Good show. I had fun, anyway. I cut the voice breaks for this one while The Patient Mrs. and her mom took The Pecan out to the grocery store, but the breaks nonetheless worked out to be maybe a minute longer than usual and that gave me a little rant time. Right before I played Goatsnake, which was the “new classic” choice cut for this episode, I went off about doing my dishes as rock and roll. As usual with words coming out of my mouth, the idea was kind of half-represented, but what I was talking about was the notion that your love of music should be a part of your life, not something separate from the rest of it. If you love music, it shouldn’t be something you segregate from the rest of who you are — something you sneak off to a dive bar to partake of — it should be a part of your everyday. I cut radio voice breaks while running the dishwasher. It’s a part of who I am.

How fortunate I have this post to explain the half-formed notions I don’t have the wherewithal to properly express vocally. Huzzah.

Anyway, if you got to listen, I tried to set this one up with a good flow from front to back plus a couple stark contrasts in the second hour. The break is between Graven and SubRosa, contrary to what the playlist says, but I liked that transition anyhow, and I think you can see early on that the focus is on some boogie with a sense of atmosphere. I talk up the Green Lung record again, because, well, it’s worth talking up, and dig into a few other things that I think are killer, including that Mount Saturn EP, which is likewise right on. And then I dip back from new music to play SubRosa’s “The Mirror” from their SubDued: Live at Roadburn 2017 release, because it’s a song I sing to The Pecan when I put him down for naps and have just about every day since he was born some 15 months ago. Fun stuff.

If you missed the show, it airs again tomorrow at 9AM Eastern at http://gimmeradio.com

And if you dig this and want to hear more of The Obelisk Show, Gimme of course has their archive set up that you can sign on for at a reasonable price and dig into a bunch of various kinds of metallurgy.

Okay, here’s the playlist. Thanks to reading and/or listening:

The Obelisk Show Ep. 09 – 02.03.19

Straytones	Dark Lord	Beware, Dark Lord! Here Comes Bell-Man*	0:04:07
Green Lung	Let the Devil In	Woodland Rites*	0:05:02
BREAK
Geezer	Spiral Fires Pt. 1	Spiral Fires*	0:05:50
Seedium	Mist Haulers	Seedium*	0:09:15
Crypt Trip	Wordshot	Haze County*	0:04:22
Cloud Catcher	Beneath the Steel	The Whip EP*	0:04:45
Heavy Feather	Waited All My Life	Debris & Rubble*	0:03:10
Mount Saturn	Dwell	Kiss the Ring*	0:07:08
BREAK
Goatsnake	Mower	I + Dog Days	0:06:05
The Black Heart Death Cult	Davidian Beam Dream	The Black Heart Death Cult	0:05:50
Crystal Spiders	Tigerlily	Demo*	0:05:37
Swallow the Sun	When a Shadow is Forced into the Light	When a Shadow is Forced into the Light*	0:07:26
Graven	Backwards to Oblivion	Heirs of Discord*	0:06:15
SubRosa	The Mirror	SubDued: Live at Roadburn	0:04:43
BREAK
Electric Octopus	Mouseangelo	Smile*	0:12:58
Tia Carrera	Early Purple	Visitors/Early Purple*	0:16:28

The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio airs every other Sunday night at 7PM Eastern, with replays the following Tuesday at 9AM. Next show is Feb. 17. Thanks for listening if you do.

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