Highly Anticipated Release: Dredg | The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion

This artwork isn't confirmed by the band yet. If it changes, i'll post it. CD is release May 19th. Get ready.

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I almost broke my controller three times, and my hand about ten times. Great game.

Callisto | Providence - Again

1. In Session (6:35)
2. Rule The Blood (6:43)
3. Covenant Colours (7:46)
4. Eastern Era (5:39)
5. New Canaan (6:56)
6. Stasis (7:38)
7. Where The Spirits Tread (6:28)
8. Dead Weight (6:10)
9. Drying Mouths (In A Gasping Land) (7:09)
10. Providence (7:28)

Okay so a few days ago I bashed the hell out of this record. I responded to those comments but I felt this needed its own submission. The album has grown on me considerably. I continuously would have it on because I WANTED to enjoy this album, even before I was let down. The amount of interesting instruments, minimal songwriting, and unique vocals were intriguing enough for me to keep it in rotation with a few other records.

I apologize for my blunt raping of this album. I tend to do this a few times a year, where I will be quick to trash an album, and I'll end up loving it later on. A lot of times it's with albums that I feel should have blown me away right away, even ones with low expectations (if that makes sense). With this album, I guess I was just thrown off by the progression and lack of climatic moments, but because of this style of writing, it enables you do dig deeper into the songs, and find simplistic, subtle intricacies that may in the end make up for the lack of huge crescendo moments.

Although the previous Callisto albums may in the end still be my favorites and 'The Fugitive' will always be my favorite song by the band, Providence is still indeed a special record, and I hope some of you that have thrown it aside choose to possibly give it another shot like I have.

This will teach me to also wait until after a few listens to publish a blog post about an album. ;) A Giant Squid post may be coming in the upcoming week or so. Another album I could not get into at first and am now enjoying.

Top Albums of All Time

1. dredg | El Cielo*
1. TOOL | Lateralus*
2. Between The Buried And Me | Colors
3. Envy | Insomniac Doze
4. Kaddisfly | Set Sail The Prairie
5. ISIS | Panopticon
6. Sigur Ros | Takk...

* Tied for first. These two album will forever be masterpieces to me. Timeless. Perfect. Nostalgic.

Sorry for the image sizes. Was too lazy to resize them all perfectly.

Mono | Hymn To The Immortal Wind

1. Ashes in the Snow
2. Burial at Sea
3. Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn
4. Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter)
5. Follow the Map
6. The Battle to Heaven
7. Everlasting Light

Once a year there is usually a post rock album that I fall in love with. This year, it seems like it may be Mono's Hymn To The Immortal Wind. This is an incredibly epic album, and you might think "well aren't all post rock albums 'epic'"? Maybe, but this record takes epic to a whole new level. The production and orchestral feel of this album are extremely powerful. The 26 piece orchestra sounds brilliant. This is also in the top 3 saddest records I've heard in a long while. Be sure to check this album out and buy it when it is released on March 24th.

Keep an eye out for this record on my top 10 list of 09.

Callisto | Providence - Disappointing

Above is the best thing about the new Callisto album, Providence. Yes, that's right, the vinyl's cover is the best thing about it. After releasing two awesome albums, Callisto have just written the most boring post metal album I think I could name. Their song "The Fugitive" off of their 2006 album, Noir was more entertaining than this entire new record. Sad.

Wavering Radiant/City Of Echoes

Above is the comparison between the cover of Isis's Wavering Radiant, and Pelican's City of Echoes, both done by Isis's Aaron Turner. A lot of people, including me thought they looked incredibly similar. A lot of people STILL think so. After pulling them up side by side you can tell...they're much different, despite the fact that Turner has recurring themes in his artwork.

Also, City of Echoes fucking BLOWS. Wavering Radiant simply will not.

Highly Anticipated Release: ISIS | Wavering Radiant

1. Hall Of The Dead
2. Ghost Key
3. Hand Of The Host
4. Wavering Radiant
5. Stone To Wake A Serpent
6. 20 Minutes / 40 Years
7. Threshold of Transformation

The album is released on May 5th and a limited edition vinyl will be released on April 21st. Adam Jones of TOOL appears on two tracks. This is probably my 2nd most anticipated album right now. The number one most anticipated will soon appear in a blog as well. Anymore details about this release will be posted here.

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It will be amazing.

It's Coming...

Is it weird that I stare at this for 5 minutes everyday?