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Meet the Competition
Posted June 30 by Jeanne F. (8 Comments)
By now you should have already ordered your copy of Precious Metal. Two copies, actually. One copy as reading material, the other copy as memorabilia that you’ll keep between your KISS lunchbox collection and your mint-condition first vinyl pressing of Mercyful Fate’s Melissa. Although we plan to ride Precious Metal all the way to the National Book Awards, it’s come to our attention that one formidable figure stands in our way of music-related literary domination: Tori Spelling.
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Jonny Davy (Job for a Cowboy) interviewed
Posted June 30 by Chris D. (5 Comments)
What do cowboys do when they aren’t herding cattle, chewing tobacco or repairing barns? They make death metal. Actually, looking at Arizona’s Job for a Cowboy I’m not sure a single one of them would know what to do on a farm let alone know Tony Lama and Frye cobble a quality boot. But they do death metal quite well. At least on Ruination.
Long panned by death metal pundits from LA to NYC, Job for a Cowboy learned loads—like how to rope raging Immolation-like runs and wrestle beefy Suffocation-like grooves—between Genesis and Ruination. In fact, let’s do away with the whole deathcore tag right now. Job for a Cowboy is death metal. From opener “Unfurling a Darkened Gospel” to churning title track closer, if this isn’t death metal then Morgoth didn’t worship Chuck Schuldiner like a god on Resurrection Absurd AND The Eternal Fall.
dB giddy ups with Job for a Cowboy frontman Jonny Davy to talk about Ruination and our mutual man-love for Gorguts.
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Posted June 30 by nick (14 Comments)
Can I be honest? I feel obligated to post this video based entirely on the band's name: Cookie Crotch Nuts. C'mon, that's fucking AMAZING! If I'm ever in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin on a Monday night, I'm totally going to stop at Foley's to see if Cookie Crotch Nuts is headlining "Foley's Metal Mondays" and get crunk on $2 Whiskey Cokes. Props to these guys for recognizing that every region in the Midwest needs to have a gang of costumed freaks on ther prowl. Mushroomhead has Ohio on muthafuckin' lockdown; Iowa rolls with Slipknot; Michigan is Juggalo4 life; Mudvayne represents Illinois, son. Yup, it's Cookie Crotch Nuts for the win in Wisconsin! Just check out the dickwad in the hazmat suit who opens the track rapping like Chingy and repeating the "n word" as a chorus! COOKIE CROTCH NUTS!!!!!!!!! Could this get any better? Fast forward to 1:38 to find out! Read more...
Temporary Tattoo Wish List
Posted June 26 by Jeanne F. (10 Comments)
Amy Winehouse? Angelina Jolie? Tommy Lee? Eminem? This book of temporary celebrity tattoos is WEAK. Here at the Deciblog, we take our ink seriously, like this guy. And especially this guy. So if we're gonna affix some celeb art to our fleshy parts, you best believe we want the good shit.
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Tribute to Michael Jackson
Posted June 26 by Chris D. (17 Comments)
OK, Michael Jackson was the King of Pop. He had jams like "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", "Rock With You", "Billie Jean", "Beat It", and "Thriller". But as much as the world mourns Jackson's death and remembers his legacy, we here at dB can't help but point out his, uh, morbid side. Not the alleged kid touching or weird sleepovers with Macaulay Culkin stuff either.
Check out these photos from Jackson's canceled 2009 auction.
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Alestorm debuts “Keelhauled” video
Posted June 26 by Chris D. (2 Comments)
Yes, everyone. This is Pirate Metal. And, yes, Alestorm frontman Christopher Bowes is bangin' head with a keytar!
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Backyard BBQ with Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Posted June 26 by nick (4 Comments)
By Dallas Taylor, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
When we're not on tour or recording, everyone in this band loves to cook. Seriously, I think we cook almost every chance we get. Here is a list of some of our favorite summer dishes + recipes for you to play along at home.
Steak: Always use marinades. Medium rare is the only way.
Ribs: Smoking them in a back yard is just awesome. I dig the smell of the meat on the grill, and the ridiculous amount of work that goes into it. I also think we have perfected a pretty good dry rub (see below).
Salsa: This is probably the easiest thing we make, but one of our favorite things nonetheless. We love hot food, so we love to add a lot of Habanero peppers, Scotch Bonnet peppers, Jalapeno peppers, Serrano peppers, and Finger Hot peppers. We make it so hot it makes your whole body a little numb (see below).
