This is a bit of a bummer: TesseracT just announced that their current vocalist, the excellent Ashe O’Hara, is leaving the band. In his place will be their old also-excellent Daniel Tompkins, sure, but I felt like Ashe brought more to the table in terms of musicality and range (based as much on the two albums as on their live performances). See the rest here
Last night, I went to see Meshuggah live, on their minitour celebrating 25 years of music (with Between The Buried And Me as support). The bands were both in fine form, but it was an odd night, insofar as the band’s conceit of playing a set of material largely in chronological order led to pacing issues. See the rest here
Bethesda Games is on the verge of releasing Wolfenstein: The New Order; it’s already out for PC, but I’m a Mac and Xbox 360 kind of guy, so I have to wait.
And while I wait, here’s a track from the game’s soundtrack… by Fredrik Thordendal. Achtung!
The guy in this vid shreds very consistently, despite his encumbrance. Bonus points for trying to show the kitten some love, before things go south.
As I continue to chew through my backlog of albums to audition for next year’s Arsies, I’ve finally come across the first album that I don’t want to stop listening to.
That’s a tough one to answer, honestly. They’re all good, and all slightly different from each other. Worse, it’s not like the shifts from album to album are linear progressions, per se. Sworn To A Great Divide feels like the album that’s the closest to The Living Infinite in terms of their blend of metal and melody, but The Panic Broadcast is a great album in its own right (and more of a rager). See the rest here
I know zero of their old stuff. See the rest here
What is your favorite Soilwork album besides the new one? Can you point out some of their career highlights for me? I got a good deal on their back catalog and want to make the best choices. See the rest here
Since this week is the 20th anniversary of the release of Pantera’s “Far Beyond Driven,” I thought I’d take a listen to the newly-issue remastered version. I was really looking forward to some revelatory soundsmithing. See the rest here
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