Holy shit I just got my bone-usb in and it's fucking incredible, I did not expect this! (I actually completely forgot I had gotten this) The actual item is pretty simple, still awesome, but the extras on the actual drive are super sexy secrets. It's got a few pledge-exclusive tracks that I didn't know existed. Just for kicks and wondering of actual exclusivity, I searched the nets and googled galore'd and found nothing. So this is pretty boner-inducing for me. Pic of my bone:
Here's the tracks, for anyone interested, exactly as listed, and there's a document with this explanation from Devy (I'm gonna pretend he wrote it himself...which is entirely possible given the level of awesomeness of the man):
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The original sequence of the main Casualties album was to include 'GONE IS GONE' before Broken, but couldn’t because of the length limitations of a standard CD.
There are the following four songs, in a new sequence with crossfades and extra ambience etc that you can insert into media player to replace Forgive Me - Broken – Bones.
09) FORGIVE ME (Alternate Sequence)
10) GONE IS GONE (Alternate Sequence)
11) BROKEN (Alternate Sequence)
12) BONES (Alternate Sequence)
Enjoy!"
Then there are the two extras:
Cold Feet (Pledge Exclusive Demo Track) (3:39 track time)
THING (Pledge Exclusive Demo Track) (6:43 track time, feels like hyperbolic time chamber on acid)
CoC DISK 1 COMMENTARY (1:15:13 track time
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CoC DISK 2 COMMENTARY (1:05:05)
I've heard the two new tracks once each but I need to meditate more. I haven't yet sat down with the commentary but I'm gonna do that later when I have time. Okay...I'm gonna do my best to explain these, and I assure you this isn't just the excitement but even upon first listen...these are two of my favorite Devy tracks, especially THING; both are so different and I can't imagine why they didn't make it onto the actual bonus disc but perhaps he'll make them available later for a compilation or new edition. They don't even sound like demos, they are very refined and have as many layers and turns as the songs on the album. Give me some more time with them and I'll come back with a play-by-play if anyone is interested. Oh yeah, it also came with a bunch of extremely huge, high-res images of different promo images of Devy and Che'. Some I've seen before but not at this quality, and there's a few I haven't seen. They are now my wallpapers because sexy.
Ed:
THING is perhaps, in moments, heavier than anything on Decon (not the song in it's entirety, but it's latter half)....
Holy fucking hell. It starts off sounding like an ocean in outer space..like a space-country version of a song on Biomech; the beginning chants, in the lowest actual singing (without any growling) I've heard from the guy, he meditatively repeats with elongated annunciations "I know, the mind it goes away". It slowly ascends into another kind of higher-pitched...almost elated chant, still ever ominous and oddly dark, the only thing elated are the vocals, the guitars begin to get heavier. As it progresses you notice this is much more Devy-present and there's ZERO Che' in the song, it feels very classic but with the production of CoC. As it kicks up there's continual overlapping of looped guitars in the devy way and it gets very epic when there's this odd repeating vocal sound, and Dev starts singing in a high pitched, almost operatic voice. As it gets to the heaviest part of the album's entirety and bonuses and b-sides BY FAR (arguably of the whole project with obvious exception to guest spots on Decon), it begins to get heavier in the operatic singing (or even newer, it sounds like some of the singing shown on the youtube videos for Z2). It's an epic near 7 minutes that feels like a journey through different parts of the DTP. There are a few repeating lines, played backwards, and with a low chime and with a heavy whisper he says "My sicknesses grow" and...SYL kicks in, Devy grunts and with the most down-tuned guitar playing I've heard on DTP, this industrial beat hits you over the penis head with this absolutely churning, chugging beat until the heavy, (oldschool)Akerfeldt-growls kick in with a line of more chants that sound like Devy is summoning Satan, I can't even decipher the words yet and... abruptly ends. It is by far and away my favorite track from anything out of CoC and perhaps Decon. It's absolutely amazing.
Cold Feet sounds like it fits more into line with the first, main disc, wedged somewhere between a slower-paced, Devy-present Daddy, with the initial grooves of a more melodic The Code..it's got Devy singing pretty dreamily throughout at a...well I know shit about notes and singing, but he's very 'level' throughout. Musically it's very even keel and 'singular' when compared to THING's robust changes. I can almost picture where it'd fit in the album but Ulti would probably be better at figuring that out than I.
It's very pretty sounding and is one of my favorites in the CoC collection, definitely one of my favorites if it were on Disc 1.
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