My Music Path

Artwork: Kuba Sokolski The prog-sludge band Scientist from Chicago released 'Barbelith' an album that every metal lover should hear. It has all the ingredients you need: heavy riffing, freaky solos, grungy vocals, a great variety of screams and a drummer with a fetish for drum fills. Tracklist: 1. Chokhmah Binah 2. Magic Mirror 3. Barbelith 4. Fiction Suit 5. Retrogade 6. Shed This Meat 7. (Home) at Last Scientist is, despite being a tearjerkingoff song from an unspecified English band, also a metal band and 'Barbelith' (named after the satellite with a consciousness from the comic The Invisibles) is their third album and it is simply genius. Their sludge metal sounds progressive, cinematic and I cannot understand why this band is not more popular among metal fans. The music is a combination of old Mastodon, with vocals that sound like Maynard from Tool and Layne and Jerry from Alice In Chains are having a gettogether: in the title track, ...

Artwork: Mitchell Gillies Sectioned is a five-piece band from Edinburgh, Scotland and their debut album 'Annihilated' was Bandcamp's number 3 best seller in the metal genre. A big compliment that triggered my curiosity. The album could be downloaded for free and with a little feeling of guilt I did. But after the wind and piano announced the end of the album I knew: I MUST have this on CD/vinyl.   Tracklist 1. Annihilated 2. Beautiful Struggle 3. Starved Lives 4. Synchronicity 5. Betrayer 6. Toothgrinder 7. Eigengrau 8. Bête Noire 9. Victorious, Neverending 10. Release 11. Portrait 12. Life's True Beauty 13. Through The Trees 'That is not music' is a term that I often hear and that I always counter with the argument that everything you hear is music. The birds, the wind, a fart, as long as it touches you because then something changes. Guess what? Something changed when 'Annihilated' from Sectioned crossed my pa...