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Genghis Tron fan art using Midjourney :)
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Every Record I Own - Day 752: Genghis Tron Dream Weapon
This is an album highlight of 2021.
I saw the early electronic grindcore incarnation of Genghis Tron live once back in 2008. I was at Red 7 in Austin, TX with Russian Circles as part of a tacked-on mini-festival at the end of SXSW. My memory of the night is hazy, though the internet tells me that Maps & Atlases, Lymbyc Systym, Caspian, This Will Destroy You, Circle Takes the Square, Constants, Coliseum, Junius, Portugal the Man, Tera Melos, and The Coma Recovery also played. While I realize that in some circles this is a pretty impressive line-up, back in 2008 most of these bands were just starting out, and rather than feeling like an amazing festival it felt like a disorganized show with way too many artists involved.
I remember getting a little fatigued by all the post-rock stuff on the bill, and by the time Genghis Tron set up I was excited to hear a band that had a bit more energy and aggression behind them. Unfortunately, in lieu of a drummer they had a drum machine, and while the PA in Red 7 should’ve been adequate enough to make those mechanized beats sound absolutely crushing, the band was hobbled by a mix that made the drums sound quiet and completely cut-off from the live instrumentation.
For me, this is the big risk when combining electronic elements in a rock band. With the right sound engineer and the right PA, it can sound amazing. But in a small club with a disinterested sound engineer and no real soundcheck, the electronic components often sound detached and separate instead of fully integrated into the band’s sound. I wanted to believe, but I was not made into a Genghis Tron convert that night.
After a thirteen year hiatus, Genghis Tron returned with Dream Weapon. The metal elements are completely gone. The vocals have switched from grindcore grunts and shrieks to layered harmonies and vocoded treatments. The guitars are minimal while the synths take center stage. And though there are still electronic drum patterns, my SUMAC comrade Nick Yacyshyn hammered out live drums on the album. So really, it feels like a totally different band. And while I’m generally down for the mechanized assault of industrialized metal/hardcore (see: Uniform, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Godflesh, Austerity Program, etc.), I gotta say that this new incarnation of Genghis Tron completely won me over in a way their earlier work did not. Dream Weapon isn’t about brute force. While Nick’s drumming definitely lends an aggressive power to the album, the overall vibe of the record is more exhilarating than antagonistic.
I remember driving on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago one night, past the skyscrapers of downtown, the city lights glowing, Tangerine Dream turned up loud on the car stereo. The music paired with the monoliths of concrete and neon felt like some joyride into the future. Listening to Dream Weapon feels a little like that night if you were to add some element of danger and adrenaline---a pursuit, or perhaps a race to some urgent destination but with the full confidence of succeeding in the mission. It’s the soundtrack of accelerating into the night, of feeling in control of the man-made constructs surrounding us, of retaining the sense of self in an increasingly automated world.
Dream Weapon came out when we were all still in the pre-vaccine COVID lockdown, when the idea of live shows returning was still up in the air. And while that generally felt like a difficult time to release albums since there was no ability to promote them through touring, those restrictions might have actually served as a boon to Genghis Tron. This is music from some future world. Its sense of space feels divorced from reality. While I would absolutely love to see this incarnation of the band perform live, there’s also something really special about the fantasy world it creates. Dream World came out at a time when reality was pretty bleak and we were all relatively cut off from each other, and it offered a beguiling alternate world for us to bask in during our isolation.
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Genghis Tron - Relief off Board Up The House
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Board Up the House by Genghis Tron, 2008
#Board up the house#genghis tron#metal#metal fusion#grindcore#experimental metal#64%#69% RTR#nice#greg puciato#relapse records#album diary#endless teeth#things don't look good#the whip blows back#colony collapse#the feast#relief
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Genghis Tron - I Won’t Come Back Alive
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genghis tron | dream weapon
#today in relatively chill songs that happen to have quite a lot going on in them at the same time#the drumming here is REALLY impressive#i really dig this whole thing#it's an impressive display of timekeeping#and concentration#and the toms are out of this world#genghis tron#dream weapon#music
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Genghis Tron - Pyrocene (2021, Dream Weapon). Press ▶️. Enjoy 🎧.
