There's no such thing as "only a name", "only entertainment", "only fun". Everything matters. Life is far too brief for this not to be true. The most seemingly innocent concept can push an individual into a new awakening, or into a pit of madness. The imaginative person has thrown the gates wide open, and words become symbols of power that morph ( Read more... )

It snowed all day yesterday and as usual some weird state of panic seemed to grip the city. This is very odd because we live in Ontario and we are supposed to be hardy, northern masters of the land, but no .. the first snowfall of the year (some are calling it a storm, but that's far too generous) brought hundreds of automotive collisions, terrible ( Read more... )

I'm seeing Rotting Christ on Monday. I'm both excited and apprehensive about this because their early material is some of the most beautiful and finely crafted metal around, but their new stuff is actually quite bad. It's funny: Every time a new Rotting Christ album materialises a legion of people start saying, "oh, it's evil again, and fast, and ( Read more... )

I guess I've gotten the reputation of being somewhat of an oldschool tyrant in my metal listening, but I still love a lot of the black metal stalwarts from the second wave and every so often I discover something new in this field that really takes my breath away. A few years ago I got an album from Angantyr, which was pretty good and rather ( Read more... )

Hearing Goblin's 80s soundtracks in the movies themselves rather than as tracks on an album really helps improve my appreciation of them. "Phenomena" has wicked music and I'd love to hear some epic metal band like Dark Quarterer cover the theme someday, and "Tenebrae" sounds like some fucked up prog disco ... allright, so it's not "Susperia" or " ( Read more... )

Muspelfire.com expired .. its' now muspelfire.net. It transpires that I have been feeling a little beligerent all week and most of tonights show will be quite heavy indeed. http://hellonearth.muspelfire.net, when bells strike nine in the eastern clime! I think I found my wind effect, ( Read more... )

The radio show's back, but we're making some changes. I've been able to record the show a few times and I note that the stream (or really, the booth's equipment) is still treating our harsh distorted music rather poorly. So, it's time to turn this into the "do whatever the hell we want on earth" show. Shorter sets, more 70s stuff, more prog, and ( Read more... )

I thought this morning, while car after car after car passed me by on the street without a bus to be found among the lot, that what we really need is an oil crisis, like what happened in the 1970s only with more far-reaching consequences (and it would be, since that crisis is what initially caused the US to start prospecting for oil in a serious ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the blighted iniquitous depths where the threads that tenuously bind us together across gulfs of space intertwine at their basest, most primally tangled and untraceable level, dust motes begin to stir and coalesce into a shambling mound of granulated stuff that lacks the consistency of flesh but slowly shapes and protrudes, exuding ( Read more... )

My new machine is ordered, but I"m hedging a bit on the soundcard and speakers because I want to get something I can do recording and MIDI synth stuff with and there's an incredible amount of audio hardware out there. Unfortunately budget is something I really have to consider, though my dad is probably covering most of this as a birthday gift of ( Read more... )