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than someone that’s too smart to actually just listen every now and then (and by listen I don’t mean pick up on every fifth word and be so smart that they fill in all the blanks for themselves, miss the point entirely then raise a question on the point they’d missed and that they were already explicitly told and would already now know had they simply actually listened in the first place.)

Why are alpha dweebs always so passive aggressive?

Might well be “How did you get to be so quick with the keyboard?”

Especially if you ask it in a training session which contained a slide telling you that you get to Carnegie Hall by PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.

Think about it for just a nano second, seriously.

With the wonders of free use php and flash hacking I’ve added a media player plugin to my wordpress installation.

Wonderful news, no? Now I can bombard the masses with concept thrash metal from my youth and shoddy electro from my spareroom

The split we did way back when comprised three tracks Negate (This Aftermath), Condemnation Manipulation and finally Mediocracy (yes, very catchy I know).

I’ve them embedded below.

Enjoy

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Many, many moons ago I was a very keen guitar player. So keen if fact that I spent the majority of my free time with various acoustic and electric guitars glued to my lap (although not as you’d notice if you heard me play at the time, but hey ho.)

Anyhoo, during my later formative years I was lucky enough to hook up with a number of like minded misfits and write, perform and record with a couple of local bands. We had a pretty decent time of it. Writing and rehearsing at the local youth centre (yes it was THAT long ago), trawling around with some other local bands and performing in pubs and clubs in Worcester (a small City in the West Midlands, UK) and some surrounding towns, villages and cities (actually reaching as far further north as Liverpool at one point.)

This all culminated in a very modest record deal (well I say deal, we never actually got anything from it, nor a contract or anything official like that for that matter, but the deal was we got all of the recording costs covered by the record company and one side of a split album on general release with Prophecy Records / Southern Distribution in the shops for a bit.)

All ancient history, and long forgotten I’d thought. But no, due to the never ending wonders of the interweb it seems that my last fling with making live music has found a corner in the pantheons of thrash metal history.

After more than 15 years of quite literally no further effort at all, Devolution, that epochal concept thrash metal outfit from Worcester, England have finally arrived with an entry in the Encyclopedia Metallum.

Further investigation has also yielded a few more links. It appears that fruit of our collective labours was indeed appreciated by more than just myself and my band mates and in a weird kind of way lives on

But that’s not all, oh no. You lucky, lucky people now have the opportunity to actually listen to our final fling. Yes, despite having lost my vinyl copy of the album years ago, it appears that a re-release followed on CD (adding a third band to the split) and some kind hearted people have ripped and uploaded the results onto rapidshare, how cool is that. My girlfriend has been quite literally over the moon to listen to my newly rediscovered tampering in heavy metal, over and over again Why not download and do the same. Joking aside, if you were ever a fan of thrash or death metal, it’s not actually all that bad, download it and give it whirl. Ours are the last three tracks on the CD.