#genghis tron#dream weapon#modern music#alternative music#board up the house#Youtube#music#music video
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In other good news, I recently discovered this Project X Zone wallpaper!
I can't believe I only found this yesterday, it looks amazing ;w;
Featuring some of the game's solo units!
#ganessa says stuff#project x zone#pxz#devilotte de deathsatan ix#neneko#tron bonne#servbot#bruno delinger#arthur (ghosts n' goblins)#valkyrie#rikiya busujima#vashyron#genghis bahn iii#flynn scifo#lindow amamiya#batsu ichimonji
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Genghis Tron fan art using Midjourney :)
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I was tagged in a couple of playlist games, gonna combine them.
First up, tagged by @daggertongue for this one, thank you!
RULES: write one song for every letter in your url and then tag as many people as there are letters in your url
Little bit of everything, * means harsh vocals
D - Die Slow - HEALTH spotify | youtube
A - Asleep On The Forest Floor - Genghis Tron* spotify | youtube
N - Narcotic Shadow - Boris + Uniform spotify | youtube
D - Dunkeltrakt - Flesh spotify | youtube
E - The Eternal Lament - Distant* spotify | youtube
N - Not a Daughter - Agoraphobic Nosebleed* spotify | youtube
B - Black Eye - Nahja Mora spotify | bandcamp
O - Of Those Immortal, Longing for Decease - Nithing* spotify | youtube
And I was tagged by @laelior to shuffle my favourite playlist and post the first five songs. Thank you! <3 Fun fact this playlist has 1,003 songs on it.
Aisha Qandisha - Taqbir spotify | youtube
They Belonged With The Others - Maenad Veyl spotify | youtube
Skogsrå - Goderan spotify | youtube
Quemar Bandera - Puerta Negra spotify | youtube
Resin On A Knife - Sightless Pit + Midwife spotify | youtube
tagging for either or both @shadoedseptmbr, @tiny-banana-time, @sparatus, @commander-krios, @favoriteblogonthecitadel, @creaking-skull, @korkro, anyone else who wants to share! No pressure!
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#ahhhhhhhhhhhhh im so upset#there was an AMAZING live concert from genghis tron on youtube but it's disappeared and i can't find it anywhere#do yourself a favor and look them up if you're into cybergrind or exprimental metal
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Genghis Tron, "Ride The Steambolt"
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Omega Radio for January 28, 2017; #131.
Unstoppable Death Machines “Single Clarity”
Genghis Tron “Board Up The House”
Mannequin Pussy “Pledge”
Anasazi “Sudden Illlness”
Black Cobra “Dragon & Phoenix”
Ex-Breathers “Open Source”
Neurosis “Fire Is The End Lesson”
Urochromes “2 Men”
Single Mothers “Hell (Is My Backup Plan)”
War On Women “Second Wave Goodbye”
Daughters “The Hit”
Rollins Band “Ghost Rider”
Unsane “Blood Boy (Hell’s Angel’s)”
Sleep “Dragonaught”
Whores. “Fake Life”, “Straight Down”
Pissed Jeans “Ignorecam”
Primitive Weapons “Ashes Or Paradise”
United Nations “Serious Business”
Nine Of Swords “Buoy”
KEN Mode “The Ugliest Happy You Ever Seen” , “Your Heartwarming Story Makes Me Sick”
Uniform “The Killing Of America”
Yautja “Of Lament”
Melting Hand “High Collider”
Full Of Hell & Merzbow “High Fells”
Deluxe noise rock, metal, post-punk, d.i.y., and metalcore.
#omega#music#playlists#mixtapes#noise rock#metalcore#post-punk#metal#d.i.y.#rock#Full Of Hell#Merzbow#Uniform#KEN Mode#Primitive Weapons#Pissed Jeans#Whores.#Unsane#Sleep#Rollins Band#War On Women#Urochromes#Mannequin Pussy
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