Jonathan Catlin

Analyst, Foodie, Traveler

Test Post 1

I wasn’t really that keen on “Obsolete”, Fear Factory‘s last full-length effort. It wasn’t bad as such, but after the innovation of remix album “Remanufacture” it felt like a couple of steps backwards. Where “Remanufacture” showed us a bit of leg, “Obsolete” clamped its frigid thighs shut on our roaming hands and said, “Ooh, I don’t know if my husband would approve.” But there’s […]

Test Post 2

I wasn’t really that keen on “Obsolete”, Fear Factory‘s last full-length effort. It wasn’t bad as such, but after the innovation of remix album “Remanufacture” it felt like a couple of steps backwards. Where “Remanufacture” showed us a bit of leg, “Obsolete” clamped its frigid thighs shut on our roaming hands and said, “Ooh, I don’t know if my husband would approve.” But there’s […]

Filter’s Forgotten Album

Three years might not be a long time in the grand scheme of things, but it seems like I’ve been waiting forever for this one. Possibly because Filter‘s last effort, Title Of Record, was so instant that a week after I bought it, it felt like my oldest friend. Or possibly because the band haven’t filled […]

Are Friends Electric?

Gary Numan created this amazing thing in 1979. Pasted from Riot Fest Magazine: Science fiction has been a favorite subject of rock & roll since the form’s inception, whether it came in the form of early novelty hits like Sheb Wooley’s “The Purple People Eater,” or Hawkwind’s psychedelic space travel epic Space Ritual. With the advent […]