Wings: We really get into making our own homemade wing sauce. It is very hot, as well (we make each batch hotter until we are all dripping sweat), and we also like making our own blue cheese and ranch dipping sauces.
Hamburgers and Fries: . We are all about coming up with new hamburger recipes. One of our favorites involves stuffing two marinated hamburger patties with cheese (it depends on what we are feeling... usually colby jack or cheddar). To top it off, we add some sautéed onions and mushrooms, bacon, and a homemade horseradish ranch. On the side, we usually do up sweet potato fries or parmesan garlic fries.
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Will Cover Swedish Hardcore for Food
Posted June 25 by Decibot (5 Comments)
On second thought: yes, this is the shape of punk to come. Another worthy entry in Decibot's "Jock Jamz" playlist. Read more...
Graf Orlock Steadicam Reviews: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Posted June 25 by Justin (3 Comments)
Lo and behold, our resident film eviscerator Justin managed to infiltrate an Eastern-European torture chamber after all—a cineplex showing the new Transformers abortion—and “rolled out” his review mere hours after I posted mine. So, one more time: first we crack the shell, then we crack the nuts inside. —AB
Michael Bay’s latest opus of retardation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, contains some of the most decadent drivel currently available to low-paid CGI artists, coupled with a plotline so diluted I thought about letting my veins flow no fewer than 50 times during this “film.” No, not a film—I am going to refer to this as a debacle, packed with so much indistinct robot bullshit, over-the-top Americanism and latent racism I’d rather be waterboarded into oblivion than witness it again.
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the_Network's Australian Tour Diary (Day One)
Posted June 24 by nick (14 Comments)
By Kevin Howley, the_Network
April 23, 2009: Adelaide
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.” –Charles Bukowski
[It’s now the 23rd because it takes 28 hours to get from Boston to Australia and its always tomorrow in Australia (i.e. I left Boston on April 20th, traveled for 28 hours, and arrived in Australia on April 22nd. Go figure.]
Hung over, confused, tired, and excited; and we haven’t even played a show yet. People that get up early, have a healthy breakfast, listen to Top 40 radio stations on their way to work, babble incoherently all day, come home, masturbate or fuck their wife; “happy people,” they don’t know the above mentioned feelings. How could they? I believe they were lobotomized in the womb and thank God for it. They deserve to stay frightened in their tiny villages and offices. You irrelevant know-nothings, get a sharp knife and slice a deep gash into your body. Just don’t tell me how your day went.
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Graf Bonazelli Steadicam Reviews: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Posted June 24 by Andrew (14 Comments)
(Our homeboy Justin’s on European Vacation with Graf Orlock, so what the hell, I had an hour to kill)
Last night I was having a smoke with my friends Kevin and Annie on their roofdeck in the Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia. There was a clatter bleeding into our conversation, which, after a second or two, Annie astutely recognized as the bridge to “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” Yes, the mighty Def Leppard were relieving 45-year-old obese women out of their monthly Doritos allowance yet again, across the Delaware River in Camden, New Jersey’s Tweeter Center Amphitheater. While we were at first drunkenly overjoyed to hear the lapdance classic, we eventually began to ponder just how fucking balls-loud it must’ve been at the actual show over a mile and a half away for us to hear Joe Elliott crystal-clearly inquire if we wanted one lump or two.
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Free B-Movie Bonanza
Posted June 23 by Jeanne F. (3 Comments)
If you spend $12.50 to see Harry Potter, G.I. Joe, or Transformers 2 starring Shia LeBurf and his Manly Actorly Skillz, you’re a sucka. Flip Hollywood the bird, save your cash, and gorge on bad-ass anti-blockbusters for free.
AMC (American Movie Classics) has a butt-ugly cousin called BMC, B-Movie (Almost) Classics. All the movies are online. Free. If AMC is the tall, dark, and handsome Bogart character with slicked hair and a fancy trench coat, BMC is the oafish weirdo with crooked teeth, a lazy eye, and a head full of cowlicks who collects his scabs in a pickle jar. While AMC televises Casablanca-caliber flicks, BMC spotlights ye olden days of man-eating eyeballs, freaks on parade, and hilariously crappy special effects. LeBurf can’t hold a candle to this stuff:
Corridors of Blood (1959, dir. Robert Day) “Boris Karloff stars as a morphine-addicted doctor who falls in with a sadistic gang of killers, led by a young Christopher Lee.”
