![]() ![]() Capped by hideously abyssal gutturals, this is the stuff of thrilling nightmares. “ Eternal Procession” is from the album Preserved In Torment, which is set for release by Profound Lore on November 5th. The first of the three public songs that I sampled from this Wisconsin band’s forthcoming debut album was “ The Observable Universe“, and it knocked me for a loop. The drumming gallops like wild stallions and blisters like a machine-gun while the guitarists blaze and freakishly dart about with angular abandon. Little tinkling tones surface and then turn into ear-abrading screams. Eventually, a scorching, bestial voice joins the fray, just as the music becomes more vast and eerie above gut-busting bursts of weaponized percussion. Woozy and wriggling solos flare in the music, backed by brutish pile-driving grooves, which seems to cause the vocalist to completely lose his mind. ![]() The other two tracks now available for streaming, “ Lurking in the Boötes Void” and “ Planet Storm“, display a similarly head-spinning, head-butting mix of crazed yet catchy technicality, punishing grooviness, captivating keyboards, and overarching off-planet atmosphere, but each of those nevertheless includes its own distinctive accents. The former, for example, brings in an enthralling, swirling, guitar melody near the end that leads into a grandiose theatrical finale, while the band intersperse the racing momentum of the latter with a sorcerous guitar melody and companion solo that get stuck in the head immediately. The album is itself named Planet Storm, and it’s set for release on September 17. And if you don’t know anything about the event, let me explain: In today’s previous album premiere I made an attempt at humor by referring to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster - not the band who took that name in 2008 with the aim of “creating epic soundtracks for terrible events”, but the terrible event itself. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a twin suspension bridge that crosses Puget Sound south of where I live, connecting the city of Tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, as a single suspension bridge, the third longest suspension bridge in the world at that time. Only four months later, on the morning of November 7, it collapsed under high wind conditions. Update 2:57 p.m.: The man who survived the jump off the bridge has been identified as Lawrence Youshah, a 43-year-old Long Island lawyer who has his own practice specializing in "traffic matters," according to the Staten Island Advance.The collapse was caught on film, and the sight of a large concrete and steel structure twisting like a rubber band is still a freakish thing to watch. NYPD Rescue Jumper From Verrazano Narrows Bridge from Gothamist on Vimeo. Here's chilling video from that rescue effort: In July, traffic was backed up for four hours as police talked a suicidal man down from the Verrazano. Richard Seiden, found that "90 percent of them were having an acute temporary crisis they passed through it and, coming out the other side, they got on with their lives." Most people don’t want to do it, so they pick up the phone.” An Op-Ed in today's Advance also cites a groundbreaking study on suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, which found that a very small percentage (6%) of suicidal people talked down off the bridge actually went on to kill themselves. Jaime Alvear told the Times Herald-Record, “The phones give us a chance to get there. Regarding the phones, New York State Police Sgt. He did this despite suicide-prevention phones on the bridge which read "Life is worth living," and connect to 1-800-LIFENET, a suicide prevention service. An NYPD spokesperson says he was observed getting out of his vehicle on the Upper Level roadway and then jumping off it. The man was pulled out of the soup by the NYPD Harbor Unit and rushed to Staten Island University Hospital. The unidentified jumper who tried to commit suicide yesterday afternoon is listed in critical condition "but alive," according to Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe. The bridge is 228 feet above the water, and five people have successfully killed themselves by jumping off it since last December, while another three were thwarted by police, according to the Staten Island Advance. Half a dozen people have tried to kill themselves by jumping off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge this year, but the latest addition to this sad list managed to survive the impact. ![]()
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