In the late '90s I was working at a silk screening shop. We hand pulled greeting cards for a local company. It was here I ended up meeting one of my best friends. When I started at the shop he had long hair down to his ass, and was obviously a metal head. I had been deeply involved in indie rock and the first wave of emo for a few years but found myself welcoming his turns on the shop cd player. It was through him I rediscovered my love for death metal. I had asked him to make me a "best of" compilation of Morbid Angel and he also made a general mix of death metal. On that mix was "Christ's Cage" by #immolation . Back in the day I had a cassette that someone put their demo on. I remember loving the vocals but I don't remember much else. When I heard this song I was hooked on death metal all over again and through my buddie's guidance (and his personal cd collection ) I started mining the depths of the genre again. My rekindled relationship with metal became kind of an inside joke with the bands I was involved with at the time, most of the other members (actually, none of the other members) had any history with heavy music let alone death metal. It became a special sort of insular musical cocoon for me at the time. My buddie and I started attending the odd metal show together and all the reasons I loved metal in the first place kind of just bubbled to the surface again and it wasn't long before I was re-immersed in it's evil din. Prior to working at that print shop my cd collection contained Slayer's "reign in blood" and the first four Black Sabbath albums. Now almost half of my collection falls under the heavy metal flag. The music just doesn't ever let you go. "Christ's Cage" is still one of my favorite songs in its wide world.
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