I don’t even remember what Poe‘s “Tune In” came up related to on YouTube, but screw it, the song was cool enough that I wanted to end the week with it. The track comes from their 1971 outing, Up Through the Spiral, and it’s got more than enough swing to get me hooked. I’ve been going through other tracks too and trying to find the album somewhere for sale, thus far with no success save for some LPs I don’t feel like shelling out for. I guess it’s a half-hearted search.

The Patient Mrs. is away for the night, and I kind of had this party-time scenario in mind for the evening, but really what the night involved was me picking up dinner after hitting Vintage Vinyl to pick up a few odds and ends, among them the last Blut Aus Nord — I’m not saying I’m going to make my way backwards through their whole catalog, but I’m not not saying it either — and Sonic Mass by Amebix, which I’ll be reviewing Monday or Tuesday. I felt strongly enough about the download I was given to write about (months ago; I really kind of slept on this one) that I wanted to own it in real life. Not to give away too much of the review, but that means I like it.

I also got Jethro Tull‘s Thick as a Brick for four bucks and an original issue of Novembers Doom‘s To Welcome the Fade for five. Can’t beat a bargain.

In addition to that long-overdue Amebix review, though, next week I’ll have writeups of Underdogs and Black Pyramid, and I’ll also be posting my Q&A with Mike Dean of C.O.C., and that’s definitely worth sticking around for. I’ve been granted permission to host the whole Zebulon Pike album, which has been out for a while but was not featured anywhere streaming that I know about, so that’ll be up Tuesday, and although I’ve been elected to take part in some bizarro home improvement thing tomorrow, pending my ability to get out on time, I’m planning on hitting up Backwoods Payback‘s matinee gig at ABC No Rio in NYC. If I wind up there, I’ll probably write on it, because that’s how I do. Graveyard‘s also playing in Manhattan this week at the Bowery Ballroom, and I’ll be damned if I’m missing that.

Ah hell, you know the drill. Hey, you like the new header tag? “Heavy on the heavy?” It was either that or “You keep the metal, we’ll keep the heavy,” but I decided in the end that was kind of prickish, since there’s some good metal out there. It’s just played slowly. By The Gates of Slumber. And Candlemass.

Anyway, hope you dig it, since it’ll probably be there for a while. I was thinking about putting out word to any graphics types to see if they wanted to draw a new Obelisk header, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Lot on the plate, if you know what I’m saying. And more to come.

Wherever you are, please have a fantastic and safe weekend. I and my obscure ’71-worship and my pretentious French post-black metal will be around, either on the forum or obsessively checking email, so feel free to drop in and say hi.

 

Tags: Poe, Texas

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