Torche - Grenades

[disgracelanduk]

Sounds like Foo Fighters stole Cavity's guitars. In other words, great guitar tone, shite songs. Everything these guys release sounds exactly the fucking same.

[TNBTBS]

I wish this they'd post their lyrics, I sorta' understand, but since he sings a lot like me, I don't understand most of what he says

[Drewkannonn]

looking for more bands like torche anyone know of any

[MrSmoker69]

@Drewkannonn: Check those guys out: 3xdoubleu.wallpop.de, very Torche/Floor/Cavity at times with slight dose of Sleep!

[JDMark123]

@MrSmoker69 torche/floor/cavity all miami bands kids need to stop jockn are shit we slowed it down and tuned it down. fuck long island ,midwest and LA shit.

[MrSmoker69]

@JDMark123 and you're meaning what???

[JDMark123]

@MrSmoker69 south florida is responsiable for bringing this style of music back all the bands I just listend to I grew up listening to when i was 16 and 17 before youtube was around and these people on here were slobbing doom/sludge knob

[terminaldeity]

@JDMark123

Savannah, Georgia

[300daysandnights]

@JDMark123 central Florida is coming around too.

[Pictish76]

HOLYGODDAMNEDSHITINNASAMMICH! ..........YES!

[GIBLETSOFFLESH]

also these guys arent stoner, doom, sludge.....or whatever...this is jus another version of ROCK n ROLL!!! quit with the damn genre/sub genre crap people PLEEEAAASSSEE in my mind only 3 genres exist rock, metal, and hip hop.....thats all there should be.....everything else is just retarded and confusing at times.....torche is an amazing band...period....thats IT! there i said my piece.. thanks for the vid guy

[rabbitspliff]

@GIBLETSOFFLESH of course, genre labelling can get a bit fuzzy at the edges and confusing, but i still think it's necessary. if you try and boil everything down to 3 genres (which, even considering the vast generalisation required, still cannot cover even a fraction of everything out there), what we end up getting is under the same label of "metal", bands like Sunn O))) and Tankard being compared to each other. And you cannot tell me that Sunn O))) and Tankard are anything alike.

[rabbitspliff]

@GIBLETSOFFLESH okay, so Sunn O))) and Tankard are both cool, but still in just saying everything's either rock, metal or hip hop, that forces bands like Whitechapel, Bring Me The Horizon, Torsofuck, Corrosion of Conformity, Rammstein, and Mayhem all into the same boat. Now if that literally happened, there would be a massive shitstorm and alot of broken noses... and a few dead people.....

[GIBLETSOFFLESH]

@rabbitspliff if thats what needs to happen to end the stupidity going on in music these days......so be it, i will be in the front lines

[monkeymagoo47]

@rabbitspliff Sunn O)))? I still haven't heard them. I keep trying to check them out, but everytime I look them up on youtube, my computer just makes this buzzing noise like a broken refrigerator or something. Wierd.

[pinkfloydfan417]

@monkeymagoo47 Lol. Nice one.

[GIBLETSOFFLESH]

*sings in key* go fuck yourself semiLivedj.....i think you need to have more of a open mind ya asshat

[semiLivedj]

to say I have a lame taste of music if I dont like this is just pathetic,They have no talent when it comes to vocals.Screaming in key is what it is.Music today is soooo easy to produce live with a good sound,just about anybody can do it if you have the drive to do it! So when it comes to vocals,I want more than just being in key! Hell,even being in key is easy to do.

[sludger79]

Nem tudom miért,de valahogy bejön ez a szar...DOOM-DISCO!

[chevyvan10]

Wow, I can't believe some of the comments here. Children, this is one of the best bands currently in existence. If you don't like it, you have a lame taste in music.

[BoBNaughtyBird]

Is this song about hippie grenades?

[ICreamsodAI]

this is fucking great

[baytamusic]

Sound like Handsome or Quicksand to me. I don't get the stoner references. Cool band anyways.

[alerske]

@baytamusic my thoughts exactly

[pukeoncops123]

Do people understand how dumb they sound on this? "Coheed's for fags!" "Torche blows" Jesus Christ you all suck. Stop fucking arguing and listen to this song. If you don't like it, move the fuck on and get over it.

