Weapons Fly

.3 icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 08 from the In Absentia LP by Porcupine Tree icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Black the sky
Weapons fly
Lay them waste for your race

Poison for a Fairy

Veneno Para las Hadas icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 04 from the Insurgentes LP by Steven Wilson icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Steven Wilson's "Insurgentes" album cover. [Formatted]

When you’re young you’re sleeping with the love you’re feeling
Waking up to evening: to the pulse and breathing
Nothing left—just ember—only we remember
A bottle not for sharing: poison for a fairy

Album Haul, November 2018 Edition

A smörgåsbord of bands and artists this time around.

Finally picked up a Butthole Surfers icon-external-link-12x12 album—I’ve been meaning to do that since I saw them on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head icon-external-link-12x12 some time back.

Protest the Hero icon-external-link-12x12 seems to be a pretty solid heavy metal band. On first listen, I was actually reminded of the sonic characteristics of Avenged Sevenfold icon-external-link-12x12, with the major difference being that the music is actually enjoyable to listen to. Too bad the Hot Topic icon-external-link-12x12 era of heavy metal doesn’t have clue what constitutes quality music—just give them lots of skull-imagery, and songs with contrived Halloween-style lyrics and redundant chugging guitar riffs.

Also, major props to Haken icon-external-link-12x12 for working plenty of Gentle Giant icon-external-link-12x12 worship into their songs. The latter is such a criminally overlooked and underappreciated band; the former probably is too.


Haken
→ Restoration
→ The Mountain

Haken's "The Mountain" album art. [Formatted]

Animals as Leaders
→ The Joy of Motion

Animals as Leaders' "The Joy of Motion" album art. [Formatted]

Butthole Surfers
→ Independent Worm Saloon

Constantines
→ Kensington Heights

Protest the Hero
→ Fortress

Protest the Hero's "Fortress" album art. [Formatted]

Melvins
→ Bullhead

Skinny Puppy
→ VIVIsectIV

Skinny Puppy's "VIVIsectVI" album art. [Formatted]

Michael Manring
→ Thonk

Angel Witch
→ Angel Witch

Steven Wilson
→ To the Bone

Steven Wilson's "To the Bone" album art. [Formatted]

Wish Away Each Day

Sentimental icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 04 from the Fear of a Blank Planet LP by Porcupine Tree icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Porcupine Tree's "Fear of a Blank Planet" album cover. [Formatted]

I never want to be old and I don’t want dependence
It’s no fun to be told that you can’t blame your parents anymore

I’m finding it hard to hang from a star
I don’t want to be—I never want to be old

Sullen and bored the kids stay and in this way wish away each day
Stoned in the mall the kids play and in this way wish away each day

I don’t really know if I care what is normal
I’m not really sure if the pills I’ve been taking are helping

The waste in my life—
I’m hurting inside—
I don’t really know, and I’m not really sure

Sullen and bored the kids stay and in this way wish away each day
Stoned in the mall the kids play and in this way wish away each day