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The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time – #56

The Dillinger Escape Plan, ‘Calculating Infinity’ (1999)

Well, what could I say?

“It sounded disgusting, but we did it, and maybe we finally took that to the nth degree with this album.” But the album’s greatness didn’t just stem from the lurching, spasming rhythms, or the disjointed harmonies, or the way Weinman’s guitar sometimes sounded like a circular saw cutting steel. There was an underlying logic, a sense of structure that lifted songs like the cathartic, improbably catchy “

Need to find another cup of tea

My latest book – "En sjøens helt – Brennende skip" by Jon Michelet

Finally got to finish the fifth book in the series about Havlor Skramstad and the Norwegian merchant sailors during WW2. As for the four other, a really good book. As you might already know, Jon Michelet has passed away, but he got to finish up book number six just weeks before he had to give in for cancer. So the last book is off course what I want to read next, just have to finish up some other books as well.