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1984 video

Ten years ago yesterday (Oct. 14), the Dillinger Escape Plan released their final studio album 'Dissociation'. The band has also been teasing that they've played their last shows since reforming with Dimitri Minakakis. I consider myself lucky that I've see DEP with Greg Puciato TWICE within the span of a year...

And thank goodness I did, because truth be told, younger me initially thought they were too weird and all over the place... but then I saw them live in April 2013 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn as part of a free Converse Rubber Tracks show and "clicked". Not only was I blown away by how their performance was filled with batshit intensity - the type of chaos that previously only seemed unimaginable to bring to life - but also because the music perfectly soundtracked the insanity. Almost a year to the date later, I saw DEP again at Webster Hall in NYC, and it was just a insanely brilliant... these performances not only made me completely understand why everybody loved DEP so passionately, but also made me fall head over heels in love with them too.

Share what band you had a similar experience with in the comments below. And stay tuned for more things to come from this space (including stories from concerts like these).

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EnForcer - 2015 - From Beyond - From Beyond

He is walking among us

A wanderer in time and darkness

Crossed oceans of hours

Sleep and death are sister and brother

From beyond

He is caught in a death dance

Maelstrom of millennia

A child of the night

What he touches withers and dies

15 years ago today (Oct. 14), I randomly got to meet Devin Townsend at the Rock and Shock Festival's convention floor at the DCU Center - moments before the Devin Townsend Project's set at the Palladium next door in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Head over to I Heard Bruce Might Show Up's Substack (link below) to find out how this happened:

https://iheardbrucemightshowup.substack.com/p/15-years-ago-i-met-devin-townsend

To me Cursum Perfocio is their best album since State of Euphoria. I really Persistence of Time but I would but this ahead of it. Not a bad song to be had here. There's mixed reports but if this is truly their last studio album then they're going out on top because this rips. My favorite songs close out side 'A' with It's For the Kids and Infectious. I love that lyric " Your thoughts and prayers mean nothing" and the riff for Infectious is well, Infectious. I'm big in to cover art and I absolutely love this one. It looks like something Hieronymus Bosch would paint.

I bought the album from Beezelbub Bezos so it has the pop-up in the fold out.

What are your thoughts about this album?

37th Anniversary

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1984

Todas as minhas músicas favoritas de cada banda que eu curto são umas mais lado B, e com a maioria é assim, mas será que existe alguma banda que a música mais famosa seja a melhor?

Sabaton - 2006 - Attero Dominatus - Angels Calling

*The descriptions fit more to the massacre battles of WW I, but it can be much more general.

The First World War, which kicked off on July 28, 1914, and ended on November 11, 1918, marked the beginning of trench warfare. Because of the weapons used to fight this bloody global conflict, soldiers on the Western Front were forced to dig trenches in order to protect themselves.

Sent to kill, to watch no man's land

Snipers are moving unseen

Fight for land, to lose it again

Shrapnel is filling the air

Hell on earth, the trenches mean death, better keep your head down low

Charge their lines, the ultimate test it's a synchronized sacrifice

Get the wounded after dark

Left alone in no man's land

Maddening chaos at the front

Dream of heaven

Angels are calling your name

Shells and guns, a rifle and scope

Bullets are wearing your name

Losing track of time and of space

Midnight at sanity's edge

Losing friends to artillery shells, at the break of dawn

Break their will, as yours has been broken, they're here alone, dream of home

Charge at dawn to gain a yard

Scout at night to guard their lines

Leave your life in fortunes hand

When the bullet hits it's mark

Know your time in hell has been served

You won't return to home