This a recent re-issue of the self-titled album from Lurker of Chalice, otherwise known as Wrest aka Leviathan, originally recorded in 2005 w/ 1 bonus track (Track 7).

It was rumored that the recent Leviathan album "Massive Conspiracy Against All Life" was going to be a Lurker of Chalice album at one point, but I think they are quite different projects and "Massive" sounds more like a Leviathan thing than LoC. Of course there's going to be obvious similarities in terms of some of the vocal work and the speedy black metal parts, but LoC has a more gothic, ambient feel to it that is even more twisted and depressing than Leviathan.

Much of the work on LoC is very slow and dingy, like "Minions", one of the best tracks on the album. The bass is much more present on LoC than Leviathan, there's more prominent use of synth used and some of the chant-like vocals that you will hear throughout the compositions, I've just never heard that kind of creepy delivery on a Leviathan album. Everything just feels a bit more doomy and experimental, lots of obscurely layered guitar work that makes for some really nice ambience as opposed to the riffomania of Leviathan albums. There's also a lot more samples, used to cool effect. This is simply a very different beast than Leviathan and I think I enjoy this more than I do most Leviathan albums. Wrest is a force to be reckoned with in the black metal scene and the metal scene in general. Everything he does is new and fresh, not to mention, some of the darkest music ever put to tape.

This album has something to offer for all fans of extreme metal and experimental music in general, so give it a try, I think you won't be disappointed, but YOU WILL BE scared.

The World of Golden Eggs

I, um…..maybe I'm just not hip with the times or maybe I'm just too old too understand these new fangled young people's shows, but this show is just messed up and horrendous, NOT in a good way.

Leave it to Japan to produce a messed-up animation show such as this

This complete waste of time (known as the World of Golden Eggs) is a MTV Japan show, and it’s taken entertainment to a new low.

The animation style is just plain bad, I know it's bad for bad's sake, but i mean, c'mon, it's bad to the point where it's just creepy and not interesting at all. The animation is flat, the characters are flat and the stories are just dumb. Even a 2-year couldn't be entertained by this junk.

The voice-overs sound too fast, like everyone's on speed or something, of course it's in Japanese so maybe you wouldn't know the difference anyway.

The whole thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, kind of like after you see a dead dog on the highway that's just been run over.

Check it out for yourself, there's tons of this shit on YouTube. It's an extremely popular show here in Japan, and I think it's getting more popular in the West now too, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why. This is just plain dogshit. If I drew a face on my cock, and gave it a name and a characteristic voice, then filmed it's adventures, it would be more entertaining than this cocaine-induced trip.

What happened to the good 'ol days of Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry?

Attik Noise 5

It's about damn time! Been waiting 7 years. Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of this. This is the info taken directly from Attik's site:

"NoiseFive will have 250 pages of exciting print design, on 9 unique paper stocks and 14 different print process finishes. With a limited print run of just 5,000 copies and a never seen before ATTIK 22 year retrospective it's set to be a bestseller.

Published in Summer 2008, NoiseFive will be available to purchase directly from this site, or through ATTIK recommended bookstores across the world."

Will I be buying this? Fuckin' rights! I own all of them except "Noise 1 (aka: Bob)" which is just a 16 page brochure which was reprinted in miniature form in the back pages of Noise 2. I hope this will be better than Noise 4, which was kind of disappointing. This one's a home-grown effort and Attik will have much more control over the printing of this one, so it should be good. Judging from some of the samples I've seen, it looks pretty cool.

Check out the blog and see some info and pics from previous editions here.

I love these books. I own many design books and these are best ones I have, without question. I pick up something new every time I look at them.