I can’t believe 2015 is already coming to a close! This year simultaneously feels like it flew by and lasted a decade, with relocating halfway across the world and the immense amount of traveling I’ve done recently. I’ve had quite an ever-changing soundtrack over this time, so without further ado, here’s what’s been blasting my headphones for this year, in no particular order or preference. ::
Over the past month I began filming a music video project for my close friends in Duesenjaeger, an amazing melodic Deutschpunk band from Osnabrück, Germany. I first met the band in 2012 while on tour with my band Countdown to Armageddon, when the two of us played a gig together in Leipzig on a European tour. I was immediately blown away, and we became fast friends over several beers. A couple years later we would collaborate on the Duesenjaeger / Countdown to Armageddon split 7″ [which I did the photography and design for], and we did a mini tour of western and central Germany together to celebrate in 2014.
Today marks the 180th day since my transition to Berlin from Seattle. It’s unbelievable that six months has already passed; in some ways I feel like I’ve been here for years, and other ways it seems like I just got off the plane at Tegel Airport in June. I was warned that time flies in this city. I’m also exceptionally good at not listening to things people warn me about.
It was a pleasure getting to shoot one of my favorite artists of late, Chelsea Wolfe, at the legendary SO36 venue in Berlin for Cvlt Nation.
The feature I shot on Napalm Death, Voivod, Exhumed, Iron Reagan, Black Crown Initiate, and Theories is online now at Cvlt Nation, check it out here: http://www.cvltnation.com/cvlt-nation-captures-napalm-death-part-ii/
This was really a phenomenal gig, particularly seeing Voivod again after many years (the first time was in 1999 when they toured with Neurosis). Singer Barney Greenway of Napalm Death was sporting a broken arm and managed to have more energy live than most musicians half his age.
