Wombaticus Rex wrote:After all, it's thanks to an Ouija board named Soothsayer who came from Jerusalem (stick with me, this is all actually true) that The Mars Volta wrote and recorded their absolute heaviest and weirdest album, The Bedlam in Goliath. Their first engineer lost his shit and destroyed the album.
In the interest of defending the many contributions Ouija boards have made to the heavy metal arts, I would like to quote the statement that engineer left behind -- an assessment of the album I more or less wholly agree with:"I'm not going to help you make this record. You're trying to do something very bad with this record, you're trying to make me crazy and you're trying to make people crazy."
huh. The fascinating stuff you hear sometimes. Little blurb in Wikipedia about it: "On January 2, 2008, The Mars Volta released an online game called "Goliath: The Soothsayer", based on a true story that inspired their forthcoming album The Bedlam In Goliath. The album chronicles the band's purported experience with the "Soothsayer", a Ouija board owned by vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and its transition from a source of fun on tour to a psycho-spiritual force that almost tore the band apart. http://www.youtube.com/user/ImpossibleVoyage The game was available for a limited time exclusively via Amazon.com."
In closing, where did Trent Reznor record his best-selling album The Downward Spiral?
aw shucks & I'm such a Reznor fan myself. Mind you I like his newer stuff a whole lot more.
