Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - I'll Cut You Down

 

Yesterday, was the Hard Rock Society's annual meeting, for the fifth year in a row at the Twelfth Night. A really wonderful event where 12 music geeks drinking beer and playing music, talking music and dreaming music. Alot of music will be played under a event like this, eight categories are examined, with each disc incisions around 40 minutes times 12:) Holy moses, but hell this is fun.

Here is my choices under each category that I stood for during this evening.

1. Band, That I Missed Live: Thin Lizzy - Are You Ready
One of the bands that I really wanted to see live when I was younger, but unfortunately never got the chance and now it's too late.

2. Bang Your Head: Motörhead - Overkill
This is a category that it really is plenty to choose from, but this is a song that I could never stand still when it is played.

3. Worst Production: Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - I'll Cut You Down
There are also plenty of bands who are suffering from a bad production but still got something so you can listen to it. This band I have selected seems to have tried a little too much to get to the old classic garage sound, so the sound is a bit too messy, but the song is great.

4. Best Ballad: Great White - Since I've Been Loving You
Ballad, hmm... In this case, quite simply, do not want to play "Wind Of Change" exactly, but choose a really great classics from the world's top band "Led Zeppelin", to spice it up a bit, I picked a really good cover of this performed by Great White .

5. Best Song Title: Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
Right troublesome category, wanted something clever and good, so it had simply become a Ministry

6. Music For A Darkened Room: Opeth - Coil
A category that can be interpreted in many ways, my interpretation was a bit romantic, candlelight, a bottle of fine wine and a partner to share this with.

7. Honor The Dead: Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit
One category that you can celebrate their heroes one of, have already paid tribute to John Bonham in the ballad, so I could not take one more Led Zeppelin song, Dio is guaranteed to be choosed by someone else so this becomes too obvious. In the end, I looked at the classic twenty-seven year old deaths and found Kurt Cobain and his Nirvana, a song that does not directly have been a favorite, but when I heard Patti Smith's version of Smells Like Teen Spirit, I got sold, flowersinyourhead as good it is.

8. Best Right Now: Vektor - Cosmic Cortex
An obvious choice right now, an album has been played dozens of times and recommended warmly.









Here are some pictures.

2012 - Team

The Records

The DJ

Todays tune "I'll Cut You Down" is taken from the split single with "Danava" The song is also available on "Blood Lust"





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Ghost - Here Comes The Sun

Ghost is a Swedish heavy metal band formed 2008. The band was hyped up in 2010 partly because of members' choice to appear behind the masks without giving their identities. The group claims to be sent by the devil to the commercially viable rock collecting souls for him. The debut "Opus Eponymous" was nominated for a Grammy in 2011 in the category hard rock.

Ghost is booked for the Getaway Rock Festival, Sweden Rock, Metal Town, and Roskilde festival in summer 2011.

Rumors claim that the members should be established persons in Stockholm death/black metal scene, who they are we leave unsaid. :)

On Friday the 13th it was time for me and my friend to witness "Ghost" Live when they did visit the Strand here in Stockholm together with In Solitude and Stench.

Devil himself must have had a finger or two when Ghost was created, with their down-smoked legacy of seventies Black Sabbath and classic doom metal.

They messes for their new initiates fans, like a pope in the church and that this is a dark well-played manifesto for an hour is no doubt. They played the new album and included the bonus tune from the latest record, the Beatles’ cover "Here Comes The Sun" and ends with the entire body of Christ.

Both me and my friend are happy with Ghost’s effort at the Strand and we are trying to get out from the explosive-filled concert hall with a smile placed higher than usual. We run into some known faces like Leif Edling (Candlemass) and David Isberg (Opeth), we are told the guys in the Ghost has been living in the rehearsal studio for three weeks before this gig, that this would become such a good gig as possible.

Here is some pictures from the gig!

Todays tune ”Here Comes The Sun” (Beatles cover) is the Bonus track from the album ”Opus Eponymous”



Live at the Strand, May 13, 2011



More info @ Ghost Official MySpace

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Jex Thoth - When The Raven Calls

A tormented psyched out spellbounding trip unleashed by this awesome California band Jex Thoth.

Named after the band’s striking female vocalist, Jex Thoth take their cues from the metallic strains of Black Sabbath and the retro experimentalism of Amon Düül II. Jex Thoth (formerly Jessica Toth) and bassist James Jackson Toth (leader of the experimental outfit Wooden Wand, and credited here as Grim Jim) form the core of the group, which originally took shape under the name Totem. After issuing an EP with that moniker, the group rechristened itself Jex Thoth and set to work on a full-length album, with guitarist Silas Paine and drummer Johnny Dee joining the lineup during the process. Keyboardist Zodiac completed the lineup, and Jex Thoth debuted in 2008 with a self-titled album of thudding, psychedelic
acid rock.

Discography

2007: Split with Pagan Altar (EP)
2008: Jex Thoth (Full-length)
2009: Totem (EP / Vinyl version of the self-titled Totem MCD, under the new band name)
2010: Witness

Todays tune "When The Raven Calls” is taken from their self titled full-length album, enjoy!



Released on vinyl by I HATE on November, 2009.
- 211 on white vinyl.
- 500 on black vinyl.

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High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine

Best band is no less than the High On Fire, the band capture the number one place at the Tune Of The Days top 10 album list of 2010. With their fifth album release "Snakes for the Divine", A worthy winner in my opinion!

These guys are creating a swing that is really hard and it is quite impossible to sit still in the boat when turntable needle takes on the first tracks of the record and the tones are played out from the speakers.

