Well, this is a bit sad. Whither Metal Monday? Is it to fade from our collective enthusiasm unremarked? Is Monday too simply too early in the week to be truly Metal enough for popular celebration?
I think any day is good for Metal.
So for one last crack of the whip (assuming everyone else is bored with either Metal or Monday), I’m posting this. It’s *technically* one song (albeit an hour long song). And it’ll be a grand epitaph for the thread if it comes to that.
But I’m mostly posting it because I spent Friday alternating between listening to the band-sanctified edit/mix, and the version put out under duress by the record company who had frankly no idea what to do with it otherwise. Or to put it another way, this week I ‘ave been mildly obsessed with this record.
Despite owning both Dopesmoker & Jerusalem, I’ve never made it all the way through in one sitting and actually think both are a bit too long.
To each their own I guess 🙂
I do find it quite immersive for work purposes. Put Dopesmoker on; zone out for an hour or so; resurface having completed a bunch of stuff*; realise an hour has passed; rinse; repeat.
* sometimes find I’ve just typed DDDEEEYYYRRROOOOP!!!! OUT! OF! LIFE! WITH BONG! IN! HAAAAAAAANDDDD!!! a few thousand times into a new text file, depends.
I was tempted to put the video I shot at Pixies Monday night gig at The Roundhouse, they played ‘Monkey Gone To Heaven’ and sequed into ‘Human Crime’, and most of the centre of the audience turned into a giant mosh pit – I was crushed against the barrier, and I’m surprised I didn’t get cracked ribs!
Still, they’re not really a metal band, so I’ll find something else.
I was tempted to put the video I shot at Pixies Monday night gig at The Roundhouse, they played ‘Monkey Gone To Heaven’ and sequed into ‘Human Crime’, and most of the centre of the audience turned into a giant mosh pit – I was crushed against the barrier, and I’m surprised I didn’t get cracked ribs!
CZ, you tease 😀
I shall be requiring you to post this next week, please and thankyou.
I shall be requiring you to post this next week, please and thankyou.
I don’t have a YouTube account, and I’m not sure if I really want one, tbh. I rarely shoot videos, it’s too intrusive for other people, unless I’m sat down or able to hold my phone against a crowd barrier. I have thought about doing it for years, but I can’t make up my mind.
Oh well, a day late, what’s a day between friends:
