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HAPPY HALLOWEEN: Dani Filth Edition
Friday, October 29th, 2010GWAR: New Video for “Zombies, March”
Friday, October 29th, 2010Fucking. Awesome.
…That is all. \m/
MetalGeorge’s Gems: Storm
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Norway’s star-studded black metal side project Storm is one of those projects whose existence could only have been birthed during the 90s genre boom; a decade where the underground gobbled up practically anything spiked ‘n corpsepainted with a voracious hunger for the almighty dollar sign.
Released in 1995, Storm’s Nordavind was the band’s only release, apart from three non-album tracks released on Moonfog Records’ label compilation, Crusade From the North, and was the fruitful collaboration between Satyricon brainchild Satyr Wongraven, The 3rd and the Mortal’s Kari Rueslatten and Darkthrone maniac Fenriz.
Musically, the album presents metalized versions of Norwegian folk songs, filtered through the fractured-yet-endearing clean vocals of Fenriz and Satyr, who also handled drums and guitars respectively. Rueslatten was brought in to presumably provide the soothing, soaring female accompaniment to the proceedings, and the melodic dichotomy between the three really shines through, particularly when combined with the occasional black metal howl.
Basically a blood-born kin to Ulver’s proud acoustic masterpiece, Kveldssanger, Storm’s lone effort stands tall within its nationalistic appreciation for Norse culture and history, lovingly offering these majestic folk hymns for a new audience; one which was rabid for practically ANYTHING Norwegian during the mid-90s black metal boom. Nordavind has aged surprisingly well, to boot, delivering the same high-kick in the ass it did back in ’95.
Whether you get off on mid-period, viking-era Bathory, jam in the woods-pun intended-to Kveldssanger or simply have a hard-on for anything with that red, white and blue cross pattern, you owe it to yourself to track down a copy of this rare gem.
Written by MetalGeorge
12 Year Old Kids Jamming a PANTERA Classic!
Friday, October 29th, 2010Now this is a school program I can get behind! Check out this group of tweens jamming a PANTERA classic – “Revolution is My Name” – a song they learned at Aaron O’Keefe School in Ohio. Rock on, kids!
PANTERA > BIEBER … Anyday!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN: Chris Barnes Edition
Friday, October 29th, 2010Blood Horror and Metal: Hell of the Living Dead
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Also known under the titles of Zombie Creeping Flesh and Night of the Zombies, this epically bad Eurotrash wonder comes from the world of legendary Italian hack Bruno Mattei; a place where no idea is sacred…not even those of other filmmakers.
This is because Mattei and the Hell of the Living Dead crew apparently felt NO shame whatsoever for the unabashed plot and score thievery going on here, with Hell ending up basically a cut-up ‘best of’ screen show of the zombie genre. Hell, even the film’s cover art gleefully adopts the skull visage from Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead with no remorse or repentance…simply adding on a hastily and crudely drawn lower half, so as to avoid legit copywrite infringement.
Taking aim at both Romero’s social commentary take on the undead in its opening scene, Hell of the Living Dead just even consider stopping for a moment, instead delving headfirst into voodoo/cannibal territory within the film’s second act with ludicrously over-the-top results. Rather than coming up with any original genre ideas or takes of its own, Hell instead adopts cliches as it goes along, flying by the seat of its pants with a recklessless which is almost fun to watch…if it wasn’t so transparent.
Of course, this sort of disaster is to be expected from a Mattei production, given the director’s notorious and habitual practice of ripping off any basic idea which crosses his path. His partner Claudio Fragasso has proved no better over the years, working with Mattei on the unfinished Fulci master for Zombi 3 before unleashing his true ‘masterpiece’ in the legendarily laughable Troll 2.
Though there are a few brief moments of quality creepiness-particularly in an early scene which features a remarkably proficient child ‘zombie ‘actor-Hell of the Living Dead is more of a really bad romp than anything remotely frightening or even thought-provoking. Even the stolen music from Goblin-yes, Mattei decided to utilize the band’s classic score music without even asking for consnet-doesn’t possess the same effect within this film’s context. Hell of the Living Dead is just a hodgepodge.
Written by MetalGeorge
HAPPY HALLOWEEN: Maria Brink Edition
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Chapter 3 in SOILWORK’s Plan To Bore You With Old Tour Footage
Friday, October 29th, 2010It can be said enough just how much I love this band, but one video would have sufficed. Go pick up ‘The Panic Broadcast’ NOW on Nuclear Blast!
Mike Gitter Goes to CMJ; Returns Home (After a Ticket and a Towed Car)
Thursday, October 28th, 2010MIKE GITTER is the man and continues to prove that with every post he writes over here. I love our buddy Gitter! -Editor
New York: New York. Once every Fall, the College Music Journal stages its annual confab on the increasingly gentrified streets of NYC. Where CMJ was once THE annual event for unsigned greats, hipster coolies and cutting-edge major label signees, Metal is sparse and the indie contingent dominates Manhattan’s increasingly gentrified streets.
Regardless, a few shards of the heavy stuff could be found on a near-nightly basis starting on Tuesdayat the Gramercy Theater with a brilliant show from Nevermore. Whatever incidents have plagued their first headlining tour (onstage fights, Warrell Dane losing his voice in LA), from the onset of “Narcosynthesis”, the long-running Seattle quintet were energetic and on-point, maintaining their post as one of America’s long-running pure metal greats.
Unfortunately, my evening was topped off by a visit to the local impound after my rental car was towed away at 11:00 PM. I had gotten back to it at 11:10 perhaps and it was a total “Dude! Where’s Your Car?!?” scenario. Apparently, the local tow companies have a percentage deal with the city. Let’s just call it “Valet Parking In NYC”…VERY EXPENSIVE valet parking that is.
Wedndsay brought the party to Brooklyn’s Club Europa for the first of two showcases courtesy of metal’s best sites: Metal Sucks and Metal Injection. The evening’s headliner A Life Once Lost emerged from a year and a half dormancy to blow the crowd away. Where you could once peg the Philly band of jumping on the Meshuggah bandwagon, all reports of their Swedish allegiances should be taken as old and grossly misinformed. Backlit by pillars of harsh white light behind them, it was clear: A Life Once Lost have not merely scaled new heights. Now with a handful of new songs – four of which were played – A Life Once Lost sound like a band once criminally ahead of its time that the world has finally caught up with.
Car Bomb seemed lackluster by comparison and This Or The Apocalypse showed signs of becoming a formidable metal-scraping hardcore mob earlier in the evening.
INTRONAUT Take You Inside the ‘Valley of Smoke’
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
