51 minutes, 42 seconds

Foundation Hope
A Call to All Redeemers

How often are a group's only two CD releases mastered to the exact same total time? Once, in my experience. Both Foundation Hope's A Call to All Redeemers and The Faded Reveries come to 51 minutes and 42 seconds. Purposefully? Hard to say. The band's Web site offers no clues. Then again, other bands that do interesting (uh, to me, anyway) things with total CD time don't talk about it either. For example, Der Blutharsch masters almost all their CDs to the same number of minutes and seconds--43:43, 51:51, 44:44, etc. And X-Fusion seems to have something against seconds; almost all their CDs are cut to the minute--66:00, 69:00, and so on.

Why?

Maybe I'll get in touch with these bands and ask. It'll be a future project for this as-yet-frightfully-unambitious blog.

Also today:

51:42 Foundation Hope, The Faded Reveries
51:41 A Challenge of Honour, Only Stones Remain
51:41 Narsilion, Arcadia
51:39 Forma Tadre, Navigator
51:39 Toroidh, Europe Is Dead
51:38 Azam Ali, Portals of Grace
51:36 Cesium 137, Intelligent Design
New arrival! 73:26 Polygon, Refuge
New arrival! 72:33 This Morn' Omina, Em Sauf Haa-Heru
51:34 Covenant, Skyshaper (CD 2 of 2)
51:32 Faun, Licht