High on Fire have premiered their new video for “Frost Hammer”over at Pitchfork. The song comes off of their new album Snakes for the Divine, which is a pretty awesome record if you haven’t given it a listen for some reason. It’s a cool video, and has exactly what you expect from the performance footage: Matt Pike without a shirt. Seriously, does he ever appear fully clothed? I saw High on Fire perform live on Gigantour ‘08 and he didn’t wear a shirt then either. Weird. But he can pull it off, because he’s fucking Matt Pike and will ruin your shit if you look at him the wrong way. I read somewhere that he beat Mastodon’s Brent Hinds in a drunken fistfight. This guy is the physical embodiment of metal.
Anyway, without further digression here’s the video, which is apparently an “epic tale of a warrior’s sojourn to the cold and barren Plateau of Leng where he secures the fabled Frost Hammer that will be used to enact the final rites and complete the dark rebirth and reign of the Frost Child.” Awesome.
Oh fuck yes. This has gotten me pumped for Diamond Eyes. I mean, I was excited about it when I first heard “Rocket Skates“, but the visual of seeing the band perform again has just got me stoked.
Diamond Eyes comes out May 18th on Reprise, I think. If not, fuck it. I’m not looking it up. Just listen to it when it comes out.
Epitaph have just released this video for Every Time I Die’s After One Quarter of a Revolution, in which two dudes force some people to touch their wangs. I’m not even joking.
There might be some other stuff going on too…probably.
This is part of the reason why I love Every Time I Die. Not only does their music just plain rock, but their shows always look ridiculously fun. Hot Damn.
Or at least they try to, in the promo video for their cover of ‘Sabotage’. With mildly entertaining results. Crazy Candians.
To be honest, I was completely unaware that Cancer Bats were releasing an album this year. I like them, but have never been overly into them, which is weird, because they’re exactly the kind of band I should love, a-la Every Time I Die.
This album has the potential to change that though. I really really like this song, and as a result will probably be getting Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones when it hits stores on April 13th.
The UK apparently has this scene going with proggy fill-in-the-blankcore, what with Johnny Truant (RIP), Architects, Arusha Accord, and Fellsilent hitting it fairly big (our local Brit Chris could maybe elaborate on this more I suppose). And in the footsteps of SiKth, there’s also a few bands out there in this style using two vocalists (as is the case in Arusha and Fellsilent). It’s pretty cool, I think.
Anyway, Kerrang debuted Arusha Accord’s new video “Dead To Me”, from their stellar debut full-length album The Echo Verses. The video is nothing special, but the song is good. I love how the bass is so high in the mix.
The Echo Verses is out right now, so you should probably go find it somewhere and give it a spin. Expect time signature shifts, audible bass, and killer vocal harmonies. It’s a fun listen.
Metalsucks posted the following video of Devin Townsend playing a new song, called “Radial Highway”, from one of the upcoming Devin Townsend Project albums during his acoustic set in Redmond. Judging by the sound, I’m assuming it’s from Ghosts, as Deconstruction is supposed to be heavy as shit and, you know, this sounds like something that would come off of an album called Ghosts.
Devin’s right. It sounds like “Trainfire” from Ki. It even sounded like he lifted that drumline from the song for demoing purposes. It doesn’t matter though, cause the song is still awesome as shit.
Re-Traced, the upcoming Cynic EP, includes 4 reinterpretations of songs from Traced In Air as well as one new song that, according to frontman Paul Masvidal, “[references] other styles and influences we have in a different context, which is a lot of ambient, shoegaze, and different types of maybe more subtle forms of jazz, drum and bass, and electronic music.”
It’s sounding really awesome so far. I think I see and hear them playing wine glasses in “Integral”. That’s a bit different, and awesome. I can’t wait to hear the rest of the music.
During a performance of “Just A Man” (how fitting) at Faith No More’s appearance at the Soundwave Festival, Mike Patton jumped down off stage and commandeered a camera. After turning it on the audience, he turned it on himself.
Wowie. Mike’s been known to do crazy shit on stage, so I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
After the jump, the picture. It’s obviously NSFW, so beware.
Oh man, this is gonna be awesome. Looks like some expensive high def cameras were used for this.
“Farewell, Mona Lisa” is the first single off of The Dillinger Escape Plan’s highly anticipated new album, Option Paralysis. The full video will premiere online at www.justin.tv/thedillingerescapeplan at 4pm EST on March 1st.
According to Dillinger’s Facebook page:
“We will also be video chatting and Jamming and running around in our pajamas for you so go sign up to Justin.tv and get ready to ask us a lot of stupid questions.”
Sounds fun! Can’t wait. Option Paralysis is out March 23rd on Season of Mist/Party Smasher Inc.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Protest the Hero lately. The band doesn’t sacrifice songwriting for technicality and find a great middle ground. They certainly stand out in the crowd of metalcore that they’re lumped in with.
When listening to their full length debut Kezia, I remembered how great the song “Turn Soonest To The Sea” is.
The sheer melodic beauty from 3:45 to the end makes for a song that I can’t resist listening to on repeat. This may be the greatest singalong part in a metal song that I’ve ever heard. Truly epic, and very memorable
Here’s a fairly entertaining behind the scenes video of iwrestledabearonce’s “Danger In The Manger”. The video was right, how the production team managed to turn that pile of shit into a video that looked that cool is pretty awesome. I hope they keep the puppy in the video. They’d better, dammit.
So I’ve got an idea. This is Mildred, the iwabo puppy. If you click the image, you can get a full size screenshot of the HD video. It isn’t the best quality, but it’s from YouTube, so whatever. Open up Photoshop and replace the green screen with whatever you want. This should be fun. Who knows?
The PRP posted fan-filmed footage of “Unbreakable”, a new song off of their highly anticipated (at least to me) upcoming album [id]. Quality, as you could imagine, is pretty crappy. Vocals are practically indecipherable and the audio is mushy, but it’s enough to get a vague idea of what’s expected. I can hear the melody in the work and I like the main riff a lot. I love those dissonant-yet-strangely melodic high EHN-EHN-EHN-EHN chords (if anyone out there knows if there’s a technical term for that sound/chord, let me know so I can stop sounding like an idiot).
[id] comes out April 6th on Sumerian Records. Here’s another song from the same show off of [id], “Namaste”.
If you read this site and don’t know Norway’s SHINING yet, then shame on you for being so dense. I gave Blackjazz a 4.5/5 and touted it as the 2nd great album to come out so far (after Ihsahn’s After, which coincidentally features SHINING frontman Jorgen Munkeby playing sax).
The video features live footage from concerts in Trondheim and Stavanger, Norway last month. The video was produced by a small Norwegian video production company called MONITORmedia.
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