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...
View ArticleSeason 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-...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleMusical 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,...
View ArticleHappy 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...
View ArticleHappy 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...
View ArticleForced 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...
View ArticleWHO 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...
View ArticleBlack 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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleDF 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...
View ArticleWu-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...
View ArticleAdventure 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...
View Article"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...
View ArticleSlowdive- 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...
View ArticleFrost 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...
View ArticleKeep 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...
View ArticleI'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...
View ArticleMovin' 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.
View ArticleThe 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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