Music Videos | Directory | Search | Top Artists | Shows | Music Forums | Music Classifieds | Artist Signup 

metal
Visual / Other / Nu-Jazz



PORTLAND, OREGON
United States

Profile Views:  47829




Last Login:  7/6/2008
View My: Pics | Videos

   Contacting metal

 MySpace URL: 
  http://www.myspace.com/metalisquiet  

   metal: General Info
Member Since2/7/2005
Band Websitevirb.com/metal
Band MembersAaron Shepherd (aka-Beardo)
Eric Lee (aka-Laserwolf)
InfluencesThe Reel 'Em' Inn
Sounds Like...we're making love to science underwater.
Record LabelArtistery Records
Type of LabelNone




metal's Latest Blog Entry  [Subscribe to this Blog]

More Fan Mail!  (view more)

Recent Actual Fan Letter  (view more)

[View All Blog Entries]

   About metal

The "The Silent World" is now available here and at the Artistery website ("www.artistery.net") for $6 shipped (Cont. U.S.) under the "For Sale" tab.

Track List:
1. Mountain Pressing Upon Mountain
2. Cloud Formations
3. Title Bout
4. The Silent World
5. Swan Island

This Pay Pal transaction is safe and secure.


(Review)-The Silent World BY MICHAEL BYRNE (Willamette Week) [March 28th, 2007] [AMBIENT] I'd put Metal's Aaron Shepherd at no more than 30 years old—which places him pretty firmly in the post-Jacques-Yves Cousteau generation. Given that alone, I love to death the fact that Metal's three releases—The Silent World, its precursor EP, World Ocean, and 2005's Sounds of Our Seas—are at least implicitly devoted to the cultural icon. And The Silent World, more explicitly, shares its title with Cousteau's landmark film of the same name.

It's more than World's liner-note dedication to Cousteau, its song titles (which include notions of clouds, islands and mountains), or even its impressive sonic patchwork of old Cousteau interviews and monologues. It's the fact that on The Silent World, Shepherd and Metal's other half in guitar droning, Eric Lee, mimic the way things move underwater. All these aspects taken together equal a mission, and homage, accomplished.

Of course, this underwater quality could be used to describe a lot of ambient music: It drifts. It's in constant motion without necessarily going anywhere. But The Silent World—and this Artistery house band's music in general—is more sparse than the heavily looped sounds of local ambient contemporaries like Valet and White Rainbow. And it's less affected than the deeply textured music of Ghosting, though just as soporific. Guitar tones here nearly freeze in time, moving in suspended pulses. Sonic layers occur only in twos, maybe threes. Melodies of bent and delayed guitar lines, gently reverberating piano or ambiguous winds dance in shy turns around the nine glacially shifting minutes of "Mountain Pressing upon Mountain." "Cloud Formations," on the other hand, is little more than a somewhat disappointing synth organ drawn out to bloody oblivion. But "Cloud Formations" is saved by its lead-in, which—like that of most of the disc's five tracks—is a Cousteau sample. The album's use of samples is entertaining if not immediately poignant, and the effort put into selecting them is apparent: The sampled line on the title track—"He's a little drunk already, he's letting the lobsters go...I realize he's lost his head from nitrogen narcosis. He's really drunk"—obviously didn't just float to the surface of the oceanographer's massive recorded legacy. In a somewhat didactic move (Cousteau became a pioneer of the environmental movement), his voice is later mingled on "Swan Island" with the unmistakable rapid "pssts" and mechanical cycling of rail locomotives and the mournful violin of Shannon Steele. Point taken.

. . . . . . . .

The "World Ocean" EP is now available here and at the Artistery website ("www.artistery.net") for $6 shipped (Cont. U.S.) under the "For Sale" tab.

This Pay Pal transaction is safe and secure.
Track List:
1. Underwater Is A Place To Be Alone
2. Digon
3. Honey Pot
4. Swan Island Pt. 2

This Pay Pal transaction is safe and secure.


. . . . . . . .
Contact metal@artistery.net for booking, etc. thank you.
. . . . . . . .



(Band Reviews)

[STILL NOT METAL] Reading a recent "actual" listener feedback letter to Metal (check its website for the verbatim version), I almost burst into tears thinking that there's someone somewhere in the universe who could take offense at the perceived self-mislabeling of this unassuming-to-a-fault, left-field, soft atmospheric duo (a.k.a. the Artistery's house band) thinking it should be a "metal band". Take the overall electrified folk smolder of Six Organs of Admittance, destroy some of the form and rework into drone, and you're coming close to Metal. Sorry if anyone feels cheated by the misnomer. Or, actually, I'm not at all sorry: I love metal as much as I love Metal. I can just see past my own shoes. MICHAEL BYRNE.-(Willamette Week)

. . .

Shhh... yeah... please be quiet. Like, real quiet. Metal—the band, not the heavy music—is hella quiet. They're this one big ol' hush sound of drones and acoustic ambience and lo-fi whispers. Half the time I feel like they're trying to play super soft so's not to wake the baby—and man is it nice! Let that baby sleep! GM-(Portland Mercury)

   metal's Friend Space (Top 24)
metal has 777 friends.
 LASERWOLF 


 eric adrian lee 


 eric 


 Golden Boots 

Is Online
 The Artistery 


 K 


 blackbird presents 


 Marriage Records 


 Ryland Bouchard 


 modernstate 


 ...WORMS 


 Point Juncture, WA 


 VOS HOOKER 


 Evolutionary Jass Band 


 Los Dos 


 Owl Dudes 


 cup na cup© 


 Karl Blau 


 WHITE RAINBOW 


 VALET 


 Old Time Relijun 


 The Cowboys from Sweden 


 WOLF CHOIR 


 OZARKS 





metal's Friends Comments
Displaying 50 of 113 comments  ( View All | Add Comment )
Charles Lazaruz





