Tag Archives: Music

Yakuza Interview with Bruce Lamont: A Call to Observe Something Beyond Ourselves and a Call to Scare Yuppies | The Obelisk

Posted on July 24, 2010 by victhortheviking

Yakuza‘s new album is phenomenal!  A great blend of doom and avant garde.  Yakuza is slowly taking over the world.  The Obelisk blog recently did an interview with Bruce Lamont talking about their new album Of Seismic Consequence: When Yakuza … Continue reading →

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An Unknown Virtuoso ~ Mr. Frank Munoz

Posted on July 10, 2010 by victhortheviking

Frank Munoz is a classically trained pianist.  He has been playing since he was a young child.  His parents, who were full professor’s of music at the University of Texas at Austin, bought him a piano when he was a … Continue reading →

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Industrial music pioneer Chris Carter with gear, 1980 – Boing Boing

Posted on July 3, 2010 by victhortheviking

Man, music has come a long way in a relatively short period of time.  From analog synthes recorded to 10 inch tap to digital sound recorded your newest, latest, greatest home studio software.  Well here is a post at boingboing.net … Continue reading →

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How to play the banjo by the Ol’ Danny Barnes

Posted on June 7, 2010 by victhortheviking

Banjo virtuoso Danny Barnes has a new video series out on “How to play The banjo”.   I picked up a banjo and played for about a year but I never really got the hang of it, but now I think … Continue reading →

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Metal Video’s From SXSW 2010.

Posted on March 27, 2010 by victhortheviking

Here are few videos I shot at SXSW this year. A Mondo Drag is not exactly metal but they rule so I am including too, so piss off. I never listened to Landmine Marathon before I am not a big … Continue reading →

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Summer of Ritual’s.

Posted on February 21, 2010 by victhortheviking

I have been listening to side two of Jane’s Addition‘s Ritual de lo Habitual. It made me think of when what I was doing when this album first came out and the music I was listening to at the time. … Continue reading →

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The Current State of Black Metal, Trancendental Black Metal, Negura Bunget & an interview w/ Dordeduh’s Hupogrammos – BrooklynVegan

Posted on February 15, 2010 by victhortheviking

This is a great article on black metal from Brooklyn Vegan.  The article includes an interview with Hupogrammos from Dordeduh.  Hupogrammos and Sol Faur are both former members of Negura Bunget. Greetings and a happy new year! Looks like a … Continue reading →

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The Obelisk » Blog Archive » Positiva: Rock That’s Good for the Soul

Posted on February 14, 2010 by victhortheviking

Positiva is an incredible bad from Spain.  Their new album Prodigal Songs is an incredible musical masterpiece.  From start to finish it is nonstop rock ‘n’ roll.  Below is a excerpt of a review of the album at the Obelisk: … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Albums of the Decade – Honorable Mention

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Victhor The Viking

I could not close out the year without adding a few albums that are pretty damn good. Astra‘s debut album The Weirding is an incredible album.  Astra is a straight up progressive rock band from San Diego.  And when I … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Albums of the Decade – Diagonal S/T

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Victhor The Viking

There is prog and then there is prog. During the 80′s and 90′s prog kinda went on the wayside. There are bands out there that are called prog, but none of it really jumped out at me and said, “Wow … Continue reading →

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