Today’s MSMOTD Porcupine Tree – Lazarus (buy this song) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] And through the whirling sentry drones of academic responsibility, guns blazing and engines a-fire, erupts the newest MSMOTD: the mighty Porcupine Tree!  Leaving assignments, readings and constructive musings as so much burning wreckage in its wake, it streaks into [...]

Today’s MSMOTD Amorphis – Towards And Against (buy this song) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] There is so much good music coming out of Finland these days, especially in terms of melodic metal.  Bands like Nightwish, Stratovarius, HIM, Apocalyptica (rock/metal done by electric cello!), Children of Bodom, Turisas, Sonata Arctica etc etc.  It’s [...]

Today’s MSMOTD Edvard Grieg – Aase’s Death (from “Peer Gynt” – buy this song) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I haven’t done any Classical music yet, so this seems like a good place to start.  Grieg was a Norwegian “Romantic” composer who lived from 1843 until 1907.  He trained in Germany and became [...]