A godless band of unrepentant heathens has released a new album — and is donating a portion of the proceeds to the SSA. You can listen to samples and order the album on Amazon. Get more music for your iPod and help atheists at the same time!
Jan 13 2012
Sacrilege for a good cause
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Irene Delse
13 January 2012 at 12:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“Get more music for your
iPodmp3 player and help atheists at the same time!”FTFY.
No Apple for me, thanks.
juice
13 January 2012 at 3:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Why not just listen to the band Atheist?
crocswsocks
13 January 2012 at 5:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
For a good cause, as opposed to, sacrilege in a vacuum?
overlook77
13 January 2012 at 6:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Why not just listen to the band Atheist?
What makes it newsworthy is that proceeds of that album go to the SSA. The fact ‘Words Such As Burn’ is an atheist band is not really the point of the post.
a3kr0n
13 January 2012 at 6:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Shit. I though the flashbacks had finally gone away.
No Apple for me either Irene #1!
billyjoe
13 January 2012 at 8:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The music sounds good but I cannot hear the words…which sort of defeats the purpose.
Perhaps some light guitar?
toddstiefel
13 January 2012 at 8:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Billyjoe, if you are interested, I just posted lyrics for our atheist song (“Flow”) and our skeptic song (“Fallacy One: Argument from Ignorance”) on the Words Such As Burn Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WordsSuchAsBurn
anuran
13 January 2012 at 10:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Really like the “Christian Prayer Center” prayer request ad that accompanies this piece.
Rip Steakface
13 January 2012 at 10:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Eh, how about just buying an Atheist album and sending an equal amount to the SSA? Atheist is probably _the_ best example of technical, jazz metal in history. If you’re a percussionist or a bassist, especially if you like metal, Unquestionable Presence is a must-have.
Hell, even if you have any familiarity with reading music, time signatures and a bit of theory, you’d recognize the (interesting and non-harmful) insanity of Atheist’s music. And The Psychic Saw has a bit about a minute and twenty seconds in where the band stays completely together despite myself and a number of my musician friends being utterly unable to find the beat.
Emrysmyrddin
14 January 2012 at 7:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
What are ya, old? ;)
overlook77
14 January 2012 at 1:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You can own more than one album last I checked. If you don’t like the WSAB stuff, don’t buy it. Some people happen to like it.