Caught In The Whirlwind
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QotD: In Heavy Rotation
0What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?
First up, we have Frost* – Milliontown. I got turned onto this particular group through the Mike Portnoy Forums when somebody posted over there that people should check them out. It’s made up of a bunch of people from other bands, like Jon Jowitt and Andy Edwards from IQ.
The main creative force behind it is Jem Godfrey, who is primarily a pop songwriter who secretly has a love for Progressive music. Frost* is his take on what progressive rock/metal should be. I’m always horrible at explaining how music sounds, so it might be easier for you to go check it out and listen to some of the samples 
It’s a very well produced album, and probably my favorite release of the year so far.
Another CD that’s been played a lot recently is from Spock’s Beard. Their second release after the departure of Neal Morse, Octane, really shows their growth as a band. I think they’ve finally found their sound, which is a cross between Prog and more popish songs. They’re really not that great at making long epic songs anymore, but the individual parts of A Flash Before My Eyes can stand on their own. What they excel at are tracks like There Was A Time and As Long as we Ride which are shorter songs with great hooks and wonderful production and playing. I can safely say I enjoy both the Neal Morse era Beard and the new Post-Neal era stuff.
Oh, and ONE WEEK until Dream Theater – Score is released! This is a live DVD and audio CD release from one of the best shows of Dream Theater’s carreer at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The best part is they got a full orchestra to play along with them in the second set and encore. I’ve heard samples of Metropolis Pt. 1 played along with the orchestra and I can’t wait to get the full audio quality of this one. There’s going to be a teaser preview happening this weekend on VH1 Classic if you get that channel. About an hour of the concert is going to be shown, and each showing is preceded by an episode of Metal Mania hosted by Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci
About The Name
02106 days
by Jason
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I finally think I settled on a name for my little slice of vox here. I’m really bad at naming things, as people who know what my characters are called in City of Heroes can tell you. So I spent some time thinking of it and came up with “Cultivated Nonsense”. I might still change it (I’m weird like that), but I think it’ll stay like this for a while.
Falling Into Infinity
It comes from a Dream Theater song (my favorite band, of course) called Trial of Tears from their album Falling Into Infinity (Linked off to the right there).
Still awake
I continue to move along
Cultivating my own nonsense
Welcome to the wasteland
Where you’ll find ashes, nothing but ashes
Ok, so it’s not the most cheerful lyric in the universe, but I feel it kinda fits what I’m doing here…just throwing random stuff out, whatever happens to interest me at the time.
The RIAA’s at it again!
02109 days
by Jason
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From the Recording Industry vs. The People webblog centering around the actions of the RIAA comes a story which is just…bizzare.
In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to “grieve”, after which time they want to start taking depositions of the late Mr. Scantlebury’s children
Now, I’m not sure how anyone else feels about this stuff…but…that’s just stupid. I’m not entirely sure the people over there are thinking about PR at all when they’re doing this sort of stuff. 60 days of grieving time before we continue to sue the pants off of you. Real nice gesture guys…
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