No Getting Away
Back to work after a long weekend. The powers-that-be at my company had been generous enough to give us Monday off, in keeping with their Amreekan philosophy of trying to choose strategic enough dates in the year as holidays so that we get 3 day weekends. I love these Amreekan philosophies i tell you, they are a smart bunch of people.And what did i do during these 3 days, you ask...well nothing much really, stayed at home for a long weekend after ages i think. No vacations to sunny, beachy places or green,enchanting forests, just lazing at home, sleeping my ass off on most days and splurging on things that i had been wanting for a long time. Paid a visit to the "music" stores in the city and managed to get a decent haul. Picked up 2 Drowning Pools albums namely " Desensitized" and "Sinner" both of which turned out to be surprisingly decent albums. The vocals on both their albums are really good, considering that this band at one point of time had lost its vocalist in some accident during Ozzfest.
I also picked up Machine Head's latest album "Through the Ashes of Empires" which has a bunch of blistering tracks on it like "Imperium" and "Bite the Bullet". Machine Head is a band that I have liked for a long long time primarily cuz of their unique industrial edged sound. This band, along with Fear Factory and Coal Chamber to an extent, have pioneered this sound/genre . While Coal Chamber has now disintegrated and Fear Factory are getting back up on their feet after a few disappointing albums, Machine Head has stayed true to its sound and has been forging industrial beauties, one after the other. I am hoping that this album can match the heights of "The Burning Red" ....high expectations i know but lets hope.
Sometime back i had also purchased this album titled "The Best of Mercyful Fate". It was my last ditch attempt at trying to appreciate Mercyful Fate and King Diamond. Many consider this guy, King Diamond, to be a god among vocalists, but frankly i have never liked him too much. He has a great vocal range, i agree, i mean he can really squeal like a banshee in heat, but that itself is not enough to make a great band. I have found their songs to be quite average on the whole and King Diamond's vocals to be very very repetetive. And this album has re-iterated this fact. No more experiments with Mercyful Fate. James Hetfield can go and preach about them to the world, but they arent for me.
More about my other weekend acquisitions in due course of time.
Current Music: Pantera - Strength Beyond Strength
posted by Nitish @ 2:55 AM
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