While you're digging in, make sure you get on top of their latest on BANDCAMP.
1. My favorite kind of album is the concept album. The Wall is my absolute favorite. Beyond the amazing songs, it has spectacular nostalgia for me.
What's your favorite one and why?
Language by The Contortionist is one of the most legendary concept albums. Even though the message of the album is vague, it allows the listener to perceive the album however they desire.
So, I don't need to proof read The Myopia Condition's answers to know that they have both praised the deposed, but still defending, Stanley Cup Champions and Urban Chestnut Brewing.
But, check out their tunes at YOUTUBE.
So, let's talk beer.
1. My personal favorite beer style is the might Double India Pale Ale. The best DIPA in the world is STLIPA by Urban Chestnut. Tell me about your favorite style.
That’s tough to answer but I’d have to go with a nice dry citrus pale ale. I love the initial bite and the fact they don’t linger too long.
It's been a bit too long since I've sat down to review a new record. Frankly, I cannot imagine a scenario when it hasn't been too long.
Today, I feel like I need to head off some comments before they come to pass. Folks who make requests of vinyl promos are often looked at as jerks. If you look at my history, the vast, vast, vast majority of my posts have been without any vinyl.
In 2020, I had several vinyl reviews lined up before the pandemic hit. Then I had zero and that was fine. Instead of waiting for these bands to have some more money and feel like they could send me those free records, I opened up my wallet and bought them...and in many cases still wrote about those records.
It's been a long pandemic and we've had losses of some kind or another during this time. So I'm thrilled that Rope or Guillotine Records won't take my no's for an answer and still sent me records.
After you watch this video, hear the lyrics, the songs, and the amazing playing. Your first thought is going to be how you'd be willing, nay, begging to hear a treatise on their lives, philosophy, and influences.
Unfortunately, you've got an interview about Fast Food.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
1. Let's not pretend. Fast food is delicious. What is your favorite fast food joint?
Wouldn't it be interesting ti know how a band like Saints of Death, black metal from Vancouver, BC, heard music and it turned them into something different?
Could you imagine what it would be like had they listened to one of your favorite records by Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, or even Black Sabbath and took it to strange new places?
Well read on my friend!
Stream their record HERE.
1. My favorite kind of album is the concept album. The Wall is my absolute favorite. Beyond the amazing songs, it has spectacular nostalgia for me. What's your favorite one and why?
With that said, it's really cool to get in a beer thirty column with someone again. Today, James Brookes of Evertrapped will give us his beer opinions.
It's cool to get someone in Montreal to give their beer tastes isn't it?
While you're reading, check out BANDCAMP.
1. My personal favorite beer style is the might Double India Pale Ale. The best DIPA in the world is STLIPA by Urban Chestnut. Tell me about your favorite style.
I am also a big fan of IPA, double or otherwise. One of the best ones I've ever had if actually from Brazil. It's called Vixnu and it's impossible to find.
An Imperial IPA.
The first time I tried it was at a beer fest in Montreal and it took me years until I could get another one. A colleague of mine managed to get one imported for me and it was great. It's got everything...perfect malty flavor mixed with just the right amount of bitterness.
And even at 9%, you don't notice it...unless of course, you drink too many of them.
(NOTE: I had a beer from Quebec that it took me years to find again, Quelque Chose, Cherry Ale served hot.)
That town is sort of famous.
It might be the most recognizable town in the entire state of Washington that's not named Walla Walla!
So check out their tunes and find out how they Seattle.
1. St. Louis City is my hometown. I’ve lived here for most of my life in and around the city.
Where are you from?
Seattle, Washington
2. We have three things that don’t really exist anywhere else: the slinger, the gooey butter cake, and toasted ravioli. Tell me about your hometown's delicacy.
Either way, I wanna ya know...listen to metal, drink beer, and get the hell out of my house.
In the meantime, find out about where they live!
1. St. Louis City is my hometown. I've lived here for most of my life in and around the city. Where are you from?
We (Jupiter Hollow - Kenny & Grant) are from Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Here's the real truth, you can learn all you wan to know about Montreal's favorite sons if you head over to their BANDCAMP page and stream their record.
In the meantime, let's just say, Montreal is my favorite city in Canada even though I've never been there and I'm certain that neither Patrick Roy nor the Laval Chiefs have anything to do with it.
But, for now, let's find out about records, records, and more records.
1. Listening to Black Sabbath's eponymous debut the night I got it blew me away. What's the album that sounds the best on vinyl compared to digital sources?
That first Black Sabbath album is definitely an amazing sounding record on vinyl. I have my dad’s old copy from the 70s.
The quantities just added in 2020 are a bit on the embarrassing side...
This only includes the albums that are in hand and not the ones that are en route....So, let's talk about what others are doing with their collections!
This Thursday, we honor the great god Thor with Draemora. They're a progressive death metal band from Seattle.
Stream their stuff HERE.
Up today, it's the latest released by the death metal super power ultra duo, Johansson & Speckmann. The former, Rogga Johansson, is a member of Paganizer, Revolting, and Riffspreader. He's definitely putting himself out there.
The latter is one, Paul Speckmann, of Death Metal royalty, Master.
It may be patently obtuse to even say this, but this album is going to be heavy. If you like that sort of thing, there's little to be disappointed about.
Unlike traditional death metal it's a bit more raw to my ears. It's got a lo-fi kind of feel. Almost, punk rock.
Speckmann is more proto death metal than the real thing, perhaps the missing link between Lemmy and Death, so nothing he does will be standard issue death metal.
Damn does he have a sound though. Johansson's riffing and solos keep it closer to the signposts of the genre, but there's nothing like that hate Speckmann brings to anything he's doing.
This album really has it all. It's angry, rough, and polished all at the same time. The only thing, it's going to leave you wanting more.
Rating A Purchase
Today Mike Redston of Snakeblade is telling us about the music he loves.
Dig in and check out their BANDCAMP page for some background music.
1. My favorite kind of album is the concept album. The Wall is my absolute favorite.
Beyond the amazing songs, it has spectacular nostalgia for me. What's your favorite one and why?
The Wall has gotta be my favorite as well! Another great one is Avenged Sevenfold’s The Stage.
It’s all about artificial intelligence, science fiction, and the cosmos. I’ve always been really interested in space and the universe, so naturally, this album grabbed my attention.
It’s closed out by a 15-minute epic piece called “Exist” which is one of the greatest songs ever written in my books. It even features a spoken-word passage by Neil Degrasse Tyson and I’m a huge Startalk and Cosmos fan so that was just crazy for me.
Have I got something for you!
Make sure you get all over their new album HERE.
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?
The first band I got into was QUEEN. So I wanted to be Roger Taylor (Drums).