You probably haven't heard of Lingua before, but don't read too much into that. They are from Sweden, Stockholm in fact, and have actually been plugging away for the better part of 7 years.All that is just info, however, and their sound should be much more important to you. What they are is extremely heavy, thick, and layered art-metal. Think ISIS and Dredg mixing paints, because those are the two bands that come to mind when you listen to their debut album, The Smell of a Life that Could Have Been.
Fortunately, I discovered this album only recently, and they are now in the middle of production of their sophomore album. Try and track down the debut album now while you await the new one.
MP3: Check out the track "May Crayons Guide the Sheep."
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The featured song (with such a peculiar name), though it suffers some on the production end, sounds a LOT like the old Shinedown that I used to love. Screw anyone that wants to hate on that, but the first album - once you gave it a chance - had a lot of raw emotion and was fantastic live. Then came "Us and Them" and I've not really been into them since. This band has that raw vocal energy.. maybe some of Chevelle's "This Kind of Thinking.." would be a good overall comparison.
man your comparisons hurt.....all I hear is Dredg with ISIS like guitars......but hey, I'm pretentious.
Sorry to piss in your cornflakes. I guess it works either way - READERS: if you are pretentious (*cough,cough,Ben,Cough*) then please follow Mr. Adam's comparisons... if you come from the modern rock arena, please use my comparisons to guide you on this one. Either way - it's not a bad band. Not the best thing I've heard lately, but surely not a bad one - worth checking out at least!
i once talked to a guy at one of our gigs in stockholm who absoultely loved us and especially the vocals of thomas. now i've always felt he had the bottom of dave gahan and the power of maynard (well, it just comparisons..) but this guy threw away names such as perry farrell and fred durst. at first i didn't know what to think but then it hit me that comparisons olny reflect where you cone from musically and what you've heard before. so the comparisons say more about the taste of the listener rather than the sound of the music. just to complicate this discussion that is. :) cheers! // misha of lingua.
Yeah- I think that's what I was trying to get at, but you just said it FAR more elegantly. I was really only exposed to mainstream modern rock up until Apr 06 when I had met these fellows back on Decoy Music... that's when my tastes REALLY began to vary. I have 12 years of listening comparisons fighting 1 & 1/2 of comparisons. Yeah- that's the ticket! PS - thanks for gracing our boards, we much appreciate it. Also - if I were in a band and ever heard anything about me compared to Maynard (unless the word "weird" was used) then I'd be on cloud 9.
excellent thoughts Misha. That makes perfect sense that we tend to hear what we want out of new music that we find appealing. Hence my thoughts of Dredg and ISIS. Reguardless, I love the album and the new demos you sent were fantastic.
Hows the new album coming along?
jeremy, having the benefit of playing with these tree guys for the last seven years has been a constant stay on that cloud. i'm a very blessed man.
adam, if you take that thought further: sometimes when i first hear a band and don't like it just to pick up the same record years later and go "shit, this is good!", maybe that's because i have other roads in music to travel before i can fully apreciate that specific ride. and i write this without any intent to sound or be elitist. i just think you have to be at a certain point to appreciate certain music and with all people being different, hence all different tastes in music. man i'm far off the shore now...
the album was written but now we're writing more. can't stop writing. no hits on new labels but we haven't been looking either, the release of come sleep's debut is taking all our efforts right now. by next year we'll kick our asses ans start comitting to lingua again.
Misha, you will have to educate me on Come Sleep. I'm not familiar with this project.....do tell.
Totally agreed Misha- there's a LOT of music that I didn't appreciate the first time around and months/years later it hits and I'm going "why did it take so long?"
jeremy, ain't that the beaty with music? :)
both of you, try to keep up on this one: we started in 2000 as lingua and kept it that way intil mid 2004 when we started playing slower and slower and it frustrated the shit out of our drummer. so we started a side project that was the opposite of lingua: not a trace of pretentoiusness, totally obnocitous, without thought and just plain fun. we called it rövfitta terror squad and you can find the music here: www.myspace.com/rovfitta
in mid 2005 i wrote a song for lingua that everybody loved but thomas found no vocal ideas for. we started playing the song with thomas on guitar and later i started screaming over it and then it struck us we'd found a new nerve, a third band within the four of us, that needed to be explored. it became a demo in 2005 and on november 12th this year we released the debut album "the burden of ballast". check it out at: www.myspace.com/comesleep or www.comesleep.com.
these side projects helps us focus on the original idea with lingua and keeps other ideas out as they get vented in other places. as soon as we find new nerves you can be sure we're going to explore that path as well and if it's a good one, we'll make that a record too.
that's what i was talking about when i said i am blessed to be working with these guys, they are more than willing to break whatever boundaries we come across with me.
i live the life. what more can i do than to try and share it?
YAY! You guys have musical A.D.D. too - you get to join the club, it comes with a secret handshake and special password (it's "platypus"). Seriously though - that's cool as hell that everyone can sign on to explore these multiple avenues since you usually only have one or two members who are that much of over-achievers. Hats off to ya, and I'll be checking out the "Come Sleep" material when I get home and can actually listen.
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