Having been a self-professed master of music for years now, why have I waited so long to start this?
Simple answer is the events of the first week of June this year.
Three major happenings changed something for me; something clicked inside and made doing this blog necessary for me. It was time to start showing the love that had been building up inside of me for years, ever since I heard Ash’s “Goldfinger” and realised the power of music.
The three events; the sad passing of Mick Morris, the release of the new Nine Inch Nails single and the break-up of Last Witness.
Each of these brought on a different emotion for me, and all in one week, it showed me what can happen in a ‘music-week’, and how it happens each week if you’re looking hard enough.
The passing of Mick Morris will be covered later on in another piece, but to be blunt, he was an idol of mine, one of very few people I looked-up to and was part of what has become the most important band to my life: Eighteen Visions.
This news on June 2nd saddened me greatly, such an under-appreciated legend gone way too soon, with much of his music being hidden away in the old cardboard boxes of middle-aged-former hardcore fanatics. I will say for anyone that hasn’t heard of his talents, please please PLEASE listen to the Eighteen Visions albums ‘Vanity’, ‘Obsession’ and the self-titled 2006 release. You will not regret it.
With this news I was reeling, but then came the second event being the release of “Came Back Haunted” (and release of information on the new album, out September) .
Having only ‘gotten into’ the band in the last six months I didn’t have to suffer through the hiatus too much, but for the life-long fans of NIN this had to be an early Christmas!
A great track that melds a return to their early years (‘Pretty Hate Machine’) together with the maturity and skill of ‘The Slip’, if the rest of the new album is anything like “Came Back Haunted”, its sure to justify the five year absence.
Two days after I learned that Last Witness, an English based metalcore band, were calling it a day after this years Download Festival. Now I’m not going to claim to be their biggest fan, but I did enjoy their music style, taking lessons from the current greats of American metalcore like Every Time I Die and The Chariot. Being a British band too, their sound was an interesting departure from the normal heavy British band where its either a clone of Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden or it’s a rip of Bring Me The Horizon and similar “screamy” bands. They weren’t just trying this sound out either, they were SMASHING it!!
I saw a lot in their future and thought they could help usher in more metalcore bands in the UK rock music scene.
So like I said, these three things led me to understand that literally anything can and does happen in a week in music, and they can all evoke a different emotion.
To some, myself included, music is more than just
a past-time or background sound, no to some music is the most important thing
in the world, people grow attached to bands and their members (not in a fan
girl, “SIGN MAH BEWBS!” kind of way) and to the songs, albums and lyrics.
This blog is OUR love letter to music.
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