Axehandle, etc.

- The February special at Kuma's was fucking great! It is like the Slayer's Southern breakfast cousin, sort of. We had a nice Midwest BLOODYMINDED meet up, last night, with added Milwaukee crew

- I got a copy of the new Locrian "Drenched Lands" CD (on At War with False Noise/Small Doses) yesterday, and it looks and sounds excellent. I like being able to hear the re-mastered version of their song, "Greyfield Shrines," all in one go, too. Really cool packaging and design, with more of Kelly Rix' cold and dark photography. I am looking forward to getting down to work on the LP version, soon...





- It looks like the pressing plant with the Redrot single is closed for President's Day, so approval will have to wait until tomorrow. The test pressings sound great, though, filled with all of the pummellingly deep bass contained on the master The Redrot 7-inch test pressing is Approved!

- Additional weekend listening (post "Destertshore...) ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead "The Century of Self" -- Good, but I may be growing out of this band, at this point. And the new Circlesquare ("Songs about Dancing and Drugs") has kind of fallen flat for me. More Ulan Kohl, more To Blacken the Pages...