- Category: Music » Hard Rock & Metal » General/Heavy Metal
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- Release Date: July 17, 2007
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Robotic Empire Records
- UPC: 655035706023
- WAPI (Tower ID): 111304650
- Average Customer Review: There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!
- Tower.com Sales Rank: #69853 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
- #2884 in Hard Rock & Metal (See Top 100 Hard Rock & Metal Bestsellers)
- #2063 in General/Heavy Metal (See Top 100 General/Heavy Metal Bestsellers)
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Product Description
ReviewSpin (p.135) - "Torche set their guitars on 'dirge,' work their vocal harmonies, and say amen to Foo Fighters riff-o-matic preaching." Title NoteTorche came into existence as an underground supergroup composed of vocalist/guitarist Steve Brooks (of stoner rockers Floor), lead guitarist Juan Montoya (also of Floor, plus sludgecore icons Cavity), bassist Jon Nunez (of grindcore merchants Shitstorm), and drummer Rick Smith (of every other band you can imagine), so their pedigree and experience were never in question so much as what in blazes their eponymous 2005 debut album would actually sound like. This, as it turned out, was an amalgam of sound, aptly dubbed "thunder-pop" by the group, whose prior lives in all of those " -- core" bands certainly informed the brevity of their songs (most of which lasted but one- or two-and-a-half minutes), but otherwise yielded ample evidence of stoner rock, doom, post-grunge, post-metal, and, yes, power pop! The last of these genres was most prevalent in turbulently melodic offerings like "Mentor," "Erase," and "Vampyro," while other, coarser grinds such as "Charge of the Brown Recluse" and "Holy Roar" paid tribute to the primal sludge of Cavity, EyeHateGod, and the Melvins. Somewhere in between, multifaceted fare like "F**k Addict," "Rockit," and "Make Me Alive" revealed Soundgarden to be a major influence on Torche's light/dark sensibilities; and in the nine-minute behemoth, "The Last Word," the quartet's journey from ethereal atmospherics to psychedelic sludge, and back again, made the song sound like Deep Purple's "Child in Time" for the post-rock new millennium (results may vary depending on drug use). All in all, Torche's debut plays out like a musical asteroid field, where chaotic and even seemingly haphazard collisions between foreign sonic objects yields frequently unpredictable and startlingly original new hybrids. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia If You Enjoy "Torche (CD)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Torche (CD)" by Torche (Artist)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Explore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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