[AZAvsAZB]

love torche, love floor, why does everyone call these guys 'doom' or 'sludge' pop. They have slow songs but i would hardly consider torche doom or sludge and certainly not pop. What happened to good rock bands

[Beelzebubbbbles]

@AZAvsAZB

Certainly not doom, I can hear elements of sludge (heavily distorted guitar), but I'd say they're stoner if anything. They're good. They're about to play a tiny venue in Barcelona this month, I'll be recommending it to everyone.

[DisKardRecords]

Stoner Rock lol

[TheDJDragoo]

Ahhh nothing like listening to some torche and passing some big ol joints with my buddies

[angelizer999]

This is just music, pop sludge? fuck u bastard, dont be an asshole, just listen if u like it or not is another story.

[NuMetalGrunge]

i kind of like this. but im more used to the heavier stuff. im all for creativity. but this is kind of stupid. like minato said, pop sludge :P

[ripdimebag6969]

This shit fucking sucks. Listen to Electric Wizard, Sunn 0))), Eyehategod, Kyuss, Sleep, Acid King, sHeavy, Weedeater, Earth, Pelican, Isis, etc etc. Good Stoner/Doom metal.

[wooofums]

@ripdimebag6969 you're an idiot. This band is on Aaron Turner's label. You know, the guy who started ISIS and signed pelican.... Torche is awesome, rather than just being a sludge or stoner rock band, they combine tons of genres, doom,stoner,sludge,arena,popro­ck, etc. These guys are awesome.

[pukeoncops123]

@wooofums You like this band because they're on ISIS's label? That's fucking lame.

[wooofums]

@pukeoncops123 no, i like torche because they make great music. I pointed out that they were on hydrahead because the guy i was replying to was telling people to ignore torche and instead to go listen to isis and pelican. Sooooo, if people are interested in pelican and isis, i would imagine that would have a similar interest in torche because aaron turner formed isis, started hydrahead and signed pelican. Do you see a pattern here???

[autopsy87]

@ripdimebag6969 i was just thinking... why is this band listed with those bands? this is much lighter than bands like you mentioned.

[westernnnnnn]

@ripdimebag6969 all those bands are good, really good in fact, as is torche. way to name drop, don't act like a snob on the internet. makes you look like a bitch.

[Horticulturist]

@ripdimebag6969

clearly you've never listened to floor

[XxMinatoNamikazexX]

What is this, pop sludge?

[lilsheep68]

lol is there something i'm not getting? in other words

boo

wow sugar puss music

i was on a roll i just listened to like 20 amazing songs in a row. thanks dickheads.

[tmckinsey79]

@lilsheep68 Go turn up your Backstreet Boys or Coheed and rub one off then

[lilsheep68]

@tmckinsey79 lol!! mugwai + ATDI + my dad vs yours + red sparowes haha and maserati d: lol they do not compare to this junk, like. this is something u'll listen to in highschool and then be like WTF i liked that??

[MrOilslick96]

they played this at a coheed and cambria concert in april i was there. the neck slide he did there blew my mind

[JDnx]

I can see the appeal of Torche, but they had their bass up way way to high in San Fransisco. almost no treble going on. and you could only hear the drummer and bassist.

But they do have some good stuff.

[transmission24]

WHYEEE are these guys playing with Coheed and Circa. I have to stand through these guys efore any good music comes on.

Whatever. Coheed's gonna ROCK THE WAREHOUSE!!

[tmckinsey79]

@transmission24 You're a fag for liking Coheed and not Torche, Coheed is lame

[thisdayjustbelongedt]

@tmckinsey79 your an idiot for saying coheeds lame

[DasAlbatross]

@thisdayjustbelongedt Just listening to Coheed makes my dick smaller.

[thisdayjustbelongedt]

@DasAlbatross great argument. so much merit behind it

[tmckinsey79]

@thisdayjustbelongedt Coheed does make you impotent, and less of a man

[thisdayjustbelongedt]

@tmckinsey79 ya progressive rock makes you less of a man...if you had seen how bad these guys were live when they opened for coheed u wouldnt say that. i like some of their songs but they suck live

[transmission24]

@tmckinsey79

LOLOLOLOLOLOL You really just said that. If Torche were any good, they'd be better known by now.

