[UPDATED 6/24] Duh. Wow, we really need to lay off the sauce and get organized. When we originally published this post we omitted Made Out Of Babies' scathing third LP, The Ruiner, which indeed has a release date of 6/24. Of all the great stuff coming out today, this is the best. More about that here. [end update]
Tomorrow, more 'thrash revival' (we don't care what you say, Warbringer, it's a revival), this time from the band that takes its name from Exodus' seminal debut, Bonded By Blood. While we're on that topic, did you hear that Exodus plans to re-record BBB with their current lineup? Why can't artists just leave their old shit alone. Let it be what it is, don't try to 'fix' it. Are you listening, George Lucas? To quote MetalSucks commenter 'Master of Puppies,' "classics should be left untouched." We couldn't have said it better.
Also out tomorrow, the vinyl version of Boris and Merzbow's Rock Dream, a 3XLP live album recorded in Tokyo in 2006. We're talking nearly two hours of music here, and for a live album this sounds pretty great.
Download: Boris & Merzbow - "Flower, Sun, Rain" [MP3]
And while we're talking Southern Lord and Tokyo, we should mention Coffins' Buried Death. Sludgey, dirty, raw Japanese death-meets-doom metal. Buried Death was released earlier this year via 20 Buck Spin, which quickly sold out. Southern Lord re-issues the album in CD and LP form tomorrow. It's being reissued tomorrow, with distribution through Southern Lord.
Download: Coffins - "Under the Stench" [MP3]
More after the jump.
Our picks:
Listen: Aborted [MySpace]
Buy: Aborted - Strychnine.213 (Century Media) [Amazon]
Listen: Bonded By Blood [MySpace]
Buy: Bonded By Blood - Feed the Beast (Earache) [Amazon]
Listen: Boris [MySpace]
Listen: Merzbow [MySpace]
Buy: Boris & Merzbow - Rock Dream LP (Southern Lord) [Amazon]
Listen: Coffins [MySpace]
Buy: Coffins - Buried Death (20 Buck Spin) [Amazon]
Listen: Cryptopsy [MySpace]
Buy: Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King (Century Media) [Amazon]
Listen: Daylight Dies [MySpace]
Buy: Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living (Candlelight) [Amazon]
Listen: Made Out Of Babies [MySpace]
Buy: Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner (The End) [Amazon]
June 23, 2008
Crustcake Picks - New Music 6/24
June 13, 2008
Flick Friday - Isis, Keep of Kalessin, Warbringer, Cryptopsy
This week, we've got our bases covered. Below, you'll find post-metal, black metal, thrash metal, and brutal death metal. A little something for everyone. Party!
This first video ain't exactly new, but Pitchfork.TV just added it to their rotation and it's Isis, so we couldn't really avoid posting it. The video is shoegazey high-frame-rate footage of a suicide jumper's fall juxtaposed with Discovery-channel-esque clips of a developing fetus. Stay tuned to the end for some brutal face-melting.
Isis - "Holy Tears":
Our favorite Lords of the Rings, Keep of Kalessin, have just released a video for their song "Ascendant." It's epic (something about "battle the ancients" and "eternity"), and fans/wind were used quite liberally.
Keep of Kalessin - "Ascendant":
Next up, check this great interview with Warbringer conducted by Metal Injection.
Metal Injection: There's a bit of a thrash revival...
Warbringer: That's what they're calling it. We have a different attitude about it though. We didn't start the band going 'let's revive the corpse of 80's thrash metal.' We were like 'let's play metal that is really metal.'
Warbringer - Interview with Metal Injection:
If Kurt Ballou is metal's most in-demand engineer/producer, then David Brodsky must be its most in-demand video director. It seems like he's directed roughly one of every two new metal videos that funnel down the tubes. Must be good to have a steady stream of income doing what you love. Here's Mr. Brodsky's latest, the new video from Montreal's Cryptopsy.
Drummer Flo Mounier, who is one of the fastest motherfuckers out there, says, "This is a straight up, brutal and in-your-face punishing live performance clip that pulls no punches. It’s basically two minutes of unabashed aggression and we had a lot of fun doing it."
The video is a HBB premiere, so apologies to those not in North America.
Cryptopsy - "Worship Your Demons":
Alright, now go get drunk!
March 17, 2008
Monday Metal Update 3/17
by crustcake gerf (NYC)
Iron Fucking Maiden has announced more fucking tour dates (all the swearing means I'm excited). If you (like me) missed them on the first leg of their "Somewhere Back In Time" tour (complete with epic Powerslave stage setup), they'll be hitting a few more major markets in June (also complete with epic Powerslave stage setup).
Iron Maiden - Somewhere Back In Time Tour 2008 - New Dates:
6/11 - Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena *I'll be marking my calendar for this coming Saturday to make sure I snag a couple tix for the MSG show.
