ice dragon. no seriously, thats their name

here's a band called ice dragon. :|

they make doom metal :|


So anyways, imagine if Ozzy was frozen in time and was brought back in order to sing for a band that really likes Black Sabbath. Now imagine if during the freezing process Ozzy's voice was dulled and reduced to just being able to kind of howl with help of vocal distortion. I mean... ok I don't hate this band at all. I think I just really hate the name of the songs. "White tusks" "dusk". One great song name is "Interspecies Communication" which is perfect! I love songs about a walrus and a penguin having a telepathic bond.

They took a lot of the good ideas from Black Sabbath, but unfortunately took some really bad ones from Neurosis. The noise opening of no real purpose that I guess is supposed to build anticipation? anyone know why these happen? So theres that... which is completely forgivable because at least this one is music, Neurosis and Isis just have dumb noise background sounds that mean nothing to anyone and despite what they are thinking DOES NOT create a mind state and a vision for the audience and the album DOES NOT tell a story.

Worse than that however and far less acceptable is 2 tracks back to back one 45 seconds and one 2 minutes that absolutely accomplish nothing. Its kind of bothersome actually that these happen, they completely annoy me whenever they come on and really just take away from what really could be...and I hate to type something like this. My favorite whateverdumbgenrethisis album of the year of whateverdumbyearthiscameout. It's Sabbathy riff worship but it's really enjoyable, and Hole in the Sky is my favorite Sabbath song, and this band knows that, and does not disappoint me for it.

Now I know I typed some things knocking this band but it's only because I'm uncreative and boorish. But whatever, they got me to like a band in a genre that I really thought I'd never listen to in any strong capacity save the 20 albums I already liked. I hate that they have a song called "Poseion's Grasp" because when it comes on my mp3 player and I have the device in my pocket I just hear the song and I don't have to read what the name of it is. And its kind of like in Funny Farm when Chevy Chase is eating "lamb fries" at the local restaurant and doesn't know what it is, he's enjoying them immensely, in fact he sets the record for consumption, and everything is fine... then he finds out that they are in fact deep fried sheep testicles and he throws up.

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