@thisdayjustbelongedt

Thank you.

[jw2113]

@transmission24 your fucking retarded fame has nothing to do with talent

[tmckinsey79]

@transmission24 They aren't about being widely known or trying to be most popular and selling out like the faggots from Coheed, they are about making music that their fans like.....and if you hate them so much then why are u looking them up? Go jerk off to Welcome Home like all your other Coheed fairy friends

[transmission24]

@tmckinsey79

I looked them up cuz they were on the line-up for the show, and wanted to see what they sound like. Good enough reason for you?

And I WILL jerk it to Welcome Home. That song is awesome. Yet played out.

kthxbai

[transmission24]

@tmckinsey79

LOL when did I say fame had anything to do with it haha.

They're musical style is NOTHING like the two. So before you go around attempting to shut people's comments down, read them correctly. Asshole.

[transmission24]

@tmckinsey79

Sorry for not liking Crappy music.

My sincerest apologies.

Not.

[tmckinsey79]

@transmission24 WOW dude, you're cool

[StuartHayden]

All their songs sound the same. lol.

Shit is terrible.

[tmckinsey79]

@StuartHayden So stop looking them up, they are trying just like any other band, what do you do? Work at Burkger King?

[Newbe12]

seeing them with coheed may 17th HoB Boston should be a good show Circa Survive is pretty dope 2....Coheeds new album is amazing

[molotov001]

@Newbe12 I'm going to that shit too. Should be good times.

[houdeiner]

there going to play with coheedandcambria the best band ever in phili at the electric factory may 22 i can't want wait

[gorillazking500]

i get to see them with coheed in oklahmoa

[CoheedKonPFI]

These guys are going to be opening at the Coheed and Cambria show I'm going to see in April. Anyone know if they put on a good live show?

[xTheOxx]

Not the greatest stage presence, but they play LLLOOOUUUDDD and the songs are pretty catchy.

I really like their drummer.

[coheed01]

@CoheedKonPFI which venue you going to in april?

[thisstinks92]

@CoheedKonPFI you going to the Fillmore on the 22nd?

[IMTFIA]

@CoheedKonPFI They put on a great live show... if you like the music, that is.

[LowLevelHum]

honestly fuck those other bands...Torche is the shit!

[sunkensinger]

YOU guys tried Listening to KATO DOT?

the track "WAYFARER" and "On Limpid form"

will make you forget of the melvins and pink floyd inlunce or sound that this torche band seemed to have....checkout KAYO DOT..ok? muse rocks dudes!

USE AN AVANT GARDE EAR...and the "THE BLIND EYE SEES EVERYTHING"....ok? expand...(there is no scene)

[sunkensinger]

it's KAYO DOT deep shit....(thats me)

KAYO DOT

KAYO DOT rules!

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[scenepointnazi]

torche is fuckin loud live. My ear drums are still blazing from seeing them in august. In Return is a great record. Speaking of Floor, the Dove split is the best stuff they did. As for the haters, Torche combines stoner style harmonics with alot of sludge and drone, its like a fuckfest between The Melvins, Pink Floyd, and Nebula. if you missed that, your ears are not trained for the sludge viking that just plowed your ass.

[cornerbox]

hahahahahaha

[m1lky]

I love Mastodon, Baroness, Kylesa, and the likes.

Everyone tells me I should love this band, but for some reason I just can't bring myself to like them..

It's just too poppy for me...

[Virility]

Someone told me this was one of the most cutting edge bands of this decade.

Whaaaaaaat?

[Gargarozzing]

Meanderthal's most badass track!

A band with such great songs deserves a broader audience, as well as more critical attention within the "scene".

(I hate that word but I just can't find a better one...)

[ApostasyXVIII]

this is the only cd i have by them and it's freaking amazing

listen to that awesome guitar solo

[ImethIaddictI]

Steve Brooks is gay.

[JohnBosson]

Yup.

[jaketheman091]

has anyone ever heard underground 90s grunge? that's what their style reminds me of a lot

[Crumbleslug]

Music is a good thing.

[TheReapersSon]

Since when do clean vocals = nu metal? Oh, I forgot, a requirement for kvlt metal is to have the vocals be as indecipherable as possible, as well as the music being as horribly produced as possible...

