Over the Rhine - The Body is a Stairway of Skin

Old school trip hop.

Helen Stellar - Newton

Tomorrow is the ten year anniversary of the night I met my wife. I was in a band called The Yellow House and she was a music journalist. She'd heard she should come to see us. She did. The band played. Afterward we were introduced. We hung out all night, drinking pints of beer and talking. We made plans to see one another again. I have been ecstatically happy ever since.

Early on she made me a bunch of mix-discs. I'm going to do the drinking and posting thing tonight and a lot of what I post will be stuff she turned me onto. All of it is awesome. She is good like that.

Rosenkopf - Burning Spirits

So I was hunting around on my favorite music blog heavenisanincubator and on accident I hit the 'Next Blog' button that blogger puts at the top of all its pages. It's an interesting idea - kind of a way to just move to a random blog, or just to get to know your neighbor. Well, the next blog over from the mighty 'incubator is the tour diary for a band called Rosenkopf. I'd never heard of them before and immediately flipped over to youtube and looked them up, them flipped back and began reading. I'm not entirely sure what year this tour diary is from, I believe it was 2012. You can click on the widget above and follow back to Rosenkopf's bandcamp where the track is available for free download. There's also a host of stuff on youtube which I'm kinda working my way through now, inbetween repeated listens to The Oceans' Pelagial. I've posted one of the live tracks below.

Dillinger Escape Plan @ Golden Gods: Lots of blood, fire and insanity, + Chino Moreno for a Depeche Mode Cover

Very special thanks to HaloMillenium for the cleanest rip of this I've seen yet. The camera-in-front-of-the-tv technique versions that began popping up the day after the show were so bad not only did I not re-post any of them, I didn't even watch 'em. Props for all who attempted just in the name of getting it out there, but it was just not happening.

Warning: the sound mix here is off - Greg Puciato's vocals are waaaay up in the mix and the instruments are waaaay down. I think this makes the material come off a bit more disjointed than it actually is.

Danzig & Doyle Golden Gods: FULL SET!!!

That's much better. Fucking Death Comes Ripping into Skulls? Nice. Thanks to stormrider3 for posting this. Check out their youtube page I linked to above - lots of footage from last night.

Danzig & Doyle @ Golden Gods 2013

Last night. This is the only halfway decent footage I've found so far, I'll try to post more as footage filters in. Classic.

The Ocean - Pelagial

So I've put down the Slayer for a bit (couldn't find my original cassette copy of Seasons in the Abyss so I had to walk away for a while) and started my first pass through the new album by The Ocean, Pelagial. It is incredible. The concept for the album is just mind-blowing, especially when you listen to it and realize they pulled it off. From their (awesome) website:

The concept of the album is made evident in its title, Pelagial. Listeners will be further submersed as they journey with the band, beginning at the surface of the ocean and plunging through all five pelagic depth zones: epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathyalpelagic, abyssopelagic, and hadopelagic. In synch with diminishing light and increasing pressure as one dives or sinks deeper into the ocean, the album begins rather light and progressively gets heavier and slows as the band reaches the unfathomable depths of the hadopelagic zone, characterized by complete darkness and a thousandfold increased pressure as compared to surface level. What is remarkable about Pelagial is that this is not some detached conceptual idea; this can actually be heard and felt while listening to the album.