Surprise! Music Monday is coming a day early this time. I’ve been way into this band lately. They remind me of A Perfect Circle, but with a Nordic Doom Metal twist. I highly recommend you check them out. They’re coming to Philly in September and I’m seriously considering a trip to see them. Great band!
If you tuned in for the pre-show during this month’s Shamoozal Radio Podcast you were treated to some of this. Eminence Symphony Orchestra is well known for their renditions of music from games, anime and other soundtracks. I own their 2 disc “Echoes of War” album which features tracks from Blizzard Entertainment games. This track is from the original Starcraft’s Terran campaign and is full of win. Please enjoy.
Sorry for missing the past couple weeks, been busy.
I splurged on some Nordic metal this weekend, one of the bands I picked up was Scar Symmetry. Check this tune out it’s pretty awesome. I apologize in advance for the advertisement youtube slapped in the beginning, it sucks.
Since I was called out on not doing these anymore on the latest episode of Shamoozal Radio Podcast, I’m going to try and get back to posting these again. Don’t feel obligated to reply… but a “Hey that song was neat” or even a “meh” is nice.
Don’t have time for a big write-up, but here’s a great tune from The Appleseed Cast.
All the best metal comes from the lands of vikings, I’ll stand by that statement til the day I die. Ensiferum represents some of the best of the best. This track really shows off their range as it breaks down into a ‘Spaghetti Western’ style around the 3:10 mark and then launches into a blazing banjo solo at 6:05. You can find more info about Ensiferum here. I celebrate their entire catalog.
This week I present “Used for Glue” by the band Rival Schools from their 2001 album ‘United by Fate’. If that name sounds familiar it might be because of the 1998 Capcom fighter “Rival Schools: United by Fate” for the Playstation. Rival Schools was founded by NYC hardcore legend Walter Schreifels (Gorilla Biscuits, CIV, Quicksand) as a departure into more of an alterna-rock style. This song takes me way way back and makes me want to break out some JNCO’s.
Narrowing this down to one song a week is proving to be more difficult than I thought. I’ve been bouncing between 3 different songs since last week, trying to decide on the one to post. Ultimately I chose “Arrive” by Horse the Band. These guys have been making some amazing chip-tune flavored post-hardcore for the past decade. Many of their song titles and lyrics have had a Nintendo Theme (Pol’s Voice, Cut Man, Birdo). Their most recent album “Desperate Living” has a more refined sound than their previous releases, making it somewhat more accessible. I say ‘accessible’ but don’t misunderstand me… Horse the Band still have all the ingredients that make them so awesome. It took me a while to pick a song on this album because, to be honest, I love every song on there. If you like this track I highly recommend you check out the rest of the album and their other releases as well. Enjoy!
Sunny Day Real Estate is and always will be one of my favorite bands. This song is off of their final studio album “The Rising Tide” and really shows how their style evolved. SDRE came onto the scene in the early-mid 90’s when most of the Hardcore/Punk scene was dominated by the Revelation Records and Victory Records style. Somehow this band struck a chord with that audience and became the blue-print for many ‘emo’ bands that followed them. Emo has a nasty stigma attached to it these days, but back in 1994 it just meant “Hardcore music with melodic vocals”. Anyway, hope you enjoy this one and if you’re interested in more SDRE go check them out.
This week on NMM we have “M4, Pt. II” by the band Faunts. Anyone who has had the pleasure of completing Mass Effect will recognize this song as the music that plays over the end credits. The song works perfectly for Mass Effect. The whole game has an 80’s sci-fi movie feel to it and this song does the synth-space rock thing pretty well. I was immediately hooked on this band and decided to go check out their other releases. I was sad to see that there is no Faunts on the OST for Mass Effect 2, or any other rock music for that matter. This is the shorter music video version of the song, the actual track is twice as long with some pretty cool instrumental interludes. Anyway, if you like this track you should definitely check them out.
