Mr. Bungle - Slowly Growing Deaf

Band:  Mr. Bungle
Song:  Slowly Growing Deaf
Album:  Mr. Bungle (1991)
Genre:  Avant-Garde Metal

Mike Patton fact to continue the highlight, his vocal range is 6 octaves.  He can also sing, rap, croon, and scream.  Freaking absurd.

Also I'm gonna be real here, I had no clue how weird these guys were.  I thought they were a Frank Zappa esq group and, while they could be called that, they aren't at all what I thought they would be there.  I dunno, I didn't expect experimental Metal stuff, ya feel?

Cool thing to run across though, as they apparently influenced a lot of my favorite acts.  They visually helped out Mushroomhead and Slipknot, and musically helped Korn, Limp Bizkit, and various others I'm familiar with.

Seeing as they played their last song in November of 2000, they weren't exactly on my radar considering my big "let old music be old and appreciate new music" thing I was always on.

Also if you don't feel like hearing somebody take a massive dump, you can skip the end of the song, haha

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System Of A Down - Snowblind

Band:  System Of A Down (SoaD)
Song:  Snowblind (Cover)
Album:  Nativity In Black II (2000)
Genre:  Avant-Garde Metal

As hinted at yesterday, here's the SoaD cover of Snowblind!

Man, I loved this song so much when I heard it.  I hadn't ever heard the original, so I had nothing to compare it to on that first listen.  When it kicks into the verse I was super happy at the way it drops down, it's super smooth about it.  The best part of the whole thing though is when they drop down for the bridge and the ending.  It brings the whole coke fueled rampage of a song to a nice close.  The lift and fall of the whole song is just so great honestly.

We'll see if this wraps up my obsession with Black Sabbath tributes.  Maybe I'll actually post some actual Black Sabbath to even out this pile of music.

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System Of A Down - Shame

Band:  System Of A Down feat. RZA of Wu-Tang Clan
Album:  Vicinity of Obscenity (Promotional Single)
Genre:  Avant-Garde Metal
Language:  Strong

You never find songs like this covered, like, ever.  Nobody would cover Wu-Tang's Shame On A N*gga because firstly, it's an iconic song that's heavily associated with the group.  In addition to that, there's the content of the song.  Nobody covers rap music, and nobody covers one with a heavy reputation.

It's amazing though, like any of their other covers they've done System straight up murders this track.  And the fact that they got RZA on it too just makes it better in my opinion.

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System Of A Down - F*ck The System

Band:  System Of A Down (SoaD)
Genre:  Avant-Garde Metal
Language:  Strong Language

I'm sure a great many of you feel this way today.  Trump wins?  It's the end of the world.  Clinton wins?  It's a rigged system.  Very few people are going to be happy for the rest of the week.

I'm sure though that a lot of you can laugh at the way Serj sings this song's beginning.  It's kinda giberish and may take your mind off of you loss/win for a bit.  I like it though, it keeps that crazy vibe that a lot of System songs seem to have.

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Helpless Corpses Enactment

Band:  Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Genre:  Avant-Garde Metal

Here we have a band that looks like a bunch of rejects from Mudvayne, Static X, and Rammstein.  You know what though?  That's ok.

You know what's not ok?  This rather weird video.  Like, come on guys, whatcha doin here.  Being artists, that's what!

They claim their name comes from a real thing, but  Wiki disagrees.

"According to their extensive liner notes for Grand Opening and Closing, their official history and repeated in interviews, the name "Sleepytime Gorilla Museum" comes from a small group of Dadaists, Futurists, and artists named the Sleepytime Gorilla Press who owned and operated what they called a "museum of the future" which was "anti-artifact, non-historical and closed."[13]

The "museum" opened on June 22, 1916 (the same date as the bands' first concert, 83 years later). The exhibit was a fire which caused wide chaos and confusion. The following day the museum was closed (hence the name of the first album). The name itself apparently comes from a poem called "Of the Future Hides the Past," written by Museum members Lala Rolo and Ikk Ygg.[13]

The only source of information on the internet regarding the Sleepytime Gorilla Press, Lala Rolo, and Ikk Ygg arises from the band's interviews."

Hope you don't mind that I just copied that, I didn't feel like rewording it as my own thought.

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Diablo Swing Orchestra - Balrog Boogie

Band:  Diablo Swing Orchestra
Genre:  Swing Revival, Avant-Garde Metal

I had forgotten these guys existed till a dude at work mentioned them.  Actually it was the same dude that mentioned Scott Bradlee's deal come to think of it.

Well we were talking about our favorite angry music (Slipknot ftw) and he mentioned Diablo Swing Orchestra.  He called them his favorite type of angry music because he loves Swing so it keeps him a little chill, but this is "weird, distorted, screaming Swing music".

Well dang, with a rousing recommendation like that, eh?  Yo, these guys have an opera singer, you gotta check it.

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System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B.

So on one hand these guys are classed as Nu-Metal, but I'm not sure that's where they belong.  A lot of people place them there simple because that's the era in which they originated, but they are far closer to Prog.  According to Wiki they are Avant-Garde Metal, and that seems to fit a lot more to me.

They've got this fantastic thing they do were they seem to switch up styles in the middle of a verse.  This isn't really what I'm trying to say, but I'm not really sure how to explain what I mean.  Their song Chop Suey probably explains it the best, but there are moments like what I mean in this song as well.

One warning though is that this is a very opinion charged band.  Politics are a primary theme due to the singer Serj Tankian Armenian ancestry.  One neat note though is that Serj "was awarded the Armenian Prime Minister's Medal for his contributions to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the advancement of music." in 2011 according to Wikipedia.

I'm beginning to think I need some sort of early warning system for people to know whether they need headphones or whatever when they listen to this stuff.  Maybe a language warning?  Lemme know what you think, cause I'd hate to think I'm blindsiding some of you who are unfamiliar with some of the stuff I post.