Seven Songs of Superness
Rob has challenged me to list seven songs which I find to be really enjoyable at present. As a review site and hence not to be outdone by laziness, I will not simply list the music, but also provide links to videos of the songs
1. My Kingdom by The Future Sound of London, from the album Dead Cities [Genre: Trip-Hop] Video Link
2. Inside of You, In Spite of You by Thoushaltnot, from the album The White Beyond [Genre: Synthpop/Electro-goth] Video Link
3. Night Riders by Stromkern, from the album Armageddon [Genre: Industrial Hip-Hop] Video Link
4. God is God by Juno Reactor, from the album Bible of Dreams [Genre: Goa Trance] Video Link
5. Pavanne for an Angel by Cast in Bronze, from the album Best Day Ever [Genre: New Age] Video Link
6. Epitaph by Front Line Assembly, from the album Epitaph [Genre: Industrial] Video Link
7. Love Never Dies by Saviour Machine, from the album Saviour Machine II [Genre: Gothic/Progressive Metal] Video Link
mewithoutYou – Catch For Us The Foxes (PigtailsJazz review)
Reviewed by PigtailsJazz
As just a note before I start this review, I will be periodically be referring to music theory terms. When I do this, I will put footnotes at the bottom of the review to explain somewhat of what these terms mean.
MewithoutYou could be best classified as an indie or alternative Christian band. As a person who had been generally been accustomed to more melodic music, I had at first discarded this CD, which features a lead vocalist who speaks (or shouts) in a more rhythmic and poetic fashion. However, anyone who is a fan of mewithoutYou should know that their music is certainly of an entirely different style. Their harmonic rhythm (1) is generally very slow, stationing on the tonic (2), dominant (3), or dominant prep (4). Their lyrics are complex, and of beautiful poetic structure. Naturally, the poetic nature of the vocalist’s speech conveys this quality.
(stay tuned for more to come, and an actual review/overview of the tracks) Read the rest of this entry »
Another Admin?
Yes, it’s true. It is I, Rob, from The New Perspective on Rob. Ghost has graciously invited me to post occasionally, so I figure an introduction is in order.
I am a seventeen year old about to embark on my senior year of high school. I met Ghost online almost a year ago, and it has been a profitable friendship for both of us. His wisdom and biblical knowledge have helped me on my pilgrimage of faith, and he’s also introduced me to some music I never thought I’d like.
Since this blog is primarily for music reviews, I will be posting a few. A warning, though: my musical tastes differ from Ghost’s sometimes, so don’t expect too much industrial from me.
I enjoy a variety of music. Christian industrial (Regenerator, ThouShaltNot), classic rock (Beatles), reggae (Matisyahu), and jazz (Norah Jones, Yoko Kanno’s Bebop work) to name a few. Of course, I enjoy classical as well (Bach’s organ works, Mozart’s Requiem and Yo-Yo Ma’s renditions of some things too). That’s a good sampling of what’s in my library, I think.
Thanks again, Ghost, and I hope this will be enjoyable for the both of us.
The True Face of War
Wow, I just finished watching the video to Night Riders by Industrial Rap/Reggie artists Stromkern. If you wish to see the true face of war, go check it out at Youtube. Please, do what is in your power to cut this stuff out, the world needs it.
Paging Rob.
Hey Rob, on the chance you stop by, where have you been all these days? I see your activity on your blog (sidebar), but I never can talk to you these days because you’re never on AIM. I’d like to chat again.
New Administrator: Eric
I’d like to introduce another administrator in the mix of this rather silly blog, Eric of the CAA who is a fellow Christian a serious metalhead. Like me, he has a strong taste for unique music, and besides his maddeningly vast armada of heavy metal music composed of insanely diverse styles, he has also developed a taste for Avante-garde, post-industrial, dark ambient, and gothic music, as well as the occasional anime soundtrack. I strongly look forward to what he has to say.
Front Line Assembly: Epitaph
Reviewed by GhostontheNet
The sight is a barren junkyard filled to the top with the ruins of old factory equipment – testaments to collapse from the consequences of social decadence. Worst of all in this scrap heap, the giant and hence symbolically collective human heart has been turned into metal, been scrapped to the maximum degree possible, and discarded. This industrial album by Front Line Assembly both aesthetically and stylistically pays tribute to The Future Sound of London’s post-collapse cyberpunk themed albums Dead Cities and My Kingdom. The result is a truly masterful industrial album which I have enjoyed greatly, and which combines very well with the aforementioned FSOL albums.
New Administrator: PigtailsJazz
I’ve decided to add my friend PigtailsJazz, a.k.a. “Susan the slave to the clarinet” as an administrator to make music reviews and pretty much whatever she really wants to do here on my blog. She is a music theory major who has these days developed a taste for gothic and industrial music (haha, we have almost turned you to the dark side, you’ll be singing Bela Lugosi’s Dead in no time). Like me, she shares an insanely diverse tastes in music and is also a fellow Christian, so I eagerly look to her posts and input.
Reconsidering leaving CAA
I’m reconsidering leaving the CAA. I just saw one of my posts deleted again, though what I said was very important to me. If they find that the proper response to a barking cynic is to get out the muzzle, I think it would be better for my own dignity and also their’s that I simply go away and leave them to their own affairs. Besides, its not like that many people really liked me and my posts, and those that do I am still in contact with. It seems that no matter where I go, I always find myself alienated on the fringes with people either ignoring me entirely, or insulting me. They say in sociology that the likelihood of commiting suicide is statistically inversely proportional to the level of social integration a person has. And as I watch my ties to the world around me disintegrate, this really bothers me. I feel like there is nowhere I can go that will accept me for who I am and what I believe, whether I speak of it or do not speak of it. I find solace and company with God, but now even God grows more distant while I find myself alienated, depressed, lonely, racked with doubt, and almost hopeless.
Does anybody actually read this stuff?
If you read this stuff, why do you read it?