The Undead (1957, dir. Roger Corman) “Roger Corman’s classic shriekfest follows two psychic researchers who hypnotize a prostitute into reliving a past life, unfortunately that of an evil witch.”
The Crawling Eye (1958, dir. Quentin Lawrence) “Giant, tentacled eyes from space—you read that right—terrorize a Swiss mountain resort with their evil stares and penchant for killing humans.”
It's like all our Christmases/Hanukkahs/Kwanzaas came at once! There are enough B-movies on the BMC roster to keep Elvira busy throughout the Obama administration. And did we mention they’re all FREE ONLINE?
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Legotallica
Posted June 22 by Chris D. (1 Comments)
Imagine the music we humans would make if we had Lego hands? Probably wouldn't sound like Metallica. But then again there are other benefits to hands u-shaped hands.
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Howard Jones (Killswitch Engage) interviewed
Posted June 22 by Chris D. (9 Comments)
Two self-titled records by the same band? It may be a shocker to some, confusing to most -- especially when referencing the titles in conversation --, but rock bands have been doing this stuff for ages. Led Zeppelin's first four albums are self-titled. Though each one has a nice Roman numeral appended. Van Halen did the same thing. Roman numeral appended as well. And, yes, Santana opted for the self-titled/Roman numeral configuration early in his career. Shit, even pop icons like Duran Duran and creative bellwether Peter Gabriel self-titled two or more albums. So, Killswitch Engage is simply following the chosen few.
Five albums in KsE still sounds like KsE. Though there are changes from the first Killswitch Engage to the current Killswitch Engage, sonically this is still very much the same group you slavered over when they rolled through your town at one point or another or watched on YouTube late at night. The Massachusetts-based quintet is as heavy and melodic as ever. And Frontman Howard Jones still screams like he's in the midst of a root canal (without anesthesia, of course) and continues to croons as if his girl just tossed his music collection out of a five-story window. Fact is KsE has matured. They’re songwriters now. They’ve learned from “Rose of Sharyn” and “My Curse” the respect of the dude nod and the power of the panty drop. Two things you can't fault them for.
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Grow Radio Revives Metal Airwaves
Posted June 22 by Jess B. (6 Comments)
Radio and metal seldom encounter a true love affair. Sure they’ll have a good run for a few months, a year or two, but they ultimately fold under, leaving nothing but a scarred memory. Grow Radio’s Doomed Forever Show won’t feed you that same sob story. Instead, DJ Mykel Kolbee, a.k.a. “Bigga Baphomet,” would rather cram dirty fistfuls of metal from the underground down your throat, leaving your choking and crying for air until you properly pronounce every band name correctly.
All the while, Kolbee sits back with his six-pack of lukewarm Stella and laughs his hairy head off. His every Tuesday-night gathering on Grow Radio is called “the Doomed Forever Show,” named after the music message board Doomed Forever Forever Doomed (DFFD). This isn’t just another low-grade forum for kingpins and Nazi sluts, but one that musicians and metalheads alike respectively talk all things metal. Kolbee frequents the Doomed Forever show with timeslots for various bands of musicians on the board, but also examines a worldly palate of raw heaviness. The show kicks off every Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST.
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With the Lights Out...
Posted June 19 by nick (11 Comments)
"Who? The newest 'next Nirvana' is a relatively unknown three-piece band from Miami, but that didn't stop their first label (Robotic Empire) from comparing their 2005 self-titled first album to Nirvana's 1989 album Bleach."
--Niki D'Andrea, Phoenix New Times (March 31, 2009)
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Evocation video for “Tomorrow Has no Sunrise” available
Posted June 19 by Chris D. (2 Comments)
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Top 5 Favorite Horror Movies
Posted June 19 by nick (9 Comments)
By Bobby Hecksher, The Warlocks
1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A classic! Everything's in there: Hanging, chopping, suspense, everything. Always a thrill. I've often wondered about this one. There could never be anything scarier. I mean, there are tons of great horror flicks but none have had the impact that this movie had on me as child. And why does everyone run all fucked up in that movie? Brilliant!
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Ashmedi’s (Melechesh) biographical column & chaotic metaphysical thoughts, Part IV
Posted June 18 by Chris D. (9 Comments)
Festung Open Air was a great event. Good bands and we caught up with good friends. I haven’t seen Proscriptor (Absu drummer and former Melechesh drummer) for five years, though we are in touch almost daily. Last time we met was for the first Melechesh gig in Toronto back in June 2004. That was one hell of a show. My preamp electrocuted me while I was on stage and I just tried to downplay it, acting as if nothing had happened. The crowd was watching. I saw a white light and a tunnel and all that all within a fraction of a second.
