Diamond Terrifier - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > The Music Forums > Avant Garde/Experimental
Register Blogging Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 08-24-2012, 09:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
SOPHIE FOREVER
 
Frownland's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
Posts: 35,548
Default Diamond Terrifier

Diamond Terrifier is the solo project of Sam Hillmer, the saxophonist and one of the founding members of Zs. The sound is what one can expect from a member of Zs: a surprisingly fresh take on old ideas and inventive techniques that wow the listener. In Diamond Terrifier's case, it's something of a drone/electronic/ jazzy genre that borders on noise.

Diamond Terrifier's Kill the Self That Wants to Kill Yourself showcases Sam Hillmer's creativity and willingness to give his all to avant-gardism. The album can get extraordinarily abrasive at points, fun and dance-like at others, oddly transcendental at others, and goes to a lot of different and interesting places guaranteed to take the listener for a grand spin. Hillmer's saxophone playing on the album is nothing short of brilliant and the accompanying electronica/drone atmospheres are great as well.

Here's a video of a live performance (Youtube doesn't have any tracks straight off of the album):



So, any thoughts on the project? Do you think that Hillmer is going to carry on after this album or will it stop at this point? If anybody wants a link to the album I can help you out.
__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Frownland is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2012, 10:03 AM   #2 (permalink)
SOPHIE FOREVER
 
Frownland's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
Posts: 35,548
Default

Finally, some album tracks are on youtube.

__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Frownland is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-21-2012, 08:57 PM   #3 (permalink)
Groupie
 
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 4
Default

Well, I have always though the saxophone very suited to the avant garde. He certainly find the guttural qualities of his instrument, though, I think the first track lacks any surprise.
rtrottier is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-28-2012, 01:01 PM   #4 (permalink)
Groupie
 
CelestialTwinz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 9
Default wow

interesting stuff.
CelestialTwinz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-02-2014, 07:28 PM   #5 (permalink)
SOPHIE FOREVER
 
Frownland's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
Posts: 35,548
Default

New mixtape available to stream here:
https://soundcloud.com/terrible-reco...psycho/s-OUoYR

This one has features in the form of Dapwell of Das Racist and Marley G. of Zulu P. DT goes heavier in the electronic direction and blends some spoken word/rap into it. While it's good for someone's music to evolve, I think I still prefer the debut.
__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Frownland is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2014, 01:23 PM   #6 (permalink)
silky smooth
 
YorkeDaddy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Pangaea
Posts: 4,079
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Frownland View Post
it's something of a drone/electronic/ jazzy genre that borders on noise.
I was pretty much sold when I read this. Quite a combination there.

I checked out the videos you posted and this guy is really, really awesome.
__________________
http://cloudcover1.bandcamp.com/
http://daydreamsociety.bandcamp.com/

9-Time Winner of MusicBanter's "Most Qualified to be a Moderator" Award

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Batlord View Post
On this one your voice is kind of weird but really intense and awesome
YorkeDaddy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-03-2014, 07:26 PM   #7 (permalink)
SOPHIE FOREVER
 
Frownland's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
Posts: 35,548
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy View Post
I was pretty much sold when I read this. Quite a combination there.

I checked out the videos you posted and this guy is really, really awesome.
Glad to be of assistance. Kill the Self That Wants to Kill Yourself is one of my favourite albums of 2012.
__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Frownland is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-06-2014, 07:04 AM   #8 (permalink)
Basscadet
 
Dayvan Cowboy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Antarctica
Posts: 1,258
Default

I never knew about this! Now I can stop being sad that zs disbanded.
Dayvan Cowboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-06-2014, 10:18 AM   #9 (permalink)
SOPHIE FOREVER
 
Frownland's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
Posts: 35,548
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dayvan Cowboy View Post
I never knew about this! Now I can stop being sad that zs disbanded.
Whaa? I don't think Zs broke up, they're still doing shows. I'm pretty sure they don't have the same line up anymore, it's always been kind of inconsistent. Have you heard their latest album "Grain"?
__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Frownland is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-06-2014, 11:07 AM   #10 (permalink)
Basscadet
 
Dayvan Cowboy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Antarctica
Posts: 1,258
Default

I thought I heard zs disbanded last year, but I guess I'm wrong. I havent heard grain yet but I guess I probably should. Zs are awesome!
Dayvan Cowboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.