Archive for March, 2009
Ricky Warwick [of The Almighty] – Belfast Confetti (DR2)
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 11:21pm by MetalSucksFUNNY PHOTO CAPTION CONTEST: WIN A PACKAGE OF CLASSIC IN FLAMES “RELOADED” CDs!
Last week’s funny photo caption contest was a doozy… but MS Maniac “Sacajawea” has emerged victorious and will receive the deluxe This Comp Kills Fascists boxset from our pals at Relapse Records for coming up with the following caption to the photo at right, actually the box set cover:
“At the base of every penis you’ll find a Bush.”
Touche. This week we’re giving away one prize package of THREE classic CDs from Sweden’s kings of melodic death metal, In Flames. Each album has been remastered, re-released and re-packaged with bonus material and extra tracks by Nuclear Blast as part of their “Reloaded” series. One lucky winner will receive the “Reloaded” versions of Whoracle, Colony and Clayman — In Flames’ best albums, if you ask me. Just come up with a funny caption to the photo below and they’re yours.
WATCHMEN‘S RORSCHACH: BORN OF TERRIBLE METAL
So. Unless you live under a rock, chances are you’re aware that the movie adaptation of Watchmen opens tomorrow. The reviews are decidedly mixed and I’m still not convinced it won’t suck, but it’s already apparently making a ton of bank in ticket pre-sales, so, uh, yeah, people wanna see this bitch I guess.
Anyways, this week iTunes had some members of the cast do their celebrity playlist thing. A few actors chose a few metal songs – Patrick Wilson (who plays “Nite Owl II”) has some Van Halen and Extreme songs, Malin Akerman (“Silk Spectre II”) has some Nine Inch Nails, Jeffery Dean Morgan (“The Comedian”) was apparently pals with Layne Staley and included “Rooster” in his mix, etc.
But Jackie Earle Haley – the Oscar nominated actor playing the ultimate right wing sociopathic fascistic badass, Rorschach – created a list that is almost entirely comprised of metal.
Terrible metal.
NIN VS. DEP
So last week Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato and Ben Weinman got up on stage in Australia with Nine Inch Niles to help out with “Wish,” a song DEP had previously covered. Up ’til now, all we’ve seen is shitty cell phone capture of the performance – but now NIN have posted something considerably higher quality on their web site.
Not much to say here – you just gotta love it when there’s so many great musicians on one stage.
DAATH’S EYAL LEVI GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN
Dååth guitarist/sexy Jew bastard Eyal Levi will apparently now be doing a regular or semi-regular guest blog for Headbanger’s Blog, entitled “Jumping Darkness Parade.” For his inaugural column, Eyal has chosen to take a stance that is unexpected coming from a metal head in today’s anti-record label climate: he’s proclaiming his love for the music business.
Here’s an excerpt:
“When you’re in small band like I am there’s a whole section of the industry who is drawn to you because they feel like they can take advantage of how green you are. Hence, bottom feeders. Small bands are like the s–t at the bottom of a fishtank. So being that I’m in a small band, and have had so many run ins with scumbags then why do I still love the music business? Simple. Because I love music. I love bringing my music to people. Without the music business I wouldn’t be able to do that on the level I’m doing it now.”
Check out the rest of Eyal’s blog here.
Dååth’s new album, The Concealers, will be out April 21. We will continue to remind you that is fucking quality as the release date draws closer.
-AR
MARCH IS METAL MONTH. SHOW US YOUR METAL!
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 12:58pm by MetalSucks
MetalSucks, MetalInjection and BITPOM, in conjunction with EMI Music’s Label Services unit (which serves such labels as Century Media, Nuclear Blast, Earache, Candlelight, Season of Mist, Willowtip and Crash Music), are bringing metal to the masses with an extensive “March is Metal Month” campaign with independent retailers across the U.S.
During the “March is Metal Month” campaign, we’ll be running a series of 3 weekly “Show Us Your Metal” contests. To enter, take a picture of yourself at a record store doing something metal; throwing up the horns, making sweet love to a David Lee Roth Crazy From the Heat EP, posing in front of a Beyonce endcap in corpsepaint, buying something that costs $6.66, etc. Be creative! Send all submissions to news AT metalsucks DOT net along with your full name and address by the deadlines listed below.
The prizes and deadlines are as follows:
Week 1, deadline March 12: Signed CDs and posters from In This Moment, courtesy Century Media (we know, we know… that’s what they offered.)
Week 2, deadline March 19: Cynic box set ($75 value) courtesy of Season of Mist
Week 3, deadline March 26: Signed CDs and posters from Necroptic and All Shall Perish, courtesy of Nuclear Blast.
Show us your metal!
NEW PACK OF WOLVES VIDEO
In December we told you about Pack of Wolves, the new(ish) project from former At All Cost guitarist Trey Ramirez; well, their debut album, Betrayer, is being released this coming Tuesday, March 10 on vinyl, and the band has announced its arrival in grand style – with a new video for the track “Concession.”
Only 350 copies of Betrayer will be pressed, and each one comes with a free digital download of the record, so you can listen to even if you’re not close to your turntable.
The band will also be playing this year’s SXSW; if you go the fest, make sure you check ‘em out!
-AR
AN OPEN LETTER TO AXL ROSE
To: W. Axl Rose
From: Double-Jew Axl Rosenberg
Re: Plans for a Guns N’ Roses Summer Stadium Tour in 2009
Dear Axl Rose,
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!?!