Aside from that it was a memorable evening and the first of several visits to Canada. That show was organized by Adrian Bromley of Unrestrained magazine. Adrian unexpectedly passed away last December. We are still not over it as he was a good friend. On a brighter note, the show went well at Festung Open Air. While Absu were playing their set I was invited on stage and sang with them the classic “Swords and Leather”. The crowd went berserk. My bandmates had no clue this was going to happen. Proscriptor and I planned this quietly.
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Cathedral Return to the Forest
Posted June 18 by albert (5 Comments)
A reissue of Cathedral’s Hall of Fame-inducted classic Forest of Equilibrium will be available on June 30th through Earache Records, the Sony Legacy of extreme music. If you haven’t heard this doom metal touchstone since 1991, or are one of those “doom fans” who only enjoys collecting ultra-limited, colored vinyl pressings and missed the boat the first time, do yourself a favor and grab this slice of heaven and hell.
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The Viking Answer Lady
Posted June 17 by Jeanne F. (3 Comments)
Tired of getting all your Viking info from sketchy sources and Amon Amarth videos? Are you ready to separate Viking fact from Viking fiction? Then raise your horn and blow one in the direction of the Viking Answer Lady! She is to Vikings what Suze Orman is to money; what Dr. Ruth is to sex; what Dear Abby is to annoying in-laws. You can spend hours geeking out to her incredibly well-researched and informative website that covers topics ranging from agriculture and art to war and daily life. For example, in the hygiene department, we tend to think of Vikings as the human equivalent of wild boars. How wrong we are!
*No, that’s not actually the Viking Answer Lady in the picture. That’s just some old biddy throwin’ the horns. Mad respect to her.
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Black metal 'boarder terrorizes all on four wheels
Posted June 15 by Chris D. (8 Comments)
You know, when I was a skate rat Mayhem, Emperor, Satyricon, Burzum and Enslaved were very much on my radar. Hell, Cradle of Filth (Principle..., natch) was considered one of the true back then. But as much Darkthrone as I listened to, I never got the nerve to go full corpsepaint with the rest of my bros while we were wild in the streets.
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The New (Zealand) Sound
Posted June 15 by frank (5 Comments)
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New Zealand is below Australia, so the music scene down there must be pretty isolated and desolate, like the Australian outback, right? Maybe...but Ulcerate's new album, Everything is Fire, cannot be the product of a completely stagnant country. The album pushes an Immolation-styled brand of Death Metal into some dissonant post-places. Underneath it all, heavy as fuck, is a rhythm section that frantically pounds and blasts and refuses to relent the death. Everything is Fire got us so pumped on New Zealand that we commissioned the band's drummer, Jamie Saint Merat, to give us his top-five bands hailing from the coastal country. We've got to say it: prepare for some death from down under.
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Dark Tranquillity's “Punish My Heaven” bluegrass-ed
Posted June 14 by Chris D. (2 Comments)
Swedish bluegrass outfit Slaughter of the Bluegrass released its second cover, Dark Tranquillity's "Punish My Heaven". The Stockholm-based group, best known for its excellent rendition of At the Gates' "Blinded by Fear", polls Swedish metal songs for bluegrass transformation. Based on the present numbers, it looks like In Flames' "Moonshield" is next up, followed by a bluegrass version of Opeth's "Bleak". We can't wait for both.
dB recently interviewed Slaughter of the Bluegrass Peter Norlinder and Dan Norman. Read the interview by clicking here. Read more...
Headbangin Birdies
Posted June 12 by Jeanne F. (6 Comments)
Happy Friday, dear readers. Inspired by the video above, we did a little searching for similarly awesome hessian birdies throwing down to some sick tunes. We discovered that there are many birds out there who love metal, love headbanging, and put our own neck athleticism to shame. Metal makes the birds puff up their feathers, lift a little foot in the air, and get down with their bad birdie selves. Meet the official Deciblog mascots.
