Pelican

Artist: Pelican
Label: Hydrahead Records
Category: Music

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Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 790168106828
EAN: 0790168106828
ASIN: B00008DCT1

Release Date: 2003-02-25

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Listmania:

Instrumental Rock-Out! (In No Order)
Space Rock
Some Decent Prog/Post Rock
Bands You Should Definitely Check Out
migrainey 'garage band' rock
All Over The Board
Better than your lists....
Best Of 2003
The greatest, latest Metal albums
Mucho Sludge/Doom Metal

Tracks:

Pulse
Mammoth
Forecast for Today
The Woods

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Customer Reviews:

Harsh Instrumental Metal.......2006-02-23

Really, this album isn't much else than raw and harsh instrumental metal. Yet I find myself so compelled to it. As other reviewers have repeatedly stated, it's heavy. Lord is it heavy. Not heavy in the sense of crazy blastbeat drumming and super speedy guitar licks, its just loud, droning 'walls of sound', created by the monumental guitars.

In relation to other more recent Pelican releases, this album is a lot heavier and far less ambitious. You wont find the gorgeous acoustic passages found on the latest (and might I add superb) "The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw".

The album's pinnacle point, the 13-minute climax of "The Woods", is outstanding. It leaves me feeling like a wobbly sack of human inertia when it has finished. The sound is huge, the buildups are tense and executed perfectly, the changes in riff and mood come in perfect timing...this song is stunning.

The rest of the album is solid, although becomes a little repetative at times, but "The Woods" is worth the money alone.

I read a reviewer claiming the band sound like they're 'stuck in one major chord'; I'm not sure what this person is trying to say. For one thing the band certainly don't seem 'stuck' to me, and as for major chord? This is an absurd criticism as the band clearly doesn't play one repeated chord, maybe this person meant...major scale...or major key...but then once again they would be wrong, as no song on this album is in a major key.

This album is simply harsh, full of towering guitar riffs and chord progressions that never tire. If you're a fan of post rock, check this one out.

If Conan the barbarian had a soundtrack..........2006-02-11

When listening to this EP, many images come to mind; Invading Mongol hordes, the sacking of Rome, cleaved swords, sullied hands and broken necks. In other words: Destruction... Absolute and definitive.

This is to be enjoyed on sound systems that "go to eleven".

On the aptly titled, Mammoth, the wall of sound comes over you like an avalanche...and you let it. You savor it.
You let it beat you down into the dirt because that is how unbelievably low and earth shattering it is.

It's refreshing to hear a sound so stripped to the bone, so unpretentious and unrelentingly heavy.
Methodic and sludgy, this monstrous piece of work goes exactly where it wants to... It plots a course and doesn't follow the terrain, it plows through it.

i cant wait to hear what they sound like when they're not practicing.......2005-12-13

All of these reviews are so full of praise i feel compelled to write something negative just as a warning to folks like me who dont like it so much. 3.5 stars for originality but beware of comparisons to explosions in the sky and other post-rock experiments. pelican lacks the "pathetique" that makes' explosions..., do make..., gybe et al's work so meaningful. they seem to be stuck in one major chord. it's a nice relaxing chord and i must admit it's nice to listen to a drone to calm me after some ornette coleman or naked city.

4.5 stars.......2005-11-15

I wouldn't consider this black metal, as other reviews suggest. If that's what you are looking for check out Immortal, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Emperor, and others.

Anyway, off that note. This album creates an atmosphere that not many bands can create. It is quite uplifting actually. The riffs are very low, but their are also high melodys that are very memorable. They are combined at perfect moments, showing that this band needs no vocals. The songs are lengthy, but as you listen you can actually forget how long the songs are because their are no boring parts to hold them down and make you loose interest. If you are a fan of any music, you will appreciate this magnificent work.

epic, heavy, amazing, et al.......2005-11-09

So heavy and amazing and epic.

and heavy and amazing.

after I finished listening to it for the first time, I remember going outside a smoking a couple of cigarettes and thinking, "Pelican just f---ed my mind...I have just been mindf---ed by some of the heaviest sh-- ever."

If you like heavy music, get it. If you like epic music, get it. If you like post-rock, doom metal, and/or sludge, get it. Seriously.

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