My Music Recommendation Motherlode

I get a lot of people asking me for this...so here it is:

Do you nutmeats want some music recommendations?

Normally, I write big explanations for the things like this, but I’m not going to waste your time. These are bands I like. This is good music. Pre-approved by me. Here.

Devin Townsend - Deconstruction

Sometimes I listen to a new release and feel like I could fit the entire album in a shot glass. Some bands like to think that they’ve got a unique sound, so they pigeonhole themselves with their style and refuse to change it, lest they be seen as betraying their image. Devin Townsend doesn’t do this. Devin Townsend is on a mission: he has to make everything he records huge—not state-fair-pumpkin huge, circus-freak huge. Landkreuzer P-1500 Monster huge. He mixes his music so that every instrument is playing at one hundred percent power nearly the entire time, while including moments of serenity and softness to tease the listener into turning up the volume, only to be blasted away by the unfathomably low, hydrogen-bomb power chords. This process produces a record that sounds like Devin bought a retired missile silo, filled it with VX gas, set an orchestra on fire and gave his band a Chinook of black tar heroin, and told them to not stop playing until everyone in the orchestra died. ‘Deconstruction’ isn’t just the best death metal album I’ve heard all year; it’s one of the best metal albums I’ve heard in my life.

But what makes it worth your time?

First Post/Leviathan/Mayhem (Music: Black Metal)

Hey there. For the inaugural post on The Snarl, I thought it would only make sense to introduce you to two of my favorite albums. I’ll be reviewing music, movies, art, products, events, people and anything else that comes my way. If you’re interested in having something reviewed, send me an email with your idea and I’ll see what I can do for you. For now, check out these two full reviews of two of the best black metal albums ever recorded.

LEVIATHAN – MASSIVE CONSPIRACY AGAINST ALL LIFE

            Type: LP

Producer: Moribund Cult

Release: March 24th, 2008

                Leviathan is an American black metal project composed entirely of one Jef Whitehead, otherwise known as Wrest. This 2008 masterpiece, Massive Conspiracy Against All Life is an apocalyptic series of grave, ambient tracks detailing not just the end of life on earth, but of the ultimate extinction of all matter in the universe. It begins with a slow, meager growling intro, but quickly picks up pace and turns into a maddening spiral into total oblivion. While it may seem simple, know that this piece is not just about the simplistic Armageddon of flames and devils, but of a microbial destruction, and of the creation of new life from the withered corpse of our universal ovum. Note the microscopic nature of some of the lyrics “Gone, as T-Lymphocytes” and “From a long, flagellated vessel”, and know that the original title for ‘Vulgar Asceticism’ was ‘A Flagellum Raised to the Sky’, a phrase which upends the sperm cell and points it at the ova of the earth.