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A Sunday Afternoon in Philly with Deceased
Posted June 12 by albert (1 Comments)
Sunday will be another lazy Summer day in Philly. And, honestly, what do you really have going on? Sure, you could mow the lawn or run to Ikea and grab those Njutas you desperately need, but fuck that noise—death metal legends Deceased are in town! They’ll be bringing the classics during a special matinee show at Kung Fu Necktie. Virginia’s finest go on at 2:30pm. Be there and then be home by 4:30pm to watch the WFC finish off the Nation. Read more...
Tomi Joutsen (Amorphis) interviewed
Posted June 11 by Chris D. (5 Comments)
Few things are as Finnish as Amorphis. Lapin Kulta might be more Finnish, but to beer connoisseurs Lapin Kulta might as well be piss. So, back to Amorphis. They've been doing the whole sad melody thing for longer than most. And the folk bits? There'd be no Paganfest or Napalm Records if it wasn't for Amorphis' early dabbling in folk music and folk culture. Now that we've officially pulled rank and given credit where credit is due, Amorphis' new album, Skyforger, is no joke. The lull of Tuonela, Am Universum, and Far Beyond the Sun is over. Skyforger completes the re-discovery of Finland's best metal/rock outfit (Kingston Wall owns the "best rock/progressive rock" category).
Dreadlocked frontman (and Brian Fair doppelganger) Tomi Joutsen answers dB's always insightful questions.
What separates Skyforger from Silent Waters?
Tomi Joutsen: It’s difficult to say one thing. They have the same sound. We’ve had the same team and the same line-up. Maybe the biggest difference is the guy [Sami Koivisto] who mixes us live he recorded this latest album. He’s worked with us for five years. He really knows how we should sound. He also had some great microphones. It’s really nice to work with a guy you can trust. He quick and stuff like that. That’s probably the main difference.
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Fangoria Weekend of Horrors NYC Wrap-Up
Posted June 9 by Jeanne F. (7 Comments)
The Toxic Avenger Loves Decibel! The Fangoria Weekend of Horrors took place in NYC June 5–7 and we were there to suck up as much ghoulish mayhem as possible. Click through for the full shebang, including a great photo of Gwar at the soda fountain. Special thanks to photographer Allison Forlenza.
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Mastodon unfurls “Oblivion” video
Posted June 9 by Chris D. (5 Comments)
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A Metalhead's Careful Balancing Act
Posted June 9 by Chris D. (4 Comments)
We here at dB know Metalheads are as heavy as a really heavy thing. Apparently that didn't dawn on some random German hesser who daringly decided to walk across a drainage pipe in full Heavy Metal regalia.
Watch as Herr Hesser walks, poses for the camera and then drops like an anvil after losing his balance.
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Hair Debrutaler
Posted June 8 by frank (6 Comments)
Hair is brutal because you get to bang your head with it. In order for the best headbanging to be maintained, your hair must be maintained - or else you get a pile of hippie shit on your head.
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Poison at the Tonys. Near Decapitation of Singer Ensues.
Posted June 8 by Jeanne F. (3 Comments)
The ugliest lesbian in America, Bret Michaels, suffered a tragedy last night while his band Poison was performing "Nothin' But a Good Time" at the Tony Awards. (Let's pause for a hot second: Poison. Tonys. Ugly. Lesbian. Bret.) Instead of hitting the after parties and trying for a threesome with Liza Minnelli and Angela Lansbury, Bret was in the hospital getting X-rays because he nearly lost his head. After failing to hit his mark on time, a piece of scenery clocked the flaxen-haired singer right at throat-level. Notice that his hat didn't fall off. Amazing. It's also worth nothing that God of Carnage won for Best Play. The title is not lost of all of us here at dB. Coincidence? Let's review: Poison. Tonys. Ugly. Lesbian. Bret. There's only so much envelope-pushing that Zeus allows before hurling a bolt of whoop-ass at your rock of love.
On a much happier note, here's a video of the cast of Rock of Ages soundchecking "Don't Stop Beleivin'" for their appearance on The Today Show. Secret weapon: Slurpees. Read more...
Hardcore Summer Listening: New Civ Discography
Posted June 5 by Jeanne F. (5 Comments)
New York hardcore tends to be synonymous with heavy-hitters such as Warzone, Agnostic Front, and Sick of it All, but during the late-'80s to mid-'90s, there were a faction of bands like Gorilla Biscuits and its younger brother Civ who lit up the scene with frenetic bone-shakers that were more about community than clobbering time. Yes, Civ is most famous for the pop-punk song "Can't Wait One Minute More" that appeared in a Nissan commercial (10 years after it was released on Civ's debut Set Your Goals, mind you), but their days packing 'em in on the hardcore circuit are what's most sorely missed since they disbanded in 2000. The band's new 43-song discography combines their debut and 1998's Thirteen Day Getaway, and is tits-over-tails good stuff that is absolutely perfect for summer listening. Drummer Sam Siegler (ex- Youth of Today, Judge, Gorilla Biscuits) had a chat with the Deciblog and no one got hurt.
