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[rainbirdsky]

Not really in the mood to colour today (I hurt my arm) but... three more of the Nine Stars of Cygnus :v Because it’s been a while since I drew the others.

Pelica (purple), Aljanah (pink) and Azelfafage (blue).

[lakersoracle]

[zwischenstadt]

Fun fact about my annoying generation, the mid-level millennials

“Post-rock” was one of the big genres when we were in high school.  Post-rock was basically a new version of prog rock that incorporated punk, hardcore, and emo elements.  Don’t describe it that way or else music dork bitches will cry at you.  Anyways, it was a genre that combined progressive song structures with aggressive emotional expression.  Great for quiet-but-dissatisfied kids like me, from about 2005-2012.  There was a subgenre of post-rock called post-metal.  The meaning of post-metal wasn’t rocket science.  Post-metal was born out of the desire of bands to imbibe the punk-hardcore-emo nexus with heavy metal attributes.  Neurosis was probably the *most* formative band in this regard.

The thing is, the band Tool was one of the major precursors to this genre.  In retrospect, that was obvious.  While Tool was not the only band to invent the highly emotivist version of prog rock that came to be called “post-rock,” they were undoubtedly one of the most important. They successfully incorporated water drums, the chunky riffs of Helmet, the drumming of the Melvins, and the expressive lyrics of Neurosis into an incredibly enjoyable formula.

Problems is, they became popular.  After Tool-Lateralus, an album whose singles were played on radio to an insane degree (played enough on Q101, Chicago’s rock station, that I became sick of Tool at one point around when I was 14 (2007)).  However, as I started to get into Isis, Red Sparrows, Pelican, Old Man Gloom, Russian Circles, Cult of Luna, The Ocean, Jesu, and other bands, I noticed in interviews that Tool was a frequently cited influence for these bands.  Also, when I interviewed Laurent Lebec, the original lead guitarist for Pelican, he cited Tool as a core influence.  

The thing is, if you raised the possibility that Tool was a formative influence on the Post-Rock/Metal scene, you would have been met with the angriest, most aggressive response imaginable. For example: In the albums In the Absence of Light and Wavering Radiant, Isis worked with the drummer of Tool.  Before these albums came out though, there was a huge flame war on Somethingawful’s thread celebrating In the Absence of Truth.  People just getting into Isis could tell that they were majorly influenced by Tool.  But for Post-Rock/Metal fans, that was humiliating and unacceptable.  If you admitted that Isis was influenced by Tool, you would get flamed under the pretense that they were influenced by Godlfesh and Neurosis, not Tool.  There was obviously Neurosis and Godflesh influenced there in Isis, but the Tool influence was obvious, if only for the incorporation of world music and a wider variety of percussive instruments.

In my interview with Laurent Lebec back in high school (one of the music teachers in my high school basically knew everybody in Chicago music), he emphasized that Tool was influential due to how they incorporated Rush/King Crimson approaches to melodies, as well as how they had long passages without vocalists.  To them, the influence of Tool was obvious.  But to the Pitchfork-hipster world, the influence of Tool on one of their favorite genres (post-rock and post-metal) needed to be aggressively warded away, to save face.  Pathetic..  

[lakersoracle]

[casaraovintage]

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[ligianebastosoficial]

Tenho essa bolsinha da @pelicaoficial, já uns bons anos, acho que uns 10 anos... ganhei da minha irmã, e mesmo surrada, eu gosto muito dela. Bem duradoura essa minha companheirinha de todas as horas. #bolsa #pelica #duravel https://www.instagram.com/p/B9SKrE0jEbT/?igshid=6jirlrmkwdpm