METAL HAIKU REVIEWS
CENTARUS-A, SIDE EFFECTS EXPECTED
Death metal that is
technical, infectious, if
not uniquely so.
(3 out of 5 horns)
GENERAL SURGERY, CORPUS IN EXTREMIS – ANALYSING NECROCRITICISM
Competent, but I
would really rather just put
on Carcass instead.
(2 ½ out of 5 horns)
-AR
POSTER AND TRAILER FOR THE MOST METAL MOVIE OF 2009
I’ve been invited to several screenings of Anvil: The Story of Anvil, and, rather sadly, I’ve been unable to attend each time. But now that the documentary – which chronicles the lives of an 80s metal band that never quite made it big – has a poster and a trailer, I’m hopeful the announcement of some kind of release will finally be forthcoming. ‘Cause I hear this movie is the shit – like The Wrestler, but actually about metal, and actually nonfiction.
Trailer after the jump.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL FOUNDER SCOTT LEE
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 at 3:15pm by MetalSucks
On April 17 and 18, America’s premiere metal fest, the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, will enjoy its eleventh year of existence, with acts like Lamb of God, All That Remains, Suffocation, Napalm Death, The Haunted, Kylesa, Shai Halud, IWRESTLEDABEARONCE, and about a gajillion others all playing sets within 48 hours. Which, needless to say, is the very definition of “awesome.”
We recently had the chance to e-mail some questions to festival founder Scott Lee. After the jump, get Scott’s thoughts on the creation of the festival, all the work it takes to make the fest happen every year, his other career as a band manager, his clothing line, and more.
BEFORE BRIAN POSEHN, SAM KINISON WAS THE MOST METAL COMEDIAN IN THE WORLD
I haven’t watched any of Sam Kinison’s old stand-up in years, so I have no idea how his work holds up – but when I was a younger, I thought he was just about the funniest human being that had ever lived, and when he died, I was really, really upset about it.
I heard recently that HBO is making a TV movie about Kinison’s life – which is why I was thinking about him again – and I suddenly remembered Kinison’s video for his cover of “Wild Thing.”
Today the video seems vastly inferior to Brian Posehn’s “Metal by Numbers,” because a) that song is actually about metal, b) that song isn’t a cover, and c) that song doesn’t have Tommy Lee in its video. But at the time, this clip was the shit – I mean, in addition to the aforementioned Lee, it also features Slash, Billy Idol, Richie Sambora, members of Aerosmith and Ratt, and Jessica Hahn’s tits.
-AR
LAMB OF GOD FORBID: THIS WEEK IN SOUNDSCAN
Lamb of God and God Forbid dominated the metal charts in their Soundscan debut weeks. A quick look at the numbers of those and other notable releases after the jump with our own witty commentary, natch.
HATESPHERE EXPLORE MELODIC DEATH METAL MEDIOCRITY ON TO THE NINES
Somehow sandwiched between twin elders Sweden and Norway and spry youngster Finland, Denmark is certainly the middle child of metal’s Scandinavia. Ever the region’s Jan Brady (“Everyone’s always talking about Marduk! Marduk Marduk Marduk!”), the Danish seem to be getting shafted by Tr00 Norwegian Black Metal, melodic Swedish Death Metal, or Finland’s recent emergence as propagators of expansive post-metal (Cult of Luna and Callisto) and cheesy blackened death metal (Children of Bodom). Hatesphere’s latest, To the Nines, is a struggle to be known, clearly cribbing from Gothenburg but also trying to stand out among the region’s intimidating pack. But alas, while Hatesphere’s geographical cousins are growing up to be doctors, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, the band are content on being the night manager at Copenhagen’s answer to 7-11.
OLD CHUBBY DUDES CELEBRATE THEIR SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
2009 is a big year for big boys Dale Crover and Buzz Osbourne. Indeed, the Melvins plan to fucking commemorate twenty-five long years of making music to make you sick. How exactly do these sludge metal monoliths intend to do that? Why, by playing anniversary shows, of course!
BLACK METAL DR. SEUSS
In honor of the birthday of Mr. Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, this past monday Illogical Contraption composed a quick poem about Norwegian Black Metal, inspired by the playful verse of the man himself.
In the kingdom of Norway, a far away land
You’ll find oh so many crap-tabulous bands!There’s Darkthrone and Emperor, out on the fjords
All decked out in corpsepaint, with leather and swords!There’s Gorgoroth, Burzum, and Mortiis to boot
Wearing his silly old skull-codpiece suit!But first there was Mayhem, a quarrelsome group
Who looked hella evil but sounded like poop,They burnt down some churches, they dug up some graves
Those black metal bozos just wouldn’t behave!
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM MAKE YOU WEATHER THE STORM ON BLACK CASCADE
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 at 10:29am by David Bee Roth
The new millennium has signaled the transformation of American black metal. What was originally a subterranean scene mostly represented by obscure tape demos from Burzum-worshipping one-man bands (or the split releases they did with other sequestered basement dwellers) has now surfaced. With Nachtmystium’s major label hype machine in full swing last year USBM can finally claim a recognizable figurehead, something that had always separated them from their European cousins. Riding this new wave, Wolves in the Throne Room have emerged as another familiar name.
