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Record(s) o’ the Month – July 2012

Record(s) o’ the Month – July 2012

By Angry Metal Guy on August 6, 2012 in 2012, Blog Posts, Record o' the Month, 9 comments

July has actually been a bit of a strange month. While every other month of the year has had some really amazing releases and it’s been difficult to choose, the competition was a little weirder this month. There wasn’t really anything that destroyed anything else—instead, the highest score that we gave out during July was a 4.0. It was also weird, because we reviewed up-and-coming vest metal rockstars Castle who, at least Steel Druhm and I, agreed deserved recognition. But since the record was not released in July, it was not eligible.

Angry Metal Guy’s Indefensible Positions: Mayhem – Grand Declaration of War

Angry Metal Guy’s Indefensible Positions: Mayhem – Grand Declaration of War

By Angry Metal Guy on July 31, 2012 in Blog Posts, Indefensible Positions, Black Metal, 15 comments

Every once in a while the metal scene collectively pisses on a band or record and someone needs to step up and defend why they like it. I normally don’t spend a lot of time defending shitty records, but sometimes genuinely interesting or good records get lampooned by an overly conservative heavy metal scene. And that calls for a professional contrarian to defend it! If ever there ever a professional contrarian, it would be me. So here I am to re-hash a record from my past that I still love that everyone else seems to have soured on (or never liked in the first place).

Angry Metal Mail

Angry Metal Mail

By Angry Metal Guy on July 28, 2012 in Angry Metal Mail, Blog Posts, 37 comments

We don’t get a ton of hate mail. Because we have a good system for commenting, most of the venting, whining, and misdirected anger at childhood traumas and inability to perform in bed gets left in our comment boxes where we can respond to the person directly or where others can respond (with public shaming). But every once in a while we get hate mail, and I thought I’d post this one because the pussy who sent it to me decided to air his poor taste only privately and anonymously. Well, we here at Angry Metal Guy brook no such behavior. If you’re going to be a moron, you get to do it in public.

90s Metal Weirdness: Fight – War Of Words

90s Metal Weirdness: Fight – War Of Words

By Dr. Fisting on June 24, 2012 in 90s Metal Weirdness, Blog Posts, English Metal, Heavy Metal, 10 comments

Cast your minds back to a time when metal music was not cool. Nay, indeed, a time when metal was anathema to all that was considered to be “chic” and “in.” A time when your favorite bands were actually encouraged by the music industry to play slower, cut their hair, and write sensitive lyrics about their childhoods. Yes, this unfortunately really happened.

Our new semi-irregular feature “90s Metal Weirdness” focuses on albums released between 1992 and 2001 and which we all probably would rather forget. But in the service of publicly shaming the musicians involved, we have pushed forward. — AMG

90s Metal Weirdness: MD.45 – The Craving

90s Metal Weirdness: MD.45 – The Craving

By Dr. Fisting on April 29, 2012 in 90s Metal Weirdness, Blog Posts, 9 comments

Cast your minds back to a time when metal music was not cool. Nay, indeed, a time when metal was anathema to all that was considered to be “chic” and “in.” A time when your favorite bands were actually encouraged by the music industry to play slower, cut their hair, and write sensitive lyrics about their childhoods. Yes, this unfortunately really happened.

Our new semi-irregular feature “90s Metal Weirdness” focuses on albums released between 1992 and 2001 and which we all probably would rather forget. But in the public service of publicly shaming the musicians involved, we have pushed forward.

Kinda Back!

Kinda Back!

By Angry Metal Guy on February 26, 2012 in Blog Posts, 25 comments

So it appears that we are back. Though, shit is kinda fucked up right now. It took me a long time to get this blog looking the way it did, even if it wasn’t really that pretty. I will do my best to get everything back up to speed, but I don’t know how well that’s going to go. So, slowly, slowly, we will overcome this hacking horseshit.