Time to finish catching up with another installment of Tech Tuesday. This week we're going back to well of Vancouver's Archspire and their latest slab of high speed, high precision tech-death The Lucid Collective.
Fans of this kind of stuff could really just put this album on and let it go, but for those of you who're on the fence and need a push, try "Fathom Infinite Depth". One pummeling assault of riffs and a heaping helping of Oliver Aleron's rapid-fire vocals later and you should be suitably agape. Pick you jaw up off the floor and hit replay, then check out the rest of the album, and as Archspire would advise, stay tech.
Showing posts with label The Lucid Collective. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Lucid Collective. Show all posts
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Saturday, 9 August 2014
Archspire - Seven Crowns and the Oblivion Chain
Take a seat, kids, I'm going to lay a little story on you. No, scratch that, a little legend. You see, five years ago our friends threw a couple of parties, referred to as the Mini-Olympics, at which attendants not only drank and ate but also compete in a series of events designed to test their mettle and separate wheat from chaff.
Some of these events were drinking games, but many were simply silly -- think egg-and-spoon relays and you'll be on the right track. The grandest of these mini-olympiad took place out in the boons in July of 2009, and when you throw in the late-night fireworks display you have a good time had by all.
As our little group has grown together, grown apart, expanded, contracted, gotten married, and started having kids, the story of The Mini-Olympics, and in particular that last one, has grown in the telling, and always prompts cries of "we should do another one of those sometime". Those cries may have taken years to come to anything, but the stars have finally aligned and this afternoon (perhaps even as you read this) I shall be defending my honour on the field of mini-olympic competition for the Five Year Reunion of the Shackle Mini-Olympics.
And I since I will of course be doing all the winning (yeah, right...) we need something to go hard to for our Song of the Day today. No training montage ever created will improve my performance at simple games like these, so "Eye of the Tiger" is out. Why not just go with some more brutally proficient tech death from Vancouver's Archspire? Aaron from Killitorous would approve.
Your song today is therefore "Seven Crowns and the Oblivion Chain" from Archspire's latest The Lucid Collective . Stay tech, everybody.
Some of these events were drinking games, but many were simply silly -- think egg-and-spoon relays and you'll be on the right track. The grandest of these mini-olympiad took place out in the boons in July of 2009, and when you throw in the late-night fireworks display you have a good time had by all.
As our little group has grown together, grown apart, expanded, contracted, gotten married, and started having kids, the story of The Mini-Olympics, and in particular that last one, has grown in the telling, and always prompts cries of "we should do another one of those sometime". Those cries may have taken years to come to anything, but the stars have finally aligned and this afternoon (perhaps even as you read this) I shall be defending my honour on the field of mini-olympic competition for the Five Year Reunion of the Shackle Mini-Olympics.
And I since I will of course be doing all the winning (yeah, right...) we need something to go hard to for our Song of the Day today. No training montage ever created will improve my performance at simple games like these, so "Eye of the Tiger" is out. Why not just go with some more brutally proficient tech death from Vancouver's Archspire? Aaron from Killitorous would approve.
Your song today is therefore "Seven Crowns and the Oblivion Chain" from Archspire's latest The Lucid Collective . Stay tech, everybody.
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Archspire - Lucid Collective Somnambulation
Yesterday's Inanimate Existence song was both techy and heavy, but I'm going to turn it up a notch today with a track from Vancouver's Archspire.
"Lucid Collective Somnambulation" is just as much of a musical earful to hear as it is a mouthful to say. All the riffing is dextrous and super tight, and boy are there some riffs. Throw in a handful of tech death staples (your blast beats and such, all masterfully handled) and some shreddy lead work that comes complete with tasty tapped arpeggios (also masterfully handled) and you've got tech death at its finest. I love it when I find out a band like this is Canadian. Check 'em out.
"Lucid Collective Somnambulation" is just as much of a musical earful to hear as it is a mouthful to say. All the riffing is dextrous and super tight, and boy are there some riffs. Throw in a handful of tech death staples (your blast beats and such, all masterfully handled) and some shreddy lead work that comes complete with tasty tapped arpeggios (also masterfully handled) and you've got tech death at its finest. I love it when I find out a band like this is Canadian. Check 'em out.
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