Archive for the ‘Metal News’ Category

This is off their new “Mechanize” album, whose only positive contribution to metal is to further prove the point so truthfully made by myself in the post below.

Now the video got off to a good start in my book (never mind the “government is evil” text in the beginning); I was genuinely interested in the whole slow-mo, black and white, nazi-looking dude with dogs scaring a random naked dude. But then it quickly degenerated into a retarded slide show of cliche “metal” imagery (holy shit the bible!). It features dog carcasses, so it may hold value in a scientific way to a certain food connoisseur that I know, but apart from that it’s total crap. I could do a better guitar solo if I were to simply fart on my guitar and record it.

Also, it seems Dino is well on his way to make Fear Factory the first all fatass metal band. The only odd member here is the vocalist, who apart from sucking ass really hard at vocals, looks like a lesbian. Dino will prolly eat him anytime soon. Anyway, the only reason I’m posting this is because Gene Hoglan is in it and I like that dude. Thanks again Mr. Cazares for giving the big fella a job and not letting him sleep on the streets.

Borknagar has posted pictures of all the versions of their upcoming album “Universal”, set for release on March 2nd here in North America, and February 22nd everywhere else.

The “Dragon Edition” comes with all kinds of shit, a DVD with a making of documentary and a digital version of the album, a necklace, a patch, fucking keyring… It looks pretty sweet actually.

The double LP version comes with a couple of bonus songs and that’s about it. Kind of upsetting because I’d like to think that including some sort of download code for a digital version was becoming fairly standard.

The album art is pretty sweet though, so It would be nice to have a large version of it, and I’ll “acquire” my own digital copy.

There is now, and you can thank Arsis for that. Below is the video for their new single off their new album “Starve for the Devil”. It’s called “Forced to Rock”. Yeah no that wasn’t a typo.

Maybe this isn’t really Arsis. Maybe in the not-so-distant future scientists were finally able to figure out time travel, and they used former “metal” band Avenged Sevenfold to test out the potentially fatal process. Avenged Sevenfold agreed because their lives sucked ass anyway and if the thing actually worked, they could show a world that still hadn’t completely forgotten them that after 20 years of practicing their instruments away from the spotlight, they had finally managed to become decent at them (not much they could do for songwriting though). And so they traveled back in time, stole Arsis’ identity and made this video with like 5% of the regular budget for a typical A7X video because well, in the future, they’re all broke and miserable and their little money is worth even less. Also for some reason they’re trying to ruin James Malone’s image by giving him a lisp.

In all fairness though, it’s a fun video. And I like those pinch harmonics in the beginning.

Tonight, January 19, watch Suffocation and Goatwhore (And Devildriver if you’re into that shit) perform live at The Rave in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Just sign up at http://www.theravelive.com/webcast/.

Well fuck me sideways, Finntroll has already done a video for a track off their upcoming “Nifelvind” album! Thanks to The Sheriff for this one:

With production values rivaling The History Channel’s better documentaries about Hindu Mythology and carpenter tans of epic proportions comes Rudra, the Singaporean “Vedic Metal” outfit, with their video for Hymns from the Blazing Chariot. The song comes off their latest album, Brahmavidya: Transcendental I, which I got turned into after Zach mentioned it in some episode.

The song’s alright, it’s definitely not my favorite from the album but it serves its purpose as a video song pretty well. Check it out:

The one thing I still don’t get is their haircuts. Especially the vocalist/bassist; What the fuck is going on up there? If anything, everyone in that band should be sporting something similar to my boy Ravana’s do here:

Also, if Rudra’s next album isn’t a concept album about the Ramayana, I will be extremely disappointed. Thanks to our great fan and Food Network pundit Niro Narendran for the heads up.

Continuing the media frenzy and all out whore fest that started ever since he announced this 4 album concept thingy, The Dev has released two interesting videos.

The first one is of course the video for “Bend it like Bender”, a song from his most recent outing, “Addicted”. The video itself is pretty cool looking, sorta mixing some cel-shaded Modern Warfarey looking visuals with anime or some shit. The song is… alright I guess. But then again, that entire album is… alright I guess. Check it out:

Now the second video promises to be the first in a series that will focus far beyond things beyond things. It’s awesome:

Apparently someone deleted that trailer for the new Meshuggah DVD off the interwebs. But don’t worry, I have just the thing to fill that void with: A Meshuggah music video!

Behold the greatest music video of all time:

That’s the title of the MeshMesh’s upcoming live dvd. I guess 95% of you couldn’t give 2 shits about this, but it’s pretty cool news to me since I may never get a chance to see these guys live. It’ll drop on February 5th in the Old World and 5 days later, on the 10th, in the New World.

Here’s the trailer:

Less rainbow and more dark for RJD. Here’s a statement from Wendy Dio (wife, daughter, sister,transvestite relative?):

Ronnie has been diagnosed with the early stages of stomach cancer. We are starting treatment immediately at the Mayo Clinic. After he kills this dragon, Ronnie will be back on stage, where he belongs, doing what he loves best, performing for his fans.

Thanks to all the friends and fans around the world that have sent well wishes. This has really helped to keep his spirit up.

Long Live Rock and Roll, Long Live Ronnie James Dio

Fucking cancer.