SUPER-DUPER METAL TUESDAY
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at 1:02pm by Vince NeilsteinThe big Tuesday for politics may be next week, but today is the first important release date of the year for metal. Let’s take a look at what you can now easily pirate buy at your local record store on this fine day:
- Stonerider – Three Legs of Trouble (Trustkill) – Southern-fried rawk n’ roll, Crowes Mule & Roses, if you will.
- Bullet for My Valentine – Scream Aim Fire (Jive / SonyBMG) – One of the biggest releases so far this year, coming from Welsh second-gen metalcore quartet previously known as nu-metallers Jeff Killed John. (Read our review here.)
- The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath (Universal) – Fourth album from progiffied funk spazz freaks, ex-At the Drive In. (Read our detailed retrospective on the band.)
- Tiles – Fly Paper (InsideOut) – Progressive hard rockers from Detroit who have been round a while, and have toured with the likes of Dream Theater.
- Airbourne – Runnin’ Wild (Roadrunner) – Australian AC/DC-influenced AC/DC rock that sounds like AC/DC. Nuff said.
- Steve Stevens – Memory Crash (Magna Carta) – Solo shredfest from ex-Vince Neil and longtime Billy Idol axeslinger.
- Course of Nature – Damaged (Silent Majority) – Nickelcreedbenjaminseetherhinderback.
- Protest the Hero, Fortress (Vagrant) – Post-prog, shred-tastic, metal and hardcore-influenced amazingness. One of the most important records of 2008 so far.
Don’t forget the new Decrepit Birth album, which is way better than all these others!
You include non-metal bands on the list and often talk about non-metal bands on this, a metal site, then rag on them for not being metal…which they never claimed to be in the first place…
@ Sammy:
Your point being? If I had included ” and hard rock” in the post title would I have been absolved of all sins in Sammyland?
Nah Vinnie, I just wonder why you talk incessantly about non-metal bands not being metal. Duh! If a band doesn’t claim to be metal, why would you bag on ‘em for not being metal? It’s like writing a piece on Cher, then claiming how un-metal she is. Right, and shit is brown. So what?
Love from Sammyland (a place of sarcasm and unimaginable wit and intelligence)
Well i bought the new Mars Volta… AMazing….
Now here’s a tip for you bullet for my valentine fans… the cd comes is a digipak… one of those cardboard sleeve things.. Now on plastic cd cases sometimes they get crafty and hide a security tag under the cd inside the case.. this is not so on those cardboard cases… so if the tag is not on it, or even if it is, you can just rip it off pocket it, and the store is none the wiser…. try it. Another one is the new radiohead, the last ozzy cd, etc. GO WILD KIDDIES. Cause i certainly wouldn’t pay for that crap
Y’know what you missed? Rotten Sound. Last week. Incredible album. I reviewed it on my site. I can’t get enough of it.
Or just save the gas money and steal it online like everyone else does…
Also need to mention that although the “metalsucks proverbial wet dream” hasn’t come out with a new album, they are worth bringing up again because they will most likely never make new music again. Got stoned and listened to em yesterday. The fact that Sikth never made it anywhere except the break room makes me lose faith in music.
Airbourne are such a shitty AC/DC knock-off. Lets see if they can make the same record 16 times in a row
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