Jeff Hoy, American

I’m not sure why, but black metal has been at the forefront of most of my music purchases lately.  I recently found out about Cobalt and have enjoyed their latest album, Gin, quite a bit.  Pregnant Insect is probably my favorite track on that album.  Along with Rob Zombie’s latest I also ordered up Cobalt’s earlier album Eater of Birds and am very eager to hear it.  I was kinda surprised to find out that they are Colorado based.  Just as an aside, if you plan on getting Gin, I suggest getting it on CD instead of digitally.  There’s a hidden track at the end of the physical album that most digital distributors cut off.  I learned that the hard way.

Beyond Cobalt I think my new favorite band is a Finnish black metal outfit called Catamenia.  I discovered them about six or eight months ago while trying to find something like Borknagar’s early stuff.  I was really impressed with their then latest album – VIII: The Time Unchained — so much so that a couple days later I bought Winternight Tragedies.  Catamenia just released a new album called Cavalcade that is next on my must buy list.  Unfortunately CD Universe isn’t carrying it now for whatever reason.  I hope that changes soon.

While I was shopping for new music I also dropped Novembers Doom’s latest — Into Night’s Requiem Infernal – into the shopping cart as well.  I’ve been a fan of theirs for a little while now and greatly look forward to more of that dark/doom/death hybrid stuff for which they are well-known.  I should have bought it when it was released but I kept procrastinating.

All of the stuff I ordered today I got from CD Universe, even having to pay for shipping, for almost $20 cheaper than if I had ordered them from Amazon.com with free shipping.  I think I have a new source for all my music.