1 Up with Solium Fatalis's Jeff Demarco

Solium Fatalis

You might recall that we talked to Jim Gregory of Solium Fatalis about his touring life. Today we're going to get some information from the band with dulcet tones on the lower register.

The one who brings the bass and we don't know how low he can go...

But aside from my re-purposing old Anthrax/Public Enemy lyrics, let's get on with it.

Myself, I'm a big gamer and I enjoy talking about that sort of thing...

So today we're asking Demarco about his life in the alternate universe of video games...

Glacially Musical: My first system was a pong clone, the yellow and black Odessey 300. What was your first Console?

Vinyl Review: "Daisy's Beauty Salon: by Very Be Careful

Daisy's Beauty Salon

When I've been out and about at concerts talking to my fellow goers, if I'm on the job, there's no reason to be shy about it.

Should you be one of the people who've received my lamentations on my frustrations with the music blogging "biz," you certainly are afforded my most humble apologies.

But, to unmuddy the lake, there are great amounts of frustration that go along with what we do. My personal blogging empire isn't exceptionally vast and it's certainly not lucrative financially.

What I'm afforded from this venture is the occasional vinyl promo, the opportunity to review shows, and acres of digital music.

So, really, if you think about it, it's a lot like getting paid because those are the kinds of things my money gets spent on anyway....but here's the reality of the situation.

Video: "Towards The Pillars of Chaos/Kenosis

Just under three years ago, Psychotomy was good enough to drop their debut album on us.Well, really we have to say that it's been too long for our friends from Italy.

Now that the chastising is over, it's glad to have you back. So, why not bend your ear and see what these gentlemen have been up to in the intervening years.

Everlasting Spew Records has this one coming out in late September. Preorder it HERE.

5 Minute Origin Story with Sean Meyers of Gates to the Morning

Out there, over in New Jersey, there's a progressive metal entity called Gates to the Morning.

This band is a little bit strange if you ask me, because what's that old joke?

What's the last thing the drummer said before he was fired from the band?

Hey, guys, I wrote a song!

But, Sean Meyers of Gates to the Morning not only plays the drums and the guitars, but he also writes the songs.

You can stream a couple of the songs from their upcoming debut album on BANDCAMP.

While you're taking in that check out how it's all starting...

Video: "Sinister" by Ominous Eclipse

For some reason, this week has seen us spending some time up near the Great White Way .

Today we're asking you to bend your ears and eyes to Ottawa, Ontario's Ominous Eclipse. They're a very heavy death metal band. Though, if you had to watch Winnipeg and Toronto play Canadian Football when you didn't have a team, you'd probably grow up angry as hell too right?

These gents are dropping an album in about two weeks on 9/1/4/18 that you'd do well to check out.

In the mean time, hit them on Facebook and Bandcamp.

Now that Ottawa has the Redblacks, will Ominous Eclipse remain angry? Only time will tell.

LP Review: "Sentiment" by Un

Un

Let's get things in the open. The Tomb of All Things absolutely kicked my ass upon its release and it's been in regular rotation for me. But it's been almost three years since we'd heard it. What's new since then?

Well, Un did a tour and stopped in St. Louis.

What they didn't mention, but it was kind of assumed, is that there was a new album on the horizon. Back in June, we weren't event thinking about September. As Summer dies and morphs into the dying world of Autumn, so will Sentiment be unloosed into our world.

The style is much the same. The songs are exceedingly long and depressing. The vocals are still harsh, yet sad. The guitars seem a bit fuzzier to my ears, but the time and distance may be confusing me. On first glance, it would seen that Un has chosen to not reinvent the wheel.

The second glance is the one that counts though. You'll see it more clearly once you get to the beginning of side two and it's confirmed at the end of side two how things are changing. There's even a rapid little section in that song.... Pools of Reflection. It's also song two.

Un is releasing a double LP with only four songs on it....ballsy.

Out: 9/28/18 PRE-ORDER FACEBOOK

Video: "As Rats Devour Lions" by by PREZIR

Godz of War is teasing us with the title track of PREZIR's upcoming record, As Rats Devour Lions.

In these times, that particular line sounds rather apropos doesn't it?

You can digitally preorder the album HERE.

Check out the video whilst I enjoy a nice cup of tea. Make sure you talk to PREZIR about the song on FACEBOOK.

5 Min Origin Stories with Stormland

Stormland

Let's have some real talk right now. It's about time to put something to rest in this world.

Canada, you know what you are right?

We all know that me, I love Canada, but that doesn't change what Canada is at its heart, America's do-gooding younger sibling. We get it. America gives the world Saved By The Bell and Canada counters with Degrassi Junior High.

We give you insurance and you come back with single payer insurance. Geez. Could you guys try any harder to make us look like a slacking elder brother who really doesn't know what we are doing in this life???!

Well, we were here first so we win...wait, what were we talking about. Oh yeah, Stormland has a new album and you should check out this Canadian death metal out on BANDCAMP.

In the meantime, we talked to Justin about all the good stuff...check it out below...

LP Review: "Vida" by Appalatin

Vida

Over the coming weeks, there's going to be a few reviews from albums, where honestly, we got a little bit behind and that stack of CDs has gotten bigger.

The first of these will be the third album from vaguely rockish falk act, Appalatin.

