Friday, 31 January 2014
Friday, 24 January 2014
Deicide- In the Minds of Evil review
There’s little to say that isn’t already known about the death metal legends that are Deicide. The band perfected the blasphemous and anti-Christian thematic leanings that were already employed by the likes of the first wave forefathers or even their marginally earlier contemporaries such as Morbid Angel. Was this provocative running theme in any way original? No, but the band presented similarly impious musings with a new found crudeness, ferocity and aggression that did not need to lean back upon indirect expressions of sacrilege such as references to the occult and alternative path topics, and instead were more blatantly profane. This November sees the release of Deicide’s latest studio endeavor, ‘In the Minds of Evil’, an album with admittedly high expectations among the fan’s long-term fans (a pretty large one, considering they are the second most commercially successful death metal band of all time), in addition to the fact that the post-‘Serpents of the Light’ output has been of varying degrees of quality, although not of a purely hit or miss nature.
Thematically, Deicide hasn’t really expanded beyond their audacious iconoclasm, as the title of the songs and albums reveal, but really, Deicide is one of the few bands who can stick to this mode of action and not be deemed monotonous and derivative. The same can be said for their music – it’s essentially an exaltation to their already well known signature sound, but reinvented in a sense by adding subtle tweaks to their otherwise formulaic approach that continues to the metal world enraptured. The first half of the album is laden with simple rhythmic ideas that are structurally rather simple, ranging from the syncopation-driven riffing on tracks such as ‘Beyond Salvation’, to roving riffs that give way to the establishment of a repetitive groove that serves to increase the memorability of compositions such as ‘In the Minds of Evil’ and ‘Godkill’. While the guitars here are seemingly sterile, they help to illuminate the more subtle melodies that Jack Owen and Kevin Quirion embed within simplistically structured and cyclic songs.
Thematically, Deicide hasn’t really expanded beyond their audacious iconoclasm, as the title of the songs and albums reveal, but really, Deicide is one of the few bands who can stick to this mode of action and not be deemed monotonous and derivative. The same can be said for their music – it’s essentially an exaltation to their already well known signature sound, but reinvented in a sense by adding subtle tweaks to their otherwise formulaic approach that continues to the metal world enraptured. The first half of the album is laden with simple rhythmic ideas that are structurally rather simple, ranging from the syncopation-driven riffing on tracks such as ‘Beyond Salvation’, to roving riffs that give way to the establishment of a repetitive groove that serves to increase the memorability of compositions such as ‘In the Minds of Evil’ and ‘Godkill’. While the guitars here are seemingly sterile, they help to illuminate the more subtle melodies that Jack Owen and Kevin Quirion embed within simplistically structured and cyclic songs.
Ghost (Ghost B.C) Announce info on new album
Swedish occult rockers Ghost are planning to enter the studio in the fall to begin recording their third album for a 2015 release. Asked by Andrew Haug of AndrewHaug.com, Australia's first-ever dedicated 24/7 rock and metal online radio station, if the next CD will — as has been suggested in recent interviews — be "more metallic" than the previous efforts, one of Ghost's Nameless Ghouls said (hear audio below): "What I've been trying to sort of make clear was that [2013's] 'Infestissumam' turned out to be quite a vocal record, which goes very well with the level of theatrics of our live show right now. Whereas in the future, when we plan to go even more elaborate when it comes to theatrics and live performances, we cannot really have Papa singing all the time, because a) that's not very good for dynamics; b) it's not very healthy to have a singer that sings all the time; and c) from an instrumentalist's point of view, as much as I like the current record, I think we wanna do a record that might be more instrumental and thus, with that saying that it might be more riff-based. But these are just general thoughts about this from our point of view. If it makes the record come out as more of a metal record or not, it's very hard to tell right now."
Ghost was honored with the P3 Guld award (for their criticially acclaimed "Infestissumam" release) from Swedish radio station P3 in the "Best Rock/Metal Album Of The Year" category. The winners were announced this past Saturday night (January 18) during a live awards ceremony broadcast from the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Ghost was forced to modify its name in the U.S. to Ghost B.C. for "legal reasons."
