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i am a humongous royal trux fan. to me, they are a perfect marriage of one side being artistic limit pushing, free form, random referencing, absurdist, post-modern brain play and the other side being that dumb stoned classic rock sound. i am trying to find a metal version of royal trux, with one side being the artistic side and the other side being that metal chug that hits you in the gut. i've tried neurosis and they were too screamy, i've tried pelican and they don't have the right metal sound, their guitars aren't heavy enough, i really like the melvins who may be the closest thing to what i'm asking but i figured i'd get greedy and see if there were any more suggestions out there. if you want to throw anything else that sounds like royal trux, please try, but usually people are way off in their comparisons, at least according to what i hear. thanks people. i am now going to smoke some pcp.

― conquistador (gruntin it out), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

try RTX

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

the last RTX album is very metal

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Electric Wizard

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe some old indie metal stuff like the first White Zombie album or the band Old.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

take 2 stereos, put Howling Hex on one and Don Caballero on the other. Play simultaneously. Enjoy.

but really...that is a tall order, at least for me.

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

yea, rtx would be the herrema part of the marriage (the dumb, stoned rock sound) and she has advanced more towards metal, and i think the rtx album is fantastic. what's don caballero?

― conquistador (gruntin it out), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Don Caballero is an instrumental rock group from Pittsburgh. (Some people might want to skewer me for that bald introduction). they've been making very heavy, oddly timed, sporadic 'metal' for about 15 years. here is some band info:
http://www.tgrec.com/bands/band.php?id=10

and there are some free mp3s from their latest album on this page (i suggest "mmmm..acting...":
http://www.tgrec.com/songs_videos/index.php#

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

try this for the second link in the last post:
http://shop.relapse.com/content/downloads.aspx?MediaTypeID=&ArtistID=10165

cheers

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe some old indie metal stuff like the first White Zombie album or the band Old.

The first White Zombie record sounds more like Birthday Party than Royal Trux, the Melvins, or your mother's fave jazz combo. And it's about 500 miles from metal.

NB: The WZ descent into meaningless was completed, in terms of my own personal headspace, when I lived with a chick who used WZ as her treadmill soundtrack. Never thereafter did Rombie have even the slightest shred of cred.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm not saying it sounds like Royal Trux or the Melvins. ; D
But it's definitely more freaked out psychedelic weirdness than Melvins and maybe heavy metal in a not entirely dissimilar way to how Chrome is heavy metal or something. Been a long time since I've heard it.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

okay, has nothing to do with Royal Trux. but you should listen to sleep.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

god...i know i'm going to get burned for this, but what is the difference between rtx and royal trux? i thought they were the same band.

― robert anderson (venimdenim), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

herema kept the name RTX after splitting with neil, under which she then released an album on drag city last year maybe? But yes, rtx was once a nacronym for royal trux sort of like how nnck means no neck blues band.

― sylviean dbabs (sylvie and babs), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 02:09 (eighteen years ago)

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