Then the 4th of November rolled on by and Blood Music released another gem to add to their already impressive catalog. This gem, modestly named The Last Note In God's Magnum Opus, messed with my list by being too damn good to ignore.
I was pretty happy about my year-end list in the beginning of November, didn't think anything had yet to come out that would disrupt the balance of my carefully selected list of albums.
Then the 4th of November rolled on by and Blood Music released another gem to add to their already impressive catalog. This gem, modestly named The Last Note In God's Magnum Opus, messed with my list by being too damn good to ignore.
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Freekend hasn't been monotonous or anything but I wanted to focus on some non-metal or -core material for this one. These are available for a price of your choice, but as always, support what you like.
I Googled "devil spire" and that was one of the results so let's just imagine that he's dysphoric (whatever that means).
What this is actually about is some new music so come get some! Yesterday I posted a review for Septa's latest album The Destroyer and promised you an interview. As a man of my word I have brought you what I said I would.
Like someone said in that movie one time: "A man is only as good as his word." and this interview has a lot of them so enjoy every one of them. In the last edition of Freekend I wrote about a Ukranian band called Septa and while my feeling were definitely positive back then I've been listening to it a lot more afterwards. I've only grown fonder of it as time (and repeated listens) goes by so I decided to go ahead and write a full review. To top it off I got an interview with Eugene, the band's vocalist. Read ahead and get destroyed.
That man you see there, with a giraffe shirt and a spectacular beard, is Pete Davis. You may or may not have heard his music released under his own name, Surface Area or, most recently, Invalids. These projects are quite varied but they all display great musicianship and composition while being written by one man, Pete Davis himself. For some of the projects he's had additional people playing or singing along, for Invalids the bass is done by Nick from Black Crown Initiate for example, but they're all essentially solo projects. I got a chance to interview Pete and ask him the obvious, the obscure and the nerdy. Enjoy the interview and listen to all of his music, it really is worth it.
I recently wrote about Artilect's debut album in a Freekend column and it seems another one is on the way. How quickly is up to you. For those of you unfamiliar with the band Artilect play progressive metal/rock with some great Tool/Incubus-esque vocals. They've started a Kickstarter campaign to record a new album with the appropriately named Jamie King. There are plenty of pledge rewards whether you just want a digital copy of the album or something more extravagant. I'll leave the link to the campaign and their previous album below. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/466435676/artilect-music-for-humans-by-humans If you enjoy the music definitely help them make this album a reality. They are really talented guys who have the potential to be huge (within prog metal) so why not help them out by throwing a couple of bucks their way and sharing the campaign on whatever social networks you've got going?
Jón Þór My love for Nero Di Marte goes back to the time an Italian band called Murder Therapy released an album called Moloch. That album, with it's progressive death metal meets something entirely different sound, made me very excited for the future of the band. Their back catalog was interesting but didn't live up to the hype Moloch had created. Some time thereafter Prosthetic signed a band called Nero Di Marte that, from the teaser supplied by said label, seemed to continue this very interesting sound. With further, rigorous investigation (reading the YouTube description) I found out Murder Therapy had in fact changed their name to Nero Di Marte. Good call in my honest opinion.
Now they've released their second album under this new moniker so how does it hold up? Read on and find out. Wait...that's not right.
Oh yeah, Black Crown Initiate and Anaal Nathrakh are both streaming their new albums in full right now through Metal Hammer and Revolver respectively. I've yet to listen to the Anaal Nathrakh one but honestly they haven't failed me yet so I'm fairly confident that's going to rock your world but I have listened to BCI's album quite a few times and it's a really great follow up to the fantastic EP Song of the Crippled Bull. Both streams below... |