You ever stay awake for 36 hours straight playing video games, then go outside amongst the living, and have trouble differentiating between the virtual reality in which you just lived for a day and a half, and the physical world around your? Yeah, me too. Sleep depravation is amazing, and will do some messed up things to your mind. When you hear about meth-heads (speed freaks) doing crazy stuff, it’s not exactly because of the drugs. It’s because of the lack of sleep. Speed will make them jittery, and make them stay up for days, but after staying up for days, it’s the sleep depravation that makes them start seeing things. It makes them do awesome things like take their TV apart and wash the inside of it with a garden hose, because after day three of being awake, they realized “it must be filthy in there because I never clean it.” I have never done speed and do not recommend it, but many of times I have stayed awake for a day or two.
If you want a cheap vacation, take a week off from work and stay up for a couple of days playing Skyrim, the Dungeons and Dragons style video game. Get into it, enjoy it, and then grab the new CD by the band Cello Fury and walk around in public with it playing in your headphones. It will be the soundtrack to your own, action, adventure, game that is life. I did this and it was trippie. I began to taste colors. The only problem was, sense I am colorblind, they all tasted the same.
Cello Fury is a band from Pittsburgh that consists of three cellists, and a drummer. They do instrumental music in the vein of Heavy Metal similar to the band Break of Reality. They have played large arenas to sixty thousand fans, and they have played small rock clubs. Diverse and quick to adjust, they are the palm tree that bends with the wind. Now on the heels of their critically acclaimed debut album, Cello Fury is set to release their follow up effort Symphony of Shadows.
With fifteen tracks and a total play time that is almost exactly an hour long, Symphony of Shadows is an emotionally powerful CD. Even if string arrangements are not normally your thing, I recommend that you give these guys a chance. Their high-energy performance, and rock oriented writing style will surprise you.
Electronic and acoustic music is currently "hot" to the point that I could stand to go a long time without hearing either one. Technically Cello Fury is an acoustic band, but in no way can they be compared to the mind numbing, tedious folksy trend that has been going on for too long. It does my antagonist heart good to see somebody moving in a different direction, and going against the grain. This music gets the blood pumping. Listening to it makes me want to go out and punch a bear, or slay a dragon. If you are feeling brave, you can find more information on the band at their web page:
www.cellofury.com
or their facebook: www.facebook.com/cellofury
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