A random purchase, I used to sometimes make when there were shops that sold CDs, was just that. Random. You had no idea what you were getting, you just bought on the basis of a band name or their cover art. It was a test of your ability to judge something on little information. Some were alright, some were excellent.
October File's 'Our Souls to You' was the latter. A band I would have never have been recommended or discovered by any other way than chance was to become one of my very favourite metal bands.
Initially I didn't listen much to them, was it because I was happy back then? Later when mounting tragedies struck I found that I was receptive to their righteous anger to religion, corporations, and all things frustrating. They were raw, well crafted, seared with a burning energy and the perfect soundtrack to apocalypse.
They had a way of dealing with an unfair world proactively and it made a deep appeal to me and helped me to become such a victim.
If you are angry then I highly recommend listening to this album as an antidote to the shrug-shoulders-ain't-life-shit misery rock to encourage you to get off your arse and make life less shit.
