Live: Torche And Friends Dominate At Music Hall Of Williamsburg

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Torche w/ Big Business, Helms Alee
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Wednesday, July 20

Better than: I would say any other metal show, but apparently there were a few other good ones.

Last afternoon, with the e-mercury that I assume powers our digital thermometers refusing to recede, the Torche/Big Business/Helms Alee triple-header that would be closing my day and marking roughly the halfway point in my ongoing heatwave promised to be a big, sweaty mess. Torche's music is sometimes called "thunder pop"; maybe they'd play a show humid enough to generate some extreme weather patterns right in front of the stage.

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Oh Hey, Floor Reunion!

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Funny how you could barely find a Floor record a decade ago. Now look what happened.
​South Florida doom outfit Floor released almost nothing in their four or five year run in the mid-nineties; a quick early aughts reformation and the release of Floor (2002) and the lost 1994 LP Dove (which finally came out in 2004) turned many people outside of Florida onto their existence, if not onto all that much of the music they had apparently recorded. Legend had it there were tons of unreleased tapes, but after the band broke up again in 2004 and went on to form the slightly less brutal and equally melodic Torche, it seemed like they'd be shelved forever. Until now, anyway. Robotic Empire is putting out an entirely ridiculous Floor box set in 2010--" Ten 12" LPs, one 7" EP, eight CDs and a (roughly) 32-page booklet of writings, photos, lyrics, artwork"; pre-order it here--and to commemorate the occasion, the band is getting back together. Their MySpace offers two April dates, neither of which are anywhere near New York. But that can change, right? In other news, we just remembered what a tremendous song "Scimitar" is. [Floor via Brooklyn Vegan]

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