6/12 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center #
6/14 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center *
6/15 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden *
6/17 - Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Centre #
6/18 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion #
6/20 - Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center %
* Tickets on sale 3/22
# Tickets on sale 3/29
% Tickets on sale 3/28
Download: Iron Maiden - "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
When he's not singing in one of the world's most popular bands or piloting a 757, Bruce Dickinson is writing horror films. A true renaissance man indeed. Via BBC:
Dickinson has co-written a horror film, which is to be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Supernatural thriller Chemical Wedding will then be released in British cinemas in the summer.MetalSucks comments:
The film stars Simon Callow as Professor Haddo, the reincarnation of occultist Aleister Crowley, once described as Britain's most evil man.
[Iron Maiden] are also due to release a compilation album, Somewhere Back in Time, featuring tracks from their first decade, between 1980-89. The album will be provided as a free download [of encrypted WMA files] in May - but it will expire after three listens. Fans will then be offered the chance to buy the album as a permanent DRM-free download.
File this one in the “Trying unsuccessfully to emulate Radiohead / Trent Reznor” folder.
WMA files? Welcome to 2001, dudes. What’s the point of having encrypted WMA files if fans will be able to buy DRM-free versions that they will immediately send to all of their friends / upload to Torrent sites? Furthermore, don’t we all already have these songs, and if not, can’t we just buy them track by track from the original albums at iTunes or Amazon?
I love Maiden, but this marketing ploy is retardi and reeks of “Gee guys, we should really get involved in that digital market thing!”-type board room discussions.
Also from the 'badass old school band on tour' newswire, death metal legends Obituary will be traversing the eastern half of the US in May with Dying Fetus.
(Obituary)
Obituary - US Tour, Spring 2008 w/ Dying Fetus:
5/9 Spartanburg, SC @ Ground ZeroObituary - "Slowly We Rot" (live 1990):
5/10 Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11
5/11 Virginia Beach, VA @ Steppin Out
5/12 New York, NY @ BB Kings
5/13 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's Downunder
5/14 Mokena, IL @ The Pearl Room
5/16 Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
5/17 Rochester, NY @ Penny Arcade
5/18 Stroudsburg, PA @ Penn Monster Factory
5/20 Nashville, TN @ The Muse
5/21 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
5/22 Orlando, FL @ The Haven
5/23 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
If you're in the market for something a little more slaughterific, then the 2008 Summer Slaughter Tour might be just what you need. The lineup is rather slaughtastic, featuring the slaughtanically slaying sounds of The Black Dahlia Murder, Vader, Cryptopsy, and Aborted, among others. The full slaughterful (god, that's really starting to get annoying) lineup includes:
The Black Dahlia MurderDownload: Aborted - "Gestated Rabidity"
Kataklysm
Vader
Cryptopsy
The Faceless
Despised Icon
Aborted
Born Of Osiris
Psycroptic
Whitechapel
2008 Summer Slaughter Tour:
6/20 Detroit, MI @ Majestic TheatreVader - "Cold Demons":
6/21 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
6/22 Louisville, KY @ Headliner's
6/24 Albany, NY @ Northern Lights
6/25 Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
6/26 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
6/27 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
6/28 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
6/29 Richmond, VA @ The National
6/30 Spartanburg, SC @ Ground Zero
7/1 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
7/2 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Landing
7/4 San Antonio, TX @ The White Rabbit
7/5 Houston, TX @ Meridian
7/6 Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
7/8 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
7/9 El Paso, TX @ Club 101
7/10 Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
7/11 Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
7/12 Bakersfield, CA @ The Dome
7/13 San Diego, CA @ Soma
7/15 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
7/17 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
7/18 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
7/19 Spokane, WA @ The Big Easy
7/20 Boise, ID @ The Big Easy
7/21 Logan, UT @ Club NVO
7/23 Denver, CO @ Cervantes Ballroom
7/24 Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
7/25 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
7/26 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
7/27 St. Louis, MO @ Pop's
7/28 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
The Ocean and Lair of the Minotaur have scheduled a US tour in May and June. They'll be joined by Kylesa in the right and middle parts of of the country and Intronaut out west. Cool.
(The Ocean)
The Ocean and Lair of the Minotaur - Summer Tour 2008:
5/24 Boston, MA @ Church of Boston *Download: The Ocean - "Eoarchaean"
5/25 Wallingford, CT @ Cherry Street Station *
5/26 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory *
5/27 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's *
5/28 Chicago, IL @ Reggie's Rock Club *
5/29 Covington, KY @ Mad Hatter *
5/30 Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall *
5/31 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade *
6/1 Orlando, FL @ Back Booth #
6/2 Tampa, FL @ Brass Mug #
6/3 Tallahassee, FL @ The Beta Bar #
6/4 Metarie, LA @ The High Ground #
6/6 Austin, TX @ Red 7 #
6/7 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves #
6/8 San Antonio, TX @ Rock Bottom #
6/10 El Paso, TX @ Chic's #
6/11 Farmington, NM @ Gator's #
6/12 Tempe, AZ @ Clubhouse %
6/13 Fresno, CA @ Audie's Olympic %
6/14 San Francisco, CA @ Annie's Social Club %
6/15 San Marcos, CA @ Jumping Turtle %
6/16 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Downtown Brew %
6/17 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory %
* w/ Kylesa, Withered
# w/ Kylesa
% w/ Intronaut
Download: Kylesa - "Where the Horizon Unfolds" [MP3]
That's it for today, happy Monday!
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