In A Land Called "The Land"

I played with a drummer a while back who said he was also in a rock opera group, and I just figured that humans were done with rock opera. I was so very very, sweetly, sweetly, wrong.

I decided to check out The Discs of Fury at Nectar in 2007 and, holy shit: smoke, a laser glove, and a one-hundred and fifty dollar plastic sword. And the really brilliant part, a robed narrator reading from a tome, as if we were visiting grandpa at his remote estate in the countryside for the evening--where the secret odyssey of Marvin Lazer and the prophecy he must fulfill could only be told.

On May 16th at LoFi, with babes and batlords, the group released The Chronicles of Lazer: Vol 1, a five song E.P. and their first release. This 'disc of fury' (yep, had to say it) covers most of Lazer's story and soars on tracks "The Prophecy" and "Blades in the Night".

Not on the E.P., there is a song introducing each member of the band and their special power. All are brilliantly absurd and fitting, my favorite being The Arctunomenon: a song about a dark mage living inside of a mountain, laughing maniacally because that's what dark mages do. "ARC-TU-NOMENON. HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"

myspace.com/discsoffury for dates and EP info.


Fire In The Sky