Drone Cylons?

I have discovered something amazingly terrifying.

Has anyone, besides me, noticed that Sunn O))) & Boris look suspiciously like the Final Five Cylons?



(click on this to see the full image, you NEED TO in order to see all five)


Sunn O))) & Boris (some of the Altar Album art, there's even more incriminating photos, but i can't find them online. i'll take pics of my LP and up them when i get home)



The Final Five Cylons from Battlestar Galactica



(click on this to see the full image, you NEED TO in order to see all five)

to me this is fucking sweet, scary, and sexy.
the fact that robots are creating the heaviest, most neurologically affecting, genre-defying, altered-state-of-consciousness-inducing music blows my mind and elates me on so many different levels.

the robots are here...
and they make the best music.

the end is nigh, my friends.
we've been bested by our two best creations: robots and metal.

the shape of things to come...

so an old friend of mine hooked me up with a what.cd invite the other day and i haven't been this genuinely happy since i bought my bong a couple years ago. the day Oink's Pink Palace (the ONLY place i have EVER felt at home) got shut down was the day i was baptized a nihilist, and for the first time since that day, i've found myself able to smile when i'm sober.

so yeah, once i build up my ratio, i will be able to re-ascend to my thrown as the musical god of death, and will, ofcourse, rain down beautiful, deadly, sexy, illegal music upon your mortal souls.

prepare.

Boris

I fucking love Boris, but they're the kinda band you have to be in a certain mood to listen to.
They somehow blend drone metal with stoner-pop-j-rock beautifuly. I'm not sure how it comes together so well, but I don't question Japanese art, I just accept its brilliance and enjoy it.

I'm just going to post my favorite three albums for now, I don't feel like upping all of my stuff right now.

Amplifier Worship
Hama is one of the sweetest songs I've ever heard.



Heavy Rocks
Heavy Friends. Nuff said.


Akuma No Uta

Dysrhythmia

Dysrhythmia is Colin Marston's other band (the Warr Guitarist from Behold... The Arctopus). I'll just let the wiki describe them:

"The band plays an intense yet thoughtful crossblend of tech metal and post rock, often burgeoning on shifting time signatures and contradictory mellow guitar phrases. Completely instrumental, the band's focal point is in its unique crossbreed of frantic time signature evolution and mellifluous guitar passages."

All I have is Barriers and Passages, but I'm trying to get my hands on more of their material.

Indricothere

Indricothere (indricotheriinae) is Colin Marston's (the dude who plays Warr Guitar in Behold...The Arctopus) one man band project. It's pretty tech-heavy and It has a nice metal groove to it.

enjoy

King Crimson

King Crimson was one of the first prog bands ever, and they're still one of the greatest band of all time.

I'm just gonna up my favorite albums for now. I'll prob put up my disco later (but it's like fucking 40 albums, and I don't feel like doing it all right now).


1981

Discipline
I first discovered this album when I was 14 and reading a list of Danny Carey's favorite albums of all time. This album has never and will never get old. I recently picked this up on vinyl for $6 at a used record shop. DEEEcent.


2003 The Power To Believe
part 1
part 2

This album is seriously some next level prog-tech stuff. The first track (The Power to Believe I: A Cappella) is one of the most beautiful and soothing intros ever, which is good because the next song, Level Five (the most fitting song name of all time) will literally boil your brain. Electrik is one of the trippiest songs I've ever heard and I'm pretty sure it's what self-transforming machine elves listen to when they dance.


1969 In The Court of the Krimson King

This was King Crimson's first real studio album. It's widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential albums in the history of rock. I have been dying to learn the sexy sax part in 21st Century Schizoid Man. Epitaph is a beautiful marching ballad, and the title track is as epic as any song could possibly ever be.


2000 The ConstruKtion of Light
part 1
part 2


2002 Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With


1984 Three of a Perfect Pair

Fibonacci Lateralus

just watch this video. it explains the Fibonacci Sequence and how Tool employs it in their brilliant album Lateralus.



Lateralus is one of my top 5 albums of all time. A lot of people say that it sounds better when the songs are rearranged in the Fibonacci Sequence order, but I'm not sure if I do. People say it flows better. I just think it's flow is more consistent, but I am a Tool snob and i have come to appreciate the way Tool creates art. They make it on their own terms, without any regard for the consumer (listener) whatsoever. Tool makes you work for it. You have to contemplate their music to a certain degree before you can fully appreciate it. I've come to love and respect that, and I think Lateralus is perfect just the way it is.

That being said, I still very much enjoy listening to the rearrangement. It's like listening to a whole different album.

pack a bong and enjoy the beauty of math in motion:

Lateralus (Fibonacci Rearrangement)
part I
part II


Alex Grey did the artwork for this album. It's pretty sexy.

selling some t-shirts

i'm pretty broke and i'm trying to get some money together so i can hang out with Lucy and hit the bars on my 21st in a couple weeks.

so i decided to try and sell some of my t-shirt collection. i don't have enough dresser space left (6 of my 8 drawers are full of band shirts)anyway, so i thought i would get rid of some of the shirts that i feel i can actually part with.

all of these shirts have been worn, but are in good condition and will be washed before they're sent to you. i'm not really looking to make mad bank on this. i'm honestly just trying to get $5 + shipping per shirt, so shoot me an e-mail if you're interested in any of them.

fashionisadeathmachine@gmail.com


BLOGSPOT FUCKING CLIPS THE SIDES OF PICTURES, BUT JUST CLICK ON THEM AND YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE THING.



He Is Legend - Small





Poison the Well - You Come Before You - Medium
Brand New - Medium





Reel Big Fish - Small





Cursive - The Ugly Organ - Medium
Brain Failure - Medium





Whole Wheat Bread - Small






Thursday - Full Collapse - Medium






Leftover Crack - Against U.S. Terrorism (World Trade is a Death Machine) - Large




The Good Life - Small





Poison the Well - RARE You Come Before You promo shirt - Youth Large
Operation Ivy - Small





Into the Moat - (the swords look like they're in your belt. it's bamf) - Small




The Fall of Troy - (the logo is set to the right. 1/2 on front 1/2 on side) - Small





Leftover Crack - Kill Cops (i got this the last tour they had them) - Small


ALL 3 of these Threadless.com shirts are SIZE SMALL:




I have a really sweet small Streetlight Manifesto shirt but it has a black sharpie dot on the front (i was burning/writing on cds while i was drunk) that i'm gonna try and get off. If i do, I'll post it.

my top 5 SKA records

i know it's taken me almost two weeks to actually post this (i got too drunk to do it on saint patty's day, and i haven't been in a ska mood since), but here's my top 5 ska records.


1.) The Arrogant Sons of Bitches' Three Cheers for Disappointment




2.) Big D and the Kid's Table's The Gypsy Hill EP




3.) Catch 22's
Keasby Nights
part 1
part 2



4.) Big D and the Kid's Table's
Strictly Rude
part 1
part 2



5.) Streetlight Manifesto's
Everything Goes Numb

part 1
part 2

SKA!?

so, today, saint patrick's day, is the first day in around 2 years that i am listening to ska of my own free will. i'm not really sure if it's because i started off the morning with irish coffee, the tossers, and flogging molly, or if it's because i'm actually happy. we'll see what tomorrow brings...

but yeah, i'm gonna post my favorite ska albums because if i don't do it now, i might not ever bee in the mood to do it again.

i'm working on this post at work, and i'll upload/complete it when i get home and start pounding the guinness at 3.

also, get ready to have your mind blown by the Fibonacci sequence in Tool's Lateralus.

and if i'm not too drunk i'm gonna upload my favorite boris records.