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Salome, who are both a) one of our favorite doom bands and b) one of our favorite live bands, played the Relapse showcase at CMJ last month, and, as is so often the case, our brostafas at Metal Injection where there to capture some awesome live footage. Check it out:
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Well, we didn’t, and neither did Metal Injection, who have four clips from the gig. Their footage successfully conveys how awesome the show was; it does not successfully convey that the basement at the Cake Shop (where the show took place) was hot enough to melt the corpse paint off your face and then some. So I guess you should be grateful that you can watch them from the comfort of someplace climate-controlled.
Check out the other clips here.
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Like Dream Theater’s latest effort Black Clouds & Silver Linings, the band’s new video for “Wither” — one of the meh-est tracks on an album full of meh — is completely stock and totally underwhelming. Footage of the band on the road / in their bus / back stage / signing shit / etc etc blah blah blah intercut with out-of-sync live footage of them performing the song… great.
But I still love this band to death and always will. Next time around I really hope they take the necessary time to write and record an album the proper way, like Scenes From a Memory and Six Degrees. And I’ll go see them live pretty much any time they come around.
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I still can’t decide what I think about Isis’ latest effort Wavering Radiant. On one hand, the Joe Baressi-produced effort is easily my favorite Isis release to date; the production is bigger, the songs more concise, the album less rambling. On the other hand, I’m not sure I’ll ever dig this band as much as people think I will or as much as I’m “supposed” to; I just find them boring most of the time. Sorry.
I do, however, dig the new video for the Wavering Radiant track “20 Minutes / 40 Years.” It’s trippy and artsy, but it’s really dark. That black ooze kind of reminds me of this Star Trek: The Next Generation episode I just watched (#nerdalert!) in which Troi’s shuttle-craft crashes on a planet inhabited solely by a filthy, evil, and very powerful slick of intelligent black ooze. This video is pretty cool but it’d definitely be hotter if Marina Sirtis were in it. She’s a fox!
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ISIS “20 Minutes/ 40 years” Video from ISIS THE BAND on Vimeo.
Protest The Hero’s impromptu dance video — filmed last year when the band’s van broke down en route to Salt Lake City, UT — was such a viral hit that the band’s decided to parlay their sexy moves into an official music video for the track “Limb from Limb.” This is like what, their 5th or 6th official music video from the Fortress record? God bless the Canadian government and their music subsidies!
I’ve always liked videos in which the band members play roles in a storyline. In the “Limb from Limb” clip, a rag-tag group of Village People-like sailors (the band) led by Captain Rody Walker arrive at a port for a dance-off against a boat full of well-kempt metrosexual sailors. Ain’t nothin’ professional dancers got on the Protest boys! After trading off one righteous dance move after the next, the two teams unite in dancitude and all is right in the world.
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So that was fun, wasn’t it? Devin’s site takeover gave me the day off, and I took advantage by getting in some QT with the MetalSucks Mansion Monkeys. There’s a precocious little fellow named Roberts who’s really shown some smarts as of late… watch out for that little guy in the near future! But for now it’s back to the regular douchebaggery courtesy Uncles Axl and Vince. Sorry folks, Devin day can’t be every day.
Pick-Axe Bobby sent in Roxwel.com footage of Municipal Waste playing the S.O.D. classic “United Forces” with Billy Milano at the Austin, TX stop of the MetalSucks-sponsored Waste the World tour. According to the aforementioned Roberts, this show was exactly one day after the Houston flood debacle. See? I told you he was smart. Even if you don’t dig The Waste or S.O.D. this video is worth the price of admission to hear Billy Milano talk his usual trash — nothing like telling your audience to “shut up” upon entering the stage and claiming Muncipal Waste play the song better than S.O.D. did. Gotta love Billy Milano.
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Municipal Waste feat. Billy Milano – United Forces
www.roxwel.com
Did you know that only total tool bags don’t like Blood Oath? It’s a fact.
So here’s a new video for a song from that very album – “Cataclysmic Purification.” Suffocation’s one of those bands where I really like watching ‘em play ’cause they’ve got some sick talent, and David Brodsky’s performance footage certainly allows for that – but I also really dig this animation by Tim Kellan. It’s just fucking gross and wicked, both of which seem appropriate for Suffo, doncha think?
Blood Oath is out now on Nuclear Blast.
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So it looks like Anvil’s comeback is gonna last through at least 2010: the band will have a small role in the upcoming film version of The Green Hornet, which will star Seth Rogen (who also co-wrote the script) and be directed by Michel Gondry, who helmed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and about a gajillion awesome music videos. In other words: the movie might actually be good.
Sacha Gervasi, who directed the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil, recently spoke to MakingOf about Anvil’s role in the flick, which they filmed back in October. You can check out the video below. It’s kinda spoiler-ish, but not in a really major way – still, if you plan to see the movie and want to be completely surprised about how Anvil tie-in, I’d advise you not watch.
