I just got back from a road trip to San Diego. And since I live in Phoenix, this basically consisted of six hours on the road to get there, a few days of "meet-n-greet" with the family, and then another six hours on the road to get back. Needless to say, my MP3 player pulled some overtime, as radio stations are hard to come by in the "desert/mountains/armpit of the universe" that I happened to be travelling through. It also got a pretty good work-out on those couch-surfing nights when I couldn't sleep a wink.
The list of albums that an inquiring mind can find on my MP3 player at any given moment, tends to be a bit of a revolving door. I get bored easily, and my playlist reflects this. There are a few exceptions, however. A handful of albums that tend to stake a permanent claim to the real estate on that sucker's flash drive. And Shadow Demon's "Grimoire of Ruin" has become one of those lasting landmarks.
I was zoned out on the road, with "Drums of War" pounding it's primal beat in my ears, when I realized that this was probably the one-thousandth time I'd heard that track since I purchased the album. And yet, while listening to it, the track didn't feel old or stale in any way. I wasn't tired of it in the least. In fact, it got my foot thumping on the floorboards just as quickly and easily as the first time I'd heard it.
Upon a moment's reflection, I realized that the same could be said about every track on the album. I couldn't count the number of times that I would simply select "Grimoire of Ruin" on my album list, and let it loop infinitely while my brain drifted off with a satisfied grunt.
To bring this to a close: "Grimoire of Ruin" is a dark and twisted masterpiece. A drum-thumping, guttural-voiced, axe-carving epiphany of metal.
'Nuff said.
The list of albums that an inquiring mind can find on my MP3 player at any given moment, tends to be a bit of a revolving door. I get bored easily, and my playlist reflects this. There are a few exceptions, however. A handful of albums that tend to stake a permanent claim to the real estate on that sucker's flash drive. And Shadow Demon's "Grimoire of Ruin" has become one of those lasting landmarks.
I was zoned out on the road, with "Drums of War" pounding it's primal beat in my ears, when I realized that this was probably the one-thousandth time I'd heard that track since I purchased the album. And yet, while listening to it, the track didn't feel old or stale in any way. I wasn't tired of it in the least. In fact, it got my foot thumping on the floorboards just as quickly and easily as the first time I'd heard it.
Upon a moment's reflection, I realized that the same could be said about every track on the album. I couldn't count the number of times that I would simply select "Grimoire of Ruin" on my album list, and let it loop infinitely while my brain drifted off with a satisfied grunt.
To bring this to a close: "Grimoire of Ruin" is a dark and twisted masterpiece. A drum-thumping, guttural-voiced, axe-carving epiphany of metal.
'Nuff said.
