2015 – Sleeping Village

Thou & The Body – Beyond the Realms of Dream, That Fleeting Shade Under the Corpus of Vanity

The Village — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:28:01 +0000

Absolutely crushing.

Giles Corey – The Haunting Presence

The Village — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 15:00:10 +0000

Jesus this is dark.

”Sometime in the Spring of 2009 I tried to kill myself. Six months before that, I used a Voor’s Head Device for the first time.“ This line opens the 150-page book that accompanies Giles Corey, an intensely personal, intimate portrait of depression that took me almost 4 years to make.” – Dan Barrett (Giles Corey)

Here is more about the album, and what a “Voor’s Head Device” is.

Behold! The Monolith – Umbral Vale

The Village — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 15:11:13 +0000

A friend made a Facebook post about a doom band name generator. I gave it a try and I got “Void Architects,” which pretty good, but I thought “Architects of the Void” sounded better. So good that there is no way that a band isn’t called that. So I did search on Bandcamp, and I ended up on Behold! The Monolith’s page. Their latest album being called “Architects of the Void.”

I don’t dally go for the super growly vocals, but they work on this track. They are more or less texture, another level of sound. Other tracks from the album don’t fair as well (more me) with the vocals basically becoming exactly what I don’t like about growling.

Umbral Vale probably isn’t the best representation of the album as a whole. Its shorter and sludgier than most of the album and lacks real vocals, which is probably why its my stand out track.

Julien Baker – Good News

Fri, 22 Jul 2016 23:42:50 +0000

Its not all yelling and banging on stuff around here. Sometimes its sad, songs with a touch of the good Ryan Adams.

The Atom Age – Ms. Death Texas

Sun, 10 Jul 2016 15:36:36 +0000

I slept hard on this band for a few reason: lots go guys in the band, all wearing suits (at least the few promo photos I had seen), a dude in an eye patch and Asian Man put out their albums. I just assumed they were a ska band and I didn’t need to bother.

I was so wrong. Thanks again Spotify Discover weekly playlist.

Atom Age are bringing the hot RFTC style fire.

Photo stolen from Jamy Cabre