I’m going to take a detour from my “weird, noisy, metal records” series to talk about a show I went to last night, and review the two records I picked up while there.

Last night I checked out Minsk, Amenra, Battlefields, and Bongripper. Despite a weak turnout (it was a Thursday night, which sucks for the touring bands) it was a pretty sweet show.

While there I picked up the new Battlefields and Bongripper records and, given that they’re both real good, I thought I’d go ahead and get some reviews up here while the show is still fresh in my head.

Over the next few posts I'll be taking a look at some new, noisy, weirdo metal stuff I've been digging lately.

For part one of this little series I'll be discussing the new album by Pyramids, the goofy, drony, noise band, not the screamy hardcore band.

I bet having to say that over and over is going to get real annoying, real fast for both bands.

Today, I'm taking a look at the oddly named Russian band Bosch's With You, another solid release from KNVBI Records.

It's taken me a long, long time to get to the point in my life where I can enjoy music that could be classified as "ambient" or "psychedelic."

Let me explain.

Okay, so I put this on our band's blog, but I like it so much I'm going to put it here too.

Please note that I'm often late to shit on the internet so if everyone's already seen this, I apologize.

Please also note that I owned Blackaciddevil for shorter than the running time of the record. I actually bought it, decided it sucked, and sold it back in under 25 minutes. I've never regretted my decision.

Today I'm taking a look at two great records by Italian ambient-metal type bands coming to us from awesome Pennsylvania label KNVBI records. First up is One Starving Day's Broken Wings Lead Arms To the Sun

Do you ever have one of those records that intellectually you know you should dislike, but on an emotional level you just can't bring yourself to stop listening to?

I know you have a couple of those records. Think of them now.

Okay. Keep thinking of those records and don't judge me as I tell you how much I like Romainian cheese-metal outfit Powerwolf's 2007 record Lupus Dei

Let's go through the reasons I probably shouldn't like this record:

There's really no clever way to start this review. Fuck, I'd actually settle for a halfway decent way to start it at this point. A lot can be said about the incredibly unlikely comeback (and complete musical transformation) of Dylan Carlson, but you've probably read that in every other Earth review in the last few years. So I guess let's just move on to the topic at hand: Earth's newest record, The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull.

First: yes, I know that they're going under the name Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, but that's too fucking long (and too fucking stupid) to put in the title of this review.

Yo. Just a quick post to apologize for the dearth of posts lately. I've been real busy/out of town and shit recently, and so has Ryan, but we have some shit cooking. I hope to have something up ASAP.

In the meantime, enjoy some awesome total D&D lyrics. I give you Grimbor the Great by Freternia:

In/Humanity is more responsible for how I have turned out than my parents.

Let me explain.