Sorry, but there’s a blizzard on, and nothing says winter to me like Anathema‘s A Natural Disaster. I know anything to do with the long-running British genre-shirkers is an invite for contrasting opinions — this or that album is better, this or that era — and I don’t know if I’d say A Natural Disaster is my favorite of their records, but it’s certainly up there and it was the capping statement on their era of bleak atmospheric rock. By the time they got around to Hindsight in 2008, they were a different band entirely.

So for what it is, I dig it, and if you don’t, I hope you’ll indulge me anyway on account of the weather, which I’m told is quite severe. It’s dark here — darker than I expected from the awesomeness of hue that was twilight this evening — so I can’t see it, but I hear the heavier snowfall is still to come and that areas north of me, Connecticut, Massachusetts, are going to get even harder. I don’t envy anyone two feet of snow. I said it earlier on Thee Facebooks and it’s worth repeating: Please be safe. You guys in the south too. I hear there’s more than a bit of rain headed your way.

Speaking of south, if not of the South, my plan is still to point the car in that direction tomorrow morning and get down to New Castle, Delaware, in time for the start of The Eye of the Stoned Goat 2, which features Pale Divine, Iron Man, Beelzefuzz, Clamfight and others. I’d list them all, but what the hell, here’s the flyer:

A good bill is a good bill, so weather be damned. If I can get out of the valley tomorrow — for Sandy that big snowstorm in 2010, we had trees down, but I don’t think this is supposed to be that bad — I’ll be there. If not, well, there’s always YOB on Sunday in Brooklyn for a doomly fix. Actually, I’ll be at that gig one way or another, but wherever I end up, I’ll have reviews accordingly. Also look for an Archon disc review and maybe the new The Kings of Frog Island as well, and an interview with the dudes in Traveling Circle, and a special reveal from Blaak Heat Shujaa and much more.

For now though, I’m pretty much just waiting for the power to go out. Last I saw, the branches were hanging heavy on the wires, so if it’s to be sleeping around a bonfire in the living room this evening and eating everything out of the fridge before it goes bad, well, I think I can handle it. Again, if you’re in this area, I hope you’re safe and warm and that your lights stay on, and wherever you might be, I hope you have a great and safe weekend. See you on the forum and back here Monday.

Tags: A Natural Disaster, Anathema, Anathema A Natural Disaster, Music for Nations

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