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Tongue-in-cheek or not, Steel Panther’s Feel the Steel is so good it’s gonna make a serious run for inclusion in my year-end list. Everything about it is just done so well… everything! I know my man Anso is down with the Panther too. Can’t wait to see these guys play when I hit up L.A. in January.
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So let’s say you’re in a third rate metalcore band, and let’s say that you’re also in Russia, which isn’t exactly France in terms of being at the height of metal fashion right now. How do you get people’s attention? Well, putting titties in your video can’t hurt, right?
This band is called Stigmata. Needless to say, this video is NSFW.
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[via Hornsup]
That’s we told MS Intern David en route to this summer’s Mayhem Festival when he asked us what other bands he should listen to if he likes Gojira (and boy, the kid sure does love Gojira… we taught him well!). ‘Cause Gojira borrow a helluva lot from Morbid Angel; Joe-Jira himself will even tell you this. We then proceeded by blast Domination whilst mercilessly stuck in Dirty Jerz traffic.
This live video posted by Crustcake today was filmed at Wacken in 2006 which means that yes, that IS Erik Rutan on guitar!
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Our bro-bros at Metal Injection just debuted “Warsaw Rising,” the new video from Hail of Bullets. Check it out:
Warsaw Rising is Hail of Bullets’ new EP, and it’s only avail as a digital release in the U.S. – but Metal Injection are giving away two ultra-rare physical copies. Enter that awesome contest here.
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Here’s a great example of an excellent music video that was clearly made on a budget. Take a goth chick, go out to the middle of the woods, and film some shit in a style that is both a) intriguing and b) appropriate to the music, and what do you get? An excellent promotional tool that’s enjoyable to watch. Good for Katatonia.
Bonus: this video makes the tension in my shoulders dissolve. Not entirely sure why.
The song, “Day and then the Shade,” comes off of Katatonia’s latest, Night is the New Day, which is out now on Peaceville.
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Bloody Disgusting is one of my favorite horror sites, and they’ve now launched a music blog, which seems to be 100% about metal. One of their inaugural entries is the debut of 3 Inches of Blood’s new video, “Battles and Brotherhood,” and since we a) really like Bloody Disgusting, b) really like 3IOB and c) really like this song and video, it seemed worth re-posting.
So… grab your mead, pull your wench’s chain a lil’ tighter, and enjoy the video!
IF YOU CAN’T GET THE VIDEO TO WORK, WATCH IT HERE.
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Even in my youth I hated those intercut-performance-footage-with-movie-footage soundtrack tie-in videos, and Suicide Silence’s clip for “Genocide” shows that these types of videos haven’t gotten any better since then. I like the song and I like the band, I just think this is a lame video. But, hey, if it gets a few Saw fans into Suicide Silence…
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Over the weeken, Baroness released a video for “A Horse Called Golgotha,” one of many excellent tracks from their latest effort Blue Record. I’m not sure Blue Record will end up in my year-end top records list, but I know plenty of people who love the shit out of this record and I certainly can’t begrudge them that; it IS really good.
So this video is pretty psychedelic / trippy / artsy, much like Blue Record itself. I’d sum it up thusly: if Hugh Jackman’s “future” character in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain had been sick, twisted and tortured on the inside instead of a Zen-like testament to patience, this is what the movie would’ve looked like. Stop the presses, Vince made a movie reference! Next thing you know Axl’s going to write his own Metal Mets column.
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Now that Animosity is done, I guess vocalist Leo Miller is occupying his time by working as a correspondent for Metal Injection – in which I case I can only say, “Hey, Leo, welcome to the family!” Any friend of MI’s is a friend of ours. Except for Sid. He doesn’t like Cynic so screw that dude.
ANYWAY, here’s Leo interviewing Converge. The best part actually comes later in the video, when Jacob Bannon high-jacks the interview and… well… just watch.
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Remember Disgorge, Mexico, that weird ass looking movie I was talking about that was directed by David Hall and inspired by the Fuck the Facts album of the same title? Well, our PLPs (platonic life partners) over at Metal Injection have debuted a clip from the film, and – not exactly shocking – it’s weirder than Nergal singing country music. Check it, yo:
The song is “Kelowna,” by the way. If you can’t figure the name of the band that recorded it or which album it appears on, well, then, congratulations – you are a ree-ree and you can now go collect some disabilities payments from the government.
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Add “David Lee Roth on the Eat ‘Em and Smile tour” to the list of tours I’d visit if I had a time machine. The Vai / Sheehan / Bissonette lineup was definitely Diamond Dave’s best… if you disagree, I’m happy to engage in an e-fight to the death.
Here’s that lineup playing “Shyboy” in Detroit in 1986. Skip to 2:10 for the Vai/Sheehan double-shredathon if that’s what you’re in it for… but I can’t imagine why you’d possibly want to miss out on DLR’s stage antics.
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