I know there’s a contingent of the metal community out there that’s completely offended by Dragonforce; generally speaking, I’m not a member of that contingent.
Still, this is pretty fuckin’ hilarious/sad/shameful.
Thanks to MetalSucks Maniac Steve Stamopoulos for the video!
-AR
From the front page of NIN.com, posted yesterday by Trent Reznor:
Remember that gift I mentioned?
It’s almost here.
Last time this happened we got a tour, and the time before that a full album — for free. What’s ol’ papa Trent got in store this time?
-VN
[Thanks: Sukey Scorer]
MetalSucks Maniac Wayne Graham just tipped us off to the fact that Mastodon’s official website is currently counting down (see screen shot above).
The question, of course, is what are they counting down to? An official first single? A tour announcement? Both? The clock will run out on Thursday. Guess we’ll have to wait ’til then to find out…
-AR
2008 was a huge year for Sweden’s legendary Bloodbath, with their tremendous album The Fathomless Mastery receiving universal critical acclaim (including a #10 nod on our own Axl Rosenberg’s “Best of ’08″ list).
To celebrate, MetalSucks is teaming up Bloodbath to give away a really fucking sweet Per “Sodomizer” Eriksson signature model Mayones guitar. To win, all you have to do is:
The winner will be selected on Monday, January 19th. This oughtta be fun; last time we did a “Metal Face” contest we got some hilarious entries. The signup form is after the jump, and only those who fill out the entire form will be considered. Have fun, and good luck.
… here’s a fan-filmed live video with surprisingly decent sound quality [sent in by MS Maniac Damotello] of DEP covering Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher” at this past summer’s Warped Tour. Watch as the band tears it up — especially guitarist Jeff Tuttle’s near-perfect rendition of EVH’s guitar shred — and the song’s significance is completely lost on the mostly teenage audience, despite the many false cheers that erupt when Greg Puciato mockingly asks how many people know the song.
-VN
Well, Metal Inquisition does anyway, doing the Internet dirty work to bring you the finest in American metal douchebaggery. Since we’ve all seen this guy or some version thereof in New Jersey at our favorite metal locale, head on over to Metal Inquisition for the writers’ sardonic commentary on this fine chap and others:
As all cool metal guys, this guy also has great Photoshop skillz…and he puts them to use in order to pose in front of Sarah Palin? I’m so confused. Also, judging by his jewelery, he must sell his wares to Chuck Billy.
-VN
Well… happy friggin’ new year, everyone. We gots some catchin’ up to do.
As Dillinger Escape Plan fans may have heard by now, the band has hired some dude no one has ever heard of, Billy Rymer from The Rivalry, to replace Gil Sharone, who, in turn, replaced founding drummer Chris Pennie for 2007′s orgasm-inducing Ire Works and all subsequent touring for that album. Now, I know that Sharone’s departure may worry the DEP faithful – the dude was not only an awesome drummer, but watching how chill he always was live, even while playing some retardedly complex drum parts, would seem to suggest that he may very well be a god amongst men (or at least drummers). Hell, even DEP front dude Greg Puciato told us that Sharone is like “the kid in school who always gets good grades just because he’s naturally fucking super gifted.”
But here’s the thing.
Needless to say, we are all very psyched to ingest the rapidly approaching new Mastodon album, the self-proclaimed “more under the rock category” Crack the Skye, which will hit shelves in the next couple months (no official release date yet, but I’m told sometime in March). And if you’re interested in Mastodonian things such as track listings and awesome interviews with band members, let alone video interviews from our interweb bretheren, well…you know what to do.
But if you wanna hear a taste of the newly new newness, you can proceed to HERE (courtesy of “Metal Bastard’s MP3 Blahg” — read full post here). Apparantly, the track is called “Divinations”, it will indeed appear on the new album (according to the always-reliable blogosphere), and this recording is from this year’s Bonneroo Festival, where I hope Mastodon melted the faces of hordes of unsuspecting hippies…literally.
Tasmanian metallers Psycroptic’s Ob(Servant) didn’t make any MetalSucks writers’ year-end lists, (though it did make my initial short-list of albums to be considered for year-end top honors.) MetalSucks commenter “Anal Beadz” was quick to point out this omission in our final tally of year-end honors:
number of time[s] psycroptic’s ob(servant) mentioned in year end lists
…0
YOU FUCKING CUM DUMPSTERS
Mr. Beadz, I hate to say it, has us pegged. The more I listen to it, the more I’m starting to think I made a mistake by leaving Ob(Servant) off the final list; the album straight up pulverizes in the most artful way. Psycroptic’s brand of extraordinary mind-bending tech-death hits in all the right spots; crushing brutality, punishing grooves, weaving riffs, and stellar technical death metal musicianship. Anyone who splooged their pants over The Faceless’ excellent Planetary Duality (i.e. all of you) ought to give this band a fair shake.
Set to At the Gates, natch.
-VN
Torche’s a.d.d.-ish Meanderthal did not make any of our top ten lists this year (although Vince did give them a leel shout-out), but they certainly deserve a bit o’ New Year’s love…their full, stony, harmony-heavy sound ain’t particularly original, but with each album they have definitely upped the ante and come that much closer to being supremely awesome.
Alas, me shan’t be puffin’ at the moment, but by all means you oughtta…
TORCHE – “Grenades”, from Meanderthal (2008)
TORCHE - “Amnesian”, from Meanderthal (2008)
-KW
I predict that 2009 will be at least 4/7ths as brutal as this song…do your part, will ya?
And Happy F’n Jew Year!!!!
BENEA REACH - “Purge”, from Monument (2006)
-KW
-Axl, Vince, and Everyone at MetalSucks
