METZ debut session: "Not Until Everyone's Messed Up"
Words by Sean Moeller, Illustration by Johnnie Cluney, Recording engineered by Mike Gentry. Japanese Translation by MELTRICK
What does a man do when he's got no clean clothing - the laundry piling up in the corner of the bedroom - and all he wants to do is chainsaw a running motorcycle in half? It's not a rhetorical question. There is an answer that can be arrived at without a whole helluva lot of consideration. That man - if he just can't find anything clean to wear or a chainsaw or a running motorcycle - probably just goes out and gets fucking hammered drunk and listens to Metz' self-titled new record.
It will quench that feeling as much as anything can. That man might even want to douse himself in gasoline, just for a little excitement, just in case someone decided to strike a match and let some craziness ensue. There's really no telling what all it might take for a man who has such inclinations to feel as if they've got what they needed out of the night. It might take going down in a blaze of flames to feel like it was memorable enough to be mentioned in the holiday card form letter.
Lead singer Alex Edkins, drummer Hayden Menzies and bassist Chris Slorach make up this power trio from Toronto and they skim all the creamy debauchery off the top of the churn, guzzling it themselves, flailing and working themselves into a steamy lather while doing so. These songs pound with ripping abandon and they run around like maniacs breaking every glass and bottle they can find until everyone's messed up.
"First of All" for the ending up this post, you just should head up to the METZ show sometime as soon as possible you can make it to wherever it happens they definitely run around the breaking beer bottles and ripping the abandon with their freak-up real punk sound (I would say "punk") in the dirty venue of your neighbor.
I Know it's kinda stupidly late to present this, but I listened back to the very first debut digital EP for while for long. And rethink of this 2010-2012 latest dubstep grammy guy's debut. I indeed think it's almost latest rock music in the world now, and still think that not so bad be back to his debut.
And I also think he could somehow make one show at some sumer rock fest in Japan this year, but maybe he doesn't?
☆Skrillex（シュクリレックス）/ "My Name Is Skrillex" EP (2010)
↓Here the 6-tunes EP still for FREE or Donate!
↓それではこちらがその６曲入りEPのフリーダウンロード、かPaypalでのドネイト式です！
My favorite tracks from this EP is below. The reason why is because, he has put some interesting japanese girl phone call voices as a sounds effect and it's really impressive for me, as a japanase.
このEPからのオススメトラックは次の２曲。理由ってのも浅はかで、
というのもトラック中に彼は日本人の女の子の「もしもーし」という電話ボイスやらを散りばめて注入しているのが印象的で（笑）
★Skrillex / "With Your Friends"
&
★Skrillex / "Da Da Oliphant"
Enjoy the EP!!
thnx,
Kennyy/こぢけん
as MELTRICK
Edited on [(Mon) July/ 30th/ 2012]
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【本日のBGM selection】
Actually I may have seen a news on some music webmag...that Skrillex is/was gonna participate some track in Muse's next album?! That would be good, I think.
シュクリレックスがミューズの製作中のアルバムに参加するとかしないとかってニュースをその辺のウェブマグで観た気がします。良いと思いまーす！
I actually liked this 2004's third full length, because it was melodiously very..insistent. And this music video as well.
この楽曲収録の２００４年のサードアルバム、実はすごく好きな作品でした。メロディーがねちっこくて。 このMVも。
★Muse / "Time is Running Out" (official MV)
off the third album "Absolution" (2004)
Hi there, I am renewing【FREE SHITS or not!!】section on the MELTRICK news/works web. Because it seems messed up, and wanted to make it more clear to view itself. So it's time to re-organizing now!!
And this post is going to be re-introducing some old FREE SHITS from my both English and Japanese blo gs. Also I've decided to write announcing article for each item constantly. That would be more worked for you I hope. And I'm collecting the articles clearly on the new 【FREE SHITS or Not.】section! (Of couse so far stuff on the old 【Free Shits】would be re-articling too.)
also if you have any question, contact me or leave your comments on it!
Hopefully you still like them!!
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MELTRICK intro in Jpns:
このMELTRICK news/worksのウェブページの【FREE SHITS or not!!】というフリーダウンロードを中心としたオススメを紹介するセクションのRenewingに伴い、投稿方法を変えて行く事に決めました。オススメアイテムを載せる際は毎回記事を細かに書いていき新しい【FREE SHITS or Not.】にまとめてゆく方式にいたします。
*These used to be embedded music on my English and Japanese blo gs. Now it's moved here for re-organizing. ＊このセクションは元々は英語と日本語ブロッグのフリースペースに埋め込まれてたフリー音源達を整理しただけです。
☆Uninhabitable Mansion / "4 free songs from UM"
(Free download Ep - 2009)
（アンインハビタブル・マンション）
A true indie rock special group from Brooklyn, NY. Mem of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Au Revoir Simone, Dirty On Purpose and Radical Dads!!
