Don’t you love it when music brings people together? Got a little story for you regarding that; I just recently watched a 2003 ‘horror’ movie called Darkness Falls and it was pretty bad… from characters you can’t possibly care about, to predictable jump scares to a dumb story that could have been told much better. I wouldn’t recommend Darkness Falls to my worst enemy, but I’m glad I got to the end of the film, because there was an awesome song by an unknown band called Vixtrola while the credits rolled that was about ten times better in quality than the hour and a half that preceded it. In summary, this is a band that disbanded WHILST producing their first album apparently because of some sort of creative dispute with Geffen Records. And talk about potential, even names like Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails) were onboard to produce their first record End:User, which was going to contain this song, Gunboat. And then… nothing. Unfortunately, the members of this duo never achieved a terribly high level of success and they ended up just putting out their one and only album in pieces. You can find their entire full album on YouTube, for free, by clicking this link. When I searched for this song online, imagine my surprise when I realized there were many others out there (thousands) that just like me, made it through a crappy horror film only to be united right afterward in our mutual search for a group that hasn’t existed in nearly twenty years! That is synchronicity! Smash play and enjoy the underground of the music underground.
