See you there, sizzlechest

Another day of life

While I'm at it here's an old jazz song that got me through many weary nights drinking rum while Big Frank smoked cigars and my old life passed before my eyes into today's godless path. I got this on the original vinyl at the bottom of a bookshelf full of records in the Salvation Army of Hempstead while on my way to an Artificial Brain rehearsal. It was one of those finds that justifies all the hours of my life I've wasted looking in thrift store record bins. I never looked at piano the same.

Still alive for now

Sorry for the hush in fresh squid but I've been very busy working overtime and practicing different disciplines of Death Metal. Every day I listen to this song on vinyl to test whether or not I still have a soul. So far Satan still hasn't scarfed the last little scraps because this piece of music moves me every time I hear it. Some of you may recognize it as the main sample in the MF Doom song "Friends".

We definitely listened to this in the Artificial Brain rehearsal space once.

Yea!

Hours of Free Proggy Swedish Metal

Count the strings.

Pandemonium from Sweden have been very busy the last 14 years making progressive, melodic Death/Doom Metal that at times might be just a little too euro-epic and over the top for some. I would recommend the 2002 full length album, "Insomnia". This release, at times, can be very crunchy and guttural, but also tastefully uses keyboards and Dream Theatre-like instrumental passages to stand alone as an eccentric offshoot of the classic Swedish Death and Doom Metal innovators. As opposed to genre-mashing bands like Between the Buried and Me, Pandemonium seamlessly blend dark Black and Death Metal influences with intricate, dream-like atmospheres, and consistently weave the different instrumentation and techniques they employ like a well written movie.Not the most brutal thing you're going to find, but something different and interesting for sure. They have decided to make available their entire back catalog for free download on their website, so you be the judge.
Pandemonium-metal.com

Nierty

Nierty from the U.K. This song is from the free album, "Acolytes of the descent". Great, dark soul burning music for anyone who went to Catholic school, like me.

You can download this as well as a number of other free releases by Nierty and many other artists at the Torn Flesh website here.

And Nierty releases are also available at Misantrof.net, another "net label" that offers lots of different types of Metal and experimental music for free.

Whereas Torn Flesh Records seems a little more democratic in their roster, in that they seem to release anyone who asks for the assistance, Misantrof.net seems a lot more streamlined towards certain dark artistic scenes and aesthetics.

Ghost

And while I'm at it, a big Garbage Style Rest in Peace to my friend Ghost, who was murdered in front of a bodega 6 blocks from my house last saturday. He had two kids.

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