The main songwriters are from Nicaragua and Kentucky. In the Donald Trump Era, it's hard to even consider such a collaboration, but it began years ago, naturally.

If you're out there, looking for some music that's different than what you've ever heard in your life, Vida will definitely fit there.

If you've ever thought that bluegrass, folk rock, psychedelic rock, and Latin music all need to be fused under the power of the wah wah, Appalatin has something for you. What makes this album so much fun is how off the wall it is.

The songs flow together far more easily than they should. Considering the variables involved. If you can listen to this album without smiling the whole time, I'd suggest you call a funeral home and make a reservation because there's no way you could still be alive.

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1 Up with Flummox's Alan Pfeifer

Flummox

There's something about this band, but it's hard to put my finger onto it. It's on the tip of my tongue, but here we are and I can't grab it.

What is it about Flummox that has me so...charmingly befuddled?

They're a band that's kind of in the out. It's hard to pigeonhole them into any type of music without about seven different names in it....they're sort of Post Psyche Blackened Trout Metal Core Peel...

However you'd like to consider them, be sure you consider their latest album, Intellectual Hooliganism, that releases on September 8 via Wood and Stone Productions.

Alan Pfeifer is one of the criminal geniuses behind this band of merry weirdos.

There's a lot to unpack on this record, but instead of that, we're talking about video games.

Glacially Musical: My first system was a pong clone, the yellow and black Odessey 300. What was your first Console?

EP Review: "Captive" by Dead Register

Captive

Atlanta, GA's Dead Register is back with their follow up to 2016's Fiber.

The sophomore effort is an EP instead of a full length album, which a good choice if you ask this blogger. Too many times bands have taken their whole lives to write an amazing debut, only to fall short on the next one.

The second album is a great time to begin your shift, if one happens to be coming.

Dead Register shows a good deal of growth on this record, but without losing any of that gothic flavor we've all come to know an love from them.

The structure of the songs remains rather familiar. The timbre of M R Chvasta's voice hasn't gone off into metalcore pastures (either dirty or clean). Neither Avril Che nor new drummer Danny Ryann doing anything that would put lovers of Fiber off, but listen carefully and you'll hear the difference.

They were able to use the same pieces, colors, and textures in a new way that creates the effect of casual strangeness. It feels like home, but not quite your home.

This release is like sleeping at your long lost cousin's house. It feels familiar, but it's just a tick different.

Release: 11/2/18 AVR Records Goth Metal Bandcamp Facebook

Foods We Love with Anne Deming

Anne Deming

Right now, this part of the article is for all of my international readers. Dear Fellow Americans, go ahead and check out for a min and drink one of those delicious American IPAs while I talk to Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Sorry Canada, you're America's Hat and Mexico, you're part of NAFTA too, and besides, have you been to the Yucatan lately?

It's damned American there... Which is why we're going to Puerto Vallarta next time..

So, there are two parts of this nation that have been trying ever so hard to be a part of Canada. No hate from on that one. Nationalized Healthcare, more hockey than you can shake a goalie stick at, Justin Trudeau, Curtis Dewar, and Molson Export. Hey, I'm down, but based on my time in Canada, The Twin Cities of Minnesota, and Buffalo...

Buffalo wins this fight, but Anne Deming is from the Twin Cities. We'll call it Lower Canada Minor. She's a blues/Americana artist looking to spread the words out there.

You can check out her latest single HERE. In the meantime, let's continue with the series of my combining my love of food with this site...

5 Minute Origin Stories with Hate Diplomacy's Joe Randaza

Hate Diplomacy

Hopefully by now, you've checked out Rant by Hate Diplomacy.

If not, right now you have two options as I see them:

1. You head over to Facebook and tell them why not.

2. You check out the link I just posted up at the top. It's hard to imagine anyone who reads this site not being interested in this album.

But, just in case that's not enough, Hate Diplomacy's Joe Randaza gives us all the goods one more time.

Check this one out, it's worth your time.

1. Is there an event you can point to you that made you say, wow, that's the instrument I want to play? Not like guitar or drums, but the reason why you play the model you do?

Vinyl Review: "Anomie" by Violet Cold

Anomie

By now, anyone who's going to entertain this record by Violent Cold may have already done so, but aside from slivers and snippets, this is the first time I've listened to the whole thing.

But maybe, I'm wrong about that. In fact, it's got to be certain that I'm incorrect.

Let's head backwards in time and explore the depths of my personal folly and how I could have been saved by my own hands.

Curtis Dewar of Dewar PR, who knows I'm a big vinyl nut, sent me a message saying that I'd better jump on Violet Cold's latest album before the preorders take them all.

Being perpetually behind in my emails, Anomie hadn't gotten a listen yet. At that point, it was relaxing time, beer thirty, and just general off the clockedness of what might have been the weekend.

Video: "Horde" by Hesperian Death Horse

When I was a child, a tween, a pre-teen, and into some of my adolescence, we learned about new music via music videos. TBS's Night Tracks, NBC's Friday Night Videos, and other non-MTV stations supplemented our growing desire for music.

In 2018, the art of the music video is dead. Most of them, on YouTube, are either lyric videos or performance videos. Hey, there's naught wrong with that, but concept videos are slowly fading into the rear view mirror.

In order to slow this descent into extinction, you can check out the lastest video from Zagreb, Croatia's Hesperian  Death Horse.

You can pick up the whole record over at Bandcamp.