Blood of the Earth and more

[Vortexan]

thanks Scott-
I JUST hung up with Mary questiong where the comments were-
My copy should be any day now, and while I am aging, I too want to vibrate
the city block with rock, so maybe I'll have my calming med along with the
listen so I am approching it right....
thank you
Mike

On 7/19/10, SHLL (Scott Heller) <shll at hagedorn.dk> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have heard the vinyl version and am writing my review of the record now
> but I still don't have the double CD version ordered from Amazon. Anyway,
> overall, I think it is a pretty good record but I still think they need
> fewer of these ambient synth tracks and more rock tracks. The opener has
> this killer opening and a great build up and then you go straight into this
> laid back spacey meltdown, which is beautiful and nice but I needed to
> have  rock track.. I think the they have some solid tracks but they only
> wrote like 4 rock tracks in 5 years... I guess there is more uptempo,
> Dibs-spacehead style stuff about though but they did not want to use to many
> of his tracks. A cool record but because of too many of these mellow space
> out tracks, I won't play it that much.
>
> I got the Triad Hawkwind tribute on Neurot Records and that is really
> great. Especially the US Christmas versions which are really powerful and
> true to the originals and I really like Nate from US Christmas's voice. I
> agree, that the Minsk guy's singing really destroys Assault and battery but
> the rest is great and even though these guys have a bit of a gravelly voice,
> they sing the songs in a pretty cool way and you can understand the words,
> they are growling death metal vocals at all. Great tribute..
>
> later
>
> scott
>
> www.oresundspacecollective.com  (our latest CD, Slip into the Vortex was
> 26 in the Swedish top 60 for one week in July.. cool...)
>