Slipknot making new album
The new SLIPKNOT album will be its first since 2008's "All Hope Is Gone" and the first since the 2010 death of bassist Paul Gray and the recent dismissal of drummer Joey Jordison.
Root told The Pulse Of Radio late last year — before the news about Jordison broke — that he was feeling the urgency to make a new SLIPKNOT album. "You know, we haven't done a record since Paul's been gone and it's been pushing six years. And there's a lot of people in SLIPKNOT and a lot of fans and me myself kind of feel like it's time for that hurdle to be overcome. And for me, that's really like my number one priority and the most important thing for me right now."
SLIPKNOT has not disclosed the reasons for Jordison's exit, although the drummer issued a statement recently saying that he did not quit the band. A replacement has yet to be named.
Root told The Pulse Of Radio late last year — before the news about Jordison broke — that he was feeling the urgency to make a new SLIPKNOT album. "You know, we haven't done a record since Paul's been gone and it's been pushing six years. And there's a lot of people in SLIPKNOT and a lot of fans and me myself kind of feel like it's time for that hurdle to be overcome. And for me, that's really like my number one priority and the most important thing for me right now."
SLIPKNOT has not disclosed the reasons for Jordison's exit, although the drummer issued a statement recently saying that he did not quit the band. A replacement has yet to be named.
Sunday, 19 January 2014
Metallica to start recording new album
METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett tells Billboard.com that the band will start working on the follow-up to 2008's "Death Magnetic" "in a couple of weeks. When we start, that's going to be our main priority, and we're pretty excited about it because we've been saying we need to start working on this album, but we've been procrastinating greatly with it," he says. "We've pretty much come up with every sort of excuse we can not to start work on the album, but we've run out of excuses, so we pretty much have to start work on it now."
According to Hammett, there is no shortage of ideas for METALLICA's next CD, with the guys reportedly having met up twice in the last few months to cook up some tasty riffs in the studio.
"We're a band that never has a shortage of ideas," Hammett says. "You hear about these bands that are sitting in the studio and they don't have any songs, what are they gonna do? That's not METALLICA. METALLICA's problem is the total opposite. We have too many ideas.James [Hetfield, guitar/vocals] has, like, 800 ideas. I have 400. Those number alone are just crazy. That's formidable."
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich acknowledged in an interview with U.K.'s Kerrang! magazine that the band's next studio album is unlikely to arrive before 2015 at the earliest. The drummer explained: "Obviously, there are a lot of people asking where the next record is. We're going to make another record, but like I said before, we don't really feel this kind of… what's the word? I guess 'responsibility' is probably the right word. We don't feel this inherent responsibility to just churn out records whenever people want them. [Adopts a sarcastic voice] 'I'm sorry! Let me slap myself on the wrists and go make a record for you!' We'll get 'round to it again."
Asked about a possible release date for METALLICA's next CD, Ulrich replied: "Actually, we know the date… no, we don't! If I was betting on this, I would say 2015 — that's where my money is. So if you think of the actual age of this planet, if it's been 75 billion years since dinosaurs walked the Earth or whatever, then one year is basically a blink of an eye, right?"
Ulrich also spoke about METALLICA's mindset going into the songwriting phase for the band's next album. He explained: "The only thing I can tell you is that there seems to be a consensus in the band that [2008's] 'Death Magnetic' was a really good record that we're proud of, that had good legs on it — meaning that it still sounds really rocking five years later. And I can tell you that with most of the previous METALLICA records, I found any faults, I had any issues with them way, way sooner than five years. So the stuff that we've been jamming on is certainly not a million miles removed from where we left off from 'Death Magnetic'. But two years from now, when I sit and talk to you about the new record, it'll probably be a different story from the six-year-old looking for the ice cream shop."
