More Reviews! TSTAT is getting so MAJOR!

THAT'S HOW KIDS DIE - I really love this blog in particular. From the perspective of one man (Josh), there are many great insights into the current state of metal to be found within. Plus, he can be really mean and sarcastic which is always awesome (if you're funny, which he also is). This particular article outlines the steam-roller effect a website as awesome as Bandcamp can have over the laughably mismanaged sitting duck that is Myspace. He was nice enough to include a link to my bandcamp page in said article (along with several other bands worth checking out). Thanks Josh! CLICK HERE!

HEAVY PLANET - I'm pretty sure this blog is somehow affiliated with THE SODA SHOP which is a pretty major stoner/doom blog. In a regular feature titled "New Band to Burn One To" (sure), this writer asks the question "Is this new-age music for metalheads?". Could be, could be. CLICK HERE!

RESONANCITY - A Toronto-based music blog. I love the comparisons to the frostbitten Norwegian musical climate (though, for the record, my shit is more of an "autumn" vibe). This is also probably the one and only time you'll ever see the word "political" in connection to any music I'm responsible for. Or maybe not! It's out of my hands now. CLICK HERE!

Another batch of reviews/write-ups from the Heavy Metal Bloggers out there

HEAVY BOOTS MUSIC - Nice lil writeup. They recently relocated to Tumblr. CLICK!

GOOD MORNING METAL - I like metal in the morning too. Slayer, mostly. CLICK!

DOOMMANTIA - REALLY in-depth review! This writer pointed things out that even I had not noticed before. Very cool. CLICK!

THE HEAVIEST MATTER OF THE UNIVERSE - Named after a song by Gojira (who I kind of like, sort of sometimes...) CLICK!

It's really cool and weird to read what complete strangers think of this stuff. I'm so used to virtually every note of music I come up with staying mainly within the vicinity of my own personal headspace. It's been literally 20 years that I've been playing music and it's just as weird now as it would have been the day I first picked up a pair of drumsticks: someone other than myself having an actual opinion of something I came up with.

NERD

2 more reviews of ORANGE & GREEN/BLACK

Blog power is rearing its noble head once again. And with it, brings.....reviews! Of my stuff. Reviews.....FAVOURABLE! Fantastic. Can't thank these guys enough for helping to spread the word on my own personal Drone/Doom schizophrenia. I can literally see the results of it on Bandcamp, LastFM....anyways. The reviews!

DISORDERLY CONDUCT (a metal blog based in Norway - home of Black Metal and burning churches) CLICK! (scroll down the page about a quarter of the way for the review)

NOIZINE (a metal/hardcore/experimental blog from Greece - home of food that I fucking love to eat)
CLICK!

2 new reviews of ORANGE & GREEN/BLACK

It's funny. Around Christmas time, I sent out about 30 odd requests for reviews to different music blogs in hopes that maybe a couple of them would throw Street Meat (another one of my bands) a bone. Not surprisingly, the indifference was overwhelming. Not one response, not even a polite "fuck off". Makes sense to me. I probably wouldn't bother either. But then I don't purport to give the impression that I'm in the habit of giving a shit about other people and their various endeavors.

Last night, I sent about 13 similar requests to various metal blogs begging for the same sort of exposure for The Sun Through a Telescope. Not 12 hours later, 5 responses received and 2 REVIEWS already posted!!!! Incredible. Just goes to show that metal dudes are infinitely cooler than pretentious indie-rock dorks. That's completely fair, right? Anyways, check out these reviews. They are fantastic and totally appreciated.

This is Book's Music: CLICK HERE!


American Aftermath: CLICK HERE!

Orange and Green/Black double cassette - Now available from Dwyer Records

The good people of Ottawa's own Dwyer Records (who also just so happen to be the good people of Ottawa's own awesome doom/sludge band Alaskan) have done me a kindness. They released the Orange|Green/Black double-cassette, double-EP extra-special limited to 50 copies only package. Incredible. Can't thank those guys enough.


Available right now at their webstore: CLICK HERE.

Visit the store, visit the site. Do some listening.

Also available as a digital download at the gamechanger of a bandsite, Bandcamp: CLICK HERE.

Buy the mp3s or simply stream them for free.

Orange & Green/Black - FINISHED!

The majorest of props to my cousin/graphic design slave Elena. She made these things look amazing. Check it out.

Available soon, REAL soon from Dwyer Records. I'll keep you posted.

Orange and Green/Black to be released by Dwyer Records

Big news for me. Looks like Dwyer Records will be helping me put out my double-cassette release. Dwyer Records is a local (to Ottawa) label run by the men of Alaskan. They specialize in cassette releases. This is gonna be very cool. Check out their webstore, check out Alaskan and read their version of tStaT right here:

http://www.dwyerrecords.com/2010/11/new-release.html

In the meantime, I am currently in tape-dubbing hell. Slow work. Boring too. I'm really not one to complain.