Hi there in Angry Metal Land. I’m on a short hiatus as you may have noticed, but will hopefully be coming back with updates this week! I apologize for my absence and I’m sure that you’re feeling sad inside, but let me tell you this: I’ll be back. And so will Steel Druhm.
So I created a playlist on Spotify (unfortunately all y’all that don’t have it are going to have to cope, I’ll figure out a way to do an iTunes version, but that means buying a bunch of tracks, that’s pretty lame). You can check it out here: Veckans Spellista v. 34.
If you have a very similar CD collection to me you could re-build this list on your home computer. Unfortunately for Spotify users, certain songs I wanted to use aren’t on the list I created originally. It’s in 90 minute mix-tape format, for those of you who are old enough to have made such things as music infatuated youth.
Side A: At the Gates – “Slaughter of the Soul” The Black Dahlia Murder – “Miasma” Anathema – “One Last Goodbye” (from Hindsight) Enslaved – “As Fire Swept Clean the Earth” Finntroll - “Den Sista Runans Dans” (replaced with “Solsagan” on Spotify) Hypocrisy – “Craving for another Killing” Amon Amarth – “Valhall Awaits Me” Blind Guardian – “Battlefield” Bloodbath – “Eaten” Månegarm – “Eld”
Side B: Shining – “Besvikelsens Dystra Monotoni” Dimmu Borgir – “The Insight and the Catharsis” Opeth – “Serenity Painted Death” Blaze – “Stare at the Sun” (this is from The Night that Would Not Die on the Spotify version) Einherjer – “Wolf-Age” In Mourning – “The Art of a Mourning Kind”
EDIT! BONUS LIST!
So, there’s a thread on the Iron Maiden fanclub website about the top 10 best modern tracks (i.e., from the last 4 albums). So I bit and made this truly fantastic playlist that is built for flow, not by favorite (since they all rank highly for me). This album would be a 5/5 75 minute record..
“Montségur”
“The Alchemist”
“Brighter than a Thousand Suns”
“Coming Home”
“Blood Brothers”
“The Pilgrim”
“Face in the Sand”
“The Longest Day”
“Isle of Avalon”
“The Legacy”
It’s been a while since I’ve updated a “classic record”, hasn’t it? But I think I’ve hit another one that is a must have for anyone who likes good metal. I mean, any kind of good metal at all. When I was just an Angry Metal Teenager I first was introduced to a bunch of stuff that I just couldn’t get into because it was too much for me. But there was one band that really pumped out a kind of music that I latched onto that was both heavy and melodic, but also extreme and cool. That band was Norway’s Theatre of Tragedy and that record which really turned me onto the band and later the “beauty and the beast style” (often imitated, but never improved upon) was the record Velvet Darkness They Fear.
So, Iron Thrones‘ new EP The Wretched Sun which I made the Record o’ the Month and raved about in my review came out yesterday (the 27th of July, 2010). You can order the record from the band via their website (actually, through their store, but go to their site, too) and over at their Band Camp you can download the EP for $6 and you can still download the particularly excellentVisions of Light (the band’s first LP) for as much as you want (i.e. free, if you don’t want to contribute to the band’s well-being).
Oh yeah, it’s also available on Amazon, iTunes and any other number of sources where you can probably find the thing.
Listen to that song above (I hope you’re already doing so) and tell me that it isn’t worth your six bucks. Or wait, it is worth your six bucks. So fucking buy it already.
Edit: Oh right. My friendly competitors over at The Number of the Blog (who shall lose righteously in the Pigskin Destroyer 666 Fantasy Football League) are also sponsoring a tour for the band as well. If you click that link up there, it will take you to their vastly inferior website for the details. Or you could stay right here in the comfort of AngryMetalGuy.com and look at the tour dates.
