Anticipated Release: Advent | Naked and Cold

1. Nothing
2. Overcome
3. Naked and Cold
4. Fatherless
5. Pack of Fools
6. Revival
7. Crown of Thorns
8. Golgatha
9. Peirced With Grief
10. With Anger
11. Out of Line
12. Blackness of Day

One of the only hardcore/metalcore bands around that I still really like. From members of Beloved, you would be surprised to hear just how angry and powerful this group is. Their debut, Remove the Earth, showcases the bands classic 90s metalcore rage mixed with an eerie atmosphere. I've only heard one song, and a demo from the upcoming Naked and Cold, and the music sounds a bit faster, and the vocals somehow sound even angrier. This should be awesome.

Naked and Cold hits shelves on September 8th.

District 9

I just got back from seeing District 9 and it met expectations, while being a tad different from what I expected, but that's not a bad thing. The trailers and tv spots just left you curious as ever, and really didn't give you any indication to what type of movie this could be and I think they did a really good job splitting what seemed to be a documentary with a really action packed flick. I would recommend going to see this. There are a few moments later in the film that are just absolutely badass.

Constants and Caspian review.

Head over to Rabbit Hole to read my thoughts on what makes a good post rock album, and my reviews for Constant's The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension, and Caspian's Tertia.

Deluxe Box Set

Steven Wilson is becoming known for making long time fans pay loads of cash for the biggest and most badass edition of the newest record of one of his several projects. Porcupine Tree's new record, The Incident is up for preorder all over the world for the standard jewel case $9 at Best Buy version, but also the Super Deluxe Box Set On Steroids edition for over $100. After A LOT of disputing with myself, I decided that I am going to indeed get it as well as the vinyl version whenever they release the details for that.

Luckily i'm splitting it with my brother, who is also a fan. So what comes in this ridiculously expensive box set? Well according to Mr. Wilson...

- Both discs of The Incident
- DVD-A 5.1 mix of the record
- A 120 pg cloth bound book jammed with photographs from Lasse Hoile
- A 40 page book with drawings and sketches to go along with the lyrics

And it all comes cased in a huge slip case as you can see in the picture. Wilson admits it's more expensive than it should be but in order to be shipped to our front doors, it needs to be that much money. Also, we'll be able to have a digital version of the entire record A WHOLE DAY BEFORE IT COMES OUT. Fortunately, I believe we'll have the option to pick from Lossless and FLAC versions rather than just your typical mp3 format, so it'll at least sound better than whatever will leak weeks early.

So call me crazy. I don't care. I'm a sucker for special editions in general and they usually don't come around for music too often. Hopefully this is worth the cash that I'll be dishing out.

The Incident hits stores September 14th but if you wish to preorder this crazy box set or the normal non-fanboy version, you can go to porcupinetree.com and follow a few links and you'll find it.

Anticipated Release: Katatonia | Night Is the New Day

This October 27th, not only will be be able to pick up Between The Buried And Me's new album, but we will also be looking through the store for the new Katatonia record, Night Is the New Day, which we probably won't find considering I haven't found one of their CD's in any local CD store yet. That's a shame because I've grown to love their previous release, The Great Cold Distance. They rest of their albums are great too, by the way.

Night Is the New Day is apparently their most diverse, and their best record to date, though every band says that once they've finished a new record. I'm personally hoping the direction is more like two of the four b-sides for The Great Cold Distance, "Unfurl", and "Dissolving Bonds", although hardcore fans i'm sure would be displeased if they went to a more angelic, melodic direction such as those two tracks.

Either way I'm sure it's going to be a good record, and we can at least order it offline by the 27th of October. Judging by the artwork, it should be a fitting CD to be released during the season of Holloween.