Get bent you fucking elitist pricks

[fenderhippy710]

dude go change your tamp on and enjoy the music seriously

[TheReapersSon]

I was defending the song, if you couldn't tell

Not that it matters on the internet, anyway....

[fenderhippy710]

sorry dude

[TheReapersSon]

No problem! I'm sure most of us here that matter can all agree this song is awesome

[myhandsareopen]

torche = partysludge

[antonima1]

to me these guys sound like a combination of blink 182 and metal

[kingkongster]

I plan to lose my virginity to this song

[evanisgay11]

@kingkongster I already have...twice.

[thehasslessydney]

@kingkongster I already lost it, but when I heard this song, I lost it again.

[manthatyoufear743]

watching mtv and they were on this headbangers ball thing and i kinda like the song soo im checking them out and they r pretty good

[Alise218]

yah,my uncle got me into them like..a few minutes ago.

=]]]

[sukonu]

i saw this guys live in antwerp, and more of the songs from the cd have a death metal sound

[GNARMYroly]

i would disagree with that

[mcnugget669]

this is dope but i like Bison BC more check out medication

[CocoaShunter]

This is Stoner takeover shit for a new generation. And goddamn we like our shit louder.

[papertowels666]

my friends and I have been getting into this band big time. good shit!

[drifter4sure]

WOOOOO!

[MothEater667]

Awesome

[shadowself88]

I honestly think the vocals are one of the best parts. Great song, great album, great band.

[gished100]

stoner rock meets nu metal - cmon admit it

[rabbitspliff]

uh.. not necessarily nu metal it meets, but yeah it's not proper stoner sludge stuff like u get from NOLA. But this band has it's high points, like the lead guitar in amnesian. u can't say that's bad. i'm after inspiration, and although some of the other genres they've taken from sorta compromises, u just gotta find the good bits and feed off of them. haha i dunno wut i'm even on about now. it'll be another 15 years before i try to start a band up. goin in the army first. i'm british fyi

[ConiferTreez]

nu-metal? not at all, Torche dont know what that is

[marokkopude]

Pretty clear that you have no idea what nu-metal is then.

[DimeGSTK]

this is some good shit

[birthmachinerocks]

Thayil actually loves this band...the dude from torche said they played in seattle and kim came up to him and said that he loved em and that he actually reminded him of himself

[ToolOfTrade]

Yes Thayil does love this band. You know he played on the Sunn/Boris split right? I miss that mans riffs so much.

[ToolOfTrade]

This band rocks very very hard. I listen to alot of "Metal" and do read Decibel Magazine myself. They were spot on, with giving this band album of the year. It's a solid Doom-Rock album from the beginning to the end.

[Roarfear]

this is suppost to be sludge metal

what a shit voice for sludge metal he is trying to sing all pop. i think they need to find a better vocalist cos this is shit

[tehmotherpuncher]

It's original and different. I think the voice goes surprisingly well with the music. Besides, there's plenty of sludge metal with growled vocals out there (ie pretty much all of it) for you out there. Torche just sorta' does their own thing.

[TheProjektMayhem]

Nah man, this is good music. You can't classify a band and say they suck because they don't fit your classification. That's like saying Beyonce is supposed to be black metal and then saying she has the wrong "dance moves" or some random shit. Fool.

[tehmotherpuncher]

Well to be fair, Beyonce isn't black metal, and previous work of hers wouldn't lead one to believe she is, but Torche does have a lot of sludgier stuff, but they've always had a good balance of poppier stuff and sludgier stuff...ever since the first album.

[loliH9]

Beyonce was cool before she started to unleash the beast with her caveman moves.

[caddystrophic616]

i wanted to check these guys out because of them beating OPETH in decibals album of the year spread. decibal is supposed to be an extreme music magazine...and this is the band that gets album of the year? riiiight.

[gearhed1]

they got that album of the year slot because of the ORIGINALITY of it.

[eran0801]

i didnt know ray masterio played guitar

[grismusica]

just FYI, the mask belongs to Mil Mascaras (thousand masks)

[VicariousShred]

this album got Decibel magazines #1 heavy metal album of the year spot.

[christsatanatl]

my boys...

