Leprous - Forced Entry

     Better not have anything important going on for the next ten minutes or so, because you're going to want to give today's song your undivided attention. Sure, yesterday's Damian Murdoch Trio song wasn't exactly straightforward, but today things are about to get a whole lot proggier.

     Norwegian band Leprous knows a thing or two about peddling prog, having been doing it for more than a decade now. I only heard about them upon the release of their latest disc, 2013's Coal, but I've been sampling their back catalogue too, and I can tell you that there's some tasty stuff.

     Tasty stuff like today's song, "Forced Entry", a ten-minute epic from 2011's Bilateral. This one runs the gamut, packing big, arena-y metal choruses, heavier prog parts, and even heavier death and black metal-type parts into its six hundred and twenty seconds. Clear your schedule and spin it.

Friday: Damian Murdoch Trio - Jump Rope with Electric Wires

     I may have missed the Friday the 13th boat by a few hours, but that doesn't mean I forgot what day it is today. I even had the perfect song lined up -- equal parts evil sounding and totally badass -- so you're going to hear it one way or another.

     Guitarist Damian Murdoch is a recent addition to international metal collective The Ocean, but he's a busy guy, and has his own creatively-named power trio the Damian Murdoch Trio. Instrumental prog-rock lite with marked blues and classic heavy metal influences, Damian's music also has some funky grooves, some shreddy bits... some everything, really. Dude can play the guitar.

     Due to the date, however, there's only one song of Damian's with just the right vibe, and that's a song called "Jump Rope with Electric Wires" from the Trio's debut album Electric Tentacles. It's a sinister sounding little number that's the perfect thing to ward off all the  more malignant evils of Friday the 13th. Crank it up and have some sweet dreams.