Battle Of Mice - A Day Of Nights

Man, this is a dark one. Post Metal supergroup Battle Of Mice featured members of  Neurosis, Red Sparowes, Made Out Of Babies, Pere Ubu and bizarrely The Fugees (Joe Tomino was their live drummer). The band was formed by vocalist Julie Christmas and Guitarist Josh Graham who met when their respective bands tourd together, initilly hated eachother, before briefly falling in love, foming the band, then deciding they hated eachother again. "A Day Of Nights" was recorded when they had split up (during recording they refused to be in the same room together) and lyrically is almost all about how much they dislike eachother. Soundwise it's seven songs of epic guitar, building and crushing with vocals rangng from a childlike whisper to a horrifying scream. Obviously it's not an easy listening classic (particularly "At The Base Of The Giants Throat,", which features a very dsturbing 911 call towards the end of the song), but if you dig Post-rock and metal like Bossk, Isis, Neurosis etc then it's definitely worth a listen.

To demonstrate the power of this album, here's opening track "The Lamb And The Labrador"...