Dan Briggs of Between the Buried and Me fame is one busy dude. BTBAM should really be enough to keep anyone busy considering the complexity of their music and their touring schedule. It seems like they make their way through the bay a few times every album cycle (not that I'm complaining). How he has the time for side projects like Orbs, Trioscapes and now The Nova Collective is beyond me.

I've never heard of post metal outfit Junius until they dropped their latest album. It ends their trilogy of albums, starting with The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist, continuing with Reports from the Threshold of Death, and ending with Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light.

Black metal and blues, surely such an odd pairing shouldn't work. It almost doesn't, and it's downright bizarre, but something about it just keeps me coming back.