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I really, really, sincerely, with all my heart and all my soul, wish that there was a version of this video with running audio commentary by the director.
My sincerest thanks to djabthrash. You changed my life… forever.
I’m having a hard time finding anything else about this band on the internet. If anyone has any leads, please let me know. I must know more. I MUST.
-AR
First of all, for our non-Chosen readers: groyse metsie is Yiddish for a bargain. Don’t say I never taught ya nuthin’.
So. For the month of October (or “Rocktober,” as some clever marketing types are dubbing it), Earache is offering a whole bunch of truly righteous albums from their catalog for download on iTunes at a retardedly low price: $5.99 in the U.S., £4.49 in the U.K., and 4,99EUR in Europe. (The press release tells me that “prices may vary in other regions.” Ha-ha.) Now, I know that most of us music snobs don’t like iTunes because the audio quality isn’t as high as it could be, and there’s a better-than-average chance that a lot of you own most of these albums anyway. But if you can get past the whole “IT’S NOT AS GOOD AS FLAC! Snort snort” thing and/or for some reason DO NOT already own most of these albums, it’s a really, really killer deal.
A complete list of available albums after the jump. At least six or seven of these are classics, and nine or so are still awesome and could be classics, so they’re totally worth the six bucks or whatever.
And then one of them is by Oceano.
Good morning, our fellow Metalocalypse and Dethklok lovers! So here’s the sitch. Vince is getting on the phone with Brendon Small in just a few hours, and he needs YOUR help getting some juicy questions for Brendon. Post a question in the comments section below by 3:30 pm EST today, and Vince will cherry-pick the best ones to pass onto Brendon. And if he chooses your question, well, maybe we’ll send you some banana stickers or something.
In case, for some inexplicable reason, you don’t know who Brendon Small is: the man – nay, genius – is the co-creator of Metalocalypse (as well as the equally awesome Home Movies), voices the characters of Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Pickles the Drummer, and Nathan Explosion, and will be the dude you see front n’ center when you go see Dethklok live. In other words, Brendon is the shit.
Dethklok’s Dethalbum II is out now on Williams Street Records, and the band is currently on tour with Mastodon, Converge, and High on Fire. Get a complete list of tour dates here.
The new season of Metalocalypse starts November 8 on Adult Swim. And the episodes are gonna be thirty minutes long now! Niiiiice.
-Axl & Vince
This summer’s ridiculously hot but still awesome Blackened Music Series show with Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer and Repulsion was, technically speaking, a book release party for Precious Metal, a book collected Decibel’s awesome Hall of Fame series in one classy edition. That fact got kind of overlooked as the world celebrated such an incredible grind show taking place, but there ya have it. It’s a really cool book and you should buy it.
So. Our friends from Metal Injection were on hand, and not only did they interview the dudes gods from Pig Destroyer, but they also snagged an interview with Albert Mudrian. In addition to being the editor-of-chief of the Decibel, Albert wrote Choosing Death, which is pretty much the definitive history of death and grind. In other words: the guy knows his shit.
Here’s MI’s interview with Albert. As a metal-writing nerd, I found it fascinating. And don’t forget to head over to Metal Injection to watch the Pig Destroyer interview, too (they also have plenty of ass-rippingly good live footage from the show). ‘Cause, y’know. It’s fucking PIG DESTROYER.
-AR
MS Maniac John Devos tipped us off to the existence of Vivian Black, with whom I was previously unfamiliar. And, honestly, I feel deeply, deeply ashamed. For Ms. Black is a true artiste, a creative genius of the highest order. Her thinking is just on an whole other level from most people. We can barely comprehend the ways in which she is pushing the envelope.
Here’s some background of Ms. Black, from the bio on her official website, which identifies Vivian as a “Vocalist & Author,” “Actress,” “Proucer & Director,” “Author” (but not vocalist this time!), and “Occultist“:
Vivian Black, is a multifaceted artist: actress of the horror genre, female Metal solo singer, creator of black metal performances, composer, screenwriter, writer, artistic producer and director. A talented woman, whose potential has not been recognized by show business, nor by most of the public of her native country.
This website will clarify, for the first time, who Vivian Black really is; her attributes and virtues, her artistic work, her talent spread out one hundred per cent, her real aims, her mythical and enigmatic personality, and the limit between reality and fiction, the character (or not) of the addressed by many “Witch of metal”, “Princess of darkness”, “Black witch”, or “Satanic singer”.