Hmmm
Check out this, I never knew any of these.
http://moviepilot.com/read/posts/2014/01/17/10-random-facts-about-10-random-horror-movies-1218714
http://moviepilot.com/read/posts/2014/01/17/10-random-facts-about-10-random-horror-movies-1218714
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Amon Amarth new video
Amon Amarth have just released a new video for their song 'Father of the Wolf'.
Check it out here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwdcFVsmYtU
Check it out here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwdcFVsmYtU
Friday, 17 January 2014
Brutal
I like all of the sub-genres I posted in the description, but my favorite has to be Death Metal, here are some of what I consider to be the best songs of the genre.
Amon Amarth- Twilight Of The Thunder God.
These guys are just bad ass Vikings singing (growling) about bad ass Viking stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edBYB1VCV0k
Cannibal Corpse- Hammer Smashed Face.
As you can tell by the band name and especially the song name, cc are not for the feint-hearted (to put it this way you will be glad you cant hear what he is saying). Very brutal and what most DeathHeads would consider the holy hymn of death metal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNhN6lT-y5U
Deicide- Lunatic Of Gods Creation.
'Deicide' literally meaning the death of god are a very blasphemous band and are proud of being so, the lead singer even has an inverted cross branded into his forehead. The bands music, in this album (there debut self titled) especially is very raw and hard to listen to if you haven't listened to death metal before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPvRBiQY6lo
Dy*** Fe***- K*** your M*****/ R*** your D**
As you can tell everything about this band is extremely offensive. Although I had to put them in as they are pretty much the innovators of the extreme U.S side of Death metal, which has escalated into (sub?)sub-genres of Death metal such as brutal slam, the song titles and band names have also escalated in offensiveness.
Here's the link, and as I have said this band is very offensive (you've been warned)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqOJD_TdIKY
Nile- Lashed to the Slave Stick.
Nile are very unique in what they sing about- Egyptians. With eerie sound affects, traditional Egyptian instruments and epic song lengths Nile are perhaps one of the most talented Death metal bands, it is also the band of my favorite drummer, George Kollias.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD3dimKaJtA
Dethklok- Murmaider
Cartoon band from Tv- series 'Metalocalypse', as well as being a good band they are also humorous (being derived from a cartoon band).
"this song is about mermaids, and murder, it's called murmaid... er"- Nathan Explosion (lead singer).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Rk1gjtK68
Amon Amarth- Twilight Of The Thunder God.
These guys are just bad ass Vikings singing (growling) about bad ass Viking stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edBYB1VCV0k
Cannibal Corpse- Hammer Smashed Face.
As you can tell by the band name and especially the song name, cc are not for the feint-hearted (to put it this way you will be glad you cant hear what he is saying). Very brutal and what most DeathHeads would consider the holy hymn of death metal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNhN6lT-y5U
Deicide- Lunatic Of Gods Creation.
'Deicide' literally meaning the death of god are a very blasphemous band and are proud of being so, the lead singer even has an inverted cross branded into his forehead. The bands music, in this album (there debut self titled) especially is very raw and hard to listen to if you haven't listened to death metal before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPvRBiQY6lo
Dy*** Fe***- K*** your M*****/ R*** your D**
As you can tell everything about this band is extremely offensive. Although I had to put them in as they are pretty much the innovators of the extreme U.S side of Death metal, which has escalated into (sub?)sub-genres of Death metal such as brutal slam, the song titles and band names have also escalated in offensiveness.
Here's the link, and as I have said this band is very offensive (you've been warned)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqOJD_TdIKY
Nile- Lashed to the Slave Stick.
Nile are very unique in what they sing about- Egyptians. With eerie sound affects, traditional Egyptian instruments and epic song lengths Nile are perhaps one of the most talented Death metal bands, it is also the band of my favorite drummer, George Kollias.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD3dimKaJtA
Dethklok- Murmaider
Cartoon band from Tv- series 'Metalocalypse', as well as being a good band they are also humorous (being derived from a cartoon band).
"this song is about mermaids, and murder, it's called murmaid... er"- Nathan Explosion (lead singer).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Rk1gjtK68
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