2019's Hidden History of the Human Race put Blood Incantation on a lot of people's radar, mine included. I dug the record, but probably not as much as the legions that ranked it as or near their album of the year. Since then, they'd fallen off, as I'm not even certain I knew they had a 2022 record (Timewave Zero; named after Terence and Dennis McKenna's theories of novelty and emergence, which I was once obsessed with). Recently, Mr. Brown mentioned these guys had a new one, so I sought out this year's Absolute Everywhere on Apple Music earlier today and gave it a listen. Then I went looking for a track to post and saw I had no actual idea how ambitious this band is. Holy shit. Tangerine Dream? Michael Ragen, DP for Panos Cosmatos' The Viewing? Knights? Space Ships? Cosmic Horror???
What the absolute fuck? There are moments on this album that are among the heaviest things I've heard, and moments that remind me of 90s electro-psychedlic group The Orb. Mind thoroughly blown.
Watch:
Holy smokes! Steven C. Miller's Werewolves hits theatres this weekend, and after seeing it Thursday night, K and I are both chomping at the bit to see it again! A LOT OF FUN!!
This movie 100% knows what it is, shortcomings and all, and just leans into it. There's a lot of macho shit in the opening few moments, which rubbed me a bit wrong at first. Then there's a scene where Grillo's character is introduced as a Micro Biologist, and I suddenly understood the M.O. here - Werewolves is essentially a Stallone flick from the mid-80s, and realizing that freed me to embrace it for the insane ride that it is. Once we move past the handful of transformations we see - remember the set up here is that a Super Moon is going to cause BILLIONS of people to become werewolves for one night - most of the FX are gloriously practical.
Playlist:
Final Light - Eponymous
Dance with the Dead - Dark Matter E.P.
Dance with the Dead - B Sides: Vol. 1
Drug Church - Prude
Sort Sol -w/ Chelsea Wolfe - Life Took You For A Freq. (single)
Sylvaine - Nova
Fen - Epoch
Ulver - Liminal Animals
Antibalas - Where the Gods Are in Peace
Moon Wizard - Sirens
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Windhand - Eponymous
Shellac - To All Trains
Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
Sumerlands - Dream Killer
Card:
Today's card:
Here are two little bits from the Grimoire:
"Intense passion to create, but its children are monsters."
And the equally intriguing, if far more vague:
"The Darkness of the Raging Sea."
The second bit is an obvious observation from The Book of Thoth, truncated from Crowley's meaningful (less?) meanderings about the background of the card's image. To me, the "Seven-ness" of this card hits the lights first; completion. But this is a warning, and that's to "Understand the solutions" you employ to achieve that solution, as you may solve one issue and create something worse, hence the choppy waters.
