No time to waste this summer!Ģ ♫ The Denzels – Slow Death / Skateboards, Vans, and hair whipping in the wind.ģ ♫ Your Youth – Diamond / Top down, speakers up, sun either rising or setting.
#ENFOLD DARKNESS ALBUM ART FULL ZIP FILE#
Right click individual tracks or go  to Facebook for the ZIP File 1 ♫ Art Imperial – When I’m With You (I Feel Dumb) / Canadian surf rock! Start with a bang and don’t look back. There is at least one for each of the 19 jams happening below. And did I mention that album art courtesy of DARTS? I can’t even count the number of awesome things going on. So smooth out those short shorts, dust off those cocktail umbrellas, slide those shades up on the nose, and feel the warm breeze between your sandy toes because this mix is about to start with a bang. Some of these are album covers and some aren’t, but they’re all fucking cool.I don’t wanna hear one peep about how “summer is almost over!” or “but it’s not even sunny where I am” or “this mix is late” or “my eyes are melting from that album art.” Summer is a frame of mind and TBE is about to whip yours into shape! Now that you have grown tired of your own summer mix as well as all the ones that other blogs put out months ago, it’s time to get the summer mix to not only end all summer mixes, but to end summer itself! (Except thats not even true because I have a specially themed bonus summer mix for next week! Stay tuned…) The Burning Ear 2011 Summer Mega-Mix has something for everyone and happens in a few different waves so it’s best listened to in order. He has a large gallery of work at that site, and I picked a handful of pieces to display below. I was very curious to see more of his visual art and found his Deviant Art home page ( here). Ken Sarafin also does a credible job roaring and howling along with the fascinating, demented scales of those two guitar maestros Vance Valenzuela and Mikey Reeves. If you’re a fan of Obscura, Decrepit Birth, or The Faceless, and you don’t yet know about Vale of Pnath, their music is definitely worth exploring (and I intend to do just that myself). The dual guitars are really the commanding presence on “The Prodigal Empire”, trading licks and then swirling around each other in a dizzying display of harmony and conflict, while a non-stop drum barrage provides the underpinning. As in the case of “Lairs”, the music is technically flashy, but more straight-up tech-death without the black-metal trappings of Enfold Darkness. The song I heard as a Vale of Pnath taster was the title track to the new album. As noted, I also took a deeper dive into Ken Sarafin’s art.
I haven’t heard the whole album, though I’ve seen good things written about the band in comments here at NCS as well as elsewhere, and I was certainly intrigued enough by the artwork of Vale’s vocalist to finally dip a toe in the water. Vale of Pnath released a self-titled EP in 2009 and then a debut album last August on Willowtip Records called The Prodigal Empire. It was created by Ken Sarafin, who happens to be the vocalist for a Denver-based band named Vale of Pnath. Since I’ve heard the song several times, what I want to do is talk more about the artwork. If that sounds attractive, hop over to DECIBEL and let “Lairs” give your head a good scouring. It’s an interesting blackened take on tech metal, with spidery riffing, swarmy soloing, spit-fire drumming, and vocals that vault from growly lows to torture-victim shrieks of pain - all of it rushing along well above the speed limit. The song is a new single called “Lairs of the Ascending Masters” by a Nashville band signed to Sumerian called Enfold Darkness. I was so struck by the colors and the imagery that I almost forgot there was supposed to be a song on that page, too. A couple days ago TheMadIsraeli sent me a link to DECIBEL’s online site, and what should greet my eyes upon landing there but THAT piece of arresting artwork up.
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