Jun 25 2008 9:42 PM

nikki h





Jun 20 2008 7:06 PM

...boogie tonight...
thishideous($bc)





Jun 20 2008 12:56 PM

metal feeds me there peeny like a moma bird and i chirp for it and eat it like a baby bird.
Wroom





Jun 13 2008 12:07 PM


4d-Hypercube from Tobby Lang on Vimeo.
SYN T PR





Jun 10 2008 12:28 AM

Photobucket
anney





Jun 9 2008 1:01 PM

shepherd is my lord.
St. Frankie Lee





Jun 5 2008 9:57 AM

Thank you for being beautiful and evocative and churning and liking Oasis.
T-ka$h





Jun 4 2008 10:32 PM

Photobucket
Aaron is way too awesome too be real...
Maybe he is a robot from the future, but not like the ones that destroy shit and have laser beam eyeballs; he'd be a super nice one here to spread friendship and cool.

Much love from da south side,
Sarah
Alas, alak, Alaska!





May 23 2008 3:31 PM

Photobucket
May 23- The Office of Doctor Glorious 300 Fir St Seattle, WA
May 24- Mikrofest Olympia, WA
May 25- Tony's House 3501 NE Simpson st. Portland, OR
May 26- Towne Lounge 714 Sw 20th Pl Portland, OR

Hope we see you!
Brian Lee and his orchestra





May 20 2008 12:59 PM

Hey Aaron... I love the singing. When is the record gonna be done? I want it!
Brian
the hotline of feeling





May 6 2008 9:47 PM

whoah fellas "fear" is good eats!
WOLF CHOIR





May 5 2008 1:53 PM

sup bitch! got the test pressings yet? how's the tour?
luke





May 4 2008 10:21 PM

it was good time seeing you guys last night.
good luck with the tour!
anney





May 1 2008 9:17 AM

GOOD!
Just Lions





Apr 30 2008 11:44 PM

Great work tonight, brother! Everything sounded tight. I really dug the tone you got out of your guitar, too. Very cool. Wish you would've gone longer. Peace.
Trunk Space





Apr 29 2008 10:51 PM

May 9
Charles Lazaruz





Apr 29 2008 4:05 PM

Photobucket
Robbie





Apr 28 2008 2:17 AM

JIPPEDO





Apr 26 2008 10:10 PM

you don't want to miss any of this show......get there early.....!!.... Photobucket
Das Gast Haus





Apr 9 2008 2:41 PM

Did I already mention how stoked I am that you're playing with French Quarter AND AJJihad? Those are some stellar and talented individuals.
Juli, DGH
The Cowboys from Sweden





Apr 8 2008 12:41 AM


Dream 2: Another Mixtape by The Cowboys From Sweden.
Enjoy!

Download
Part 1: http://www. zshare. net/download/102112128831571a/
Part 2: http://www. zshare. net/download/102114899152e91f/
11th ave. gallery





Mar 31 2008 4:48 PM

Dead Air Fresheners





Mar 27 2008 2:06 PM

modernstate





Mar 23 2008 4:42 PM

that may tour's lookin' sweet, by the way. have some fun.
modernstate





Mar 23 2008 4:41 PM

J.B





Mar 19 2008 12:42 PM

Fear- its back!!!

all be it by a different name...


but still great.


thanks guys- it calms the nerrrrrrrrrrrrves.
DeadEnd





Mar 16 2008 1:49 AM

Hey guys. I still love your music. =) I'm still enjoying The Silent World. Brilliant stuff.

I just finished my EP. I have it for download for free in a zip file through mediafire as well as available for streaming in it's entirety on my page. i really like your stuff and would consider it an honor if you would give my stuff a listen and let me know what you think. we can say it's like tape trading, bringing back cassette culture sans cassettes.

http://www. mediafire. com/?do9tdednxyw

Download The New DeadEnd EP Now!!!

Thanks guys!! =)
Robbie





Mar 15 2008 2:02 AM

wow, this is like a party. me, you and eric are all online at once. what a party. total blow out.
audio©rip





Mar 14 2008 11:59 PM

RoLL TO THIS! (ERIC, ILL TRY TO BRING YOUR CD, IM SORRY! :)March 20 Show
Charles Lazaruz





Mar 10 2008 10:02 PM

Hear the colors, see the sounds: Musical interpretation through paint


I create abstract expressions to Live music, allowing the shows energy to inspire the piece. While the bands perform, I translate their music so you hear the colors and see the sounds. Creating a show that’s unlike anything that anyone has ever seen before.

Painting live is intense - evolving with both the music and the audience along with every stroke and new color that is introduced to the canvas. Leaving all who witness, feeling as if they too, are part of creating a masterpiece.
(all shows are documented digitally w/video and photo to be posted on all of my networking sites)

Honing my skills underground for 2 years across the Midwest, I have now taken this beast to the stage. Trading in paintbrushes for twisted and crumbled, recycled newspaper give me the edge and depth I need when painting. Portland has a rich performance culture and I’m thankful for the chance to have already shared the stage with some of Oregon's musical finest.

Sound like fun? Then contact me :)
11th ave. gallery





Mar 6 2008 4:32 PM

J.B





Mar 5 2008 2:24 PM

guys!!!

what happened to fear???

I liked that one

bring it back please

cheers.
J.B





Mar 3 2008 11:23 AM

new tracks are beeeeeeeeeefy

in a drone-like sort of fashion.

nice one lads.

your mate

JB
Charles Lazaruz





Feb 23 2008 8:58 PM

Robbie





Feb 20 2008 10:38 PM

HEY AARON GET OFF THE INTERNET

I NEED THE BANDWIDTH.

THANKS BRO