The Prize Fighter Inferno – Who Watches the Watchmen?
23rd May, 2007 by Chewbacca
As always, I’m a fan of weird combinations of music – couple that with bizarre storytelling and then linking that story into the overarching Coheed and Cambria epic? Well, you’ve got a winner there with The Prize Fighter Inferno, Claudio Sanchez’s electronica-cum-folk solo project. See here now people, Jesse, otherwise known as the Prize Fighter Inferno died. That’s a bit of a bummer, but now he’s been resurrected on Earth, so that’s not so bad. Now he’s going to tell the story of the Armory Wars (ala Coheed and Cambria) but before he can do that, you need to know the story of “My Brothers Blood Machine” which revolves around two Bleam brothers Butchie and Long-Arm, whose crazy mother tells them that God has instructed her to make them into the new Death. Oh goodness I hope you’re confused. Maybe we should just get to the music!
- The Prize Fighter Inferno on MySpace
- My Brother’s Blood Machine article on Wikipedia
- Buy the album on Amazon.co.uk (the album comes complete with the lyrics on individual tarot cards in very fancy packing!)
(the album comes complete with the lyrics on individual tarot cards in very fancy packing!)
Rodrigo and Gabriela originally started together in a thrash metal band (don’t judge them on this yet!) in Mexico, but their limited exposure forced them to pursue other avenues to get noticed. They moved to Dublin, after hearing it was a good place for new artists to get noticed. Contrary to their beginnings, they play a very toe-tappingly-good acoustic flamenco style – it’s incredibly catchy. Using only their guitars for both music and rhythm (just the ol’ tapping) they have a very different and welcomed style.
Gentle folk and progressive rock blend together well in Mostly Autumn’s latest outing, A Heart Full of Sky, released earlier this year. Being their seventh album, they are no newcomers to the genre, and are well known to fans of progressive music. Lead vocalist Heather Findlay even contributed to the progressive masterpiece Ayreon’s Human Equation in 2004, which featured eleven famous artists from other bands each voicing one part in the rock opera. Back to Mostly Autumn, Yellow Time is another gentle song, typical of Mostly Autumn, that’ll get your feet tapping, and if no ones around, maybe you’ll start singing! Badly. Like I do.
Ally Kerr has a rather loyal fanbase in Japan, thanks to this song being used as the theme tune to the popular historical fantasy anime series 