ブルックリンのスペシャルバンドで、現在はこの名前でインディレーベルと化した、クラップユアハンズセイヤー、オ・ルヴォ・シモーン、etc.のメンバーからなるスペシャルグループ。
↓Download from here:
Track list:
TBA!
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☆Dan Mangan / "Road Regret"
(off his sophomore Album "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" 2009)
（ダン・マンガン）
↓A Free Song! from Dan Mangan:
(I saw him in Boston, in Aug2010)
★Dan Mangan / "Road Regret" (Unplugged on The BackStage Pass)
This band line up is same as when I saw him in Boston at a venue Great Scott in 2010.
このアンプラグドの映像は丁度私が初めてダンのライヴを観た2010年頃の映像で、再度のメンバーもその時と同メンバーです。が、この映像はちょっと本人疲れているのか、歌メロのキーがやや低い気がしますね。。
there's also the official music video, here!
この曲はリードなのでオフィシャルMVがあります！
Oh by the way, I've translated this song's lyric by myself someday before, and that was here from!! そういえば、 この楽曲のリリックを日本語訳詩させて頂いて、 何気にご好評頂いていたのを思い出しました！！
Edited on [(Sat) Aug/20th/2011] / Re-edited on [(Thu) Sep/15th/2011]
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☆Exploding in Sound (records, V.A.) / "Future Legendary"
(3rd EiS various artist free compilation Album - Aug2009)
（エクスプローディング・イン・サウンドのV.A.フリーコンピ / 「フューチャー・レジェンダリー」２００９年８月リリース）
Esp. my friends band RIBS from Boston on the track M-3! and one my favorite track is M-18 by Solar Powered Destroyer as well. This is the third installment compilation from EiS back in summer of 2009, when I first came to Boston and a time when I was hardly discovering music in Boston area from the internet. All 19 tracks.
EiSというMA州界隈の音楽ウェブログサイトの独自フリーダウンロード式コンピレーションの第三弾。僕の友人達でバークリー音楽院出身のメンバーからなるボストンのオルタネイティヴバンド・リヴス(RIBS)を目的に聴いていたコンピアルバム。聴きごたえ満載の全１９曲。初めてボストンに降り立った頃にネットから必死こいてボストン周辺の音楽を探していたときに出会ったコンピにしてウェブサイト。
☆Exploding in Sound / "CIRCULATORY SYSTEM"
(4th EiS Free Compilation album - Nov2009)
This one is also their early year compilation. My purpose for this one was a Mass based spacy Hard Core band Constants, and a girl front alternative rock band Dirty Dishes.
These songs are finally on the proper record called "Plastic Moon," actually at that time they pledged for making the record itself and signed new label to press out. This "Let's Go" & "Time" is that time's free stuff.
↓Download from here!
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And here's kinda special new free stuff for you today!
そして、もうひとつ新たに今日のお勧めフリースタッフを！
☆The Twilight Sad / "Acoustic EP"
(Free 8song digital EP - May2012)
（ザ・トワイライト・サッド／「アコースティック EP」2012年5月リリース）
↓Download here below／こちらのWedgetよりダウンロード！
The EP Track List:
"I Became A Prostitute"
"Interrupted"
"Seven Years Of Letters"
"Suck"
"That Birthday Present"
"The Neighbours Can't Breathe"
"The Wrong Car"
"Throw Yourself Into The Water Again"
TTS is an indie Scottish band from 2003. You can also see more the acoustic performance videos songs from this EP on their official weblog page here!
トワイライトサッドは２００３年から活動している（現在は）３人組のインディーロックバンドです。このアコースティックEPからのセッション映像がオフィシャルウェブログからご覧になれれます！
one video from the EP:
★The Twilight Sad / "The Birthday Present" (Acoustic)
hope you enjoy all!
thanx,
Kennyy/こぢけん
as MELTRICK
Edited on [(Thu) July/ 26th/ 2012]
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【本日の／Today's BGM playlist goes like this...】
I actually have a mind that I'm going to move to somewhere in Canada someday soon, isn't it awesome? how much I love canadian indies.
いつかカナダに住むことを最近は企んでいます。はい。
1). Tegan and Sara / "The Ocean" (Acoustic for WBEZ Music)
I have also translated this song (or even a whole set of the album from T+S) too.
TBP!!
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Oh shit, I wish I could see them in the state of Maine!
メイン州で彼らを観れるなんて、最高だろうな！
2). Decemberist / "January Hymn" (live at Bull Moose in Maine)
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3). Mice Parade / "Couches and Carpets" (official MV)
A taken from their release "What It Means To Be Left Handed" (2011?)
Okay there. In English, it might be first time I am writing about one of my original hometown friends band called 'midnight parade' (midnightparade.jp) but I'm so glad finally that I got a chance to do that for them. Post rock, hard core, math rock etc etc influenced very hawk sounds (in my opinion), they've tried to make their own sounds effecting in a local town Niigata in Japan, where locates in opposite to west north from Tokyo. An epic band in this area.
