HELLO WORLD! So I decided to throw this post together for a number of reasons. First of all, I love metal (and other harder-edged music) and I've been trying to sneak it into my post queue here or there in an attempt to brainwash my readers into liking it too (even though some have violently protested). And second, I figured that I would occasionally cull a bunch of releases into one mega post and ironically title it "I Hate Metal." That way any of those who wish to remain untainted can know exactly what they are getting into when they [...]
Ever since one of my all-time favorite rock bands, Earth, dropped the album Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I , I've been anxiously waiting for the album's sequel to be released. As you might remember from my review of that album . I was a fan of the songs, but somewhat on the fence with the addition of cello in Earth's music. The mix, in my opinion, wasn't exactly complementing this new instrument, making the overall sound of the record somewhat muddy. From what I'm hearing, that issue seems to be cleared up a bit. [...]
STALLONE by Stallone When guitarist Juan Montoya left the stoner metal group Torche, my heart sank a bit. His playing is part of what attracted me to the group, and I've been wondering if I'd ever come across it again. Well, I can now praise the stoner/sludge/doom metal gods, because Montoya has assembled a new group, Stallone, and they've got a new, free self-titled EP out on their Bandcamp . The recording on these three tracks isn't stellar, but the message and the heaviness comes across pretty well. The monstrous [...]
Here's an interview conducted by fearless Ripple Scribe, Boogeyman, that originally ran on his own blog, Long Live Rock N Roll . Pop over there for more insights from the Boogs. Being called Rock's "Come Back Bands of the Year" by Metal Odyssey , and having a string of great reviews from the likes of The Metal Minute, Rocktopia , and The Soda Shop just to name a few, I've been given the great pleasure to interview Iron Claw 's guitarist and one of the band's original [...]
Sorry to keep this one brief, y'all, but I'm just about to head out. That being said, I wasn't about to not hip you to this new version of " Rhymin' Slang " by JJ DOOM ( Jneiro Jarel & MF DOOM) and Dave Sitek, of TV on the Radio. They have now linked with one of our favorite British MCs, DELS , to create "Cockney Rhyme and Slang". Awesome title. Ill song. Bass for days. Enjoy. Hit the skip to stream and download the track. It's off Sitek's upcoming mixtape(!!).
What with their (as of this writing) upcoming album Blood For the Master, I revisited Goatwhore's previous LP, Carving Out the Eyes of God, playing it on tank-like, if outdated, speakers at jet-engine volume. At its best, in other words. "Apocalyptic Havoc" the lead single (see below) opens with all out Venom/Celtic Frost 32nd notes updated for this year (which actually is a pretty good synopsis of the entire album), and contains the immortal line "Who needs a God, when you've got Satan?!" "The All-Destroying," next, is blastbeats then D-beats then flat-out downbeats, and [...]
Bloc es un festival internacional de música electrónica que ya se estableció como uno de los más importantes a nivel mundial. En el mismo marco reúne a los actos internacionales de más renombre junto con artistas nuevos y sobresalientes. Techno, electro y house son solo algunos de los géneros que sonarán en el festival Bloc el 6 y 7 de julio. Esta edición del festival ocurrirá en un nuevo foro: London Pleasure Gardens . Este nuevo lugar, situado muy cerca del complejo olímpico, fue diseñado por las mismas personas que diseñaron el Glastonbury's Shangri-La . [...]
UNION is a Parsian based duo of Dilla influenced producers who have been releasing soulful instrumentals and beat tapes. Today they just released their official debut album entitled Analogtronics on Fat Beats Records. The album is chock full of featured guest MC's including: DOOM, Talib Kweli, Big Pooh, Ezlhi and more. The album just dropped today [...]
UNION is a Parsian based duo of Dilla influenced producers who have been releasing soulful instrumentals and beat tapes. Today they just released their official debut album entitled Analogtronics on Fat Beats Records. The album is chock full of featured guest MC's including: DOOM, Talib Kweli, Big Pooh, Ezlhi and more. The album just dropped today yet we already have other producers jumping on a chance to do remixes.has taken the track "CoCo Mango", which features DOOM & Insight, and done a proper remix. Dope track? Check! DOOM on the mic? Check! Proper remix? Check! [...]
