‘Tis the season
(The listening party starts over at TIDAL.)
(The listening party starts over at TIDAL.)
Was just rocking out with some Nevermore and Sanctuary—he was a talented guy. So sad.
(Also, pop on Into the Mirror Black and tell me you don’t immediately feel like you should be drinking a tall boy in Carman).
Revolver Magazine just launched a new series that they call “Game Changers,” and the debut piece is a good one: Deftones talking about the making of “Around The Fur.” They make mention of Our Old Best Friend Terry Date, and what happened there. Check it out.
Quicksand are touring the US this fall. I’ve managed to see them live on three separate occasions (twice post-breakup), and they’re still as feral as ever. So I was already feeling pretty excited… until the band took to social media an hour ago to tease us with new material, including the enigmatic-but-not-really mention: “interiors | 2017”
This is amazing.
This is fun: here’s what happens when a Death tribute band makes a new song, heavily inspired by “Human,” and gets Sean Reinert to play drums on it.
Holy crap: Danny Carey sat in premier Genesis tribute band The Musical Box the other night! Am I stoked that this clip is of the song “Can-Utility And The Coastliners”? Not exactly… but I’ll take what I can get.
(By the way, if I haven’t yet extolled the virtues of The Musical Box: they are absolutely amazing live.
I’ve been listening to “Brain Salad Surgery” on repeat for the past week. Greg Lake’s passing last week is for me the most personal in a year of artistic losses. Check out this final interview, and tell me you don’t feel it.
How can this be?! It sounds like thrash… but it’s from Hardrockica!
New (double) album comes out in November. If the rest of the album sounds like this, I’ll actually be looking forward to seeing Metallica in the next Arsies.