Is your mind blown yet? No? Well how about now?
Okay. So here’s a great example of the ways in which the mind works.
Last week Vince and I were talking about Devin Townsend, as we do from time to time. And later that night, I got a song from Vai’s Sex & Religion album stuck in my head. I used to listen to that album all the time when it came out in 1993, but I have no idea where the hell the cassette I once owned now resides, so I searched the net to see if it was posted somewhere.
Well, as it turns out, the song has a video. And I’m watching this video, and I realize, “Holy shit, that’s Devin Townsend doing vocals!” I have no conscious memory of every being aware that Townsend was the vocalist for that album, but I must’ve known; that’s why the song got stuck in my head in the first place, right? Psychology is weird like that.
By the way, even though they’re not in this video, Terry Bozzio played drums and T.M. Stevens played bass on Sex & Religion. TOO WEIRD!!!
What an amazing discovery. I feel so much cooler now. “Oh, yeah. I’ve been listening to Townsend since before anyone knew who he was.”
Here’s the heavy metal blog-crossover project of the season: Invisible Oranges‘ Cosmo Lee has recruited Metal Inquistion’s Sergeant D (Hey, those names rhyme!) to “compile a mixtape that would be a slam metal primer.” The mix includes fifteen songs from bands such as Devourment, Putrid Pile and “Completely Unreadable Band Logo of the Week” alum Guttural Secrete, and can be downloaded for free here. The Sarge even wrote some “liner notes” about each track to help educate those of us unfamiliar in the ways of slam.
Bonus: Cosmo admits that “After listening to [the mix], I still can’t tell any of this stuff apart.” So at least I’m not the only one.
-AR
Mere hours before Gojira played the best show of 2009, our friends at Metal Injection interview G to the Jira main man Joe Duplantier, and even got him to pick his favorite metal videos. No shock: the man has good taste. So, needless to say, this is pretty awesome.
Vince’s own interview with Joe should go up sometime next week. You’ll wanna read that, too. Trust me.
-AR
Literally, inside a steel box — with no ventilation at all. That’s what French tech-death masters Gorod (over whom we’ve gushed many times on these pages) are doing at Evento 2009, a 2-day art event taking place in Bordeaux, France on October 18th and 19th. Reports Ballsinmouth:
Gorod will perform inside Portuguese artist João Onofre’s “Box Sized Die” installation, a soundproof, steel-walled cube, an homage to Tony Smith’s DIE, an icon of American sculpture dating from 1962. At the beginning of the performance, they will play with the door open (normal concert volume level). Then the door will be shut and nothing more will be heard outside. As the cube has no ventilation, the concert will last at most 14 minutes, after which the exhausted band will open the door again.
That’s pretty awesome, but also kind of petrifying. The picture you see above is of the band Darkmoon performing inside the very same box at last year’s event; I’d be scared as fuck of dying of asphyxiation inside a box that size, whatwith 4 other dudes fighting for the same oxygen as I am for 14 fucking minutes. Although, if things go awry, we’d end up with fodder for the most metal death ever; THAT would be performance art.
If you haven’t checked out Gorod’s excellent Process of a New Decline released earlier this year, get on that shit. You’re missing out.
-VN
“Hey Beavis, this guy talks like you.”
Thanks to MS Maniac / Metal Injection contributor Ben Apatoff for reminding us of the above gem in his comment on yesterday’s Megadeth “Sweating Bullets” video post. The entire music video portion of this clip is pure comedic gold. It’s a shame that most of the music videos weren’t included in the Mike Judge Collection of Beavis & Butthead DVDs released a few years ago because they were often the best part. We got a few gems as bonus features (like the famous “Damnit Pantera, this beer is warm. Get me another one!” clip) but watching the animated shorts without the comedic genius of the music video commentary to break them up just didn’t have the same appeal.
“We were in burrito.”
This show never ceases to be funny.
-VN
If I had a biological clock, I’d worry that’s it’s ticking. Because this is my second story about little kids today.
Reign in Blonde has made the awesome discovery of Jonah Rocks, who is a) the only four year old I’ve ever seen that can play the drums, and b) the only four year old I’m aware of that already has a stage name. He also seems to have an endorsement deal with Vic Firth. Holy poop.
For reasons that are totally beyond me, the videos of this lil’ tyke rockin’ out are not embeddable, but if you go here, you can watch Jonah play “Harvester of Sorrow” with more skill and passion than Lars Ulrich has displayed in years.
