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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” Written by H.P. Lovecraft some fifty-odd years before I slithered out onto this earth, these words are fair warning even today to any who might stray too far from the light of reason and the safety of that greyest of places: Lack of Imagination. The depths of Dread Knowledge are not meant to be plumbed by the common man. Thankfully, New Jack Rubys are not common men. Consider the lunacy contained within these digital sounds. Their furious gumbo would drive any mere mortal to the brink of sanity. New Jack Rubys: Going Mad So You Don't Have To. And for nearly all of their fourteen years I have watched them; from the early days when they worked under their long forgotten pupal name; through the years of cacophonous basement gigs; the 2007 release