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Continued from page 34 05•2018 your brain. How it works is, you’re depriving your brain of all stimuli – it can’t see or hear – so it’s like a giant black IMAX screen, a void. Then, all of a sud- den, your brain starts tripping out. I, myself, started seeing shapes – it was really cool. I’m going to another one soon and [will] stay in longer to just see what happens. So everything on “Black Labyrinth” is based around that – the art- work, the videos. The Ganzfeld Experiment was just something I stum- bled across, but people have been doing it for a long time. But it’s all part of the grand design. Or we may all be part of a computer simulation – I don’t know. But I’m just going to have fun on my journey. I don’t give a fuck anymore – I just want to have an enjoyable life. Appearing 5/6 at House Of Blues, Chicago. Tom Lanham where I live, that’s my car. We’re not forc- ing anything. We grew up on the beach, and that’s what we’ve been doing our whole lives. Appearing with Mos Generator 5/19 at Bottom Lounge, Chicago MOSH-WORTHY RELEASES: Burn the Priest Legion: XX (Epic Records), Lords of Black Icons of the New Days (Frontiers Music s.r.l.), Shadowkeep Shadowkeep (Pure Steel Records). MOSH-WORTHY – LIVE: Hammerfall, Flotsam and Jetsam, Wrath, Acracy (The Forge, 06/04); The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Aversions Crown, Shadow Of Intent (House of Blues, 06/08); Anvil (Reggie’s Rock Club, 06/09). MENTION-WORTHY: Chastain vocalist Leather Leone’s sophomore solo album II is a welcome return from the leather- throated powerhouse singer. The 11 track straight-ahead, full-throttle traditional metal assault reaffirms why she’s one of the best belters around. The UK’s most revered stoner rock outfit, Orange Goblin, return in June after four years with The Wolf Bites Back, their 9th studio album. Follow us on Twitter @ie_entertainer 52 illinoisentertainer.com may 2018