“American progressive metal veterans Fates Warning have a new album dropping next week, so what better time than now to look back at one of their strongest recordings, 2000’s Disconnected?” Ancient Warnings.
Yer Metal Is Olde
Yer Metal is Olde: DOWN – NOLA
“Supergroups. That exciting moment when you learn that members of two or more bands you love are coming together to create … well, if we’re honest with ourselves, usually disappointment. It’s rare that supergroups come close to fulfilling that promise and that’s probably because they can’t. That’s not their fault – expectations are always sky high as a new group coalesces but different fans want different aspects of their favorites to be front and center in the new entity. A rare example, however, of a supergroup not just living up to the hype but downright crushing – at least for this fan – is DOWN.” OLDEA
Yer Metal Is Olde: Nifelheim – Servants of Darkness
“There’s something immensely satisfying about listening to musicians who are utterly devoted to their craft. In the realm of blackened thrash, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who fits that description more than Nifelheim’s founding members, Swedish twins Erik “Tyrant” and Per “Hellbutcher” Gustavsson. These are the guys who apparently kicked out their first guitarist for being “wimpy” enough to have a girlfriend, the guys who once claimed that Venom is the most recent band they actually like.” Trve darkness.
Yer Metal is Olde: ISIS – Celestial
“ISIS were a gateway band for me and they, along with a handful of others, are largely responsible for shaping my musical ‘tastes’ as they exist today. Originally introduced to ISIS by way of their unfuckable-with sophomore album, Oceanic, I then discovered that the fundamentals of ISIS’ iconic, oft-copied-but-never-bettered sound were already fully formed on their debut LP, 2000’s Celestial.” Star breakers.
Yer Metal is Olde: Dying Fetus – Destroy the Opposition
“An album released in the year 2000, celebrating a 20th anniversary, makes yer metalhead feel rather olde. However, time and age has done naught to diminish the power and lightning in a bottle creativity marking the monumental third album from Maryland death metal legends, Dying Fetus.” 20 years of destruction.
Yer Metal Is Olde: Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
“Hello, controversy! In all of metal, one of the most controversial topics is Black Sabbath with and without Ozzy. Passions are inflamed and regrettable words are spewed in both directions any time this debate comes up. Being a human completely lacking in emotion or empathy, I don’t care about it. I want good albums period, and let’s be honest, this record’s predecessor was Never Say Die!, undoubtedly one of the band’s least finest moments, with or without their infamous leading man. No matter what came next, it was a low bar.” Vintage evil.
Yer Metal Is Olde: Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
“Black Sabbath’s eponymous 1970 debut might well be the ultimate Yer Metal is Olde entry. Besides being unquestionably metal, it’s also as Olde as Yer Metal can possibly get. Because, despite what a small minority of Coven and/or Blue Cheer fans might say, the release of Black Sabbath marks the birth of heavy metal itself as both a sound and a fully-formed aesthetic.” No metal is olderER!
Yer Metal Is Olde: Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
“From my perspective, this is a big year for Yer Metal Is Olde pieces, and it starts off with this piece of work. Iron Maiden wasn’t my first purchase by these legends: that would be The Number of the Beast, when it came out back in 1982. But after being blown away by that album as a twelve-year-old, I quickly gobbled up whatever else I could find – which wasn’t much. A few months later I grabbed my cassette copy of Killers, then the Maiden Japan EP, and finally their debut. So by the time I’d worked my way to this album, well, it confused me a bit. Why?” Eddie is olde.
Yer Metal Is Olde: Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
“Few bands in the history of metal earn such massive amounts of acclaim and disdain across the broader metal community than Pantera. The Texan legends dominated the mainstream metal scene throughout the ’90s, after reinventing themselves from their questionable glam roots, developing into a testosterone-fueled juggernaut of thrash-based groove metal.” Driven to excess.
Yer Metal Is Olde: In Flames – Colony
“There is no part of me that would trade away the pain and disillusion of losing a childhood idol, of walking out on shitty setlist after shitty fucking setlist if it meant losing In Flames’ impact on my life, Colony in particular. It isn’t their best album; it certainly isn’t their most successful. Perhaps though, Colony encapsulates everything In Flames could and would become better than any other record could.” Burning playgrounds and scar diaries.