7/29/10 — Chicago, IL @ The Double Door w/ The Alaya Conscious, Hessler 7/31/10 — Columbus, OH @ The Summit w/ The C.O.A.S.T., Artillery Breath 8/01/10 — Aliquippa, PA @ The Fallout Shelter w/ Sathanas, Dethlehem 8/02/10 — Brooklyn, NY@ The Charleston w/ East of the Wall, Name, & more! 8/03/10 — Allenstown, NH @ Ground Zero w/ TBA 8/04/10 — Worcester, MA @ Tammany Hall w/ Irepress, Frozen 8/05/10 — Philadelphia, PA @ The M Room w/ Monolith, Willing Swords 8/07/10 — Spartanburg, SC @ Ground Zero w/ TBA 8/10/10 — Clarksville, TN @ The Coup w/ Evolve or Die 8/11/10 — Nashville, TN @ The Muse w/ TBA 8/12/10 — St. Louis, MO @ The Firebird w/ Ashes and Iron 8/13/10 — Marshalltown, IA @ The American Legion w/ Anno Domine, Tony Rocky Horror
Update 25/07/2010: K. Philipson has posted this on the appropriate thread over at Global Domination: “STOP THE DONATIONS UNTIL I SAY OTHERWISE! SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED AND UNTIL WE KNOW THE EXACT STATUS OF THIS – DO NOT DONATE! I WILL SHARE INFORMATION AS SOON AS I CAN.
(don’t sweat it, I am not stealing your donations or anything)
Update July 24th: I wish I could spill the beans right now, but the important thing is that none of you donate for the time being. Hopefully everything can be explained next week or the week after. All of the money that’s been donated is safe and sound in the PayPal account and will be returned to their owners when the time comes. Keeping them for now is just a precautionary action in case it actually has to come down to donations in the end anyways, but now I doubt it.
Just hang in there. I will explain everything asap.
This Saturday is a day of celebration anyways. Now let’s just hope everything goes as planned and promised.”
So it has come to my attention today that Örebro’s finest The Project Hate MCMXCIX (Myspace here) has made a post about recording their next record. Funding is a serious problem, as we’re all aware, in the music industry in 2010. There are any number of reasons for this and it can be easily said that most of the readers of this blog are probably at fault for this in a way because free music has become the standard now, and bands are finding it harder and harder to keep on doing what they love because while the consumption of music has changed dramatically, the production of music is still very much mired in the old ways—labels, recording studios and so on. Continue reading
Well, after Vertebrae, I can’t think of anyone who shouldn’t be excited about the new Enslaved record which will be dropped on the 27th of September in Europe and the following day in the States and called: Axioma Ethica Odini(a little help with this translation would be awesome—Axioma = Law/truth, Ethica = Ethics, Odini = Latinized Oden—but I don’t know the grammar).
A reader has kindly popped in and left his translation, which I think sounds pretty badass and I think him for his expertise (and nerdiness). To quote: “Odini would be genitive singular, so in English Odin’s True Ethics“. Very badass indeed.
Har du nånsin märkt att svenska band faktiskt sällan får spela i Sverige? Det känns som de stora banden från Sverige åker på turné över hela världen men aldrig längre norrut i landet än Stockholm (om dom ens spelar i Sverige). De flesta som dyker upp gör så på festivaler under sommaren och helt ärligt är jag inget fan av festivaler (för dyrt för få bra band—undantaget är House of Metal, förstås). Men av alla svenska band som jag jättegärna skulle vilja se så finns det ett som jag aldrig lyckats se men måste se innan bandets slut: Shining. Jag vet att många inte skulle hålla med men jag tycker att Shining är lätt ett av Sveriges bästa band och medan VI: Klagopsalmer inte var lika bra som tidigare plattor, ser jag verkligen fram emot VII: Född Förlorare som släpps senare i år. Continue reading
In an attempt to not re-post Blabbermouth’s news like many of the blogs out there (since yes, I, too am unfortunately tied to Blabbermouth for my news), I try to do a bit more analysis and opinion on certain things. Think of me as the pundit to your regular news hour. Anyway, I have often given Iron Maiden shit about their American tours. Now once again they’re skipping the midwest in the US for the most part, and unfortunately they’re not coming to Sweden except for the stupid Sonisphere festival which costs way too much to just see Maiden (RIP Dio.). But one of the things I’ve often complained about is Maiden‘s reluctance to do new tours in the US or to play deep cuts on tours (can’t you play Alexander the Great JUST ONCE!?). Continue reading
Well, it’s on us again. Iron Maiden fever. I have no idea whether or not there will be promo for this. I’ve already been bugging my local EMI people about this stuff, but they’ve been hiding behind a website and pretty much no contact whatsoever. But I can promise that I’ll be keeping you up to date on this whole thing. And fuck. August 16th starts Maiden-mania again. Man, this is going to be a rockin’ summer for me..
