Lair of the Asp

Zeromancer is a band that I kept running into as being heralded the great new white hope for Industrial music and finally decided to track down some of their music and check it out. They've got a great version of "Send Me an Angel" and I would say that more than half of their stuff is amazing, which is saying something for a band these days, I'm so jaded about music as well, so it really is saying something.

Lycia a band out of Arizona that I caught a couple years ago at the Projektfest in Chicago. Dark, windswept, and stark songs.

A short list of other Denver and Colorado-based acts that I like: Project 12:01 Pure Drama Boom Chr Paige The Siren Project Solitary Sinners

I've been checking out the the NYC-based band Android Lust . A female fronted industrial band, different and well put together. Also, here's an interview with Android Lust . And finally an article written by Sam Rosenthal, the head of Projekt Records and driving force behind the band Black Tape for a Blue Girl .

Last night was the premiere meeting of the Red Carpet Lodge, the local chapter of the ultra secretive Immersion Composition Society. The lodge is part of a larger network of speed composition groups -- all referred to as "Lodges" of some sort -- across the nation. The original lodge started this whole speed-composition idea because they were noticing that they were spending an inordinate amount of time waiting for inspiration to write music, instead of actually writing the music. So they decided to invent an event where the object was to force yourself to write, whether you liked it or not! The lodge rules are as follows: You are granted 24 contiguous hours to conceive, perform, record, and mix a minimum of 6 songs -- maximum of 20. As you can imagine, that's a lot to do in 24 hours. Once the clock starts, there is no stopping it. This results in tremendous, glorious, time pressure. The forces that seem to make all of this work include: - Competitive

This is my try at blogging, my trials and tribulations with the listening, analyzing, and creating of dark music. I can be found on the web at the following sites and have music posted at them: Invisible Asps at SoundClick.com Invisible Asps at IUMA Invisible Asps at garageband.com