Driving around midnight and still hours away from your destination:

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A kindred spirit! In that case, go pick up "Conference of the Birds", then "Pilgrimage." It's not drone, per se, as it has identifiable melodies. It has kind of a mantric feel to it, where you hear the same thing over and over again until subtle differences start to pop up (a changed note here, a slight variation…

Wata of Boris is another shining example of womanly awesomeness in metal. What a fantastic guitar player she is.

You've heard Baroness? Out with it, asshole: where did you get it?

Oh, it is awesome. I won't even say anything about it except that if you listen to it, you will possibly hate it because "it all sounds the same" (easily the most common complaint leveled against Om) or for some other reason, or it will blow your mind. For me, Om's music is a delightful musical narcotic, right down…

I think we missed a connection here, Your Highness. Om is a band featuring the above mentioned Al Cisneros of Shrinebuilder, formerly of Sleep, on bass and Emil Amos of Grails on drums. They have a new one out in a couple of weeks on Drag City. I hear good things, and I would be interest in what our Mr. Pierce…

I dunno. You could look and see, I guess.

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Review Om, but like, for real.

It should be clarified that it was a first date and I had no idea she had epilepsy (not that that excuses me for anything). I apologized profusely and still feel a little bad seven years later.

Tangentially related: I made a joke about epilepsy on a date with a girl who was an epileptic. That kind of put the chill on things. It was a stupid move on my part, and a lesson hard learned, but she could have been a lot cooler about it.

Attn: Leonard Pierce
For September, consider checking out "The Unkindness of Crows", Eagle Twin's first full-length. (If you got a promo copy that is; no one really expects you to buy stuff because we said so.) It's on Southern Lord and they do the two man doom/sludge thing really well. The songs have structures…

Points are not redeemable anywhere. At all. They serve no purpose and have no cash value. Sorry for the disappointment.

The new one is great, but it's no "The Unreal Never Lived". And even though it's ridiculously good, neither is "Catharsis." But YOB rules, and anyone who is into them gets points.

Also, I love my SG. It's a 2004 worn brown Special that I got secondhand for $400. After getting it set up, my only complaint is that the plastic nut is a goddamned embarassment. Replace it with a bone nut or some kind of bone-like synthetic nut on there and I would be glad to put that guitar toe to toe with the…

Pedal Reviewer: I did indeed miss that part of the discussion and I appreciate your bringing me up to speed. I completely agree with that assessment. Have you had a chance to try out their new(er) Vintage Modern line? The KT66 tubes intrigue me, and they don't seem to be as shrill as the 900's.

Forgive the butchery of accepted grammar above; it can be attributed to an editing error which I am far too lazy to correct.

Fuck all that noise. Orange Amplification, all the way. The real shit. EL34's, loads of dense, textured preamp gain, poweramp breakup that sounds just rolls out like a flood in slow motion, sustain for days, abundant low end that's just loose enough (for my purposes I dislike the belt sander on sheet metal guitar…

I think what Bernie says is probably on the right track. My more cynical take: participants don't want to look dumb by defying the audience's expectations of how a "hypnotized person" should act, so they do what the hypnotist tells them. Once they are "released" from the "state of hypnosis", they pretend that they…

Repo Man, I am absolutely goddamned serious when I say that if that were to be the big twist there is nothing that would stop me from watching.