Tag Archive: Misha Monsoor


As you may have seen around the net on sites such as Metalsucks and The Number Of The Blog, Tre Watson, guitarist of Maryland band Carthage, is making his presence known by emailing all of us about his album (see? the contact page works!).

Taking inspiration in projects from guitarists Keith Merrow, Misha Monsoor, and Tosin Abasi, Tre decided to write, record, program, and produce an album, Lexicon of the Human Subconscious, and release it online for free! The album is making rounds across metal circles, as I’ve posted above, so all the traffic the file is getting is making is slow (or even inaccessible.) I decided to put my unlimited bandwidth to good use and offer up a mirror/stream for Tre, not only for those who want to download it from another source, but to those who want to hear it before they download.

Check out the full album below. If you feel compelled enough to donate to Tre so he can fix his broken guitar (FFFFFUUUU-), you can do that RIGHT HERE.

1. Dilate

2. UFAILien

3. TWIPPF

4. Charmander Used Flamethrower!

5. MFT

6. Tears of the Almighty

7. Image Construction Error (Feat. Dan Park)

8. Hopefully Working

9. Breach of Consent

10. Conflicting Intentions

11. Telephone (Lady Gaga cover) (Bonus Track)

Download the whole album here in an archive here. (72 MB, Uploaded by deseee from TNOTB)

- JR

Haunted Shores posted the following update on their MySpace.

Greetings,

We’ll be releasing a split EP with our good friends in Cyclamen (UK), due out tentatively next month! We’re almost done with it, just putting the finishing touches on one more track on our end, as well as some artwork. From the bits I’ve heard of the Cyclamen material it is gonna be something truly special. Appearing on the split EP will be final versions of “When in Oslo” and one more song (which we will be posting here soon!). After that comes out Chris and I will resume work on the new album! We’ve been writing together a ton and are beyond excited to share it with you guys. I also wanted to formally thank all of you who have given us positive feedback on the new iteration of HS. We really take it to heart, especially considering the fact that we’re kind of getting a fresh start if you will. So thanks to all who have listened… tell your friends aboot us!

If you haven’t heard of Cyclamen, shame on you. I interviewed Hayato Imanishi earlier this year. They’re a really great band and are playing their first show with Tesseract March 19th in High Wycombe, UK. Haunted Shores, on the other hand, is a thrashier sounding djenty band based out of Washington DC, featuring Mark Holcomb on guitar and bass and ex-Periphery singer Chris Barretto. Periphery songwriter Misha Monsoor apparently makes studio appearances and handles some of the production.

Everyone should check this EP out and help support independent artists like Cyclamen and Haunted Shores. It will definitely be worth checking out.

- JR

So a few weeks ago or whatever, Periphery announced the departure of singer Chris Baretto and the inclusion of new singer Spencer Sotelo. Well, yesterday, Haunted Shores, one of Periphery guitarist Misha “Bulb” Monsoor‘s music projects, announced that Chris Baretto will be handling vocal duties. Wut?

Chris and Haunted Shores guitarist Mark Holcomb

Well that’s weird. Clearly, Misha and Chris are still friends and want to work together, but randomly taking Chris out of Periphery and now him joining Haunted Shores? I wonder how that conversation went down.

“Hey bro, you’re a great singer and all…”
“Yeah?”
“We’re bros and shit, but… like… we found a better singer.”
“WAT”
“I know, I know… but this is our label debut and we want to make it sound as good as possible.”
“I don’t even.”
“Oh don’t worry, bro. Come over and hang out with us at Haunted Shores.”
“Well that’s kinda pointless. Why couldn’t you just put the new guy over there?”
“That’s not confusing enough.”

Yeah. That likely happened.

Anyway, the new Haunted Shores track “When In Oslo”, featuring Baretto on vocals, sounds great. Go listen to it on the HS Myspace. This is gonna be good.

- JR

Guy with big hair = gone.

Hell if I know how many different singers Periphery have through so far. They haven’t even put out an album yet and they’ve had three or four different vocalists on board. I don’t know when previous vocalist Chris Baretto was dropped, but when listening to the new album sampler posted on MySpace, I noticed the singing was different. Specifically, in the clip of “Light”, the new vocalist is hitting notes a whole fucking octave higher than the version recorded with Baretto.

The new vocalist is Spencer Sotelo, and I think I’m liking his voice better than Baretto’s. Periphery’s debut album is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated albums of the year. It will be out on Sumerian Records April 20th.

Again, check out the sampler on Periphery’s MySpace and get excited!

- JR

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