even official snow mobile roads are 99% safe, but we ride over all and be in ice its always at your own risk, and mid april is my border when I go on the ice
We have one ice road for cars, in Luleå you can drive car to small islands . To get to the town I need cross 6 lakes, by snow mobile and almost all roads cross some water way. I gass as crazy when I cross rivers or big big lakes
There's not much I can say about SubRosa that I haven't said before. They are undoubtedly the best at what they do in the female-membered doom circuit, and More Constant Than The Gods is the perfect follow up to their sophomore album. If you like moody, psychedelic sludge metal with eccentric female vocals and oddly dissonant violin then this is the album for you.
More of the same then I assume? I'm fine with that.
Pretty much, yeah. There are some new nuances and emphases, but nothing that stands out dramatically. The album opens with a surprisingly light passage and overall, I would say the vocals have improved. Or become more refined anyhow, whether one likes it or not.
I would say it's not quite as energetic as Mighty Ones. With fewer and longer songs, it also doesn't have quite as many powerful hooks. The production is thicker and heavier, and overall better, but it loses some in rugged and rough edge in the process. There are some more softer sections, and the transitions are executed smoothly - no more House Carpenter out of nowhere. All in all, it seems like a more balanced, polished and mature album. At this point, I can't help but feel it may be a bit less interesting, though. It's not outright boring, but certainly doesn't click as immediately and memorably as the predecessor did. Certainly not as many catchy choruses.
Needs more spins, but will probably earn 4/5. Outdoes the predecessor in many aspects, but memorable melodies isn't one of them and that (at least for now) puts it behind Mighty Ones, for me. If they'd cut some unnecessary length from a few songs and wrote one more with a killer chorus and violin riff, I would be extatic.
The second half of Ghosts of a Dead Empire is fucking brilliant. And yeah, that last song is way cooler than House Carpenter for a soft song (not that I didn't like that one, too). It's a little overlong, maybe, but works really well to introduce a new angle to the band before closing the album. I didn't get any far eastern vibes first, but you're right that the violin and that plucked instrument (zither?) does bring to mind a Zhang Yimou flick.
I never heard of Subrosa before seeing this on the front page but I have to say, this is some really cool stuff. I don't know if I'd call it sludge but awesome nonetheless.
Was reported leaked on the 13th September. Not rocket science googling the blogosphere for Mediafire etc. links. Definitely gonna pick this up at the local record store next time I go around, though. Growing with every listen.
Is it Vernon or Pendleton singing lead on No Safe Harbor? The voice sounds somewhere between the two.
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"Another day, another Doug."
"I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples."
" 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"