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UPDATE

Yeah, the damned Third Eye Blind song is more or less a dumb joke.Happy belated Turkey Day.Tomorrow night's show will be the last of this year/school year in live radio form. I'll be abroad next...

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Season Finale- 11/2/08 Playlist

A huge round of thanks to whoever's listened/supported the show, or harassed me.More details about the future of the show while I'm abroad next semester will be detailed in a future post.Zombi-...

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In Honor of This Month

I offer you one of the mightiest December songs ever written. Of course, that's not exactly heavy competition given the only other December song I can think of is "My December" by Linkin Park, but it's...

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Musical Versatility Reigns Supreme

I've been a sizeable fan of Agalloch for a few years now. Beyond the music, they seem like interesting individuals as well-- among other things, Don teaches English at the University of Washington,...

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Happy Birthday to/from Me

Today I finally turn 21. Most folks my age are all "HELLZ YES, BOOZIN TIME LOL," which is just fine. Me, I'm just happy I can go home to the Seattle area and not worry about an awesome show being...

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Happy Birthday/RIP Chuck Schuldiner

I first started checking Death out towards the end of high school, when I heard they really advanced from the formula of traditional death metal-- a musical genre I shyed away from at the time-- and...

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Forced Entry re-up

Because of upload malfunction last time, I get the sense the handful who actually read this page never got to acquire Forced Entry's fantastic record As Above, So Below. FE were a killer technical...

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WHO ARE YOU AND WHY AM I HERE?

Void, easily my favorite 80s DC (well, okay, they were from Columbia, MD) hardcore band, were an absolute clusterfuck of sound. John Weiffenbach's screechy delivery flies over a total racket created by...

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Black Meddling

I gotta say it straight: I wasn't as impressed by Nachmystium's Assassins: Black Meddle, Pt 1 asmost everyone else was. There are some cool moments, to be sure, but a bunch of the gang vocal choruses...

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We are experiencing technical difficulties-- please stand by.

I'm now in England, where I'll be studying abroad until June. I don't have internet access yet in my dorm and shit is kinda wack. Please stand by and posting should resume in a week's time or so at...

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DF the CH, Episode III

As I'm finally all set up in my dorm in England, it's time to continue things with yet another little-known gem from the Kitsap County area.The Humanoids were a bunch of Misfits-obsessed kids from...

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Wu-Tang Killa SQUIDZ! WE GON' SWARM!

You guessed'er, Chester. I'm yet another whiteboy who really digs the Wu-Tang Clan.The first time I actually somewhat heard them was through this mashup mixtape done by the mighty Soul4hire. Dude...

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Adventure metal, you say?

For once, the "for fans of" tag kinda worked out. As I was flipping through the latest Decibel, I found an add for Scale the Summit, a band of dudes my age who purportedly sounded like "a classy...

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"You listen to Chick Corea and play death metal? What?"

Before they weathered natural disasters, equipment detainment and band member departures and released their seminal 1994 LP Focus, jazzy//technical/progressive death metallers Cynic were a technical...

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Slowdive- Live in Oslo 1992

If posting a crapton of their demos my first ICDT post is of any indication, Slowdive has been on the listening docket quite a bit lately. A truly sublime band.When they released their second best...

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Frost and Fire

Cirith Ungol were a Californian metal band heavily influenced by fantasy literature-- they took their name from Shelob the spider's mountain passs from Lord of the Rings and every album cover featured...

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Keep on Movin'

It was another late night at the library last November and I decided (as I often do) that sustenance must be acquired. I popped over to the student coffee house to satiate my hunger and found it packed...

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I'll Be Down, I'll Be Around

When I started listening to Dinosaur Jr a few years nacl, I felt like they were the band I'd needed in high school. Nerdy and reclusive, but also distorted and huge. Their first few records are like...

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Movin' Up in the World

In addition to this blog, I'm now a full-time member of ICDT. Some posts will be on both sites simultaneously; others will not. But anyway, I'm stoked to be onboard. Much thanks to Adam and Trey.

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The world needs this like it needs more genocide

Limp Bizkit reunites? Blink-182 comes out of hiatus? I know there's some bad things going on in the world right now, but what the hell did humanity do to deserve these events?

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