Selecting a list for the most qualitative musical projects of the decade is not an ideal undertaking for me. I am anything but eclectic, and often am extremely discriminating when it comes to the microscopic musical choices and various executions that go into making an album. For the past six years, I have had a steady diet of mostly death metal, hardcore variations, and (relatively recently) more bare bones jazz and fusion. Connecting the dots are an appreciation for the loathed terms “Intelligent Dance Music” and “Post Rock”, but far …

Are these words, these words as they appear to you, the syntax that echoes who I am? If my flesh (jacked flesh) is composed of complex proteins, then my soul is surely built of letters and prose… Or is it numbers now? In a way, these words form a fragment of my self, or in another’s opinion, an impressionistic portrait. To cut to the chase, my own desires to get a point across and do it in an entertaining manner, create an impression of me and yet not the ‘true’ …

So, I am sitting in a surprisingly comfy metal snake that is tear-assing its way across a country I have never actually experienced. I have lived in the Greater Toronto Area for all 20 years of my existence and I can shamefully say that I have only covered 0.01% of the entire country’s landmass in my travels. Granted, this country happens to (spatially) be the second largest on Earth, but still. It is long past due that I finally visit Quebec, and that is where I am about collide with …

In the vein of my fellow contributor/Claudius HearWaximus/ Judo coach GERGS, this first blog entry will be introductory. As I dip my Archaeopteryx feather quill into a pot of Rasputin’s blood to write this, I feel I should outline what to expect from ALECATRAZ;
I hope to shed light on upcoming interviews and projects I am working on for the site. For example;
An interview in now officially in the works with jazz tech metal overlords THE CRINN (yeah,  sidebar, Dreaming Saturn getting pushed back to 2010?! I swear if Nuclear Blast …