One of guitar players such nice guy, takahashi-san from midnight parade messaged me about someone from oversea sent them an article of midnight parade in English, then offering me to translate it in Japanese correctly. Okay, I can do that. I'd love to do that very emotionally cause they're one of my best local bands anew in Japan. They spent so much busy times and massive times in 2011, and the end of the year two guys left the band. Several proper constant releases (you can even see and take a listen the discography on their website, bandcamp and the article about mp in English.) and some big own organizing shows in town, and even keep making new own music as well as keeping their personal lives. And early this year, they've reorganized more like reformed the band themselves with new players, such as a guitar player and a drummer. Especially the new drummer has also his own band called Sayonara Balk from the other area in Niigata
That website, introducing underground Japanese music and the scenes very deeply and very particularly, is so hitting the musical truth, I think. I love it, thank you for writing midnight parade up on your website, Ryan! We really appreciate, and that's true if there was their distro in the us indeed. Especially because I haven't even gotten a copy of their 2nd demo ep "red light discor" while I'm in Boston... impossible. Paper craft rectangle envelop package cd cover jacket with the art should have been awesome too, they would make it by diy-ly for the first two released demos. (Okay, Takahashi-san has been working on the band personal distro system called "1020distro." We can possibly make the international distro over enough by very our own way soon together (within my MELTRICK).)
from the ep, and their master piece hit tune:
★midnight parade / "RED LIGHT DISCOR" (PV)
"The Absent Trail of an Echo and My Future Plagued by Surrender"
[Bandcamp] Midnight Parade - Various (2006-2011)
-- written by @Ryan [Thu/June/21st/2012]
Midnight Parade has definitely been making the rounds. They've released stuff on Say Hello to Never Records, Further Platonix, even showing up on the Love the Fate compilation. So, they've definitely been busy and all, but I have none of these and had never heard them before. So, on top of my normal pleasure at finding a Japanese band with uploaded songs on bandcamp, I finally get to hear a band that has been on all those distro pages for so long.
The songs available on bandcamp are scattered, only one is off a release I could find available. Still, there's 3 studio tracks and 2 live tracks, and you can get a good sense of their sound. They have a bit of a Toe influence with the instrumentation, a little 3cm tour in some of the songs, and something else that I can't think of. Each song is plenty long and goes through lots of different moods before their epic endings. My favorite song of the three is 8cm先の憂鬱, which has a more aggressive tone than the others, and definitely reminds me of 3cm tour, or maybe Birth.
Check them out, and get their releases if you can. Now I have to add them to my list of stuff to buy in those intermittent orders to Japanese distros. Man, wouldn't it be great if there was a distro in the US that was trying to bring over Japanese stuff...
I have to say though, this video below, which was one made for the release of the unripe split, is so frickin' boring. These guys are just standing around, only playing their instruments. No emotion guys? Oh well, the music's good, so that's fine, I guess.
"The Absent Trail Of An Echo And My Future Plagued By Surrender"
(「エコーがぼやけ途切れていく瞬間と玉砕でペストされた俺のミライ」
*かなり勝手な意訳ですが、笑 そのサイト名です。 サイト主にまだ尋ねていないので定かではないですが、 恐らくGauge Means Nothingという1997-2005年に活動していた東京のバンドの「残響も失せた過去と諦めに彩られた未来に」という作品から拝借してサイト名にされているのでは？ とネットを駆使したところ予測しております。）
--- [Bandcamp] Midnight Parade - Various [2008-2011]
Thu, June 21, 2012 (2012年6月21日木曜)
Original article written (オリジナル記事) by @Ryan
Japanese translation (日本語翻訳) by @Kennyy_MELTRICK
midnight paradeは確実に動き回り続けているのだろう。彼らは既にSay Hello To Never Records、Further Platonix、それにLove the Hate recordsのコンピレーションにまで顔を出しているのだから。そりゃあ、忙しくしていただろうしその音源達にすべてを注いでいただろうが、ただ俺はこれまでそのどの作品も手にしていなかったし聴けてすらいなかった。だから、Bandcamp（バンドキャンプ）でお目当てのジャパニーズバンドの音源を見つけられるのは何よりもの当たり前な喜びであり、そんな中で遂に長い間どのディストロページにもなかったバンドを聴く事ができるんだ。（＊勝手な推測でですが、ここのラストセンテンスは原文のミス過何かで、"Never"がhas beenにかかったと仮定して訳しました。そうしないと前後のつじつまがあいませんでしたので。）
Edited on [(Mon) June 25th, 2012]
Posted on [(Tue) June 26th, 2012]
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【本日の/Today's BGM selection】
my best dudes. friends of mine.
their 2011's excellent debut 10" ep.
友達のボストンバンドです。ってかバーナーがこのメルトリサイト右手に。
（実は今年前半に活動休止中、むしろそろそろ水面下活動明け目前。）
ヴァイナル購入はストレコさんにて。
（僕のMELTRICKミックステープ付きだったりしますし。笑）
