My current musical obsession (metal)

[StaticStrike]

I love, love, love metal. Lately I've been listening to a lot of Ulver's Bergtatt. Here's a good song from the album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNyIWBCFq5Y

I haven't been using Last.fm for a while, but here's my profile:
http://www.last.fm/user/StaticStrike

[Isgrimnur]

Amazon says that March is Metal.

[Gratch]

Amazon says that March is Metal.

Shit, that's gonna get expensive.   

[Isgrimnur]

You might say that.

We've got hundreds of albums on sale this month in honor of metal. You'll find death metal, black metal, progressive, thrash, grindcore... from all over the world.

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[kratz]

Things bought from that sale:





I bought this a while ago.  It is great:

[Isgrimnur]

Armoury Records sampler is free.

1. Slugger [Explicit]   The Resistance   
2. Phoney Smiles & Fake Hellos [Explicit]   Black Label Society
3. Rainbow In The Dark   DIO   
4. Lords of Abaddon [Explicit]   Duff McKagan's Loaded   
5. Breed To Breathe   Napalm Death
6. Unbreakable   Stratovarius
7. Time To Break Free   Gamma Ray
8. Die Young   Heaven & Hell
9. Killing Death   Circle II Circle
10. Like A Knife In The Back   Twisted Sister

[Gratch]

The album artwork for the new Beastwars album (due out on April 19) is fucking epic.  No Clean Singing gave it a great review...can't wait for this one.

[Gratch]

Only one album purchased in March, Finntroll's Bloodsvept.  If you liked Finntroll before, you'll love this album.  If you didn't, Bloodsvept won't do anything to change your mind.


It's not metal, but I also picked up the new David Bowie album, which is absolutely brilliant.  Except for the cover, which blows.  I honestly thought it was just placeholder art and that there was no way it could actually be the cover:


April looks to be a better month with both new Beastwars and new Amorphis on the horizon.  Heard a few tracks from Amorphis' Circle album, which have been really good.

Side note:  I also had to share what might be the most insane album cover I've seen in a while.  It's from a Dallas-based band called Cleric for their Gratum Inferno album.  Behold...


 

[Gratch]

New Black Sabbath is kinda meh.  God is Dead?

[kratz]

New Black Sabbath is kinda meh.  God is Dead?

Meh indeed.  Some of the heavy parts are ok, but mostly wtf? No.

[Gratch]

Slayer founding member Jeff Hanneman passes away at 49

RIP.   

[Isgrimnur]

Yeah, I heard about that from my metal/sports friend today.  Reports are that this is due to a spider bite that almost resulted in the loss of an arm.   

[kratz]

Yeah, he's been fucked up from the spider bite for like two years.  Shitty, shitty news.  Guy was the best of that pair by a mile.  Plus he wasn't a huge douche like Kerry King.

[Gratch]

Yeah, he's been fucked up from the spider bite for like two years.  Shitty, shitty news.  Guy was the best of that pair by a mile.  Plus he wasn't a huge douche like Kerry King.

Yup.  King is a colossal dickbag, and Hanneman was the one with all the writing chops anyways.

I don't listen to Slayer much anymore, but it's sad to think that with Lombardo out and Hanneman gone, the band that basically got me into metal in the first place doesn't exist anymore.   

[kratz]

Did you see that crap earlier this year about how King was taking 'Slayer' on the road in Europe this summer... without Lombardo, without Hanneman, and without Tom Araya either?  Pretty sure that's not Slayer.

[Gratch]

Did you see that crap earlier this year about how King was taking 'Slayer' on the road in Europe this summer... without Lombardo, without Hanneman, and without Tom Araya either?  Pretty sure that's not Slayer.

  I missed that one.  King's done a lot of ridiculous shit over the years, but that one may take the cake.