http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.13992&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rssJoe Preston first came to the attention of music fans as a member of the Melvins, playing bass on <i>Lysol</i> and the Kiss-themed <i>Joe Preston</i>, both released in 1992. After leaving the Melvins, the Seattle native launched Thrones, his one-man double-necked bass band. Mixing in samples, tape loops and atmospheric noises, Preston puts both the bass and his voice through a wall of effects and plays trudgingly-paced doom metal along to a drum machine. Affecting his voice to sound at times like a chorus of angels and at others like a depressed grizzly bear, Preston makes music that, while structured fairly traditionally, is beyond weird. The heavy use of delay makes funeral marches and crushing stoner metal passages take on a psychedelic trance quality. In other songs, majestic explosions of heavenly robots shake off the murk in a sunburst marriage of noise-metal power and, um, opera (no, really! See "Obolus" on <i>Sperm Whale</i>). Thrones have released a pair of full-lengths (<i>Alraune</i> in 1996 and <i>Sperm Whale</i> in 2000), several seven-inches and EPs, and have appeared on a bunch of Kill Rock Stars comps. - Mike McGuirkDoom Metalen720Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:30:32 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.13992&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss Joe Preston first came to the attention of music fans as a member of the Melvins, playing bass on <i>Lysol</i> and the Kiss-themed <i>Joe Preston</i>, both released in 1992. After leaving the Melvins, the Seattle native launched Thrones, his one-man double-necked bass band. Mixing in samples, tape loops and atmospheric noises, Preston puts both the bass and his voice through a wall of effects and plays trudgingly-paced doom metal along to a drum machine. Affecting his voice to sound at times like a chorus of angels and at others like a depressed grizzly bear, Preston makes music that, while structured fairly traditionally, is beyond weird. The heavy use of delay makes funeral marches and crushing stoner metal passages take on a psychedelic trance quality. In other songs, majestic explosions of heavenly robots shake off the murk in a sunburst marriage of noise-metal power and, um, opera (no, really! See "Obolus" on <i>Sperm Whale</i>). Thrones have released a pair of full-lengths (<i>Alraune</i> in 1996 and <i>Sperm Whale</i> in 2000), several seven-inches and EPs, and have appeared on a bunch of Kill Rock Stars comps. - Mike McGuirk http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.27891900&variant=play&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss Doom Metal Tue, 5 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Thrones Discography on Rhapsody Online alb.27891900 alb.27891900 Thrones art.13992 9.99 Day Late, Dollar Short alb.27891900 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/8/2/0/0/1640028_170x170.jpg 2009-05-05 00:00:00.0 null true false main-release http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.27891900&variant=play&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.27891900&variant=data&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.16272683&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss Doom Metal Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 Thrones Discography on Rhapsody Online alb.16272683 alb.16272683 Thrones art.13992 0.0 Day Late, Dollar Short alb.16272683 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/4/9/8/3/1103894_170x170.jpg 2007-09-18 00:00:00.0 2005-05-31 00:00:00.0 false false main-release http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.16272683&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.16272683&variant=data&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.88277&variant=play&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss Doom Metal Fri, 1 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Thrones Discography on Rhapsody Online alb.88277 alb.88277 Thrones art.13992 6.99 Sperm Whale alb.88277 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/9/6/9/5/685969_170x170.jpg 2009-05-01 00:00:00.0 2000-09-12 00:00:00.0 true false main-release http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.88277&variant=play&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.88277&variant=data&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.306549&variant=play&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss Doom Metal Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:00:00 -0700 Thrones Discography on Rhapsody Online alb.306549 alb.306549 Thrones art.13992 2.99 Alraune alb.306549 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/7/2/8/3/863827_170x170.jpg 1996-06-14 00:00:00.0 1996-06-14 00:00:00.0 true false main-release http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.306549&variant=play&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.306549&variant=data&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fdiscography.rss