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I almost forgot: I'm in love!

Black Mountain "Tyrants"

Today's contribution to the RIFF comes from Canada's Black Mountain. 4:38 is what I am talking about. Needles to say that the whole song rules. To be a little more precise, the complete new album slays. I still can't get really into their older stuff, so this is a nice surprise to me.

6.6. International Day of Slayer

Hi World, what up? At least in my own case: Not very much. I'm done with school and I hope I will never ever have to study french words nor algebra formulas again. Well, you can't be sure on that. However, life's good. Not supergood, but you know, okay. As for this blog, I'm currently working on several interviews, all of them with guitarplayers of hardcore bands. Expect a major update in the next few weeks. We'll see.

The new CULT OF LUNA record ETERNAL KINGDOM will see the light of day in less then two weeks. I got the promo Cd-R and since I first listened to it, it hardly ever leaves my cd player. In my opinion, the band made a huge step forward from the last SOMEWHERE ALONG THE HIGHWAY record. The record, which according to the band is a concept album based on a true story of a psychopath who killed his wife, contains 11 tracks full of raging, diverse and heavy-as-shit post rock / hardcore. While SOMEWHERE ALONG THE HIGHWAY was more classic sludge stuff, the new record varies in tempo, rhythm and soundscape from song to song. All without drifting too far from their roots. It's still hard and dark and especially the vocals sound more"hardcorish" than on the previous records, but all in all this is somehow outstanding compared to other bands from this genre. I really dig it and I'm exited to get hold of an actual vinyl copy of this record.

Next topic: I had nothing to do, so I made a muxtape. You don't know what the point of this is? Me neither, to be honest. But you can listen to 11 songs from my current heavy rotation playlist here: http://www.liquidswords.muxtape.com/. Too bad, it's limited to 10mb per song, so I had to chose the short ones.

Neurosis are on the muxtape as well, and speaking of Neurosis, they will come to Switzerland together with Entombed, The Ocean and a couple of others. How cool is that?

Let's finish this blog entry with a last thought on the newest Bitter End song "Purgatory". This is the best Trash/NYHC Crossover track since the demise of True Blue. I mean it. Thank you and good night.