There’s a track from Slayer’s upcoming release “World Painted Blood” (do out later this year) streaming online. The track, “Hate Wordlwide” is what you’d expect from Slayer: it’s fucking awesome. Ferocious riffage, criticism of religion and some frenetic leads from King and Hanneman.
Slayer have been around awhile (20+ years) and are still as metal as ever, which is more than I can say of some of their thrash brethren (Anthrax, I’m looking at you, and Metallica, don’t think I’ve forgotten about “St. Anger” and the “Load”s of unmetal albums you’ve put out).
So give the track a listen and prepare to actually look forward to a release from an old favorite.
This is one of the funniest music videos I’ve seen in some time. Makes me want to drink a case of PBR and make a suit of armor out of it. Watch until the end. Enjoy.
So it was a late Sunday night and I just finished off a bottle of Jose with a good friend. We were watching some old NIN videos and exploring the internets for other music videos from times once past. Amidst our joy of Reznors’ bygone years of video anguish, that’s when it happened; we stumbled across Attack Attack!’s“Stick Stickly” music video.
I know there is some bad music out there but this really takes the rude-boy-emo-lame-fuck-douche award of the year.
Where to start? How about at the beginning. Within 10 seconds of the start of the video you see these fucks bouncing around. I am going to venture out on a limb and say they are…headbanging while trying to shit? I dunno. This video has it all though. Dancing, techno beats, stupid hair cuts, synchronized hair throws, and what kind of stupid scenecore video would be complete without some meaningless hot chick.
An incorrect power stance (crabcore stance) will result in loss of vision, creativity, and produce shitstained undies.
The presence of auto tuned vocals also doesn’t help them either. Who’s bright idea was it that signed these guys? Please…shoot yourself in the face.
Also, just to clarify how exactly not metal these fucks are. See figures A, B, or C, on proper metal (power) stance. Note the abscense of any sort of “Crab” position in all three. These are the proper metal power stances defined by Thor and or Zeus themselves. The inventors of heavy fucking metal.
Well, not all over the Midwest, but pretty much. Serpentcult, The Gates of Slumber, and Zoroaster are on the bill. All kind of suck in my opinion. Zoroaster has some pretty good jams, nothing that really grabs me in the stoner sludge doom grip that say, Electric Wizard or High On Fire can.
Serpentcults singer oozes gimmick. I don’t care if it’s the bassists wife or the bands’ former groupie-turned-roadie-turned-friend-turned-singer. Her range isn’t even close to the Dio-level that she try’s to reach.
Regardless of my rambling shit talk about bands I hardly know past 3 songs each, the tour kicks off at the Empty Bottle in Chicago (the tour poster says Metal Shakers, this is a lie).
To me, Suicidal Tendencies is one of the seminal speed/thrash bands. I love them. That’s why I am always excited when I hear they have new material coming out. Unfortunately for me, for damn near a decade now, that excitement is unwarranted; their newer material just isn’t as good as their late 80s-early 90s releases.
They are slated to release a new album later in the year, but if this vid for “Come Alive” is any indication as to the quality of all the new material, then this upcoming album doesn’t offer much to be excited about. The leads are frenetic and fierce, but the song as a whole is unimpressive and nowhere near the standard they set for themselves early on in their career.
Revolver Mag has the scoop on the themes from the forthcoming album “Deflorate”, due out September 15 on Metal Blade. The new song pretty much sounds like what you would expect from these guys, and the replacement guitarist (who plays in Arsis) sounds like an excellent replacement for the last dude whos name I can’t remember. Anyway, check out the new shit here!
Because I’m wondering where they get their camo vests.
If there was one song, or one music video to choose to impress people, I can’t for the life of me figure out why “Impaler” was made into a video. Wait, yes I can: they have a hot keyboard chick (who has no doubt found her way into Revolvers’ “Hottest Chicks In Metal”), a front man with more arm throw moves than Fred Durst, and a mid-song breakdown of the likes that would make most mall-core scenesters shit their undies with helicopter arm tosses and kangaroo kicks.
If it’s all about the “art”, then maybe this video is just a really poor inside joke poking fun at the L.A. “hardcore” scene (I’m looking at you brokeNCYDE). Probably not.
Some of their new material is a bit of a step forward. I’d lump it into a category of say, “Dimmu Borgirs worst B-Sides collection”. Even though this video/song is a year old, some of us out there doing some internet scouring will be left scratching our heads as to why they are on Summer Slaughters’ bill this summer. It’s just a shame there isn’t a second stage at the tour so you can skip them.
To me, Suicidal Tendencies is one of the seminal speed/thrash bands. I love them. That’s why I am always excited when I hear they have new material coming out. Unfortunately for me, for damn near a decade now, that excitement is unwarranted; their newer material just isn’t as good as their late 80s-early 90s releases.