this is at pj's on thursday, tacked on to what is otherwise a metal show. and, i'm going to kind of "rec" it if you're around - it's certainly more interesting than their early material - if you can handle sitting through bands with names like "orc". i'm just not sure it's exciting enough to get across a border to on a cold thursday. and i'm not sure i can handle sitting through bands with names like "orc"...

https://cortege.bandcamp.com/album/capricorn-2

this is in detroit this week, and it's not bad as a kind of basic post-grunge, but it's a little too compressed and simplistic for me, at my age. if you're going to do something at this tempo, it's better to do make it a little louder and grindier - and make it bigger, more expansive. if you're going to write what are basically pop/punk tracks, i'd rather it be faster and more abrasive.

so, it's kind of....milquetoast. boring.

if you're a little younger, you might still be into this, but i need more than this, in one direction or another.

https://adeerahorse.bandcamp.com/album/everything-rots-that-is-rotten-ep