After the jump are some more links to Jonah playing. Some of these videos were made when he was only three years old!!!
I found this pamphlet sitting on a seat on the train on a few weeks ago. Yikers.
-VN
Back in July, our brostafas at Metal Injection announced what has to be one of the most awesome contests in the history of awesome contests: one lucky unsigned band, selected by MI readers, would get to have heavy metal auteur David Brodsky of My Good Eye direct their video, absolutely free of cost.
Well, all the unsigned bands that submitted demos to the contest have been whittled down to ten finalists, and now’s your time to help pick a winner. It’s easy – just go here, listen to the bands, and give a horns up to whichever ones you like. You can only vote for each band one, but you can vote for as many different bands as you like.
I’m not sure if it would be kosher for me to tell you who I think you should vote for. I will say that as I type this, I just happen to be wearing a The Binary Code t-shirt. Just putting that out there.
-AR
Calvin & Hobbes is the reading material of choice in the shitter of the MS Mansion Vince Division. Imagine my delight, then, when I stumbled upon the above gem (click to enlarge). Bill Watterson is a genius.
-VN
I hadn’t listened to Coalesce’s Ox in a bit, so I threw it on again this weekend, and holy shit. Why did so much good music come out this year? How the fucking fuck am I supposed to narrow all this shit down to just ten albums? Fuck you, brilliant musicians!!!
But I digress. Ox. It’s killer. And now Coalesce is giving fans a chance to re-mix some of the album to win some cool shit. The band says:
As Vince already mentioned, we spent Friday night at the annual San Gennaro festival in Little Italy. Prior to that, though, we had warm-up drinks at Arrow Bar, where our bro-bro Bram Teitelman from Metal Insider was spinnin’. The last song he played before we headed out for Little Italy was “Painkiller,” which, needless to say, got stuck in my head for the rest of the night, and part of the next morning. It wasn’t even the whole song – it was just the chorus. It was like Halford was trying to drill his way out of my brain. Every time there was a lull in the conversation, I found myself almost involuntarily adopting that eunuch voice, screeching the chorus aloud. I’m sure I annoyed the ever-lovin’ shit outta everyone around me.
But there are way worse songs to have stuck in your head.
-AR
This brilliant display of mathematics was sent in and created by MS Maniac AJ Zink (whose band Ovid’s Withering has a new track posted). Nice work, dude.
-VN
Okay. So Manfred Nuggets clearly wins the “Tipster of the Day” award.
This is exactly what it looks like: Machine Head’s Rob Flynn. At Wembley Stadium. After his band opened for Metallica. In the crowd. Sining “Master of Puppets” along with the fans.
Regardless of what you think of Machine Head, you need to give the dude props for this. That is very cool.
-AR
Dethklok’s Dethalbum II promises to be twice as awesome as their Dethalbum – in fact, this record might actually make you kill people in horrifically violent ways, or be killed in a horrifically violent way, as the band’s fans often are on Metalocalypse. It’s that friggin’ good.
The album comes out September 29 on Williams Street, but our friends at Metal Insider are getting the party started early with a listening party here in NYC a week from today, Wednesday, September 23 at Fontana’s, the site of many an awesome metal party. This is your chance to get drunk, hear the record early, stalk Vince and myself, and throw yourselves at MI’s resident Quaker Jew, Bram Teitelman. Ladies, if you’re not a total cow and ask real nice, I’d wager Bram will sleep with you. Just putting that out there. He’s a very giving dude.
See ya there…
-AR
This just in: rednecks do not actually have red necks. I guess “mudnecks” or “farmer’s tans” isn’t as catchy.
So. Familial obligations kept me away from the Down/Melvins show here in NYC this past Friday night, and apparently I missed quite a party. Which isn’t shocking – I’ve never seen Down play a bad show, and actually having a support act (as opposed to the hour of Kiss and Skynyrd videos they played before going on the last time I saw them), let alone one as awesome as Melvins, probably just made the entire affair that much more rockin’. Plus, members of Skid Row and God Forbid were on hand. FML.
Amongst the apparent highlights: Down covering Van Halen’s “Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love.” I kinda wish that Phil Anselmo had tried to do a DLR mid-air split or that Kirk Windstein had slid across the stage on his knees or something, but whatevs.
-AR
[via Metal Insider]
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