Holy Moses, what fucking punch in the face I got from this, really an awesome release of the band, wow what album this is, the album have plenty of tight, tough and slick riffs with a driving force and feeling inside the dazzling melodies that make me pale by envy. The entire album is one long celebration that you just want to repeat again and again.

Photo by: Travis Shinn

Photo by: Taija Lynn

Todays tune "Snakes For The Divine" is the title track from High On Fire's latest album, enjoy



In an interview, Matt Pike stated: "The title 'Snakes for the Divine' is based on the premise that Adam and Eve weren't the first people on Earth, and Adam actually having a wife that was a Reptilian named Lilith. They were the first two people to actually take the reptilian DNA, and make shape shifting human beings that go between the fourth-dimensional, the Anunnaki, and human beings. Eventually, from ancient Mesopotamia, this spawned a thing called the Illuminati - the enlightened ones - coming up through the centuries, and choosing the kings, controlling your media, controlling your banking, blah blah blah. It's just theory at most points. I thought it'd make a great metal song, so I just went ahead and started writing about that. That's how the record came about, as far as the theme..

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Electric Wizard - Venus In Furs

Today we present the Album Place 10 on the Tune Of The Days list of 2010's best albums.
The band that captured that place is Electric Wizard with the album Black Masses, a British band formed in Dorsetshire, England who play doom metal / stoner metal. Prior to 1993, then called the group name as Thy Grief Eternal and Eternal. Electric Wizard have a distinct yet traditional doom metal sound that incorporates stoner and sludge traits, with lyrics typically involving the occult, witchcraft, H.P. Lovecraft, horror films and cannabis. During 2003, founding members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening left to form the band Ramesses, making guitarist/vocalist Jus Oborn the only founding member who remains.

The seventh album Black Masses is an album full of budding musical occult doom, brilliant craftsmanship that really sucks you into their world of musical doom-psychedelica. The new album shows clearly the growth, development, and an almost frightening self-confident as the band has built up during their career. For what it's worth, I like the sound of Black Masses. The album is recorded in London's famed Toe Rag Studios with Grammy Award-winner Liam Watson behind the controls. The album was recorded in 100% analogue.

Frontman Justin Oborn makes no bones about their goal: “This ritual incantation of heavy metal sorcery will break down your psyche,” he announced, “as wave upon crushing wave of lead weight acid-laced Doom leaves you numb and broken before our unholy altar... We do not rock, we kill!”

Here's the track listing:

Black Mass
Venus in Furs
Night Child
Patterns of Evil
Satyr IX
Turn Off Your Mind
Scorpio Curse
Crypt of Drugula

Electric Wizard lineup:

Jus Oborn - guitar, vocals
Liz Buckingham - guitar
Tas Danazoglou - bass
Shaun Rutter - drums


Found this photo, which I stole from a post by a fellow blog that shows what you can do with their new purchased Electric Wizard vinyls, when you can not settle for just one copy, can add that he is a big fan of this band , so kudos to him because he gives his support to the band, and a transparent blue kudos, because it is vinyl.

The Vinyl (LP) got printed in following versions/colors:

400 Die Hard Version Black Vinyl (180 gm)
400 Solid white
400 Transparent Green
400 Transparent Blue
400 Transparent Red
400 Solid Grey
500 Clear with Black speckles
500 White/Black two colour split.

Today's tune "Venus in Furs" is an excellent example of Electric Wizard's songwriting perspicacity.



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Ghost - Ritual

Today we begin to do a deep dive in the past year and lists what the Tune Of The Day think has been the best musically, this has been a year that clearly have dominated the harder school of music. Not that it has come out a lot of good pop, rock, jazz and other mystical music, but if we would have made a list that includes a top 50 or 100, for the year so would probably most of the genre to be in the year-list.

We will run a track where every day until we reach the first place. Today, we look first at those who ended up outside, that is, location 11-20. Tomorrow we present location 10 and so on.

20: ”Heirs To Thievery” - MISERY INDEX
19: ”Annihilator” – ANNIHILATOR
18: ”Slash” – SLASH
17: ”Axioma Ethica Odini” – ENSLAVED
16: ”Order Of The Black” - BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
15: ”Opus Eponymous” - GHOST
14: ”Warp Riders” - THE SWORD
13: "Spiral Shadow” – KYLESA
12: ”Relentless retribution” - DEATH ANGEL
11: ”Lawless Darkness” – WATAIN

Just to pick one from the pile, i do a pick in the middle and find the Swedish band Ghost.
Ghost has been the band everyone is talking about the recent past, perhaps even this year's hype. The first single Elizabeth laid the foundation for everything and now that the debut of Opus Eponymous release of well-qualified label Rise Above, it's a huge interest for Ghost at the moment. The vinyl release coming in a plethora of different varieties are sold out long ago. The fact that the debut album confuses me slightly when you are accustomed to satanists proclaim thier message of shabby mangling of both blood and misery. And now, this is more clean than ever. It is thought that some influences are taken from Mercyful Fate and Black Sabbath.

The picture is stolen from blod og krek.

The picture is stolen from Film & Musikbloggen.

Die-Hard version of the album.

Here is the cover skull, painted by Slusk

Opus Eponymous has a lovely swing, catchy tunes and nice arrangements. Even if its soft for a darker kinda album it's a album that is very easy to listen to and nice to hum to. I like this.

Todays tune "Ritual" is taken from Ghosts debut album "Opus Eponymous" and this is live at Hammer of Doom IV festival, Posthalle, Würzburg, 2010-10-23.



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