The Ascendant - The Spiritual Death EP

Today I got something nice in the mail:-)

This is the first release from the band The Ascendant. The 7" EP is called "The Spiritual Death EP" and contains two brilliant songs.

This new band consists of members from bands such as Excessum, Marduk and Ad Hominem. I remember hearing some of the first takes of the first song "The Becoming" back in 2007 or 2008 and it was a really interesting piece of music. For me it felt like a really fresh breathe of air in a tired black metal world. It still feels as fresh at the time of its release. Let's hope they can find the inspiration and time to record some more material!

You can hear the EP here on Spotify.

Sigur Ros - Ekki Mukk

Another release worth mentioning that I got on RSD is the 10" single "Ekki Mukk", by Sigur Ros.

The song is taken from the forthcoming album "Valtari", due to be released later this month. It sounds a lot like the "old" records and it's a really promising first single! Really looking forward to the record!

One funny thing about this single is that it plays from the inside out, that I haven't seen before...

Record Store Day releases.

As  I said in my previous post, I am gonna post about some of the releases I got for myself on RSD.

As mentioned there were a lot of records released for this day and the two biggest releases for me were these two:

These are two split singles by Mastodon. The pink one is with The Flaming Lips, where both bands perform their own versions of the same Flaming Lips song "A Spoonfull Weighs A Ton". The other one is a split with Feist. On this one Feist performs a Mastodon song in her own version and Mastodon performs one of hers. Since the style of music is so different between these two it's very fun and interesting to hear the different takes on these songs. Both songs taken from two of the best albums last year.