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Bloodbath’s “Hades Rising”

June 1, 2009 |

Music and Music Videos

A few months ago I did a little mini-review of Bloodbath’s The Fathomless Mastery. I expressed a bit of reservation about the quality of the record, but, as time passes and I’ve had the chance to give it repeated listenings, it’s fucking awesome. The album is now breaking any new ground, but that’s not the point at all. Bloodbath have created a massive, heavy as fuck, brutal death metal record of the old school style that I find so heartwarming. Totally awesome. Check it out.

This is a video for their first single (do death metal bands have singles?) called “Hades Rising”. It’s rad. Watch it.

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Nostalgia

March 6, 2009 |

Music, Music Videos and Thoughts

Sometimes I think back on the days when all I really worried about was where and how I was going to get enough cans of beer to last me through the weekend and I wonder if that might have been as good as it is ever going to get. It’s very depressing to think that, perhaps, I’ve already peaked. At least there are certain things that will always bring me back, no matter how annoyed I am with myself. Here is one.

There is a reason I still love heavy metal so much when most of my friends who were into it with me have outgrown it.

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Hate Eternal I, Monarch – Reissue!

March 4, 2009 |

Music and Music Videos

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I, Monarch was my first Hate Eternal record. I bought it on a whim and never regretted it. I recommended it to my brother Charlie, and even sent him a copy, but it took two years and another Hate Eternal record for him to finally get into them.

He’s an idiot.* They’re too awesome for words.

I’ve posted a Hate Eternal video here before, but it can’t hurt to do it again.

If you haven’t yet heard or own I, Monarch, now is the perfect time to pick it up since it’s been reissued with a second disc with live versions of the record on DVD. Pretty rad. Everything Erik Rutan touches these days turns to gold and it’s pretty easy to see (hear?) why. I mean, listen to this band. They are fucking awesome. And when you are done with I, Monarch, go out and pick up their most recent record, the superior Fury & Flames. Rutan is also responsible for the production of countless other solid metal records in the last few years. I bet if you spend a little time reading through the liner notes of your metal collection, you’ll be surprised how often you find his name in there.

You DO have the liner notes, don’t you? If not, here’s a more or less complete list of his credits.

Hate Eternal I, Monarch @ Amazon.com

*Not really. He’s good.

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Elektronik Supersonik

February 9, 2009 |

Music and Music Videos

My friend JJ sent me an e-mail with the subject “Best video ever.” that said:

Joe this will be your theme video for the blacklaser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKO9h-gG4Qg

JJ was absolutely right. Of course, the video and song are nothing new to me. But that does not make JJ wrong, just late to the party a little (you are strong and handsome, JJ).

In case, for whatever reason, you’ve never seen the video for Elektronik Supersonik, here it is.

It contains all the things that make my life wonderful: lasers, science fiction, synthesizer music, bad English, mullets, pink hair, Eastern European crap, space flight, cheesy video effects, sexual innuendo—the list goes on and on.

Zlad, a fictional pop music star from the also-fictional Molvania, went on to star in a second video called “I am the Anti-Pope”

I think the second video, while certainly higher in the blasphemy department, isn’t quite as good as the first. Elektronik Supersonik is special, zany and lo-fi just before zany and lo-fi became the cool thing to do. I approve.

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Two French-as-hell videos for this cold Saturday

January 31, 2009 |

Music, Music Videos and Thoughts

This first is a video sent to me ages ago by my brother Charlie. It is a beautifully animated video for the song “Le Café” by the French group Oldelaf. I don’t know anything about the band, but the video is super awesome and unbelievably French.

Here is the video on YouTube with subtitles. Oldelaf – le Café (english subtitles)

The other video is a short animated film by Paris-based studio Passion Paris which I encountered on BoingBoing. It deals with the impending end of the world in 2012. Scary stuff. Also beautifully animated and possessing of a biting sense of humor.

Enjoy!

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Zombie Zombie + John Carpenter = Awesome

January 27, 2009 |

Music and Music Videos

Zombie Zombie is a horror-inspired French electro duo. Listening to a few of their tracks, it’s obvious that old school horror soundtracks are a primary creative source for them. So it is no surprise that someone made this fucking awesome video recreating John Carpenter’s The Thing with MOTHERFUCKING GI JOES.

They have a record called A Land for Renegades that came out last year. I need it so bad. Analog zombie disco? I NEED IT SO BAD. God, it’s like God reached into my brain and pulled out everything I love and made it into two motherfucking French guys. What the fuck?!

Here’s their trailer. The performance in it reminds me of this live Kraftwerk performance of “Ruckzuck” on German TV in 1970, but with an obviously more modern, darker, more aggressive air. Calling on the Masters of Electronic Music like that, unwittingly no doubt, bodes well.

Too awesome.

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Gojira’s “All The Tears”

January 12, 2009 |

Music and Music Videos

What is it that the French put in the water that they are collectively able to produce artists with such fine tuned aesthetic senses? Creative pills? Iodine? Calcium? Whatever it is, it has succeeded yet again with this killer video for “All The Tears” from Gojira’s most recent record, The Way of All Flesh.

Check it out.

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