A few musical avenues of awesomeness I've been going down constantly these days:

Dead Can Dance: I've downloaded Spleen and Ideal, Dead Can Dance, and Brendan Perry's solo album, Eye of the Hunter from Amazon MP3 in excellent 320 quality.

I'm really enjoying those, especially Spleen and Ideal because of its sometimes rock-instrumented songs. DCD are probably the most intriguing and amazing band I know. Porcupine Tree are pretty amazing, but they're just not as mysterious and interesting as DCD. But those two are my favorites of all time.

I've been playing a lot of My…

New music I've picked up and my ratings:

The Flower Kings - The Sum of No Evil: 10/10
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement: 8/10
Divine Heresy - Bleed The Fifth: 6/10
Ayreon - 01001101: 10/10
Steven Wilson - Cover Versions I, II, III, & IV: 10/10

and I've got a supreme package coming to me from SW's Burning Shed mailorder:

Bass Communion's Ghosts on Magnetic Tape

I'm now on Facebook, with my complete discography up and a bunch of streaming songs — http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=7602016653

Check it out.

Novembre's new album, The Blue, isn't technically "out" yet. It comes out in Europe on Monday and the rest of the world on the 20th in cd form. However, Amazonmp3 already has it available.

The physical disk format would be $17.95 on Amazon regularly, but Amazonmp3 has it for $8.99 for all the songs in 256 kb/s mp3 quality. I jumped at this offer and went ahead and downloaded it from them. The mp3s are DRM-free and way cheaper than iTunes mp3s.

That all being said, The Blue rocks. Melodic like their previous album Materia and even heavier,…

The legendary machine-gun-fast drummer for Decapitated passed away sometime last evening/this morning from injuries sustained in a bus crash two nights before.

I'm thinking two things:
-This is a monumental loss to metal music.
-He was only 23: I could die today or tomorrow as well.

As much as I can't contemplate my being non-existing, and as much fear as that summons up in me that I can't control, I am not afraid to die.

Anyway, I got the amazing chance to see Decapitated live last year. Vitek dominated and blew me completely away. I also got the chance to…

Elliot met Warrel Dane from Nevermore at the Dark Funeral show last night. I had to miss out on this because I had to take over a co-worker's shift since she couldn't find anyone else to do it.

I wish I hadn't. BIG TIME.

I'll use this journal to chronicle my opinions on new albums as I add them to my collection.

I bought the new Soilwork album, Sworn To A Great Divide, as well as the new Epica album, The Divine Conspiracy, today.

So far, the new Soilwork is sounding badass, though not the caliber of their previous work. I haven't listened to the new Epica, but I've heard a few tracks when they played live like the one below — The Obsessive Devotion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNn_R5PNbTw

I'm not really going to use this journal, as I have a livejournal already. However, I will say this: Last.FM is snazzy.

Go listen to Porcupine Tree and No-Man.

Your life will be better because of it.