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Kathetor – Larger, Worse, font-weight=BOLDer

Friday, January 29th, 2010
Larger, Worse, font-weight=BOLDer

Larger, Worse, font-weight=BOLDer

Back in the late 80’s, during the heyday of hair bands, there were a lot of groups of long-haired make-up wearing dudes trying to make it big.  Slave Raider was one of those groups.  They also happened to be from Minnesota.  I’m just slightly too young to have ever seen them live, but my good friend Reuben introduced me to them back in our younger days, and I’ve always thought they were a fun band with some good songs.  Since then, several of my friends have met various band members in other capacities (lead singer Chainsaw was Jabberwocky’s drummer’s other band’s agent).

About a month ago, I was listening through my iTunes (in alphabetical order by artist) and Slave Raider’s ‘Take The World By Storm’ came up.  It occurred to me how awesome it would be to play those songs.  So I decided my next recording project would be to record a bunch of Slave Raider songs as Kathetor. A month later and here we are.  It’s a 5 song EP.  The last song technically isn’t a Slave Raider song.  It’s from an EP of the lead singer Chainsaw’s side project:  Chainsaw.

1.  Take The World By Storm  

2.  The Black Hole  

3.  Youngblood  

4.  Bigger Badder & Bolder  

5. The Devil’s Drivin’ My Car tonight  

(right click any to download or right click here to download a zip of the whole EP)

Semi-Automatic Love Song

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
 

Originally by Alterego, albeit completely differently.

Bastard Of Reality

Friday, January 8th, 2010

This past October, I got it into my head to record a cover of an entire album;  that is, record covers of every song on a certain album.  I’d been wanting to do this before (and probably will again), but this was the first time it occurred to me to do this particular album (I had another in mind before).  Because it’s Black Sabbath, I knew I didn’t want to attempt straight covers of the songs (I can’t sing in Ozzy’s range).  I also happened to have Corey’s acoustic bass at my house, leftover from the most recent Jabbergathering.  So I decided to do the whole album all-acoustic.  It worked out really well, because there are already two acoustic instrumentals on the album, and since it’s an album that was already ingrained in my head, I was able to finish the whole thing in under two weeks, so it sounds consistent throughout.

I tried to change or add things where I could to make it more interesting as an acoustic album, and I recorded the whole thing in order.  My favorite of the bunch is Children Of The Grave, both because it was the most fun to record, and, in my opinion, ended up with the best results.

(Download ZIP file of whole album)

Sweet Leaf

 

After Forever

 

Embryo > Children Of The Grave

 

Orchid

 

Lord Of This World

 

Solitude

 

Into The Void