Crukster and I did a little trade. I made him get Songs About Fucking and he made me get this:
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I've always dissed prog as a genre because....well, a lot of it is complete shit. I liked Green Desert though. I thought it was pretty good. I was expecting it to bore me about halfway through but it didn't, it was just nice. Soothing. Sort of a mind massage.

Btown waned me to get this too:
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I haven't touched it yet, I'll save it for tomorrow.

This, Mosaic, and his self-titled are quite good. I listened to The Threshingfloor the other day and kind of.... disliked it. Idk what's going on there.

A while back CandyCorn sent me a f*ckton of trance. I've listened to everything at least once (nearly 8 hours of music) and I really enjoyed it. I particularly enjoyed the "hard/tech" mix, and among that mix, the track "Par" was probably my favorite of the whole compilation. A big thanks to him for edging me closer into the realm of electronic music (that isn't Aphex Twin or Daft Punk)

Great album (I'm sure Pedestrian loved it). Speaking of which... whatever happened to him?

I think Pedestrian is a her, and I don't know... s/he disappeared. S/he's still scrobbling on LastFM though.

she went on vacation to the UK and ummm I'm not sure when she's getting back or if she got back already but yeah.

Weird that I happened to stumble in on this.

I'm in London.

I'll be home in two days.

Mystery resolved!

oh okay. I hope you took loads of pictures. I'd like to see some of them. :thumb:


Oh I listened to your friends band and they are pretty good.

"Give up on love" and "these are your days" are two of my favorite tracks.

They're fantastic live, actually. Will's a real entertainer.

Having only a very elementary knowledge of/experience with black metal, I was a little curious as to why this was selected for me. Even upon perusing CHCl3's last.fm, I saw no compatibility between us. Regardless, I'm always up for listening to something I haven't heard before. Oddly enough, the first day I listened to this album the band was playing in my city.

The wiki tells me they hail from Jerusalem and describe themselves as "Mesopotamian Metal".

So lets take a listen,

Right from the get-go, these gents dive right in at a blistering pace. What goods any build-up for anyway? This isn't post-rock. Heavy guitars, gritty vocals, a generous amount of kick drum, practically inaudible bass guitar...sounds like metal to me. The next track begins with a little more 'hard-rock' quality, then quickly escalates to some thunderous, steady double-kickery, which I always enjoy. The moments of clean, chant-like singing fit very well yet add a level of contrast to the music. I dig 'em. It was a little reminiscent of the computer game Age of Mythology (loads of fun) which I suppose just adds to the whole fertile crescent theme. I can't comment too much on the raspy troll vocals, they seem to be about the standard for the genre. About midway through the album, you begin to hear a little more middle eastern tinged melodies in the guitar work, something I am a fan of though for "Mesopotamian Metal" I would have expected more area inspired instrumentation sooner.

At this point, deep in musical focus, I drifted off to sleep. That's not to say it was a boring, albeit it was verging on repetitive, lack of sleep and sickness just got the best of me.

To be continued...