Mom, Why Are My Ears Bleeding?

[Auroras In Ice]

Let's find out!

Since music is as integral to my daily life as anything else, this journal is for that rather than typing stuff about my dumpster fire of a life. Don't hesitate to post anything you are listening to. Doesn't matter what it is, I will listen to it.

Let's go!

As I sit like a kid at Christmas waiting for the Spotify Release Radar to update....

[innerspaceboy]

Underworld - "denver luna" from their latest LP. DEFINITELY worth putting the headphones on for this one. Transportive.

[Trollheart]

Possibly the saddest song I ever heard. Don't lie and say you didn't cry by the end.

"Kentucky Avenue" - Tom Waits (Blue Valentine)

Oh, and welcome to Journal Land! 

[Auroras In Ice]

Underworld - "denver luna" from their latest LP. DEFINITELY worth putting the headphones on for this one. Transportive.

That thuds very nicely! Gonna have to check out the full LP. A collab between Underworld and VNV Nation would be a cool old school crossover

Possibly the saddest song I ever heard. Don't lie and say you didn't cry by the end.

Damned fine song. There's something about artists who can be so emotionally evocative with straightforward no-frills writing that I love so much. Tom Waites rarely misses.


Some random Sunday morning listening

[Auroras In Ice]

Wildly underrated artist


One of the best live recordings I've ever heard

[Auroras In Ice]

Hope Xmas was good for you folks.

They've been milking this one track with new versions and remixes since 2017, but I still lap it up lol

Been back on an old(ish) school industrial kick

When I was still basically a zygote I got into things like NIN, Marilyn Manson, White Zombie, etc. and somehow had the brainfart to look at the credits in album sleeves to look at producer names and then use that as a way to find new music. Finding Dave Ogilvie lead me to Skinny Puppy and I picked up this track as a single. Had never heard anything so strange and interesting. Opened up a whole world to me.

[Auroras In Ice]

Huppeh Noo Yeaaa

Mini list of some mostly chill listening.

[Auroras In Ice]

Some Violet Cold. If you've not had the pleasure, stuff this in your ears and smoke it.

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Good with some nice headphones or a big bad subhhwooofer

[Auroras In Ice]

One of those fucking days. Big kick in the crotch. Tonight, drinks and pity party. Tomorrow, scrape up and get ready for more jabs and hooks to the teefs. Limp and shamble on, folks!

For the maybe... I guess 0 of you who understand Quebecois french lol

[Auroras In Ice]

Youth Code has been pretty inactive in the past couple years, but hope they pop back up at some point. Sara Taylor's voice is so well suited for this stuff.

One of the dream collabs and the perfect track for it, but sadly not done in studio and resigned to shit quality clips

[Lexi Darling]

Youth Code are so great. I also hope to hear new stuff from them someday.

Sara Taylor did guest vocals on this track by Rhys Fulber a few years ago and I really dig it.

[Auroras In Ice]

Youth Code are so great. I also hope to hear new stuff from them someday.

Sara Taylor did guest vocals on this track by Rhys Fulber a few years ago and I really dig it.

Nice! I'm also a big fan of Rhys Fulber's projects (and especially his remixes), so I'm pretty surprised I hadn't stumbled on this track before. Really appreciate you linking it! Long time Skinny Puppy fan, so it was so crazy in the mid 2010s for an electro industrial act like Youth Code to come out of nowhere and nail it so well. It's a pretty inaccessible subgenre in general, so doubly cool that Youth Code was also good at drawing a lot of new listeners in. 

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I remember hearing Strapping Young Lad on Much Music (sort of the Canadian MTV) way way back and loving it but not being able to track it down in stores. Kinda just forgot about them for a few decades lol, but recently took a listen to City, and holy effing ess what an absolute beast of an album. A classic in metal and industrial, and you can really hear the influence from Ministry, thrash metal, and some big crossover between them and Fear Factory. Maybe even a seed for numetal buried in there at times.