That's correct, all of the above names are together on one track! Courtesy of Damu The Fudgemunk's musical ingenuity. Available on 7" vinyl from Fat Beats Records, along with Union's LP Analogtronics . PURCHASE HERE REDEF Records: Twitter soulquarian14 Tags: beats , bond , coco , coco mango , Damu The Fudgemunk , ingenuity , insight , Mf Doom , mix , [...]
From Ozzfest to Summer Slaughter Tour to Deathfest, many a metal music festival has come to fruition in recent years. But none can promise the excellent combination of doom, drone, sludge, and black metal that will be defacing the ears of audience members at the first-ever Gilead Media Music Festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The stacked festival line-up includes low-end masters Loss, Thou, Ash Borer, False, Fell Voices, and many more. And Invisible Oranges is proud to announce that we are officially co-sponsoring the festival! The chaos goes down on April 28th and 29th, and Invisible Oranges will keep your Gilead Fest thirst quenched with updated [...]
Pilgrim Misery Wizard Poison Tongue/Metal Blade 14 February 2012 by Tom Dare While music obviously needs bands capable of doing radically new, different things, it also needs bands that refine existing styles and add their own voice. Pilgrim fall into the latter category – they're not going to spawn an entire new sound, but they are going to deafen, hypnotise and bewitch you in short order. [...]
Black Breath's full-length debut, Heavy Breathing , was one of those records that seemed to come out of nowhere, stamp its way into our consciousness through sheer force of awesome, and rightly claim its place as Thrash Hits' fourth favourite album of 2010 . Since then, we've seen Black Breath tear up dirty Soho basements on multiple occasions, and even triumph in the bright Summer sunshine of Sonisphere , and not once has our enthusiasm for the Seattle-based band's worship of Swedish-sounding death-metal faltered. When the news broke that the band's second full-length [...]
Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird Spinefarm Records 13 February 2012 by Tom Doyle Finland's Swallow The Sun ply a well worn Nordic furrow of gloomy, doomy atmospheric metal that brings to mind snow drifted forests and months without celestial light to brighten moods or music. Their's is a potent brand of ear [...]
Raining. Wind whipping the scattered leaves into a violent frenzy of attacking dead foliage. Lightning cracks the sky. Time to get some doom on. Leather Nun (America) - All Your Kin Of all the doom bands that have plodded into the Ripple office over the last four years, Leather Nun (America) have always been one of my favorites. [...]
Esce il 21 febbraio il debutto dei Pallbearer , chiamato "Sorrow And Extinction" . Con solo un ep di tre canzoni riversato su cassetta all'attivo, l'album della band doom metal di Little Rock, Arkansas, è rilasciato dalla Profound Lore Records , già etichetta della Agalloch e Dark Castle . "Sorrow and Extinction" attinge all'epic doom tradizionale tanto quanto il prog rock degli anni 70 e il doom old-school dei Peaceville . La tracklist di "Sorrow And Extinction" in calce alla news: Pallbearer su myspace [...]
Ice Dragon's debut The Burl, The Earth, The Aether has been compared by many to Black Sabbath's self titled and Electric Wizard's Dopethrone, and it's really not hard to see why. Taking many cues from the titans that preceded them, Ice Dragon weaves a solid, dynamic album that is dismally bleak and oppressively heavy, all the while retaining a spaced out atmosphere. The album as a whole flows and progresses really well; the pace is staggered with crescendos and dotted with dynamic changes in both riffs and tone which moves the album along and a lumbering jaunt, [...]
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Magic Milk It's Friday the 13th! The first one of the year. Spooky. Don't stay home paralyzed by fear of the impending zombie apocalypse. Go live it up with some rad Chicago shows. Up and Atom ! FRIDAY MAGIC MILK Fasten your dancing snow boots because when garage rockers Magic Milk hit the stage there's going to be a whole lot [...]
Gotta admit, Monster Rally is a good-vibe genius. He's a head above a lot of other instrumental beatmakers - maybe he can't make that many good starts-and-ends to his tracks, but he can sure create smiles. His charming edits of MF DOOM tracks continues, this time with a fan classic from the 2004 album MM..FOOD. Retaining the beatbox (why get rid of it?), he layers harps and atmospheric vocals in place of the original samples. These edits bring a new charm to already charming tracks - if you haven't before, try his [...]
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