Rant of Valakut: Kokusho, by the Deserted Beach Boys Ben Iverach-Brereton December 6, 2021 Rants of Valakut Originally published in Rolling Stoneforge Magazine* The wait is finally over. That's Why Heliod Made The Tokens is the first studio album by the Deserted Beach Boys in over ten years to feature new,... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Second Sun Ben Iverach-Brereton December 7, 2020 Rants of Valakut Originally published in Rolling Stoneforge Magazine* In 2010, the band Smash Mouth began work on a new batch of songs. They wanted them to be a love letter to their favourite trading card game, and n... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Double the Musical, Double the Fun Ben Iverach-Brereton September 14, 2020 Rants of Valakut Due to a clerical error, the August 2020 edition of Rolling Stoneforge Magazine went to print missing the back side of a page. It was supposed to contain the second half of "The Double Masters Musical." The fol... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: The Double Masters Musical Ben Iverach-Brereton August 3, 2020 Rants of Valakut Originally published in Rolling Stoneforge Magazine.* Double Masters went through major changes over the course of its development, but nothing quite as major as the changes to its marketing campaign. The in... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Beauty and the Beast Token Ben Iverach-Brereton November 11, 2019 Rants of Valakut Yisan Records is pleased to present an exciting new animated musical from the team that brought you Jace's Gatewatcheers, Mentor of the Meek, and Scoop.... Beauty and the Beast Token The story so ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Yisan Records presents – Scoop Ben Iverach-Brereton May 20, 2019 Rants of Valakut Rolling Stoneforge Magazine and Yisan Records, the teams who brought you The Sounds of the Sea and The Invasion Soundtrack, are joining forces once again for another peek into their music archives.* This wee... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Advice, like Removal, Probably Just Wasted on the Young (Wolf) Ben Iverach-Brereton February 11, 2019 Rants of Valakut In the year 1997, some sound advice was given to that year's graduates in an article by Mary Schmich. It was later set to music by Baz Luhrmann in a song called Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen). The uplifti... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: The Sounds of the Sea Ben Iverach-Brereton September 18, 2017 Rants of Valakut If you're Canadian, odds are that you've heard the song "Barrett's Privateers" at some point in your life. Most people I know are familiar with the tune, even if they don't know the name of the song. It's a cla... Read More...