Timeghoul is the direct English translation of the word Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist means spirit of the age in German. This band was not a spirit of its age, yet it still captures a lot of what made death metal great back then. This band was founded in 1987 under the name Doom's Lyre and changed their name to Timeghoul in 1991. This band released 2 demo's under the Timeghoul name; the first, Tumultuous Travelings in 1992, and the second, Panaramic Twilight in 1994. After releasing these demo's they split up. A sad loss considering how far ahead of its time Timeghoul was.

Read on for a somewhat more in depth look at Timeghoul and a interview with Mike Stevens.

Watershed has been out for close to 2 years, which means I can look at it from a rather post-hype perspective, while giving it enough time to sink in and thus get a better judgment. This is important with any metal album as they do take longer to digest than say a pop album, unless if its St. Anger of course.

Watershed from the first moment its already clear that they fixed one of the main issues of Ghost Reveries, this is not a overproduced album. Yes its still very clean sounding, but without the complete sterility of Ghost Reveries. Every instrument sounds full and powerful. The mixing also is also well done. The bass could use a slight boost, but as it is it works nice. The keyboards are more in the background compared to Ghost Reveries. This is a good thing. Yet this album still sounds somewhat tiring to listen to.

So, every so often I stumble across some really obscure act from the 90's that really just deserves some sort of attention. So hey, new recurring feature? Who knows!

Anyways, a few weeks back a friend of mine introduced me to The Infinity Project; an obscure and almost unknown psychedelic trance band that was briefly active during the early 90's. While largely forgotten, some electronic music fans may recognize one of the contributing members, Raja Ram aka Ronald Rothfield, who has gone on to have a mildly successful career as the owner of the TIP World record label, as well as continuing to put out his own solo efforts and collaborations with other artists.

There isn't much to describe The Infinity Project with, other than pure psychedelic ambiance with strong Indian and Middle Eastern influences. If you enjoyed the soundtracks to games such as Metroid Prime or the Spirit Temple theme from Ocarina of Time, then The Infinity Project may very well pique your interest.

That said, enjoy some picks from their 1995 album, "Mystical Experiences" after the jump.

Today we dust off an old VGRC feature, and what better way to (re)start things off than with one of my personal favorite game soundtracks: Plok for the SNES.

While at its release (and, really, ever since) Plok has been continually overlooked by the majority of the gaming community and press, those who stumbled upon and took the time to play this gem were immediately struck by one of the most original, and dare I say, complex, soundtracks in a game on the Super Nintendo. Composed by none other than the legendary Tim Follin, individual tracks would oftentimes stretch out to 4 minutes before looping, leaving lots of room for Follin to play. The end result was a series of complex multi-layered tracks with constantly shifting and changing sounds. In 1993, this was some very impressive stuff.