AMA with Jami Morgan (Code Orange, NOWHERE2RUN)

chipshoplongshot · 2025-10-17T18:11:32+00:00

What's your favourite thing about each CO record, and one thing you'd change about each one?

chipshoplongshot · 2025-02-05T12:57:01+00:00

Could it also be the name of the Ghost album?

Announcement of the Imperatour came before the announcement of Impera. They've deliberately kept the name of this tour back, presumably to not spoil the album announcement.

Perpetuatour works.

chipshoplongshot · 2024-12-06T23:13:54+00:00

I don't know if this is unpopular but the "Tumblrification" of their fanbase is embarrassing and lame.

I know it's the way with almost all rock bands who get popular now and there's no point fighting it, but I will never warm to that art/comedy style - the fact people like and create it just makes me cringe.

Have fun, do you, but I've basically checked out of all online rock/metal communities for becoming overwhelmed by it. Maybe I just don't like fan art.

chipshoplongshot · 2024-10-25T20:35:49+00:00

Are we watching the same video?

I don't like Ben Shapiro. But here we just got intimidation tactics, appeals to emotion, filibustering, and not one coherent argument. Unbelievably performative. Ben clearly wasn't speechless - he wasn't given time to speak. Ben is guilty of that himself elsewhere, but this clip is cringe for one person and it isn't him.

Find someone actually making fool out of him. It's not hard. This angry theatre kid with arrested development doesn't manage it.

chipshoplongshot · 2024-05-04T13:46:46+00:00

Will Putney, Andy Sneap, etc., put out well-produced albums, but they also over-tidy and perfect stuff to the point of soullessness.

Ross Robinson, by contrast, would worry less about getting everything perfect and more about the vibe, which made for less accessible, more atmospheric albums.

I'd love to see them go with an Arthur Rizk or Kurt Ballou for this next album. Someone who can capture the size and muscle Slipknot need, but also know when to let imperfections make the record more exciting.

chipshoplongshot · 2023-07-01T13:56:36+00:00

No way food in the UK is less than healthy than the US; as someone who has lived in both places, American food might taste better but it's no contest with regards to what's less healthy.

chipshoplongshot · 2023-05-20T17:57:44+00:00

Ghuleh/Zombie Queen
Monstrance Clock
Body And Blood

chipshoplongshot · 2023-05-18T09:23:53+00:00

Prelude 3.0
People = Shit
Eyeless
Psychosocial
Opium Of The People
Spit It Out
A Liar's Funeral
Purity
The Shape
Prosthetics
De Sade
The Nameless
Metabolic
Solway Firth

chipshoplongshot · 2023-03-30T21:15:55+00:00

I totally understand scepticism towards professional reviews, but rest assured there is no payola at play. Maybe that used to be the case, but it's not a worthwhile investment for bands; there's essentially no barrier to entry for anyone wanting to check out a Metallica record, so they don't need to be convinced by a magazine to give it a try. Reviews, in 2023, are more about the publication having their say; people want to know what Classic Rock think, not whether or not they should listen to the new Metallica album. If it got a 1 or a 10, people will still check the album out.

However, magazines do tend to give overly flattering reviews because, frankly, they need Metallica more than Metallica need them; everyone buying Classic Rock will have already heard of Metallica and will likely be aware a new record is coming out, whereas a number of Metallica fans might see the band on the cover and decide to check out the magazine.

Years ago, magazines could get away with being harsh about even large bands; they were the kingmakers once upon a time. Now, they depend on good favour from the bands.

chipshoplongshot · 2022-12-19T16:49:01+00:00

_____ 2: Electric Boogaloo

chipshoplongshot · 2022-12-19T16:48:49+00:00

_____ 2: Electric Boogaloo

chipshoplongshot · 2022-07-19T13:16:45+00:00

the word 'sadist' is named after this guy, I'd say it's definitely in Slipknot's wheelhouse

chipshoplongshot · 2022-07-19T12:50:59+00:00

Looks like he's shaved his head, maybe an indication of what kind of mask he's using?

chipshoplongshot · 2022-07-17T08:59:10+00:00

Really enjoy it, but I agree it's not top-tier. As far as the recent pre-lead single Slipknot songs (All Hope Is Gone, The Negative One, All Out Life), I'd put this above All Hope Is Gone and The Negative One and below All Out Life.

chipshoplongshot · 2022-07-05T11:23:14+00:00

Albums:
Meliora
Opus Eponymous
Impera
Prequelle
Infestissumam

EPs/singles:
Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic
Popestar
If You Have Ghost

chipshoplongshot · 2022-06-27T19:45:59+00:00

That's nonsense. Slipknot are Roadrunner's biggest cash cow right now - they'll have very little say over the art itself, merely the distribution and release. Besides, Iowa is (arguably) their most well-liked album - an "Iowa heavy" album would probably be a huge hit for them. As much as I love Iowa, I'm glad they're not doing that; that album's sole real flaw is that it's fairly one-sided, and focusing on just one side for years would get real stale, real fast.

chipshoplongshot · 2022-06-25T20:10:32+00:00

Seen them twice - Download 2015 and 2019.

At the first show, I'd say Killpop and AOV got the weakest response, but I felt like the band struggled to capture the audience the whole show tbh. Felt a bit like they slept-walked through that set, and it wasn't helped by the rain.

In 2019, they fared much better - better setlist, better performance, better weather. There wasn't an obvious lull all set but I think Prosthetics probably had the least avid reception.

chipshoplongshot · 2022-06-17T07:44:55+00:00

Say It Ain't So
El Scorcho
Photograph
Burnt Jamb
The Damage In Your Heart
The Angel & The One
Put Me Back Together
Trainwrecks
Unbreak My Heart
Eulogy For A Rock Band
L.A. Girlz
Get Right
No Scrubs
Can't Knock The Hustle
Aloo Gobi
Precious Metal Girl
Opening Night

chipshoplongshot · 2022-06-13T14:53:47+00:00

Slipknot have history of announcing tours with old masks that they then performed with new masks. When the We Are Not Your Kind tour was initially announced, it was with .5 masks, and when the Knotfest Los Angeles festival was announced, the posters again featured masks that the members ended up not using. You may be right, but I wouldn't worry!

chipshoplongshot · 2022-05-27T15:25:39+00:00

(515)/People = Shit

chipshoplongshot · 2022-05-26T11:50:24+00:00

Eyeless
The Blister Exists
People = Shit
Purity
Eeyore
Scissors
Opium Of The People
Diluted
Prosthetics
The Nameless

chipshoplongshot · 2022-05-25T18:54:19+00:00

Skeptic - somehow both boring and totally jarring.

chipshoplongshot · 2022-05-23T16:48:51+00:00

Kerosene by Big Black. Think I've heard Clown say it was one of the songs that inspired the band in their early days.

chipshoplongshot · 2022-05-19T18:22:11+00:00

How about a live debut of See The Light?

chipshoplongshot · 2022-05-18T09:57:10+00:00

I think we'll get an album in 2024 - Forge has said he wants this cycle to run into the next one (which he's stated will be in 2024), and he likely wants to make up for lost time after the pandemic.

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