this here artifact has been out of print for a few years now i believe, so i'm sure nobody is going to bitch about me posting it. it sure does harbor a lot of nostalgic feelings for me. Carrion was my first band to stabilize and take steps creatively, after many attempts and misfires. my first tour (a gigantic failure but a hell of a time) was in support of this release. as a matter of fact, this was the first thing i was involved in to be "released" by anyone (thanks, josh). Nate Simms, who would stay thru all of Carrion and continue with Nick Skrobisz in The Wayward to the present day, made his debut as drummer here.
this stuff was the first batch in a series of songs employing a more byzantine songwriting technique, culminating in our final, unreleased (but soon to be blogged) 6-song demo, which were a practically riffless uber-composed orchestration. at this early stage we still let things calm down with Sabbath-style riffs occasionally. many parts are variations on themes stated earlier, but stop-start rhythms betray where we were headed.
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