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Deron Miller's (CKY) Top 10 Death Metal Albums of All Time
Posted June 4 by Chris D. (20 Comments)
CKY's Deron Miller might not be the most obvious death metal nut, but the dude is totally into it. Not because it's fashionable -- death metal is the new black metal -- but because he's been connected to death metal for a good long while. When not jamming with drummer Tim Yeung (Divine Heresy, ex-Hate Eternal, Decrepit Birth) in death metal outfit World Under Blood, Miller spends time penning liner notes for Metal Mind's reissues of key Roadrunner Records classics.
Read on as the CKY singer/guitarist spills guts on his Top 10 Death Metal Albums of All Time. They're mega-brutal!
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Narrows “Gypsy Kids” video live
Posted June 3 by Chris D. (1 Comments)
NARROWS: GYPSY KIDS (2009) 872 x 480 from My Black Cat on Vimeo. Read more...
Samothrace Tour Diary (May 3rd - May 17th, 2009)
Posted June 3 by nick (6 Comments)
By Dylan Desmond, Samothrace
Samothrace's spring 2009 West Coast tour began like any other: All my goddamn fucking shit breaking. I don't mind replacing strings, batteries, patch or instrument cables. No. I don’t mind crawling under rusty vans or changing flat tires. Nope. It's broken amps that piss me off: My 100 pound monolith of metal, circuits and tubes that plunged onto the hard concrete one silent morning.
Lucky for me, the dudes at Verellen Amplifiers in Seattle, WA have the magic touch. I picked up my repaired amp and broke traffic laws all the way to our gig in Olympia, Washington. It was a great show with killer bands, including our friends from Seattle, The Swörming. Who could ask for more? There’s nothing better than playing with great bands. One of the best was at Annie's Social Club in San Francisco, where we played with Oakland’s Stormcrow, Laudanum, Futr Skulz and the almighty Coffins from Japan:
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The Ancestry Of Ancestors
Posted June 2 by frank (2 Comments)
If you enjoy modern and massive stoner opuses, then you’ve probably already scoped Ancestors. Their debut album, 2008’s Neptune With Fire, was a two-track pillar of sludgegaze. Here, guitarist and vocalist, Justin Maranga, uproots Ancestors’ sound and tells us how the collective unconsciously brings us their eclectic brand of heavy.
"I’d like to preface this by saying that while we’ve never actively set out to sound like anything in particular, and have seldom actually discussed taking our music in any specific direction, these are the bands that persistently creep into our subconscious as we’re writing music. Coincidentally (or not), they’re the bands that consistently come up in conversation when we’re discussing music."
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Brokencyde debut “Booty Call”. dB barfs breakfast and lunch.
Posted June 2 by Chris D. (14 Comments)
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Ozzy sues Iommi, Peanut gallery chuckles
Posted June 2 by Chris D. (18 Comments)
By now it's no secret Ozzy Osbourne is suing bandmate Tony Iommi over rights to the Black Sabbath name. In a lawsuit filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Osbourne seeks "50% interest in the Black Sabbath trademark along with a portion of Iommi's profits from use of the name," according to the New York Post. Predictably, Iommi's mum on the lawsuit and the issue. But Ozzy? Not a chance. Whether it's Sharon Osbourne or a team of "well intentioned" lawyers pulling Ozzy's strings, the Brit has plenty to say and lay claim to.
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Old School vs. New School - Obituary vs. Job for a Cowboy
Posted June 1 by Chris D. (10 Comments)
Death metal legends and self-proclaimed "heaviest band on Earth" Obituary released new song "List of Dead" over the weekend on MySpace. At the same time, upstarts Job for a Cowboy also released new song "Unfurling a Darkened Gospel" to their MySpace. We realize we could pick a thousand bands to compare (say, Tormented vs. Obscura), but this little duel presents some interesting questions. Like which do you prefer? Mid-paced, groove-laden death or blastbeat-driven, groove-laden death? We're not sure so we ask: How do the songs (not discography or legacy) stack up?
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