Bulldozer - Dance Got Sick!

Italian thrashers getting down and funky. A much loved/loathed release, but good for busting up your next skate party. Is this the same band that did The Final Separation?? I guess Dr. Dope (the genius behind International Hypertechno) finally got his due, and they made do indeed. AC WIld man is chiming in and hell, you can't really ask for anything better, especially when this puts pretty much anything Anthrax has ever done to shame.

Dance Got Sick!

Mortuary Drape - Tolling 13 Knell

I posted this one waaaaay back when I first started this blog, but it is one I keep coming back to and for the past couple weeks I haven't been able to listen to too much besides it. The riffs awesome, vocals awesome, atmosphere amazing....and the drummer is the guy that drummed on Janvs's Vega album, goddamn! This is the very essence of Italian SpookProg. How many black metal bands can get away with singing "La la la La la la la la" for a chorus in one of their songs (Winged Priestess)?

Only one

Tolling 13 Knell

Illogo - When Liquids Stay Dry

This just might be the creepiest cover art ever. Hard to describe band, but the music fits the artwork so you can judge this book by it's cover...Erik Thomas of Teeth of the Divine zine describes these Italians as "Yakuza meets Circle Takes the Square meets DHG meets Isis meets Japanese Torture Comedy Hour meets Jean Michele Jarre". I only like half those things, and I pretty much only like half of this, but its is scritchin' that itch for the bizarre pretty good at this moment.

When Liquids Stay Dry