So it’s pretty sweet when you can listen to shitloads of new metal and then decide what’s great and what’s not so great… and then tell everybody. I love this gig.
You don’t have to agree with me on this. Or really on anything ever. But feel free to comment below if you’d like. And in no particular order (because honestly, it’s too hard to decide) my top 10 metal records of 2009 are:
Tombs – Winter Hours
The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
Behemoth – Evangelion
Gaza – He Is Never Coming Back
The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
Revocation – Existence Is Futile
Job For A Cowboy – Ruination
Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
Goatwhore – Carving Out The Eyes of God
Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
What I CAN tell you is that of those top 10, the ones I listen to the most are the new Gaza and the new Red Chord. But those are more recent releases… so that may be why. I also fucking adore Mastodon’s Crack The Skye but am starting to feel like I can’t call them a metal band anymore. Tombs had the most interesting record and Cattle had the most brutal record in my top 10… and the rest are listed because they didn’t disappoint me. Or were actually pretty good.
Happy New Year to all, be safe in your revelry and thank the lord (whichever one you worship) that 2009 is fucking over. 2010 will give us a new Misery Index record and a new Whitechapel record… so we have something to which we can look forward.
That’s all…the joke’s really not that complicated, so I won’t waste your time with a lengthy explanation. I mean, really I could have just posted the photo by itself, without any text at all, and you’d still get the joke…connect the dots yourself, as it were. You still readin’ this?
Now lets take a trip to Imagination Land here for a second. Picture this, you and your family living in quite suburbia, with kids playing in sprinklers, and parents are working on the garden. All of the sudden your little “squirt” is crusin’ down Maple Ave. in this brutal beast of a car! Everyone will wonder how your kid is going to turn up in their later adult years. This car, by far is probably _the_ coolest kid buggy ever.
In an interview posted on CNN.com today, Moore basically, in so many words, announces her love of heavy metal, and her plans to start a heavy metal band.
Says Moore: “There is a lot of music in the house, whether someone is playing it, or there’s a record on or something. I’ve been introduced to a lot of metal in my relationship, which is pretty cool, because my guy is a big metal fan, and it isn’t something I would necessarily investigate on my own — but I do like it. It’s just nice to have that truly built-in support system that someone is unbelievably understanding of [blah blah blah, something not about metal]”
There was also some other stuff in the interview, I think. Something about how she has officially, legally, changed her name to “Cornish Gamehen”, I dono, I have a short attention span. Check out the full interview here.
I try to follow metal, but I don’t follow sports…so this one slipped through the cracks for a couple of days, but it’s still pretty sweet. Check it out if you haven’t seen it already.
So apparently Twitter is more then a bunch of nerds. There’s actually a bunch of metal heads so here’s Knuckles First first batch of bands and other metal heads you should follow.
What in the hell is this? Did I completely miss something? Why in the hell is Job for a Cowboy AND Mortal Decay going to be at a church? I would like to believe that this should have been an April Fools joke.
I’ve done a little research on this. This is what I’ve come up with. NOTHING! The church’s website doesn’t say anything about Job for a Cowboy being there. So if you live in the area, find out for me, and let me know what in the hell is going on.
I saw a link for “the hyper kid” on YouTube and realized instantly it should have been named “the metal kid”. Obviously the bastard child of Randy Blythe and Angela Gossow, he screams his ABC’s while the rest of the children sing timidly. He has a bright future ahead of him. Or should I say…a dark one? BLAMO. I especially loved the claws. Best of luck to him.
Go check out A Day to Remember’s new song Welcome to the Family. If you know me, I defiantly dig me some ADTR. And they did NOT let me down with this song. Let’s go through my little check list that I have created to see if songs/albums fit my liking.
Hard Intro? YEP!
Consistent up paced beat? YEP!
Deep Grunts and Growls? Nope
Brutal Breakdowns? YEP!
My rating on this song?
Rating:
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Reason for a rating of six you might be asking. It’s a great song, I’m defiantly pumped for this album. But it just seems like it’s a sad and sappy song about an ex-girlfriend er a lover of some type. And ADTR is like, I had a good time when we were together, but I’m going to write a song about how awesome I’m doing, and I’m a better person then you (wait – this sounds like the rest of the their last album). But, it’s still a a great track, with killer mixing and good sound across the board.
So pre-order your copy of their new album, Homesick!
I also fucking adore Mastodon’s Crack The Skye but am starting to feel like I can’t call them a metal band anymore. Tombs had the most interesting record and Cattle had the most brutal record in my top 10… and the rest are listed because they didn’t disappoint me. Or were actually pretty good.
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