08.21
Yarr! Hell week continues at work! Systems crashing, re-images failing, upgrades not working! Yarr! Ever feel like you’re on a sinking ship and you realize it when the water is already three feet above your head?
Anyway! Aside from Hell Week at work (which continues its relentless assault since Monday) – some cool things.
I got the new CircleIICircle CD, Delusions of Granduer…
Both Middle of Nowhere and Burden of Truth seemed to be lacking something.
I am not sure what it was – because Zak’s vocals always seem to rock – but on these two CDs… the emotion wasn’t there.
Well, he found the emotion and the band found their sound with their latest album. This album is definitely an amazing piece if you’re a fan of metal (and especially if you enjoyed Savatage). It’s got a Savatage sound on a lot of the songs, but the majority of them are definitely a unique sound to CircleIICircle that is really, at long last, a great set through and through. There’s no “Skip” for me on this CD. Every song I look forward to hearing.
You can download it on iTunes, or get it off Amazon (especially if you do the MP3 downloads, which is what I linked) – it’s cheaper than iTunes! Less than 9 bucks!
I also picked up Warrel Dane’s solo CD entitled Praises to the War Machine. If you’re not familiar with Warrel Dane’s vocals, he does the powerful vocals for Nevermore (which to many is an acquired taste). Warrel’s solo CD definitely has a flavor of Nevermore – but this CD is a lot more… personal. Far more passionate. You can tell there’s a lot here that Warrel’s dumped into the lyrics from his own personal life.
Now these guys always seemed to be into LSD (they make enough references in their older stuff that you couldn’t help but notice – with songs like Long Since Dark, Timothy Leary, among others…
But apparently Nevermore “cleaned up” (note: didn’t come clean, simply cleaned up) – and Warrel Dane did an interview while discussing his new CD, and he mentions that people destroyed by drugs are a waste and shame (or something to that degree)…
He’s scarey looking, yes – but check these out -
WARREL DANE INTERVIEW #1:
WARREL DANE INTERVIEW #2:
So when I finally left today – traffic on the freeway was horrible and I figured it was an accident. And it turned out to be something far more interesting.
What’s that I see in the distance?
Is that… water?
Seriously… that looks like water?
Um, those most definitely water…
Yes… Yes it is.
So yeah that was at least interesting. No one appeared to be hurt (could see the cops on the otherside), which is nice (since an accident, someone’s usually hurt). I am guessing someone hit a fire thingie. (Yes, that’s the technical term in case you didn’t know).
So anyway – that wraps it up. Check out CircleIICircle and Warrel Dane! 
