Atlanta sludge doom trio, Zoroaster, are getting ready to release their second full album, Voice of Saturn, which will be the follow up to last year's highly praised Dog Magic, and which should hit around February 2009.

But that's really got nothing to do with the guest blog submitted to to us by bassist and vocalist Brent Anderson -- except that, in retrospect, both will surely be documents of chaos and adrenaline. Now, here's Brent:

In February, 2007, Zoroaster was in the middle of a 31-shows-in-31-days tour alongside Sour Vein in support of our (then) new album Dog Magic. It was our second time playing in Missoula, Montana. The show was really cool, but the club was on the basement floor of the venue, so an elevator was involved with the load in and load out.

[Guitarist] Will [Fiore] and [drummer] Dan [Scanlan] were loading the elevator and rolling the gear out to me at the bus where I was loading it into the bus. It was snowing at the time and was so cold that the gas was actually freezing in the bus so we had to keep it running at all times just to keep it warm. Read more...