samothrace

while you were sleeping on doom subgenres, samothrace came out of kansas and settled more appropriately in seattle, wielding with them the best metal cd of 2008, "life's trade". seriously, they are that good. i call it soul-metal, or metal with a purpose.

perhaps youve seen a band before, and all the dudes are good at playing their shit, their songs arent HORRIBLE, but you find yourself standing there thinking "what? what was the point of that part you just did?" I'm super jaded, but i feel this way about most bands i see that i've never heard of.

well samothrace is doing it RIGHT. even if they are spending a minute and a half just droning out during their live set, it captivates you. nothing goes on TOO long, nothing is too repetitive, but rather the music just grows organically, each piece lasting however long was needed to express what they were going for.

if there was one project i were to respectfully model my own musical project after, it would have to be samothrace. I'm dying to see them live again and i hope they keep coming out with material.

heres a really cool part of a house show clip from about a week before i saw them play in portland this year. that is an excerpt from a 9 minute or so song. its cool that you guys are doing house shows, but seriously you can't figure out any better lighting situation for a band to play than all the way on? shit.