Lair of the Asp

An interesting commentary on the state of goth music from the editor of Dark Culture Magazine . I've heard similar things said about industrial music as well, is it sentimentality that we think that there's nothing as good we had in our youth in music these days. I agree completely that very little music is quality out there these days and the quality stuff is not original.

There's a new trailer up for "The Matrix Revolutions. " And there is a .mp3 clip of the new score by Don Davis of orchestral music with dark sounding chiors for Revolutions recently posted as well. Sadly, going to the main Matrix page and looking at the trailers reminded me of how much I hate quicktime video and installing it, they wanted me to once again upgrade to the newest version, but everytime that I've done this in the past it's hijacked my computer and every type of media file imaginable says that it wants to be viewed/listened to using quicktime with that new version and it takes me a while to get everything back to normal. So my small protest is just to deal without quicktime 6.0, I'm sure the media will be saturated with hype for the movie regardless and I will see way too much about the movie before I even see the movie...

KMFDM has a new CD being released on Sept. 23rd called WWW III . As always it will be interesting to see what one of the long time bands from the industrial genre have put out. Usually I'm underwhelmed with new stuff from long time acts, but I never stop hoping that this time it will be different and great, and I will be stunned and amazed at how good it is. We'll see soon enough...

I've been getting into, or really I guess I should say back into, Gary Numan . I've been listening to his album Hybrid and absolutely loving it. Yes this is reinterpretation and industrialization of songs spanning his whole career, the production is amazing and was done by Flood of NIN, dM, and U2 fame, and Alan Moulder from what I can tell. The interview section of his site is especially good, it's a good overview of the way things work in the music business in regards to charts and how he's gone from rags to riches to rags to possibly riches again...

I'm hard at work on this new remix of a Tristraum song called "Shiver". I've already got a very different from the original mix going and I'm excited to see how it all turns out.

I happened across Immortal Continuum Radio , the music is great and they stream at 160 kb/s, which makes listening that much better. Lots of unsigned as well as major names in the business. Great stuff, I haven't heard a bad song yet...

Well, this is good news and the music looks to be incredible, I thought the trailer of Underworld seemed pretty good also for looking like basically The Matrix with Vampires and Werewolves... By Todd Martens LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Former Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland will resurface on the soundtrack to Sony's upcoming vampire flick "Underworld." Borland appears in a supergroup dubbed the Damning Well, which also features A Perfect Circle's Josh Freese, Filter's Richard Patrick and Nine Inch Nails contributor Danny "Renhold" Lohner. The foursome has one cut on the album, due Sept. 19 from Lakeshore Records. The Damning Well's "Awakening," which opens the soundtrack, is Borland's first major project since leaving Limp Bizkit. His own group, Eat The Day, has yet been unable to get off the ground. Borland also helped out on a remix of A Perfect Circle's "Weak and Powerless," which he worke

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