Staff Infections – February 2024

Alright kids, it’s time once again for Staff Infections. You know how it goes: We listen to music and share it with you, and hopefully, you listen to music and share it with us. Maybe we get up to some other mischief along the way. Here’s hoping mid-winter finds you in good health and spirits and you and yours are safe from the wrath of mother nature and/or the wrath of man. Let’s see what the heck we’ve been listening to.

Truth to tell, there isn’t a whole lot of synergy in the playlists this month. Dave Pirtle is championing the entire AC/DC discography, while Spencer is serving in the court of the crimson king, but neither has received any reinforcement from the other staff. Some solidarity is found, however, in the New Model Army with both Captain and Manny-O-War having been called up for the Unbroken campaign (reviewed here). Meanwhile, Andy Almonds and Lone Waite have found common cause in their Supernatural Addiction that I pray will not leave them Deceased.

For our group discussion, let’s really get into the weeds: What to you makes music progressive? What elements or combination of elements causes you to put the prog label on a band. I’m really not much of a prog aficionado, so I’m going to keep my ill-informed opinions to myself, but to you, dear readers, the floor is open.

While you’re examining the nature of prog, please share your playlist in the comments, and have a listen to the staff-curated Spotify playlist below. Until next month, you all take care of yourselves.

• Zach Duvall
  The Smile – Wall of Eyes
  Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet
  Paysage d’Hiver – Das Tor
  Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
  Autechre – NTS Sessions
  Circular – Kimono Kaleidoscope
• Captain
  New Model Army – Unbroken
  New Model Army – The Ghost of Cain
  New Model Army – Between Dog and Wolf
  New Model Army – No Rest for the Wicked
  G-Anx – Flashbacks
  Carcass – Symphonies of Sickness
• Andrew Edmunds
  Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol
  Pulmonary Fibrosis – Nasal Nauseous Liquid Vomit Goregrind Vol. 3
  Brodequin – Harbingers Of Woe
  Deceased – Supernatural Addiction
  English Dogs – Forward Into Battle
  Mr. Big – Lean Into It
• Danhammer Obstkrieg
  Upon Stone – Dead Mother Moon
  Mary Halvorson – Cloudward
  Low – Things We Lost in the Fire
  Caligula’s Horse – Charcoal Grace
  Ethan Iverson – Technically Acceptable
  Nechochwen – Heart of Akamon
• LoneWatie
  Sgàile – Traverse the Bealach
  Deceased… – Supernatural Addiction
  The Church – The Hypnogogue
  Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore
  Choir Boy – Gathering Swans
  Bob Thiel – So Far
• Spencer Hotz
  Knoll – As Spoken
  Soulmass – Principality Of Mechanical Violence
  Yes – Drama
  King Diamond- The Eye
  King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King
  The Chronicles Of Father Robin – The Songs & Tales Of Airoea – Book I
• Josh Heath
  Entombed – Wolverine Blues
  Morbid Angel – Blessed Are the Sick
  Kontact – Full Contact
  Queensryche – Operation: Mindcrime
  Voivod – Killing Technology
  Flotsam and Jetsam – Doomsday for the Deceiver
• Ryan Tysinger
  Abigor – Taphonomia Aeternitatis – Gesänge im Leichenlicht der Welt
  Acero Letal – Compendio
  Mütiilation – Vampires of Black Imperial Blood
  Moonblood – Conquering the Ravenland
  Angel Sword – Neon City
  Baptism – Grim Arts of Melancholy
• Manny-O-War
  New Model Army – Unbroken
  Killer Mike – Michael (Deluxe)
  Twin Tribes – Pendulum
  Frayser Boy – Gone on That Bay
  Björk – Vespertone
  Curren$y – Andretti 10/30
• Dave Pirtle
  AC/DC – Discography
  Madder Mortem – Old Eyes, New Heart
  Jenner – Prove Them Wrong
  Slower – Slower
  Master – Saints Dispelled
  Ribspreader – Reap Humanity
• Jeremy Morse
  Dawnbringer – Snake
  Invincible Force – Decomposed Sacramentum
  Nekromantheon – The Visions of Trismegistos
  Horrendous – Ontological Mysterium
  Sovereign – Altered Realities
  Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite

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