Showing posts with label portugal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portugal. Show all posts

Friday, June 10, 2011

Carlos Paredes-Movimento Perpetuo

Dubbed "The Man with a Thousand Fingers," this guy does more shredding than any of your dudes who work at guitar center (if you've ever been into one of those places you know exactly whom I'm talking about). Hmm, from the photo above I can only see a few digits, so I'm guessing his body is covered with those extra phalanges. But from the sounds recorded herein, it does seem possible that there are several other secret hands involved. I'm not much a fan of wanky guitar, but this shit is just too good to fall into that category. And he looks pretty cool on the cover too. More people need to put on suits when they play. What happened to class people?

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Defuntos-Sangue Morto

Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Japan, Germany, France-these are the countries I typically think of when daydreaming about non-u.s. metal. Portugal, sorry but I rarely think of you at all, and especially not for metal. Fado maybe, but nothing grim and lurching like this album. I think I read somewhere that this 2 piece has a Beefheart-like sound and I was intrigued. But I guess my ears are fucked since I'm not hearing it. Maybe you will. Instead, there's some really nice repetitive lo-fism whipped up by this guitar/drum combo that always relaxes me.

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