Last week I listened to three bands that were really good. I finally got around to listening to the last batch of Terrorfest bands (even though I still haven’t come up with money for tickets yet) and really liked the ungoogleable Un. Bandcamp alerts served up the other two – Zuriaake and Wild Hunt.
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Music I Liked – Un, Zuriaake, Wild Hunt
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Omnivore’s Delight and Dilemma
In his inaugural blog post on Bandcamp, Andrew Dubber wrote about the trade-offs that come from being a musical omnivore. On the one hand, you can never listen to enough music to get the depth of knowledge in any one genre that say, a true metalhead may have of Finnish melodic death metal. On the other hand, you get a breadth of music that a specialist lacks. An omnivore can still listen to some Finnish melodeath, but won’t miss out on Sigur Ros. Another joy that comes from omnivory is that sometimes it allows you to see hidden threads in the zeitgeist. Read More