice vocalist Julie Christmas. The order in which the songs on A Day of Nights were tracked reflects this psychological putrefaction: Before the albums final song was recorded, an unnamed band member accidentally fell down the stairs.

That there never was a more violent conflict is a matter of record: The armies of the two nations with the greatest military reputation were fighting an evenly matched battle. Quintus Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander the Great (volume 6; 1)

After the successful invasion of Crete in or around 331 B.C., King Agis III of Sparta laid seige the fledgling Arcadian city of Megalopolis. He was met by Alexander the Greats regent, Antipater, and a force of 40,000 Macedonian soldiers. The resulting battle is referred to historically as one of the bloodiest in Alexandrian times, with a recorded death toll of nearly 9,000 men. According to legend, Agis slaughtered a handful of enemy warriorswhile on his kneesbefore being killed by a Macedonian javelin. Despite the carnage at Megalopolis, Alexander was unimpressed. Upon hearing of the battle, he is alleged to have said, It seems, my friends, that while we have been conquering Darius here, there has been a battle of mice in Arcadia. (Plutarch, Life of Agesilaus, 15).

Battle of Mice, the band, finds its origins in a similar, if considerably less deadly, brand of antagonism. Vocalist Julie Christmas and guitarist/keyboardist Josh Graham met in Austin, Texas, when their respective bandsMade Out Of Babies and Red Sparowes played the South By Southwest Music Festival in 2005. The pair hated each other immediately. When the two bands embarked on a West Coast tour together later that year, Julie and Josh's attitudes toward one another took on a decidedly different hue. A long-distance relationship (Graham in LA; Christmas in NYC) ensued, the furious and occasionally harrowing nature of which is reflected in the music of Battle of Mice. The sonic philosophy of the band reflects a huge, primal range of emotion: Love, lust, jealousy, whiskey, and blind rage, Julie explains. And while it might be pointed out that whiskey is not necessarily a clinically-recognized human emotion, it is unlikely that anyone will misunderstand the implications of its inclusion after hearing Battle of Mice.

With the addition of bassist Tony Maimone (Book of Knots, ex-Pere Ubu) and drummer/producer Joel Hamilton (Book of Knots, Players Club, Glazed Baby), Battle of Mice entered Studio G in Brooklyn and recorded seven songs for their debut full-length, A Day of Nights. By the time the band finished tracking five of the seven songs, Josh and Julies relationship had become a thunderhead of psychic pollution, and the seething tension of the attendant working environment was too much for Maimone to withstand. By the time the sixth song, Cave of Spleen, was recorded, Julie and Josh couldnt bear to be in the same room together. As such, the guitars and vocals were completed on different days; the vocals in one take, with no pre-written lyrics. The result is an album that is alternately hypnotic (Sleep and Dream) and horrifying (the 911 call at the end of At the Base of the Giants Throat, which the group refuses to discuss), enthralling (Salt Bridge) and epic (The Lamb and the Labrador).

Thus, A Day of Nights documents the savage trajectory of an interpersonal flameout. It is a litany of ominous overtones and malicious subtext, a catalogue of the poisons that conspire to choke our best intentions; a testament to the inexorable miasma of suspicion and paranoia that creeps, unannounced, into the open spaces between us all. Which isnt to say that beauty and grace cannot be the handmaidens of ugliness and dysfunction: A Day of Nights is nothing if not mesmerizing; a living, breathing monument to the optimistic notion that everything happens for a reason. And despite any unseemly events that may have transpired, there WILL be more Battle of Mice Records to come.

[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door jbassist op 08-10-2007 9:29]

Gave band! Hier vind ik Julie veel beter tot haar recht komen dan bij made Out of Babies. De op Isis & Red Sparowes gebaseerde muziek zou zonder haar niet boven de middenmoot uitkomen

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Op 8 oktober 2007 9:27 schreef jbassist het volgende:
horrifying (the 911 call at the end of At the Base of the Giants Throat, which the group refuses to discuss)

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Damn, dat stuk is hard.

haha met de drummer van de fugees

klink wel aardig dit maar met bands zoals Isis, Cult of Luna, Callisto enzo heb ik wel dat het me soms allemaal hetzelfde gaat klinken(terwijl ik echt wel van de stijl hou) ik hoop dat het bij deze band niet zo is.

edit: hehe volgens wikipedia heb ik het dus over Atmospheric sludge metal.

[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door ElitE op 08-12-2008 12:45]

De zangeres trekt het geheel héél erg op.

dat wel jah, maar bij dit soort muziek weet ik meestal niet of het blijft hangen. De titel van de band past iig heel goed bij de muziek

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Op 8 december 2008 12:50 schreef ElitE het volgende:
dat wel jah, maar bij dit soort muziek weet ik meestal niet of het blijft hangen. De titel van de band past iig heel goed bij de muziek

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Je bedoelt de titel die verwijst naar één van de meest bloederige slagen uit de klassieke geschiedenis?

nee de klank en onbewuste associaties vind ik wel mooi bij de muziek passen.

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Op 8 december 2008 12:41 schreef ElitE het volgende:hehe volgens wikipedia heb ik het dus over Atmospheric sludge metal.

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post metal dus

De vraag is natuurlijk wat er straks na 'post' komt.

OT: erg gave muziek, moest even wennen aan de zang maar op het moment dat ik er aan gewend was vond ik het het gelijk het sterkste element van de muziek.

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Op 8 december 2008 23:40 schreef Gemene Lepel het volgende:
De vraag is natuurlijk wat er straks na 'post' komt.

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Nu-Post?
Prog-Post?

Wie is er uberhaupt begonnen met dit soort ongein. Muziekgenres kunnen gewoon een eigen naam krijgen ipv een bestaand genre te pakken en er 'post' voor te plakken. Modeverschijnsel zeg ik je .