A couple of dark metal vids that I'm liking right now.
The new Bloodbath album looks to be a winner, or rather the single is great:
And while spinning around the dark reaches of death metal, I came across the new Belphegor single 'Conjuring the Dead'. This should appeal to anyone who likes the last couple of Behemoth albums:
Well it is Thursday night, which is music night. And it's been an interesting week at work, with two competing job offers. I've tried to play reasonably dumb and innocent for both of them. Which has created no end of consternation. *Result*
So Music Night, what got hit?
Started with the Steven Wilson music doco 'Insurgentes' which i thoroughly enjoyed. It's dark, it's artistic, and I do love Lasse Hoile's design work. Basically it's a 75min rant against the modern music industry, but from a interesting and lucid perspective. Worth a spin. I felt it lost its way near the end, but still recommended.
Enjoyed the bonus disk from the DVD (CD of an unreleased track).
Then onto Pure Reason Revolution DVD which came with the new album, Hammer and Anvil. They started out as a cheesy prog band, but appear to have turned into a mix of prog, Depeche Mode and possibly Prodigy - but all in a good way. I would definitely recommend the new album. The DVD is mainly second album stuff, and is not essential. Actually it was kinda crap. But good enough I may buy the second album. Damnit.
Decided to stick to the DVD theme, and went for IQ live in 2007. Chose about 6 tracks from this then moved Queen 'Sheer Heart Attack' on vinyl. I really love early Queen. Actually I love all era's of Queen, but the visceral passion of the first three albums always works for me. I'm lucky enough to have the Complete Works on vinyl, which is, to quote the Fast Show, nice.
Booze: pint of ginger beer; pint of bitter and twisted (harviestoun); bottle of Spanish red (meh); and now Glenfarclas 105.
Been awhile since we had a metal post, so here's some vids. Those of you who don't like metal, skip to the last one, it's rock and it's superb.
First up Saxon, that 80s NWOBHM band, are still rocking along - here's a 2008 vid whose riff may owe something to ac/dc sin city, but let's not tell anyone...
And more celtic metal. This is, in keeping with most other celtic/folk metal, very very wrong.
Found a mesuggah wannabe, Deatholution - Hackneyed, wouldn't recommend them, they have the brutal precision approach of M, but they miss the icy brutal delicacy, and I can't think of any other way to describe it, of M. Bloodbath are always a favourite of mine, a bit of a supergroup, or at least a secondary project for a number of extreme metallers (akerfeldt from opeth was a vocalist for a period). Worth checking out, Ex Deo 'Romulus', and no prizes for guessing the song (and video) topic matter. The video is quite good tho, CGI fun times. And I ended this particular run with Dimmu Borgir, The Chosen Legacy from their superb album, In Sorte Diaboli. Ok, so they are an acquired taste, but the mix of synth and brutal metal really works for me.
Flicked through some stoner metal, nothing really that grabbed me. So have moved on to Isis, and came across these guys 'Baroness - Wanderlust'. Good stuff, should appeal to Isis fans.
Can anyone explain the point of Trivium? Really? Anyone? No, thought not. What gets to me is that when I'm searching for music of this type, it keeps turning up in the related videos section. Why?!
Rob Zombie has a new album out, and here's the uncensored video.
But this is, by far, the best video I've seen for ages White Wizzard 'Over the Top', imagine if you will, an 80s hair metal tribute band who are good, sound like Queensryche, but with a singer who has more in common with Midnight (from Crimson Sky) for vocal range, and the mighty morphin power rangers. This isn't really metal, just good 80s hair metal rock. Please watch it
I have a soft spot for Hammerfall 'Any means necessary', and Amorphis 'Silver Bride' both of which are a bit cheesy metal, but at least have a good tune to carry them. Actually Amorphis are much better than that suggests. Ohhh good to see Grave Digger still going strong, not that they've changed their focus subject-wise much over the years. I've got live at Wacken kicking around somewhere. How anthemic is that 'ballad of a hangman' - awesome stuff.
Righto, I think that will do my metal exploration for the evening.