[sahbian]

thayil.

[actitudbandera]

fucking torche! respect!!

[effthisshite]

im stoked this is on here.. probably one of my new favorite torche songs

[Dumpvalve]

thayl?? thaiyl?? The dude from soundgarden

[Dumpvalve]

The solo sounds like Kim Thai

[fuzzycabin]

This sounds like The Melvins crossed with The Smashing Pumpkins. Thanks for uploading this.

[PigLiquor]

I've had this song stuck in my head since last night. I even went out looking for the CD today, but I couldn't find it (grr)! Could you do us a favor and upload the rest if you have it, please?

[celebratedsummer88]

I'm officially sold on these guys. Thanks for posting this.

[Idolhands7007]

hey that's allright, me too (NPR). the guys sorta renewed my faith that people can still make fucking amazing music.

[barber967]

I saw these guys on the 13th with Pelican. very good show, I recommend seeing both these bands live.

I also got the privilege to speak to Juan Montoya after the show, very nice guy. Also very good guitar player.

[natschavez]

fukkin awesome going to see them in glasgow with pelican on 14/009/09. i think that the solo in this track is fukkin sonically perfect.

[Twilight182]

I saw boris live and these guys were playing with them. They seemed pretty good.

[pokerrear]

they are good

[Nezaru]

This sounds like early soundgarden more than the melvins or foo fighters they've been compared with.

[centralscrutinizer66]

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who thinks this band is starting to sound an awful lot like the Foo Fighters. I had a chance to see Floor (singers 1st band) years ago in Detroit and they sounded very much like the melvins. Then I saw Torche a few times and was blown away, but with each successive release they're sounding more and more "radio friendly" and to me thats a bad thing.

[Nezaru]

Too many bands sound like the melvins, though.

It's a cliche sound.

[leonerossetti]

i hope you're referring to some OTHER band called the Foo Fighters, and not the one fronted by Dave Grohl... because if you were referring to them you probably need a hearing aid of sorts....

[centralscrutinizer66]

Nope, thats the one. Don't feel bad for not understanding music, alot of people don't.

[shayeasy]

good music is good music. you sound like a close-minded twat.

[reaperpro]

I totally agree centralscrutinizer66, his assessment here is spot-on. I was a latecomer to the Floor stuff, loved it, then I totally embraced the first Torche album, it was my fave shit, then, like centralscrutinizer66 says here, each successive release sounds more & more like the Foo Fighters.

[Nezaru]

These guys suck so much shit live. I was hoping they'd be better on the album versions, but I was wrong. It's just lame ass shit:Boring guitars, generic pop punk vocals, bad song structure.

[JordansGrave]

Fair enough if you didn't enjoy them live... But they are pretty fucking far from pop-punk and generic! Very good band, amazing album.

[Nezaru]

They're growing on me the more I listen to them.

But they're a little self concious live.

The one thing I will admit is they have the coolest shirts ever.

And Juan's little note and drawing of himself on the tip jar was cool.

[shayeasy]

you are fucking retarded.

i just saw them with boris and they were incredible. probably one of the best live bands i've ever seen.

[Nezaru]

I'm starting to think I saw them on an off night or something.

Maybe it's becuase they put too many Floor covers in between their actual songs, maybe because the singer told the soundguy to turn the vocals way down(which weren't bad)

Or maybe because they came after the stinking lizaveta, who were so amazing.

It's probably because of that.

I mean, how do you top the Stinking Lizaveta?

And how was boris?

I missed the show in gainesville because my van broke down.

[lazyshell]

that picture was taken at a halloween show in syracuse ny. it was when they toured with kylesa a couple years ago. the pa died and they played a monumental instrumental set (including a few floor covers).

[robmac323]

So well constructed. That solo is beautiful.

[xTheOxx]

Excellent album. Grenades and Across the Shields have been the soundtrack for the last few weeks of my life.

The last minute or so of this song reminds me so much of Soundgarden. It could literally be Kim Thayil playing the solo.

[iamntbatman]

Kim Thayil? To me it's straight Billy Corgan. That solo sounds like it came off the Zwan record. (That's not trash talking - I actually liked that album).

[metal1313]

this is great! want the new album

[Thrashenstein]

no sir, I don't like it.